Release Notes 3.2.0

Publication Date: July 15th 2018

We're pleased to announce the Cloud CMS 3.2 GA release. This is a major release that includes a vast number of product improvements and fixes as well as a multitude of new features. We've been hard at work at these features for several months and are happy to have them finally make their way into general availability.

Upgrade from 3.1.x

For Docker on-premise customers and for customers who've built custom modules, we recommend reviewing the [Cloud CMS 3.2 Migration Documentation](https://www.cloudcms.com/documentation/docker/maintenance/upgrades.html).

New Features

• Elastic Search 6.2.4 - Cloud CMS now ships with support for Elastic Search 6.2.4. Accordingly, the product now also offers improved search capabilities that leverage the enhanced search and property/type support offered by the most recent version of Elastic Search. In addition, Cloud CMS is now compatible with Amazon Elastic Search service offerings (recent 5.x and 6.x versions).

• Deployment - Cloud CMS now lets you manually and automatically deploy content from a source Project branch to a target Project branch (or to a deployment receiver). This lets you move content between Projects on the same Cloud CMS installation or to Cloud CMS installations running within other data centers anywhere in the world. With Deployment, Cloud CMS makes possible true, end-to-end multi-channel content delivery across enterprise environments (Development, QA, Staging, Production/Live). In addition, Cloud CMS includes a number of out-of-the-box deployment receivers that let you concurrently transform and publish content to a path-based, file system locations such as Amazon S3, FTP, disk and Custom HTTP listeners.

• Publishing - Cloud CMS now includes a preconfigured content publishing engine that integrates with our workflow offering to provide lifecycle/state management for content along with automatic, rule-trigger deployment to target Projects. Publishing is automatic and instantly happens in the background. Click the "Publish" button to deploy your content worldwide and click "Unpublish" to archive content and bring it offline.

• Preview Servers - Cloud CMS now offers a new way to manage content Preview Servers. Content that can be "previewed" will have a Preview button. Click the button to see how the content would look on the live web site or within Staging/QA. Furthermore, this integrates with Cloud CMS rendition tracking to let you preview exactly where you want to see it -- choose among all of the pages where a single piece of content may appear.

• Link Checking - Cloud CMS now provides the Inline Links content feature (f:inline-links). Content tagged with Inline Link tracking will automatically have its HTML properties parsed. Any links contained within (whether referencing internal or external resources) will be parsed out and maintained in an automatically managed relator property. The content graph is updated to reflect those relationships. Link tracking then allows you to automatically check all of the links contained within your content for validity ahead of publish or deployment.

• Bulk Import - Cloud CMS has improved its support for bulk import via its command-line tool. The command-line facility lets you hook in custom code (written in Node.js) to import your JSON, XML and/or binary content to Cloud CMS. This includes content instances as well as schema definitions, forms, translations and everything that Cloud CMS works with.

• Single Sign On - Cloud CMS introduced Single Sign On (SSO) in the 3.1 release not long ago and this has been improved in 3.2. In addition to supporting SAML 2.0 and JWT, Cloud CMS now lets you automatically synchronize user properties and group/team membership from SAML assertions and JWT properties. As such, Cloud CMS automatically picks up user properties from your Identity Provider, letting everything work very smoothly with regards to your enterprise security requirements.

• Releases - Cloud CMS has enhanced its branch and release engine to support more complex merges. A vast array of bug fixes and improvements have gone into this to make the merge process faster and more efficient as well as more reliable.

• (UI) Easier Navigation - Cloud CMS now has a simplified UI that reduces the number of left-hand menu options. We've added "Manage Platform" and "Manage Project" sections that move all of the administrative or developer links off into their own place. That way, editorial teams enjoy a much smaller set of menu items, making it easier to find what they need to find.

• (UI) Dashboards - Cloud CMS now features platform and project level dashboards and dashlets that let users and administrators configure their tools and views using nothing more than drag-and-drop. Users can customize layouts and pick which dashlets they want on their home pages. Administrators can lock things down as needed, giving their users the amount of freedom they desire on a per-project basis.

• (UI) Content Model Builder - Cloud CMS now offers a visual, drag-and-drop schema and form builder that lets your developers and editorial teams quickly assemble content types and definitions. The Content Model Builder lets you rapidly assemble JSON Schema-driven forms that ride on top of the 50+ controls that Cloud CMS offers out-of-the-box, including support for nested objects, arrays and associated relationships.

• (UI) Image Editor - Cloud CMS now offers inline image editing facilities so that images can be resized, cropped, rotated and otherwise manipulated without the need of an external third-party tool. Images are backed up automatically and can be restored at any point.

• (UI) Awareness - Cloud CMS now lets you see who else is working within a Project or on a particular document at the same time as you are. User avatar icons appear to show you who is viewing the same space that you're viewing. This provides collaborative insight into what activities your teammates may be working on along with you.

• (UI) Document Locking / Notifications - Cloud CMS now automatically locks content as soon as you start typing. When you begin making changes to a document, anyone else who is "viewing" that document at the same time as you will see it go into read-only mode. They will be notified that you are making changes. When you are finished making changes, they will be notified that the document can be edited again. Cloud CMS also lets users notify each other when they'd like to make a change (and someone else has the lock). This provides a really nice way to avoid stepping on each other's toes while working on the same sets of content.

• (UI) Quick Links - Cloud CMS now provides "quick links" for documents that appear in lists (such as the document tree or the content page). Quick Links show up as little icons for each row in the result set and let you do things like quickly edit a document. They reduce the number of clicks needed for frequent activities.

• (UI) Folder Tree - Cloud CMS now provides a left-hand Folder Tree in the Folders view. When browsing through folders, the left-hand Folder Tree lets you see the hierarchical structure of folders, making easier to understand where you are and to jump around between locations. This left-hand tree can be enabled or disabled from the Project Settings page.

• (UI) Extensibility - Cloud CMS now provides more hooks and extension points for building out and customizing the user interface. Menus, pages, dashlets, form fields and everything else can be extended through simple JavaScript code to provide the exact user interface that your editorial team desires.

• (UI) CKEditor Plugins - Cloud CMS Now ships with several CKEditor plugins that let users easily pick from images and linked content within Cloud CMS to hook it into their HTML content blocks. Developers can easily build new CKEditor Plugins using the provided extension framework.

• Even more Bug Fixes and Improvements - Cloud CMS has invested a lot of time and resource in finding and fixing bugs. We've polished things up and added a lot of improvements that aren't mentioned here. You're bound to find a lot of goodies within.