Episerver - update 163

New releases of Episerver Commerce (including critical bug fixes) and Episerver A/B testing. Bug fixes for Episerver CMS Core (including critical bug fixes) and Episerver CMS UI; Episerver Forms Marketing Automation connector (including a critical bug fix); and the Episerver Pardot, HubSpot and Silverpop Marketing Automation connectors. Also, notice of removed support for SQL Server 2008 R2.

Note: From update 163, support for SQL Server 2008 R2 is removed. This means that we no longer test releases on this version, and future releases may use functionality in SQL Server 2012 and later. If you are running SQL Server 2008 R2 and want to keep Episerver up-to-date in the future, you should upgrade your database to a newer version.

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

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Episerver CMS Core

• EPiServer.CMS.Core 10.9.1

Episerver CMS UI

• EPiServer.CMS.UI 10.9.2
• EPiServer.Marketing.Testing 2.3.0

New features:

• • MAR-892, MAR-893, MAR-894 Multiple conversion goals in A/B testing
    You can now add up to five conversion goals when creating an A/B test. You can also decide if one of the conversion goals should be more important, or less important, than the others when determining a winning version. When viewing the A/B test details screen and using multiple conversion goals, the test results show how the test versions are performing against the selected conversion goals. See the Episerver User Guide for more information on how to create an A/B test with multiple conversion goals.
    

Episerver Commerce

• EPiServer.Commerce 10.6.0
• EPiServer.Recommendations 1.3.2 (Beta)
• EPiServer.Recommendations.Commerce 10.6.0 (Beta)

New features:

• • COM-3189: IRI support for Commerce
    Support for International Resource Identifier (IRI) has been implemented for Commerce. As a result, many non-standard characters are supported in the Name in URL and SEO URI fields. See URL segment and SEO URI in the Commerce Developer Guide.
    
  • COM-56: List campaigns: Calculate number of orders for a promotion
    The Campaign view now displays the number of orders and redemptions for each campaign and discount. This information provides feedback on how a campaign and its discounts are performing.
    
    

Episerver Marketing Automation

• EPiServer.MarketingAutomationIntegration.Pardot 1.3.3
• EPiServer.MarketingAutomationIntegration.HubSpot 1.3.2
• EPiServer.MarketingAutomationIntegration.Silverpop 1.3.2
• Episerver.Marketing.Automation.Forms 1.1.7

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: May 15, 2017