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What was Episerver doing during the summer of 2016? This page summarizes new features added in updates 116 through 127 of the Episerver platform, including the general release of Commerce's Campaign and Discount feature (including many new discounts), the release of Forms 3, and several new technical changes for CMS developers. Check out all of the new features below.
Note: Updates are cumulative, so the latest update includes previous ones.
What is new for..?
The campaign and discount features listed below became available since the spring release.
This marks release of the new Campaign and Discount system, including previously-released discount types. Prerelease tags on related APIs are removed, declaring them as stable (subject to semantic versioning).
Added preview images for built-in promotion types.
Note: You cannot use both the old and new Campaign systems at the same time.
For information, see the Campaigns feature in the Episerver User Guide.
A new dictionary and dictionary stemmer have been added for Swedish, providing a more precise selection of relevant search hits.
Explicit (null) fallback behavior to LocalizationService
A fallback behavior for the LocalizationService has been added that makes the service return null (rather than an empty string), if a missing resource is requested. In a future major release, this behavior will replace the current method of passing in null as the fallback string.
Improved validation system
Improved validation system to include context (save action, etc.). A new state, AwaitingApproval, and content locking API in preparation for approval functionality. The Episerver CMS Developer Guide will be updated later, when more parts are available.
Support for .NET Diagnostics Tracing in Azure Web Apps
Adds a built-in logger for writing log messages from the Episerver Log API to .NET Diagnostics Trace. The logger can be used in Azure Web Apps without making changes to the application. See Logging to learn how to enable this trace logger via an app setting.
The following classes were changed to reduce chatty-ness:
ASP.NET Identity support
See Episerver CMS UI AspNetIdentity OWIN authentication in the Episerver CMS Developer Guide.
A public API for navigating back in the context history
A new API lets developers clear the current context and return to the previous context. See section "ContextHistory and navigating back to previous context" in Context-sensitive components in the Episerver CMS Developer Guide.
Quicksilver updated to Commerce 9
Support for Episerver Find 12
Campaigns and discounts: New order API
Can use order system abstractions and new order APIs without needing workflows or order implementations.
Campaigns and discounts functionality no longer in Beta
This marks release of the new Campaign and Discount system, including previously-released discount types. Prerelease tags on related APIs are removed, declaring them as stable (subject to semantic versioning).
Discount types can be hidden
You can prevent marketers from creating certain types of discounts by determining which discount types appear on the Edit Discount view. To do so, use the PromotionTypeHandler class, which provides methods to hide discounts on the Edit Discount view. For details, see Show/hide promotion types in the Episerver Commerce Developer guide.
Episerver Forms
Forms 3 is released.
New features:
See release information and Breaking changes for details.
New Forms Marketing automation connector
A new marketing automation connector for Episerver Forms has been released. It lets marketers use the following Episerver marketing automation connectors with Episerver Forms 3: Eloqua, ExactTarget, HubSpot, Marketo, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Pardot, Salesforce, and Silverpop.
The following connectors have been updated with support for the new Forms Marketing automation connector:
Last updated: Sep 05, 2016