CoreMedia Content Cloud v12 Upgrade Guide / Version 2404
Table Of ContentsThis guide is intended to help you during your upgrade to CoreMedia Content Cloud 12.2404.1. Familiarize yourself with the changes and actual tasks when upgrading from CoreMedia Content Cloud v11 to v12. Use this introduction to learn about the major enhancements and to understand the big picture.
Use the following chapters to review all the information about the changes that concern you – your individual upgrade – in detail.
There's no need to read this guide from A to Z as the chapters can be read individually. Use the search function to navigate quickly to the topics in this guide that are especially interesting for you.
New Features - The Highlights
We have been working on our Studio’s interface, releasing various improvements that have the goal to significantly support the users in their daily work and to make it more enjoyable.
Among them:
Visual refresh of CoreMedia Studio>
Since design itself is a never ending task, as design evolves permanently, every state-of-the-art-design becomes outdated after time. The new visual update respects these developments and provides the user with higher contrasts that makes it easier to distinguish individual components from one another. The new color pattern increases usability and by adding illustrations and animations to the software, we follow the current trends and give the user a more emotional based feedback to their actions. Basic components have been given a totally new styling with more whitespace, larger fonts and more distinguishable patterns.
CoreMedia Studio for CMCC 12 on Cloud contains in-app guides>
CoreMedia Studio is a very powerful tool for content management. To support you in your daily work, we have added in-app guides to help you to get started with CoreMedia Studio and to use it more efficiently. In-app guides describe components of the user interface and provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.
Integration with Engagement Cloud
With CoreMedia Engagement Cloud, you can now use segmentation to target content based on profiles and segments. When you create segmented content in Studio, you will see all the segments and profiles from your Engagement Cloud account.
Support for blobs larger than 2GB
CoreMedia Studio now supports blobs larger than 2GB in upload and handling. This is especially useful for video content.
Technical Changes - Overview
Besides these new features, CoreMedia has done a lot of work behind the scenes. Updated libraries, an improved developer experience, removal of outdated functionalities, and more. While these improvements will ease your life in the long run, they require immediate upgrade tasks.
The following list shows the most important changes in terms of the upgrade effort, while Chapter 7, Detailed Overview of Changes lists all changes in detail. See the http://bit.ly/cmcc-12-supported-environments document for the list of the supported databases, operating systems, and browsers of this release.
Public API for Studio Client Apps
The Studio Client API is now public and documented. This allows you to build your own Studio Client Apps and integrate them into CoreMedia Studio. You can find the documentation in the Studio Developer Manual.
Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.2
Spring Boot 3.2 is the current version of the Spring Framework extension to build production ready applications using Spring Framework 6. The upgrade to Spring Boot 3.2 was necessary because of the shortened Support Lifecycle of Spring Boot.
Removal of JSP support
JSP is an older technology no longer recommended by Spring Boot. The shift away from JSP, in favor of more modern template engines, is driven by the desire for cleaner code, improved separation of concerns, better tooling support, and an enhanced developer experience in the ever-evolving landscape of web development. Therefore, JSP support was removed for CMCC 12. Use Freemarker Templates instead.
Contact us if your project still requires JSP support.
Upgrade to Java 17
Upgrading to Spring Boot 3.2 and Springframework 6.1 required upgrading to Java 17 as the minimum Java version as described in the official Springframework documentation.
CKEditor 4 no longer supported
In CMCC 11, Studio switched to CKEditor 5 for rich-text editing; however, CKEditor 4 was still supported. In CMCC 12, CKEditor 4 is no longer supported.
Removal of Site Manager
Site Manager has been around for many years but has been gradually replaced by Studio. Moreover, as most of the new features over the last years have been implemented for Studio and not for Site Manager, it was time to remove Site Manager. Contact us if you feel that your project still requires Site Manager for some specific Content or Workflow Operations.
