Release Notes 3.2.86

Publication Date: July 30th 2024

The following are the new features, enhancements and fixed issues for Cloud CMS 3.2.86 release.

Upgrade Considerations

Please review the upgrade considerations provided here: https://www.gitana.io/documentation/gitana/3.2/guide/guide/docker/upgrades/3-2-86.html

New Features

Container Routes

• Added support for container management routes for internal use in triggering container lifecycle event handlers. This enables support for `preHook` calls within Kubernetes, ECS and other container management facilities to inform the API container that it is about to shutdown. As a result, the API container is able to gracefully

able to reschedule running jobs onto other cluster members and gracefully release system resources ahead of container termination.

For more information, see: https://gitana.io/documentation/gitana/3.2/guide/guide/docker/maintenance/container-hooks.html

Enhancements

Activities

• The Activities collection within MongoDB is now capped to 50MB to optimize query performance and reduced total storage requirements.

Amazon ECS

• Improved support for Amazon ECS by introducing new ECS-specific properties for `cluster`, `family` and `serviceName`.
• Added new AWS global properties for `hostHeader`, `connectionTimeoutseconds` and `connectionRetries`.
• For more information, see:

https://gitana.io/documentation/gitana/3.2/guide/guide/docker/configuration/api-server.html#discovery-services https://gitana.io/documentation/gitana/3.2/guide/guide/docker/container-frameworks/ecs.html#cluster-configuration

Command Line Tool

• Added a new operation for branch repair (`incorrectAttachments`) which identifies and repairs any attachments in a branch that may have the wrong MIME type or an invalid stream pointer.
• Added support for HTTP/HTTPS proxies.
• Increased the timeout for administrator API calls.

Dictionary Service

• Faster dictionary compilation with tracking of total iterations and force fail states to limit the total number of iterations (and prevent timeouts).

GraphQL

• The underlying GraphQL service now uses a standalone executor services to cap the number of threads participating in data and batch loaders (16 by default).

Jobs

• Faster performance and lower memory overhead for job dispatcher and background job execution.
• Improvement to job kill, interrupt and pause mechanisms to allow for faster and more efficent release of thread resources.

Libaries / Dependencies

• Update to the latest dependencies including the latest version of PDFBox, Apache Tika, Jackson and Log4j2 with all security vulnerability patches applied.

MIME type detection

• Improved detection of MIME types for input streams, incorporating new strategies and libraries for marker byte detection.

Performance

• Faster startup time with quicker node and branch cache initialization.
• Reduced memory usage for internal Hazelcast caches used to manage graph state.

Permissions / Authorities / Teams

• Faster access control checks for permissions, authorities and teams.
• Improved utilization of MongoDB queries to more efficiently look up multi-level ACLs.
• Refactor of role service to provide faster and more acccurate location of inherited roles.

Releases

• Releases now track their execution within a release job allowing for improved logging and error capture.

SDK

• Updated Amazon ECS examples to include JVM flags and usage of new configuration options.

User Interface

• Server-side network settings have been optimized to improve network performance.
• Server-side code paths have been refactored to reduce the usage of distributed locks to improve request throughput.
• A dictionary definition and content type cache has been added that reduces the number of network calls and improves the speed of page loads.
• The branch cache now works across multiple projects and branches in multiple windows at the same time.
• Data loaders now work much faster by taking advantage of the new dataloader features in the API.
• Adjusted the way that 401 responses are handled to more accurately detect an `invalid_token` response.
• The Content Types page now includes automatic filtering out of system types.
• UI Templates now load much faster.
• The Create New Data List Item dialog now works similar to the Create Content Instance dialog.
• Removed the Safe Repair button from the Platform Tools page as this functionality is now invoked via the Command Line Tool.

Workflow

• Added index for workflow title to optimize sorting performance.

Bug Fixes

Branches

• Fix to ensure that branch collections (tip and deletions) clean up as intended when branches are deleted.

Data Loader

• Fix so that the `_dataloader` flag can be provided either via request parameter or via request object.

Indexing

• Fix so that calls which perform index creation and deletion within MongoDB wait until the operation completes before proceeding.

Merges

• Fix to merge processing that prevents nodes that are not relevant to the merge from creating conflicts for certain cases.
• Fix to merge processing so that order sorting is computed properly and retained during execution.

MIME types

• Fix so that mimetype detection for `image/svg+xml` works as intended for some edge cases.

Tags

• Fix for tags events in layered transactions so that tags commit more efficently and without conflict.

Transfer

• Fix so that single-changeset transactional commits do not fire inner after handlers for inner, nested transactions.

User Interface

• Fix so that remote config is loaded correcftly for all page flows and click paths.
• Fix so that the publishing content types page no longer errantly sets values onto the project.
• Fix so that the Node Picker's up/down/remove buttons no longer show up for properties of type `object`.
• Fix so that the reset password authentication flow properly displays errors messages for 500 response types.
• Fix so that the Advanced Search property filter evaluates definition properties correctly.

Web Hooks

• Fix so that web hooks do not fire multiple times on import.