Release Notes

In FirstSpirit version 2025.6, ContentCreator introduces several enhancements to improve accessibility.

• The application now supports comprehensive keyboard navigation across major sections, allowing for more efficient interactions without relying on a mouse.
• Focus handling has been refined to provide clearer visual indicators of active elements within the interface.
• Additionally, compatibility with screen readers has been increased, ensuring that interface elements are communicated more effectively to assistive technologies.

These updates contribute to a more accessible and user-friendly ContentCreator experience.

FirstSpirit 2025.6 supports the following module versions for FirstSpirit Content Experience Tools.

Support for Omnichannel Manager 2.x will be discontinued in the medium term.

Schedule:

• With FirstSpirit 2025.6, there will be no automatic provisioning in SaaS environments.
• With FirstSpirit 2025.12, OCM 2.x will no longer be supported and provided.

• With FirstSpirit 2025.8 (previously: 2025.6), OCM 2.x will only be delivered on demand in our SaaS environments. Please contact our Customer Support if this applies to you.
• With FirstSpirit 2026.2 (previously: 2025.12), OCM 2.x will no longer be supported and provided.

With the FirstSpirit version 2024.8, the Omnichannel Manager 3.0 has been officially released.

To ensure that the projects continue to operate successfully in the future, they must be upgraded to Omnichannel Manager 3.0.

For more information, including migration, see the documentation for the Omnichannel Manager 3.0.

The AI-powered Code Assistant now analyzes not only the HTML code in the Template Development for Content Creators but also CSS and JavaScript files in the Media Management.

For more information, see also the Dokumentation für den Code Assistant.

Note: Access to the Code Assistant as well as other AI-supported tools requires an appropriate license.

The current FirstSpirit version provides an overview of the workflows in Template Development for the ContentCreator.

On the root node "Workflows," there is an overview of all workflows within the project, with the option to view a filtered view based on various search criteria. Within this overview, tasks can be continued or canceled.

More information can be found in the documentation for Template Development in ContentCreator.

When retrieving schedule entries using the interface ScheduleStorage users were able to access schedules for which they do not have authorization.

Access has been restricted accordingly: Schedules can only be accessed by users who have access to the corresponding project and server jobs can only be accessed by server administrators.

With FirstSpirit version 2025.6, the new "Language-dependent Release" functionality enters a closed beta testing phase.

This feature allows editors with the appropriate permissions to release and publish content for individual languages in multilingual projects.

During the closed beta, the functionality will be accessible via API only; the UI integration will be made available in one of the upcoming releases.

To enable the practical use of the feature, a workflow will be provided that prompts editors to select the target language when initiating the release and publishing process.

Interested customers can contact Customer Support to check eligibility for participation in the beta phase.

As of the current release, the following internally used software has been updated:

• ASM (library for analyzing and modifying Java byte code)
  Update from version 9.7 to 9.8
  
  
• Jakarta Mail (library for sending e-mails)
  
  The internally used dependencies
  
  • com.sun.activation:javax.activation
  • com.sun.mail:jakarta.mail
  
  have been replaced by the updated versions:
  
  • jakarta.activation:jakarta.activation-api
  • jakarta.mail:jakarta.mail-api
  • org.eclipse.angus:angus-mail