Release notes for Magnolia CMS 6.2.40

LTS release • Delivered on October 27, 2023 • Page updated on December 1, 2023 • Changelog: 22625

Magnolia CMS 6.2.40 is primarily a bug-fixing and security release. We keep the details of security fixes private in line with our security policy. Contact our Support team if you need more information.

magnolia-dx-core-webapp-6.2.40.war
magnolia-dx-core-demo-webapp-6.2.40.war
magnolia-community-demo-webapp-6.2.40.war
mtk_2.0.3.zip (as a light module)

Announcements

Commerce Connector Pack 1.3.5

Commerce Connector Pack 1.3.5 was released on October 4, 2023.

Live Copy 3.2.14

Live Copy 3.2.14 was released on October 9, 2023.

SSO 3.1.8

SSO 3.1.8 was released on October 19, 2023.

Improvements

Remember My Last Location

When you add a link field to your content in apps such as Pages, Stories, or any other content app in general, Magnolia now displays the item you selected there previously. For more details on how this works, see Editing pages: Remember My Last Location.

MGNLUI-3675 Chooser dialog should remember last used location for Assets

Case-insensitive ILIKE filter operator added to Delivery API

In the Delivery API, we’ve added the case-insensitive ILIKE operator to the range of the available filter operators. See an example showing the difference between using the ILIKE and LIKE.

MGNLREST-198 Provide a case-insensitive LIKE filter

Bug fixes

MAGNOLIA-9097 Instances randomly fail to start up on fast machines
MGNLREST-757 @ancestor allows retrieving nodes regardless configured rootPath
MGNLUI-6918 Switchable field i18n validation error
MGNLUI-8270 Language change in form view removes the readOnly parameter
MGNLUI-8284 Action bar jumps when using 1920x1080 screen resolution
MGNLUI-8318 Drag-and-Drop action only moves the selected items
MGNLUI-8434 When creating or editing a field, action focus jumps to the top of the app
MGNLUI-8374 XSS vulnerability when uploading a file
PAGES-1314 Component inheritance not working for nested areas
PAGES-1316 In headless, inherited components are included until second child
PUBLISHING-298 Use passing configuration for receiversWhitelist by default

Miscellaneous

MGNLTOMCAT-36 Update Tomcat to 9.0.82

Third-party library updates

com.github.usefulness:webp-imageio to version 0.5.1-magnolia

Version 0.5.1-magnolia is a Magnolia fork compatible with Java 8.
com.google.guava:guava to version 32.1.3-jre
commons-io:commons-io to version 2.14.0
commons-net:commons-net to version 3.10.0
com.rometools dependency reintroduced with version 1.19.0
io.swagger.core.v3 to version 2.2.17
io.swagger.parser.v3 to version 2.1.18
net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy to version 1.14.9
org.apache.commons:commons-compress to version 1.24.0
org.apache.jackrabbit:jackrabbit-* to version 2.20.12
org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-bom to version 2.21.0
org.htmlunit:htmlunit to version 3.6.0
org.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit to version 3.6.0
org.projectlombok:lombok to version 1.18.30
software.amazon.awssdk:bom to version 2.20.162

Updated modules

Admincentral 6.2.35
Barebones Tomcat Bundle 1.2.22
Community Edition 6.2.40
Content Editor 1.3.15, 2.1.7
DAM 3.0.27
DX Core 6.2.40
Imaging 3.5.10
Language Bundles 1.2.1
Magnolia 6.2.40
Messages 6.2.19
Pages 6.2.32
Personalization 2.1.10
Publishing 1.3.13
Ranker 1.0.2
REST Framework 2.2.23
Solr Search Provider 6.1.7
Tasks 6.2.26
Third party library BOM 6.2.40
UI 6.2.40
Webhooks 1.0.2
Workflow 6.0.11

Acknowledgements

The Magnolia team would also like to thank everyone who reported issues, contributed patches or simply commented on issues for this release. Your continued interest helps us make Magnolia better.

Thanks a mill!

Special thanks go out to Vishal Bargode, Onno Bruins, Thomas Comiotto, Riste Drangovski, Antti Hietala, David Martin, Natascha Natum, Will Scheidegger, and Richard Unger.

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