Content Studio 6 Release Notes

Icons — updated icons throughout the application, providing a more modern and cohesive look.

Consistency — a more consistent design across the application, with improved typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy

Less clutter — a cleaner interface with less visual clutter, making it easier to focus on the task at hand.

Dark mode — a new dark mode for the user interface, providing a more comfortable experience in low-light environments.

Accessibility — improved accessibility across the application, with better keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and color contrast for WCAG 2.1 compliance.

Status indicators — Simplified online/offline status indicators across the application

Diff status — clearer indicators for changes, used in publishing wizard and version history.

Polished dialogs — redesigned dialogs with improved layout and clearer actions, including multi-step wizards.

Improved drag-and-drop — improved drag-and-drop support across the application, including visual feedback and support for dragging content between different areas of the application.

Gallery mode — has been redesigned with a cleaner layout and larger thumbnails, making it easier to browse and find content items.

Validation handling — improved validation feedback in forms, with clearer error indicators, as well as bubbling validation errors to the top of the form for better visibility.

Instantly effective — permission changes are now effective instantly across all branches, including draft and master (published) items, without the need for republishing.

Apply to — Apply permissions to (single item, children only, or both)

Overwrite - intuitive overwrite option for applying permissions, with clear indicators for what will be overwritten and what will be preserved.

Summary — Improved summary section that clearly shows the current permissions and the changes that will be made.

Bring your own preview — developers can now create custom preview components for any use-case using the extension system and Enonic apps.

Automatic detection — Content Studio will automatically detect and use the optimal preview for each content item, based on the content type and available preview components.

Image editor is now integrated with media preview, allowing for a more intuitive experience when previewing and editing images.

Secure by default — previews are rendered in a secure sandboxed environment, using browser domain isolation to protect from potential security issues with untrusted content.

New component view — The component tree view has been redesigned for better visibility, interaction and use of real estate

Redesigned Visual Editor — for a cleaner interface with better drag-and-drop support, clearer component hierarchy, and more intuitive workflows.

NPM module — Page editor is now available as a standalone NPM module, allowing developers to integrate it with any 3rd party framework or front-end.

Event-based — for secure communication between Content Studio and the visual editor, enabling cross-iframe drag and drop and other advanced interactions.

Show only revertable versions — by default, only versions that can be reverted to are shown in the version history, reducing clutter and confusion for users.

Show all actions — users can choose to show all actions if they want to see the full history of changes and events for a content item.

Lazy loading — version history now loads versions on demand, improving performance for content items with many versions.

Improved diff dialog — the diff dialog now shows only the fields that can be reverted, with clearer indicators for changes and improved layout for better readability.

Patch handling — Version history widget informs users when a version is a patch, and prevents reverting to versions that may break content due to missing required fields or other issues.

New tooling — built on a new architecture with React and TypeScript, improving maintainability and enabling faster development.

Improved pluggability — New Extension system with improved documentation and use of web components for better encapsulation and interoperability.

Improved performance — faster load times and improved responsiveness across the application, especially in the page editor and content grid.

Import content widget — import widget is now a native Content Studio feature.

Archive with a message — provide a reason/message when archiving content.

New-version notification — Content Studio notifies when a new version is available.

baseUrl support — support for configuring a base URL for your front-end directly in Content Studio.

Scheduled publishing defaults — "Online from" defaults to "Now", and the Publish button shows a distinct caption for scheduled publishing.