Release Notes
January 2017 - released Sitecore Publishing Service 2.0 (rev. 170130)
Publishing Service 2.0 provides high availability (HA), custom datasources, and improved support for deployment on Microsoft Azure. This version is compatible with Sitecore 8.2 Update-2.
New features/improvements
| Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|
| Support for Azure WebApps deployment. | 20941 | |
| The Publishing Service now handles transient faults on the Azure SQL Database. | 20768 | |
| Support for custom data sources, for example data from an external database or web API. | 19470 | |
| You can configure high-availability for the Publishing Service. | 22073 | |
| There is experimental support for content availability - publishing future versions of content. | 21595 | |
| The logging configuration options have been improved. | 22118 | |
| The schema tools are now part of the Publishing Service. | 21240 | |
| Installation of IIS instances is now managed by the Publishing Service and no longer requires a separate powershell. | 21241 | |
| The functionality for modifying the configuration, for example the connection strings, has been moved to the Publishing Service program. | 21241 | |
| You can run the Publishing Service as an Azure WebApp. | 20941 |
Resolved issues
| Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|
| If there are multiple DBs with the same name, the schema tool only shows one. | 21689 | |
| Package installation fails when a user installs the same package more than once. | 21959 | |
| An item version that was removed cannot be unpublished. | 21981 | |
| During publishing the service adds brackets to the value in the Revision field. | 22053 | |
| Only the English language version is published when a user publishes an item for the first time. | 22058 | |
| The schema command throws the 'System.ArgumentNullException' exception when the 'sc.publishing.services.xml' file is missing. | 22110 | |
| The values in the Queued jobs dialog box are misaligned. | 22180 | |
| The Job status is incorrect when publishing fails for one of the targets. | 23087 | |
| Some fields in the Publishing dialog are not translated. | 23316 | |
| The job status in the Active Jobs panel is incorrect. | 23388 | |
| Publishing related items does not work in some setups. | 23781 | |
| In the Launchpad, the DA and DE translation of the Publishing button is missing. | 23791 | |
| "The publishing service is not running....." message is only displayed in English. | 23792 |