Release notes for Magnolia DX Core 6.4.0-rc1

The AI Accelerator for Magnolia 6.4 transforms your content strategy with advanced features built on a foundation of assisted content creation, AI-powered image editing, intelligent SEO optimization, and robust content classification tools. Discover the future of content management with:

New UI Forms replace Vaadin with a React-based UI, leveraging a custom design system for enhanced accessibility and developer extensibility. Key improvements include:

For more details, see New UI Forms.

The Find Bar, as you know it from Magnolia 6.2 and 6.3, has been overhauled and replaced with Global Search for faster performance and better usability.

Main improvements:

Deletion actions are enhanced with updated dialogs for mark-for-deletion, permanent delete, and dependency warnings, improving accessibility and usability.

The new View links action in the action bar allows users to see related content and its publication state.

Both features are available for simple and four-eye workflows, compatible with Magnolia 6.4’s new UI.

MGNLWORKFLOW-501, MGNLCDEP-166

For more details, see how to add the viewLinks action to your content app for developers, or Deleting and restoring and Managing content dependencies for authors.

The Page-editor apps extension brings the visual editing experience beyond the Pages app to your own custom apps. For example, you can create dedicated apps for channels like mobile apps or digital signage.

PAGES-896

For more details, see Page-editor apps extension.

In Magnolia 6.4, you can store asset binaries in an external system while continuing to manage metadata in Magnolia’s native DAM. This reduces JCR size, speeds up publishing, and improves search performance.

External storage is especially useful for projects with large volumes of assets or very large files, such as videos or high-resolution images.

Additional details:

MGNLDAM-1865

The Image Focal extension, previously a popular incubator, is now a fully maintained product extension:

MGNLDAM-1807

Animated GIFs are supported natively in Magnolia with the Imaging module.

MGNLIMG-428

Instead of Asset.getContentStream(), developers should use BinaryManagementRead#streamContent(BinaryReference) from info.magnolia.dam.binary.api. The streamContent handles retrieving the actual binary data, abstracting away the underlying storage provider (like S3).

For more details, see DAM API.

The ImageRecogniser.recognise method signature changes from byte[] to ImageBinary.

Custom implementations of the ImageRecogniser interface will fail to compile or run unless updated to use the new ImageBinary parameter.

Two additions make working with DX Core licenses simpler and safer:

For more details, see License.

Some licensing code is deprecated or removed for maintainability:

MGNLLIC-124

MGNLLIC-123.

Vaadin UI enhancements to improve usability and accessibility, such as navigation to edit forms, improved keyboard focus visibility, including on Safari.

MGNLUI-9080

Swift Publication introduces a faster, more reliable way to publish large volumes of content:

Performance improvements reduce publishing time by 70% for large (420 pages) and massive (5,000 pages) publications.

For more details, see Swift publication.

SWIFTPUB-364

The Magnolia Package Manager, a new content app built with the Magnolia Design System, enables smart export and import of content at scale. Magnolia Package Manager is commonly used for:

To move content quickly and conveniently from one environment to another, you can use the Package Manager. It’s designed to handle gigabytes of data reliably and prevent long waiting times by allowing direct installation on public instances, bypassing standard publication flow.

For more details, see Package manager.