• Updated serialization handling in a number of system components.

The latest release of the SitecoreAI base image 1.7.118 includes the following resolved issues:

• Fixed an issue where the Multiroot Treelist field did not resolve its datasource query correctly when an item name contained a hyphen or a reserved word (e.g., "child", "parent"), causing the field to display unexpected content tree nodes instead of the intended items.

• Resolved a defect where blobs were missing when media items were transferred from a source to a target environment.

• Updated thumbnail event handler to use sitecore\ThumbnailsGenerator user for auto thumbnails instead of context user in order to allow thumbnail generation to continue regardless of the access rights of the current user.

• Fixed an issue where publishing media items could fail when media field-level fallback was enabled.

Content is now labelled with clear status indicators, including live, scheduled, no workflow, draft, and approved. These labels are visible across key areas of the authoring experience, including the version drop-down, the page items context panel, the page references view used for publishing, and the right-hand panel.

In addition, you can now also create a new content item version, and update its workflow state directly from the right-hand side configuration panel.

These enhancements provide greater transparency into content status and behavior, improved accuracy when publishing or updating content, and increased confidence in what will appear on the live site.

• A new checkbox in the Publish dialog lets authors control whether related items of references are included, reducing publish scope and improving performance for large reference trees.

• The Rich Text Editor now includes an enhanced Clear formatting plugin that removes styling and non-essential markup while preserving clean semantic HTML structure.

• The anchor and query string sections in Link fields now automatically expand when they contain values, so set values are always visible.

• In addition to page name and display name, the Sitemap search now also includes the content of page fields that matches the search term.

• You can now search for pages by item ID. The ID can include or omit hyphens and is case insensitive. For partial ID searches, use lowercase.

The latest release of Page builder also includes the following resolved issues:

• The page now retains its scroll position after saving changes from the right hand side panel.

• Image URLs in Rich Text fields used inside Partial Designs now render correctly on the page.

• Multiline text fields inside collapsible sections are now fully editable in Page builder.

• Grouped droplist fields now use the correct item name instead of the display name for consistent values.

• Editing a phone link in the Rich Text Editor now updates correctly on the page.

• When using Page Branches with insert option rules, unchecking and rechecking the "Page" checkbox in the Page settings caused duplicate entries to appear in the "Select a page template" dialog. This has now been fixed.

• Delta crawling now removes indexed documents for URLs that have been deleted from a sitemap, helping prevent outdated content from appearing in search results.

• Delta crawling is now available for sources with incremental updates enabled.

Key benefits of the SitecoreAI DAM:

• AI-powered efficiency -Automatic metadata enrichment on upload, where AI generates image tags and descriptive alt text to improve accessibility and SEO.

• Smart discovery - Quickly find exactly what you need with advanced search and filtering tools designed for high-speed navigation.

• Seamless integration - Effortlessly tag and organize assets within a simplified interface that serves as the foundation for a unified media picking experience.

• Simplified sharing – You can now generate public links to share your media assets instantly or use them directly within the SitecoreAI Page Builder.

Feature availability is part of a phased rollout.

You can now show different component variants to different visitors without personalizing the entire page. This gives you the flexibility to personalize multiple components on the same page, such as banners, messages, promotions, or calls to action, based on visitor profile data, conditions, or custom values.

Component personalization uses a decision table to evaluate each visitor against your configured rules. You can:

• Define the inputs used for visitor evaluation.

• Create personalization rules based on profile data, conditions, or custom values.

• Map each rule to a corresponding component variant.

Rules are evaluated from top to bottom, and the first matching rule determines which variant is shown. If no rules match, the original component is displayed.

This gives marketers a flexible way to personalize specific areas of a page while keeping the rest of the experience unchanged.

You can also preview and test personalized components before starting the personalization. Analytics data becomes available as visitors begin seeing the live personalization.

• Fixed a defect in the Content Editor where adding a new version to an item that had a clone in a delegated area could cause an exception when the delegated area root had a broken link to the source item.

• Resolved an issue where an error appeared after uncloning an item in the Content Editor and trying to add a new version to its source item.

• Added caching and recursion detection to prevent repeated calls and eliminate intermittent Standard Values recursion errors.

• Deprecated the DB Browser and Serialization admin pages as a security enhancement.

• Added URL string normalization to NameValue classes in both kernel and SXA. This allows comparison operations between encoded and decoded string values that are added to the NameValue collection field in the Content Editor.

• Resolved a defect where language fallback field values were cached without considering live mode context, causing stale or incorrect fallback values to be served across live and non-live publishing contexts.

• Fixed broken links that were appearing after adding a personalized variant in the Page Builder.

• Other security enhancements.

• We added an option to See the live page to the Page builder Preview menu. Editors can now open the published version of the current page in a new tab for easy comparison.

• Editors can now use a new Content mode link at the bottom of the Page content panel to quickly switch to Content mode.

• When clicking on a form in the canvas, Page builder now shows the selected form name instead of a generic label, giving editors clear visibility of which form is currently being configured.

The latest release of Page builder also includes the following resolved issues:

• Components with an empty datasource field no longer inherit the parent datasource and now correctly display no data.

• The Create button is now disabled for items located under the Virtual Page Standard Values path.

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