2025 CMS (SaaS) release notes

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June 18, 2025

Enhancements

• The enhancement was made to allow content modelers to specify the applicable content or contract type for their content references without needing to set Allowed Types, similar to the existing functionality for Block Properties. Additionally, front-end developers can now use typed content references that accurately reflect the correct value type in both Graph and .NET without typecasting.

Bug fixes

• CMS-42617 – Fixed the issue with the System folder content types, which are visible and editable in the admin.
• CMS-39673 –  Fixed the issue where unhandled exceptions occurred when accessing a Content instance from ContentDataStore could lead to the edit UI remaining in a loading state.
• CMS-41785 – Fixed the issue that occurs after clicking Revert; the application fails to revert to the old value of the Start Page, leaving it unchanged.
• CMS-42311 – Fixed a bug where it was not possible to export content items from CMS after changing the global serializer options.
• CMS-42339 – Fixed the issue of unhandled exceptions when accessing a Content instance from ContentDataStore, which may cause the edit UI to remain in a loading state.

June 5, 2025

Enhancements

• You can create pages (experiences) from Content Manager. See Create a page.
  
• You can extract media content (searchable text) during file upload instead of during indexing.

Bug fixes

• CMS-41655 – Fixed the issue where the minimum and maximum constraints of the last number property in a content override the constraints of other number properties.
• CMS-41319 – Fixed the issue where users are not able to drag and drop contents where their content types are created from Settings.
• CMS-41856 – Fixed the issue where expiring content Now in conjunction with the setting ContentVersionSynchronizationMode set to ContentVersionSyncMode.PublishedOnly does not work in Optimizely Graph.
• CMS-42169 – Fixed the issue where the feature flag prevents page content areas within other content areas from being expanded or embedded is too restrictive. It also prevents the embedding of content are item properties.

May 23, 2025

Bug fixes

• CMS-39667 – Fixed an issue where the user cannot compare versions of a page.
• CMS-42169 – Fixed the issue where the feature flag prevents page content areas within other content areas from being expanded or embedded is too restrictive. It also prevents the embedding of content are item properties.

May 15, 2025

Enhancement

• CMS (SaaS) has AI. Added Ask Opal to CMS (SaaS). See Get AI assistance with Optimizely Opal.

  

  

1. New Chat – Start a new conversation when switching topics to keep Optimizely Opal's responses focused and your chat thread history focused on the topic.

2. Chat history – Go to previous chat threads with Optimizely Opal.

3. Search chats – Search one or more Optimizely Opal chats.

4. Copy chat – Copy the entire content of a discrete chat thread to the clipboard.

5. Chat with Opal

   • Ideate and prompt – Ask Optimizely Opal to research, brainstorm, create things, provide a summary, and so on. Opal can explain terms, walk you through configuration steps, or point you to relevant documentation. It can evolve a rough idea into something more complete, such as expanding a hypothesis or completing a concept.
   • Translate content or tone – Translate text into other languages or rewrite content to fit a specific tone or audience.
   • Research online – Ask Opal to search the web, summarize content, or extract key information from provided URLs.

6. File Upload – Upload files and ask questions about their content.

   • Document – .pdf, .txt
     - Image – .png, .jpeg, .webp
     - Audio – .mp3, .wav., .mpeg
     - Video – .mov, .mpeg, .mp4, .mpg, .avi, .wmv, .mpegps, .fly

     Sample queries

     • Summarize this document into key takeaways.
     • Extract the details from this timeline and present them to me as a list.
     • Give me the audio text and timestamps from this file so I can copy and paste into a subtitle .srt file. Remove any "ums" and "ahs" from the text.
     • Extract the details from this timeline and present them to me as a list.
     • Give me the audio text and timestamps from this file so I can copy and paste into a subtitle .srt file. Remove any "ums" and "ahs" from the text.
     • Extract the key points from this video and create a blog post to promote them.

7. Delete current chat – Delete the current chat contents. You cannot retrieve deleted chats.

8. Expand to full screen – Expand the Optimizely Opal Chat to full page.

9. Pop out or Dock screen – Place the Optimizely Opal Chat on top of the window. The icon changes to dock the chat window.

10. Regenerate a response – Have Optimizely Opal respond differently to the same query.

11. Submit – Submit a request to Optimizely Opal. The button changes while Optimizely Opal is thinking.

12. Toggle Sidebar – Show or hide the chat history panel.

May 5, 2025

April 29, 2025

Enhancement

• Updated the TinyMCE version to version 7.
• Changed the sort order rule to sort by the sort index when creating content.

  You can sort content by their sort order index:

  query SortedContent {
    _Content(orderBy: { _metadata: { sortOrder: DESC } }) {
      items {
        _metadata {
          displayName
        }
      }
    }
  }

  Drag and drop content in the content tree to enable sorting by index on old content. Your may have to update your schema for sortOrder to be available. If it is not available, run the full sync job.

Bug Fixes

• CMS-41382 – Fixed an issue where a stack overflow can happen if an inlined block has circular references to content.
• CMS-40382 – Fixed an issue of unresponsive left and right arrow keys when you edited content names.
• CMS-40744 – Fixed an issue where you could not drag and drop allowed content to the ContentReference property.

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

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.