Software update: Umbraco CMS 8.14.1

Umbraco is a content management system for editing and managing dynamic web pages. The whole thing is written in C# and runs on a Microsoft infrastructure. There is a positive and proactive community behind with more than 50,000 registered users and developers who ensure a stable flow of releases. Version 8.14.1 of Umbraco has been released and the changelog since version 13 can be found below.

Umbraco CMS 8.14.1

Developer experience

• Fixes clashing aliases when new mediatypes had been installed

media picker

• Fix: Searching in mediapicker doesn’t filter according to allowedtypes #10429

UI and UX updates

• Support custom SVG icon in grid editor row configuration
• Support custom SVG icon in user group filter
• Support custom SVG icon in Nested Content

Bug fixes

• Preserve Mediapicker v2 so that it’s not obsolete
• inject clearAddUserForm() to inviteUser condition
• Support custom SVG icon in umb-child-selector component
• Support custom SVG icon in listview

Umbraco CMS 8.14.0

Accessibility

• Accessibility: Adding label fors and control ids for the macro picker
• Accessibility: Add focus lock for the infinite editor

block editor

• Blank block overlay after switching language

Dependencies

• Update to noUiSlider v14.6.4
• Updates to Examination 1.2.0
• Update spectrum color picker to latest v2.0.8
• Bump underscore from 1.9.1 to 1.12.1 in /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client

Developer experience

• Move the SetWeight logic to WeightedCollectionBuilderBase

front end

• Bugfix/umbraco back office icon #10192

media picker

• Media Picker v3

Performance

• Block List Editor (Nested) Crashes and unresponsive.
• Caching checks to see if there are items in the recycle bin
• Backport cache key fix and optimizations
• Improve IsDirty() check performance.
• Create explicit scope for mappers in UmbracoMapper

UI and UX updates

• Make Backoffice validation less “aggressive” when saving content
• Make it easier to pick media on multiple content items
• Fix issue with active style affected nested block list elements
• Use umb-icon component in listview dropdown
• Update to noUiSlider v14.6.4
• Aligned variant icon in the node name field
• Improve media type selector UX
• Fix copy button being inactive when selecting a valid item
• Add “Insert Macro” as language key
• Minor Danish translations
• #10193 The listview search within a dialog (eg. minilistview) shows the loading indicator forever for zero results
• Update spectrum color picker to latest v2.0.8
• Added a link to 404 documentation
• Adjust grid editor layout configuration

Other features

• Block List needs single item mode, like Nested Content
• Allow KeepAlive controller Ping method to be requested by non local requests
• Added rel=”external” to “Update available” link

Bug fixes

• Non-required fields marked as required in nested content
• Nested content mandatory field is not empty, but getting validation errors
• ‘Empty guid’ exception when copying multiple nested Nested Content items
• Updating typo in audit logging default user