v4.8.0-rc.2024.6.10 release

v4.8.0-rc.2024.6.10 release has seven bug fixes, 17 improvements, and 18 new features.

Significant new features

• Introduced a new My Activity dashboard widget.
• Artificial intelligence:
  
  • Introduced infrastructure for AI chat and Ask AI.
  • Introduced integration with Amazon's Bedrock Claude.
  • Introduced widgets for interacting with AI, such as text fields in the content edit form and searching for assets.
• Calendar integration:
  
  • Deployed a top-level framework for integrating calendar services.
  • Deployed a sub-framework for integrating web-based calendar services, such as Google Calendar.
  • Introduced a Calendar dashboard widget.
  • Introduced permissions to the calendar feature at the site, role, and user levels.
  • Deployed Java classes for internal calendars that track scheduled events.
  • Deployed mapping infrastructure between internal and external calendars.
• Google Calendar:
  
  • Added a cluster for configuring the Google Calendar integration in Global settings; deployed synchronization rules.
  • Added the package com.psddev.calendar.google for deploying the Google Calendar integration.
  • Added widgets for editors to manage the integration with their Google Calendars.
  • Introduced transmission of new and updated scheduled events and assignments to Google Calendar.
  • Added class DraftGoogleCalendarAutomaticDistributor and interface AssignmentExternalCalendarAutomaticDistributor to manage the transmission of scheduled events and assignments to Google Calendar.
  • Refactored initial Google Calendar integration.
• Added a side toolbar for Brightspot. This toolbar provides finer control for showing and hiding widgets on the content edit form.
• Introduced localization to the list of roles in the Unpublished Drafts dashboard widget.

Significant improvements

• The field Dropbox Application Key was removed from the core product. This field is now available only for those instances that explicitly activate the Dropbox feature.
• Editors can create contextual edits on images in the rich-text editor. For example, Adam embedded a shared image inside the rich-text editor. Adam now has the ability to edit this image so it appears differently in the rich-text editor, but appears as the original image everywhere else it is used.
• The Java Server Page file.jsp was migrated to the FormInput class.
• The contextual image editor is no longer available for images of format .svg.
• After deleting a workflow status, an asset's revision history displays the status's name (instead of its UUID), and assets in that deleted status are returned to draft.
• Comparison between two revisions' rich text is now more granular.
  
  • When ordered or unordered lists are changed, comparing from one revision to another highlights only the changed text. (Previously, the entire list was highlighted as a change.)
  • When text within a table is changed, comparing from one revision to another highlights only the changed text. (Previously, the entire table was highlighted as a change.)
• When viewing a comparison between two revisions, the styling and behavior of information icon info is now more intuitive.
• AI permissions:
  
  • Admins can enable/disable AI chat functionality at the Global site level, and can override that setting at the individual site level.
  • For a site with AI chat functionality enabled, admins can further limit the site's associated roles that can access that functionality.
• Embedded fields with no associated values now have appropriate placeholder text. For example, if there are no polling triggers for a Zapier endpoint, the field Polling Triggers shows None.
• The HTML rendering of collapsible widgets inside the content edit form (such as URLs) is modified so that they behave consistently.
• Further coded the rich-text toolbar for Brightspot so that it appropriately shows or hides icons depending on window size.
• Removed BulkWorkflow.js as its features were implemented in TypeScript.
• Enhanced the Alteration class to account for alteration of abstract classes.
• Moved the cms-type dependency from graphql-api to graphql-cma-cda.
• Generation of Javadocs now includes annotations.

Significant defects addressed

• Corrected an issue preventing contextual image edits from carrying over when copying the containing asset to a new asset.
• Corrected an issue preventing proper post-publish placement of an asset inside a parent asset's lists. For example, an editor created a homepage whose contents are a module. The editor then added a list List 1 to the module. The editor then copied List 1 to List 2. Next, the editor created an article, and in post-publish actions added the article to List 1. The article was also added to List 2.
• Corrected an issue preventing selection of Any Content Type in the Recent Activity widget.
• Corrected an issue preventing inclusion of response headers added with response.addHeader inside an overridden ViewModel#onCreate.
• Corrected an issue preventing population of GCA schema WebParameter fields in view models when using the endpointViewType schema setting.
• Corrected an issue preventing population of widgets inside the content edit form's right rail.
• Corrected an issue preventing proper use of database schema for Solr 9.