2025 CMS (SaaS) release notes

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April 16, 2025

Enhancement

• The Optimizely Digital Asset Management (DAM) asset picker lets you browse an asset collection.

  

  1. Filter – Display only the assets that have the properties that you select.
  2. Search –  Enter a partial or full name of an asset to narrow down the displayed assets.
  3. Views – Select Category view, Grid view, or List view.
  4. Sort – Sort the assets ascending or descending by Title, Type, Owner, Last Modified, or Date Created.
  5. Add – Add assets to the DAM.
     The Add button displays only if an administrator sets permissions for you. See the documentation links below.
  6. Details – Select an asset to display asset details.

  See the following product documentation.

  • User – DAM assets
  • Developer – Onboard DAM to CMS (SaaS)

April 11, 2025

Usage and billing update

Effective May 7, 2025, access to Optimizely Opal features across Content Marketing Platform, Web Experimentation, Feature Experimentation, Personalization, Content Management System (SaaS), and Optimizely Data Platform will transition to a credit-based usage and billing model.

For a full list of Optimizely Opal features, see Optimizely Opal and AI features.

March 31, 2025

Enhancements

• CMS (SaaS) now has a Content manager. The content tree in the Edit view and in the Assets panel shows Optimizely Content Management System (SaaS) content that is organized in a hierarchical structure. As the number of content in CMS grows, finding content can become more of an issue unless you are familiar with the hierarchy.

  The CMS Content manager addresses these scaling issues by displaying all content (pages, assets, and media) in a "flat" view table structure that you can filter, search, and sort to get to the content you want.

  

  To add media from Content manager, select Create > Upload Media.

  

  The Upload Media dialog box displays. Click Select Media and choose the files you want.

  

• The API Clients tab in Settings was replaced by the API Keys tab. See API Keys.

  Former API Clients view:

  

  New API Keys view

  

• You can use Google Translate AI to automatically translate your content by selecting Translate content using AI and clicking Add Language. See Translate content automatically with AI in Translate content into other languages.

  

• Improved the labeling with the following name changes:

  • In filter – Content type was renamed Base type

  • In table – Content type was renamed Base type

  • In base type column and filter – Empty value was renamed Undefined

Bug Fixes

• CMS-39978 – Fixed the index to exclude NULL values because the most common value for tblContent.ArchiveContentGUID is NULL, which made the existing index quite ineffective.
• CMS-40288 – Fixed an issue where the Remaining Path from a permanent link URL was omitted when indexing content from the following affected property types:
  • Link item
  • Link item collection
  • Url
  • Xhtml

March 19, 2025

Enhancements

• Enhanced the Import Data view in the Settings to prevent potential timeout issues when importing large files (several gigabytes or more) or when the import HTTP request lasts for an extended duration.

  

• Consolidated the Add Page and Create Experience dialog boxes into one Create Page dialog box to create content in the content tree.

  

• Moved functionality that previously lived in the top area of All Properties view to the following areas:
  
  
  • Moved to Settings tab:
    1. Name in URL
    2. Simple address
    3. ID, type – Now Content type.

       

  • Moved to Publish button:

    

    4. Manage Expiration
    5. Permanently Mark as Being Edited
    6. Access Rights (formerly Visible to)
  • Languages – Moved to Language selector.

    

  • Edit name – You can edit the name directly with double-click or Edit name.

    

• Added highlighting to the Visual Builder preview.
  • When you click an editable field in the left panel, that field is highlighted in dark blue in the preview, with the name of the field displayed.

    

  • When you click a field in the preview, it turns that highlight to dark blue, and the left panel jumps to that field and autofocuses on it so you can start typing without needing to tap into the field on the left.

    

Bug fixes

• CMS-39416 – Fixed an issue where you could not open the page tree while viewing Trash with the Navigation panel unpinned.
• CMS-39932 – Fixed an issue in subcategories that included &nbps; instead of a space when you created an audience with a Site Criteria on Visited category.
• CMS-39902 – Fixed an issue where registering a custom IConstructorParameterResolver to handle ContentData constructors with one or more parameters would always result in a MissingMethodException when instances of the content type were constructed.
• CMS-39969 – Fixed an issue where the editor received a bad request from the activity or controller when selecting multiple project items.
• CMS-39973 – Fixed an issue where AllowedTypes was not applied when a content type name was similar to a base type name.
• CMS-40011 – Fixed an issue where the focus did not remain on the link editor in the bottom of a block.
• CMS-40067 – Fixed the issue where drag and drop functionality does not work if the block's display name contains spaces.

March 3, 2025

Enhancement

• Added support to use an instance of a shared block as a section in an experience.

  

Bug fixes

• CMS-39478 – Fixed an issue where Allowed Content Types did not map correctly to target GUIDs when importing.
• CMS-39902 – Fixed the threading issue in EditorDescriptors.
• CMS-39447 – Fixed the issue where the preview of shared blocks did not function properly.
• CMS-39597 – Fixed an issue where images were not sorted alphabetically under the For All Sites folder.

February 12, 2025

Bug fixes

• CMS-39424 – Fixed an issue that used the wrong locale in the preview URL when you created a draft version of the content in a language that was not the default language.
• CMS-37722 – Fixed an issue that occurred when you switched selections between New, From Existing, and New before creating an application.
• CMS-39398 – Fixed a site unresponsive issue that occurred when you changed a ContentType property type from ContentArea to ContentAreaItem and the ContentArea had more than one inline block.
• CMS-34554 – Fixed an issue where the quick navigator rendered only for the default authentication scheme (instead of the specified authentication scheme) when you used mixed-mode authentication.

January 23, 2025

Enhancement

• Blocks was renamed to Shared Blocks in the user interface.

  

Bug fix

• CMS-38391 – Fixed an issue that did not display an error message when you input an invalid value of a URL to an external property in Visual Builder.

January 16, 2025

Enhancement

• Added interactions that ease navigation and improve pagination across CMS. You can now define page size, skip to a particular page, and see the number of pages present.

Bug fix

• CMS-39053 – Fixed an issue where the GUID column was not defined when you tried to convert pages that included a content area property. This caused the exception: Invalid column name GUID.

January 10, 2025

Bug fix

• CMS-38772 – Fixed an issue that returned an error of value is not an instance of Date because increased date precision in CMS led to serialization problems for DateTime values in content metadata.