Episerver - update 166

New releases of Episerver A/B testing and Episerver Social. Bug fixes for Episerver Azure, Episerver CMS UI, Episerver Commerce, and Episerver Recommendations (Beta).

The update applies to Episerver projects version 7.5 and higher, and contains finalized work items included in the latest iteration. Continuous release updates are cumulative to include previous updates. Episerver supports all platform updates and strongly recommends that you keep ongoing projects up-to-date. You can install the updates from the Episerver NuGet feed.

Main packages
This release information lists updated main package versions for the Episerver platform. When a release is built, other dependent packages also may be bumped to new versions, although they contain no publicly visible changes. This is done to avoid dependency errors. When you upgrade, NuGet alerts you to upgrade related packages to the required versions. For Commerce, it is important to ensure that you are running the same version of CMS and Commerce, both in the front-end and back-end applications.

Updated main packages

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Episerver CMS Core

EPiServer.Azure 9.3.2

Episerver CMS UI

New feature:

- MAR-819: Client-side KPIs now support all available KPI results types
  KPI developers are now able to create a client-side KPI and leverage all available KPI result types (Conversion Result, Financial Result and Value Result). Support for these types already exists for server-side KPIs. See Key performance indicators.

Episerver Commerce

EPiServer.Commerce 10.7.1
EPiServer.Recommendations 1.3.4 (Beta. There are no public work items in this release.)
EPiServer.Recommendations Commerce 10.7.1 (Beta. There are no public work items in this release.)

Episerver Social

EPiServer.Social.Framework 1.4.0
See Chris Banner's blog post What's new in Episerver Social 1.4? for more information.

New features:

- EPSO-1051: A "Contains" expression added to the library of filter expressions
  A ContainsExpression has been added to the Episerver Social expression library. This allows a developer to define filters for social content, which match a specific value within a collection.
- EPSO-952: Mean rating value added to the statistics for a target
  A Mean property has been added to the RatingStatistics class, which provides the mean rating value for target. This value is calculated as the sum of all ratings for the target divided by the total count of ratings for the target.
  Queries for RatingStatistics can also be sorted be sorted by this value.
- EPSO-1182: Troubleshooting information added to authentication failures
  The SocialAuthenticationException has been enhanced with supporting information to aid in the troubleshooting of any unexpected failure to authenticate with Episerver Social.
- EPSO-1050: An "Or" expression added to the library of filter expressions
  An OrExpression has been added to the Episerver Social expression library, providing access to a logical OR operator in the definition of filters for retrieving social content.
- EPSO-1089: Performance improvements when filtering by extension type
  Internal enhancements improving performance when filtering for Composite social content.

Important notifications

Update 150 included breaking changes for Episerver Service API 3.
Update 141 included breaking changes for Episerver Languages 3.
Update 134 included breaking changes for Episerver CMS 10, Episerver Commerce 10 and Episerver Forms 4.
Update 118 included breaking changes for Episerver Forms 3 and Episerver Languages 2.
Update 114 included breaking changes for Episerver Find 12.
Update 108 included breaking changes for Episerver Forms 2.
Update 94 included breaking changes for Episerver Mail 8.
Update 89 included breaking changes for Episerver Find 11.
Update 83 included breaking changes for Episerver Commerce 9.
For previous notifications, see update 83.

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