Releases 2025
Corrections, improvements and enhancements are done in regular releases. This page gives an overview of improvements and general fixes that have been made in the system.
Unfortunately, unexpected issues may appear as a result of a release. For a list of known issues, see the Known Issues page, and if your issue is there, a ticket need not be sent.
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.9 (18.06.2025)
- lockWCMS-3426 - MainNav: render mobile menu only when opened
- lockWCMS-3573 - Navigation refactor into Vue
- lockWCMS-3622 - E-Pics (Image gallery): update to v10, use API's altText
- lockWCMS-3647 - Reorder properties of news article pages
- lockWCMS-3692 - Rauminfo: neues Attribut erfasst, wird aber nicht korrekt angezeigt
- lockWCMS-3427 - Prepare lazy loading Vue Components and Dependencies
- lockWCMS-3677 - Move JsonExtractor to foundation
Bug
- lockWCMS-3354 - Touch UI: Newsfeed 2.0 - Schlagw?rter nicht sichtbar in Auswahl Drop-down
- lockWCMS-3432 - Main navigation disappears when adding content on pages
- lockWCMS-3533 - HTML Validation on navigation
- lockWCMS-3566 - Carousel: remove icon spans
- lockWCMS-3621 - Remove icon spans from contact box
- lockWCMS-3645 - Clean-up tables
- lockWCMS-3650 - [FE] No navigation at breakpoint
- lockWCMS-3651 - [BE] Linkchecker for multitopic and single topic teaser missing
- lockWCMS-3678 - Navigation flyout: close button not working
- lockWCMS-3681 - Table text formatted as H2 should be prevented
- lockWCMS-3697 - ID#18868055 — E-Mail-Funktion in AEM Continuing Education funktioniert nicht
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.8 (02./04.06.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-3448 - 4 June 2025: Shut-down of the Classic user interface
- lockWCMS-3628 - Highlight hidden context content in news articles and on old content page templates more clearly
- lockWCMS-3682 - Generalize RTE configurations
Bug
- lockWCMS-3476 - 'Paste from Word' is not working properly, formatting is no longer discarded
- lockWCMS-3523 - NewsalertSubscribers: Export list of all subscribers
- lockWCMS-3538 - ID#18831846 — Person lists for Dept. EAPS (02330) not found in component
- lockWCMS-3597 - Highlight Container kann in Touch UI nicht verschoben oder ausgeschnitten werden
- lockWCMS-3670 - Event calendar (HP and Overview) missing FR and IT translations for additions of accessibility to the filter
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.7 (08.05.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-3113 - Sprunglink für Screenreader-Modus entfernen
- lockWCMS-3596 - Make sure the call to jsonGebaeude does a minimal filtering to the parameters
- lockWCMS-3623 - Change Feedback Button to send OTRS-Mail (instead of Jira)
Bug
- lockWCMS-3456 - ID#18827829 — Globe-Newsfeed zeigt aktuelle Beitr?ge nicht an
- lockWCMS-3540 - Touch UI: Tables: special character causes issues
- lockWCMS-3546 - Touch UI: Asset Manager: default should be list view
- lockWCMS-3558 - Touch UI: Existing title information from old homepage footer contact box can no longer be edited
- lockWCMS-3579 - Touch UI: Many older website folder titles are not transferred to the new properties overlay
- lockWCMS-3631 - EWS Scheduler stopped working
- lockWCMS-3634 - ID#18859650 - footer: Can't save social link in certain cases
- lockWCMS-3635 - ID#18859472 - orgInfo: image should be shown right of info
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.6 (29.04.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-3479 - Refactor event item structure to fix accessibility issues
- lockWCMS-3496 - [BE] Remove 'Context column configuration' from some page templates
- lockWCMS-3502 - Simplify property dropdown dialogue for chief-editors and open 'published page' in new tab
- lockWCMS-3541 - [BE] Adapt Event Calendar on Homepage to accommodate single events
- lockWCMS-3447 - Switch Content pages with context column (UCP) and News article pages to read-only and remove inherited content
- lockWCMS-3560 - Switch news channel template to wide and remove all search boxes
- lockWCMS-3563 - Switch news channel year and month pages
Bug
- lockWCMS-3219 - ScriptNode does not properly update index.esp in TouchUI
- lockWCMS-3497 - [BE] Display of title on CV pages not correct
- lockWCMS-3549 - Newsfeed 2.0 HP bug: Number of channels added is limited by the layout item max for a component
- lockWCMS-3609 - Newsarticle(legacy): incorrect spacing
- lockWCMS-3614 - Image for Multi-topic teaser (HP) component is cropped unnecessarily
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.5 (09.04.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-3361 - Roominfo: New roominfo version with additional room details, images and accessibility information
- lockWCMS-3506 - Linked images in text/image, image and image gallery components: enhanced guidance for alt-text writing
- lockWCMS-3395 - Felix Annotationen auf OSGi migrieren (base): Part 1 - Part 7
- lockWCMS-3508 - 365体育官网_365体育备用【手机在线】 for components that are only editable in Touch
Bug
- lockWCMS-3490 - ID#18832434 — Multi-topic teaser cards in AEM do not adhere to restricted size if word is too long
- lockWCMS-3574 - Download-Links with empty spaces in URLs break functionality of text/image component
- lockWCMS-3588 - Event HP component - remove extra space before comma in display and prevent "undefined" for missing information
- lockWCMS-3598 - ID#18851186 — AEM bug: Zeilenabstand in Highlight container
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.4 (26.03.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-2971 - Table component: more flexible layout of columns (manual clean-up of tables, see known-issues )
- lockWCMS-3277 - Migrate YouTube/Vimeo components and change to new data protection overlay
- lockWCMS-3319 - PoC for Vue Host
- lockWCMS-3415 - E-Pics: switch image gallery to new e-pics API
- lockWCMS-3475 - CR: Add clearer naming to room number (Location search result page)
- lockWCMS-3499 - News: Make news archive pages noindex for search engines
- lockWCMS-3543 - Carousel image should have additional info about alt-text for social media
- lockWCMS-3576 - News channel: change default setting of new created channels to "hide in navigation"
- lockWCMS-3591 - Switch Cookie Consent to GTM
Bug
- lockWCMS-3385 - Link für Kommentarregeln bei Newsartikeln geht nur auf Produktivumgebung
- lockWCMS-3405 - TouchUI: Editing a page without editing rights should be prevented
- lockWCMS-3542 - TouchUI Sitemanager: Link to folder not working if too many subfolders
- lockWCMS-3575 - ID#18844161 — Fehler beim Einfügen der neuen JSP-Seite in AEM-Komponente für Inxmail-Newsletter
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.3 (05.03.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-1650- Sitemap Bugfixing und Sprach-Unterstützung
- lockWCMS-3359- Touch-UI: Table width not changing in dialogue
- lockWCMS-3471- Remove icon spans from source code
- lockWCMS-3491- Touch-UI: Redirect when on translated URL
- lockWCMS-3532- Felix Annotationen auf OSGi migrieren (foundation)
- lockWCMS-3537- Block access to classic login page from outside
- lockWCMS-3544- Log Network disconnect as simple error (no statcktrace)
- lockWCMS-3557- Remove X-UA-Compatible
- lockWCMS-3561- Academic calendar: change of PCM-Feed URL
- lockWCMS-3554- ServiceUser-Implementierungen umstellen
- lockWCMS-3555- ServiceUser-Implementierungen umstellen (components)
Bug
- lockWCMS-3352- Externalizer cache not properly flushed when page activated
- lockWCMS-3441- Code Snippet component no longer displays correctly in backend or frontend
- lockWCMS-3463- Unpublished/deactivated assets should change to "red"
- lockWCMS-3480- Help link in Newslist component on Newschannel page needs updating
- lockWCMS-3483- SCE: Whitespace missing
- lockWCMS-3498- Touch-UI:Adding excel content to a table does not work properly in Touch
- lockWCMS-3503- Multi-topic teaser on overview and content page template should not require "title"
- lockWCMS-3507- Make "Create language copy" again available for Chief-editors
- lockWCMS-3510- Fix link to "Livecopy Orig."
- lockWCMS-3513- Page Images: Images sometimes do not render in dialogue
- lockWCMS-3528- Log flooded with error due to missing ethz.components.video.toExternalPage
- lockWCMS-3545- VVZ: Minimal Solution to show "current" and "latest" semester
- lockWCMS-3551- Touch-UI of Publication List: shared scripts not correctly saved
- lockWCMS-3572- Navigation: fix close button
Release Notes - WCMS - Service Pack 22 (03.02.2025)
- Service pack release for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Version 6.5.22
- Introduction of 2-factor authentication for AEM backend authoring environment
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.2 (29.01.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-3218 - ScriptHelper should provide ScriptShare path
- lockWCMS-3403 - ID#18816216 — Touch UI Multi-topic teaser component bug with quotation marks
- lockWCMS-3421 - Change .edit/.pageedit to go to Touch instead of Classic in the backend
- lockWCMS-3450 - TouchUI: Change banner text on universal content page (with context column)
- lockWCMS-3452 - TouchUI: Force switch user preferences to TOUCH
- lockWCMS-3454 - TouchUI: Add banner to legacy homepage
- lockWCMS-3470 - Search flyout must not be added to the DOM before clicking
- lockWCMS-3472 - Enable lazy loading for pictures in Vue components
Bug
- lockWCMS-3087 - TouchUI: Author is unable to set a CUG on an asset folder (improved for "admit all ETH users", still open issue when adding custom groups)
- lockWCMS-3273 - Navigationsbilder Crop wird nicht richtig gespeichert bzw. angezeigt
- lockWCMS-3327 - Search engines should not index "script share templates"
- lockWCMS-3344 - Person detail pages refer to backend libs
- lockWCMS-3433 - Navigation images are not displayed in the configuration dialogue
- lockWCMS-3439 - Make hiding of categories configurable
- lockWCMS-3440 - SP22: When login, authors should see "content tree" view
- lockWCMS-3451 - ID#18827938 — AEM Design - Breadcrumb Navigation News abgeschnitten
- lockWCMS-3455 - Remove user preference option to use "classic UI"
- lockWCMS-3461 - CV page template cannot be edited in Touch (switches to classic if user is chief editor)
- lockWCMS-3463 - Unpublished/deactivated assets remain "green"
- lockWCMS-3481 - Carousel does not need absolute links
- lockWCMS-3495 - NewsalertSubscribers: cannot render too many at once
Release Notes - WCMS - Version 2025.1 (15.01.2025)
Story/Subtasks/Tasks
- lockWCMS-2293 - System-Statistiken (intern): Welche Sites wurden nicht mehr angefasst?
- lockWCMS-3429 - Replace endpoint framework (technical)
- lockWCMS-3477 - Add language information to page meta data.
- lockWCMS-2313 - Analytics: Tagging News
- lockWCMS-3246 - System statistics (internal): CUGs on DAM folders and on pages in AEM
- lockWCMS-3304 - Group import via ldaps (technical)
- lockWCMS-3330 - [HP] Migrate twitter to X
- lockWCMS-3362 - Event calendar: add accessibility information icons and make it searchable
- lockWCMS-3438 - Event calendar: accessibility icons should function as filter (similar to other tags)
- lockWCMS-3474 - Event calender (custom): Migrate EWS to EXO
Bug
- lockWCMS-1407 - Thumbnail of (YouTube) video not invalidated when page modified
- lockWCMS-2771 - Newsalert (custom): Laden der Seite/Komponente zu langsam
- lockWCMS-3221 - Eliminate Node /apps/ethz/author
- lockWCMS-3288 - ID#18804296 — Inhaltsverzeichnis/Sitemap D-BIOL-Website nicht vollst?ndig
- lockWCMS-3322 - A11y: Newsletter subscription a11y issue: mandatory fields not read as such by SR
- lockWCMS-3364 - Language selection on mobile sometimes in lowercase
- lockWCMS-3386 - News comments: Link becomes smaller as the page width decreases in commentary
- lockWCMS-3387 - Improper page display with width of 1023 px
- lockWCMS-3411 - Navigation Flyout needs two clicks to close
- lockWCMS-3420 - Overview page: Newsfeed component (no images) does not display content
- lockWCMS-3424 - Courses cache cleanup not triggered
- lockWCMS-3428 - Fehlerseite ohne Fehler-ID, wenn ?bersetzung nicht verfügbar
- lockWCMS-3430 - System-Statistiken (intern): Sortier-Icons fehlen auf Statistikseite
Release Notes - WCMS (03.02.2024)
Planned: Service pack release for Adobe Experience Manager AEM Version 6.5.22