What's New in Arc XP
Discover the latest updates to your favorite Arc XP applications.
May
Production
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
Sandbox
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.
Production
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
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
Production
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
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
Production
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 Arc XP Customer Support.
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, April 24, 2025
Production - Thursday, May 8, 2025
Release summary
Exciting Opportunity: Join our Beta Program for the new Circulation Selector!
We’re excited to invite you to join the beta program for the redesigned Circulation Selector in Composer. This is your chance to get early access to the updated experience and help shape its future with your feedback.
The refreshed interface includes streamlined panes for faster site and section selection, the ability to display sections by name or path, and an overall improved user flow. These enhancements are based on direct feedback from the Ideas Portal and user sessions, and we think you’ll love the difference they make!
See Composer circulation selector 3.0.
Note
After the feature is approved during the Sandbox phase, you can choose who should have access in Production.
You can limit access to specific users or groups—just let us know who you’d like to include, and we’ll enable the feature accordingly. This approach can help manage feedback and reduce the volume of support questions during roll-out.
How to participate
We'd love to have you on board. Here's how you can get involved:
Your input is essential. We’ll reach out during the beta period to hear your thoughts, but you’re also welcome to share feedback anytime through your Technical Account Manager.
Your feedback helps shape the final version of Circulation Selector, and we’re excited to partner with you in this process. If you’re interested in participating, just let us know, and we’ll send over everything you need to get started.
We can’t wait to hear what you think!
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
Contact your Technical Account Manager to receive access to the beta. If you'd like to define access for the Production release, specify which users you'd like included.
Sandbox
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
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
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
Production
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.
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
nullvalues 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.
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
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
Hotfixes
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
Production
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
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
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
nullvalues 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
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
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, April 24, 2025
Production - Thursday, May 8, 2025
Release summary
Exciting Opportunity: Join our Beta Program for the new Circulation Selector!
We’re excited to invite you to join the beta program for the redesigned Circulation Selector in Composer. This is your chance to get early access to the updated experience and help shape its future with your feedback.
The refreshed interface includes streamlined panes for faster site and section selection, the ability to display sections by name or path, and an overall improved user flow. These enhancements are based on direct feedback from the Ideas Portal and user sessions, and we think you’ll love the difference they make!
See Composer circulation selector 3.0.
Note
After the feature is approved during the Sandbox phase, you can choose who should have access in Production.
You can limit access to specific users or groups—just let us know who you’d like to include, and we’ll enable the feature accordingly. This approach can help manage feedback and reduce the volume of support questions during roll-out.
How to participate
We'd love to have you on board. Here's how you can get involved:
Your input is essential. We’ll reach out during the beta period to hear your thoughts, but you’re also welcome to share feedback anytime through your Technical Account Manager.
Your feedback helps shape the final version of Circulation Selector, and we’re excited to partner with you in this process. If you’re interested in participating, just let us know, and we’ll send over everything you need to get started.
We can’t wait to hear what you think!
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
Contact your Technical Account Manager to receive access to the beta. If you'd like to define access for the Production release, specify which users you'd like included.
Hotfixes
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
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 shortcutYou 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
Production
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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 + Nwithout selecting text now correctly allows you to start typing an Inline Note from scratch.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Production
No Production releases this week
Sandbox
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
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
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
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
nullvalues 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
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.
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
March
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, March 10 to Monday, March 31, 2025 (open beta)
Production - Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Release summary
Our Open Beta of SSAI is here!
We’re thrilled to announce the open beta of Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)! This is your chance to explore and test our latest features in a free Sandbox environment before we release to Production. Here's how the beta works:
Join the beta for free – Gain early access to SSAI features in your Sandbox environment at no cost. Contact your Arc XP Customer Support to have the feature enabled.
Test, explore, and provide feedback – Help shape the final version with your insights.
Seamless transition to Production – When you're ready to go live, simply fill out an order form to continue using SSAI in Production.
Important
The Production version is available as a paid add-on post-beta.
About SSAI
We’ve enhanced our server-side ad insertion (SSAI) capabilities, allowing you to integrate high-quality ads into your video content automatically. Previously, our SSAI offering required you to submit videos with ad markers already intact. With this update, you can now manage SSAI dynamically using Google Ad Manager, integrating it with Video Center to stitch ads into your videos.
This enhancement lets you:
Automate SSAI by connecting your Google Ad Manager account to Video Center.
Streamline ad delivery with ad rules applied directly in Arc XP, eliminating manual ad marker placement.
Ensure a seamless viewing experience with server-stitched ads that play across all devices.
Improve monetization by reducing ad blocking and delivering personalized, targeted ads.
Availability: this feature is available as an open beta through March 31. To request access, contract Arc XP Customer Support.
For detailed setup instructions, see Managing server-side ad insertion (SSAI).
This release also contains the following bug fixes:
Users can now switch environments without issue.
When creating a new live event, the system now properly applies the default thumbnail set on live channel.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
To participate in the open beta for SSAI, you must contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Production - Wednesday, April 1, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following items:
WebP is now a supported file type in Photo Center.
Cropping or setting focal points on large images where Resizer V2 URLs were present in ANS now works as expected for all images regardless of size. If you requested a rollback due to the shifting crop or focal point, your images now have V2 URLs again.
Now, when Photo Center adds the
seo_filenameproperty to the resize URL, it separates it with a dash (-). For example,/resizer/v2/screenshot-MKGSWIHP7JMHTOYWRSDEYSY3Y4.png.Images with EXIF rotation set (like those taken by a smart phone) now show the correct dimensions when you upload them to Photo Center.
The date and corresponding day of the week are now aligned correctly in the calendar when you upload a photo.
In lightboxes, the date in the tooltip now accurately reflects the photo metadata dates.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Sandbox
No Sandbox releases this week.
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, March 27, 2025
Production - Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including
The system now correctly applies changes to URLs in hyperlinks.
Navigating to the Featured Media tab on some stories no longer results in an unexpected application error.
Print story is now available again to some users who had an unexpected permission issue that prevented it from being accessed.
Subtype is now no longer intermittently changing values on certain stories.
Pasting from Google Docs now respects paragraph breaks.
Inadvertent highlighted text is no longer intermittently occurring on stories.
Text is no longer garbled when using the Tansa grammar tool.
German umlaüts now display correctly in headline fields.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, March 17, 2025
Production - Monday, March 24, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following bug fixes to scenarios that occurred in specific scenarios:
WebSked no longer creates duplicate editions (scheduled instances of a publication) for a single timestamp
You can now schedule publications without receiving an erroneous error
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, March 13, 2025
Production - Tuesday, March 25, 2025 (was previously March 18)
Release summary
We’re excited to reintroduce Inline Notes (also known as Notes Mode) to enhance editorial workflows and complement Suggestion Mode. This update addresses functionality gaps and provides greater flexibility for internal discussions during the publishing process. Now, both Inline Notes and Suggestion Mode function as distinct features, giving you more control over collaboration and content refinement.
With this change, no content in Inline Notes and no changes made in Suggestion Mode appear in published stories. Inline Notes serve as internal comments, while changes made in Suggestion Mode are treated as draft content until someone explicitly accepts or rejects the change.
Note
Admins can enable Inline Notes in Composer 2.0 through Composer Settings. This setting is available until the end-of-life of Composer V1 on April 22. After that, Internal Notes will be a standard feature in Composer.
How Inline Notes work
Inline Notes function just as they did in Composer V1, ensuring notes remain invisible in published stories. Key features include:
Inline button for quick note creation - select text and add a note with a single click.
Keyboard shortcuts - easily create notes from selected text or start from scratch.
Auto-generated author tags - notes include the creator’s name, plus space for replies and discussions.
Clear visual distinctions - Inline Notes and Suggested content appear in different styles so you can easily distinguish them from one another.
How Suggestion Mode works
Suggestion Mode allows for content changes to be proposed without immediate publication. To be clear, changes you make in Suggestion Mode do not publish with your story until a user accepts the changes.
Suggested additions - added text appears only after a user accepts the change.
Suggested removals - text remains visible until a user explicitly accepts the removal.
Existing stories with suggestions
Stories with existing suggestions retain their status in Composer V2, with suggested adds and removals clearly marked.
Suggested removals are not backward-compatible between Composer V2 and V1, so you must be mindful when switching between versions to avoid unintended data loss. In-app warnings appear when this conflict occurs to help you manage your content.
If users choose to switch back to Composer V1, suggested adds appear as inline notes. If you save a story in Composer V1, the system converts and displays your inline notes from V1 as inline notes in Composer V2.
Suggested removals do not appear in Composer V1 and are if saved in Composer V1.
For more information, see Collaborating within Composer.
This release also addresses a number of issues in Composer V2, including:
The left panel now does not break when double clicking.
Curly apostrophes no longer occasionally appear backward.
When a user requests a takeover, now only the person actively editing the story receives the takeover request notification.
The hide photographer and hide credit buttons are now available again when overriding metadata on content in stories.
Users no longer must close and open the story when creating a photo request before opening a lightbox.
When scheduling stories, a leading zero no longer appears before 10, 11, and 12 hour markers.
The Clear formatting button now also clears hyperlinks.
You can now edit all Power Ups as expected.
Smart quotes now successfully convert when working in conjunction with special characters.
You can now again render a preview of your HTML elements that are set as Featured Media.
Find and replace now recognizes instances of words that occur in lists.
Circulations no longer display as blank when they are not blank.
Copying and pasting links from Google Docs no longer result in double underlines appearing.
Having a story open in multiple tabs when a takeover request occurs no longer causes lost data.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
Be aware of the functionality differences between Composer V1 and V2. See the Existing stories with suggestions section above.
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Release summary
A new set of public, end-user-facing APIs gives you more flexibility when managing subscriptions changes. These new options allow you to:
Adjust a user's entitlement product when upgrading or downgrading.
Modify renewal timing, including shifting from monthly to yearly billing.
Apply prorated charges and refunds for seamless transitions.
For more information, see User-facing APIs for subscription upgrades, downgrades, and renewal adjustments.
How this benefits your business
These updates make it easier to build, upgrade, and downgrade workflows that support your key business strategies, including:
Retaining customers by offering lower-priced subscriptions before cancellation.
Encouraging longer commitments by transitioning users to longer renewal periods.
Driving higher-value conversions by promoting feature-rich subscriptions tiers.
For more information, see Change price for subscription.
Users affected
Marketers and Developers
Action required
Use the APIs to build, upgrade, and save workflows on your site.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Production - Wednesday, April 1, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following items:
WebP is now a supported file type in Photo Center.
Cropping or setting focal points on large images where Resizer V2 URLs were present in ANS now works as expected for all images regardless of size. If you requested a rollback due to the shifting crop or focal point, your images now have V2 URLs again.
Now, when Photo Center adds the
seo_filenameproperty to the resize URL, it separates it with a dash (-). For example,/resizer/v2/screenshot-MKGSWIHP7JMHTOYWRSDEYSY3Y4.png.Images with EXIF rotation set (like those taken by a smart phone) now show the correct dimensions when you upload them to Photo Center.
The date and corresponding day of the week are now aligned correctly in the calendar when you upload a photo.
In lightboxes, the date in the tooltip now accurately reflects the photo metadata dates.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, March 17, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Release summary
This release contains small patches to dependencies and adds a new API to allow you to query the completion estimate and amount of time remaining for a content stream. These estimations are available only for existing supported ANS types and is not available to source content uploads at this time. For more information, see Migration Center API.
You can now programmatically send smaller batches of content query for a completion date and use that date to programmatically send more content. These estimations can help with projecting dates for planning and scheduling workloads and resources for migrations.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, March 13, 2025
Production - Thursday, March 20, 2025
Release summary
IFX is expanding its user interface! You can now view integration details and manage bundles more easily than ever. Simply click a button to upload new bundles for deployment or promote them to live.
Review this quick video for a demo of what's new:
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, March 17, 2025
Production - Monday, March 24, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following bug fixes to scenarios that occurred in specific scenarios:
WebSked no longer creates duplicate editions (scheduled instances of a publication) for a single timestamp
You can now schedule publications without receiving an erroneous error
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
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
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Monday, March 17, 2025
Release summary
We added improved handling for encoded SVGs.
The
pagebuilderURLmethod is now available for server-side renders in output-types.If you include styled components within the
outputType, the PageBuilder Editor preview now displays those styles correctly. Previously, those styles were excluded within Editor preview but appeared in the actual render (outside of PageBuilder Editor).Our PageBuilder Engine version policy will be enforced by March 31, 2025. After this date, only Engine 5.1.3 will be available for Deployments. Versions 5.0.5, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 will become unavailable in Deployer.
[Extended] Engine 5.0.7 will become unavailable on April 10, 2025.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
Our PageBuilder Engine version policy will be enforced by March 31, 2025. After this date, only Engine 5.1.3 will be available for Deployments. Versions 5.0.5, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 will become unavailable in Deployer.
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 24, 2025
Production -
Phase 2: Monday, March 10 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Phase 1: Monday, March 3 to Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Release summary
Phase 2: This release provides additional stability and security enhancements for WebSked.
Phase 1: This release improves the stability and security of WebSked.
Additionally, the assigned group within the task create and update form now works as expected.
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
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_commentsplanning(excludingstory_length.*_actual)workflow.noteadditional_properties.commentsadditional_properties.clipboardadditional_properties.firstPublishedByadditional_properties.lastPublishedByadditional_properties.ownerrevision.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.
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
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, March 10 to Monday, March 31, 2025 (open beta)
Production - Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Release summary
Our Open Beta of SSAI is here!
We’re thrilled to announce the open beta of Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)! This is your chance to explore and test our latest features in a free Sandbox environment before we release to Production. Here's how the beta works:
Join the beta for free – Gain early access to SSAI features in your Sandbox environment at no cost. Contact your Arc XP Customer Support to have the feature enabled.
Test, explore, and provide feedback – Help shape the final version with your insights.
Seamless transition to Production – When you're ready to go live, simply fill out an order form to continue using SSAI in Production.
Important
The Production version is available as a paid add-on post-beta.
About SSAI
We’ve enhanced our server-side ad insertion (SSAI) capabilities, allowing you to integrate high-quality ads into your video content automatically. Previously, our SSAI offering required you to submit videos with ad markers already intact. With this update, you can now manage SSAI dynamically using Google Ad Manager, integrating it with Video Center to stitch ads into your videos.
This enhancement lets you:
Automate SSAI by connecting your Google Ad Manager account to Video Center.
Streamline ad delivery with ad rules applied directly in Arc XP, eliminating manual ad marker placement.
Ensure a seamless viewing experience with server-stitched ads that play across all devices.
Improve monetization by reducing ad blocking and delivering personalized, targeted ads.
Availability: this feature is available as an open beta through March 31. To request access, contract Arc XP Customer Support.
For detailed setup instructions, see Managing server-side ad insertion (SSAI).
This release also contains the following bug fixes:
Users can now switch environments without issue.
When creating a new live event, the system now properly applies the default thumbnail set on live channel.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
To participate in the open beta for SSAI, you must contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Release summary
A new set of public, end-user-facing APIs gives you more flexibility when managing subscriptions changes. These new options allow you to:
Adjust a user's entitlement product when upgrading or downgrading.
Modify renewal timing, including shifting from monthly to yearly billing.
Apply prorated charges and refunds for seamless transitions.
For more information, see User-facing APIs for subscription upgrades, downgrades, and renewal adjustments.
How this benefits your business
These updates make it easier to build, upgrade, and downgrade workflows that support your key business strategies, including:
Retaining customers by offering lower-priced subscriptions before cancellation.
Encouraging longer commitments by transitioning users to longer renewal periods.
Driving higher-value conversions by promoting feature-rich subscriptions tiers.
For more information, see Change price for subscription.
Users affected
Marketers and Developers
Action required
Use the APIs to build, upgrade, and save workflows on your site.
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, March 13, 2025
Production - Tuesday, March 25, 2025 (was previously March 18)
Release summary
We’re excited to reintroduce Inline Notes (also known as Notes Mode) to enhance editorial workflows and complement Suggestion Mode. This update addresses functionality gaps and provides greater flexibility for internal discussions during the publishing process. Now, both Inline Notes and Suggestion Mode function as distinct features, giving you more control over collaboration and content refinement.
With this change, no content in Inline Notes and no changes made in Suggestion Mode appear in published stories. Inline Notes serve as internal comments, while changes made in Suggestion Mode are treated as draft content until someone explicitly accepts or rejects the change.
Note
Admins can enable Inline Notes in Composer 2.0 through Composer Settings. This setting is available until the end-of-life of Composer V1 on April 22. After that, Internal Notes will be a standard feature in Composer.
How Inline Notes work
Inline Notes function just as they did in Composer V1, ensuring notes remain invisible in published stories. Key features include:
Inline button for quick note creation - select text and add a note with a single click.
Keyboard shortcuts - easily create notes from selected text or start from scratch.
Auto-generated author tags - notes include the creator’s name, plus space for replies and discussions.
Clear visual distinctions - Inline Notes and Suggested content appear in different styles so you can easily distinguish them from one another.
How Suggestion Mode works
Suggestion Mode allows for content changes to be proposed without immediate publication. To be clear, changes you make in Suggestion Mode do not publish with your story until a user accepts the changes.
Suggested additions - added text appears only after a user accepts the change.
Suggested removals - text remains visible until a user explicitly accepts the removal.
Existing stories with suggestions
Stories with existing suggestions retain their status in Composer V2, with suggested adds and removals clearly marked.
Suggested removals are not backward-compatible between Composer V2 and V1, so you must be mindful when switching between versions to avoid unintended data loss. In-app warnings appear when this conflict occurs to help you manage your content.
If users choose to switch back to Composer V1, suggested adds appear as inline notes. If you save a story in Composer V1, the system converts and displays your inline notes from V1 as inline notes in Composer V2.
Suggested removals do not appear in Composer V1 and are if saved in Composer V1.
For more information, see Collaborating within Composer.
This release also addresses a number of issues in Composer V2, including:
The left panel now does not break when double clicking.
Curly apostrophes no longer occasionally appear backward.
When a user requests a takeover, now only the person actively editing the story receives the takeover request notification.
The hide photographer and hide credit buttons are now available again when overriding metadata on content in stories.
Users no longer must close and open the story when creating a photo request before opening a lightbox.
When scheduling stories, a leading zero no longer appears before 10, 11, and 12 hour markers.
The Clear formatting button now also clears hyperlinks.
You can now edit all Power Ups as expected.
Smart quotes now successfully convert when working in conjunction with special characters.
You can now again render a preview of your HTML elements that are set as Featured Media.
Find and replace now recognizes instances of words that occur in lists.
Circulations no longer display as blank when they are not blank.
Copying and pasting links from Google Docs no longer result in double underlines appearing.
Having a story open in multiple tabs when a takeover request occurs no longer causes lost data.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
Be aware of the functionality differences between Composer V1 and V2. See the Existing stories with suggestions section above.
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, March 13, 2025
Production - Thursday, March 20, 2025
Release summary
IFX is expanding its user interface! You can now view integration details and manage bundles more easily than ever. Simply click a button to upload new bundles for deployment or promote them to live.
Review this quick video for a demo of what's new:
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 3, 2025
Production - Monday, March 3, 2025
(was previously Tuesday, February 18, 2025)
Release summary
Introducing Micro Experiences (MX), a new capability within PageBuilder designed to enhance flexibility and efficiency for development teams. MX allows you to create multiple independent PageBuilder instances, each configured with its own codebase and features. This empowers organizations to tailor digital experiences for specific business need or audience segments while maintaining operational efficiency.
Key Benefits
Parallel Deployments: Teams can work and deploy changes independently, improving collaboration and productivity.
Enhanced Efficiency: Streamline workflows to accelerate development and reduce time to market.
Minimized Risk: Isolate business-critical components to reduce the impact of deployment errors.
Use Cases
Launching new digital properties with tailored designs and functionality.
Isolating business-critical systems like subscriptions and identity management.
Supporting multiple development teams with independent environments.
Iterative redesigns or upgrades without disrupting existing systems.
Availability and Setup
MX is available as an opt-in feature for PageBuilder customers. To enable MX for your organization, contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Learn More
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 3, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 5, 2025
(was previously Wednesday, February 26, 2025)
Release summary
We’ve added a label in the Deployer that displays the number of pending deployments for your environment, along with the deployment limit.
Deployer enforces a limit on the number of pending deployments per environment: 10 for Production and 20 for lower (non-Production) environments. Previously, there was no indication of how many deployment slots were in use or whether you had reached the limit. The only indication was a disabled Deploy button in the bundles list, without an explanation.
With this update, you can now see at a glance how many deployments are pending and when you’ve reached the limit.
At the top of the bundles list, which is below the pending bundles list, you now see a message that if you reach the deployment limit of 10 bundles. This message explains why the Deploy option is disabled.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 24, 2025
Production -
Phase 2: Monday, March 10 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Phase 1: Monday, March 3 to Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Release summary
Phase 2: This release provides additional stability and security enhancements for WebSked.
Phase 1: This release improves the stability and security of WebSked.
Additionally, the assigned group within the task create and update form now works as expected.
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
Sandbox
No Sandbox updates this week.
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, February 27, 2025
Production - Monday, March 3, 2025
Release summary
Users with undefined Global Settings or Arc Intelligence permissions now have their permissions correctly handled. The left navigation no longer locks for users in this scenario.
Users affected
Editorial administrators
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Production - Thursday, February 27, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including:
Primary websites no longer disappear or cause issues with saving. The same is true for templates as well.
You no longer need unpublish permissions to reschedule a story
Photo credits are no longer overwritten
We made the following updates to the Tansa and ProLexis spellchecker integrations:
Text is no longer removed from Suggest mode when using Tansa.
Errant spaces are no longer generated in words and before quotes when using ProLexis.
International date formats now display correctly, using DD/MM/YY versus the US version of MM/DD/YY.
In suggested related items, an image is registered only once, and if you click Remove Image, only the selected image is removed.
Now only users who have access to templates can access templates in Composer
The paywall status field now loads default data correctly
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, March 3, 2025
Production - Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including:
Several updates to Suggestion mode:
Suggestion mode now works as expected, no longer scrambling suggestions or losing work when switching between the new and old editor.
Suggested text removals now take affect only when a user clicks Accept. Until then, the text remains visible in published stories. This ensures that text behind suggested formatting will not be removed prematurely from published stories.
Note
Suggested text removes do not carry over to Composer 1.0. If you switch back, you receive a warning that saving in V1 causes these suggestions to be lost due to incompatibility.
You can now pre-fill data in linked lists without being required to add links, just like in V1.
The display type menu now properly shows all available items in link lists.
Locking behavior has been updated: views in read-only mode can no longer immediately take over a locked story. Instead, they must refresh or reload the page to claim the lock, which now reflects V1 functionality.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
February
Production
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Production - Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Release summary
On February 26, all pre-generated Image Resizer URLs in ANS will transition to Resizer V2 paths in Production. As of January 29, this update is available in Sandbox. Four image ANS fields use Resizer V2 paths, and the Arc XP Photo Center UI uses the corresponding updated Resizer V2 URLs.
The following ANS fields in the Additional Properties section of Image documents will update from /resizer/ to /resizer/v2/. Image documents are embedded as content elements or prompt items in primary stories (articles) and galleries documents.
additional_properties.resizeUrladditional_properties.thumbnailResizeUrladditional_properties.fullSizeResizeUrladditional_properties.proxyUrl
These fields support image display across Photo Center, Composer, and other Arc XP applications.
New stories and galleries created after the release will reflect the updated image fields in Content API.
Existing published content will require republishing to apply these updates.
Legacy V1 URLs in previously published content will continue to function and will eventually redirect to their V2 equivalents. See Resizer v1-to-v2 Redirects.
Note
After this change takes place, you may experience a slight performance impact on the initial display of images in the Arc XP UIs for each search due to first-hit processing.
We’ve allocated five weeks between the Sandbox and Production deployments to allow you time for adjustments.
Here is an example of a Gallery that uses Image ANS in promo_items and content_elements, before and after this update. Note the addition of /v2/ in the URL path. Please check your integrations, especially if you are parsing or performing regular expressions on these URLs.
Before Update (Version 1.81):
{
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4",
"canonical_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/",
"canonical_website": "beta-max-extreme",
"created_date": "2025-02-06T22:10:45Z",
"promo_items": {
"basic": {
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"content_elements": [
{
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"website": "beta-max-extreme",
"website_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/"
}After Update (Version 1.82):
{
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4",
"canonical_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/",
"canonical_website": "beta-max-extreme",
"created_date": "2025-02-06T22:10:45Z",
"promo_items": {
"basic": {
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"content_elements": [
{
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"website": "beta-max-extreme",
"website_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/"
}Here is another example of a Story document with an image embedded as a content element, as shown in the Debugger view:
Here is an example where the Path to Resizer URL is updated in Photo Center UI.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
If your workflows rely on the affected ANS fields for validation or downstream integrations, you must ensure your systems are updated and tested. Key areas to validate include:
ANS validation processes
Send-to-print integrations
Newsletter and social media provider integrations
Mobile applications
Feeds and third-party downstream integrations
Front-end or back-end code referencing these fields
If you encounter any issues while validating your integrations, please open an Arc XP Customer Support ticket immediately.
Update: Unpublished image access through Resizer URL in ANS
A note for customers accessing unpublished images in external systemsL
With the release of Photo Center 1.82, images retrieved from ANS for use in systems external to Arc XP are now accessible only through the resizer URL if they have been published. Consequently, if you utilize images outside of Arc XP systems, the new V2 URLs of any unpublished image URLs fail.
If you are using unpublished images outside of Arc XP, contact Arc XP Customer Support. We will temporarily allow the use of Resizer V1 URLs so that you may continue to use unpublished image URLs externally until an alternate solution is in place.
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 10, 2025
Production - Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Release summary
This release include the following fixes:
Special characters in the slug field of tags are no longer removed in galleries. Tags now retain special characters as entered.
The photographer’s name now appears correctly when uploading multiple photos with the same photographer name.
The Copy to All option during bulk image uploads no longer causes duplicated metadata in the photographer credits field.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 3, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 5, 2025
(was previously Wednesday, February 26, 2025)
Release summary
We’ve added a label in the Deployer that displays the number of pending deployments for your environment, along with the deployment limit.
Deployer enforces a limit on the number of pending deployments per environment: 10 for Production and 20 for lower (non-Production) environments. Previously, there was no indication of how many deployment slots were in use or whether you had reached the limit. The only indication was a disabled Deploy button in the bundles list, without an explanation.
With this update, you can now see at a glance how many deployments are pending and when you’ve reached the limit.
At the top of the bundles list, which is below the pending bundles list, you now see a message that if you reach the deployment limit of 10 bundles. This message explains why the Deploy option is disabled.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 24, 2025
Production -
Phase 2: Monday, March 10 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Phase 1: Monday, March 3 to Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Release summary
Phase 2: This release provides additional stability and security enhancements for WebSked.
Phase 1: This release improves the stability and security of WebSked.
Additionally, the assigned group within the task create and update form now works as expected.
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
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_commentsplanning(excludingstory_length.*_actual)workflow.noteadditional_properties.commentsadditional_properties.clipboardadditional_properties.firstPublishedByadditional_properties.lastPublishedByadditional_properties.ownerrevision.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.
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, February 25, 2025
(was previously Monday, February 24, 2025)
Release summary
This release addresses an issue in the Redirects page of Delivery related to the uploading of redirect rules containing multiple parameters separated by an ampersand (&). Previously, the system incorrectly saved these parameters as separate entries instead of a single rule.
This update ensures that multi-parameter redirect rules are now processed and saved correctly when uploaded, particularly for RegEx match types. This fix does not affect rules added individually through the UI.
Users affected
Developers and administrators who use the Redirects upload functionality.
Action required
None
In recognition of the US holiday of Presidents Day on Monday, February 17, Arc XP has updated our support coverage accordingly.
Support Coverage
P0-P1 Tickets: Our Client Support team will have coverage available to address any critical outages (P0 or P1 issues).
P2-P4 Tickets: All non-critical responses to P2 through P4 tickets will be handled the following business day, Tuesday, February 18.
For urgent issues, please contact Arc XP Client Support.
Production and Sandbox
No Production or Sandbox releases this week.
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, December 4, 2024 (was previously Tuesday, December 3, 2024)
Production - Monday, February 10 to 11 (was previously Monday, January 13, 2024)
Release summary
Note
When this change occurs, active users in PageBuilder Editor may see a prompt to refresh their browser. While we perform the upgrade in our services, users who are actively working in PageBuilder Editor may see an error message that instructs them to refresh their browser. When that message appears, simply refresh the browser and continue working. Rest assured that there will be no data loss during this process. Your work and information are safe, and you can continue your tasks with confidence.
This message appears only once, and only if a user is actively using PageBuilder Editor at the time of release.
If the issue persists after refreshing your browser, try clearing your cache. If that doesn't resolve the issue, contact Arc XP Customer Support.
This release contains the following bug fixes and improvements:
A bug that occurred when changing the Display Name and then Custom Fields on a block was fixed. The Display Name now saves as expected, and does not revert to the previous value.
Improved styling, font consistency, and alignment across the platform
Additional updates and bug fixes for faster loading and better error handling
Additionally, this release includes some updates in preparation for Micro Experiences (MX), which allows organizations to run multiple instances of PageBuilder in their organization. While MX is not yet available to use, this release contains the following updates in preparation:
PageBuilder Editor URLs in Arc Admin will change:
The previous URL pattern for PageBuilder Editor was:
https://{org-ID}.arcpublishing.com/pagebuilder/pagesWith this release, it will change to:
https://{org-ID}.arcpublishing.com/pagebuilder/experiences/_default/pages
All of the old URLs are automatically redirected to the new URL format. There is no action required from customers, and no expected impact to PageBuilder Editor users as a result of this change.
The Arc Home tile for downloading PageBuilder data (pb-data) is being removed: In May 2024, as part of our Editor 3.20 release, we introduced the ability for developers to download a copy of the pb-data file from within PageBuilder Editor’s Developer Tools menu. As part of this Editor release, we’re now removing the pb-data tile from Arc Home. Instead, developers should get a copy of PB Data by accessing Developer Tools > Data Center from within PageBuilder Editor.
Users affected
Editors and Developers
Action required
Developers: To download a copy of pb-data for use in local development, navigate to PageBuilder Editor > Developer Tools > Data Center.
Editors: If you're using PageBuilder Editor when we perform the upgrade, you may see an error message instructing you to refresh your browser. When this happens, refresh your browser to continue working. There will be no data loss during this process, so your work and information are safe.
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, January 13, 2025 (was previously Monday, January 6, 2025)
Production - Monday, February 10, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, January 21, 2025)
Release summary
We introduced a new underlying deployment service to PageBuilder Deployer, which adds support for Micro Experiences. Alongside this update, we’ve made several user experience improvements to the Deployer interface.
Previously, failed our timed-out deployments disappeared from the main deployments table, requiring developers to navigate to the Deployments History page to locate them. With this update, failed and timed-out deployments will remain visible in the main table until manually removed, streamlining access to important deployment information.
Developers can now view failure messages directly in the deployment list, along with a shortcut to download logs. This eliminates the need to locate failed or timed-out deployments in the Deployment History page, saving time and effort.
Deployer API - deployment endpoint now validates the Engine version provided in the API call and accepts only available Engine versions. If you pinned an older Engine version that is not available anymore, Deployer API returns an error rejecting the deployment request.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 3, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 5, 2025
(was previously Wednesday, February 26, 2025)
Release summary
We’ve added a label in the Deployer that displays the number of pending deployments for your environment, along with the deployment limit.
Deployer enforces a limit on the number of pending deployments per environment: 10 for Production and 20 for lower (non-Production) environments. Previously, there was no indication of how many deployment slots were in use or whether you had reached the limit. The only indication was a disabled Deploy button in the bundles list, without an explanation.
With this update, you can now see at a glance how many deployments are pending and when you’ve reached the limit.
At the top of the bundles list, which is below the pending bundles list, you now see a message that if you reach the deployment limit of 10 bundles. This message explains why the Deploy option is disabled.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Production - Monday, February 10, 2025 (was previously February 4)
Release summary
We updated PageBuilder Engine to support Micro Experiences.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, February 6, 2025
Production - Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Release summary
For customers that are leveraging Arc Intelligence, Composer is now introducing its first instances of integrated AI-driven tools to enhance your editorial workflow with the introduction of AI-powered headlines and subheadlines.
You can now generate AI-powered headlines natively in Composer. Automatically generate attention-grabbing headlines and subheadlines tailored to your content. Let Composer’s AI suggest multiple options that convey the essence of your story.
This feature is accessible directly from the story body or the working headline metadata field, streamlining your workflow and ensuring your stories make an impact.
See Using field-level AI in Composer.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
This AI functionality is available only with Composer 2.0 and for customers who license Arc Intelligence. To use these new features, you must contact Arc XP Customer Support about subscribing to our AI features in Arc XP.
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Production - to be announced
Release summary
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.
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).
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Production - Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following changes:
IPTC Image Metadata Preservation - This release adds the ability to preserve IPTC Image Metadata, designed for publishers in jurisdictions that require identifying metadata on images. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled upon request. Contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Canvas Expansion - This release introduces a new feature in Resizer V2 that allows you to expand the canvas of an image, allowing you to add borders, change the aspect ratio without resizing the image, and combine images with watermark.
Background Color - You now have the ability to specify a background color for transparent images or images with an expanded canvas.
For more information, see How to transform images with Resizer v2.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
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
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 10, 2025
Production - Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Release summary
This release include the following fixes:
Special characters in the slug field of tags are no longer removed in galleries. Tags now retain special characters as entered.
The photographer’s name now appears correctly when uploading multiple photos with the same photographer name.
The Copy to All option during bulk image uploads no longer causes duplicated metadata in the photographer credits field.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 24, 2025
Production -
Phase 2: Monday, March 10 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Phase 1: Monday, March 3 to Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Release summary
Phase 2: This release provides additional stability and security enhancements for WebSked.
Phase 1: This release improves the stability and security of WebSked.
Additionally, the assigned group within the task create and update form now works as expected.
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
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_commentsplanning(excludingstory_length.*_actual)workflow.noteadditional_properties.commentsadditional_properties.clipboardadditional_properties.firstPublishedByadditional_properties.lastPublishedByadditional_properties.ownerrevision.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.
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, February 6, 2025
Production - Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Release summary
A new setting lets admins restrict access to Composer V1, giving you more control over your transition to Composer V2. See ???.
This release also addresses a number of items in Composer V2, including:
Fractions with head styles applied now render appropriately.
Users can no longer publish stories in the past.
New stories save automatically when you switch tabs, as expected (only when required fields are completed).
Legacy block quotes now render appropriately.
Featured media with HTML now appears as expected.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Production
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Production - Tuesday, February 5, 2025
Release summary
Arc XP Subscriptions is now integrated with Stripe Tax. This allows you to use a single integration and provider for your payments and tax calculations.
To use Stripe Tax for your tax calculations, you must establish a relationship with Stripe. You receive unique identification information that the system uses when contacting Stripe for your tax calculations. When you have your Stripe Tax information, contact Arc XP Customer Support to have this option enabled in the settings Admin. After you add Stripe to your account, we automatically include the tax calculations and amount during checkout. For more details on configuring Stripe, see Set up taxes: custom taxes and external integrations.
Users affected
Subscription developers
Action required
To use Stripe Tax, you must create an account with Stripe Tax, and then contact Arc XP Customer Support to enable Stripe Tax in your Arc XP account.
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
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 3, 2025
Production - Wednesday, March 5, 2025
(was previously Wednesday, February 26, 2025)
Release summary
We’ve added a label in the Deployer that displays the number of pending deployments for your environment, along with the deployment limit.
Deployer enforces a limit on the number of pending deployments per environment: 10 for Production and 20 for lower (non-Production) environments. Previously, there was no indication of how many deployment slots were in use or whether you had reached the limit. The only indication was a disabled Deploy button in the bundles list, without an explanation.
With this update, you can now see at a glance how many deployments are pending and when you’ve reached the limit.
At the top of the bundles list, which is below the pending bundles list, you now see a message that if you reach the deployment limit of 10 bundles. This message explains why the Deploy option is disabled.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, February 3, 2025
Production - Monday, March 3, 2025
(was previously Tuesday, February 18, 2025)
Release summary
Introducing Micro Experiences (MX), a new capability within PageBuilder designed to enhance flexibility and efficiency for development teams. MX allows you to create multiple independent PageBuilder instances, each configured with its own codebase and features. This empowers organizations to tailor digital experiences for specific business need or audience segments while maintaining operational efficiency.
Key Benefits
Parallel Deployments: Teams can work and deploy changes independently, improving collaboration and productivity.
Enhanced Efficiency: Streamline workflows to accelerate development and reduce time to market.
Minimized Risk: Isolate business-critical components to reduce the impact of deployment errors.
Use Cases
Launching new digital properties with tailored designs and functionality.
Isolating business-critical systems like subscriptions and identity management.
Supporting multiple development teams with independent environments.
Iterative redesigns or upgrades without disrupting existing systems.
Availability and Setup
MX is available as an opt-in feature for PageBuilder customers. To enable MX for your organization, contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Learn More
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, February 6, 2025
Production - Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Release summary
For customers that are leveraging Arc Intelligence, Composer is now introducing its first instances of integrated AI-driven tools to enhance your editorial workflow with the introduction of AI-powered headlines and subheadlines.
You can now generate AI-powered headlines natively in Composer. Automatically generate attention-grabbing headlines and subheadlines tailored to your content. Let Composer’s AI suggest multiple options that convey the essence of your story.
This feature is accessible directly from the story body or the working headline metadata field, streamlining your workflow and ensuring your stories make an impact.
See Using field-level AI in Composer.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
This AI functionality is available only with Composer 2.0 and for customers who license Arc Intelligence. To use these new features, you must contact Arc XP Customer Support about subscribing to our AI features in Arc XP.
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, January 23, 2025
Release summary
We are taking measures to limit the data included by default in the Video API. As a result, the Video API no longer includes the firstPublishedBy and lastPublishedBy fields in its responses.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Monday, January 27, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes an issue that caused the Product screen in the Retail admin to load slowly and, at times, error.
Users affected
Subscriptions users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, January 30, 2025
Production - Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including:
You can now paste additional text into text that has a comment associated with it.
Suggestions (inline comments) are now longer scrambled when you save the story.
The Composer WebSked integration received the following updates:
Duplicate WebSked tasks are no longer created through the Slack integration.
Saving and updating the workflow status no longer creates unexpected Slack notifications.
Tasks that are auto-generated by changes in workflow status now appear in the task list for the story as expected.
Save and Exit on workflow status update now works as expected and no longer displays an error message.
Save and Exit no longer displays an error message saying changes were unsaved when a save actually occurs.
Migrated articles no longer display an error message on the Featured Media tab in Composer 2.0.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Production - Monday, February 10, 2025 (was previously February 4)
Release summary
We updated PageBuilder Engine to support Micro Experiences.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
January
Production
No Production releases this week.
Sandbox
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
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
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Production - Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Release summary
On February 26, all pre-generated Image Resizer URLs in ANS will transition to Resizer V2 paths in Production. As of January 29, this update is available in Sandbox. Four image ANS fields use Resizer V2 paths, and the Arc XP Photo Center UI uses the corresponding updated Resizer V2 URLs.
The following ANS fields in the Additional Properties section of Image documents will update from /resizer/ to /resizer/v2/. Image documents are embedded as content elements or prompt items in primary stories (articles) and galleries documents.
additional_properties.resizeUrladditional_properties.thumbnailResizeUrladditional_properties.fullSizeResizeUrladditional_properties.proxyUrl
These fields support image display across Photo Center, Composer, and other Arc XP applications.
New stories and galleries created after the release will reflect the updated image fields in Content API.
Existing published content will require republishing to apply these updates.
Legacy V1 URLs in previously published content will continue to function and will eventually redirect to their V2 equivalents. See Resizer v1-to-v2 Redirects.
Note
After this change takes place, you may experience a slight performance impact on the initial display of images in the Arc XP UIs for each search due to first-hit processing.
We’ve allocated five weeks between the Sandbox and Production deployments to allow you time for adjustments.
Here is an example of a Gallery that uses Image ANS in promo_items and content_elements, before and after this update. Note the addition of /v2/ in the URL path. Please check your integrations, especially if you are parsing or performing regular expressions on these URLs.
Before Update (Version 1.81):
{
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4",
"canonical_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/",
"canonical_website": "beta-max-extreme",
"created_date": "2025-02-06T22:10:45Z",
"promo_items": {
"basic": {
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"content_elements": [
{
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"website": "beta-max-extreme",
"website_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/"
}After Update (Version 1.82):
{
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4",
"canonical_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/",
"canonical_website": "beta-max-extreme",
"created_date": "2025-02-06T22:10:45Z",
"promo_items": {
"basic": {
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"content_elements": [
{
"_id": "ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI",
"additional_properties": {
"fullSizeResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"galleries": [
{
"headlines": {
"basic": "Dog Gone-it"
},
"_id": "MHSU7SEBTJDAFFEQJXZJXWAUF4"
}
],
"galleryOrder": 0,
"ingestionMethod": "manual",
"mime_type": "image/png",
"originalName": "XZ4Y7VHPMFDXBFMKRM7S7FISHQ.png",
"originalUrl": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sandbox.arclabs/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png",
"proxyUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"ptgVersion": 0,
"published": true,
"resizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466",
"restricted": false,
"thumbnailResizeUrl": "/resizer/v2/ZOST5Q642ZB45LX4L47S4DTLEI.png?auth=05b1f30c42a15572a70651bd4ba3d94942f00849c3f5eeca6b4ec1e48a94b466&width=300",
"version": 1,
"template_id": 1601
},
"website": "beta-max-extreme",
"website_url": "/2025/02/06/dog-gone-it/"
}Here is another example of a Story document with an image embedded as a content element, as shown in the Debugger view:
Here is an example where the Path to Resizer URL is updated in Photo Center UI.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
If your workflows rely on the affected ANS fields for validation or downstream integrations, you must ensure your systems are updated and tested. Key areas to validate include:
ANS validation processes
Send-to-print integrations
Newsletter and social media provider integrations
Mobile applications
Feeds and third-party downstream integrations
Front-end or back-end code referencing these fields
If you encounter any issues while validating your integrations, please open an Arc XP Customer Support ticket immediately.
Update: Unpublished image access through Resizer URL in ANS
A note for customers accessing unpublished images in external systemsL
With the release of Photo Center 1.82, images retrieved from ANS for use in systems external to Arc XP are now accessible only through the resizer URL if they have been published. Consequently, if you utilize images outside of Arc XP systems, the new V2 URLs of any unpublished image URLs fail.
If you are using unpublished images outside of Arc XP, contact Arc XP Customer Support. We will temporarily allow the use of Resizer V1 URLs so that you may continue to use unpublished image URLs externally until an alternate solution is in place.
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Production - Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following changes:
IPTC Image Metadata Preservation - This release adds the ability to preserve IPTC Image Metadata, designed for publishers in jurisdictions that require identifying metadata on images. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled upon request. Contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Canvas Expansion - This release introduces a new feature in Resizer V2 that allows you to expand the canvas of an image, allowing you to add borders, change the aspect ratio without resizing the image, and combine images with watermark.
Background Color - You now have the ability to specify a background color for transparent images or images with an expanded canvas.
For more information, see How to transform images with Resizer v2.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, January 23, 2025
Production - Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2, including:
Headline styles are now in sync with text in the body. For example, when you selected a Heading 3, the selection box showed it as normal text. This issue is now resolved. All headline styles and normal text now accurately reflect the state in the story body and in ANS.
Reddit, SoundCloud, DailyMotion, and Vimeo social embeds are now working as expected.
Story tags now appear on imported stories as expected.
Published articles no longer remain in Progress status and can be previewed as needed.
The guest authoring experience received the following updates:
You can now update guest authors as needed.
The organization now appears on newly added guest author entries.
Deleting a guest author no longer removes all authors.
You can now accurately search tags with German accents and characters in the list of tags.
You can now paste both unordered and ordered lists into Composer without issue.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
In recognition of the U.S. holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, on Monday, January, 20, Arc XP has updated our support coverage accordingly.
P0-P1 tickets: Our customer support team will have coverage available to address any critical outages (P0 or P1 issue).
P2-P4 tickets: All non-critical responses to P2 through P4 tickets will be handled the following business day, Tuesday, January 21.
For urgent issues, contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Production
No Production releases this week.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Production - to be announced
Release summary
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.
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).
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, January 16, 2025
Production - Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of issues in Composer V2 including:
You can now save or publish stories without receiving an errant “code formatting” error
Various updates to multi-picklist fields:
You can now delete selected items with the Backspace key.
Your cursor now stays in the search field when you add a new item to keep searching.
Truncation no longer occurs on long item names.
Various updates with date/time fields:
Changing from PM to AM was out of sync between the field to the selector and is now in sync.
The time format now respects the setting you choose, either 12- or 24-hour format, without switching back and forth.
After preselecting one of the quick-select options and opening the picker, the picker now shows the time selected.
Planned ready time and "Publish story time" now properly show the correct suggestions.
Pasted links now generate as expected.
Characters in the working headline fields are no longer cut off.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Support coverage
In recognition of the U.S. holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, on Monday, January, 20, Arc XP has updated our support coverage accordingly.
P0-P1 tickets: Our customer support team will have coverage available to address any critical outages (P0 or P1 issue).
P2-P4 tickets: All non-critical responses to P2 through P4 tickets will be handled the following business day, Tuesday, January 21.
For urgent issues, contact Arc XP Customer Support.
Production
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
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
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
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, January 13, 2025 (was previously Monday, January 6, 2025)
Production - Monday, February 10, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, January 21, 2025)
Release summary
We introduced a new underlying deployment service to PageBuilder Deployer, which adds support for Micro Experiences. Alongside this update, we’ve made several user experience improvements to the Deployer interface.
Previously, failed our timed-out deployments disappeared from the main deployments table, requiring developers to navigate to the Deployments History page to locate them. With this update, failed and timed-out deployments will remain visible in the main table until manually removed, streamlining access to important deployment information.
Developers can now view failure messages directly in the deployment list, along with a shortcut to download logs. This eliminates the need to locate failed or timed-out deployments in the Deployment History page, saving time and effort.
Deployer API - deployment endpoint now validates the Engine version provided in the API call and accepts only available Engine versions. If you pinned an older Engine version that is not available anymore, Deployer API returns an error rejecting the deployment request.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, January 9, 2025
Production - Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Release summary
This release makes Composer 2.0 the default experience for all users in Production. You can still navigate back to the Composer 1.0 interface; however, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with Composer 2.0 prior to 1.0 going away in February.
This change also removes the Composer 2.0 settings in the Settings page, which allowed you to enable and disable Composer 2.0 for your users.
Additionally, this release addresses a number of items in Composer 2.0, including:
Hyperlinks pasted from Google Docs now honor Composer settings.
Suggesting mode received the following updates:
Suggested text now adds to the story's clipboard as expected.
Suggesting mode now works correctly with Japanese characters.
Hyperlinks no longer disappear in Suggesting mode.
Pasting into the Headline field now works as expected.
The ProLexis integration received the following updates:
Quotation mark processing now works correctly.
An error no longer occurs when ProLexis processes text containing the
&character.
A
Missing code formattingmessage no longer incorrectly appears with pasted text.You can now paste large amounts of content meta description and Composer Settings reflects the max character count.
Workflow statuses are now reflecting the display order rather than the ID for the order of statuses in the drop-down menu.
Distributor fields (name and category) are now prefilled correctly when creating a story from a template.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Monday, January 13
Release summary
This hotfix fixes a bug for number custom fields. Previously, when the user inserted over 15 digits into a number custom field, the value was automatically rounded up. Now, the value is not rounded up or adjusted in any way.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, December 16, 2024
Production - Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Release summary
We are making a behind-the-scenes change to improve the architecture of Photo Center. Specifically, the Photo Center's legacy user interface (UI) will be decoupled from the back end (API) and deployed as a static site.
This work is entirely on the back end and should not impact your experience or workflows. We are sharing this update as a precaution to keep you informed.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
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
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, January 13, 2025 (was previously Monday, January 6, 2025)
Production - Monday, February 10, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, January 21, 2025)
Release summary
We introduced a new underlying deployment service to PageBuilder Deployer, which adds support for Micro Experiences. Alongside this update, we’ve made several user experience improvements to the Deployer interface.
Previously, failed our timed-out deployments disappeared from the main deployments table, requiring developers to navigate to the Deployments History page to locate them. With this update, failed and timed-out deployments will remain visible in the main table until manually removed, streamlining access to important deployment information.
Developers can now view failure messages directly in the deployment list, along with a shortcut to download logs. This eliminates the need to locate failed or timed-out deployments in the Deployment History page, saving time and effort.
Deployer API - deployment endpoint now validates the Engine version provided in the API call and accepts only available Engine versions. If you pinned an older Engine version that is not available anymore, Deployer API returns an error rejecting the deployment request.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
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
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
Arc XP is delivering the following releases this week.
Production
No Production releases this week.
Sandbox
No Sandbox releases this week
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Monday, December 16, 2024
Release summary
This hotfix reverses the styled-components dependency to 5.3.5 to keep the Engine release in a non-breaking path.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Production - Thursday, December 19, 2024
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including:
Interstitial links no longer insert in the incorrect location
We resolved various issues with saving stories:
The browser's back button no longer causes version conflicts when saving stories
Suggested text now saves appropriately
Linked text in Suggestion mode no longer reverts to normal text or disappears when you reopen a story
Smart quotes in headlines and subheadlines are now correctly being applied
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Arc XP is delivering the following releases this week.
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, December 5, 2024 (was previously Tuesday, December 3, 2024)
Production - Monday, December 16, 2024 (was previously Tuesday, December 10, 2024)
Release summary
Micro Experiences Support: Initial support for Micro Experiences has been added to PageBuilder Engine. (Details about the Micro Experience feature will be announced separately.)
Security Enhancements: Implemented key security updates and performed dependency upgrades to maintain system integrity and performance.
Bug Fixes: Resolved an issue in Engine 5.0.7 where multiple client-side API calls were being triggered unnecessarily.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
No action required, and customers can safely deploy their current Engine 5.0.x bundle (that's tested and deployed with Engine 5.1.0) with no additional work required.
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Production - Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Release summary
We are excited to introduce new content events on IFX. With these new events you can now power even more automation within your business workflows.
Event additions include:
URL Service Events
url:redirect- Sent when a gallery or story redirect is created in the UI or API.url:redirect-delete- Sent when a gallery or story is deleted in the UI or API.
Note
story:create-redirect and story:delete-redirect are still offered for both stories and galleries. The story: events offer additional ANS, allowing you to select the events that best suit your preferences.
You can find these events on the Event Menu when they have been released to each environment.
Stay tuned for more events.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
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
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, January 13, 2025 (was previously Monday, January 6, 2025)
Production - Monday, February 10, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, January 21, 2025)
Release summary
We introduced a new underlying deployment service to PageBuilder Deployer, which adds support for Micro Experiences. Alongside this update, we’ve made several user experience improvements to the Deployer interface.
Previously, failed our timed-out deployments disappeared from the main deployments table, requiring developers to navigate to the Deployments History page to locate them. With this update, failed and timed-out deployments will remain visible in the main table until manually removed, streamlining access to important deployment information.
Developers can now view failure messages directly in the deployment list, along with a shortcut to download logs. This eliminates the need to locate failed or timed-out deployments in the Deployment History page, saving time and effort.
Deployer API - deployment endpoint now validates the Engine version provided in the API call and accepts only available Engine versions. If you pinned an older Engine version that is not available anymore, Deployer API returns an error rejecting the deployment request.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, December 16, 2024
Production - Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Release summary
We are making a behind-the-scenes change to improve the architecture of Photo Center. Specifically, the Photo Center's legacy user interface (UI) will be decoupled from the back end (API) and deployed as a static site.
This work is entirely on the back end and should not impact your experience or workflows. We are sharing this update as a precaution to keep you informed.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, December 11, 2024
Release summary
This release resolves an issue where event messages with a header of Arc-Priority: ingestion were not being ignored. When updating content using Draft API from an IFX integration, it is essential to include a header Arc-Priority: ingestion to prevent an infinite loop with story:update.
Example
const headers = {
'Authorization': `Bearer ${arcPat}`,
'Arc-Priority': 'ingestion'
};This release also fixes an issue where story:update was emitting when it should not, such as with story:first-publish.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
Add priority header to Draft API requests.
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, December 12, 2024
Production - Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including
Translation updates
An issue where the default value was not being set for Display Time when publishing content
An issue where display typograph setting was not being respected
Character counts are now displayed even without a limit set for different headlines
An issue where mailto: and tel: were not working on Link Lists
An issue where text that had a link associated to it could not have a comment
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None