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XperienCentral R27

Release date: March 23, 2020

The methods and interfaces listed below have been deprecated in the XperienCentral API in this release. If you use any of these methods or interfaces in your custom code, you will need to refactor it. These methods and interfaces have been deprecated:

• MediaRepositoryManagementService.createMediaItemVersion (MediaItem,MediaItemVersion) — Use createMediaItemVersion(MediaItemVersion) instead.
• MediaRepository.createContent — Use MediaRepositoryManagementService.createMediaItem(Website, String) instead.
• core/PageVersion.java.getPersonalization() — Use getPersonalizationItem() instead.
• element/Element.java.getPersonalization() — Use getPersonalizationItems() instead.
• element/Element.java.setPersonalization() — Use setPersonalizationItems() instead.

• element/FileNode.java

• element/PollElement.java

• element/PollItem.java

• integration/WhoIsWhoElement.java

The methods below have been added to the XperienCentral API in this release. See the XperienCentral Javadoc for complete information.

• core/ContentItem.java.getPlanned(Language language)

• core/ContentItemVersion.java.getLanguage()

• core/PresentationContext.java.setMediaItemLanguage() and getMediaItemLanguage()

• mediarepository/MediaItem.java.updateCurrent()

XperienCentral R26.1

Release date: January 21, 2020

The search functionality has been upgraded to Solr 6 in this version of XperienCentral. After upgrading, perform the following steps in order to prepare your deployment for Solr 6:

1. Stop Tomcat if it is running.
2. Remove the directory <webmanager-root>/work/searchengine.
3. Start Tomcat.
4. Log in to XperienCentral.

Realtime indexing

If you use real-time indexing (the XperienCentral Realtime Indexing reusable)

• Navigate to Configuration > Realtime Indexing.
• Select the "Indexing" tab.
• Select all the websites that you want to index in the top part of the panel.
• Click [Index selected items].

No realtime indexing

• Open the Setup Tool.
• Select the Search Tools tab.
• Click [Index] in the "INDEX URL" section.

XperienCentral R26

Release date: December 11, 2019

• The behavior of the setting http_use_proxy has changed. Beginning in XperienCentral R26, proxy system properties set outside of XperienCentral are no longer overwritten when this setting is clear (false). See the "application_settings" section of the General tab in the Setup Tool.
• Support for Flash films has been removed from XperienCentral in R26. All Flash content elements in your content items will be removed when you upgrade to this version of XperienCentral. The Flash files themselves will still be present in the Content Repository but they cannot be accessed.

XperienCentral R24.2

Release date: November 19, 2019

Support for Flash films has been removed from XperienCentral in R24.2. All Flash content elements in your content items will be removed when you upgrade to this version of XperienCentral. The Flash files themselves will still be present in the Content Repository but they cannot be accessed.

XperienCentral R25

Release date: October 9, 2019

Several changes/additions have been made to XperienCentral API interfaces. If you extend any of these interfaces and have developed your own implementations for them, you may experience failing project builds with XperienCentral R25. Some modifications may have to be implemented for newly added methods. If your custom code extends any of the interfaces listed below, you will have to add new methods to your implementations. See the XperienCentral Javadoc for complete information. The modified interfaces are:

• Presentable
• TableElement
• DownloadElement
• ImageElement
• MediaCollectionOverviewElement
• ListElement
• PageCollectionElement
• QueryElement
• RssFeedElement
• SearchElement
• RichTextElement

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XperienCentral R24.1

Release date: July 2, 2019

Startup performance has been significantly improved. Bundles are now updated only if they have been modified. In XperienCentral R24.0 and earlier, all bundles were updated at startup, regardless of whether they had been modified. Beginning in XperienCentral R24.1, bundles are only updated if:

• The version is newer than the one installed.
• The last modified date of the bundle's Bnd-LastModified header in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (if present) is more recent than the last modified date of the installed bundle.
• The Bundle-Date in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF is more recent than the last modified date of the installed bundle.

This means that if you update anything in the bundle but not these two properties, the bundle will not be updated. This applies to updating bundles in the WAR file, bundles copied to the work/deploy directory and to bundles manually uploaded from the Plugins panel.

XperienCentral R24

Release date: June 5, 2019

Access to the Administrative Pages is no longer restricted to users who have the basic HTTP credentials for a page. When a user has the permission "Access debugging tools" in the category "System utilities" and the user is logged in, they no longer need to provide additional credentials in order to access the Administrative Pages. As a consequence however, the credentials dialog no longer appears automatically when access is requested. If the user is not logged in, they will need to first navigate to:

<xperiencentral-server>/web/admin/login

where <xperiencentral-server> is the name of the server on which XperienCentral is running,

Modular Content Plugin

• Uninstall the Plugin "Add-on - Modular Content" from the Plugins panel before installing the updated deploy. After installing the updated deploy, install the bundle "wmamodularcontent-1.1.0.jar" from the Plugins panel. This plugin can be found in the edition-bundles directory of the XperienCentral SDK.

Monitoring Framework Plugin

• After every change in a schedule of one or more indicator sets, the "Add-on - XC Monitoring Framework API" plugin has to be restarted via the Plugins panel to ensure the updated schedule is taken into account.

XperienCentral R23

Release date: March 8, 2019

• Beginning with this XperienCentral release, the version number is no longer prefixed with "10." XperienCentral releases are now designated using "R" together with the major/minor version number (R23, R24, R24.1, and so forth).
• In this release XperienCentral has been split into two modes: the original XperienCentral is named XperienCentral Traditional and a new mode named XperienCentral Headless. When upgrading to this release or newer, a new license is required. The new license has a new XperienceCentral version node to determine which version of XperienCentral has to be loaded and it makes some changes in the licensed components.
• The Community Edition plugin is licensed beginning in XperienCentral R23. Customers that depend on presentations from this bundle should do one of the following:
  • Add the presentations from the CE plugin that are depended on to their own presentation plugin;
  • Request that the CE style presentation plugin be added to their configuration license file (configuration.xml).

XperienCentral 10.22.1

Release date: January 9, 2019

• In XperienCentral 10.22.1 the jQuery library has been upgraded to version 1.12.4. Where JQuery code is used in a widget, design templates or other custom code, the new version might cause compatibility problems. Please check for compatibility problems in your jQuery code when upgrading to XperienCentral 10.22.1 or higher.

• Support for Tomcat 8.5.35 has been added. To use this version, you require a different database driver when using MSSQL as your database, See the XperienCentral Installation Guides for more information. Changes to the server.xml and the database drivers in the Tomcat lib directory are required.
• The bundles "GX Webmanager - DatasourceProvider (MS-SQL JDBC 1.1)" and "GX Webmanager - DatasourceProvider (jTDS 1.2.3)" are no longer supported and should be removed after upgrading.
• Support for Apache Maven 3.6.0 has been added.