August 2017, released Sitecore Experience Platform 8.2 Update 5 (rev. 170728)
This is a product update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if it includes fixes that meet the specific needs of your organization. If this release does not include new functionality or specific fixes that your organization requires, you may benefit from waiting to upgrade until Sitecore releases an update that is relevant for your organization. This is especially true in production environments.
New features/improvements
| Context | Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Configuration | Sitecore CMS is now FIPS compatible. Note: FIPS is only supported in CMSOnlyMode and it does not work with XDB enabled functionality. | ||
| 92850, 371339 | |||
| Marketing Foundation | The Mongo .NET driver has been upgraded to version 2.4.4. | ||
Resolved issues
The following issues have been fixed:
| Context | Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| API | The Template item is created in the default language instead of the content language. | ||
| 93789, 386244 | |||
| API | Enabling the ItemCloning.RelinkClonedSubtree setting does not work when accepting the ChildCreatedNotification notification. | ||
| 143267 | |||
| API | The ReflectionUtil.LoadAssembly method places an excessive load on the file system. | ||
| 164945 | |||
| API | The XSL watcher causes an InternalBufferOverflow exception. | ||
| 165124 | |||
| API | The Login page calls an external resource. | ||
| 163328 | |||
| API | The performance of the Logger functionality is slow. | ||
| 171429 | |||
| API | The LinkManager.GetDefaultUrlOptions method ignores the SiteResolving setting in the web.config file. | ||
| 92682, 367702 | |||
| API | In the GetQueryable method, CultureExecutionContext does not affect field name translation. | ||
| 155596 | |||
| API | When access to fonts.googleapis.com is disabled, users wait too long for a timeout. | ||
| 160615 | |||
| Caching | The Sitecore.Caching.CacheManager.FindCacheByName(string) method does not work properly. | ||
| 157082 | |||
| Caching | The PathCache cache is not cleared after publishing. | ||
| 169501 | |||
| Configuration | Sitecore does not work when a site name starts with a number and some attributes are missing. | ||
| 131829 | |||
| Content Editor | The RequireLockBeforeEditing setting and disabling write permission does not work for the following field types: droptree, treelist, treelistEx, droplink, grouped droplist, and grouped droplink. | ||
| 163859 | |||
| Content Editor | The Multilist with Search field does not work with the EditFrame control. | ||
| 108890, 106439 | |||
| Content Editor | When the RequireLockBeforeEditing setting is set to false, the Edit button and workflow actions are disabled. | ||
| 131668 | |||
| Content Editor | Replacing tokens does not work for base items in languages that have a fallback language set. | ||
| 158413 | |||
| Content Editor | The __Source Item field is not excluded from indexing. | ||
| 164087 | |||
| Content Editor | A wildcard item (*) cannot be resolved if the path to the item contains any items with a display name when the ItemResolving.FindBestMatch setting is set to DeepScan. | ||
| 166890 | |||
| Content Editor | Search operations do not respect the context item. | ||
| 166639 | |||
| Experience Analytics | The analytics reducer agent clears all the caches on the servers, instead of clearing just the analytics-related caches. | ||
| 21517 | |||
| Experience Analytics | Some charts do not cap the number of results displayed and, as a result, these charts are unreadable. | ||
| 168419 | |||
| Item Buckets Content Search | Update operations for IEnumerable<iindexableuniqueid> produce excessive commits. | ||
| 142962 | |||
| Item Buckets Content Search | The Solr FieldMap is not thread safe. | ||
| 168850 | |||
| Item Buckets Content Search | The following Search operations do not respect the start item: Move results to, Copy results to, Clone results to, and Delete results. | ||
| 170415 | |||
| Item Buckets Content Search | Escaping symbols cause an incorrect query. | ||
| 131992 | |||
| Item Buckets Content Search | The IndexingStateSwitcher floods the log files. | ||
| 142961 | |||
| List Manager | An incorrect list count is displayed in large lists. | 173622 | |
| Marketing Foundation | ThreadAbortException can stall an historic rebuild process. | ||
| 169825 | |||
| Miscellaneous | Error levels on the client side are incorrectly set to Fatal instead of Error. | ||
| 165961 | |||
| Platform | If you modify a lot of files in the wwwroot folder, it can bring down the website. | ||
| 170790 | |||
| Publishing | A deleted language version of an item in the master database exists in the web database after publishing. | ||
| 165460 | |||
| Publishing | Smart Publishing does not unpublish invalid item versions. | ||
| 162501 | |||
| Rich Text Editor | Empty <a> tags in a RTE field cause a field rendering error. | ||
| 149817 | |||
| Sitecore.ContentSearch.Azure | Azure Search responds with 207 Partial Content when all the documents cannot be processed. | ||
| 169846 | |||
| Sitecore.ContentSearch.Azure | Searching with fractions does not work. | ||
| 173999 | |||
| Sitecore.ContentSearch.Azure | Search operations degrade performance. | 488394 | 173202 |
| Sitecore Services Client | The IsAuthenticated property is false when token authorization is used. | ||
| 166698 | |||
| Sitecore Services Client | The AnonymousUserFilter filter only checks extranet domain users. | ||
| 166739 | |||
| Sitecore Services Client | There are double references in the Sitecore.Services.Infrastructure.dll file to System.Web.Http. | ||
| 169514 | |||
| SPEAK | The Uploader does not work if the DestinationUrl property contains a GUID rather than a path. | ||
| 149701 | |||
| SPEAK | The Uploader control allows the end user to upload files even after their session has expired. | ||
| 150101 | |||
| SPEAK | The Upload Media dialog ignores the Media.UploadAsVersionableByDefault setting. | ||
| 162905 | |||
| SPEAK | When using a SPEAK application and logging out, Sitecore sometimes sends a request which returns the user to the Login page, rather than back to the visitor site. | ||
| 116855 | |||
| xDB and Content Delivery | Mongo driver has been upgraded to version 2.4.4, it is possible to reduce connection open timeout now. | ||
| 151475 |