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CrafterCMS 4.0.0

Released May 12, 2022

New Features

• New Studio UI for Content Authors
  

  • New Pluggable React-based UI
    

    • Improved Sidebar

    • Improved authoring search experience

    • Improved user management experience

    • Improved code editing

    • Improved configuration management

    • Improved My Projects experience

    • And more…

  • Experience Builder (XB) - a new In-Context Editing system:
    

    • Edit content in-place
      

    • Drag and drop components and assets to build and rearrange pages

      • Supports projects built with FreeMarker, React, and can easily be extended to support Vue, Angular and other UI frameworks
        

    • New Experience Builder package in the SDK here

    • See Experience Builder for more information
      

  • New configuration mechanics of the UI that allow plugins to wire to almost every aspect of the experience. This opens the door for having different authoring experiences per project.
    

• Plugins!
  

  • New plugin system allowing developers to build plugins for a project (headless or templated) that provide:

    • Authoring side extensions allowing content authors new tools to build the desired experience. This includes extending Crafter Studio’s functionality with server-side code, UI widgets, third-party integration, pre-baked content model items and more. Learn all about it here

    • Delivery-side extensions that provide end-user widgets, server-side code, integration with third-party providers and more. Learn about it here

    • Host plugins are still supported, see here

    • Plugins are starting to appear on the marketplace here

    • Read the guide to building your own plugins here

  • Added support for a plugin to add servlet filters
    See here for more information

    For more information on how to wire your plugin, see the section on a sample for a servlet filter here

• Switched Crafter Studio’s authentication system to JWT
  

  • It’s now much easier to automate work with Crafter Studio APIs by issuing secure tokens for your automation jobs, see Working with Crafter Studio’s APIs
    

  • Remember to replace default values for all the variables used to control the access tokens (JWT) used for Studio’s API. See here for more information on default values used for JWT
    

• Project Content Rules and Policy
  

  Added a project-wide policy configuration that lets site administrators control:

  • File name patterns (permissioning and automatic renaming of files)

  • File mime-type

  • File size

  See here for more information on the Project Policy configuration

• New Crafter CLI
  

  The CrafterCMS Command Line Interface (CLI) for DevContentOps, allows you to authenticate with CrafterCMS and exercise its APIs from a terminal or automation tools.
  See here for more information on the Crafter CLI

• Better locale support
  

  CrafterCMS allows configuring a locale to be used for displaying dates and times in the Studio UI or, it can also be configured to respect the user’s locale settings
  

  See Project Time Zone for more information on how to customize your project’s dates and times display

Updates

• Upgraded Java to version 11

• Upgraded Elasticsearch to version 7

• Upgraded Tomcat to version 9

• Unlock permission added and can be assigned to a role
  See here for more information

• Added support for deployment mode for deployer processors
  Supported modes currently are PUBLISH and SEARCH_INDEX. See here and here for more information

• Added support for deleting content types
  See here for more information

• Updated the JavaScript SDK for in-context editing (ICE)
  See https://npm.io/package/@craftercms/ice for more information

• RTE improvements Added support for pasting from MS Word to RTE

• Added friendly labels for content types and mime types on the search filter
  See here for more information

• Fixed data source plugin failure when loading in content form
  See here for more information

• Improved visuals when search is running
  See here for more information

• The entire project is now published (bulk publish) when an item is published for the very first time
  See here for more information

• Fixed format for dates when copying
  See here for more information

• Added support for regex patterns in CORS origins for Studio, Engine, Profile and Social|br|

  Values in the CORS origins are split using ,. Remember that commas inside patterns need to be escaped with a \ like: studio.cors.origins: 'http://localhost:[8000\,3000],http://*.domain1.com'

  See here for more information

Lots of other small enhancements and bug fixes :)

For a full list of tickets, please visit: GitHub 4.0.0 Milestone

For information on upgrading 3.1.x sites, see here

Important

Please see Breaking Changes for breaking changes and other things to consider before upgrading

For instructions on how to update your CrafterCMS install to 4.0.0, please see Upgrading CrafterCMS

For Linux installs, the Studio upgrade requires the library libaio which is not installed by default in some Linux distributions. Please see the section on Linux Prerequisites in Linux Prerequisite for instructions on how to install the library libaio

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