Release information
censhare 2022.2 releases
Release dates
2022.2.0 April, 14 th 2023
The major release will bring new functionalities and improvements for our partners and customers.
Most important updates
censhare InsightsThe new censhare Insights tool is built for the censhare partners and censhare internal services and operations departments. In cooperation with our customer service organisations we are now able to track the usage of installed systems. This gives all parties the security of being compliant with the license agreements. The censhare Insights application is also the first step towards a bigger goal of analytics implementation for the system performance monitoring. | Read moreWhich metrics are collected Installation & Setup |
Custom and multibrandingWe restored censhare‘s custom and multibranding feature that allows you to align your censhare system appearance with your branding. Custom and multibranding is available again with the 2022.2 release and comes with a refactored code base and improved documentation. Keycloak-based pages – login and account – can now be customized and aligned with the censhare Web UI as well as with your corporate design in general. | Read morePurpose, components, and how-to tutorials (partner login required) |
Xeditor initial integrationThe Xeditor is an XML-based editor for the structured, media-neutral text content of your articles. Offered by the Xpublisher GmbH, it provides user-friendly authoring of your articles, directly in the censhare Web UI, even without any XML experience. By this initial integration, we expand censhare‘s capabilities for content editing of structured texts. This is intended to address concerns of our customers in regard to the missing functionalities in the existing Content Editor and to offer them a professional publishing tool based on the latest standards. Xeditor integration reduces the training effort of censhare users enormously. | Read moreComplete documentation |
Other updates |
Upgrade notes
When you are upgrading from censhare 2021.1.1 or below, please note that there are important changes! We highly recommend that you read the relevant guides carefully. Please plan more time and efforts for your upgrade. | Read moreA how-to tutorial General information and troubleshooting |
Highlights CORE
SecurityWe are constantly working on updating our 3rd party libraries to benefit from security enhancements introduced by the original provider. In addition to that, we performed a major penetration test in collaboration with an external specialist and tackled all critical issues. Last but not least, customer findings from their own penetration tests were treated with the highest priority. All security improvements will be made available also for older versions according to our end of service policy. | Read moreList of third-party libraries |
Customization improvementsAs with any other update, we continue expanding censhare‘s customization capabilities in the 2022.2 release. We implemented direct access to widget configuration templates from the asset page to make admin‘s life easier. However, we also thought on security. Customization should never open the door to any vulnerabilities. That‘s why we imposed limits on executing custom transformations. At the same time, we do not want to block your work and implemented a server action that will for check problematic transformations and help you to correct them. | Read moreFor admins For partners |
macOS 13 Ventura supportcenshare officially supports macOS 13 Ventura. | Read morecenshare compatibility with operating systems Adobe plugin compatibility matrix |
Support for Java 17Java 17 comes with several new functionalities which makes developing censhare easier. We updated our code base to meet the new industry standards. Java 11 will still be supported for a few years. | Read moreJava Development Kit (JDK) |
Highlights DAM
Asset search improvementsFor this release, we focused on enhancing the search experience of our users. This includes new features in the censhare Web UI for the search results lists, stored searches, and exporting your search results. | Read moreFor users: complete search guide Store, share and manage searches For admins: search management Export search results to a new asset |
New features for search results and asset listsWith the new release, users can handpick assets from the search results or other asset lists in the Web UI and apply asset actions only to the selection. This provides even more flexibility for working with asset lists and searches, in addition to already existing filtering options. | Read moreEditing an asset selection |
Video Editor: Clipping based on AWS Media Convert | Read moreVideo previews and transcoding with AWS Elemental MediaConvert |
Generate link to a specific tab on the asset page | Read moreFor developers |
Highlights Print Production
Quick edits for Adobe InCopy documents and TXT assetsUsers can make quick changes in any text assets without opening the asset page. This allows to edit text assets while staying in a list view, e.g., after performing a search. The feature is available in the asset action menu. | Read more |
Adobe plugin - Adobe 2023 supportThe censhare Adobe plugin supports Adobe 2023 on macOS and Windows. | Read more |
Headless CMS and Online Channel release notes
HCMS and OC have a different release cadence. Their release notes can be found on the respective pages:
Deprecations
- The dark mode in Java Client had to be deprecated due to the outdated underlying library. The light mode is still enabled, verified and stable.
- SOAP web services were deprecated due to its high complexity and maintenance effort and replaced with the modern and flexible REST API. It means that SOAP/WSDL access to assets does not work anymore, i.e., only incoming SOAP calls are affected.
The following formats for 3D models have been recently deprecated by their third-party providers. The data can be kept in the censhare system, but no preview can be generated for such models.
- .AWD
- .BABYLON
Known issues
An overview of known conceptual and functional limitations. The overview is not intended and does not serve as a binding and complete bug and missing features list.
InCopy Editor known issues
We are constantly working on improving our InCopy Editor. However, for now, there are a few known issues we would like to inform you about. Please refer to this page for the full list.
Adobe InDesign plugin 2023 known issues on mac OS
The new Adobe InDesign plugin 2023 is fully functional. However, you need to be aware of its unusual behaviour on mac OS.
See Adobe InDesign support for complete information.
Version parity between censhare Java-based clients and censhare Server
You can only connect with a censhare Java-based client (censhare Client, Admin Client, Render Client) 2022.x.x via Keycloak to the censhare Server of the same version 2022.x.x. Older clients do not work and the following error message displays:
UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "socket-timeout-millis"Exception: Keycloak with censhare standard authentication