Release Notes January 2026

Selected features / optimizations / innovations / corrections / bug fixes

New

Optimized

Backstage > Finance > Financial Documents: The articles listing now provides the new menu option "Select all" and "Remove selection". (Note: These options will be made available in other grid overviews soon.)
Various minor stability and performance improvements.

Fixed

Backstage > Media Processing > Archive > Advanced Search: Classification select dialog now considers secondary field mapping too.
Backstage > Media Processing > Collections: Missing Restrictions icon on Series and Offer media restored.
Backstage > Finance > Notifications: Fixed duplicate notifications for assigned Sales Persons.
Webshop: New thumbnail URLs in cached Page Elements are now properly updated.

Optimized

Runtime optimization for thumbnail and preview image display in the webshop. This change renders the additional session cookie named "THUMBSESSID" obsolete.

New

Backstage > Media Processing > Archive: Media with admin-only flag set are labelled with a lock icon in overviews and get a notice in the "Restrictions" tab.
Backstage > Media Processing > Classifications: Export of hierarchical classifications and thesauri to SKOS format (RDF, Turtle) for data exchange with external systems.
Note: This function requires Export permissions in the classifications module.

Optimized

Fixed

Backstage > Media Processing + Archive: When downloading media with multi-lingual metadata from the Backstage Media Processing and Archive modules, the current editing and search language is used for embedded metadata (instead of the main editing language). This behaviour is now consistent with downloads from the Lightboxes module.
Backstage > Media Processing > Metadata Import: Fixed an issue regarding conditional display of additional options for fields based on previous selections.