Release Notes
November 2016 – released Sitecore Experience Platform 8.2 Update-1 (rev. 161115)
This is a product update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if it includes fixes that meet the specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit from waiting to upgrade until Sitecore releases an update that is relevant for your organization. This is especially true in production environments.
Highlights
Sitecore 8.2 update-1 supports a full Azure PaaS deployment and the release comes with out of the box support for:
- Azure Web Apps for hosting your Sitecore site
- Application Insights for health monitoring
- Redis Cache for session state
- Azure Search for search engine support
- Azure SQL for databases
New features/improvements
| Context | Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caching | Sitecore now includes a new Session State Provider for Redis Cache, which adds to the already existing options of In-Memory, SQL Server, and MongoDB. This provider works with on-premise or Azure Redis Cache implementations. | ||
| Configuration | The Port attribute is now taken into account when links are generated, enabling the configuration of environments with translation ports. | 93672, 384752 | |
| Content Editor | The Content Editor language selectornow contains the country reference. | 95987, 433109 | |
| Content Editor | Aliases are now supported for media items. | 91259, 332149 | |
| Content Editor | XHtml validation of HTML5 tags has been introduced. | 92086, 353612 | |
| DataProvider MSSQL | Azure SQL is now supported as a storage for Sitecore databases. | 118635 | |
| Experience Analytics | Because marketing definitions must be deployed for Experience Analytics to aggregate data and display reports, warning messages have been added to the log to ensure that you can see that marketing taxonomy definions have not been deployed. | 123393 | |
| Experience Optimization | You can now select several versions of the same page in a page test. | 443279, 450913 | 80010 |
| Experience Optimization | It is now possible to select the language of a test page when you create a test in the Experience Optimization application. | 466747, 457627, 470569, 464710, 464191 | 98532 |
| Experience Profile | The latest visitors list on the dashboard now dynamically loads contacts as you scroll. | 438995, 438823, 441771, 449278, 460198, 462624, 467185, 478824 | 60021 |
| Installation | This release is the first Sitecore release to support deployment on Azure Web Apps. Deployment into Azure Web Apps is supported using the new pre-built Web Deploy packages and ARM templates. | ||
| Installation | Support for Azure SQL, which can now be set up using DACPAC packages found in the Databases folder of a Sitecore installation. | ||
| List Manager | Search performance has been improved by increasing the efficiency of retrieving the list count via the LINQ to SOLR provider. | 119389 | |
| List Manager | A new method has been added to export custom fields via CSV from the List Manager. | 98840 | |
| List Manager | Segmented Lists have been extended to show contacts with empty email addresses. | 110294 | |
| List Manager | The segmentation logic has been updated to improve the accuracy of Segmented List counts. | 59582 | |
| List Manager | UI messaging and logging when the List Manager csv fails to import has been added. | 124629 | |
| MVC | Rendering error handling has been improved and can be configured using custom IRendererErrorStrategy implementations for handling errors. | 88801 | |
| Path Analyzer | Funnels have been added to favorites for a particular map and you can now see them on the Dashboard view. | 103151 | |
| Platform | Sitecore now includes support for Azure Application Insights. When you deploy Sitecore into Azure Web Apps using the new Web Deploy packages, this integration is enabled by default and immediately starts channeling all Sitecore logs and performance counters into Application Insights. | ||
| Sitecore Services Client | Sitecore Services OData controllers now support read/write. | 121662 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | EDM configuration has been simplified with an extendable fluid EDM builder API. | 121663 | |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | Sitecore now ships with a search provider for Azure Search which can be used with Content Search and Contact Segmentation Indexes. This adds to the existing search engine options of Lucene, Solr, and Coveo. When deploying into Azure using the new Web Deploy packages, the Azure Search provider is activated by default. | ||
| SPEAK | The ListControl DetailView column definition now supports the EmptyText property, which defines the text to show when the corresponding field in a row has no value. | 125649 | |
| Update Installation wizard | Update Installation Wizard was significantly improved. Following features were introduced:1) Ability to update files and items independently2) Auto-upgrade of the configuration. During the upgrade the custom configuration would be detected and moved to individual include files. The Sitecore configuration would be automatically updated.3) Ability to modify created include files with custom configuration during update4) Upgrade installation performance was dramatically improved. | 96792, 452215 | |
| Workflows | Workflow comments are now supported on the Submit Selected and Submit All dialogs. | 91794, 345263 |
Resolved issues
The following issues have been fixed:
| Context | Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| API | The Item.DisplayName properties call the dbo.aspnet_Users table in the Core database. | 109832 | |
| API | The anchor and query in the link to the page are in the incorrect order. | 96095, 435422 | |
| API | The wrong number of users is shown when you log in with a boosted license. | 96971, 455433 | |
| API | Using Text.Translate during Sitecore initialization slows down the Sitecore load. | 117129 | |
| API | During initialization, Sitecore loads the country culture associated with the User Profile and this affects performance negatively. | 117116 | |
| API | The RemoveVersions method for a DataProvider class throws an exception when null is returned by calling the GetItemVersions method from the custom data provider. | 95894, 431369 | |
| Caching | The DeviceItemCache and RuleCache item:saved:remote handlers force newly saved items to be loaded unnecessarily. | 96472, 443280 | |
| Caching | The Caching enabled setting doesn't work. | 92931, 372655 | |
| Caching | The ContentSearchManager.Locator getter does not seem to be thread safe. | 95460, 423098 | |
| Content Editor | The icon and item displayname are always editable. | 89955, 305870 | |
| Content Editor | Control-click calls the browser context menu instead of the Sitecore menu. | 108411 | |
| Content Editor | Data is lost when you save from the Name Value list. | 115027 | |
| Content Editor | Item write access is required to render the Content Editor gutters. | 117525 | |
| Content Editor | The UIUtil.GetApplicationFromShortcut method cannot work with links that are inserted using Internal Link dialog. | 93306, 378169 | |
| Content Editor | Line breaks disappear for multiline text fields. | 93260, 377374 | |
| Content Editor | The Notification Manager stores the wrong value for item clones. | 119386 | |
| Content Editor | The __Source Item field validator and the __Source field validator throw an exception when validating an item that has with no current language versionspecified. | 116595 | |
| Content Editor | The red bar does not appear to the left of fields being validated. | 96721, 450684 | |
| Content Editor | WebDAV INFO messages still are being written to the logs even when the WebDAV.Enabled setting is set to false. | 118232 | |
| Experience Analytics | Translation: Resources in the App_GlobalResources Website folder cause issues in the display of country-releated reports in Experience Analytics. | 452108, 450552, 471459 | 82101 |
| Experience Analytics | Translation: Country labels are not translated correctly. | 113998 | |
| Experience Analytics | A dimension with a specific page filter "Where the specifc page has been visisted within the current visit" throws exception during aggregation. | 123660 | |
| Experience Analytics | Azure Web Apps support: reaggregation failed due to two running completion agents , on a distributed environment using Redis Cache as the session state provider. | 126412 | |
| Experience Analytics | There are duplicate experienceAnalytics/aggregation nodes on the showconfig.aspx page. | ||
| Experience Analytics | Translation: On unavailable Device models reports, the Unavailable label is not translated. | 114007 | |
| Experience Editor | Saving changes causes a Null reference exception when the Enforce Version Presence feature is enabled on an item. | 464427, 460841, 465311 | 107453 |
| Experience Editor | You cannot select Associated Content if the datasource for the rendering is invalid. | 470254, 452083, 451642 | 78356 |
| Experience Editor | The drop-down list of items in the Navigation bar has no scroll bar. | 462895, 457068, 465073, 459683, 465512, 456607, 458225, 456829, 468130, 455682, 468710 | 85083 |
| Experience Editor | The Experience Editor incorrectly resolves the context site after switching languages in a multi-site environment. | 466285, 456630, 466386, 454965 | 86006 |
| Experience Editor | TheInsert link dialog does not open if there is a & charachterin the querystring of the General Link field. | 469788, 458698, 461291, 471609, 466528, 457304, 456531, 469937, 466371, 464701, 469218, 463172 | 87963 |
| Experience Editor | The hardcoded WEB database definition in the GetControlState method causes an exception if the configuration of the database is absent. | 458194, 468983, 471657, 457817, 458380 | 98798 |
| Experience Editor | The workflow state does not change if there are unsaved changes in a document. | 463056 | 110367 |
| Experience Editor | The unnecessary popup, "are you sure you want to leave", appears after you save an item after you have changed the workflow state. | 463056 | 110373 |
| Experience Editor | A NullReferenceException happens in the Experience Editor if certain security permissions are set up for the placeholder settings. | 462825 | 110924 |
| Experience Editor | On MVC sites, Explore mode always redirects to the Home page in the Experience Editor instead of the current page. | 116644 | |
| Experience Editor | It is impossible to edit or design pages in the Experience Editor after you return from Explore mode on MVC-enabled sites. | 117587 | |
| Experience Editor | On certain multisite configurations, the Experience Editor throws an error when changing the preview date. | 470756 | 126488 |
| Experience Optimization | Content Testing causes an exception in the Experience Editor ribbon if the enforceVersionPresence attribute is set to true. | 462255, 462769, 462222, 463285 | 108311 |
| Experience Optimization | Multiple changes are needed to improve multi-language support. | 453814, 454423, 456640, 460479, 458772, 458774, 462058, 456392, 456580, 459893, 471524, 467509, 456655 | 83387, 88040, 97183, 98206, 98225 |
| Experience Optimization | An internal server error appears after you open the Page Level test dialog several times. | 470378, 470508 | 126066 |
| Experience Profile | The An error has occurred message appears when searching for contacts that do not have visits registered in the Experience Profile. | 74085 | |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | FXM handles the "for in" constructions in javascript incorrectly. | 464329 | 121398 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | FXM ignores the external site's port number | 451473, 452447,457448 | 77976, 452447,457448 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | Unwanted JavaScript code can be executed in the FXM application. | 453145 | 80141 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | A placeholder with the position property set to after is not rendered on an external site if the element is the last child of its parent node. | 452459 | 81791 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | FXM loads external site scripts several times when you insert multiple placeholders. | 452898 | 83803 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | FXM cannot track page visits if the external site URL contains 'page' or 'url' in the query string parameters. | 459074 | 101816 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | Links on an external site always lead to the home page when opening an external ssl-only site in the Experience Editor. | 461053 | 105842 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | FXM does not properly process domain matcher rules if they contain a rule without any conditions. | 461650 | 108264 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | Installing EXM 3.3 breaks the FXM application. | 468467, 468611, 465092, 468611 | 119569 |
| Federated Experience Manager (FXM) | Javascript errors appear in FXM when you add a placeholder to some single-page application sites. | 464329 | 121398 |
| Installation | Installing a template where the Shared setting has been modified can cause database corruption. | 90254, 310642 | |
| Installation | You cannot install a package if it contains an item that has a query string as its source property. | 119608 | |
| Item buckets | The Save dialog box appears when you add several bucketable items to a bucket. | 104178, 125313, 119704 | |
| Item buckets | There is unexpected behavior when you add an item to an existing bucket node. | 119704 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Sitecore displays a connection error during loading if the Solr server is not available. | 94024, 391039 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | The BaseAsynchronousStrategy retrieves a value by using its key instead of enumerating the entire sequence. | 97025, 456221 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | The search index only uses the first crawler that is assigned to it and ignores any other crawlers. | 108165 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Language Fallback can cause incorrect field values to be indexed when the index is rebuilt. | 104145 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Content languages can affect the OnPublishEndAsync indexing strategy. | 107730 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Sometimes the index is not updated when shared fields are changed. | 107856 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Indexes are not updated after an item is restored from the Recycle Bin. | 116165 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Strategies can flood the IndexPropertyStore with last_updated_timestamp requests. | 117459 | |
| Item Buckets Content Search | Reindexing consumes too many resources in some cases. | 109719 | |
| Language fallback | Wrong field value is resolved when using fallback fields and unclone functionality. | 99542 | |
| Language fallback | Installing a package creates item versions for all fallback languages. | 103362 | |
| Language fallback | Language fallback creates unnecessary language versions using Copy to and Duplicate options for items not in the initial workflow state. | 107642 | |
| Language fallback | Installing a Sitecore Package with a version in the fallback language creates unnecessary duplicated versions. | 109464 | |
| Language fallback | The Unlock and UnlockAll commands create new item versions. | 120257 | |
| Language fallback | The wrong field value is resolved when you use the language fallback and unclone functionality. | 99542 | |
| Language fallback | The fallback label for fields is displayed if you enable field-level fallback and there are no values. | 104047 | |
| Language fallback | The final layout does not have a language fallback field. | 105306 | |
| Language fallback | The dictionary entry shows the incorrect translated values for items with Language Fallback enabled. | 106268 | |
| Language fallback | Token replacement does not work for languages with Language Fallback enabled. | 116885 | |
| Layouts & renderings | Delta xml layouts can cause an incorrect sublayout order. | 95158, 414405 | |
| Layouts & renderings | The Copy To dialog ignores the item language when you copy the final layout. | 107731 | |
| Layouts & renderings | There is an incorrect Help link in the Schedule template. | 114617 | |
| Layouts & renderings | The attributes in the FieldRenderer control are not used during item rendering. | 90242, 310360 | |
| Links | The Broken Links report leads to the wrong item version when you click the item link. | 92609, 366084 | |
| Links | An extra slash in the rootPath parameter of the site definition can cause an error. | 94471, 399016 | |
| Links | There are excessive operations in theSqlServerLinkDatabase.BatchCompact method. | 105831 | |
| List Manager | When you log in as an admin user, the My lists page doesn't display the lists that you have created. | 43365 | |
| List Manager | In the Import wizard, you can click on the tab header and skip to the next step without mapping import fields. | 114120 | |
| List Manager | You can cause security issues by replacing a list owner with a non-Sitecore user. | 114055 | |
| List Manager | The identification level is not set for contacts that are imported using the List Manager. | 84176 | |
| List Manager | A list can be moved outside the All lists folder by changing the Destination property. | 1140565 | |
| List Manager | Search fields aren't limited by max length. | 114062 | |
| List Manager | The Create and add new contact form allows you to upload contacts with all unlimited size of email, last and first name, leading to hanging of list processing. | 114060 | |
| List Manager | The Create and add new contact form allows you to upload contacts with without filling in any of the fields, potentially leading to securtity issues. | 114059 | |
| List Manager | The List Manager Task Page sends two identical HTTP requests to get contacts and this impacts performance. | 74285 | |
| Login | Users can log in to Sitecore with spaces at the end of their user name. | 90599, 318159 | |
| Login | The Login.DisableAutoComplete setting is not considered when the the Login pageis initialized. | 119950 | |
| Login | The User.RuntimeSettings setting of a Virtual User conflicts with the custom data in the FormsAuthenticationTicket.UserData setting. | 107294 | |
| Media | Unnecessary database calls cause the GetMediaURL method to be overwritten. | 95048, 410427 | |
| Media | The Keep Aspect Ratio is disabled in the Image Properties dialog. | 110496 | |
| Media | The Download file name is garbled when it contains non-ASCII characters. | 96081, 435277 | |
| Miscellaneous | A nolayout page is returned instead of the noaccess page. | 90940, 325160 | |
| Miscellaneous | There is no text available for the unlock command for non-English languages. | 119818 | |
| Miscellaneous | Multilist paging and search generates a non-RFC 1738 compliant URL. | 104367 | |
| Miscellaneous | The Update Installation wizard throws an exceptionin some cases. | 115007 | |
| Miscellaneous | The Item owner is always sitecore\admin. | 129833 | |
| Miscellaneous | HTML entities in RSSare broken in some browsers. | 92190, 355852 | |
| Miscellaneous | There is a MainUtil.SendMail resource leak. | 102608 | |
| Miscellaneous | The Business name value is used instead of the Contact name in web form reports. | 75908 | |
| Multibrowser fixes | Sitecore breaks Internet Explorer's implementation of streaming mp4 videos with HTML5 | 95191, 415156 | |
| Multibrowser fixes | The Browser console is flooded with errors. | 120395 | |
| MVC | The Layout file path is not resolved correctly. | 452136, 455540, 451632 | 96789 |
| MVC | External aliases do not work. | 455672, 455557, 456466, 457985, 459142, 459484, 462932, 463476, 463992, 464437, 464679, 467090, 471534, 472142 | 96995 |
| MVC | The default MVC Layout file doesn't contain XML schema information. | 105581 | |
| MVC | Sitecore MVC IAssemblyResolver resolves too many assemblies. | 109276 | |
| MVC | Rendering statistics are not collected for pages that use MVC. | 94421, 398176 | |
| Path Analyzer | No contacts are displayed when the Group map data setting is enabled. | 122558 | |
| Path Analyzer | The Download as CSV function causes issues with the Radial view, and this causes an Error message to be displayed. | 119848 | |
| Path Analyzer | Log files contain WARN messages for the CD role in a distributed environment. | 117453 | |
| Path Analyzer | Enabling GenericCache for Tree Map views causes tree requests to load slowly. | 115145 | |
| Path Analyzer | The Help icon next to a funnel name does not open the Help dialog from the Funnels tab. | 117820 | |
| Path Analyzer | Processors in the Processor DeletePathAnalyzerItems (used in the pipeline UIDeleteItems) execute with an exception in the log. | 122304 | |
| Path Analyzer | Maps are double-grouped due to a cache error. | 123741 | |
| Path Analyzer | Help pages in non-Ennglish languages are blank. | 122307 | |
| Path Analyzer | The help page is blank if requested by an anonymous user. | 116121 | |
| Path Analyzer | Outcome names are not resolved from the corresponding outcome definitions (using the default node name resolution setting). | 117436 | |
| Path Analyzer | The context pane closes on an empty area click. | 125316 | |
| Path Analyzer | TheBar Chart tooltip always shows a template unavailable notification. | 124458 | |
| Path Analyzer | The root node of Reverse Goal maps are incorrectly renamed to Internet when the Group map data setting is enabled. | 118082 | |
| Path Analyzer | The Context Pane does not scroll within its tabs. | 113984 | |
| Path Analyzer | The cursor displays incorrectly when you hover over thecheckboxes on the Settings screen. | 123742 | |
| Path Analyzer | The Create your first funnel button does not indicate that a new window will appear. | 116695 | |
| Path Analyzer | TheTable layout rendering is slow to display when large 3.5K path datasets are used (Experience Map with Goals). | 113636 | |
| Path Analyzer | The Path Analyzer UI and Help texts do not fully support German(Tier-1 language). | 115124 | |
| Pipelines | The Authentication.SaveRawUrl setting does not work for media requests. | 92159, 355047 | |
| Pipelines | The ItemResolver processor in the HttpRequestBegin pipeline returns different results for the same item. | 95203, 415304 | |
| Pipelines | The SiteResolver class fetches the wrong website for regional domains. | 92699, 368324 | |
| Pipelines | The SiteResolver class does not work with wildcard characters in the hostName attribute of a site section. | 94338, 396181 | |
| Pipelines | Checkbox values get erased when you navigate from an item with unsaved changes. | 107694 | |
| Platform | The Media Browser only shows the selected imagerather than all images, which is required to enable the user to change an image when opening an image field that is populated. | 414946 | 82830 |
| Rich Text Editor | The Edit Html feature does not workin some cases. | 93614, 383922 | |
| Rich Text Editor | You cannot add CSS classes to the image property dialog. | 95547, 425160 | |
| Rich Text Editor | The Insert Bucket Link button in the Rich Text Editor doesn't work. | 107388 | |
| Security API | There is an error on the Launchpad when you log out after using the Search field in the User Manager. | 96679, 449798 | |
| Security API | There are security vulnerabilities. | 109420, 110904 | |
| Serialization | The is an item serialization exception when the full item path ({database name}/{item path}) length is 150 or more. | 90479, 315522 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | EDM configuration has been simplified with an extendable fluid EDM builder API. | 121663 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | The desc attributes are missing on assembly filter nodes. | 125207 | |
| Social Connected | When you post a manual message, the server returns a 500 error. | 117922 | |
| Solr | Search limits results by the _language filter query when the client language differs from the default language. | 95597, 426036 | |
| Solr | Fallback versions are not indexed when Language Fallback is enabled. | 118246 | |
| Solr | The Solr ingtegration is unstable if the connection to Solr is unavailable during Sitecore initialization. | 121040 | |
| Solr | Searching using quotations does not work as expected. | 121328 | |
| SPEAK | The Message control fails to provide tooltips for messages, making it difficult to read very long messages. | 122877 | |
| SPEAK | SPEAK fails to resolve the "Target" value of an "internal link" field in the Content Editor dialog, which results in Sitecore ignoring the value provided by the user. | 406359 | 115278 |
| SPEAK | The SPEAK components CSS file contains an inappropriate reference to CSS maps, which raises a JavaScript error when you open the Publish wizard. | 116755 | |
| SPEAK | The ListControl raises an error if a date column attempts to display a row with a null value for the date. | 117813 | |
| SPEAK | The MessageBar does not sort messages by type. | 113796 | |
| SPEAK | The Line chart fails to show values on the X-axis if the chart displays only a single value. | 121466 | |
| SPEAK | The DialogHeader.Title wraps long text strings even when there is enough space for the text. | 114112 | |
| SPEAK | An authenticated user does not get redirected to the login page when the session expires. | 469304 | 124934 |
| SPEAK | The Uploader API returns a successful status code, even when upload fails. | 124625 | |
| SPEAK | The ActionControl does not open when displayed in Internet Explorer 11. | 101684 | |
| SPEAK applications | The Select Sitecore Item dialog doesn’t select an item based on the Internal Link field value. | 94623, 401636 | |
| SPEAK applications | The Insert Internal Link dialog does not allow you to specify the attributes for the link. | 94908, 407189 | |
| SPEAK applications | The SPEAK Insert link dialog doesn't preselect the item if the source is specified. | 95226, 415686 | |
| SPEAK applications | The Insert Link dialog from the General Link field shows an empty window target. | 95434, 422229 | |
| SPEAK applications | The Target attribute in the General Link field isn't preselected. | 96379, 441249 | |
| SPEAK applications | The SPEAK Insert Link dialog does not respect the content language. | 96423, 442383 | |
| Update Installation wizard | The Process.bat file has a virtual drive as the source path. | 95276, 417237 | |
| Update Installation wizard | The Update Installation wizard does not show the real source of the error when a package contains two items with same IDs. | 123970 | |
| Update Installation wizard | The following error appears in the log file during an upgrade: "...Could not load file or assembly 'MethodTimer, Version=1.15.10.0..". | 115074 | |
| Workbox | The Diff dialog in the Workbox ignores the Field Read access rights. | 102007 | |
| Workflows | Workflow commands in the gutter are executable even if the item is locked by another user. | 116178 |