Deprecation of Adaptive Personalization

The integration of Adaptive Personalization is deprecated in favor of the new Native Personalization.

Follow Section, “Deprecation of Adaptive Personalization” for upgrade information.

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Removed unused code from UriComponentsHelper

Unused code has been removed from the com.coremedia.objectserver.web.links.UriComponentsHelper. This results in removed and renamed public methods.

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Adaptive Personalization (p13n) Extensions Disabled By Default

The Adaptive Personalization extensions have been disabled by default in the Blueprint.

Follow Section, “Adaptive Personalization (p13n) Extensions Disabled By Default” for upgrade information.

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gRPC as an Alternative to CORBA Communication

For internal communication between CoreMedia CMCC components, gRPC has been added as an alternative to CORBA. Communication via CORBA is still available and the default. As long as you plan to stick with CORBA, no changes to your code or operations procedures are required. Should you want to switch to gRPC as your communications protocol between CMCC components, the following sections will provide information and pointer for additional details to do so.

In the course of adding gRPC as a communications protocol, however, breaking changes were introduced:

Follow Section, “gRPC as an Alternative to CORBA Communication” for upgrade information.

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CORS Configuration Updated

In case you have existing CORS configuration, change your config from caas.cors. to cors. according to the deployment manual.

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Removed redundant dependency management from blueprint parent POMs

Imports for Spring dependencies have been removed from the dependencyManagement sections from the blueprint-parent POMs.

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Removed util class InputInput

The class com.coremedia.util.InputInput has been removed. It’s only usage in the content server’s hox.corem.server.media.jdbc.BlobStore, dynamically determining the length of uploaded blobs, has been replaced with util classes from Apache Commons IO .

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Do not start MongoDB and Elastic Worker by default

Due to several changes (Removal of Google Analytics connectors, Disabling of Elastic Social by default, Changing Collaborative Component persistence to SQL) the Blueprint Docker deployment has been adjusted to not start MongoDB and Elastic Worker by default. To start them, please use the compose files elastic.yml and development-elastic.yml.

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Removed deprecated BaseFileSystemConfiguration from ContentHub API

The class BaseFileSystemConfiguration has been removed as it is not needed anymore and might cause confusion.

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Content hub adapters are no longer delivered as bundled plugins

In previous versions the content hub adapters for youtube and rss were bundled in the studio-server and studio-client. The plugins are no longer bundled and have to be added like other plugins in each project.

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CatalogPicture#getUrl() removed from template api

CatalogPicture#getUrl() must not be used from templates, therefore it has been removed from the template api.

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Removed Deprecated API: Predicates

The deprecated class com.coremedia.common.util.Predicates has been removed from the Java API.

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Removal of Analytics Connectors

The integration of Analytics Connectors based on Elastic Core has been removed, i.e. extension es-alx and parts of extension alx, including the analytics doctypes. Functionality for website tracking is still available and the corresponding documentation has moved to the CoreMedia Blueprint manual.

Follow Section, “Removal of Analytics Connectors” for upgrade information.

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Elastic Social (es) Extensions Disabled By Default

The Elastic Social extensions have been disabled by default in the Blueprint.

Follow Section, “Elastic Social (es) Extensions Disabled By Default” for upgrade information.

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Support for MySQL 8.0 and PostgreSQL 13 has been removed

Please update to supported versions MySQL 8.4 / PostgreSQL 16.

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The workflowconverter initscript has been removed from the workflow-server image

The recommended way to run the workflowconverter is either by running it in-place at application startup activated by the flag workflow.server.enable-workflow-converter or by running the converter tool as an initcontainer or manually, when the workflow-server is stopped.

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Confd has been removed from the management-tools image

Confd had been used as a convenience layer to reconfigure the tools based on environment variable based profiles. With confd it was possible configure arbitrary files using a templating mechanism.

Follow Section, “Confd has been removed from the management-tools image” for upgrade information.

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Middle Tier: Removal of Deprecated API

Follow Section, “Middle Tier: Removal of Deprecated API” for upgrade information.

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Common Tier: Removal of Deprecated API

The following deprecated classes and methods have been removed:

Follow Section, “Common Tier: Removal of Deprecated API” for upgrade information.

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Third-Party Update: Apache Solr 9.10.0

Apache Solr has been updated to version 9.10.0 and the coremedia/solr-base Docker image with tag 2.6-cm-9.10.0 has been released. As part of this change, the following transitive dependencies of Apache SolrJ have been updated:

Follow Section, “Third-Party Update: Apache Solr 9.10.0” for upgrade information.

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Discontinue base image flavors

The java-application-base image no longer provides jdk based image flavors. The jre for corretto and temurin is an adjusted custom jre based on the default jre module set with the addition of jshell.

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Switched to spring-grpc

Switched from grpc-spring to spring-grpc. This change causes that properties below grpc.server and grpc.client are no longer relevant. Instead the properties below spring.grpc.server}}and {{spring.grpc.client}}must be used respectively. Along with this change, the commerce hub client setting {{com.coremedia.blueprint.base.livecontext.client.settings.CommerceSettings#getEndpoint}}was removed. Use `{{com.coremedia.blueprint.base.livecontext.client.settings.CommerceSettings#getEndpointName}}instead and configure an ops-friendly symbolic name, which is then configured as a named gRPC channel below {{spring.grpc.client.channels. More specifically, this means that your commerce}}struct’s {{endpoint}}value is no longer picked up to establish a commerce connection. Introduce a String property named {{endpointName}}in your {{commerce}}struct and give it the value of a gRPC channel, such as {{hybris}}or {{sfcc.

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Java 21 Support

Starting with CMCC v13.2512.0.0 the required JDK to build the workspace and run the applications is Java 21 LTS Release.

Follow Section, “Java 21 Support” for upgrade information.

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Removal of deprecated Commerce Hub Data properties

The following deprecated properties have been removed. Use their replacements in parentheses '(…)' instead.

The property commerce.hub.data.endpoints has been removed without direct property replacement. Instead, use the endpointName of the commerce settings struct (respectively com.coremedia.blueprint.base.livecontext.client.settings.CommerceSettings#getEndpointName) to configure the Commerce Hub connection.

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Removed Deprecated API for Custom Proactive Engine Application

Custom Proactive Engine / Persistent Cache applications are not supported anymore. Proactive Engine and Persistent Cache are internal technical components of the CAE Feeder that cannot be used in custom applications outside of the CAE Feeder anymore. The Maven artifact com.coremedia.cms:proactiveengine-component and deprecated public Java API have been removed.

Follow Section, “Removed Deprecated API for Custom Proactive Engine Application” for upgrade information.

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Studio-Client Docker build improvements

The Studio-Client Docker build has been simplified to provide a better convenience when building the image. All three Dockerfiles (Dockerfile, Dockerfile.tooling and Dockerfile.tasks) have been merged into a single Dockerfile which is then preconfigured using a Docker Bakefile.

Follow Section, “Studio-Client Docker build improvements” for upgrade information.

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Support for Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) has been removed

As announced, the support for the database Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) has been removed from the product.

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Change Storage Layer of Collaborative Components to SQL

The Collaborative Components (My Edited Content, Projects, Workflow Archive, Notifications) now store their data in an SQL database instead of MongoDB. MongoDB and the In-Memory replacement are not supported any longer for these features, but can still be enabled for instance to prepare a data migration. For instructions on data migration and further details please see the section Collaborative Components in the Operation Basics Manual.

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