Release Notes

For CQ WCM, Version 5.5 and CQ DAM, Version 5.5

The release cycle for this version of Adobe CQ started March 1, 2011, went through 25 iterations of quality assurance and bug fixing, and ended February 20, 2012. The total number of customer related issues including enhancements and new features fixed in this release is 296.

Adobe CQ 5.5 is generally available since February 25, 2012.

Adobe CQ WCM 5.5 is an easy-to-use unified web management suite for digital marketers to create, manage, and deliver personalized online experiences to build brand and drive demand across web, social and mobile channels. CQ WCM 5.5 is available Basic and Standard edition and offers add-on modules that provide extendended functionality for Multi-Site Management, Marketing Cmapaign Management, Mobile and multi device support, Social Collaboration including Blogs, Forum, Calendaring, and Active Clustering.

Adobe CQ DAM 5.5 is a digital asset management system for enterprise-level organizations that have large asset repository combined with complex and diverse uses for assets in different audiences. CQ DAM integrates with Adobe's CRX, Virtual Repository, Marketing Campaign Management and Web Content Management products. CQ DAM also integrates with Adobe Digital Marketing Suite products, namely Adobe Scene7, a dynamic rich media delivery solution. CQ DAM 5.5 is available as a stand-alone product and is also included in CQ WCM 5.5 Standard edition.

CQ 5.5 is a upgrade release to the CQ 5.4 and ADEP WEM 5.4 code base. It provides new and enhanced functionality, key customer fixes, high priority customer enhancements and general bug fixes oriented toward product stabilization. It also includes all CQ 5.4 and ADEP WEM 5.4 feature pack and hot fix releases. Key enhancements are directed towards an even better usability for all users – authors, administrators, and developers –, to further facilitate all tasks related to the content live cycle in a global enterprise. Enhancements include:

• Improved stability and performance
• New undo/redo functionality while editing content
• Forms: Dynamic show/hide of fields based on conditions
• Highly improved and extended Client Context (former Clickstream Cloud)
  
• Additional components for the Client Context
• New Analytics Framework based on an integration with Adobe SiteCatalyst (requires SiteCatalyst license)
  
• New integration with Adobe Search&Promote (requires Search&Promote license)
  
• Improved integration with Adobe Test&Target (requires Test&Target license)
  
• Improved mobile device group mapping (requires CQ Mobile)
• Extended Content Sync framework to support personalized content (requires CQ Mobile)
• Improved Campaign Manager UI (requires CQ MCM)
• Faceted and customizable search panel in DAM Admin (requires CQ5 DAM)
• Integration with Adobe Scene7 and Adobe InDesign Server (requires CQ5 DAM and Scene7)
• Improved integration with Adobe Creative Suite products via Adobe Drive (requires CQ5 DAM)
  
• XMP metadata write-back for selected file formats (requires CQ5 DAM)
• Horizontal scaling of asset processing through external processes and servers (requires CQ5 DAM)
• Remote server monitoring and managemend via Java Management Extensions (JMX)
• Extended CRXDE light with permissions editing and deployment/replication
• ClientLibs have built-in support for LESS http://lesscss.org/ to simply CSS development
  
• Besides the all-inclusive Quickstart, the server install is also available as single WAR file to deploy into Web Applications servers

Adobe is using a customer focused development model that allows customers to contribute to all stages of the development process, during specification, development and testing. Our thanks goes to all contributing customers and partners in this process.

Adobe has the procedures and processes in place to enable collection, prioritization, and tracking of customer focused bug resolution and enhancement request development. The DayCare Issue Tracking System is loosely integrated with the Adobe Bug and Enhancement Tracking System. Customer issues are identified and resolved in DayCare where possible. When escalated to R&D, all customer information is captured, and used for prioritization and reporting purposes. Priority is given in development to paid support and warrantee issues and paid customer enhancements.

This process of prioritization has yielded more than 284 customer focused bugs fixed in CQ 5.5. Bugs here intend all issues captured in the Adobe Bug and Enhancement Tracking System, many of them actually being new features or enhancements. There are many more issues resolved at the DayCare level.

The CQ5 feature-set is, as in earlier versions, dependent upon the requirements of the user. All customers are invited to increase and extend modular bundled features of CQ5 through Tech-preview projects. The advantage to the customer is that this offers them the chance to introduce their own requirements into the resulting features. These will then be incorporated in the official product module - with product support and maintenance. A limited number of Tech-Preview projects will be available, so contact Adobe as soon as possible to register your interest. Please see the list for running CQ Tech-Preview projects and contact your Adobe service representative if you would want to join one of these programs.

• E-Commerce
• Building & updating content in mobile applications using PhoneGap
• Enterprise Portal-Integration (Portal specific like SAP Enterprise Portal)
• Eclipse-based Development Environment CRXDE (was CQDE)
  

Customers will benefit from this release through a continued stabilization. This will lead to an even better efficiency and experience for users on all levels.

Main benefits are:

• Better author experience and productivity
• Better administrator experience and productivity
• Better developer experience and productivity
• Better reliability
• Increased performance

Additionally more than 80 new features and more than 830 enhancements to existing features were included in this release.

Main benefits include:

• Further improved ease of use for authors
  
• Client Context more powerful and easier to extend
  
• Extended integrations with other Adobe Digital Marketing Suite products
  
• Mobile Add-on: extended and improved device-specific rendering and mobile application integration
  
• MCM Add-on: improved Campaign Manager UI
• MSM Add-on: improved performance and extensibility
  

CQ DAM 5.5 provides customers with enhanced integrations with Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign Server, as well as Adobe Scene7, including functional integrations, writing DAM-managed metadata back to binary files, as well as enhanced support for file formats. These integrations result in enhanced user experience and productivity for creative professionals, more options for InDesign content repurposing and high-fidelity rendition management for InDesign assets, as well as new asset delivery options through Scene7. Additionally, the ability to import files from Creative Cloud accounts to CQ DAM allows for better handling of creative-marketing workflows.

Asset managers and CQ5 users will benefit from the new faceted search panel in DAM Admin, giving them quick access to assets based on their metadata, tags, and content. This enhances user experience and productivity. Asset Shares can now be created directly in DAM Admin, enabling power users to create customizable asset delivery and collaboration portals, resulting in minimizing implementation project efforts.

System administrators will benefit from new CPU-heavy asset handling deployment options by externalizing them from CQ DAM, as well as simplified asset ingestion workflows and general stability enhancements, leading to better performance and scalability.

Main benefits therefore are:

• Better user experience and productivity
• Better administrator experience and productivity
• Shortened project cycles
• More deployment and asset delivery options
• Better scalability & reliability
  

Additionally many new features and enhancements to existing features were included in this release.

Main benefits therefore are:

• Support for basic content licensing and DRM
• Enhanced support for Adobe file formats and Zip archives
• Metadata management for DAM Folders
• Editing of multiple assets in Asset Share
  

The new Undo/Redo functionality allows a user to undo any number of changes done on a specific page.

The forms components have been extended to set conditions when to show or hide itself, based on values set in other fields of the same form. This allow non-technical users to simply create conditional forms.

The Client Context (former Clickstream Cloud) is now component based and can easily be extended and adapted by non technical business users. It allows to create highly personalized, targeted content and simulate the user experience for different user profiles.

CQ5 WCM now contains deep integration with Adobe SiteCatalyst, allowing web analysts to consitently manage and define how CQ pages and page interaction is tracked in SiteCatalyst.

Further integrations are available with Adobe Test&Target, allowing visual deployment of MBoxes on pages, with Scene7 using rich media viewer components and Search&Promote for advanced search features.

CQ 5.5 DAM Admin features a new faceted search panel, the ability to manage folder metadata, as well as creation of Asset Shares directly from the UI.

XMP metadata can now be written back to selected file types via new workflow steps.

Integration options for creative professionals using Creative Suite products including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Adobe Bridge have been extended to using Adobe Drive. It gives the CS users direct access to asset management functionalities (check-in, check out, versioning) when connected to CQ DAM repository, and complements the existing WebDAV-based integration.

Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud allows for setting up scheduled importing of assets from a selected folder in Creative Cloud to DAM.

The InDesign Server integration allows for content extraction from InDesign and putting it in CQ DAM as managed objects (images, texts). This allows for repurposing and management of InDesign content in CQ DAM. The integration is extensible via InDesign scripting.

The integration with Scene7 allows for publishing assets from CQ DAM to Scene7. The Scene7 components (for images and video) allow for delivery of assets published into Scene7 via CQ web pages.

Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud provides CQ DAM users with the ability to set up scheduled import of assets from selected collections in Creative Cloud.

The license management and enforcement for assets allows for control of terms of use of assets.

The new out-of-process indexing information extraction option, as well as the ability to run asset ingestion tasks in another "worker" server (InDesign Server integration is based on this feature) provide system administrators and projects to design deployment architectures. This, in turn, allows them to meet their operational goals due to improved scalability and reliability of CQ DAM.

Many smaller enhancements, like support for automated ZIP file unpacking into assets, HTML5 upload instead of the Flash-based, or the ability to manage metadata for DAM folders, as well as general performance and stability improvements provide additional benefits to the customers.

The Marketing Campaign Management (MCM) add-on was introduced with CQ 5.4. It allows marketers to:

• plan multi-channel campaigns
• manage lists and leads
• author, personalize and simulate newsletters
• deliver newsletters to lists

CQ 5.5 adds the campaign calendar and the ability to organize content by brand and touch-point.

The OpenSocial gadget container now allows the creation of single-gadget components that can be managed by authors.

Mobile Sites:

CQ 5.5 introduces the ability to implement custom filter to map incoming requests to device groups. This allows implementation of custom mobile/tablet device specific mapping and support device categories such as ATMs or vending machines.

Several foundation components have been improved to support device group rendering - such as the Teaser component and the Client Context.

Mobile Applications:

The Content Sync Framework - introduced in CQ 5.4 - to optimize the transport of content to mobile applications, has been extended. It is now possible to send personalized content and have ad-hoc export of resources based on configuration templates.

New in 5.5 is a Adobe Flash-based framework and sample to show how to managed Adobe AIR-based mobile apps with paragraph system & components.

See installation instructions for setup requirements.

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.

Please see upgrade documentation for detailed instructions.

List of known issues

Inplace Editing is not available for statically included components.

If non-root context is used, some components might not work as expected. Please test accordingly.

Online Help is not shipped with the product and will be available through package share.

Implicit component creation creates download component for all assets when using drag & drop from the browse tab of the Content Finder.

To restore inheritance for a changed component in a LiveCopy it can be needed to delete the component first.

For installation on Oralce WebLogic the following property needs to be added to the sling.properties file: sling.bootdelegation.weblogic.xml = weblogic.xml.*

If IE 8 is used in tabbed mode occasional redircets to login can happen. To avoid this set Tab Process Growth in the registry:
- open Registry Editor
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
- add string value TabProcGrowth=0
- restart IE

Mozilla Firefox should not be used with an accept header containing application/json. This is the parameter network.http.accept.default in about:config.

Customers using the Sitecatalyst integration, on an EMEA data center should add the data center https://api2.omniture.com/admin/1.2/rest/ to the configuration of the Day CQ Analytics Sitecatalyst HTTP Client in Adobe CQ5 Web Console

Customers using the Omniture integrations feature pack upgrading to CQ 5.5 should remove the /libs/cq/personalization/components/clickstreamcloud/plugins/sitecatalyst.jsp file

Reconfiguring the job manager in a running cluster under load may lead to a dead lock.

• CQ5 Product Page on adobe.com
  
• dev.day.com Developer Community
  
• CQ5 Documentation on docs.day.com

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