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October

The week of October 6

Production

Content API - October 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 29, 2025

  • Production - Monday, October 6, 2025

Release summary

This update includes adjustments to internal configuration for connecting to the Collections API during recovery scenarios. These changes are purely internal and do not affect the API's functionality or behavior.

Users affected

All

Action required

None

PageBuilder CLI 3.2.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, October 8, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Release summary

PageBuilder CLI 3.2.0 comes with an opt-in upgrade of the MongoDB version used in local development. The new MongoDB version is only required for the PageBuilder Engine 7.0.0 migration. The CLI is fully backwards compatible with previous Engine versions. No action is needed.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Sandbox

WebSked 4.118

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, October 7, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes an issue where Add to Collection would fail to load for stories with a large number of website circulations.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Photo Center 1.84.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, October 7, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following:

  • Fixed an issue that caused error notifications to contain blank text instead of the expected descriptive error message.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the buttons in the upload image flow to occasionally display the wrong actions.

  • Additional platform upgrades.

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

Composer 2.8.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, October 7, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer including:

  • Arrow keys work again on empty ordered lists.

  • Corrections and Clarification content element text boxes can now be resized to fit content.

  • Distributor dropdown no longer incorrectly displays [Object object] in certain instances.

  • Minor spacing and design tweaks to the planning and metadata pane.

  • Quotation marks now include logic that allows Chinese characters to be handled in conjunction with Korean locales.

  • A templates issue is now resolved that prevented some older Templates' circulations from being loaded properly into a Story.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

PageBuilder Engine 7.0.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, October 8, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Release summary

PageBuilder Engine 7.0.0 delivers a major platform upgrade, moving to Node.js 22 and React 19 for faster performance, improved stability, and long-term support.

Alongside these core updates, Engine 7 refreshes critical libraries under the hood to keep your development stack secure and modern. While all Arc XP interfaces remain unchanged, developers must follow the migration guide and validate their custom bundle code to be fully compatible with the new Node.js runtime and new React version.

This release ensures your PageBuilder experiences are ready for the future and sets the foundation for smoother innovation on Arc XP.

Note

To use PageBuilder Engine 7.0.0, you need to use the PageBuilder CLI 3.2.0 version.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Video Center 1.122.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, October 9, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, October 14, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following changes:

  • Fixed an issue that caused the “Usage Instructions” text of video thumbnail images uploaded to Photo Center to not appear as expected in Photo Center.

  • When users “Search and Upload from Photo Center” for a video thumbnail, that video thumbnail is updated with the new Photo ID.

  • Additional security updates.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

None

September

The week of September 29

Production

Content Search Dashboard 1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - N/A

  • Production - Monday, September 29, 2025

Release summary

The Content Search dashboard provides insights into your Content API search usage, including request volumes, rate limiting, and error metrics.

The dashboard is now available to all customers in production. For more information, please check the documentation.

Users affected

Only accessible for Page Builder users.

Action required

None

PageBuilder Editor 3.23

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 16, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

This release includes a long-awaited update for PageBuilder permissions: the Write and Publish privileges in PageBuilder now respect website settings. This update helps multi-site customers better manage the scope of editorial permissions in PageBuilder.

Previously, if a user had Write or Publish privileges for any website, they were able to write or publish changes to any page, regardless of what websites that page was assigned to.

Now, users can write and publish pages assigned to only websites they have permissions for, as configured in Squads in the Permissions application.

Developers using PageBuilder locally need to ensure they have globally specified permissions set in the bundle mocks/user file. This will ensure you can see all pages locally for development purposes. See Local mocks documentation.

{  
    "displayName": "Developer",  
    "tracking": false,
    "permissions": {    
        "PageBuilder": {      
            "global": ["AAPP", "W", "D", "P", "UP", "VRP", "ERP", "DT", "RE", "RD", "A", "MSP", "DSP", "ASP", "DASP", "MT", "EA", "MAT"]
        }  
    }
}

This change only affects multisite customers using PageBuilder Editor. For more details, see PageBuilder permissions by website.

This release also includes the following items:

  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the homepage content to not update as expected

  • Improved error messaging when users have duplicate blocks on a page after a merge

Users affected

Multisite customers who use PageBuilder Editor

Action required

Permissions admins of multisite customers who use PageBuilder Editor must review their permission configurations ahead of this Production release.

Arc Nav 0.9.7

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

This release of Arc Navigation corrects RTL support including support for older Chrome versions.

Users affected

Arc XP users

Action required

None

Composer 2.8.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes a few minor issues in Composer including:

  • Performance fixes for Circulation Selector when working with a large number of sites and sections

  • Find and replace now automatically focuses on words when selecting them in the search box

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Subscriptions 1.98.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

We’re excited to announce the first release of Audience Insights, a new product capability designed to help you collect, organize, and activate the user data that matters most to your business.

This initial release focuses exclusively on Bookmarks, giving you the ability to capture and organize saved content directly within Audience Insights. Bookmarks are the foundation of data-driven workflows, helping you better understand user interests and enabling future personalization.

While this release centers on Bookmarks, future phases will add capabilities like preferences tracking, activity history, custom storage, and IFX integration to drive deeper personalization and user engagement. See Audience Insights overview for more details.

Subscription Management - We added a new developer API to help updating billing addresses.

Users affected

Marketers, Developers

Action required

None

Sandbox

Content API - September 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 29, 2025

  • Production - Monday, October 6, 2025

Release summary

This update includes adjustments to internal configuration for connecting to the Collections API during recovery scenarios. These changes are purely internal and do not affect the API's functionality or behavior.

Users affected

All

Action required

None

The week of September 22

Production

WebSked 4.117

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 15, 2025

  • Production - Monday, September 22, 2025

Release summary

This release features some non user-facing improvements with the WebSked API and clearer error handling for invalid inputs to the Collections API.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Themes 3.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 9, 2025.

  • Production - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Reduced Sass Deprecation Warnings - Internal Sass mixins have been updated to eliminate thousands of deprecation warnings when running Fusion. This results in cleaner builds and reduces noise in developer workflows.

  • Support for Multiple Resizer URLs Across Environments - Themes now supports an object for multiple resizerURLs, enabling a single bundle to work across different environments, like Sandbox and Production. This matches the behavior of Outbound Feeds for consistency. Previously, a separate bundle was required for each environment to handle unique resizerURL values. See Using resizerURLs for images in Arc XP Themes.

  • Backward compatibility:

    • The existing resizerURL variable remains as a fallback for compatibility with older implementations.

    • Updated image blocks are compatible with both the new resizerURLs object and the legacy resizerURL variable.

  • Updated blocks:

    • gallery-block

    • Image component

    • MetaData component

    • article body chain

  • Micro-Experiences update - With the release of Micro Experiences (MX), the deployment() method has been replaced by pagebuilderURL(). This new method works the same way but also includes the required mxId parameter.

    • Default blocks have already been updated. No action is needed for more customers.

    • If you maintain custom blocks that use deployment(), you must update them to use pagebuilderURL().

    You can follow the official guidance here: Micro-Expereinces developer guide.

  • Support for Composer's external canonical URLs - Wev'e updated the Metadata component (used in the default output layout) to support composer's new externalCanonicalURL field.

    If the externalCanonicalURL field exists in ANS, it will now be added to the <link rel="canonical"> tag in the page output.

    This ensures that sites can properly reference external canonical URLs when needed, improving SEO consistency and flexibility.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

If you are using custom image blocks, you can optionally update them to support the new resizerURLs object for multi-environment flexibility.

For non-custom blocks, upgrade by changing themesReleaseVersion in blocks.json to arc-themes-release-version-3.2.0.

Site Service 2.0.17

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 16, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a few items in Site Service, including:

  • Fixes an issue where a user would be redirected to the wrong environment after saving a Website.

  • Fixes an issue where a previously viewed Section’s cache would be used when editing a Section.

Users affected

Site Service users

Action required

None

Sandbox

Subscriptions 1.98.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

We’re excited to announce the first release of Audience Insights, a new product capability designed to help you collect, organize, and activate the user data that matters most to your business.

This initial release focuses exclusively on Bookmarks, giving you the ability to capture and organize saved content directly within Audience Insights. Bookmarks are the foundation of data-driven workflows, helping you better understand user interests and enabling future personalization.

While this release centers on Bookmarks, future phases will add capabilities like preferences tracking, activity history, custom storage, and IFX integration to drive deeper personalization and user engagement. See Audience Insights overview for more details.

Subscription Management - We added a new developer API to help updating billing addresses.

Users affected

Marketers, Developers

Action required

None

Composer 2.8.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes a few minor issues in Composer including:

  • Performance fixes for Circulation Selector when working with a large number of sites and sections

  • Find and replace now automatically focuses on words when selecting them in the search box

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Arc XP Navigation 0.9.7

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

This release of Arc Navigation corrects RTL support including support for older Chrome versions.

Users affected

Arc XP users

Action required

None

The week of September 15

Production

Composer 2.8.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, September 11, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer including:

  • We have introduced additional icons for Power Ups!

    • This allows you more flexibility and differentiation with Power Ups that your users select from in stories.

    • Set up and configure new icons per Power Up in Composer Settings.

      Note

      This will not change the existing icons you have applied

  • We have fixed a small issue with bulleted and numbered list formatting where sub bullets wouldn’t auto format to the correct style until you started typing.

  • Changing the font style no longer removes the alignment that was set on a piece of text.

  • We have fixed an issue with external canonical URL that prevented users from saving stories if it was removed and not intended to be filled out.

  • If scheduled publishes fail, users now must manually dismiss the notification.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Photo Center 1.84.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, September 10, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes an issue where oversized images (those over 10,000 pixels in height or width) were shifting focal points and crop windows. Now, crop and focal point functionality works as expected for oversized images.

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

AI Editor 1.2.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 15, 2025

  • Production - Monday, September 15, 2025

Release summary

We added OpenAI’s GPT 5.0 to the Model Selection drop-down menu in Global Settings. When you select this model, performance is optimized and the reasoning level is fixed at the minimum setting to provide faster responses.

Users affected

Arc Intelligence Admins

Action required

None

Sandbox

WebSked 4.117

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 15, 2025

  • Production - Monday, September 22, 2025

Release summary

This release features some non user-facing improvements with the WebSked API and clearer error handling for invalid inputs to the Collections API.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Site Service 2.0.17

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 16, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a few items in Site Service, including:

  • Fixes an issue where a user would be redirected to the wrong environment after saving a Website.

  • Fixes an issue where a previously viewed Section’s cache would be used when editing a Section.

Users affected

Site Service users

Action required

None

PageBuilder Editor 3.23

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 16, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Release summary

This release includes a long-awaited update for PageBuilder permissions: the Write and Publish privileges in PageBuilder now respect website settings. This update helps multi-site customers better manage the scope of editorial permissions in PageBuilder.

Previously, if a user had Write or Publish privileges for any website, they were able to write or publish changes to any page, regardless of what websites that page was assigned to.

Now, users can write and publish pages assigned to only websites they have permissions for, as configured in Squads in the Permissions application.

Developers using PageBuilder locally need to ensure they have globally specified permissions set in the bundle mocks/user file. This will ensure you can see all pages locally for development purposes. See Local mocks documentation.

{  
    "displayName": "Developer",  
    "tracking": false,
    "permissions": {    
        "PageBuilder": {      
            "global": ["AAPP", "W", "D", "P", "UP", "VRP", "ERP", "DT", "RE", "RD", "A", "MSP", "DSP", "ASP", "DASP", "MT", "EA", "MAT"]
        }  
    }
}

This change only affects multisite customers using PageBuilder Editor. For more details, see PageBuilder permissions by website.

This release also includes the following items:

  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the homepage content to not update as expected

  • Improved error messaging when users have duplicate blocks on a page after a merge

Users affected

Multisite customers who use PageBuilder Editor

Action required

Permissions admins of multisite customers who use PageBuilder Editor must review their permission configurations ahead of this Production release.

AI Editor 1.2.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 15, 2025

  • Production - Monday, September 15, 2025

Release summary

We added OpenAI’s GPT 5.0 to the Model Selection drop-down menu in Global Settings. When you select this model, performance is optimized and the reasoning level is fixed at the minimum setting to provide faster responses.

Users affected

Arc Intelligence Admins

Action required

None

The week of September 8

Production

Subscriptions 1.98

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 2, 2025

  • Production - Monday, September 8, 2025

Release summary

Arc XP has updated its integration with Stripe to be compatible with Stripe's Basil release on July 7, 2025. No updates were made to the Stripe checkout payment workflows; only the Stripe API version that Arc XP calls was updated.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Arc XP CLI 1.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Release summary

We’ve introduced new commands in the Arc XP CLI to streamline and simplify workflows for managing blocks and Fusion bundles, reducing manual steps and making deployments more efficient. These commands are designed to be easily incorporated into CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated build and deployment processes.

  • arcxp themes upload-bundle - Upload Fusion bundles directly to your configured environment. Useful for pushing bundles as part of an automated build step.

  • arcxp themes upload-and-deploy-bundle - Upload Fusion bundles and immediately deploy them with a specified engine version. Ideal for continuous deployment pipelines, where tested bundles can be automatically promoted to staging or production environments.

  • arcxp themes fork-block - Copy a block from the Themes repository into your local codebase — either as is or for customization.

Bug fix

Fixed a bug where the arcxp themes site-properties convert-properties command was not accounting for nested properties when converting JSON to .xlsx.

Improvement

Updated the arcxp themes site-properties convert-properties conversion so that site sheets are generated in alphabetical order when converting JSON to .xlsx.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Update to the latest Arc XP CLI version. View the README for commands and their options.

Sandbox

Themes 3.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 9, 2025.

  • Production - Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Reduced Sass Deprecation Warnings - Internal Sass mixins have been updated to eliminate thousands of deprecation warnings when running Fusion. This results in cleaner builds and reduces noise in developer workflows.

  • Support for Multiple Resizer URLs Across Environments - Themes now supports an object for multiple resizerURLs, enabling a single bundle to work across different environments, like Sandbox and Production. This matches the behavior of Outbound Feeds for consistency. Previously, a separate bundle was required for each environment to handle unique resizerURL values. See Using resizerURLs for images in Arc XP Themes.

  • Backward compatibility:

    • The existing resizerURL variable remains as a fallback for compatibility with older implementations.

    • Updated image blocks are compatible with both the new resizerURLs object and the legacy resizerURL variable.

  • Updated blocks:

    • gallery-block

    • Image component

    • MetaData component

    • article body chain

  • Micro-Experiences update - With the release of Micro Experiences (MX), the deployment() method has been replaced by pagebuilderURL(). This new method works the same way but also includes the required mxId parameter.

    • Default blocks have already been updated. No action is needed for more customers.

    • If you maintain custom blocks that use deployment(), you must update them to use pagebuilderURL().

    You can follow the official guidance here: Micro-Expereinces developer guide.

  • Support for Composer's external canonical URLs - Wev'e updated the Metadata component (used in the default output layout) to support composer's new externalCanonicalURL field.

    If the externalCanonicalURL field exists in ANS, it will now be added to the <link rel="canonical"> tag in the page output.

    This ensures that sites can properly reference external canonical URLs when needed, improving SEO consistency and flexibility.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

If you are using custom image blocks, you can optionally update them to support the new resizerURLs object for multi-environment flexibility.

For non-custom blocks, upgrade by changing themesReleaseVersion in blocks.json to arc-themes-release-version-3.2.0.

Photo Center 1.84.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, September 10, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes an issue where oversized images (those over 10,000 pixels in height or width) were shifting focal points and crop windows. Now, crop and focal point functionality works as expected for oversized images.

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

The week of September 1

Note

In recognition of the U.S. holiday, Labor Day, on Monday, September 1, Arc XP has updated our support coverage accordingly:

  • P0-P1 tickets: Our Customer Support team will have coverage available to address any critical outages.

  • P2-P4 tickets: All non-critical responses to P2 through P4 tickets will be handled the following business day, September 2.

For urgent issues, contact Arc XP Customer Support.

Production

IFX memory increase

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Release summary

Arc XP is increasing the allocated memory for IFX integrations from 512 MB to 1024 MB in both Sandbox and Production. This upgrade delivers improved performance and faster execution, while also providing greater stability. Functions handling larger payloads, complex logic, or heavy dependencies are far less likely to encounter out-of-memory issues with the additional capability. There is no additional cost for this upgrade.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Bundles deployed prior to September 2 will continue running with 512 MB, but you can easily gain the increase by downloading, redeploying, and promoting these bundles. No code changes are required.

Composer 2.8

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 26, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • We updated the fonts and colors in Composer Search and Composer Settings to match the cleaner, more modern style of the Composer editing experience. While these visual updates don’t change any functionality, they do help create a more consistent and polished experience across Composer and our other Arc XP products.

  • We ugpraded the ProLexis integration to version 4. If you use ProLexis, you must change the URL in Composer Settings to reflect the upgrade, for example, change https://orgid.com/prolexis/v3/ProLexisService to https://orgid.com/prolexis/v4/ProLexisService.

This release also addresses a number of fixes including:

  • The tabs in the Metadata pane are now fixed when you scroll to see content so you can more easily keep track of where you are. Additionally there are now buttons that let you click to scroll to see additional tabs on smaller screens.

  • You can now change text heading styles if they partially contain a hyperlink.

  • You can now modify display type when working with Link Lists.

  • Spaces are no longer creating line breaks at the top of text entered in Composer.

  • Browser print previews are now displaying content in the correct format again.

  • Removed external canonical URLs now no longer show warnings incorrectly when they are intended to be removed.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Sandbox

Subscriptions 1.98

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, September 2, 2025

  • Production - Monday, September 8, 2025

Release summary

Arc XP has updated its integration with Stripe to be compatible with Stripe's Basil release on July 7, 2025. No updates were made to the Stripe checkout payment workflows; only the Stripe API version that Arc XP calls was updated.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Hotfixes

No hotfixes this week

August

The week of August 25

Production

PageBuilder CLI 3.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Release summary

We’ve added a new command to the Arc XP PageBuilder CLI: compile-styles. This new command:

  • Compiles styles from Arc blocks, components, and custom blocks, without having to run npx fusion start locally.

  • Can be integrated into CI/CD automation workflows to streamline builds.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Sandbox

Composer 2.8

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 26, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • We updated the fonts and colors in Composer Search and Composer Settings to match the cleaner, more modern style of the Composer editing experience. While these visual updates don’t change any functionality, they do help create a more consistent and polished experience across Composer and our other Arc XP products.

  • We ugpraded the ProLexis integration to version 4. If you use ProLexis, you must change the URL in Composer Settings to reflect the upgrade, for example, change https://orgid.com/prolexis/v3/ProLexisService to https://orgid.com/prolexis/v4/ProLexisService.

This release also addresses a number of fixes including:

  • The tabs in the Metadata pane are now fixed when you scroll to see content so you can more easily keep track of where you are. Additionally there are now buttons that let you click to scroll to see additional tabs on smaller screens.

  • You can now change text heading styles if they partially contain a hyperlink.

  • You can now modify display type when working with Link Lists.

  • Spaces are no longer creating line breaks at the top of text entered in Composer.

  • Browser print previews are now displaying content in the correct format again.

  • Removed external canonical URLs now no longer show warnings incorrectly when they are intended to be removed.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

PageBuilder Data Sync 1.2.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, August 21, 2025

  • Production - not going to Production

Note

The PageBuilder Data Copy API is available only in Sandbox because you use Production as a source for copying.

Release summary

This release includes the following items:

  • Fixed an issue where backups were sometimes not being created as expected for target and source environments

  • Stability improvements and increased logging to reduce errors experienced during copy requests

  • Fixed an bug that sometimes caused data copies to fail

  • Fixed an issue where Resolvers were sometimes not copied correctly

  • Added error messaging if a source or target environment does not exist

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

The week of August 18

Production

Composer 2.7.2 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 12, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Release summary

Composer 2.7.2 introduces the long-requested ability for authors and editors to override image alt text in individual stories. This gives users more control to tailor alt text based on the specific context in which an image appears.

Admins can enable or disable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.

This release also includes several key fixes:

  • Links no longer intermittently cause page crashes

  • Migrated stories no longer display errors in Composer

  • Planned ready times set in the past now save correctly, preventing users from being blocked by validation errors when saving a story

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

To leverage the ability to override alt-text on images, admins must enable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.

Photo Center 1.84

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Ensures that users on smaller screens can click the Upload button when uploading a new image to Photo Center from Composer

  • Removes the version number from the Photo Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)

  • Fixes a bug where the permission Upload Images From Selector was not being properly respected. Users without this permission can no longer have the option to upload images from the selector in Composer. If users need the ability to upload images from the selector in Composer but can no longer do so after this release, admins must grant them this privilege in Permissions application.

Users affected

Photo Center Administrators

Action required

None

Video Center 1.122

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, August 7, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, August 21, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Pre-generated video thumbnail Image Resizer URLs in ANS now transition to Resizer V2 paths. In ANS Video documents, the additional_properties.imageResizerUrls.url field now uses /resizer/v2/ paths instead of /resizer/. If your workflows rely on this field for validation or downstream integrations, you must ensure your systems are updated and tested.

  • Removes the version number from the Video Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)

  • Improves the user experience of the new VOD clipping experience so that video editors can consistently see the in and out timestamps.

    Note

    The new VOD clipping experience remains an opt-in feature. Contact Arc XP Customer Support to enable this feature.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

If you rely on the video thumbnail URL field for ANS validation, send-to-print integrations, and other use cases, you must validate your integrations and pipelines continue to work as expected.

Sandbox

No Sandbox releases this week

Hotfixes

View API 1.6

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, August 14, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces a new field, additional_properties, in the response payload of all endpoints.

This enhancement provides more contextual metadata and flexibility for downstream consumers of the API.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Subscriptions 1.97.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Friday, August 15, 2025

  • Production - Monday, August 18, 2025

Release summary

Arc XP Subscriptions is implementing a critical security update to back-end applications. A security risk was round with the current back-end framework, and we're deploying an updated version.

This update has no impact to customer services or performance.

Users affected

None

Action required

None

The week of August 11

Production

Migration Center 3.9.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025

  • Production - Monday, August 11, 2025

Release summary

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Migration Center Dashboard, a powerful new tool that gives Arc XP users ingesting content through Migration Center a high-level view of content import progress in real time.

Whether you're migrating from a legacy CMS, or an external wires integration, the dashboard helps you monitor what's currently in the queue and estimate when it will be complete.

mc_reporting_dashboard.png

Key features:

  • Dashboard Overview - Located on the Migration Center homepage, this panel gives a bird’s-eye view of all active migration streams. It highlights:

    • What content is currently queued for import

    • Estimated time remaining for each stream

    • Projected completion dates

  • Target Stream panel - View content grouped by destination endpoint: Draft, Video, Tags, Authors, Photos.

  • Group Progress panel - For users submitting content with a GroupId, this panel allows you to track the progress of each specific job, helping teams monitor multiple tasks simultaneously.

See Migration Center reporting dashboard.

Users affected

Migration Center users

Action required

None

Subscriptions 1.97

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025

  • Production - Monday, August 11, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Automatic Account Deletion - An issue with Automatic Account Deletion has been resolved. Previously, some accounts were not anonymized after the configured period of inactivity. Clients with this feature enabled may notice a larger-than-usual change in the number of registered users in the month following this fix. These changes reflect accounts that have been inactive for the configured time as specified in the Settings admin.

  • Enterprise Group Reports - The Enterprise Group User List, which includes all users linked to an Enterprise Group, now contains the following fields:

    • CLIENT_ID

    • SUBSCRIPTION_ID

    • SUBSCRIPTION_STATUS

    • NONCE REDEEMED_ON

  • Enterprise Group Nonce list  - The Enterprise Group Nonce List report, which tracks all active nonces for an Enterprise Group, now includes the following fields:

    • CREATED_ON

    • EXPIRES

    • NONCE

  • Linked Subscriptions - We addressed an issue where an erroneous error message was returned when linking a subscription to a non-existent or anonymized account. Now, the Link Subscription API returns error code 300173 when attempting to link a subscription to an invalid account. Previously, the API returned error cod 0001e.

  • User Names - We updated the Identity authentication process to better align email addresses and username handling. Now, email addresses are used as the user name, and they automatically update when a user changes their email address. This update streamlines consistency and reduces the risk of errors and mismatches between these fields.

  • Stripe Subscriptions User Migration fix - We resolved an issue affected users who were migrated from Stripe Subscriptions. Previously, these users were unable to change their active subscription due to a problem with the payment provider configuration. With this fix, migrated users can now successfully upgrade or downgrade their subscriptions as expected.

Users affected

Subscriptions users

Action required

None

Composer 2.71

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, August 6, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Release summary

Reminder: Arc Intelligence offers three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. Arc Intelligence is designed to help you get more from your content using powerful AI tools. It’s available in three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. If you're not already using Arc Intelligence, contact your Technical Account Manager to learn which package is right for your newsroom and how to get started. See Arc Intelligence.

  • What's new in the Advanced package - The Arc Intelligence Advanced package now brings vector search to Composer, enabling smarter and more context-aware content recommendations. With this update, Composer can surface highly relevant Related Stories and Featured Media based on story, photo, and video content. This package also includes all features from the Starter and Core packages. See AI Editor Advanced package.

  • Updates to the Starter package - We’ve expanded AI support in Composer for users on the Starter package. Arc Intelligence can now suggest content in more fields, including:

    • Description

    • Story tags

    • SEO keywords

    See AI Editor Starter package.

Users affected

Composer users who use Arc Intelligence's Starter or Advanced package

Action required

None

Sandbox

PageBuilder Engine 5.2.0 and 6.1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 11, 2025

  • Production - Monday, August 18, 2025

Release summary

This release adds support for lazy loaded components in non-default Micro Experience environments.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Composer 2.7.2 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 12, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Release summary

Composer 2.7.2 introduces the long-requested ability for authors and editors to override image alt text in individual stories. This gives users more control to tailor alt text based on the specific context in which an image appears.

Admins can enable or disable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.

This release also includes several key fixes:

  • Links no longer intermittently cause page crashes

  • Migrated stories no longer display errors in Composer

  • Planned ready times set in the past now save correctly, preventing users from being blocked by validation errors when saving a story

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

To leverage the ability to override alt-text on images, admins must enable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.

Hotfixes

Composer 2.7.0.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Release summary

This release introduced the following updates: 

  • Hotkey for Circulation selector (Q + Click Section) now works when search has been applied to the section search.

  • Importing stories that have headers that lack specified level (H1-H6) no longer disrupt story operations in Composer.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

The week of August 4

Production

Composer 2.7

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 29, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • The ability to compare any two revisions in Revision History and UX improvements on data in revisions

  • New support for external canonical URLs

  • Integration of the latest version of Circulation Selector (3.1.4).

Comparing any two revisions in Composer

We’ve improved Revision History in Composer so you can now compare any two revisions of a story, not just adjacent revisions. This makes it easier to see how content has changed over time.

Additionally, we’ve made UX improvements for how field changes appear, new sections for Planning, Metadata, and Featured Media, and better information architecture on Featured Media changes.

  • To compare any two revisions, select your first revision, then use the new drop-down to select the previous revision you want to compare against.

  • Changes are now grouped under clearly labeled sections for Planning and Metadata and Featured Media.

  • Field-level changes have an improved visual display that more clearly shows the value that was changed or added rather than just a simple text display.

  • Featured Media now displays a preview of the actual media that was added rather than just the technical data.

See Using Revision History.

External canonical URLs

You can now add an external canonical URL to your story, allowing authors to properly attribute content back to its original source. This new field, available in Composer Settings to display on either the Planning or Metadata tabs, helps customers who license or publish third-party content maintain SEO best practices and avoid penalties for duplicate content. When populated, the external canonical URL is reflected in the <head> of the page in the <link rel="canonical"> tag, ensuring search engines recognize the original source of the content.

How it works:

  • A new field for the external canonical URL is available in Composer Settings when creating or editing a story.

  • Authors can input a fully qualified URL (for example, https://example.com/article-name) that is rendered in the story’s <head> tag as a <link rel="canonical"> tag.

  • This does not change the URL of the published story—it only informs search engines about the source of the content.

See Using external canonical URLs.

Bug fixes

  • Work is automatically saved again if a user’s login sessions expires.

  • Featured media now again correctly respects any photo restrictions that have been set.

  • Default hyperlink settings are now respected for Link Lists.

  • An issue with the subtype field has been resolved where it seemed like certain options were inaccessible.

  • Find and replace menu item in the Actions Overflow menu is now between Configure Channels and Print Story.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Author UI

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously July 29)

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in the Author application that prevented proper processing when regenerating an existing Author Bio URL.

Users affected

Administrators

Action required

None

Circulation Selector 3.1.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, July 16, 2025)

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, July 22, 2025)

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Circulation Selector contains new hot-keys for selecting identically named sections or path sections across multiple websites.

    • Q + Click Select All selects or deselects all sections across all websites.

    • Q + Click Section selects or deselects all sections of the same ID or Name across all websites.

  • The text color in the Summary box has been darkened to improve visibility and meet accessibility standards when displayed on light backgrounds.

  • Added support for consumer applications, such as Composer, to set the detected language. This provides greater flexibility and ensures consistent language application across content.

  • We fixed an issue where the system could not reliably distinguish between a deleted website and restricted permissions on website circulations.

Users affected

Users in Composer using Circulation Selector

Action required

These updates to Circulation Selector are available only in Composer.

Sandbox

Migration Center 3.9.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025

  • Production - Monday, August 11, 2025

Release summary

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Migration Center Dashboard, a powerful new tool that gives Arc XP users ingesting content through Migration Center a high-level view of content import progress in real time.

Whether you're migrating from a legacy CMS, or an external wires integration, the dashboard helps you monitor what's currently in the queue and estimate when it will be complete.

mc_reporting_dashboard.png

Key features:

  • Dashboard Overview - Located on the Migration Center homepage, this panel gives a bird’s-eye view of all active migration streams. It highlights:

    • What content is currently queued for import

    • Estimated time remaining for each stream

    • Projected completion dates

  • Target Stream panel - View content grouped by destination endpoint: Draft, Video, Tags, Authors, Photos.

  • Group Progress panel - For users submitting content with a GroupId, this panel allows you to track the progress of each specific job, helping teams monitor multiple tasks simultaneously.

See Migration Center reporting dashboard.

Users affected

Migration Center users

Action required

None

Photo Center 1.84

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Ensures that users on smaller screens can click the Upload button when uploading a new image to Photo Center from Composer

  • Removes the version number from the Photo Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)

  • Fixes a bug where the permission Upload Images From Selector was not being properly respected. Users without this permission can no longer have the option to upload images from the selector in Composer. If users need the ability to upload images from the selector in Composer but can no longer do so after this release, admins must grant them this privilege in Permissions application.

Users affected

Photo Center Administrators

Action required

None

Subscriptions 1.97

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025

  • Production - Monday, August 11, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Automatic Account Deletion - An issue with Automatic Account Deletion has been resolved. Previously, some accounts were not anonymized after the configured period of inactivity. Clients with this feature enabled may notice a larger-than-usual change in the number of registered users in the month following this fix. These changes reflect accounts that have been inactive for the configured time as specified in the Settings admin.

  • Enterprise Group Reports - The Enterprise Group User List, which includes all users linked to an Enterprise Group, now contains the following fields:

    • CLIENT_ID

    • SUBSCRIPTION_ID

    • SUBSCRIPTION_STATUS

    • NONCE REDEEMED_ON

  • Enterprise Group Nonce list  - The Enterprise Group Nonce List report, which tracks all active nonces for an Enterprise Group, now includes the following fields:

    • CREATED_ON

    • EXPIRES

    • NONCE

  • Linked Subscriptions - We addressed an issue where an erroneous error message was returned when linking a subscription to a non-existent or anonymized account. Now, the Link Subscription API returns error code 300173 when attempting to link a subscription to an invalid account. Previously, the API returned error cod 0001e.

  • User Names - We updated the Identity authentication process to better align email addresses and username handling. Now, email addresses are used as the user name, and they automatically update when a user changes their email address. This update streamlines consistency and reduces the risk of errors and mismatches between these fields.

  • Stripe Subscriptions User Migration fix - We resolved an issue affected users who were migrated from Stripe Subscriptions. Previously, these users were unable to change their active subscription due to a problem with the payment provider configuration. With this fix, migrated users can now successfully upgrade or downgrade their subscriptions as expected.

Users affected

Subscriptions users

Action required

None

Composer 2.7.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, August 6, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Release summary

Reminder: Arc Intelligence offers three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. Arc Intelligence is designed to help you get more from your content using powerful AI tools. It’s available in three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. If you're not already using Arc Intelligence, contact your Technical Account Manager to learn which package is right for your newsroom and how to get started. See Arc Intelligence.

  • What's new in the Advanced package - The Arc Intelligence Advanced package now brings vector search to Composer, enabling smarter and more context-aware content recommendations. With this update, Composer can surface highly relevant Related Stories and Featured Media based on story, photo, and video content. This package also includes all features from the Starter and Core packages. See AI Editor Advanced package.

  • Updates to the Starter package - We’ve expanded AI support in Composer for users on the Starter package. Arc Intelligence can now suggest content in more fields, including:

    • Description

    • Story tags

    • SEO keywords

    See AI Editor Starter package.

Users affected

Composer users who use Arc Intelligence's Starter or Advanced package

Action required

None

Video Center 1.122

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, August 7, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, August 21, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Pre-generated video thumbnail Image Resizer URLs in ANS now transition to Resizer V2 paths. In ANS Video documents, the additional_properties.imageResizerUrls.url field now uses /resizer/v2/ paths instead of /resizer/. If your workflows rely on this field for validation or downstream integrations, you must ensure your systems are updated and tested.

  • Removes the version number from the Video Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)

  • Improves the user experience of the new VOD clipping experience so that video editors can consistently see the in and out timestamps.

    Note

    The new VOD clipping experience remains an opt-in feature. Contact Arc XP Customer Support to enable this feature.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

If you rely on the video thumbnail URL field for ANS validation, send-to-print integrations, and other use cases, you must validate your integrations and pipelines continue to work as expected.

July

The week of July 28

Production

Author UI

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously July 29)

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in the Author application that prevented proper processing when regenerating an existing Author Bio URL.

Users affected

Administrators

Action required

None

Circulation Selector 3.1.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, July 16, 2025)

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, July 22, 2025)

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Circulation Selector contains new hot-keys for selecting identically named sections or path sections across multiple websites.

    • Q + Click Select All selects or deselects all sections across all websites.

    • Q + Click Section selects or deselects all sections of the same ID or Name across all websites.

  • The text color in the Summary box has been darkened to improve visibility and meet accessibility standards when displayed on light backgrounds.

  • Added support for consumer applications, such as Composer, to set the detected language. This provides greater flexibility and ensures consistent language application across content.

  • We fixed an issue where the system could not reliably distinguish between a deleted website and restricted permissions on website circulations.

Users affected

Users in Composer using Circulation Selector

Action required

These updates to Circulation Selector are available only in Composer.

Sandbox

Composer 2.7 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 29, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • The ability to compare any two revisions in Revision History and UX improvements on data in revisions

  • New support for external canonical URLs

  • Integration of the latest version of Circulation Selector (3.1.4).

Comparing any two revisions in Composer

We’ve improved Revision History in Composer so you can now compare any two revisions of a story, not just adjacent revisions. This makes it easier to see how content has changed over time.

Additionally, we’ve made UX improvements for how field changes appear, new sections for Planning, Metadata, and Featured Media, and better information architecture on Featured Media changes.

  • To compare any two revisions, select your first revision, then use the new drop-down to select the previous revision you want to compare against.

  • Changes are now grouped under clearly labeled sections for Planning and Metadata and Featured Media.

  • Field-level changes have an improved visual display that more clearly shows the value that was changed or added rather than just a simple text display.

  • Featured Media now displays a preview of the actual media that was added rather than just the technical data.

See Using Revision History.

External canonical URLs

You can now add an external canonical URL to your story, allowing authors to properly attribute content back to its original source. This new field, available in Composer Settings to display on either the Planning or Metadata tabs, helps customers who license or publish third-party content maintain SEO best practices and avoid penalties for duplicate content. When populated, the external canonical URL is reflected in the <head> of the page in the <link rel="canonical"> tag, ensuring search engines recognize the original source of the content.

How it works:

  • A new field for the external canonical URL is available in Composer Settings when creating or editing a story.

  • Authors can input a fully qualified URL (for example, https://example.com/article-name) that is rendered in the story’s <head> tag as a <link rel="canonical"> tag.

  • This does not change the URL of the published story—it only informs search engines about the source of the content.

See Using external canonical URLs.

Bug fixes

  • Work is automatically saved again if a user’s login sessions expires.

  • Featured media now again correctly respects any photo restrictions that have been set.

  • Default hyperlink settings are now respected for Link Lists.

  • An issue with the subtype field has been resolved where it seemed like certain options were inaccessible.

  • Find and replace menu item in the Actions Overflow menu is now between Configure Channels and Print Story.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

PageBuilder Editor 3.22.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Release summary

This hotfix includes updates to prepare for an upcoming Mongo database upgrade.

Users affected

PageBuilder users

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.6.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses an issue in that prevented some valid URLs from being entered due to the new validation added on URLs as well as an issue that causes the page to freeze when editing a pasted link.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

The week of July 21

Production

Composer 2.6.6

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 15, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces the following updates:

  • When hyperlink OR interstitial links are invalid, Composer now displays a more clear better error to show that the URL is invalid: Invalid URL. Check the link and try again. This respects Composer Settings that allow for relative URLs.

  • Hyperlink Settings defaults (Open in a new tab) now apply to Link List content elements.

  • Longer labels in Link Lists no longer break the container.

  • We also introduced a number of updates to Circulation Selector. See Circulation Selector 3.1.4

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Site Service 2.0.16

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 16, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Select Field on the Edit Field form now accurately displays the error causing a form to be invalid when removing all select fields from the Select Field form item.

  • Lang Allow on the New Website form now uses the same check for both displaying the Lang Allow form item and the schema used to check if the form is valid, fixing an issue resulting in new websites always being invalid due to this difference in checking.

Users affected

Administrators

Action required

None

Arc XP Navigation 0.9.6

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 16, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Release summary

This release corrects right-to-left (RTL) support to be fully functional, with no overlapping or out-of-place components.

Users affected

Users in locales with right-to-left languages (like Arabic)

Action required

None

Circulation Selector 3.1.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, July 16, 2025)

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, July 22, 2025)

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Circulation Selector contains new hot-keys for selecting identically named sections or path sections across multiple websites.

    • Q + Click Select All selects or deselects all sections across all websites.

    • Q + Click Section selects or deselects all sections of the same ID or Name across all websites.

  • The text color in the Summary box has been darkened to improve visibility and meet accessibility standards when displayed on light backgrounds.

  • Added support for consumer applications, such as Composer, to set the detected language. This provides greater flexibility and ensures consistent language application across content.

  • We fixed an issue where the system could not reliably distinguish between a deleted website and restricted permissions on website circulations.

Users affected

Users in Composer using Circulation Selector

Action required

These updates to Circulation Selector are available only in Composer.

Arc XP CLI 1.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

Users affected

Developers

Action required

To use this functionality, you must upgrade to Arc XP CLI 1.1.

Sandbox

View API 1.5

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, July 21, 2025

  • Production - no Production release. This functionality exists only in Sandbox.

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in View API responses when using the include and exclude parameters to single document endpoints.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Authors

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously July 29)

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in the Author application that prevented proper processing when regenerating an existing Author Bio URL.

Users affected

Administrators

Action required

None

The week of July 14

Production

WebSked 4.115

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

  • Production - Monday, July 14, 2025

Release summary

This release includes back-end performance and reliability enhancements. No customer impact is expected.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Delivery 1.32

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Release summary

Introducing Arc XP’s Edge Integration Framework, a new way to connect third-party services to your Arc XP environment right at the edge layer. This framework gives you more control over how you manage traffic before it reaches your site, without the need for custom development.

The first integration available through this framework is DataDome’s Advanced Bot Management service.

This integration enables Arc XP customers to leverage DataDome’s bot detection engine to identify and block malicious bots, such as scrapers, credential stuffing tools, and fake traffic, before those requests reach your application. Filtering at the edge layer helps preserve infrastructure resources, protects paywalls or premium content, and ensures that your analytics reflect real user behavior.

To use this feature, you must have an active DataDome subscription and configure protection rules directly through the DataDome platform. Arc XP facilitates the connection and routing of traffic to DataDome but does not manage bot detection policies or enforcement.

del_edge_integrations_tab.png

To get started, see Managing your DataDome edge integration.

Users affected

Delivery site managers

Action required

To enable edge integrations with DataDome, contact your Technical Account Manager. Your account manager can also help connect you with DataDome if you do not currently subscribe.

Sandbox

Composer 2.6.6

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 15, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces the following updates:

  • When hyperlink OR interstitial links are invalid, Composer now displays a more clear better error to show that the URL is invalid: Invalid URL. Check the link and try again. This respects Composer Settings that allow for relative URLs.

  • Hyperlink Settings defaults (Open in a new tab) now apply to Link List content elements.

  • Longer labels in Link Lists no longer break the container.

  • We also introduced a number of updates to Circulation Selector. See Circulation Selector 3.1.4

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

PageBuilder Editor 3.22.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes the Import Page functionality, ensuring that new pages are accurately created based on the imported content.

Users affected

PageBuilder admins

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.5.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes the following issues introduced in Composer 2.6.5:

  • Free form values added to picklist fields are now applied and saved when you either press Enter or exit or click out of the field.

  • Tags no longer are cut off or duplicated.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

The week of July 7

Production

Composer 2.6.5

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • Scheduled story publish actions no longer publish without required fields.

  • When publishing scheduled stories that have not been published for the first time, the button now says “Publish” instead of “Update”.

  • If a user is in read-only mode and the other user with the lock leaves, the lock is now transferred to the read-only user only when they refresh the page.

  • Interstitial links now have better handling when required fields are empty or are partially filled out.

  • Photo restrictions are now correctly respected again.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

View API 1.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in the /collections endpoint of View API. Now, the data returned is the same regardless of the number of elements requested.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Photo Center 1.83.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, June 18, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • In according with our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines, user’s names no longer appear in the Gallery Edit presence indicator.

  • When user owner (additional_properties.owner) is updated through the API, that new value is now searchable.

  • API uploads now require the organization ID owner.id to be present.

  • Fixes bug where EXIF-rotated images weren’t saving the swapped dimensions correctly.

  • Fixes bug where full-width spaces were breaking search terms for CJK characters.

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

Authors

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 2, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Release summary

This release removes unnecessary logic when loading an Author’s image through the UI. There is no change to the existing features.

Users affected

Author users

Action required

None

Themes 3.1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 3, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

Bug fixes:

  • @wpmedia/header-nav-chain-block - Section URLs in the left navigation now include a trailing slash.

  • @wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block - Arc Block images now scale responsively with screen size.

  • @wpmedia/arc-themes-components -Fixed extra whitespace that appeared in carousels.

Arc Block accessibility improvements:

  • All skip links now have focusable targets.

  • Page content is fully contained within ARIA landmarks.

  • Interactive elements include their visible text in accessible names.

  • A “Skip to Main Content” link now appears before navigation.

New functionality:

@wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block now resize images even when no auth value is present, ensuring consistent image sizing.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Upgrade to the latest Arc Block version to receive these items.

Sandbox

WebSked 4.115

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

  • Production - Monday, July 14, 2025

Release summary

This release includes back-end performance and reliability enhancements. No customer impact is expected.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

Composer 2.6.5.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 2, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Free form options added to picklist fields now save when you exit the field.

  • Non-'basic' headlines no longer revert to a previous state when interacting with the Prolexis spellchecker.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Circulation Selector 3.1.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 3, 2025

Release summary

This release provides an update to Circulation Selector in Composer where, on smaller screen sizes, the Save Circulations button was not accessible unless you zoomed out on your browser. Users with smaller screens can now scroll to access the Save Circulations button.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Site Service 2.0.15

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 3, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • When you add Sections to a hierarchy in Navigation, the system now builds the entire ancestor list for child sections. This is a correction to a bug where only the initial parent was being added to this list.

  • Ungrouped fields under Section Edit is fixed to allow Map fields.

  • A proper error message for Field Edit regarding Select field type is now appears when applicable.

Users affected

Site Service users

Action required

None

June

The week of June 30

Production

Migration Center 3.9.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, June 25, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Release summary

A new endpoint in Migration Center—/groupID—lets you query to get lists of recent batches of content submitted to the service where you have applied a groupId for tracking batches of content.

Additionally, this release also provides an improvement to the /counts endpoint so that content counts are cached to help optimize endpoint response. You should now have an overall improved experience when calling this endpoint during migrations with large document counts.

Users affected

Migration Center developers

Action required

None

Sandbox

Composer 2.6.5

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • Scheduled story publish actions no longer publish without required fields.

  • When publishing scheduled stories that have not been published for the first time, the button now says “Publish” instead of “Update”.

  • If a user is in read-only mode and the other user with the lock leaves, the lock is now transferred to the read-only user only when they refresh the page.

  • Interstitial links now have better handling when required fields are empty or are partially filled out.

  • Photo restrictions are now correctly respected again.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

View API 1.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in the /collections endpoint of View API. Now, the data returned is the same regardless of the number of elements requested.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Themes 3.1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 3, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

Bug fixes:

  • @wpmedia/header-nav-chain-block - Section URLs in the left navigation now include a trailing slash.

  • @wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block - Arc Block images now scale responsively with screen size.

  • @wpmedia/arc-themes-components -Fixed extra whitespace that appeared in carousels.

Arc Block accessibility improvements:

  • All skip links now have focusable targets.

  • Page content is fully contained within ARIA landmarks.

  • Interactive elements include their visible text in accessible names.

  • A “Skip to Main Content” link now appears before navigation.

New functionality:

@wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block now resize images even when no auth value is present, ensuring consistent image sizing.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Upgrade to the latest Arc Block version to receive these items.

Authors

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 2, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Release summary

This release removes unnecessary logic when loading an Author’s image through the UI. There is no change to the existing features.

Users affected

Author users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

Photo Center 1.83.0.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Note

This release affects only customers in the us-east-1 AWS region.

Release summary

This update prepares Photo Center for an upcoming database upgrade. It includes:

  • Adding more space and resources to our database to handle data more smoothly

  • Improving how the app disconnects from the database when it shuts down, to avoid errors

  • Updating a security certificate that helps keep the database connection secure

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

Video Center 1.121.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, June 26, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • Updates the Google Apps Manager (GAM) version number used for server-side ad insertion (SSAI).

  • Removes the Priority parameter from Video API import documentation, as it was not functional. (If this parameter is included in a call to Video API, the system ignores it. You do not need to update your code.)

Users affected

Video Center admins

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.4.1 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, June 26, 2025

Release summary

Pull Quotes and Block Quotes now support specifying the language the quote is written in. This update better addresses global accessibility standards (Idea EU Accessibility).

You can now select the quote language in the drop-down menu on pull and block quotes.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None; however, as needed, you should implement logic to read the ANS quote language fields and ensure quotes are read by screen readers in the specified language on the front end. If desired, you may implement styling for different languages.

PageBuilder Engine 5.1.4 and 6.0.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 30, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • contentCache is now available in outputTypes - We now expose contentCache in fusion:context available in outputType for greater developer access to request-level content caching data.

  • Environment file fix in Micro Experience (MX) environments - We updated the PageBuilder Compiler to correctly resolve environment inheritance in multiple MX environments. Previously, MX runtime used an {org}-{env}-{mxId} format for the ENVIRONMENT variable, but environment files were not consistently inheriting due to mxId suffixes. This patch ensures environment inheritance uses the base {org}-{env} format across MX environments.

As per the Engine versioning policy, this patch removes previous patch versions in the same major group.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Subscriptions 1.96

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 30, 2025

Release summary

The custom tax provide has been updated so the “Add tax exempt status to billing address” option is available in the Customer Service Admin in the User’s subscription card overflow menu.

Users affected

Developers and Customer Service Representatives

Action required

Use the "Add tax exempt status to billing address" option as needed. To learn more, see Setting authentication providers.

The week of June 23

Production

PageBuilder Editor 3.22

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 23, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, June 17, 2025)

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • You can now use Integrated Search capabilities on chains, in addition to blocks.

  • Adds additional validation to Resolvers to ensure data is saved as expected.

  • Updates error messaging in the Blocks search panel to be more accurate.

  • Removes Audience Targeting functionality when running PageBuilder Editor locally.

  • Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented users from updating a custom field.

  • Remove unused Stencil Page permissions that were inadvertently introduced. (These permissions are not functional).

Users affected

PageBuilder Editor users

Action required

None

WebSked 1.114 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 16, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 23, 2025

Release summary

This release makes additional WebSked APIs available to customer developers, including the ability to manage pitches and tasks programmatically, as well as delete resources from WebSked using tokens from the developer portal.

This brings the developer API even closer to parity with the API used to power the WebSked user interface, enabling customer developers to extend WebSked and integrate Arc XP with external platforms more easily. Customer developers can now interact with pitches, tasks, groups, publications, and collections programmatically including deleting resources.

Updates made through the developer API include “API” as the responsible party instead of an individual's name as it appears today within the WebSked user interface and API endpoints.

For more information, see the WebSked API documentation.

This release also includes an back-end change for how WebSked consumes updates from the rest of the platform. No impact is expected from this change.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 17, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • You can now again delete and remote related items from a Composer template.

  • You cannot set Planned Ready Time in the past, but now you’re not required to update the field erroneously on an already-published story when saving new changes.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Circulation Selector 3.0 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Release summary

After a successful beta period, Circulation Selector 3.0 is now available for all customers.

Designed for efficiency and speed, the new UI includes reorganized panes for easier site and section selection and a streamlined user flow for making edits. Designed for efficiency and speed, this UI addresses many UX issues previously reported through idea portals and feedback sessions.

What's new in the Circulation Selector:

  • Seamless navigation through the Circulation Selector from left to right, providing flexibility to the users who want to make edits at different steps of the process.

  • A streamlined summary view of finalized circulations

  • Ability to view sections organized by IDs (called Paths) and by Names.

  • Improved workflow with the new Circulation Selector opening as a modal instead of a new full-screen page

For full details, see Composer circulation selector 3.0.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

At this time, Circulation Selector 3.0 is available only in Composer and not in Photo Center or Video Center.

Sandbox

Migration Center 3.9

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, June 25, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Release summary

A new endpoint in Migration Center—/groupID—lets you query to get lists of recent batches of content submitted to the service where you have applied a groupId for tracking batches of content.

Additionally, this release also provides an improvement to the /counts endpoint so that content counts are cached to help optimize endpoint response. You should now have an overall improved experience when calling this endpoint during migrations with large document counts.

Users affected

Migration Center developers

Action required

None

Hotfixes

PageBuilder Engine 5.1.4 and 6.0.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 23, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 30, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • contentCache is now available in outputTypes - We now expose contentCache in fusion:context available in outputType for greater developer access to request-level content caching data.

  • Environment file fix in Micro Experience (MX) environments - We updated the PageBuilder Compiler to correctly resolve environment inheritance in multiple MX environments. Previously, MX runtime used an {org}-{env}-{mxId} format for the ENVIRONMENT variable, but environment files were not consistently inheriting due to mxId suffixes. This patch ensures environment inheritance uses the base {org}-{env} format across MX environments.

As per the Engine versioning policy, this patch removes previous patch versions in the same major group.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

The week of June 16

Production

Video Center 1.121 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 9, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 16, 2025

Release summary

Warning

An issue affecting some videos prevented clips from successfully being created from the refreshed clipping interface. We have rolled back to the prior clipping interface while investigating the issue. A new Production release date will be announced for the refreshed clipping UI once the issue is resolved.

This release introduces a refreshed video clipping interfaced based on feedback from Video Center users who need to quickly find precise in and out times for video clips.

vc_clipping_interface.png

  • A new filmstrip of the entire video enables you to quickly find the content you want to clip using visual cues. You can zoom in to find the exact moment you’re looking for in a long video file. Then, you can use the fine-grained clip controls you’re used to to find the exact in and out points you need, down to the frame.

    Note

    Only VODs that are encoded have a filmstrip. VODs that are not encoded show a generic blue bar.

  • You now have a higher-quality video while you’re creating your clip.

  • You can now control the crop area when creating videos in other ratios, like Vertical, which mimics a phone.

For more information, see Clipping a video on demand (VOD).

This release also contains the following changes:

  • The Ad Playback tile is removed from the Video Center analytics dashboard, because issues were uncovered in the reporting that caused inaccurate metrics to display, such as unusually high ad skip rates and inflated ad completion rates.

  • Resolved an issue where the "Add Photos" buttons in the Series module were rendering with errors. The buttons now display and function as expected.

  • Resolved an issue where users were unable to unselect or unpin a video that had been set as the first position in a playlist. Previously, after a video was pinned, it could not be removed, limiting playlist flexibility.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 16, 2025

Release summary

This version contains a minor refactoring on the logic to filter restricted fields, there are no changes to the current features.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

PageBuilder Data Copy 1.2.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • PageBuilder Data Copies in Staging now work as expected.

  • Backups of environments are now properly completed during the PageBuilder Data Copy process.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

PageBuilder Editor 3.22

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 23, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, June 17, 2025)

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • You can now use Integrated Search capabilities on chains, in addition to blocks.

  • Adds additional validation to Resolvers to ensure data is saved as expected.

  • Updates error messaging in the Blocks search panel to be more accurate.

  • Removes Audience Targeting functionality when running PageBuilder Editor locally.

  • Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented users from updating a custom field.

  • Remove unused Stencil Page permissions that were inadvertently introduced. (These permissions are not functional).

Users affected

PageBuilder Editor users

Action required

None

Sandbox

WebSked 1.114 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 16, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 23, 2025

Release summary

This release makes additional WebSked APIs available to customer developers, including the ability to manage pitches and tasks programmatically, as well as delete resources from WebSked using tokens from the developer portal.

This brings the developer API even closer to parity with the API used to power the WebSked user interface, enabling customer developers to extend WebSked and integrate Arc XP with external platforms more easily. Customer developers can now interact with pitches, tasks, groups, publications, and collections programmatically including deleting resources.

Updates made through the developer API include “API” as the responsible party instead of an individual's name as it appears today within the WebSked user interface and API endpoints.

For more information, see the WebSked API documentation.

This release also includes an back-end change for how WebSked consumes updates from the rest of the platform. No impact is expected from this change.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 17, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • You can now again delete and remote related items from a Composer template.

  • You cannot set Planned Ready Time in the past, but now you’re not required to update the field erroneously on an already-published story when saving new changes.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Photo Center 1.83.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, June 18, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • In according with our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines, user’s names no longer appear in the Gallery Edit presence indicator.

  • When user owner (additional_properties.owner) is updated through the API, that new value is now searchable.

  • API uploads now require the organization ID owner.id to be present.

  • Fixes bug where EXIF-rotated images weren’t saving the swapped dimensions correctly.

  • Fixes bug where full-width spaces were breaking search terms for CJK characters.

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

Subscriptions 1.95.0.7

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Friday, June 13, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 16, 2025

Release summary

This update fixes an issue with Sign-In With Apple for clients using Subs Themes Blocks and legacy SIWA APIs. Users are no longer sent back to the login form after following the Apple verification steps.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

The week of June 9

Production

Composer 2.6.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • Placeholder text for images in Author Overrides no longer display [Object Object].

  • Word counts no longer disappear when story titles extend to multiple lines.

  • When in Suggest Mode, when selecting text and then typing, text is no longer removed and instead added as a suggested deletion with additional text appended as a suggested addition.

  • Opening story preview in Revision history no longer intermittently throws an unexpected application error.

  • Comments are no longer moving to different locations in a story intermittently.

  • Social URL modals are now correctly showing in the location users add them instead of at the bottom of the story.

  • Transferring control of a story to another user no longer results in unsaved changes being lost.

  • You can now cut (Ctrl+X/CMD+X) attribution text in block quotes without it removing the entire quote.

  • Bold text copied from a document preview in Microsoft OneDrive now pastes correctly into Composer.

  • Pasting text into selected text is now correctly not converting the pasted text into a hyperlink when you are not pasting a URL.

  • Scheduled stories are again respecting timezone settings for when to publish.

  • Additional spaces are no longer being added when copying and pasting into Composer.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Release summary

This release updates some of the internal logic used to monitor and log API metrics. It also updates the logic for tracking unexpected field values (used internally by Arc XP to monitor usage). There are no changes to the current API features.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

IFX 2.14.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, June 5, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, June 12, 2025

Release summary

To keep things easy for you, Arc XP continues to fully manage complimentary integrations such as Queryly on your behalf. To avoid accidental changes, these integrations are no longer accessible through the UI or APIs, because you don’t need to worry about them. We handle all the configuration and maintenance behind the scenes, so you can stay focused on your priorities.

No changes are required on your end, and your integrations will continue to work as expected. If you have any questions or would like to discuss these integrations further, contact your Technical Account Manager.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Sandbox

Video Center 1.121 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 9, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 16, 2025

Release summary

Warning

An issue affecting some videos prevented clips from successfully being created from the refreshed clipping interface. We have rolled back to the prior clipping interface while investigating the issue. A new Production release date will be announced for the refreshed clipping UI once the issue is resolved.

This release introduces a refreshed video clipping interfaced based on feedback from Video Center users who need to quickly find precise in and out times for video clips.

vc_clipping_interface.png

  • A new filmstrip of the entire video enables you to quickly find the content you want to clip using visual cues. You can zoom in to find the exact moment you’re looking for in a long video file. Then, you can use the fine-grained clip controls you’re used to to find the exact in and out points you need, down to the frame.

    Note

    Only VODs that are encoded have a filmstrip. VODs that are not encoded show a generic blue bar.

  • You now have a higher-quality video while you’re creating your clip.

  • You can now control the crop area when creating videos in other ratios, like Vertical, which mimics a phone.

For more information, see Clipping a video on demand (VOD).

This release also contains the following changes:

  • The Ad Playback tile is removed from the Video Center analytics dashboard, because issues were uncovered in the reporting that caused inaccurate metrics to display, such as unusually high ad skip rates and inflated ad completion rates.

  • Resolved an issue where the "Add Photos" buttons in the Series module were rendering with errors. The buttons now display and function as expected.

  • Resolved an issue where users were unable to unselect or unpin a video that had been set as the first position in a playlist. Previously, after a video was pinned, it could not be removed, limiting playlist flexibility.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 16, 2025

Release summary

This version contains a minor refactoring on the logic to filter restricted fields, there are no changes to the current features.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Circulation Selector 3.0 icon_ideas_portal.svg

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Release summary

After a successful beta period, Circulation Selector 3.0 is now available for all customers.

Designed for efficiency and speed, the new UI includes reorganized panes for easier site and section selection and a streamlined user flow for making edits. Designed for efficiency and speed, this UI addresses many UX issues previously reported through idea portals and feedback sessions.

What's new in the Circulation Selector:

  • Seamless navigation through the Circulation Selector from left to right, providing flexibility to the users who want to make edits at different steps of the process.

  • A streamlined summary view of finalized circulations

  • Ability to view sections organized by IDs (called Paths) and by Names.

  • Improved workflow with the new Circulation Selector opening as a modal instead of a new full-screen page

For full details, see Composer circulation selector 3.0.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

At this time, Circulation Selector 3.0 is available only in Composer and not in Photo Center or Video Center.

PageBuilder Data Copy 1.2.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • PageBuilder Data Copies in Staging now work as expected.

  • Backups of environments are now properly completed during the PageBuilder Data Copy process.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

PageBuilder Editor 3.22

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 23, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, June 17, 2025)

Release summary

This release contains the following updates:

  • You can now use Integrated Search capabilities on chains, in addition to blocks.

  • Adds additional validation to Resolvers to ensure data is saved as expected.

  • Updates error messaging in the Blocks search panel to be more accurate.

  • Removes Audience Targeting functionality when running PageBuilder Editor locally.

  • Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented users from updating a custom field.

  • Remove unused Stencil Page permissions that were inadvertently introduced. (These permissions are not functional).

Users affected

PageBuilder Editor users

Action required

None

View API 1.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - to be announced

    Note

    The include and exclude functionality in View API is available in Sandbox only. We will release it to Production in a future update.

Release summary

View API now allows you to include or exclude specific ANS fields, reducing the payload size of each API call and improving performance. Responses are smaller and the processing logic in client-side code becomes simpler and faster.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Photo Center 1.83.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, June 18, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • In according with our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines, user’s names no longer appear in the Gallery Edit presence indicator.

  • When user owner (additional_properties.owner) is updated through the API, that new value is now searchable.

  • API uploads now require the organization ID owner.id to be present.

  • Fixes bug where EXIF-rotated images weren’t saving the swapped dimensions correctly.

  • Fixes bug where full-width spaces were breaking search terms for CJK characters.

Users affected

Photo Center users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

Photo Center 1.83.1

Release dates

Note

This release affects only the ap-northeast-1 AWS region.

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, May 29, 2025

Release summary

For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character inputs, full-width space characters are now parsed correctly in searches.

Users affected

Photo Center users in the ap-northeast-1 AWS region

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.2.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Friday, May 30, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces the following updates:

  • Now, copying from Microsoft Word into Composer works as expected and no longer introduces spacing issues.

  • We’ve temporarily reverted a recent change that prevented Planned Ready Times from being set in the past, as it was causing issues where you had to unnecessarily update published stories. You can now set Planned Ready Times in the past again while we work on a permanent fix. An upcoming release will reintroduce the restriction (preventing past times) without triggering unintended updates to published stories or requiring you to evaluate the field when it's no longer needed.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Themes 3.0.0 and previous versions

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, June 5, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes an issue in the following Themes versions:

  • 3.0.0

  • 2.6.0

  • 2.5.2

  • 2.4.1

  • 2.3.2

We identified recent build failures related to the react-google-recaptcha-v3 dependency. This package is indirectly imported through @wpmedia/arc-themes-components, which is utilized by several Identity and Subscription-related blocks. This led to the inability to deploy bundles.

On June 3, 2025, react-google-recaptcha-v3 published a "minor" version update that introduced a breaking change. This update caused @wpmedia/arc-themes-components to resolve to React 19, leading to build and compatibility issues.

As a result, this release pins the react-google-recaptcha-v3 dependency to the known stable version 1.10.1. This change restores compatibility and aligns with the original expected behavior of Arc Themes blocks that rely on react-google-recaptcha-v3.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

If you're experiencing this issue, a workaround is to add the following override to your package.json file:

```
"overrides": {
"react-google-recaptcha-v3": "1.10.1"
}
```
Composer 2.6.3.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Friday, June 6, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Release summary

This release updates the WebSked integration to the latest version, which provides a fix to display the entire name of a collection as a tool tip when a name is bigger than the size of the container.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Subscriptions 1.95

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, June 9, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes an issue that prevented sessions that started before a password change from being terminated. Now, when a user changes their password, all existing sessions are properly terminated, and no new access tokens are issued for refresh tokens tied to those old sessions.

Users affected

Subscriptions users

Action required

None

The week of June 2

Production

WebSked 4.113

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 2, 2025

Release summary

This release follows through with the deprecation announced in January 2024, ending developer API access to the WebSked search and stats endpoints. Going forward, developers should leverage the Content API endpoints to retrieve content.

For more information, see:

Users affected

WebSked developers

Action required

Transition away from the deprecated search and stat APIs. For content search needs, use the Content API moving forward.

Sandbox

Composer 2.6.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • Placeholder text for images in Author Overrides no longer display [Object Object].

  • Word counts no longer disappear when story titles extend to multiple lines.

  • When in Suggest Mode, when selecting text and then typing, text is no longer removed and instead added as a suggested deletion with additional text appended as a suggested addition.

  • Opening story preview in Revision history no longer intermittently throws an unexpected application error.

  • Comments are no longer moving to different locations in a story intermittently.

  • Social URL modals are now correctly showing in the location users add them instead of at the bottom of the story.

  • Transferring control of a story to another user no longer results in unsaved changes being lost.

  • You can now cut (Ctrl+X/CMD+X) attribution text in block quotes without it removing the entire quote.

  • Bold text copied from a document preview in Microsoft OneDrive now pastes correctly into Composer.

  • Pasting text into selected text is now correctly not converting the pasted text into a hyperlink when you are not pasting a URL.

  • Scheduled stories are again respecting timezone settings for when to publish.

  • Additional spaces are no longer being added when copying and pasting into Composer.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Release summary

This release updates some of the internal logic used to monitor and log API metrics. It also updates the logic for tracking unexpected field values (used internally by Arc XP to monitor usage). There are no changes to the current API features.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

IFX 2.14.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, June 5, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, June 12, 2025

Release summary

To keep things easy for you, Arc XP continues to fully manage complimentary integrations such as Queryly on your behalf. To avoid accidental changes, these integrations are no longer accessible through the UI or APIs, because you don’t need to worry about them. We handle all the configuration and maintenance behind the scenes, so you can stay focused on your priorities.

No changes are required on your end, and your integrations will continue to work as expected. If you have any questions or would like to discuss these integrations further, contact your Technical Account Manager.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

May

The week of May 26

Production

Composer 2.6.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, May 20, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • The direction of quotations and apostrophes is now working correctly

  • Using the keyboard shortcut for Inline Notes and Suggestions no longer adds erroneous spaces

  • Deleted comments no longer appear in ANS

  • Composer now displays better messaging for 404 errors when stories cannot be found

  • Suggestions now show up as suggestions after pasting and saving stories in Suggest mode

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

WebSked 4.112

Sandbox

WebSked 4.113

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 2, 2025

Release summary

This release follows through with the deprecation announced in January 2024, ending developer API access to the WebSked search and stats endpoints. Going forward, developers should leverage the Content API endpoints to retrieve content.

For more information, see:

Users affected

WebSked developers

Action required

Transition away from the deprecated search and stat APIs. For content search needs, use the Content API moving forward.

The week of May 19

Production

PageBuilder CLI 3.0
IFX 2.14.1
Themes 3.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, May 8, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, May 22, 2025

Release summary

Themes 3.0 provides compatibility with Engine 6.0. This release includes no functional or breaking changes for Arc XP blocks bundles already running on Engine 5.0.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

AWS Node 18 runtime support and PageBuilder Engine 5.0 will be deprecating on September 30, 2025. To continue deploying changes in Arc XP environments beyond this date, you must upgrade to Engine 6.0.

See PageBuilder Engine 5.x and Themes 2.x deprecation.

When you're ready to deploy these updates, set the 3.0.0 version in your bundle's {{blocks.json}}, or select the version in Themes Settings.

Sandbox

WebSked 4.112
Composer 2.6.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, May 20, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • The direction of quotations and apostrophes is now working correctly

  • Using the keyboard shortcut for Inline Notes and Suggestions no longer adds erroneous spaces

  • Deleted comments no longer appear in ANS

  • Composer now displays better messaging for 404 errors when stories cannot be found

  • Suggestions now show up as suggestions after pasting and saving stories in Suggest mode

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

The week of May 12

Production

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, May 5, 2025

  • Production - Monday, May 12, 2025

Release summary

This release includes an incremental improvement to the scheduler logic to prevent race conditions. The logic now considers the start time of an operation to avoid collisions with other updates that could override a document's state.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, May 6, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • You can now individually mark Kickers and Labels as required in Composer Settings. Only the required kickers are marked as required in your stories, eliminating previous confusion for which items needed to be completed.

  • Closing a Composer tab and selecting "Leave without saving” now respects that selection and does not save those changes.

  • The tooltip for WebSked Workflows now correctly hides when you hover off of it.

  • Pasting tables now correctly pastes all elements as expected.

  • When setting expiration dates, you can no longer select dates prior to publish, which was causing 404 errors.

  • Now, when pasting from web-based work, formatting bold and italics works as expected.

  • Imported stories from Draft API are now correctly importing and formatting stories.

  • Removing notes from notes mode now correctly removes all portions and doesn’t leave any remnants that cannot be removed.

  • Pasting pre-existing links from other sources now correctly pastes as hyperlinks.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Sandbox

IFX 2.14.1

The week of May 5

Production

Subscriptions 1.94
Global Settings - Arc Intelligence 1.1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 29, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Release summary

For customers using Arc Intelligence, Global Settings now offers a prompt testing area on the prompt configuration page. You can now enter story content you'd like to test the prompt against, and check the response without leaving the Settings page.

For step-by-step instructions, see Testing prompts.

Users affected

Arc Intelligence admin users

Action required

This prompt testing functionality is available for customers who license any Arc Intelligence package. To subscribe to our AI functionality, contact your Technical Account Manager.

Circulation Selector - Beta program
IFX 2.14

Sandbox

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, May 5, 2025

  • Production - Monday, May 12, 2025

Release summary

This release includes an incremental improvement to the scheduler logic to prevent race conditions. The logic now considers the start time of an operation to avoid collisions with other updates that could override a document's state.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Composer 2.6.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, May 6, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • You can now individually mark Kickers and Labels as required in Composer Settings. Only the required kickers are marked as required in your stories, eliminating previous confusion for which items needed to be completed.

  • Closing a Composer tab and selecting "Leave without saving” now respects that selection and does not save those changes.

  • The tooltip for WebSked Workflows now correctly hides when you hover off of it.

  • Pasting tables now correctly pastes all elements as expected.

  • When setting expiration dates, you can no longer select dates prior to publish, which was causing 404 errors.

  • Now, when pasting from web-based work, formatting bold and italics works as expected.

  • Imported stories from Draft API are now correctly importing and formatting stories.

  • Removing notes from notes mode now correctly removes all portions and doesn’t leave any remnants that cannot be removed.

  • Pasting pre-existing links from other sources now correctly pastes as hyperlinks.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

Themes 3.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, May 8, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, May 22, 2025

Release summary

Themes 3.0 provides compatibility with Engine 6.0. This release includes no functional or breaking changes for Arc XP blocks bundles already running on Engine 5.0.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

AWS Node 18 runtime support and PageBuilder Engine 5.0 will be deprecating on September 30, 2025. To continue deploying changes in Arc XP environments beyond this date, you must upgrade to Engine 6.0.

See PageBuilder Engine 5.x and Themes 2.x deprecation.

When you're ready to deploy these updates, set the 3.0.0 version in your bundle's {{blocks.json}}, or select the version in Themes Settings.

April

The week of April 28

Production

PageBuilder Engine 6.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28, 2025

Release summary

PageBuilder Engine 6.0 introduces support for the Node.js 20 runtime, which ensures compatibility with the latest technologies while enhancing performance and security. There are no other functional or breaking changes for PageBuilder Engine or Arc XP blocks for bundles already running on Engine 5.0.

To plan your migration to PageBuilder Engine 6.0, see Migration from PageBuilder Engine 5.x and 6.x.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

AWS Node 18 runtime support and PageBuilder Engine 5.0 will be deprecated on September 30, 2025. To continue deploying changes in Arc XP environments beyond this date, you must upgrade to Engine 6.0.

See PageBuilder Engine 5.x and Themes 2.x deprecation.

Themes 2.6.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, April 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28, 2025 (was previously Thursday, April 24, 2025)

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Top Table List block - Media for small and extra large promos now display the appropriate video or gallery icon.

  • Gallery block - Captions no longer cut off while scrolling through a gallery.

  • Card List block - Added protections against undefined or null values on the offset override in PageBuilder Editor to prevent an error where the block doesn't display content.

Users affected

Developers, PageBuilder Editor users

Action required

When you're ready to deploy these updates, set the 2.6.0 version in your bundle's blocks.json, or select the version in Themes Settings.

WebSked Stats update

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 21 to Wednesday, April 23, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28 to Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Release summary

This release streamlines the stats experience on the back end. You should not notice any changes.

Users affected

None

Action required

None

Composer 2.6
IFX CLI 1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - not deployed to Sandbox

  • Production - Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Release summary

Introducing IFX CLI support. You can now execute all processes directly from the command line using the new arcxp-cli npm package. Manage integrations, secrets, bundles, deployments, and more—all from a single, streamlined interface. Simplify your workflow, automate repetitive tasks, and accelerate your development process.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Install the npm package @arcxp/cli.

Sandbox

Subscriptions 1.94
IFX 2.14

Hotfixes

Web Delivery API 1.30.7

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Release summary

This update resolves an issue that caused delayed CDN propagation of PageBuilder Editor changes to Pages. You can now expect updates made to Pages in PageBuilder Editor to become visible to your readers in under one minute.

What happened:

A Delivery API patch deployed on November 25, 2024 introduced a new security requirement between cache-clearing sub-services. As a result, updates made to Pages in PageBuilder Editor (like changing a value of a custom field) did not trigger the normal automated CDN cache clearing. Instead, changes to the affected pages became visible only when their CDN time-to-live (TTL) expired and a new copy was fetched from Page Builder. This led to a degraded experience where updates took up to two minutes (the default CDN TTL) to become visible to readers, rather than the expected under-one-minute refresh.

What you should know:

  • This issue affected only Page content updates. Changes published for Templates do not trigger automatic CDN cache clears and continue to rely on TTL expiration to become visible to readers.

  • Sites configured with longer Page CDN TTLs than the 2 minute default (something that is only done upon request), would have experienced longer delays, according to their specified CDN TTL.

  • Content changes triggered by publish events from Composer were not affected. Article pages and other content managed through Composer continued to update as expected.

  • All non-global content within blocks still follows standard PageBuilder cache behavior.

For more information, see Caching at Arc XP and Content Freshness.

Users affected

All customers

Action required

None

The week of April 21

Production

Content Search 2.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 21, 2025 to Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Release summary

This release streamlines the content search experience on the back end. You shouldn’t notice any change in behavior.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Video Center 1.120.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates to Live Video in Video Center:

  • Website Selection - You can now successfully select a website when creating or editing a Live graphic template.

  • Search Results Update - The Live event search results now update accurately when you modify the event’s start or end time.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

None

Themes 2.6.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, April 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28, 2025 (was previously Thursday, April 24, 2025)

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Top Table List block - Media for small and extra large promos now display the appropriate video or gallery icon.

  • Gallery block - Captions no longer cut off while scrolling through a gallery.

  • Card List block - Added protections against undefined or null values on the offset override in PageBuilder Editor to prevent an error where the block doesn't display content.

Users affected

Developers, PageBuilder Editor users

Action required

When you're ready to deploy these updates, set the 2.6.0 version in your bundle's blocks.json, or select the version in Themes Settings.

Sandbox

WebSked Stats update

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 21 to Wednesday, April 23, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28 to Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Release summary

This release streamlines the stats experience on the back end. You should not notice any changes.

Users affected

None

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, April 23, 2025

  • Production - delayed; date not yet available (was previously Wednesday, April 30, 2025)

Release summary

This release introduces a feature that enables Arc XP to monitor the user of unexpected data and/or unexpected field values in API DSL queries, helping to ensure system security and stability.

This update is similar to the change released on April 7 and is intended for internal Arc XP monitoring purposes only.

Users affected

None

Action required

None

Composer 2.6
Circulation Selector - beta announcement

Hotfixes

WebSked 4.111.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Release summary

The second page of results in calendar view now loads appropriately. Previously, when there were exactly two pages, the second page did not load.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Composer 2.5.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, April 17, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of issues found in the Sandbox release of Composer 2.0, including: 

  • You can now update the featured photo thumbnail on older stories.

  • You can now modify text in manually added options in Kickers and Labels without having to remove the value and start again.

    Note

    To commit the change, you must press Enter or Add value in the field.

  • Pressing Delete in Suggest mode now correctly works by deleting forward instead of backwards as if you pressed the Backspace button.

  • ISSUU social embeds are now working again in V2.

  • Typing three slashes (/) not sequentially in a row no longer triggers the Suggest Mode keyboard shortcut

  • You can now open and edit all stories in V2, regardless of how old the story is

  • The Keyboard shortcut for Notes (CMD/CTRL + Option/Alt + N) has been added to the Keyboard Shortcuts list in Composer stories.

  • The underline highlighting styles in Composer V2 now correctly match what was in V1 and no longer causes conflicts.

  • Using the Delete key on text with a comment now fully removes the comment if all text is deleted as Backspace did.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

The week of April 14

Production

Author Service 1.24.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 7, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 14, 2025

Release summary

This release includes improvements to the propagation of Author Service updates, ensuring that the update date is correctly set for downstream services. It also includes an update to the metrics used for monitoring the application

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 7, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 14, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces a feature to allow Arc XP to monitor the usage of unexpected parameters and/or unexpected parameter values in API requests to ensure system security and stability.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 8, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Release summary

This release improves the logic that prevents documents from being left in an incorrect state due to closely timed updates (race conditions), and also includes an update to the metrics used for monitoring the application.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Sandbox

Video Center 1.120.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates to Live Video in Video Center:

  • Website Selection - You can now successfully select a website when creating or editing a Live graphic template.

  • Search Results Update - The Live event search results now update accurately when you modify the event’s start or end time.

Users affected

Video Center users

Action required

None

PageBuilder Engine 6.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28, 2025

Release summary

PageBuilder Engine 6.0 introduces support for the Node.js 20 runtime, which ensures compatibility with the latest technologies while enhancing performance and security. There are no other functional or breaking changes for PageBuilder Engine or Arc XP blocks for bundles already running on Engine 5.0.

To plan your migration to PageBuilder Engine 6.0, see Migration from PageBuilder Engine 5.x and 6.x.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

AWS Node 18 runtime support and PageBuilder Engine 5.0 will be deprecated on September 30, 2025. To continue deploying changes in Arc XP environments beyond this date, you must upgrade to Engine 6.0.

See PageBuilder Engine 5.x and Themes 2.x deprecation.

Content Search 2.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 21, 2025 to Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Release summary

This release streamlines the content search experience on the back end. You shouldn’t notice any change in behavior.

Users affected

WebSked users

Action required

None

Hotfixes

Subscriptions 1.93.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 8, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Release summary

We’ve updated the error message that appears when a login session extension fails due to the number of devices already signed in to an account. This can occur when a user is logged in on multiple devices or is sharing their account with others. You can use this message to guide users toward upgrading to Friends and Family packages.

Now, when a request to POST /identity/public/v1/auth/login or /identity/public/v1/auth/token fails because the account has reached its maximum number of devices, error code 100013 is returned.

If the user then successfully authenticates on the device that triggered the error message, the oldest active session will fail to refresh.

Users affected

Identity developers

Action required

To configure the active session limit and this error message, see Active Sessions.

Composer 2.5.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, April 10, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of issues found in the Sandbox release of Composer 2.0, including: 

  • Hyperlinks have been refactored to work more effectively

    • You can now apply changes to your hyperlinks without losing your work by clicking a new Apply button when creating hyperlinks to save your changes. Pressing Enter also still applies changes you make, but we’ve added a button to ensure that all changes are adequately reflected.

    • Text formatting (bold, italics, etc.) and inserting hyperlinks no longer causes conflicts, links to disappear, or text to rearrange in intermittent ways.

    • Hyperlinks no longer get created before you finish typing your link.

  • You can now display kickers and labels either in the order you create them or by alphabetical order. You can update this in Composer Settings > ANS meta field configuration > Kickers and Labels > the Planning or Metadata Section > Click the gear icon > select Display in Alphabetical order. When not selected, the system groups kickers and labels how you ordered them in Settings.

  • You can now select text in a comment and replace it completely without it removing the comment.

  • Links are now not required in order to create a link list as they were in V1, allowing you to pre-fill out link lists ahead of time.

  • Composer's WebSked integration has been upgraded to address pitching issues that were occurring.

  • The Save + Exit button is now working again.

  • When you change the workflow status on your story, you can now save the change successfully.

  • After replacing a word, the find and replace function no longer jumps to the first word in the list of instances.

  • Single-quote marks in conjunction with double quotes now turn the correct direction.

  • Errors no longer occur when dragging social URL embeds from the clipboard into the body of a story.

  • CMD/CTRL + OPT + N without selecting text now correctly allows you to start typing an Inline Note from scratch.

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

The week of April 7

Production

No Production releases this week

Sandbox

Author Service 1.24.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 7, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 14, 2025

Release summary

This release includes improvements to the propagation of Author Service updates, ensuring that the update date is correctly set for downstream services. It also includes an update to the metrics used for monitoring the application

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 7, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 14, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces a feature to allow Arc XP to monitor the usage of unexpected parameters and/or unexpected parameter values in API requests to ensure system security and stability.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 8, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Release summary

This release improves the logic that prevents documents from being left in an incorrect state due to closely timed updates (race conditions), and also includes an update to the metrics used for monitoring the application.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Themes 2.6.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, April 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 28, 2025 (was previously Thursday, April 24, 2025)

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • Top Table List block - Media for small and extra large promos now display the appropriate video or gallery icon.

  • Gallery block - Captions no longer cut off while scrolling through a gallery.

  • Card List block - Added protections against undefined or null values on the offset override in PageBuilder Editor to prevent an error where the block doesn't display content.

Users affected

Developers, PageBuilder Editor users

Action required

When you're ready to deploy these updates, set the 2.6.0 version in your bundle's blocks.json, or select the version in Themes Settings.

Hotfixes

Subscriptions 1.93.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, April 2, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, April 3, 2025

Release summary

You can now build a one-time access link workflow using the Identity SDK without need a token when CAPTCHA is disabled.

Users affected

Identity Developers

Action required

Upgrade @arc-publishing/sdk-identity to version 1.93.0 to make use of this fix.

Composer 2.5.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, April 3, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Release summary

This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including

  • Circulations no longer intermittently disappear on publish

  • Find and replace no longer ignores text in lists

  • On smaller screen sizes, including mobile, featured media and WebSked pitches no longer extend off the screen, and you can now use them as expected

  • The width of Power Up modals are resized to not take up as much real estate on the screen

  • Upper quotations no longer transform to lower quotations in some languages

  • Use CMD+K to insert hyperlinks now automatically placers the curse in the link field

Users affected

Composer users

Action required

None

 

For previous release notes, see What's New in Arc XP.

What's New in Platform Tools

Discover the latest updates to Arc XP's Platform Tools application.

Author API

Author API 1.18.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, June 29, 2023

  • Production - Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Release summary

  • This release fixes the issue where organizations that were migrated to stateful Draft API were experiencing the canonical API call failing.

  • Node.js version is upgraded from 12 to 16.

  • NPM version is upgraded from 6.14.16 to 8.19.3.

Users affected

Admins, Authors

Action required

None

Author Service

Author Service 1.24.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 7, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 14, 2025

Release summary

This release includes improvements to the propagation of Author Service updates, ensuring that the update date is correctly set for downstream services. It also includes an update to the metrics used for monitoring the application

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Author Service 1.22.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, January 7, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Release summary

This release updates the internal libraries the application uses to connect to its back-end datastore. There are no changes to the application, and no disruptions are expected

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Author Service 1.22.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 27, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, August 29, 2024

Release summary

The Author API now returns a CloudFront distribution link for authors' images, enabling faster image retrieval.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Author Service 1.20.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, March 4, 2024

  • Production - Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Release summary

Author Service now supports Portuguese (Brazil) and defaults to Portuguese (Brazil) instead of Portuguese (Portugal) when the default language is set to Portuguese. 

Users affected

All users

Action required

None

Author Service 1.20

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, February 20, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Release summary

We're excited to announce an update to our Author service Kafka-Kinesis-Mirror (KKM) stream. Now, developers can seamlessly account for author deletions with a new event specifically tailored to track author deletions on Arc XP. 

  • This event is automatically triggers when an author is deleted, whether it's through the Authors application UI or the Authors API.

  • If you're already receiving author events through the Arc XP KKM data service, with this release, you now automatically receive delete events without any extra effort on your end. 

  • The event message payload is structured to match the format of author create and update events to ensure a smooth and effortless integration process for developers.

Sample Author Delete Event Message

{
   "type":"author-service",
   "operation":"delete",
   "date":"2024-02-08T23:49:47+00:00",
   "id":"testDeleteUser",
   "body":{
      "_id":"testDeleteUser",
      "type":"author",
      "version":"0.5.8",
      ...
      "additional_properties":{
         "original":{
            ...
         }
      }
   }
}

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Content API - September 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, September 29, 2025

  • Production - Monday, October 6, 2025

Release summary

This update includes adjustments to internal configuration for connecting to the Collections API during recovery scenarios. These changes are purely internal and do not affect the API's functionality or behavior.

Users affected

All

Action required

None

Content API - June 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - Monday, June 16, 2025

Release summary

This version contains a minor refactoring on the logic to filter restricted fields, there are no changes to the current features.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - June 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Release summary

This release updates some of the internal logic used to monitor and log API metrics. It also updates the logic for tracking unexpected field values (used internally by Arc XP to monitor usage). There are no changes to the current API features.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, April 23, 2025

  • Production - delayed; date not yet available (was previously Wednesday, April 30, 2025)

Release summary

This release introduces a feature that enables Arc XP to monitor the user of unexpected data and/or unexpected field values in API DSL queries, helping to ensure system security and stability.

This update is similar to the change released on April 7 and is intended for internal Arc XP monitoring purposes only.

Users affected

None

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 7, 2025

  • Production - Monday, April 14, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces a feature to allow Arc XP to monitor the usage of unexpected parameters and/or unexpected parameter values in API requests to ensure system security and stability.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 8, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Release summary

This release improves the logic that prevents documents from being left in an incorrect state due to closely timed updates (race conditions), and also includes an update to the metrics used for monitoring the application.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, March 18, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Release summary

This release includes an internal change in the logic to maintain restrictions logic availability.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - February 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, February 24, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, February 12, 2025)

  • Production - Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (was previously Monday, March 3, 2025)

Release summary

The following fields are removed from a number of Content API responses:

  • inline_comments

  • planning (excluding story_length.*_actual)

  • workflow.note

  • additional_properties.comments

  • additional_properties.clipboard

  • additional_properties.firstPublishedBy

  • additional_properties.lastPublishedBy

  • additional_properties.owner

  • revision.user_id

It is no longer necessary for you to continue filtering these fields in the relevant content sources. Editorial fields remain in the /scan endpoint as well as KKM messages.

This release also includes updates to the internal libraries the application uses to connect to its back-end datastore. No changes are occurring with the application, and no disruptions are expected due to this update.

Note

The deprecation of these fields occurred on February 3, 2025. See Content API editorial fields deprecation notice.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

If you have a print integration, check if any of these editorial fields are transferred from Arc XP into your print CMS and used by the print production teams. If any of these fields are in use, you must update the integration to use the Content API /scan endpoint or connect with Draft API directly for editorial fields.

Content API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, January 27, 2025

  • Production - Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Release summary

This release updates the underlying infrastructure supporting the application, requiring less maintenance and enabling faster response times and improved adaptability to usage spikes.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - January 2025

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, January 7, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Release summary

The service's deployment configuration is updated to improve overall stability. There are no changes to the API or the code, and no disruption is expected.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - December 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, December 17, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, December 19, 2024

Release summary

This is a maintenance release with minor performance optimizations for /scan, /collections, and /count/tags endpoints. No major change expected.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - December 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, December 3, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, December 5, 2024

Release summary

This is a maintenance release with minor performance optimizations for search requests. No major change expected.

Users affected

Developers

Action required 

None

Content API - December 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, November 26, 2024

  • Production - Monday, December 2, 2024

Release summary

This release enhances the logic for deleting documents in Content API and improves logging. It also includes an upgrade to the version of the Facebook Graph API used for denormalizing oEmbeds.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - November 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, November 11, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, November 14, 2024

Release summary

This release improves how Content API stores and updates internal fields used by editorial applications. 

Users affected

None

Action required

None

Content API - October 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, October 22, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Release summary

This release upgrades the code version that Content API is running, as well as the memory configuration for the service.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - October 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, October 1, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, October 3, 2024

Release summary

This release allows customers who are using Clavis v3 to search content in Content API using indexed taxonomy fields.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - September 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 27, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Release summary

This update enhances how the Content API handles redirects. Now, it batches updates to older redirects, ensuring they are successfully saved and point to the latest URLs.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Developers

Content API - August 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, August 21, 2024

  • Production - Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Release summary

This release enhances Arc XP's monitoring capabilities and upgrades to the search engine for Content API. 

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - June 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 18, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Release summary

This release fixes an issue with removing duplicates from search results in a multi-lingual Arc XP environment. The change operates behind the scenes and does not affect the user interface or experience. Additionally, this release includes performance improvements in the background processing of Content API stories in some edge cases. 

Users affected

Developers, Editors

Action required

None

Content API - June 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 4, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Release summary

This release contains performance enhancements.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - May 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, May 20, 2024 

  • Production - Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Release summary

This release contains routine maintenance with no impact expected. 

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - May 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, May 20, 2024

  • Production - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Release summary

Duplicate items are no longer returned in multi-site search results. 

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - April 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, April 29, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, May 2, 2024

Release summary

A filter now exists to remove internal website section data that isn't necessary for webpage rendering. This resolves the issue where this internal data was briefly visible in certain instances.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - April 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, April 9, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, April 11, 2024

Release summary

We're updating Content API with more of the changes we've been working on for better resource utilization. No customer impact is expected.

This release also removes three remaining editorial fields from Content API responses by default as well as adding a non-editorial field back into Content API responses. This change affects only clients that are opted in to the removal of these fields. If you’re interested in opting in, contact Arc XP Customer Support. 

Removed:

  • additional_properties.firstPublishedBy

  • additional_properties.lastPublishedBy

  • additional_properties.owner

Added:

  • story_length.*_actual

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - February 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, February 6, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, February 8, 2024

Release summary

This release updates Content API's search engine to facilitate better support for multi-language requirements in the future. 

Users affected

Editorial Users

Action required

None

Content API - January 2024

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, January 16, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Release summary

This release of Content API improves handling of redirects by reducing the number of operations needed to update stories with a large number of redirects. No customer impact is expected.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - November 2023

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, November 15, 2023

  • Production - Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Release summary

This release updates the underlying logic to store documents and forward the operation messages to our event stream. You should not notice any changes; however, if you experience issues (behavior change with IFX integrations or Kinesis streams for example), contact Arc XP Customer Support.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Content API - October 2023

Release dates

  • Sandbox & Production - Monday, October 16, 2023

Release summary

Content API and Tags API no longer accept HTTP GET requests with bodies. Although this functionality has never been supported or documented for these APIs, there have been instances where incoming HTTP requests contained content inside the request body. Until now, Content and Tags API accepted HTTP GET requests, which goes against HTTP specifications and could potentially introduce security vulnerabilities in the Arc XP platform.

Following this security update, clients that initiate GET requests that include a request body will be rejected with an HTTP 403 Forbidden response code.

We expect the impact to be minimal because the request body that is included in a GET request is never processed by Content and Tags API in the first place. The APIs function by parsing the information passed through the query parameters only, as is described in the API documentation. However, you must remove GET requests from the body in order to have your GET requests succeed going forward.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

If you issue GET requests to Content or Tags API, you must update your code to not include any content in the request body.

No other actions are required at this time as all other request parameters remain unchanged. See our API documentation for more details.

Content Search API

Content Search API 2.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 23, 2024

  • Production - January 13-24, 2025

Release Summary

Starting Monday, January 13 in Production, the WebSked team is releasing updates to WebSked’s internal Content Search engine API. This should have no impact on you or your users. However, because this API serves many of the pages in WebSked, the team is releasing the updates on a rolling basis.

From January 13 through January 24, the WebSked team is releasing the updates to only a handful of customer Production environments each day. If you want to know the exact date when the team is updating your Sandbox, contact Arc XP Customer Support, who can share that date with you.

Feel free to test WebSked’s Planning pages in Sandbox to confirm that no disruption appears in your search results.

Users affected

None

Action required

None

Delivery API

Delivery API 1.30.7

Web Delivery API 1.30.7

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Release summary

This update resolves an issue that caused delayed CDN propagation of PageBuilder Editor changes to Pages. You can now expect updates made to Pages in PageBuilder Editor to become visible to your readers in under one minute.

What happened:

A Delivery API patch deployed on November 25, 2024 introduced a new security requirement between cache-clearing sub-services. As a result, updates made to Pages in PageBuilder Editor (like changing a value of a custom field) did not trigger the normal automated CDN cache clearing. Instead, changes to the affected pages became visible only when their CDN time-to-live (TTL) expired and a new copy was fetched from Page Builder. This led to a degraded experience where updates took up to two minutes (the default CDN TTL) to become visible to readers, rather than the expected under-one-minute refresh.

What you should know:

  • This issue affected only Page content updates. Changes published for Templates do not trigger automatic CDN cache clears and continue to rely on TTL expiration to become visible to readers.

  • Sites configured with longer Page CDN TTLs than the 2 minute default (something that is only done upon request), would have experienced longer delays, according to their specified CDN TTL.

  • Content changes triggered by publish events from Composer were not affected. Article pages and other content managed through Composer continued to update as expected.

  • All non-global content within blocks still follows standard PageBuilder cache behavior.

For more information, see Caching at Arc XP and Content Freshness.

Users affected

All customers

Action required

None

Delivery API 1.3.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, November 6, 2023

  • Production - Monday, November 13, 2023 to Friday, February 2, 2024

Release summary

This release includes the following changes:

  • x-arc-request-id Header support: you can now use the x-arc-request-id header to enhance debugging capabilities.

  • API Template Deployment: We're deploying an API template to prepare for potential future launches of headless offerings.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Draft API

Draft API 1.56

Release dates

  • Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 3, 2025

Release summary

This release includes the following updates: 

  • The metadata_only query parameter is now a part of the /draft/v1/story/{id}/revision endpoint. If set to true, the response includes only limited data about the revisions, not the full ANS document. This is useful for quickly retrieving a list of revisions without fetching the full content.

  • Draft API now includes a new endpoint: PUT /draft/v1/story/{id}/revision/revert/{revision_id}. This endpoint creates a new draft Revision from the given revision ID for the Document specified by type and id. This operation does not affect the current published Revision.

    • This API returns the new draft Revision.

    • This is a mutating endpoint and supports locking.

    • This is similar to the PUT /draft/v1/story/{id}/revision/revert endpoint. The main difference being that, instead of reverting the Draft revision to the current Published revision, you can choose a particular revision as the source.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Draft API 1.49.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, July 24, 2024

  • Production - Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Release summary

This update improves the performance of Draft API when circulating documents. 

Users affected

Developers, editors

Action required

None

Draft API 1.48.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, June 26, 2024

  • Production - Monday, July 8, 2024 (was previously Wednesday, July 3, 2024)

Release summary

This update improves how the Draft API handles ANS versions. Now, the Draft API automatically updates older documents to the latest ANS version, ensuring they save successfully and stay up-to-date with the latest schema.

Bug fixes

This update also includes some important bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where, for some customers, Draft API responses included an additional field in the revision object, resulting in invalid ANS.

  • Fixed an issue where Draft API did not respect collision behavior increment when a URL is in use by a redirect.

Users affected

Developers, Editors

Action required

None

Draft API 1.47.5

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, May 30, 2024 (was previously Tuesday, May 28)

  • Production - Monday, June 3, 2024 (was previously Thursday, May 30)

Release summary

Performance enhancements

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Draft API 1.47.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, May 16, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, May 23, 2024

Release summary

This release enhances Arc XP's monitoring capabilities for Draft API. You shouldn't notice any impact from these changes.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Draft API 1.45.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, January 17, 2024

  • Production - Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Release summary

The Draft API now lets users create document redirects from uncirculated URLs with the document redirect endpoint. This change supports some legacy workflows that have not transitioned to the vanity redirect endpoint. To learn more about redirects in Arc XP, see What are the different kinds of redirects in Arc XP?.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Draft API

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, October 16, 2023

  • Production - Monday, October 30, 2023

Release summary

In this update to Draft API, calls to the /draft/v1/{type}/{id}/revision endpoint return all story fields for each revision. Previously, the response contained only a subset of story fields for each revision.  

Developers should be aware of these non-breaking changes to the API and be informed that the updates are rolling out individually to customers over the next several months. We will notify you before the change is enabled in your Sandbox or Production environments.

Overview of New Functionality

The /draft/v1/{type}/{id}/revision endpoint returns all story fields for each revision, nested under the ans parent field.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Draft API - Arc-Priority HTTP Header

January 24, 2023 -- This update has been canceled. Thanks to feedback from customers, Arc XP will not move forward with this update and has identified another path to manage pressure on the cache clear queue.

Release dates

  • Sandbox: Tuesday, January 17 between 8:00 am to 7:00 pm Eastern Time

  • Production: Canceled Tuesday, January 31 between 8:00 am to 7:00 pm Eastern Time

Bug fix summary

Arc XP fixed a bug where publish events with no priority were incorrectly categorized to the standard publish queue. This miscategorization occurred when the integrating application did not specify an Arc-Priority header, and the fallback was set to 'standard' instead of 'ingestion'.

Note

Content in the 'ingestion' lane is not sent to WebSked and is, therefore, not available to be added to Collections.

For context, the Draft API offers two lanes of updates: standard and ingestion. Segmenting historical content allows Arc XP to ensure that live content authored in Composer is always treated with the upmost urgency. This is particularly important for publishing updates and clearing the caches so that your readers have quick access to the latest content.

Applying the incorrect priority to your content can cause stale content. This bug fix protects you from stale cache clear behavior that can occur if the system is overloaded with 'standard' updates. Arc XP reserves the right to disable an integration abusing the standard priority lane.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Action is required if you use an external CMS to produce live content where publish time and prompt cache clearing are important. In this scenario, you must update the integration to include the Arc-Priority HTTP header with the value of 'standard'.

Draft API 1.0

The Arc XP team is excited to announce updates to Arc XP’s core content authoring service, the Draft API.

The Draft API has been part of the Arc XP architecture since 2021, but some of the legacy infrastructure was in use to streamline the customer migration. Now, we’re in the process of removing the legacy services and fully relying on the modernized content publishing engine that will serve as the foundation of Arc XP’s next chapter.

To facilitate this upgrade, customers who have been on the Arc XP platform for more than a year are being migrated to the new infrastructure. This change is intended to be completely seamless and will not have an impact on your user experience within Composer or the available Draft APIs.

As we complete this migration, we can turn our focus to enabling new capabilities that help you accelerate your digital transformation and create compelling content at scale.

Previously, our communications mentioned terms such as “Stateless” and “Stateful.” Feedback from customers let us know that this terminology was confusing and didn’t enhance your understanding of how the Arc XP platform was being upgraded. Going forward, we are dropping these terms and focusing our attention on getting all customers onto the updated Content Platform and delivering the new capabilities that this platform enables. 

Site Service API

Site Service API 3.18.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, January 28, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (was previously Monday, February 24, 2025)

Release summary

This release updates the internal libraries the application uses to connect to its back-end datastore. There are no changes to the application, and no disruptions are expected.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Site Service API 3.18.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, January 7, 2025

  • Production - Thursday, January 9, 2025

Release summary

The service's deployment configuration is updated to improve overall stability. There are no changes to the API or the code, and no disruption is expected.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Site Service API 3.13.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, March 26, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, March 28, 2024

Release summary

We're excited to announce an update to our Site Service Kafka-Kinesis-Mirror (KKM) stream. Developers can now seamlessly track when a new website is created, updated, or deleted through a new notification message tailored specifically for each of these events on Arc XP.

These messages are automatically triggered whenever these operations occur through the Sites UI in Arc XP or using the Sites API. If you're interested in receiving these messages through the Arc XP KKM data service, you can request access by contacting Arc XP Customer Support.

For your reference, here are the message payloads:

Website created

{
  "type":"site-service",
  "operation":"insert",
  "id":"site_id",
  "organization_id":"org_id",
  "date":"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ"
}

Website updated

{
  "type":"site-service",
  "operation":"update",
  "id":"site_id",
  "organization_id":"org_id",
  "date":"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ"
}

Website deleted

{
  "type":"site-service",
  "operation":"delete",
  "id":"site_id",
  "organization_id":"org_id",
  "date":"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ",
}

This update aims to streamline website management and enhance developers' ability to monitor site-related activities effectively.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Site Service API 3.13.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Wednesday, February 28, 2024

  • Production - Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Release summary

This release includes an updated logging system for the Site Service API back end. This update applies to all customer environments without causing any service interruptions or planned downtime.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

Site Service API 3.9.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, August 1, 2023

  • Production - Monday, August 7, 2023

Release summary

Users reported that newly created fields of type slug, under Fields, were being treated as “Required” when they were marked as “Default”. In other words, if a new “slug” field was created using the “Create a new field” form and marked as a default field, the field appeared in Sites as a required field (marked in red) even in cases when the “Required Field” setting was not opted in during field creation. 

The fix resolves this behavior by not making default fields, required unless they were explicitly marked as “Required” when being created using the “Create a new field” form under Fields.

Users affected

Developers and publishers

Action required

None

View API

View API 1.6

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Thursday, August 14, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Release summary

This release introduces a new field, additional_properties, in the response payload of all endpoints.

This enhancement provides more contextual metadata and flexibility for downstream consumers of the API.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

View API 1.5

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Monday, July 21, 2025

  • Production - no Production release. This functionality exists only in Sandbox.

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in View API responses when using the include and exclude parameters to single document endpoints.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

View API 1.4

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025

  • Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Release summary

This release fixes a bug in the /collections endpoint of View API. Now, the data returned is the same regardless of the number of elements requested.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

View API 1.3

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • Production - to be announced

    Note

    The include and exclude functionality in View API is available in Sandbox only. We will release it to Production in a future update.

Release summary

View API now allows you to include or exclude specific ANS fields, reducing the payload size of each API call and improving performance. Responses are smaller and the processing logic in client-side code becomes simpler and faster.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

View API 1.2

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 25, 2024

  • Production - Thursday, June 27, 2024

Release summary

The View API is being updated to remove all editorial fields, similar to the recent announcement for the Content API: Content API editorial fields deprecation notice. 

The following fields will be removed from all View API responses:

  • inline_comments

  • planning (excluding story_length.*_actual)

  • workflow.note

  • additional_properties.comments

  • additional_properties.clipboard

  • revision.user_id

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

View API 1.1

Release dates

  • Sandbox - Tuesday, June 4, 2024

  • Production - Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Release summary

Referent updates

The initial release of the View API included proactive cache clearing based on cache-tags for the top-level story object, such as a story. For example, the cache for a specific Collection would be dropped when any of the top stories in the Collection were published. 

With this release, View API proactively clears the cache following most referent content updates including:

  • Update or delete an image or gallery in Photo Center 

  • Update or delete a video in Video Center 

  • Update or delete an author in Author Service 

  • Update or delete a story in Content API 

  • Update event triggered for a story based on an update to image, gallery, video, author 

The following events do NOT trigger referent updates:

  • Updating or deleting a section within the Site service 

  • Updating or deleting a site within the Site service

  • Update an image in a gallery when only the gallery is the referent to the story

For example:

  • If you fetch an article by ID, the system caches the response. 

  • If you republish the article, the system drops the case (this behavior existed in View API 1.0)

  • If you update the caption in Photo Center of an image that exists within the body of the article, the systems drops the cache for that article (this is a new behavior).

Users affected

Developers

Action required

None

View API 1.0

Release dates

  • Sandbox (beta) - Monday, February 12, 2024

  • Production (generally available) - Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Release summary

Arc XP is excited to announce that the View API is now generally available, following a successful beta program. Thanks to all the customers who participated and provided feedback. We’ve made updates, plotted a roadmap based on that feedback, and are now ready to share the View API with the wider world. 

Contact your Technical Account Manager to get started with the View API.

View API is a read-only API that delivers content to the web, mobile, and other digital properties using Arc XP as a headless CMS solution. Having an easy-to-use API for content retrieval allows you to easily pull content into any platform or application, empowering you with the flexibility and scalability you need to grow your business and adapt to the ever-changing technology landscape. 

View API is a REST API and is available through a scalable and resilient Arc XP delivery layer, minimizing latency and improving content availability.

Key Capabilities

  • Multi-Channel Delivery - Easily reuse content that you created and stored in Arc XP across multiple digital platforms, which reduces redundancy and saves development time

  • Caching - View API offers integrated and proactive cache clearing, making content updates available in real-time through Arc XP’s delivery layer

  • Collections - Retrieve organized, curated lists of content created in WebSked

  • Content Filtering - View API supports content filtering by tags, sections, dates, collections, and more.

  • Pagination and Sorting - Paginate through results and sort content to make working with large datasets easier

Key Benefits

  • Content Reusability - Easily reuse content across various digital platforms, making it easier to create, manage, and distribute content

  • Faster Time-to-Market - View API is an industry-standard REST API that developers can pick up and easily interact with, reducing development effort and time-to-market

  • Flexibility - Freedom to choose the technology stack that best suits your project needs

  • Future-proofing - View API enables you to adopt emerging technologies and digital interfaces

Ideal Use Cases

  • Headless clients - Integrate with Arc XP’s headless offering by interacting with a well-documented, standardized API, decreasing development lift by eliminating the need to build new infrastructure and providing a quicker path to market.

  • Hybrid clients - PageBuilder customers can use View API to add new headless (non-PageBuilder) experiences, without building new infrastructure.

Users affected

Developers

Action required

Contact your Technical Account Manager to get started with the View API.

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