Release notes for Magnolia CMS 6.4.0-beta1

Content Creation: Effortlessly craft stunning components (text, images, or a blend of both), captivating stories, or complete pages with a single click.

Image Generation: Unleash your creativity with a vast array of images generated from textual prompts, offering unparalleled artistic freedom.

Content Optimization: Maximize visibility with automatic generation of metadata and image descriptions, optimized for SEO and Open Graph.

Content Classification: Enhance discoverability through automatic analysis, recognition, and tagging of text and images, making searches more intuitive and effective.

Personalization: Streamline your workflow with automatic generation of component variants—create once, and let AI handle the rest with precision.

Translations: Accelerate your global reach with rapid, high-quality translations, delivering precise content across any language barrier.

Better focus visibility, keyboard navigation, and interactive elements, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA standards and designed with WCAG 2.2 in mind.

Available in content apps (not yet in the Page editor). Existing form definitions do not require migration, with a graceful fallback to the old framework for unsupported complex custom fields.

Speed and Accessibility: Immediate results, support for external asset providers, and product information catalogs (MGNLPER-268).

Search API Improvements: Proper error codes, better date handling, resilience to failures, supplier names, and app-aligned result grouping (MGNLPER-327, MGNLPER-338, MGNLPER-347, MGNLPER-329, MGNLPER-348).

Enhanced Features: Persistent search results when navigating, improved filtering, sorting, and snippets showing search term locations for clarity (MGNLPER-335, MGNLPER-337).

Keyboard Shortcuts: Enable global search for improved navigation (MGNLPER-330).

Global Search is integrated into CE/DX Core, with the search-api module moved to Periscope (MGNLPER-355, MGNLPER-356).

The new View links action in the action bar allows users to see related content and its publication state before deletion.

Available for simple and four-eye workflows, compatible with Magnolia 6.4’s new UI (MGNLWORKFLOW-501, MGNLCDEP-166).

Installable extension configured with light development, no custom Java required.

Does not yet support live copy or personalization.

A step toward the planned global components feature for full integration across apps (MGNLUI-8963).

Extended datasource definitions for named configurations, ensuring consistency across apps (MGNLUI-8963, MGNLUI-8995, MGNLUI-9192).

Fixes for missing search fields, ClassCastException in Pages, and navigation to edit forms (MGNLUI-9079, MGNLPER-359, MGNLPER-330).

Improved keyboard focus visibility, including on Safari (MGNLUI-9081, MGNLUI-9152).

Allows authors to select points of interest in images for dynamic rendering across formats.

Ensures no regression in functionality, ease of adoption, and compatibility with external binaries (e.g., Amazon S3).

Available for Magnolia 6.4 and portable to 6.3 with specific module installations (MGNLDAM-1802).

Store binaries on external systems like Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage while maintaining full authoring experience and performance.

Decouples asset binaries from metadata, with metadata stored in Magnolia’s database.

At launch, supports Amazon S3 integration, with more integrations planned based on feedback.

Replaces the hybrid asset incubator (MGNLDAM-1802).

External Versioning in S3 or OBS, which provides a loose coupling for managing versions.

Asynchronous publication allows users to continue working in the UI during publication because it no longer has to wait for public instance replies.

Improved ciphering and the option to skip it in secure environments (SWIFTPUB-364).

Transferring packaged content between environments

Deploying sensitive embargoed content