Episerver - update 159

New releases of Episerver CMS Core, Episerver Commerce, Episerver Recommendations (Beta), Episerver Forms (including a critical bug fix), Episerver Forms Service API, and third-party add-on Avensia Storefront Connector. Bug fixes for A/B Testing.

The update applies to Episerver projects version 7.5 and higher, and contains finalized work items included in the latest iteration. Continuous release updates are cumulative to include previous updates. Episerver supports all platform updates and strongly recommends that you keep ongoing projects up-to-date. You can install the updates from the Episerver NuGet feed.

Main packages
This release information lists updated main package versions for the Episerver platform. When a release is built, other dependent packages also may be bumped to new versions, although they contain no publicly visible changes. This is done to avoid dependency errors. When you upgrade, NuGet alerts you to upgrade related packages to the required versions. For Commerce, it is important to ensure that you are running the same version of CMS and Commerce, both in the front-end and back-end applications.

Updated main packages

Click a package in the list to see work item details.

Episerver CMS Core

• EPiServer.CMS.Core 10.8.0

New feature:

• • CMS-6821: Restart cancelled jobs
    It is now possible to define that a job is restartable.
    If the IIS crashes or is recycled when a job is running, the scheduler runs the job on the next scheduled time by default. A restartable job is started again to make sure it can run to completion (assuming the job can continue where it was stopped). The job can restart on any available instance/server. See also Scheduled jobs in the CMS Developer Guide. 

Episerver CMS UI

• EPiServer.Marketing.Testing 2.2.3 (There are no public work items in this release.)

Episerver Commerce

• EPiServer.Commerce 10.5.0
• EPiServer.Recommendations 1.2.0 (Beta)

• EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce 10.5.0 (Beta)

New features:

• • COM-3767: Payment providers (PayPal, DIBS, and DataCash) use abstraction API and support Quicksilver
    Updates have been made to the three payment providers PayPal, DIBS, and DataCash to support the abstraction API and the SerializableCart functionality.
    See also Son Do's blog post, and the Commerce Developer Guide topics Pay Pal installation and configuration, DIBS installation and configuration, and DataCash installation and configuration.
    Also, new UI tests for Quicksilver have been added.

• • COM-3579: [Recommendations] Recommendation click tracking
    If a user clicks a recommendation (a recommended product), a click tracking request is sent to the Recommendation System (RS). This is similar to product tracking request, but it contains information about the click (RecommendationId) which helps the Recommendation System to improve recommendation results.

Episerver Forms

• EPiServer.Forms 4.5.0

New features:

• • AFORM-885: Sortable form submissions
    It is now possible to sort form submissions, to make it easier to navigate large amounts of submissions.

• • AFORM-889: Use data attributes for binding functionality
    

    Data attributes are now used for binding of buttons and for functionality processing. CSS classes are used for form styling only and not functionality.

• EPiServer.Forms.ServiceApi 3.2.0. Supports Episerver Forms 4.4.4.

Third-party add-ons

• Avensia.Storefront.Connector 3.1.0

New feature:

• • Support for licenses bound to hostname. This license model supports environments where MAC-addresses are not static, for example, Azure Web Apps. Unbound licenses are not supported.

Important notifications

• Update 150 included breaking changes for Episerver Service API 3.
• Update 141 included breaking changes for Episerver Languages 3.
• Update 134 included breaking changes for Episerver CMS 10, Episerver Commerce 10 and Episerver Forms 4.
• Update 118 included breaking changes for Episerver Forms 3  and Episerver Languages 2.
• Update 114 included breaking changes for Episerver Find 12.
• Update 108 included breaking changes for Episerver Forms 2.
• Update 94 included breaking changes for Episerver Mail 8.
• Update 89 included breaking changes for Episerver Find 11.
• Update 83 included breaking changes for Episerver Commerce 9.
• For previous notifications, see update 83.

Related topics

• Release notes. Latest changes with work item details.
• New features in Episerver. Summary of new functionality.
• Installing Episerver updates. Adding the NuGet feed and installing updates.
• The Episerver continuous release process. Deployment options for continuous releases.
• Releasing beta features. Beta releases and how to enable them.
• Issues with NuGet package updates. Fix dependency issues when not using Visual Studio 2015.

Last updated: Apr 17, 2017