Release Notes Sitevision 8

Admin UI

Improvements

• [SV-30545] App log - a new live log available via /admin/applog. This view requires the "developer" permission and it will contain all logging that is performed via the API (i.e. via LogUtil and new server-side Javascript console.log)

Public API

Improvements

• [SV-30725] Minor performance improvement when a method of a class in the API is invoked
• [SV-30795] MimeTypeUtil - support for avif files
• [SV-31390] MimeTypeUtil - support for drawio files
• [SV-31343] MimeTypeUtil - support for mpd files
• [SV-31204] Introduced new property "tagTitle" on sv:tag Nodes
• [SV-30818] Introduced new property "allowWebUsers" on sv:site Nodes
  
• [SV-31474] (8.0.1) LocaleUtil - added support for the ru-BY Locale (russian language in Belarus)

Bug fixes

• [SV-30754] TranslationUtil.getTranslatedFrom might falsely return null for a copied translated page with new origin set
• [SV-31243] (8.0.1) NodeIterator.next() and NodeIterator.nextNode() could throw exception (that also couldn't be handled at all in scripts due to Sandboxing)

See the Public API Change Log for full details

REST API

Improvements

• [SV-31179] Support for JSON in entries and comments ("messageFormat" property in /comments, /timelineEntries, /compoundTimelineEntries and /bookmarkedTimelineEntries)
• [SV-30818] More forgiving/robust handling of POST /simpleuser (silently ignore null values)
• [SV-31051] Introducing "attachments" property for GET /comments (resource data for comments with attached files/images)
• [SV-30824] License/feature "Social collaboration" is no longer required to GET /comments for sv:pageComment

Bug fixes

• [SV-31394] Security fixes for some REST API operations on social collaboration data
  

WebApps and RESTApps

Improvements

• [SV-28763] Cache API for apps
• [SV-31313] Support for server-side Javascript console logging (e.g. console.log, console.debug, console.info, console.warn, console.error)

Bug fixes

• [SV-31243] (8.0.1) NodeIterator.next() and NodeIterator.nextNode() could throw exception (that also couldn't be handled at all due to Sandboxing)

WebApps

Improvements

• [SV-30664] Support in client requester to send files over ajax
• [SV-31172] Add server-side router.getUrl and router.getStandaloneUrl (as already existing in client-side)

Bug fixes

• [SV-31122] Client-side i18n does not return key (as server-side does) when localized text is missing
• [SV-31040] Error in server log when processing a POST in WebApps that uses pre-render hooks
• [SV-30799] New version of WebApp is not initialized with Global AppData from previous version
• [SV-31320] WebApp that is copied faild to keep proper reference to linkpages (that is configured in UI via page-selector)

RESTApps

Bug fixes

• [SV-31818] Creating a sv:simpleUser via the REST API should only trigger a sv:simpleuser:create event (not also occasionally a sv:simpleuser:update).

Other

Improvements

• [SV-30951] More robust svDocReady (should handle missing functions silently instead of failing)