Release Notes
The latest updates to Experience Workspace and Document Authoring, week by week.
Week of August 10
What's new:
- Adobe Optimize support – Experience Workspace sites can now be configured to work with Adobe Optimize. [da-nx #648]
- More reliable connection behind the scenes – Improved reliability of Experience Workspace's underlying connection. [da-nx #649]
- More reliable image pasting and previewing – Pasted images now upload correctly, and images render properly in preview using the right relative paths. [#1227] [#1226]
- Cleaner asset picker – The DA asset picker now filters results down to approved Dynamic Media assets. [#1223]
- Steadier real-time collaboration – Fixed an issue where reconfiguring the collaboration plugin could wipe out other users' cursor positions. [#1237]
- Cleaner outline panel – The canvas outline panel no longer surfaces internal library metadata for inserted blocks. [#1229]
- Fixed editor access on hlx6 sites – Resolved a permissions issue that could prevent the editor from opening on hlx6 sites, and fixed media copying on authenticated preview sites. [da-nx #655]
- Smoother chat conversation recovery – Fixed an issue with resuming a conversation in chat. [da-nx #652]
- Behind-the-scenes reliability work – Additional fixes to config path handling, editor cursor focus, and branch preview support. [#1239] [#1236] [#1233] [#1242]
Week of August 3
What's new:
- More reliable drag-and-drop image uploads – Drag-and-drop image uploads are now more reliable in the canvas editor. [#1219]
- Smart crop for AEM Assets images – Smart crop support for AEM Assets images in the canvas editor. [#1210]
- Clearer schema validation – The schema editor now checks your work and clearly flags errors as you build structured content. [da-nx #642]
Week of July 27
What's new:
- See a block's default content in the outline panel – The canvas outline panel now shows a block's default content, so you can see what it looks like before filling it in. [#1167]
- Smoother experience for read-only users – Read-only users now get a correct, smoother experience in Experience Workspace instead of a broken or confusing view. [#1174] [da-nx #616]
- Smoother multi-step approvals in chat – A smoother approval flow in chat when the assistant needs to take several steps at once. [da-nx #617]
Week of July 20
What's new:
- Image and layout selections stay in sync – Image and layout selections in Experience Workspace now stay in sync between the canvas and the underlying document. [#1114] [da-nx #605]
- Edits are saved before Preview and Publish – Your latest edits are now saved before Preview or Publish runs, preventing lost changes on quick publishes. [#1112] [da-nx #604]
- Security hardening – Several improvements to protect against malicious links and cross-site scripting. [#1154] [#1168]
Week of July 13
What's new:
- Find blocks faster while writing – In Experience Workspace, typing "/" now lets you search for and insert a block by name, instead of scrolling through a menu. [#1084]
- View, create, and restore document versions – You can now save a version of a document at any point, browse its version history, and restore an earlier version if needed, all directly in Experience Workspace. [#1089]
Week of July 6
What's new:
- Publish pages directly from Browse — one at a time or in bulk – You no longer need to open a page to preview or publish it. Select one page or several and publish them right from the file list, a big time-saver for anyone managing lots of content. [#956]
- New feedback tool built into the product – A feedback option is now available directly inside the app, so you can flag issues or suggest improvements without leaving your workflow. [da-nx #577]
- Layout polish in Experience Workspace – Fixed spacing so page content no longer crowds the edges of the editor. [#1016]
Week of June 29
What's new:
- Refreshed "Create new document" flow – Starting a new document is now a smoother, more guided process. [#1068]
- Fixed a mix-up between files and folders with the same name – The file browser could confuse a folder and a file that shared a name; it now tells them apart correctly. [#1071]
- Behind-the-scenes reliability work – Improvements to how the editor connects and saves, plus minor visual polish to page breadcrumbs, to keep things running smoothly as more people move to the newer platform. [#1063] [#1004]
Week of June 22
What's new:
- Chat assistant now available in Browse view – A chat panel is now built into Browse and the editor, so you can ask for help or make requests without leaving your page. Text selection and interaction with chat responses were also made smoother. [#1019] [#1029]
- Bring "Prepare" menu back – Experience Workspace now includes a Prepare menu to help you get content ready before publishing, streamlining a step that used to be more manual. [#972]
- Better image handling in Experience Workspace – You can now add alt text to images and swap one image for another directly in the editor. [#1017]
- Smarter select-all and sharing in Browse – When you filter your file list and then select-all or share, it now correctly respects whatever filter you had applied — no more accidentally acting on files you'd filtered out. [#1049]
Week of June 15
What's new:
- Mark your favorite content – You can now star or favorite files and folders in Browse, so the pages you work in most are always one click away instead of buried in a folder tree. [#947]
- Faster link editing – A new keyboard shortcut lets you add or edit a link without reaching for the mouse, and the link editing popup itself got a cleanup so it's quicker to use. [#990]
- Superscript and subscript formatting – These formatting options are now available right in the toolbar when you select text, useful for footnotes, trademarks, and scientific notation. [#1010]
Note: this summary is based on release-note titles and scope pulled directly GitHub pull requests.