2025 Optimizely Product Information Management release notes

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December 29, 2025

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Publish Approved Products job failed.

November 26, 2025

Bug fix

• Fixed an issue where category attributes were not available upon searching or filtering, and the filtered results included irrelevant values and attributes.

November 3, 2025

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with dragging where you could not make a subcategory a parent.
• Fixed performance issues with the Dropdown attribute when you filtered the Product List page.

September 18, 2025

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where unauthorized users could add or update translations without proper editing rights. Product detail translations are now restricted to authorized user groups only.
• Fixed case-sensitivity issues with property updates. Property values now update correctly, even when only the letter case changes. This includes manual updates and imports.
• Fixed inconsistencies with category reordering. Reordering child categories between parent categories now correctly updates the display sequence, ensuring consistent ordering in the category tree.
• Fixed an issue when exporting products with large content. Product exports now handle large HTML content gracefully, preventing errors when images are attached with CKEditor, which previously could exceed Excel’s 32,767 character limit per cell.
• Fixed an issue where some exports with all products and related product assignments failed, causing errors due to memory limitations. These exports are optimized to complete successfully, preventing out-of-memory errors.

August 26, 2025

Hotfix

• Identified an inconsistency in schema resolution in certain database sessions that could affect application stability. The database context was updated to set the default schema to "public" to ensure consistent behavior across environments.

August 25, 2025

Bug fixes

• Fixed unclear messaging that displayed when you tried to import duplicate assets.
• Fixed an issue where you could not delete a category due to archived products. Now, the category detail page displays all assigned products, including archived ones.
• Fixed an issue where assets were assigned to products randomly when you imported them with the Auto-assign to product option enabled. Now, the assets are ordered by name.
• Fixed an issue where you could not upload image assets with uppercase file extensions (such as .PNG and .JPG).

August 7, 2025

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where clicking the Here or Error Remaining links on the Import list page logged only one event with the incorrect name "Import Queue." This action now correctly logs two events—one for the link click and another for the Import Error Detail page with appropriate naming.
• Resolved a data persistence issue affecting nine Danish categories. Text entered in category fields was not saved due to a database query limit being exceeded. The underlying query was optimized to support larger data loads, ensuring consistent save behavior across all locales.

July 3, 2025

Bug fixes

• Resolved a discrepancy where the Activate On time displayed on the main category page differed from the category detail page. Both views now consistently show the correct activation time.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a category tree generated audit records in random order, causing the Publish job to fail. Audit entries are now created in a consistent order, starting from child categories and progressing to parents, ensuring the Publish job executes successfully.
• Fixed an issue where the DeleteProductVersion job removed old product version records but did not re-index the VersionNumber column. Remaining product versions are now correctly re-indexed to maintain a continuous sequence.

June 16, 2025

Enhancement

• Updated large-scale export files to now include the full set of product properties, ensuring consistent column structure and order across all Excel files. This improves usability for customers who need to merge or process the data offline.

May 27, 2025

Bug fix

• Fixed an issue with system stability during large-scale Excel exports by creating a smarter export mechanism. PIM automatically splits product exports into multiple Excel files based on file size and cell usage limits and compresses these files into a single ZIP archive available with a download link. This prevents out-of-memory errors and ensures successful export delivery for larger datasets.

  Each file may contain different sets of columns depending on the product templates.

May 15, 2025

Enhanvements

• Added the ability to see why a product was previously rejected in the Product Details page.
• Updated the InsitePimPublish integration postprocessor to stop checking in after a set number of failures and stop the integration job to prevent failure.

Bug fix

• Fixed an issue where product imports got stuck.

April 16, 2025

Bug fix

• Fixed an issue where the image and asset import got stuck and did not load.

April 3, 2025

PIM Connector release

Bug fix

• Fixed an issue where the PIM: Publish Approved Products job failed with a fatal error.

March 25, 2025

Bug fixes

• Resolved an issue where the Dashboard > General Statistics UI would break when handling a large number of products.
• Improved the Dashboard > Collections UI, making it more user-friendly when managing many collections.
• Fixed an issue where PIM products were not approved correctly.
• Fixed an issue where you could not filter by brand in the Products view.

March 13, 2025

PIM Connector release

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where product mappings were lost during the Publish Approved Products job, preventing new variant product data from syncing to Optimizely Configured Commerce.
• Fixed an issue where the Publish Approved Products job did not process all approved products consistently. All products should now publish as expected.

March 12, 2025

Enhancements

• Streamlined the product approval process to improve communication and efficiency. See Product approval for information.
  • Notification alerts for approvers – When a merchandiser submits products for approval, the approver receives a notification, making it easier to stay on top of pending approvals.
  • Easy access to the product list – Clicking the notification takes the approver directly to the list of submitted products to review.
  • Rejection reasons – The approver can add a reason for rejecting a product, giving valuable feedback.
  • Approval and rejection notifications for mechandisers – The merchandiser receives a notification with the approval or rejection.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Publish Approved Products job failed.
• Fixed export inconsistencies where columns included in the saved format were intermittently missing.
• Fixed a UI issue on the import page where the Filter button displayed two duplicate lines of the filter data.

February 26, 2025

PIM Connector release

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the sync job between PIM and Configured Commerce stopped completely when it encountered an error. Now, if a product batch encounters an error, PIM divides it into smaller batches of 10 records each and processes them individually in sequence. If any batch encounters a problem, PIM reviews each record within that batch to find the exact error and disregard the problematic record. This continues until it processes all records successfully.
• Resolved an issue where product descriptions for Danish (DK) and Norwegian (NO) languages were not syncing from Optimizely PIM to Configured Commerce, resulting in "No description available" messages