New and changed in version 12.0.0
An overview of new features and enhancements, as well as improved or changed functionality in Content Manager 12.0.0, compared to the previous version of the product.
For your convenience, new and changed features and functionality for Content Manager versions 11.0.3, 11.0.2 and 11.0.1 are included in this document as well.
- Rebranding in SDL Knowledge Center 2016
A list of names have been changed for this release of Knowledge Center, starting with the product's name. - New third-party software support
Support for databases, operating systems and XML editors has been updated. - Client Tools changes
Client Tools improvements for this version are explained. - Content Editor changes
A description of the new and improved web editor behavior you can expect with this release. - Typical server installation changes
Things that have changed on a single web/app server setup when using InstallTool (IT) or DBUpgradeTool (DBUT). - Database layer changes
Changes and additions impact Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle RDBMs database systems performance, setup or process. - Web client security
As there is more and more awareness about security, we invested in tests and enhancements on our web clients. This resulted in improved security against a wide range of potential threats. - Taxonomy/ontology integration
The ability to live link an external source to your content, which can provide a living semantic hierarchy (or ontology) to your topic repository, has been developed and enhanced under the technical name of MetadataBinding. - Publish throttling by raising different event types per output format
Configuration of distinct even types per publish type variations releases the full capability of the background task engine. - Publish pipeline changes
The publish process benefitted from a couple of minor improvements. - Translation Flow and Integration Improvements
Some improvements and changes are specific to Translation Management and Translation Organizer. - Background Task
Enhancements on the centralized Background Task system that replaces the decentralized Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) system. - Federated Services changes
The federated services and claims-based authentication system received improvements to reduce network traffic. - Programmer's Interface Changes
New interfaces for MetadataBinding, QueryEnhance and TranslationManagement. Interfaces ICustomerFunction and IOnDocStore are replaced by IWrite*-plugins and IEventHandler by IBackgroundTaskHandler - Prevent automatic document title overwriting during import
TheSETTITLEplugin configuration has been modified, and an<?ish-replace-title?>processing instruction has been added to the Editor templates. This prevents the title of a document from being automatically replaced with the metadata title during a BatchImport or Content Importer operation. - API changes
The web services API changes.