5.5 Service Pack 1 Release Notes

Release Information

What's included in CQ 5.5 Service Pack 1?

CQ 5.5 Update is an important update that includes previously released security, performance, and stability updates for CQ 5.5. Update 1 also includes key customer fixes/enhancements in CQ 5.5, such as a improved support for Thumbnail generation of CMYK EPS files in DAM.

Fixes include:

• Security fixes, including http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2138
• Various translation and localization fixes
• CQ5-8871: XMP property (aux:ISO) is now set on Asset Import
  
• CQ5-17524: Fixed occasional long running requests caused by LiveCopyManager
• CQ5-17617: Segments to resolve on page refresh
• CQ5-18050: Welcome screen adjustments
• CQ5-16464: Fixed generation of thumbnail renditions for tiff images
  
• CQ5-15739: Fixed false color issue for generated thumbnails of CMYK EPS files
  
• CQ5-17599: DAM: Metadata extraction of jpeg/tiff fails after adding xmp metadata
• CQ5-16958: Fixed email notification for Forum topic subscription
  
• CQ5-17547: Translation fixes for comments on blog page
  
• CQ5-17400: Enhanced ExternalJobPostServlet to support getStatus operation
  
• CQ5-16978: Enhanced file name handling in IDS proxy for special chars
  
• CQ5-16979: Fixed XMP metadata extraction for INDD files
  
• CQ5-17463: API access adjustments in DAM to updated Sanselan library
  
• CRX-3885: Fixed TooManyClauses-Exception for SQL2 Query
  
• CRX-4121: Removed option "Persistence Manager Scan" for Data Store Garbage Collection operations
  
• GRANITE-206: Enhanced performance in case of extensive usage of sling:vanityPath
• GRANITE-579: Introduced JMX overview for LDAP
  
• GRANITE-734: Fixed Cluster configuration panel (after inplace upgrade from CQ5.4 to CQ5.5)
  
• GRANITE-738: Replaced flat content structure by nested structure in Replication Outbox
  
• GRANITE-761: Fixed content search in Granite for nt:file nodes
• GRANITE-797: Fixed Felix console configuration writes to repository
  
• GRANITE-822: Regression: Enable content deletion on package installation
  
• GRANITE-1071: Regression: Installing a package with a filter to a jcr:content node (or same name as in .content.xml) removes the content
• GRANITE-840: Crypto Support initialization after repository service registration
  
• GRANITE-841: Fixed Crypto Support service registration
  
• NPR-1882: LiveCopy: Fixes for MSM rollout of children for on Modification, Restore Tree Child Page order, VersionCopyAction
• 3102377 Simplified Chinese date format fixed
• 3091332 Japanese content can be searched out through CRXDE lite's SQL query feature
• 3089898 Fixed preview of content that contains Chinese or Japanese characters

Setup Requirements

• Update 1 applies to CQ 5.5. You must upgrade your CQ instance if it is an earlier version, please see upgrade documentation for detailed instructions.
• Make sure that you have a fresh backup of your CQ instance before you install Update 1.
  
• Update 1 is a CQ Package and can be installed as such. Please see PackageManager documentation for detailed instructions. The Update 1 download is available on Adobe PackageShare, you can download and install it directly from your CQ 5.5 instance.
• You may want to verify that none of your custom project code will be overwritten with the installation. To do so, you can use the "Dry-Run" option in CQ PackageManager, which simulates the installation for you.
• The installation process will ask you to restart the system. In some cases, this info is shown while the system is still processing bundle installations in the background. It is strongly recommended to wait until CQ was able to install all bundles before restarting the system, you can check bundle status in the OSGI console of your CQ instance.
  
• If you have a fresth CQ5 setup: Restart your CQ 5.5 instance before installing the Update.

Setup & Operation Instructions

Please verify a successful installation of Update 1 by testing your CQ application & content. If you see any issues:

• Make sure that OSGI bundles has the status ACTIVE in the OSGI Console.

In order to see what platforms are certified to run with this release of CQ WCM and CQ DAM, please refer to the CQ online documentation: Supported platforms.

Caution:

• The XMP metadata write-back feature from DAM is not supported on Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX and HP-UX.
• In-place Editing is not supported on Google Chrome and Apple Safari browsers.
• The authoring user interface makes use of various HTML5 features such as drag&drop, multi-file upload, geo location. These features are not supported when the browser in use does not support these HTML5 features, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
• Installations on Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.5 might show page rendering problems due to conflicting of installed library versions. Please see installation instructions in documentation.

Links

• CQ5.5 Release Notes
• CQ5 Product Page on adobe.com
  
• dev.day.com Developer Community
  
• CQ5 Documentation on docs.day.com
• API Differences between CQ 5.4 and CQ 5.5

Restricted Sites

These sites are only available to customers. If you are a customer and need access, please contact your Adobe account manager.

• Product Download at licensing.adobe.com
• Customer Support at daycare.day.com