Documentation changelog

On this page, you can find a summary of changes made to the Kentico Xperience 13 documentation.

This changelog is not directly related to product updates, or the introduction of new features (for those, refer to the release notes), but rather to the documentation itself: newly created pages, significant changes to existing pages, overhauls of specific sections of the documentation, etc.

March 7, 2024

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 12. See the release notes for details.

December 7, 2023

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 11. See the release notes for details.

June 22, 2023

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 10. See the release notes for details.

May 15, 2023

• ADDED SEO – A sample implementation of a sitemap generator was added to the documentation.

March 23, 2023

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 9. See the release notes for details.

December 13, 2022

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 8. See the release notes for details.

October 25, 2022

• ADDED Managing field data types – Provides an overview of field editor data types and covers how to register custom data types into the system (e.g., for use with form components).

September 29, 2022

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 7. See the release notes for details.

June 10, 2022

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 6. See the release notes for details.

March 29, 2022

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 5. See the release notes for details.

March 14, 2022

• ADDED Decorating system services – New page that explores options available to developers who wish to modify the behavior of system service classes via the decorator pattern.

January 24, 2022

• ADDED Content modeling guide – New chapter that serves as an exhaustive introduction to modeling content in Xperience. On these pages, you can learn about storing content and taxonomy, designing and displaying content on a website, or about general content modeling recommendations.

December 2, 2021

• UPDATED Email marketing – Added information about the potential impacts of the Apple Mail Privacy Protection feature on the reliability of marketing email open rate tracking.

November 23, 2021

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 4. See the release notes for details.

September 14, 2021

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 3. See the release notes for details.
• UPDATED Form builder – The overall form builder developer documentation was updated to reflect the differences between ASP.NET MVC 5 and ASP.NET Core development models. Affected pages within the section can now be changed via the development model switcher.

August 24, 2021

• UPDATED Localization – The localization documentation for the Core and MVC 5 development model was merged into the Setting up multilingual websites and Setting up a multilingual user interface sections. Affected pages within the section can now be changed via the development model switcher.

August 23, 2021

• ADDED A terminology glossary of terms commonly used in the Kentico Xperience administration interface and documentation was created.

August 9, 2021

• UPDATED Xperience membership integration – The membership documentation for the Core and MVC 5 development model was merged into the Integrating Xperience membership section. Affected pages within the section can now be changed via the development model switcher.

July 15, 2021

• ADDED Pages that include the development model switcher can now be linked with a specific model pre-selected. You can add the devmodel URL parameter with one of the following values to the end of the URL:

  • mvc – e.g., https://docs.xperience.io/developing-websites/page-builder-development/developing-widgets?devmodel=mvc
  • core – e.g., https://docs.xperience.io/developing-websites/page-builder-development/developing-widgets?devmodel=core

June 22, 2021

• ADDED Overall update of the documentation to include new content for Kentico Xperience Refresh 2. See the the release notes for details.
• UPDATED Page builder – The page builder documentation for the Core and MVC 5 development model was merged into the Page builder development section. Affected pages within the section can now be changed via the development model switcher.
• UPDATED Form builder – The form builder documentation for the Core and MVC 5 development model was merged into the Form builder development section. Affected pages within the section can now be changed via the development model switcher.

June 17, 2021

• ADDED Updated the overall structure of the Kentico Xperience Tutorial and individual pages of the Business tutorial. In addition to the new format, the Business tutorial now includes more instructional videos and new pages about the Xperience digital marketing functionality:
  • Customer data management
  • Content personalization
  • Marketing automation
  • Email marketing
• ADDED Adding custom assemblies
  • Summarizes the best practices for creating assemblies (Class Library projects) for custom code within Xperience. Also describes how to ensure class discovery within the assemblies.

May 24, 2021

• UPDATED Added general support for a selector that switches pages between content suitable for the ASP.NET Core and MVC 5 development models. The selector is located directly under the main heading of pages that have been updated to include content for both models. At this time, only several pages have been updated and more will follow in the future. For example:
  • Enabling content tree-based routing
  • Configuring cookie SameSite mode

April 6, 2021

• ADDED Xperience development models
  • Provides an overview of the two development models available for Xperience websites – ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC 5.

March 29, 2021

• UPDATED Caching page output in ASP.NET Core applications
  • Updated with best practices for caching different versions of page output when using page templates (using vary-by-route).

March 19, 2021

• UPDATED Maintaining multilingual stores
  • Added information about editing multilingual products under workflow.
• UPDATED Page database structure
  • Added a section explaining the database structure of product objects (COM_SKU database table) and associated pages (CMS_Tree database table).