App Manager Version: 6.1.2312.1824
App Manager Functionality
Improvements:
- Added In operator support to text and dropdown fields in the Persona Builder.
- Added support to add new site collections to existing Curated content apps. (59174)
- Added support for validation of required checkbox fields in Author content apps. (59194)
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that was preventing successful publishing in the HTMLContentWidget in certain situations when on a subsite. (58712)
Core Version: 6.1.2309.0502
App Manager Version: 6.1.2312.1821
Front End Core Functionality
Improvements
- Improved WCAG accessibility in Mission Control.
- Various UI enhancements.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue in FS3 where some Font Awesome icons were not displayed correctly. (59047)
- Fixed an issue where mailto links were not working correctly in Headed. (58985)
- Fixed an issue where ICS import failed when importing to the new version of Microsoft Teams. (59002)
- Added querycallback support to the PeopleDirectoryWidget. (58592)
- Fixed an issue where dismissing a site alert on one site dismisses the alert with the same ID on another site. (59041)
- Fixed an issue where XLTX results in GenericSearchList have broken links. (58254)
- Fixed an issue on Headed where you were sometimes unable to save notification settings. (58804)
- Fixed an issue where showPriority = false was not working on ActivityStreamFilter. (58811)
- Fixed an issue in some situations where there was an error when publishing pages.
- Fixed an issue where if there were two NewsWidgets on the page, sometimes only one loaded on an uncached load. (58419)
- Changed the behaviour of the search refiners in the GenericSearchList to sort by the order specified in the refiner widget property rather than alphabetically.
- Changed the behaviour in the GenericSearchList to use only the sorting options defined in the Sharepoint Sort Field property, rather than appending them to the default sort options.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the responsive mobile menu from collapsing after clicking a category with a link. (58615)
Front End Content Manager Functionality
Improvements:
- Removed the ability to edit the file extension on the Save As modal in Asset Library. (59127)
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue in Asset Library that caused the file to remain checked out in SharePoint when using Save As.
- Fixed an issue in Asset Library that caused a save conflict when editing images in Picture Libraries. (59128)
- Fixed an issue in Asset Library that sometimes prevented some fields from being saved correctly when editing images.
- Fixed an issue where the recurrence field was not hidden correctly. (58885)
- Fixed an issue where the user was able to add video links with more than 255 characters, which caused an error when publishing the item. (58801)
- Fixed an issue which prevented the Publish button from being shown in some scenarios. (58678)
- Fixed an issue where incorrect versions of widgets would be cached when using ‘Copy as new’ to create a page version. (58362)
App Manager Functionality
Improvements:
- When a broadcast center message is deleted, the system will now delete all its associated notifications. Notifications should be removed overnight. (58997)
- Updated RestSharp.dll (58523)
- Implemented shared cache keys for the spfile cache. List must be set in SharedCacheKeysForListsOrLibraries in App Settings Management.
- Various UI enhancements.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that prevented Notification Digest emails from being sent. (59125)
- Fixed an issue that caused the FriendlyUrlSearch callback to not work. (59061)
- Fixed an issue that caused a List View Threshold Limit when filtering the Asset Library by file type with over 5000 images in a library. (58982)
- Fixed an issue where adding widget instances to Mission Control required an App Manager cache clear before being visible on the front end. (59088)
- Fixed an issue that occasionally caused Broadcast Messages to remain in published status after their end date. (55861)
- Fixed an issue that prevented some Broadcast Center notifications from being removed on the Broadcast Message end date. (58919)
App Manager Version: 6.1.2312.1818
App Manager Functionality
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the spfile endpoint sometimes returned stale images. (58981)
- Fixed an error that sometimes occurred when selecting an image in App Manager.
- Fixed an issue in the Asset Library where retrieving items from a folder was sometimes timing out for folders with a lot of items.
App Manager Version: 6.1.2312.1815
App Manager Functionality
Improvements:
- Improved performance when publishing a page and clearing page cache. (58824)
- Improved Redis cache performance.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that could occur in the Asset Library when uploading large image files.
- Fixed an issue where some lists could not be auto-translated due to FriendlyUrlSearch field. (58604)
- Fixed an issue where stale page data was sometimes shown in live mode. (58746)
- Improved performance of the ‘Add list items – 1033’ step in Site Creator to prevent timeouts when deploying sites.
Newsletters
A new module was added to the Broadcast Center to send customizable Newsletters to a targeted audience.
Features include:
- Customize and save recipients lists with the ability to send to the entire company, specific Personas, specific users, AAD groups, or use a custom query.
- Customize and save Newsletters templates.
- Preview the Newsletter in desktop, mobile view, or a test email before sending it.
- Schedule when the Newsletter will be sent.
- Analytics to understand how recipients interact with a Newsletter.
- Multilingual and workflow support.
Documentation for Newsletters can be found at https://community.akumina.com/knowledge-base/newsletters/
Mobile Push Notifications
Mobile push notifications are now available to send Broadcast Message push notifications to users with the mobile app installed.
Mobile SMS Notifications
SMS notifications are now available to send Broadcast Message notifications via text message to users with a mobile phone number synced to their profile.
Site Manager
Added the ability to remove orphaned sites in Site Manager – Configure Rootsites.
Release Dates:
AppManager release date (Dev): 2023-10-28
AppManager release date (Prod): 2024-01-12
Front-end CDN release date: 2024-01-19 (tentative)
More release notes are coming soon!