What's New in Arc XP
Discover the latest updates to your favorite Arc XP applications.
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August
Production
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Release summary
We’ve added a new command to the Arc XP PageBuilder CLI: compile-styles. This new command:
Compiles styles from Arc blocks, components, and custom blocks, without having to run
npx fusion startlocally.Can be integrated into CI/CD automation workflows to streamline builds.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Production - Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Release summary
We’ve updated the fonts and colors in Composer Search and Composer Settings to match the cleaner, more modern style of the Composer editing experience. While these visual updates don’t change any functionality, they do help create a more consistent and polished experience across Composer and our other Arc XP products.
This release also addresses a number of fixes including:
The tabs in the Metadata pane are now fixed when you scroll to see content so you can more easily keep track of where you are. Additionally there are now buttons that let you click to scroll to see additional tabs on smaller screens.
You can now change text heading styles if they partially contain a hyperlink.
You can now modify display type when working with Link Lists.
Spaces are no longer creating line breaks at the top of text entered in Composer.
Browser print previews are now displaying content in the correct format again.
Removed external canonical URLs now no longer show warnings incorrectly when they are intended to be removed.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, August 21, 2025
Production - not going to Production
Note
The PageBuilder Data Copy API is available only in Sandbox because you use Production as a source for copying.
Release summary
This release includes the following items:
Fixed an issue where backups were sometimes not being created as expected for target and source environments
Stability improvements and increased logging to reduce errors experienced during copy requests
Fixed an bug that sometimes caused data copies to fail
Fixed an issue where Resolvers were sometimes not copied correctly
Added error messaging if a source or target environment does not exist
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Release summary
Composer 2.7.2 introduces the long-requested ability for authors and editors to override image alt text in individual stories. This gives users more control to tailor alt text based on the specific context in which an image appears.
Admins can enable or disable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.
This release also includes several key fixes:
Links no longer intermittently cause page crashes
Migrated stories no longer display errors in Composer
Planned ready times set in the past now save correctly, preventing users from being blocked by validation errors when saving a story
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
To leverage the ability to override alt-text on images, admins must enable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025
Production - Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Ensures that users on smaller screens can click the Upload button when uploading a new image to Photo Center from Composer
Removes the version number from the Photo Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)
Fixes a bug where the permission Upload Images From Selector was not being properly respected. Users without this permission can no longer have the option to upload images from the selector in Composer. If users need the ability to upload images from the selector in Composer but can no longer do so after this release, admins must grant them this privilege in Permissions application.
Users affected
Photo Center Administrators
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, August 7, 2025
Production - Thursday, August 21, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Pre-generated video thumbnail Image Resizer URLs in ANS now transition to Resizer V2 paths. In ANS Video documents, the
additional_properties.imageResizerUrls.urlfield now uses/resizer/v2/paths instead of/resizer/. If your workflows rely on this field for validation or downstream integrations, you must ensure your systems are updated and tested.Removes the version number from the Video Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)
Improves the user experience of the new VOD clipping experience so that video editors can consistently see the in and out timestamps.
Note
The new VOD clipping experience remains an opt-in feature. Contact Arc XP Customer Support to enable this feature.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
If you rely on the video thumbnail URL field for ANS validation, send-to-print integrations, and other use cases, you must validate your integrations and pipelines continue to work as expected.
Sandbox
No Sandbox releases this week
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, August 14, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces a new field, additional_properties, in the response payload of all endpoints.
This enhancement provides more contextual metadata and flexibility for downstream consumers of the API.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Friday, August 15, 2025
Production - Monday, August 18, 2025
Release summary
Arc XP Subscriptions is implementing a critical security update to back-end applications. A security risk was round with the current back-end framework, and we're deploying an updated version.
This update has no impact to customer services or performance.
Users affected
None
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025
Production - Monday, August 11, 2025
Release summary
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Migration Center Dashboard, a powerful new tool that gives Arc XP users ingesting content through Migration Center a high-level view of content import progress in real time.
Whether you're migrating from a legacy CMS, or an external wires integration, the dashboard helps you monitor what's currently in the queue and estimate when it will be complete.
Key features:
Dashboard Overview - Located on the Migration Center homepage, this panel gives a bird’s-eye view of all active migration streams. It highlights:
What content is currently queued for import
Estimated time remaining for each stream
Projected completion dates
Target Stream panel - View content grouped by destination endpoint: Draft, Video, Tags, Authors, Photos.
Group Progress panel - For users submitting content with a
GroupId, this panel allows you to track the progress of each specific job, helping teams monitor multiple tasks simultaneously.
See Migration Center reporting dashboard.
Users affected
Migration Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025
Production - Monday, August 11, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Automatic Account Deletion - An issue with Automatic Account Deletion has been resolved. Previously, some accounts were not anonymized after the configured period of inactivity. Clients with this feature enabled may notice a larger-than-usual change in the number of registered users in the month following this fix. These changes reflect accounts that have been inactive for the configured time as specified in the Settings admin.
Enterprise Group Reports - The Enterprise Group User List, which includes all users linked to an Enterprise Group, now contains the following fields:
CLIENT_IDSUBSCRIPTION_IDSUBSCRIPTION_STATUSNONCE REDEEMED_ON
Enterprise Group Nonce list - The Enterprise Group Nonce List report, which tracks all active nonces for an Enterprise Group, now includes the following fields:
CREATED_ONEXPIRESNONCE
Linked Subscriptions - We addressed an issue where an erroneous error message was returned when linking a subscription to a non-existent or anonymized account. Now, the Link Subscription API returns error code 300173 when attempting to link a subscription to an invalid account. Previously, the API returned error cod 0001e.
User Names - We updated the Identity authentication process to better align email addresses and username handling. Now, email addresses are used as the user name, and they automatically update when a user changes their email address. This update streamlines consistency and reduces the risk of errors and mismatches between these fields.
Stripe Subscriptions User Migration fix - We resolved an issue affected users who were migrated from Stripe Subscriptions. Previously, these users were unable to change their active subscription due to a problem with the payment provider configuration. With this fix, migrated users can now successfully upgrade or downgrade their subscriptions as expected.
Users affected
Subscriptions users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Production - Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Release summary
Reminder: Arc Intelligence offers three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. Arc Intelligence is designed to help you get more from your content using powerful AI tools. It’s available in three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. If you're not already using Arc Intelligence, contact your Technical Account Manager to learn which package is right for your newsroom and how to get started. See Arc Intelligence.
What's new in the Advanced package - The Arc Intelligence Advanced package now brings vector search to Composer, enabling smarter and more context-aware content recommendations. With this update, Composer can surface highly relevant Related Stories and Featured Media based on story, photo, and video content. This package also includes all features from the Starter and Core packages. See AI Editor Advanced package.
Updates to the Starter package - We’ve expanded AI support in Composer for users on the Starter package. Arc Intelligence can now suggest content in more fields, including:
Description
Story tags
SEO keywords
Users affected
Composer users who use Arc Intelligence's Starter or Advanced package
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 11, 2025
Production - Monday, August 18, 2025
Release summary
This release adds support for lazy loaded components in non-default Micro Experience environments.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Release summary
Composer 2.7.2 introduces the long-requested ability for authors and editors to override image alt text in individual stories. This gives users more control to tailor alt text based on the specific context in which an image appears.
Admins can enable or disable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.
This release also includes several key fixes:
Links no longer intermittently cause page crashes
Migrated stories no longer display errors in Composer
Planned ready times set in the past now save correctly, preventing users from being blocked by validation errors when saving a story
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
To leverage the ability to override alt-text on images, admins must enable this feature in Composer Settings. See Managing Composer settings.
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Release summary
This release introduced the following updates:
Hotkey for Circulation selector (Q + Click Section) now works when search has been applied to the section search.
Importing stories that have headers that lack specified level (H1-H6) no longer disrupt story operations in Composer.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
The ability to compare any two revisions in Revision History and UX improvements on data in revisions
New support for external canonical URLs
Integration of the latest version of Circulation Selector (3.1.4).
Comparing any two revisions in Composer
We’ve improved Revision History in Composer so you can now compare any two revisions of a story, not just adjacent revisions. This makes it easier to see how content has changed over time.
Additionally, we’ve made UX improvements for how field changes appear, new sections for Planning, Metadata, and Featured Media, and better information architecture on Featured Media changes.
To compare any two revisions, select your first revision, then use the new drop-down to select the previous revision you want to compare against.
Changes are now grouped under clearly labeled sections for Planning and Metadata and Featured Media.
Field-level changes have an improved visual display that more clearly shows the value that was changed or added rather than just a simple text display.
Featured Media now displays a preview of the actual media that was added rather than just the technical data.
External canonical URLs
You can now add an external canonical URL to your story, allowing authors to properly attribute content back to its original source. This new field, available in Composer Settings to display on either the Planning or Metadata tabs, helps customers who license or publish third-party content maintain SEO best practices and avoid penalties for duplicate content. When populated, the external canonical URL is reflected in the <head> of the page in the <link rel="canonical"> tag, ensuring search engines recognize the original source of the content.
How it works:
A new field for the external canonical URL is available in Composer Settings when creating or editing a story.
Authors can input a fully qualified URL (for example,
https://example.com/article-name) that is rendered in the story’s<head>tag as a<link rel="canonical">tag.This does not change the URL of the published story—it only informs search engines about the source of the content.
See Using external canonical URLs.
Bug fixes
Work is automatically saved again if a user’s login sessions expires.
Featured media now again correctly respects any photo restrictions that have been set.
Default hyperlink settings are now respected for Link Lists.
An issue with the subtype field has been resolved where it seemed like certain options were inaccessible.
Find and replace menu item in the Actions Overflow menu is now between Configure Channels and Print Story.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously July 29)
Release summary
This release fixes a bug in the Author application that prevented proper processing when regenerating an existing Author Bio URL.
Users affected
Administrators
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, July 16, 2025)
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, July 22, 2025)
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Circulation Selector contains new hot-keys for selecting identically named sections or path sections across multiple websites.
Q+ Click Select All selects or deselects all sections across all websites.Q+ Click Section selects or deselects all sections of the same ID or Name across all websites.
The text color in the Summary box has been darkened to improve visibility and meet accessibility standards when displayed on light backgrounds.
Added support for consumer applications, such as Composer, to set the detected language. This provides greater flexibility and ensures consistent language application across content.
We fixed an issue where the system could not reliably distinguish between a deleted website and restricted permissions on website circulations.
Users affected
Users in Composer using Circulation Selector
Action required
These updates to Circulation Selector are available only in Composer.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025
Production - Monday, August 11, 2025
Release summary
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Migration Center Dashboard, a powerful new tool that gives Arc XP users ingesting content through Migration Center a high-level view of content import progress in real time.
Whether you're migrating from a legacy CMS, or an external wires integration, the dashboard helps you monitor what's currently in the queue and estimate when it will be complete.
Key features:
Dashboard Overview - Located on the Migration Center homepage, this panel gives a bird’s-eye view of all active migration streams. It highlights:
What content is currently queued for import
Estimated time remaining for each stream
Projected completion dates
Target Stream panel - View content grouped by destination endpoint: Draft, Video, Tags, Authors, Photos.
Group Progress panel - For users submitting content with a
GroupId, this panel allows you to track the progress of each specific job, helping teams monitor multiple tasks simultaneously.
See Migration Center reporting dashboard.
Users affected
Migration Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025
Production - Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Ensures that users on smaller screens can click the Upload button when uploading a new image to Photo Center from Composer
Removes the version number from the Photo Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)
Fixes a bug where the permission Upload Images From Selector was not being properly respected. Users without this permission can no longer have the option to upload images from the selector in Composer. If users need the ability to upload images from the selector in Composer but can no longer do so after this release, admins must grant them this privilege in Permissions application.
Users affected
Photo Center Administrators
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025
Production - Monday, August 11, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Automatic Account Deletion - An issue with Automatic Account Deletion has been resolved. Previously, some accounts were not anonymized after the configured period of inactivity. Clients with this feature enabled may notice a larger-than-usual change in the number of registered users in the month following this fix. These changes reflect accounts that have been inactive for the configured time as specified in the Settings admin.
Enterprise Group Reports - The Enterprise Group User List, which includes all users linked to an Enterprise Group, now contains the following fields:
CLIENT_IDSUBSCRIPTION_IDSUBSCRIPTION_STATUSNONCE REDEEMED_ON
Enterprise Group Nonce list - The Enterprise Group Nonce List report, which tracks all active nonces for an Enterprise Group, now includes the following fields:
CREATED_ONEXPIRESNONCE
Linked Subscriptions - We addressed an issue where an erroneous error message was returned when linking a subscription to a non-existent or anonymized account. Now, the Link Subscription API returns error code 300173 when attempting to link a subscription to an invalid account. Previously, the API returned error cod 0001e.
User Names - We updated the Identity authentication process to better align email addresses and username handling. Now, email addresses are used as the user name, and they automatically update when a user changes their email address. This update streamlines consistency and reduces the risk of errors and mismatches between these fields.
Stripe Subscriptions User Migration fix - We resolved an issue affected users who were migrated from Stripe Subscriptions. Previously, these users were unable to change their active subscription due to a problem with the payment provider configuration. With this fix, migrated users can now successfully upgrade or downgrade their subscriptions as expected.
Users affected
Subscriptions users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Production - Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Release summary
Reminder: Arc Intelligence offers three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. Arc Intelligence is designed to help you get more from your content using powerful AI tools. It’s available in three packages: Starter, Core, and Advanced. If you're not already using Arc Intelligence, contact your Technical Account Manager to learn which package is right for your newsroom and how to get started. See Arc Intelligence.
What's new in the Advanced package - The Arc Intelligence Advanced package now brings vector search to Composer, enabling smarter and more context-aware content recommendations. With this update, Composer can surface highly relevant Related Stories and Featured Media based on story, photo, and video content. This package also includes all features from the Starter and Core packages. See AI Editor Advanced package.
Updates to the Starter package - We’ve expanded AI support in Composer for users on the Starter package. Arc Intelligence can now suggest content in more fields, including:
Description
Story tags
SEO keywords
Users affected
Composer users who use Arc Intelligence's Starter or Advanced package
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, August 7, 2025
Production - Thursday, August 21, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Pre-generated video thumbnail Image Resizer URLs in ANS now transition to Resizer V2 paths. In ANS Video documents, the
additional_properties.imageResizerUrls.urlfield now uses/resizer/v2/paths instead of/resizer/. If your workflows rely on this field for validation or downstream integrations, you must ensure your systems are updated and tested.Removes the version number from the Video Center UI. (The version number will continue to be tracked in Arc XP Learning Center.)
Improves the user experience of the new VOD clipping experience so that video editors can consistently see the in and out timestamps.
Note
The new VOD clipping experience remains an opt-in feature. Contact Arc XP Customer Support to enable this feature.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
If you rely on the video thumbnail URL field for ANS validation, send-to-print integrations, and other use cases, you must validate your integrations and pipelines continue to work as expected.
July
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously July 29)
Release summary
This release fixes a bug in the Author application that prevented proper processing when regenerating an existing Author Bio URL.
Users affected
Administrators
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, July 16, 2025)
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, July 22, 2025)
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Circulation Selector contains new hot-keys for selecting identically named sections or path sections across multiple websites.
Q+ Click Select All selects or deselects all sections across all websites.Q+ Click Section selects or deselects all sections of the same ID or Name across all websites.
The text color in the Summary box has been darkened to improve visibility and meet accessibility standards when displayed on light backgrounds.
Added support for consumer applications, such as Composer, to set the detected language. This provides greater flexibility and ensures consistent language application across content.
We fixed an issue where the system could not reliably distinguish between a deleted website and restricted permissions on website circulations.
Users affected
Users in Composer using Circulation Selector
Action required
These updates to Circulation Selector are available only in Composer.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
The ability to compare any two revisions in Revision History and UX improvements on data in revisions
New support for external canonical URLs
Integration of the latest version of Circulation Selector (3.1.4).
Comparing any two revisions in Composer
We’ve improved Revision History in Composer so you can now compare any two revisions of a story, not just adjacent revisions. This makes it easier to see how content has changed over time.
Additionally, we’ve made UX improvements for how field changes appear, new sections for Planning, Metadata, and Featured Media, and better information architecture on Featured Media changes.
To compare any two revisions, select your first revision, then use the new drop-down to select the previous revision you want to compare against.
Changes are now grouped under clearly labeled sections for Planning and Metadata and Featured Media.
Field-level changes have an improved visual display that more clearly shows the value that was changed or added rather than just a simple text display.
Featured Media now displays a preview of the actual media that was added rather than just the technical data.
External canonical URLs
You can now add an external canonical URL to your story, allowing authors to properly attribute content back to its original source. This new field, available in Composer Settings to display on either the Planning or Metadata tabs, helps customers who license or publish third-party content maintain SEO best practices and avoid penalties for duplicate content. When populated, the external canonical URL is reflected in the <head> of the page in the <link rel="canonical"> tag, ensuring search engines recognize the original source of the content.
How it works:
A new field for the external canonical URL is available in Composer Settings when creating or editing a story.
Authors can input a fully qualified URL (for example,
https://example.com/article-name) that is rendered in the story’s<head>tag as a<link rel="canonical">tag.This does not change the URL of the published story—it only informs search engines about the source of the content.
See Using external canonical URLs.
Bug fixes
Work is automatically saved again if a user’s login sessions expires.
Featured media now again correctly respects any photo restrictions that have been set.
Default hyperlink settings are now respected for Link Lists.
An issue with the subtype field has been resolved where it seemed like certain options were inaccessible.
Find and replace menu item in the Actions Overflow menu is now between Configure Channels and Print Story.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Release summary
This hotfix includes updates to prepare for an upcoming Mongo database upgrade.
Users affected
PageBuilder users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses an issue in that prevented some valid URLs from being entered due to the new validation added on URLs as well as an issue that causes the page to freeze when editing a pasted link.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following updates:
When hyperlink OR interstitial links are invalid, Composer now displays a more clear better error to show that the URL is invalid: Invalid URL. Check the link and try again. This respects Composer Settings that allow for relative URLs.
Hyperlink Settings defaults (Open in a new tab) now apply to Link List content elements.
Longer labels in Link Lists no longer break the container.
We also introduced a number of updates to Circulation Selector. See .
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Select Field on the Edit Field form now accurately displays the error causing a form to be invalid when removing all select fields from the Select Field form item.
Lang Allow on the New Website form now uses the same check for both displaying the Lang Allow form item and the schema used to check if the form is valid, fixing an issue resulting in new websites always being invalid due to this difference in checking.
Users affected
Administrators
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Release summary
This release corrects right-to-left (RTL) support to be fully functional, with no overlapping or out-of-place components.
Users affected
Users in locales with right-to-left languages (like Arabic)
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, August 4, 2025 (was previously Wednesday, July 16, 2025)
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, July 22, 2025)
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Circulation Selector contains new hot-keys for selecting identically named sections or path sections across multiple websites.
Q+ Click Select All selects or deselects all sections across all websites.Q+ Click Section selects or deselects all sections of the same ID or Name across all websites.
The text color in the Summary box has been darkened to improve visibility and meet accessibility standards when displayed on light backgrounds.
Added support for consumer applications, such as Composer, to set the detected language. This provides greater flexibility and ensures consistent language application across content.
We fixed an issue where the system could not reliably distinguish between a deleted website and restricted permissions on website circulations.
Users affected
Users in Composer using Circulation Selector
Action required
These updates to Circulation Selector are available only in Composer.
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Users affected
Developers
Action required
To use this functionality, you must upgrade to Arc XP CLI 1.1.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, July 21, 2025
Production - no Production release. This functionality exists only in Sandbox.
Release summary
This release fixes a bug in View API responses when using the include and exclude parameters to single document endpoints.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Production - Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (was previously July 29)
Release summary
This release fixes a bug in the Author application that prevented proper processing when regenerating an existing Author Bio URL.
Users affected
Administrators
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Production - Monday, July 14, 2025
Release summary
This release includes back-end performance and reliability enhancements. No customer impact is expected.
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Release summary
Introducing Arc XP’s Edge Integration Framework, a new way to connect third-party services to your Arc XP environment right at the edge layer. This framework gives you more control over how you manage traffic before it reaches your site, without the need for custom development.
The first integration available through this framework is DataDome’s Advanced Bot Management service.
This integration enables Arc XP customers to leverage DataDome’s bot detection engine to identify and block malicious bots, such as scrapers, credential stuffing tools, and fake traffic, before those requests reach your application. Filtering at the edge layer helps preserve infrastructure resources, protects paywalls or premium content, and ensures that your analytics reflect real user behavior.
To use this feature, you must have an active DataDome subscription and configure protection rules directly through the DataDome platform. Arc XP facilitates the connection and routing of traffic to DataDome but does not manage bot detection policies or enforcement.
To get started, see Managing your DataDome edge integration.
Users affected
Delivery site managers
Action required
To enable edge integrations with DataDome, contact your Technical Account Manager. Your account manager can also help connect you with DataDome if you do not currently subscribe.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following updates:
When hyperlink OR interstitial links are invalid, Composer now displays a more clear better error to show that the URL is invalid: Invalid URL. Check the link and try again. This respects Composer Settings that allow for relative URLs.
Hyperlink Settings defaults (Open in a new tab) now apply to Link List content elements.
Longer labels in Link Lists no longer break the container.
We also introduced a number of updates to Circulation Selector. See .
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes the Import Page functionality, ensuring that new pages are accurately created based on the imported content.
Users affected
PageBuilder admins
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes the following issues introduced in Composer 2.6.5:
Free form values added to picklist fields are now applied and saved when you either press Enter or exit or click out of the field.
Tags no longer are cut off or duplicated.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
Scheduled story publish actions no longer publish without required fields.
When publishing scheduled stories that have not been published for the first time, the button now says “Publish” instead of “Update”.
If a user is in read-only mode and the other user with the lock leaves, the lock is now transferred to the read-only user only when they refresh the page.
Interstitial links now have better handling when required fields are empty or are partially filled out.
Photo restrictions are now correctly respected again.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes a bug in the /collections endpoint of View API. Now, the data returned is the same regardless of the number of elements requested.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
In according with our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines, user’s names no longer appear in the Gallery Edit presence indicator.
When user owner (
additional_properties.owner) is updated through the API, that new value is now searchable.API uploads now require the organization ID
owner.idto be present.Fixes bug where EXIF-rotated images weren’t saving the swapped dimensions correctly.
Fixes bug where full-width spaces were breaking search terms for CJK characters.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Release summary
This release removes unnecessary logic when loading an Author’s image through the UI. There is no change to the existing features.
Users affected
Author users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 3, 2025
Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
Bug fixes:
@wpmedia/header-nav-chain-block- Section URLs in the left navigation now include a trailing slash.@wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block- Arc Block images now scale responsively with screen size.@wpmedia/arc-themes-components-Fixed extra whitespace that appeared in carousels.
Arc Block accessibility improvements:
All skip links now have focusable targets.
Page content is fully contained within ARIA landmarks.
Interactive elements include their visible text in accessible names.
A “Skip to Main Content” link now appears before navigation.
New functionality:
@wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block now resize images even when no auth value is present, ensuring consistent image sizing.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
Upgrade to the latest Arc Block version to receive these items.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Production - Monday, July 14, 2025
Release summary
This release includes back-end performance and reliability enhancements. No customer impact is expected.
Users affected
WebSked users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
Free form options added to picklist fields now save when you exit the field.
Non-'basic' headlines no longer revert to a previous state when interacting with the Prolexis spellchecker.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 3, 2025
Release summary
This release provides an update to Circulation Selector in Composer where, on smaller screen sizes, the Save Circulations button was not accessible unless you zoomed out on your browser. Users with smaller screens can now scroll to access the Save Circulations button.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, July 3, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
When you add Sections to a hierarchy in Navigation, the system now builds the entire ancestor list for child sections. This is a correction to a bug where only the initial parent was being added to this list.
Ungrouped fields under Section Edit is fixed to allow Map fields.
A proper error message for Field Edit regarding Select field type is now appears when applicable.
Users affected
Site Service users
Action required
None
June
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Release summary
A new endpoint in Migration Center—/groupID—lets you query to get lists of recent batches of content submitted to the service where you have applied a groupId for tracking batches of content.
Additionally, this release also provides an improvement to the /counts endpoint so that content counts are cached to help optimize endpoint response. You should now have an overall improved experience when calling this endpoint during migrations with large document counts.
Users affected
Migration Center developers
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
Scheduled story publish actions no longer publish without required fields.
When publishing scheduled stories that have not been published for the first time, the button now says “Publish” instead of “Update”.
If a user is in read-only mode and the other user with the lock leaves, the lock is now transferred to the read-only user only when they refresh the page.
Interstitial links now have better handling when required fields are empty or are partially filled out.
Photo restrictions are now correctly respected again.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Production - Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes a bug in the /collections endpoint of View API. Now, the data returned is the same regardless of the number of elements requested.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 3, 2025
Production - Thursday, July 10, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
Bug fixes:
@wpmedia/header-nav-chain-block- Section URLs in the left navigation now include a trailing slash.@wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block- Arc Block images now scale responsively with screen size.@wpmedia/arc-themes-components-Fixed extra whitespace that appeared in carousels.
Arc Block accessibility improvements:
All skip links now have focusable targets.
Page content is fully contained within ARIA landmarks.
Interactive elements include their visible text in accessible names.
A “Skip to Main Content” link now appears before navigation.
New functionality:
@wpmedia/author-bio-block and @wpmedia/full-author-bio-block now resize images even when no auth value is present, ensuring consistent image sizing.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
Upgrade to the latest Arc Block version to receive these items.
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Release summary
This release removes unnecessary logic when loading an Author’s image through the UI. There is no change to the existing features.
Users affected
Author users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Note
This release affects only customers in the us-east-1 AWS region.
Release summary
This update prepares Photo Center for an upcoming database upgrade. It includes:
Adding more space and resources to our database to handle data more smoothly
Improving how the app disconnects from the database when it shuts down, to avoid errors
Updating a security certificate that helps keep the database connection secure
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Production - Thursday, June 26, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
Updates the Google Apps Manager (GAM) version number used for server-side ad insertion (SSAI).
Removes the Priority parameter from Video API import documentation, as it was not functional. (If this parameter is included in a call to Video API, the system ignores it. You do not need to update your code.)
Users affected
Video Center admins
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, June 26, 2025
Release summary
Pull Quotes and Block Quotes now support specifying the language the quote is written in. This update better addresses global accessibility standards (Idea EU Accessibility).
You can now select the quote language in the drop-down menu on pull and block quotes.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None; however, as needed, you should implement logic to read the ANS quote language fields and ensure quotes are read by screen readers in the specified language on the front end. If desired, you may implement styling for different languages.
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 23, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 30, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
contentCacheis now available inoutputTypes- We now exposecontentCacheinfusion:contextavailable inoutputTypefor greater developer access to request-level content caching data.Environment file fix in Micro Experience (MX) environments - We updated the PageBuilder Compiler to correctly resolve environment inheritance in multiple MX environments. Previously, MX runtime used an
{org}-{env}-{mxId}format for theENVIRONMENTvariable, but environment files were not consistently inheriting due tomxIdsuffixes. This patch ensures environment inheritance uses the base{org}-{env}format across MX environments.
As per the Engine versioning policy, this patch removes previous patch versions in the same major group.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Production - Monday, June 30, 2025
Release summary
The custom tax provide has been updated so the “Add tax exempt status to billing address” option is available in the Customer Service Admin in the User’s subscription card overflow menu.
Users affected
Developers and Customer Service Representatives
Action required
Use the "Add tax exempt status to billing address" option as needed. To learn more, see Tax exempt customers.
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Monday, June 23, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, June 17, 2025)
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
You can now use Integrated Search capabilities on chains, in addition to blocks.
Adds additional validation to Resolvers to ensure data is saved as expected.
Updates error messaging in the Blocks search panel to be more accurate.
Removes Audience Targeting functionality when running PageBuilder Editor locally.
Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented users from updating a custom field.
Remove unused Stencil Page permissions that were inadvertently introduced. (These permissions are not functional).
Users affected
PageBuilder Editor users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 16, 2025
Production - Monday, June 23, 2025
Release summary
This release makes additional WebSked APIs available to customer developers, including the ability to manage pitches and tasks programmatically, as well as delete resources from WebSked using tokens from the developer portal.
This brings the developer API even closer to parity with the API used to power the WebSked user interface, enabling customer developers to extend WebSked and integrate Arc XP with external platforms more easily. Customer developers can now interact with pitches, tasks, groups, publications, and collections programmatically including deleting resources.
Updates made through the developer API include “API” as the responsible party instead of an individual's name as it appears today within the WebSked user interface and API endpoints.
For more information, see the WebSked API documentation.
This release also includes an back-end change for how WebSked consumes updates from the rest of the platform. No impact is expected from this change.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
You can now again delete and remote related items from a Composer template.
You cannot set Planned Ready Time in the past, but now you’re not required to update the field erroneously on an already-published story when saving new changes.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Release summary
After a successful beta period, Circulation Selector 3.0 is now available for all customers.
Designed for efficiency and speed, the new UI includes reorganized panes for easier site and section selection and a streamlined user flow for making edits. Designed for efficiency and speed, this UI addresses many UX issues previously reported through idea portals and feedback sessions.
What's new in the Circulation Selector:
Seamless navigation through the Circulation Selector from left to right, providing flexibility to the users who want to make edits at different steps of the process.
A streamlined summary view of finalized circulations
Ability to view sections organized by IDs (called
Paths) and byNames.Improved workflow with the new Circulation Selector opening as a modal instead of a new full-screen page
For full details, see Composer circulation selector 3.0.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
At this time, Circulation Selector 3.0 is available only in Composer and not in Photo Center or Video Center.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Release summary
A new endpoint in Migration Center—/groupID—lets you query to get lists of recent batches of content submitted to the service where you have applied a groupId for tracking batches of content.
Additionally, this release also provides an improvement to the /counts endpoint so that content counts are cached to help optimize endpoint response. You should now have an overall improved experience when calling this endpoint during migrations with large document counts.
Users affected
Migration Center developers
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 23, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 30, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
contentCacheis now available inoutputTypes- We now exposecontentCacheinfusion:contextavailable inoutputTypefor greater developer access to request-level content caching data.Environment file fix in Micro Experience (MX) environments - We updated the PageBuilder Compiler to correctly resolve environment inheritance in multiple MX environments. Previously, MX runtime used an
{org}-{env}-{mxId}format for theENVIRONMENTvariable, but environment files were not consistently inheriting due tomxIdsuffixes. This patch ensures environment inheritance uses the base{org}-{env}format across MX environments.
As per the Engine versioning policy, this patch removes previous patch versions in the same major group.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 9, 2025
Production - Monday, June 16, 2025
Release summary
Warning
An issue affecting some videos prevented clips from successfully being created from the refreshed clipping interface. We have rolled back to the prior clipping interface while investigating the issue. A new Production release date will be announced for the refreshed clipping UI once the issue is resolved.
This release introduces a refreshed video clipping interfaced based on feedback from Video Center users who need to quickly find precise in and out times for video clips.
A new filmstrip of the entire video enables you to quickly find the content you want to clip using visual cues. You can zoom in to find the exact moment you’re looking for in a long video file. Then, you can use the fine-grained clip controls you’re used to to find the exact in and out points you need, down to the frame.
Note
Only VODs that are encoded have a filmstrip. VODs that are not encoded show a generic blue bar.
You now have a higher-quality video while you’re creating your clip.
You can now control the crop area when creating videos in other ratios, like Vertical, which mimics a phone.
For more information, see Clipping a video on demand (VOD).
This release also contains the following changes:
The Ad Playback tile is removed from the Video Center analytics dashboard, because issues were uncovered in the reporting that caused inaccurate metrics to display, such as unusually high ad skip rates and inflated ad completion rates.
Resolved an issue where the "Add Photos" buttons in the Series module were rendering with errors. The buttons now display and function as expected.
Resolved an issue where users were unable to unselect or unpin a video that had been set as the first position in a playlist. Previously, after a video was pinned, it could not be removed, limiting playlist flexibility.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Monday, June 16, 2025
Release summary
This version contains a minor refactoring on the logic to filter restricted fields, there are no changes to the current features.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
PageBuilder Data Copies in Staging now work as expected.
Backups of environments are now properly completed during the PageBuilder Data Copy process.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Monday, June 23, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, June 17, 2025)
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
You can now use Integrated Search capabilities on chains, in addition to blocks.
Adds additional validation to Resolvers to ensure data is saved as expected.
Updates error messaging in the Blocks search panel to be more accurate.
Removes Audience Targeting functionality when running PageBuilder Editor locally.
Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented users from updating a custom field.
Remove unused Stencil Page permissions that were inadvertently introduced. (These permissions are not functional).
Users affected
PageBuilder Editor users
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 16, 2025
Production - Monday, June 23, 2025
Release summary
This release makes additional WebSked APIs available to customer developers, including the ability to manage pitches and tasks programmatically, as well as delete resources from WebSked using tokens from the developer portal.
This brings the developer API even closer to parity with the API used to power the WebSked user interface, enabling customer developers to extend WebSked and integrate Arc XP with external platforms more easily. Customer developers can now interact with pitches, tasks, groups, publications, and collections programmatically including deleting resources.
Updates made through the developer API include “API” as the responsible party instead of an individual's name as it appears today within the WebSked user interface and API endpoints.
For more information, see the WebSked API documentation.
This release also includes an back-end change for how WebSked consumes updates from the rest of the platform. No impact is expected from this change.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
You can now again delete and remote related items from a Composer template.
You cannot set Planned Ready Time in the past, but now you’re not required to update the field erroneously on an already-published story when saving new changes.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
In according with our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines, user’s names no longer appear in the Gallery Edit presence indicator.
When user owner (
additional_properties.owner) is updated through the API, that new value is now searchable.API uploads now require the organization ID
owner.idto be present.Fixes bug where EXIF-rotated images weren’t saving the swapped dimensions correctly.
Fixes bug where full-width spaces were breaking search terms for CJK characters.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Sandbox - Friday, June 13, 2025
Production - Monday, June 16, 2025
Release summary
This update fixes an issue with Sign-In With Apple for clients using Subs Themes Blocks and legacy SIWA APIs. Users are no longer sent back to the login form after following the Apple verification steps.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including
Placeholder text for images in Author Overrides no longer display
[Object Object].Word counts no longer disappear when story titles extend to multiple lines.
When in Suggest Mode, when selecting text and then typing, text is no longer removed and instead added as a suggested deletion with additional text appended as a suggested addition.
Opening story preview in Revision history no longer intermittently throws an unexpected application error.
Comments are no longer moving to different locations in a story intermittently.
Social URL modals are now correctly showing in the location users add them instead of at the bottom of the story.
Transferring control of a story to another user no longer results in unsaved changes being lost.
You can now cut (Ctrl+X/CMD+X) attribution text in block quotes without it removing the entire quote.
Bold text copied from a document preview in Microsoft OneDrive now pastes correctly into Composer.
Pasting text into selected text is now correctly not converting the pasted text into a hyperlink when you are not pasting a URL.
Scheduled stories are again respecting timezone settings for when to publish.
Additional spaces are no longer being added when copying and pasting into Composer.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Release summary
This release updates some of the internal logic used to monitor and log API metrics. It also updates the logic for tracking unexpected field values (used internally by Arc XP to monitor usage). There are no changes to the current API features.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, June 5, 2025
Production - Thursday, June 12, 2025
Release summary
To keep things easy for you, Arc XP continues to fully manage complimentary integrations such as Queryly on your behalf. To avoid accidental changes, these integrations are no longer accessible through the UI or APIs, because you don’t need to worry about them. We handle all the configuration and maintenance behind the scenes, so you can stay focused on your priorities.
No changes are required on your end, and your integrations will continue to work as expected. If you have any questions or would like to discuss these integrations further, contact your Technical Account Manager.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 9, 2025
Production - Monday, June 16, 2025
Release summary
Warning
An issue affecting some videos prevented clips from successfully being created from the refreshed clipping interface. We have rolled back to the prior clipping interface while investigating the issue. A new Production release date will be announced for the refreshed clipping UI once the issue is resolved.
This release introduces a refreshed video clipping interfaced based on feedback from Video Center users who need to quickly find precise in and out times for video clips.
A new filmstrip of the entire video enables you to quickly find the content you want to clip using visual cues. You can zoom in to find the exact moment you’re looking for in a long video file. Then, you can use the fine-grained clip controls you’re used to to find the exact in and out points you need, down to the frame.
Note
Only VODs that are encoded have a filmstrip. VODs that are not encoded show a generic blue bar.
You now have a higher-quality video while you’re creating your clip.
You can now control the crop area when creating videos in other ratios, like Vertical, which mimics a phone.
For more information, see Clipping a video on demand (VOD).
This release also contains the following changes:
The Ad Playback tile is removed from the Video Center analytics dashboard, because issues were uncovered in the reporting that caused inaccurate metrics to display, such as unusually high ad skip rates and inflated ad completion rates.
Resolved an issue where the "Add Photos" buttons in the Series module were rendering with errors. The buttons now display and function as expected.
Resolved an issue where users were unable to unselect or unpin a video that had been set as the first position in a playlist. Previously, after a video was pinned, it could not be removed, limiting playlist flexibility.
Users affected
Video Center users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Monday, June 16, 2025
Release summary
This version contains a minor refactoring on the logic to filter restricted fields, there are no changes to the current features.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Release summary
After a successful beta period, Circulation Selector 3.0 is now available for all customers.
Designed for efficiency and speed, the new UI includes reorganized panes for easier site and section selection and a streamlined user flow for making edits. Designed for efficiency and speed, this UI addresses many UX issues previously reported through idea portals and feedback sessions.
What's new in the Circulation Selector:
Seamless navigation through the Circulation Selector from left to right, providing flexibility to the users who want to make edits at different steps of the process.
A streamlined summary view of finalized circulations
Ability to view sections organized by IDs (called
Paths) and byNames.Improved workflow with the new Circulation Selector opening as a modal instead of a new full-screen page
For full details, see Composer circulation selector 3.0.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
At this time, Circulation Selector 3.0 is available only in Composer and not in Photo Center or Video Center.
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
PageBuilder Data Copies in Staging now work as expected.
Backups of environments are now properly completed during the PageBuilder Data Copy process.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - Monday, June 23, 2025 (was previously Tuesday, June 17, 2025)
Release summary
This release contains the following updates:
You can now use Integrated Search capabilities on chains, in addition to blocks.
Adds additional validation to Resolvers to ensure data is saved as expected.
Updates error messaging in the Blocks search panel to be more accurate.
Removes Audience Targeting functionality when running PageBuilder Editor locally.
Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented users from updating a custom field.
Remove unused Stencil Page permissions that were inadvertently introduced. (These permissions are not functional).
Users affected
PageBuilder Editor users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Production - to be announced
Note
The include and exclude functionality in View API is available in Sandbox only. We will release it to Production in a future update.
Release summary
View API now allows you to include or exclude specific ANS fields, reducing the payload size of each API call and improving performance. Responses are smaller and the processing logic in client-side code becomes simpler and faster.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Production - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Release summary
This release includes the following updates:
In according with our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines, user’s names no longer appear in the Gallery Edit presence indicator.
When user owner (
additional_properties.owner) is updated through the API, that new value is now searchable.API uploads now require the organization ID
owner.idto be present.Fixes bug where EXIF-rotated images weren’t saving the swapped dimensions correctly.
Fixes bug where full-width spaces were breaking search terms for CJK characters.
Users affected
Photo Center users
Action required
None
Hotfixes
Release dates
Note
This release affects only the ap-northeast-1 AWS region.
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, May 29, 2025
Release summary
For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character inputs, full-width space characters are now parsed correctly in searches.
Users affected
Photo Center users in the ap-northeast-1 AWS region
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Friday, May 30, 2025
Release summary
This release introduces the following updates:
Now, copying from Microsoft Word into Composer works as expected and no longer introduces spacing issues.
We’ve temporarily reverted a recent change that prevented Planned Ready Times from being set in the past, as it was causing issues where you had to unnecessarily update published stories. You can now set Planned Ready Times in the past again while we work on a permanent fix. An upcoming release will reintroduce the restriction (preventing past times) without triggering unintended updates to published stories or requiring you to evaluate the field when it's no longer needed.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Thursday, June 5, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes an issue in the following Themes versions:
3.0.0
2.6.0
2.5.2
2.4.1
2.3.2
We identified recent build failures related to the react-google-recaptcha-v3 dependency. This package is indirectly imported through @wpmedia/arc-themes-components, which is utilized by several Identity and Subscription-related blocks. This led to the inability to deploy bundles.
On June 3, 2025, react-google-recaptcha-v3 published a "minor" version update that introduced a breaking change. This update caused @wpmedia/arc-themes-components to resolve to React 19, leading to build and compatibility issues.
As a result, this release pins the react-google-recaptcha-v3 dependency to the known stable version 1.10.1. This change restores compatibility and aligns with the original expected behavior of Arc Themes blocks that rely on react-google-recaptcha-v3.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
If you're experiencing this issue, a workaround is to add the following override to your package.json file:
```
"overrides": {
"react-google-recaptcha-v3": "1.10.1"
}
```Release dates
Sandbox - Friday, June 6, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Release summary
This release updates the WebSked integration to the latest version, which provides a fix to display the entire name of a collection as a tool tip when a name is bigger than the size of the container.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Monday, June 9, 2025
Production - Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Release summary
This release fixes an issue that prevented sessions that started before a password change from being terminated. Now, when a user changes their password, all existing sessions are properly terminated, and no new access tokens are issued for refresh tokens tied to those old sessions.
Users affected
Subscriptions users
Action required
None
Production
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Production - Monday, June 2, 2025
Release summary
This release follows through with the deprecation announced in January 2024, ending developer API access to the WebSked search and stats endpoints. Going forward, developers should leverage the Content API endpoints to retrieve content.
For more information, see:
Users affected
WebSked developers
Action required
Transition away from the deprecated search and stat APIs. For content search needs, use the Content API moving forward.
Sandbox
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Release summary
This release addresses a number of items in Composer V2 including
Placeholder text for images in Author Overrides no longer display
[Object Object].Word counts no longer disappear when story titles extend to multiple lines.
When in Suggest Mode, when selecting text and then typing, text is no longer removed and instead added as a suggested deletion with additional text appended as a suggested addition.
Opening story preview in Revision history no longer intermittently throws an unexpected application error.
Comments are no longer moving to different locations in a story intermittently.
Social URL modals are now correctly showing in the location users add them instead of at the bottom of the story.
Transferring control of a story to another user no longer results in unsaved changes being lost.
You can now cut (Ctrl+X/CMD+X) attribution text in block quotes without it removing the entire quote.
Bold text copied from a document preview in Microsoft OneDrive now pastes correctly into Composer.
Pasting text into selected text is now correctly not converting the pasted text into a hyperlink when you are not pasting a URL.
Scheduled stories are again respecting timezone settings for when to publish.
Additional spaces are no longer being added when copying and pasting into Composer.
Users affected
Composer users
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Production - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Release summary
This release updates some of the internal logic used to monitor and log API metrics. It also updates the logic for tracking unexpected field values (used internally by Arc XP to monitor usage). There are no changes to the current API features.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox - Thursday, June 5, 2025
Production - Thursday, June 12, 2025
Release summary
To keep things easy for you, Arc XP continues to fully manage complimentary integrations such as Queryly on your behalf. To avoid accidental changes, these integrations are no longer accessible through the UI or APIs, because you don’t need to worry about them. We handle all the configuration and maintenance behind the scenes, so you can stay focused on your priorities.
No changes are required on your end, and your integrations will continue to work as expected. If you have any questions or would like to discuss these integrations further, contact your Technical Account Manager.
Users affected
Developers
Action required
None
May
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 your Technical Account Manager.
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
For previous release notes, see What's New in Arc XP.