What’s new in #Episerver 10 (for web editors)

Episerver CMS version 10 is since October 2016 available for download, with a dozen tech breaking changes, but what news is there for editors?

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Published 6th November 2016
Last update [4th May 2017 *News*]

So what’s in it for the editor?

Hold your hat! Well none…

Wait, what?

No, not if you’re going from late version of 9 to 10, only some changes happens under the hood.

Why?

The major versioning system is more a technical thing rather than a market communication event type of thing. The up versioning from 9 to 10 is pointing out that there are incompatible API changes that are needed for the developers to address.

New tech stuff with CMS 10 that might be of interest for editors:

  • Pages that expired, is not redirecting to login page, it’s handled like a 404 Not Found. Great!
  • All dates are saved in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) in the database. Good for those who publish site pages in a multinational context.
  • Well, not so much more, even if there are more than 50 changes.
  • *New release* [7th November 2016] Episerver Social is released. A cloud based addon for simplifying and standardizing commenting, rating, groups, moderation and activity stream. And no there is for the moment no web editor ui “built in”.
  • *New release* [14th November 2016] Content approvals (beta) This is the first release of the Content Approvals feature, which enables administrators to set up approval sequences containing a number of steps that editors have to collaborate on and approve to be able to publish the content. *Beta is removed in version 10.8*
  • *New release* [5th December 2016] Assets Pane: Handle multiple assets
    The assets pane can now handle multiple selection of folders and items (version 10.2)
  • *New release* [12th December 2016] Projects enabled by default Project mode will now be enabled by default (version 10.2)
  • *news* [April 2017] Add query string parameters to internal links (version 10.7)
  • *news* [April 2017] Import/export refinements (version 10.)
  • *news* [April 2017] Carts – new cart system support in Commerce Manager (version 10.4)

Still reading?

Okey, I’ll give you some old news, here is a summarized feature list from the first version of CMS 9 to CMS 10: (June 2015 – October 2016)

  • Episerver Projects is released and is a great feature when publishing/updating a bunch of pages in a project. With collaboration activity feed and commenting.
  • Episerver Forms is now mature in v4 (only for MVC sites) with marketing automation connectors
  • Rebranded UI interface, from colorful to more red tones, accordingly to Episerver branding profile.
  • New User notifications API – (the small bell up right corner)
  • For Commerce: New Campaign and Discount system, Improved order management and Inventory management in new Cataloge UI.
  • A couple of Market Automation Addons released.

Some statistics of Episerver 9 (dev related):

  • New CMS features : 41
  • CMS bug fixes: 221
  • New Commerce features: 42
  • Commerce bug fixes: 269
  • New features “Other Episerver AddOns” (mostly Forms): 35
  • Bug fixes “Other Episerver AddOns” (mostly Forms): 69

So, alot´s going on, hope to see more news at Ascend Nordic 2016, see you there!

Developers out there, let me know if I missed anything! Comment! Cheers.

Sources:

Revisions:

  • [15th November 2016 – Episerver Social]
  • [25th November 2016 – Content Approvals]
  • [14th February 2017 – Assets Pane & Projects enabled by default]
  • [4th Mai 2017 – Querystring, carts, import]