Cascade CMS 2025.2.1

Cascade CMS version 2025.2.1 is a patch release that makes searching content with punctuation marks more reliable and improves the user experience when creating and editing sites. This release also includes better handling of invalid structured data and dynamic metadata values, plus fixes for the Content Inventory Report pagination on SQL Server and various missing/deleted group reference issues. We've also upgraded to Tomcat 9.0.107 for enhanced security and performance.

Release Notes

Features/Improvements

  • Improved UX of Site create and edit by making the two forms consistent in structure.
  • Improved handling of invalid values for Dynamic Metadata and Structured Data fields.
  • This release contains an upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.107

Fixed

  • Searching content with punctuation marks will now return correct results.
  • Addressed an issue in which errors during Folder creation would be momentarily visible.
  • Paginating the Content Inventory report will no longer display an error for SQL Server customers.

Upgrade Guide

First time installation?

Be sure to import our default database schema prior to installing Cascade CMS for the first time. Then follow the appropriate installation instructions for your environment.

Upgrade Steps

  1. Shut down your currently running Cascade CMS environment.
  2. Before you upgrade, we strongly recommend that you back-up your production database as well as set up a test environment and perform a trial run of the upgrade. All customers are entitled to a test license for this purpose.
  3. Read the release notes and upgrade guides for all releases between your version and the latest version.

Requirements & Supported Platforms

Server Requirements (for CMS deployment)

Summary of system requirements for Cascade CMS.
  Requirement Notes
CPU
  • 8-core (recommended)
  • Quad core (minimum)
 Cascade can be run in virtualized environments like VMware and Hyper-V.
Memory
  • 8GB RAM (recommended)
  • 6GB RAM (minimum)
 It is recommended to allocate approximately 1/2 of the server’s total memory to Cascade.
Hard Drive Space
  • 25GB (recommended)
  • 15GB (minimum)
  

Supported Platforms

Summary of supported platforms for Cascade CMS.
  Supported platform(s) Supported version(s) Notes
Java platforms OpenJDK
  • OpenJDK 21.0.5+11
 64-bit is recommended for all platforms.
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server
  • 2019
  • 2016
  • 2012 / 2012 R2
  
macOS Server
  • 10.4 or later
  
Linux
  • 64-bit (recommended)
  • 32-bit
  
Databases1 MySQL
  • 8
  • 5.7 (deprecated)
  • 5.6 (deprecated)
 Support for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 will be removed in an upcoming on-premise release. We will notify ahead of time.
Microsoft SQL Server
  • 2022
  • 2019
  • 2017
  • 2016 (deprecated)
 Support for SQL Server 2016 will be removed in an upcoming on-premise release. We will notify ahead of time.
Oracle
  • 19c
  • 18c (deprecated)
  • 12c (deprecated)
 Support for Oracle 12c and 18c will be removed in an upcoming on-premise release. We will notify ahead of time.
Web servers Apache    
Microsoft IIS    
Sun Java System Web Server   Formerly Netscape Enterprise Server.
Zeus Web Server    
Web browsers Chrome Latest Stable  
Microsoft Edge  
Mozilla Firefox Firefox 115+  
Safari Safari 16+  
1 Support is maintained for up to 3 versions from each database vendor. When support for a new database version is added, support for the oldest version is deprecated and will be removed in the first on-premise release 6 months on or after the date of deprecation.