Cascade CMS 2025.2.2
Cascade CMS 2025.2.2 is the second patch for the 2025 Q2 on-premise release of Cascade CMS. It includes a variety of performance improvements for everyday editing, publishing, and more.
Highlights
This release is primarily a maintenance release, but is strongly recommended for all customers specifically running SQL Server and Oracle databases due to performance improvements specifically addressing those vendors.
The release includes a variety of performance improvements that improve the reliability of many everyday tasks and reduces the impact of background processes on the user experience.
Release Notes
Features/Improvements
- Additional performance improvements of publish queue screen loading and pagination.
- Updated image editor for August release of JDeli
- Improved reliability of link rewriting when using
system-assetpseudo tags. - Performance improvements when accessing scheduler on edits and draft saves prevents "lock wait timeouts" in logs and in interface
- Improve performance when accessing entity relationships on SQL Server and Oracle databases
- Improves performance when interacting with the background scheduler on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
Fixed
- Accessing asset permissions through Cascade API will no longer throw an error.
- Errors encountered when a Google Analytics Connector attempts to find a matching asset will no longer prevent the sync from completing.
- Restoring a previous version of a Content Type will now properly persist the Editable Fields and Publish Options from the previous version.
- You can now apply simple CSS Class Formats to
figureelements in the WYSIWYG. - Fixes various Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security issues in notifications and tasks
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
- Shut down your currently running Cascade CMS environment.
- 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.
- 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)
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Cascade can be run in virtualized environments like VMware and Hyper-V. |
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It is recommended to allocate approximately 1/2 of the server’s total memory to Cascade. |
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Supported Platforms
| Supported platform(s) | Supported version(s) | Notes | |
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| Java platforms | OpenJDK |
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64-bit is recommended for all platforms. |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows Server |
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| Databases1 | MySQL |
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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 |
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Support for SQL Server 2016 will be removed in an upcoming on-premise release. We will notify ahead of time. | |
| Oracle |
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Support for Oracle 12c and 18c will be removed in an upcoming on-premise release. We will notify ahead of time. | |
| Web servers | Apache | ||
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| 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+ |