Release Notes
April 2019 – released Sitecore Experience Platform 9.1.1
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 Experience Platform 9.1.1 includes:
- You can now run other templates before the ARM templates, which is useful when installing Solr and other services.
- Several security improvements have been implemented.
New features/improvements
| Context | Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARM Templates | It is now possible to run other templates before the ARM templates, which is useful when installing Solr and other services. | 300748 | |
| ARM Templates | When you deploy Sitecore as a production system, you must set the SITECORE_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE setting to Production. All the other values for this setting indicate a non-production system |
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| Experience Profile | The logging of xConnect connections errors has been improved. | 222211 |
Resolved issues
The following issues have been fixed:
| Context | Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARM Templates | The ARM templates do not support the installation of prerequisites. | 300748 | |
| Campaign Creator | The Experience Analytics button does not work correctly. | 197031 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The Sitecore.EmailCampaign.ExperienceAnalytics.Dimensions.ByLocation method uses the LookupManager instead of the GeoIpManager. |
287375 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The heartbeatConfiguration/exclude collection does not contain any EXM connection strings. | 249790 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The suppression list from Email Delivery Cloud is not updated. | 287636 | |
| Email Experience Manager | When you create a new language version of an email, it uses the ReplyTo, FromAddress and FromName field values of the default root manager version of the current content language. | 211435 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The default Base URL setting does not work consistently for email message links. | 214845 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The EXM UI allows you to edit an item when the language:read and language:write access rights are denied. | 215483 | |
| Email Experience Manager | EXM tries to remove a contact from the include lists even when no contact lists are assigned to the contact. | 219207 | |
| Email Experience Manager | If an Already Unsubscribed URL points to an item under the SXA module, it is not resolved correctly. | 224113 | |
| Email Experience Manager | If the Is Valid Url and Is Valid Email validators use Redis cache, they cause exceptions. | 224397 | |
| Email Experience Manager | EXM campaigns are not tracked correctly for shared session users. | 227502 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The Email Delivery Cloud Connector causes a SQL exception. | 164939 | |
| Email Experience Manager | You cannot attach a versioned media item to a message. | 196782 | |
| Email Experience Manager | The property store is not cleared during the confirm subscription process. | 232863 | |
| Email Experience Manager | You cannot remove nodes from the property table if subscription confirmation is not performed. | 233518 | |
| Email Experience Manager | An incorrect Contact id is null. message is logged in the Execute method of the Sitecore.EmailCampaign.Cd.Actions.SendEmail class when the contactIdentifier is set to Null. |
202560 | |
| Email Experience Manager | An item that calls the deprecated CleanConfirmationID's command is still present in the Content Editor. | 232040 | |
| Email Experience Manager | When you change language, EXM displays the wrong name for the language. | 232341 | |
| Experience Analytics | When the language cookie is not set properly, graphs fail to load. | 230613 | |
| Experience Analytics | When you reduce the size of a segment, some error details are lost. | 481540 | 156838 |
| Experience Editor | In preview mode, a simulated device does not appear until you touch the zoom control. | 442400, 466871, 514370 | 51575, 389153 |
| Experience Editor | The UrlRewriter ToLower rule causes lowercase SPEAK requests to fail and breaks the Experience Editor. | 458590, 459403, 462757, 472674, 484589, 485539, 492622, 513736 | 99659 |
| Experience Editor | In some cases, changing the language in the Experience Editor can redirect to another hostname. | 458808, 462695, 510497, 510504 | 101318 |
| Experience Editor | In Internet Explorer 11, in a single-line text field, the [No text in field] hint text disappears. | 474536, 480921, 481855, 484972, 485344, 491222, 495821, 498579, 503889 | 140555 |
| Experience Editor | In the Experience Editor, the Enforce Version Presence setting breaks language switching. | 479596, 488630, 489517, 494375, 499855, 510042, 510087, 522860 | 151776 |
| Experience Editor | If the Associated content checkbox is selected, an error occurs when you refresh an MVC-based page. | 484299, 486192, 500282, 500492, 501281, 503734, 509976, 511134 | 167521 |
| Experience Optimization | The Failed to load Sitecore.ContentTesting.Requests.Controllers.PersonalizationRule.PersonalizationRuleController error occurs on PaaS instances. | 525187 | 289361 |
| Experience Optimization | In a workflow, the RemoveTestAction workflow action prompts the user even when no test is defined. | 508013 | 226334 |
| Experience Optimization | In the XP Scaled topology, a Rebuild Suggested Tests Index error can occur on the Processing server. | 512103 | 231573 |
| Experience Optimization | If the Sitecore.ContentTesting.PreemptiveScreenshot.config file is enabled, tickets for the virtualssuser user are never deleted from the Properties table.
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507390, 512643, 516754, 516978 | 220835 |
| Experience Optimization | In the Content editor, if Azure search is used on a Sitecore instance, the This page has an active test. warning is not displayed. | 502516, 506557, 508913, 510945, 512706, 520756 | 213261 |
| Experience Optimization | When a device rule is set, preemptive screenshot generation breaks package installation. | 498809, 500385, 506562, 508789, 511693 | 201408 |
| Experience Optimization | ScreenshotContextFactory cannot create a temporary session when OwinContext is used. | 499201, 510375, 511212, 511945, 512124, 520344, 524238, 525082 | 200938 |
| Experience Optimization | In Experience Optimization, when the language of the pages is different from the Sitecore UI language, the GetConversionRate controller returns null. | 485164, 486434, 489212, 491516, 497008, 498374, 503716, 524463 | 169224 |
| Experience Optimization | The TestPotential computed index field raises an error in Experience Manager mode. | 471787, 513180 | 74222 |
| Experience Optimization | In Chrome, when you create a page test, the SetUserProfileKey error appears in the browser console. | 479142, 487004 | 147372 |
| Experience Optimization | In Chrome and Firefox, the Percentage of visitors exposed to test slider does not work. | 478441, 496348 | 147455 |
If the Sitecore.ContentTesting.PreemptiveScreenshot.config file is enabled, tickets for the virtualuser user are never deleted from the Properties table. |
507390, 512643, 516754, 516978 | 220835 | |
| Experience Profile | The Experience Profile does not show all the contacts that match the specified date filters. | 520283 | 296160 |
| Experience Profile | When you search for contacts, incorrect count results are displayed. | 507095, 513892, 518834 | 219986 |
| Experience Profile | When you view a contact that has had EXM related interactions, errors are written to the Experience Profile log. | 503554, 504184, 506066 | 212956 |
| FXM | FXM site visits are logged in the Content testing processing tables and this degrades performance. | 518625 | 294104 |
| Item Buckets Content Search | It is no longer possible to use iFilter for PDF content extraction during indexing. | 305016 | |
| List Manager | The List Manager adds a website#lang cookie. | 228494 | |
| List Manager | Contact filtering breaks the list view. | 234841 | |
| List Manager | The Segment Editor doesn't have a loading spinner. | 233801 | |
| List Manager | Contact filtering does not work in the list view. | 232777 | |
| List Manager | Ajax calls to the RemoveMedia action are not executed. | 97724 | |
| List Manager | Several security fixes have been implemented. | 287399 | |
| List Manager | Import from a csv file doesn't work correctly if the Media.UploadAsVersionableByDefault setting is set to true. |
82445 | |
| Marketing Automation | In a campaign overview, an incorrect value is shown in the current contacts count. | 255836 | |
| Marketing Automation | The marketing automation-related rules do not work with campaigns that are created in a different language. | 290106 | |
| Marketing Automation | If the LivePageEventInspector.Process method calls the Logger.LogError method, it does does not write anything to the log files. |
300229 | |
| Marketing Automation | An incorrect model is used in Sitecore.Xdb.MarketingAutomation.OperationsClient.AutomationOperationsClient.SerializerSettings. |
300236 | |
| Marketing Automation | The View contacts report for an automation plan does not show any contacts if one contact has been anonymized. | 292532 | |
| Marketing automation | When you save, edit, activate, and deactivate a marketing automation plan in the designer, the ReentryModeJSON property changes unexpectedly. | 297306 | |
| Marketing Foundation | In a request to the Sitecore Cortex Processing Blob and Table Storage services, if the parameters contain special characters, such as, '<', '="">', '.', or a space, the request is regarded as invalid and an error appears in the response. | 222870 | |
| Marketing Foundation | Renaming an item fails if the item template was not found. | 288845 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The Sitecore.Marketing.Taxonomy API utilizes an inefficient overload of the Sitecore.Framework.Conditions.ValidatorExtensions.Evaluate method. |
294843 | |
| Marketing Foundation | Publishing an item fails while publishing related items when the ContentManagement, Processing, and Reporting roles are combined and configured on a Sitecore instance. | 256850 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The Remove broken links page (/sitecore/admin/removebrokenlinks.aspx) fails with an exception when the ContentManagement, Processing, and Reporting roles are combined and configured on a Sitecore instance. |
205439 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The creation of marketing goals fails with an exception when the ContentManagement, Processing, and Reporting roles are combined and configured on a Sitecore instance. | 256873 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The Sitecore.Marketing.Solr.IndexConfiguration.config and Sitecore.Marketing.Azure.IndexConfiguration.config files contain an incorrect definition for the fields in the indexType="UNTOKENIZED" attribute |
234449 | |
| Marketing Foundation | When a profile item is deleted, the profile is not removed from the Tracking field. | 92783 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The GeoIpManager.GetGeoIpData API resolves the geo data incorrectly when the GeoIpOptions.Id property is not initialized by the calling code. |
104154 | |
| Marketing Foundation | When a non-existent entity is loaded from XConnect, an uninformative message is shown. | 518147, 514237 | 293460 |
| Marketing Foundation | In the Cortex Processing Engine, when the parent task fails, the status of the dependent tasks is not published to the message bus. | 289011, 288997 | |
| Marketing Foundation | When the processing engine stops and restarts, the agents enter a race condition. | 300458 | |
| Marketing Foundation | In a contact merge operation, the In-Memory target contact object is not updated with the source contact facets and only has the ProfilePicture facet. | 288395 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The HTTP 410 response status code from Microsoft Machine Learning Server is handled in the same way as the HTTP 404 response status code and treated as a session expiration. | 257489 | |
| Marketing Foundation | If you use xConnect Search with Azure Search and perform a rebuild, xConnect Search can throw some errors. | 293883 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The SqlTaskDataProvider UpdateTotalAsync(Guid, Guid, long) method throws an exception when you update a deferred task. |
288139 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The Goal was triggered during a past or current interaction personalization condition returns an incorrect result when it is evaluated. | 129513 | |
| Marketing Foundation | The value that is specified in the Standard Values for a DateTime field in an item is not added to the search index. | 222670 | |
| Marketing Foundation | In the Solr schema for the xConnect search index, integer, and float fields are set to be stored and indexed. | 294301 | |
| Marketing Foundation | In some on-premise environments, xConnect can crash after an AppDomain recycle. For more information about this, see this KB article: https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/494291. |
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| Miscellaneous | When a language version is missing, sorting, publishing, and other functionality does not work for items that contain shared fields. | 121386 | |
| Miscellaneous | Various security vulnerabilities have been fixed. | 288823 | |
| Miscellaneous | When you change the media item template, this change is not reflected in the Web database. | 308093 | |
| Miscellaneous | The FilteredItemsCache is not cleared if CacheKeyIndexing is enabled. | 221390 | |
| Miscellaneous | In the Search tab, Search by Version does not work as expected. | 224039 | |
| Miscellaneous | The Search by language filter is case sensitive. | 224960 | |
| Miscellaneous | A request to default.aspx leads to NotFound instead of to NoAccess with restricted anonymous access. | 257275 | |
| Miscellaneous | In the Experience Editor, you can preview an item that has Publish Restrictions set on item level because the ItemCache indexing and filteredItemsCache size parameters do not determine the behavior of items with Publish Restrictions in Preview mode in the Experience Editor. This behavior is different from that of older versions. | 257901 | |
| Miscellaneous | The X-Frame-Options Header< is="" not="" set="" in="" the="">FedAuth HandleLoginUrl<7em> processor. | 292718 | |
| Miscellaneous | The Script cache is not updated when a script item is modified. | 287353 | |
| Miscellaneous | Sitecore.Caching.RuleCache is not cleared properly when a rule is changed. | 288734 | |
| Miscellaneous | Validation suppression doesn't work with item path. | 292350 | |
| Miscellaneous | The Cookie: .ASPXAUTH and sitecore_userticket cookies remain valid for 10 minutes after logging out. | 297587 | |
| Miscellaneous | There is a duplicate binding redirect for the System.Net.Http library. | 307226 | |
| MVC | If an HttpException occurs, the inner exception is not shown in PageModeRenderingErrorStrategy.HandleError. |
477074 | 145188 |
| MVC | When you use the Html.Partial helper, a partial view cannot be found. |
471471 | 130238 |
| MVC | If the Home item has a child item that has the same name as an alias, the alias refers to the wrong item. | 510224 | 226035 |
| MVC | The Mvc.RenderersViewFolder setting is not used for non-precompiled views. |
511036 | 232129 |
| MVC | If and action contains the RouteAttribute attribute, it breaks some Sitecore applications. | 500170 | 206280 |
| Path Analyzer | Device related conditions do not work during aggregation. | 234106 | |
| Security API | Federation Authentication does not support Reverse Proxy. | 518280, 522275 | 293209 |
| Security API | If you enable the Owin.config file in preview mode, it gives an error. | 519138, 519138 | 292971 |
| Security API | Insecure deserialization in SitecoreAntiCsrfModule can cause commands to be executed insecurely. | 312864, 293863 | |
| Sitecore Azure | UpdateTaskStatus throws a SQL exception in Azure. |
299693 | |
| Sitecore Forms | If a user submits a form after their session has expired, the post request returns error 500, which is not a helpful message. | 159965 | |
| Sitecore Forms | If a user submits a form with the default list item selected, no register post request is sent and incorrect metrics are recorded. | 161122 | |
| Sitecore Forms | When a session ends, the user is not taken to the Login window. | 171812 | |
| Sitecore Forms | The current goal/campaign/outcome/page name is not shown in the list of selected save actions. | 158690 | |
| Sitecore Forms | When a form contains several fields with identical field names, the metrics are displayed incorrectly. | 167444 | |
| Sitecore Forms | When the Redirect to a page submit action is used, the form uses the en language. | 511165 | 228498 |
| Sitecore Forms | If a user renames one of the form language versions, the language versions in the form list are not updated and the user must refresh manually. | 214209 | |
| Sitecore Forms | If the language cookie is not present, Sitecore Forms switches to the en language. After you submit a form, it is rendered in the default language instead of the selected language. | 513662 | 234709 |
| Sitecore Forms | When a user enters a date, a register POST request is sent for each digit of the year and incorrect metrics are recorded. | 173652 | |
| Sitecore Forms | When a user tries to export data for a form that contains no submitted data, a confusing error message is displayed that suggests there is data. | 501064, 505268, 507073, 510870, 523548, 526237 | 169470 |
| Sitecore security | A default profile is not added to newly created external users. | 502240, 502393, 507749, 509369 | 209306 |
| Sitecore security | Cannot redirect to Sitecore Identity Server in IE. | 287611 | |
| Sitecore security | The Sitecore Identity cookies are not secure. | 292850 | |
| Sitecore security | The Sitecore Identity WDP package contains PDB files. | 289641 | |
| Sitecore security | There is an improper restriction of the XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') (CWE ID 611) in the Sitecore.Mvc.dll. |
228681 | |
| Sitecore security | Several security vulnerabilities have been fixed. | 312864, 293863, 287399 | |
| Sitecore security | The Refresh token exchange fails when the client application restarts. | 257990 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | An exception occurs when controllers are decorated with both [ServiceController] and [Route]. |
289092 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | The ItemService Search feature processes the version parameter incorrectly. | 513471 | 249938 |
| Sitecore Services Client | Invalid characters - \n or \r - are entered in the response reason phrase. | 214235 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | There are unnecessary DI registrations in Sitecore Services Client. | 184213 | |
| Sitecore Services Client | When a request uses an access token that has expired, the response contains a stack trace. | 486465, 493123 | 114299 |
| Sitecore Services Client | Sitecore Services Client exposes the real path of the file system in a response. | 131845 |