Technical Roadmap
This area outlines upcoming and recent changes relating to the Technical Roadmap; Supported Systems, End-of-Life (EOL), Core Libraries and Integration Libraries.
For further information, please consult the release notes and supported systems.
Supported systems - schedule to be confirmed
| Summary | Key |
| Include support for Java 17 (will be added in 2024/2025) | PM-3231 |
Features to be removed (EOL)
| Key | Summary | From |
| RDSM-33456 | Deprecate the Access Key in the Section screen |
8.3.13 |
| RDSM-33316 | Deprecate Kerberos support | 8.3.13 |
Recent changes
| Area | Summary | Version | Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Removed support for Universal Analytics | 8.3.16 | |
| Authentication | Removed support for Kerberos | 8.3.16 | |
| Supported Systems | Added Support for MS SQL Server 2019 | 8.3.14 | |
| Supported Systems | Added Support for MS Windows Server 2019 And 2022 | 8.3.14 | |
| Supported Systems | Added Support for MySQL 8 | 8.3.14 | RDSM-33474 |
| EOL | Remove the "Mobile Integration" link from the main navigation | 8.3.12 | RDSM-32862 |
| EOL | Deprecate fetch grandchildren in the Related Content Navigation Object | 8.3.12 | RDSM-32872 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for IE 11 | 8.3.12 | RDSM-32871 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for MySQL 5.6 and below | 8.3.3 | PM-2951 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for MySQL on Windows | 8.3.3 | PM-2989 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for MS SQL Server 2008 | 8.3.3 | PM-2194 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for Oracle 12C R1 | 8.3.3 | PM-2984 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for Windows 2008 | 8.3.3 | PM-2239 |
| Supported Systems | Remove support for Windows 2012 | 8.3.3 | PM-2947 |
| EOL | Remove the Handler Content Owner ctfn=owner | 8.3.3 | PM-2557 |
| EOL | Remove the Handler Maintenance ctfn=maintenance | 8.3.3 | PM-2559 |
| EOL | Remove the Handler Memory Usage ctfn=mem | 8.3.3 | PM-2560 |
| EOL | Remove the Handler Open Connection ctfn=ocs | 8.3.3 | PM-2561 |
| EOL | Remove the HTML cleaner | 8.3.3 | PM-623 |
| EOL | Remove the poll broker and associated reports | 8.3.3 | PM-486 |
| EOL | Remove the skin configuration handler | 8.3.3 | PM-540 |
| EOL | Remove the URL redirect generator | 8.3.3 | PM-476 |
| EOL | Remove the current license report | 8.3.3 | PM-572 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker Application Server Path: Outputs the context URL | 8.3.3 | PM-2541 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker Child Description: Broker to output a link to and the description of all subsections | 8.3.3 | PM-2542 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker Complimentary Colour | 8.3.3 | PM-2555 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker DHTML Menu Utility Loader: Outputs a DHTML menu | 8.3.3 | PM-2546 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker Environment Variables: Outputs environment variables to a published page | 8.3.3 | PM-2544 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker File Include | 8.3.3 | PM-2553 |
| EOL | Remove the Broker Javascript Menu: Publishes a javascript menu to the current page | 8.3.3 | PM-2545 |
| Supported Systems | Include AJP proxy * | 8.3.1 | PM-2870 |
| Supported Systems | Include Oracle Java 11 OpenJDK | 8.3.1 | PM-1347 |
| Supported Systems | Include MS SQL Server 2017 database | 8.3.1 | PM-2978 |
| Supported Systems | Include Oracle 12C R2 | 8.3.1 | PM-2966 |
| Supported Systems | Include Tomcat 9 | 8.3.1 | PM-2810 |
| Supported Systems | Include Windows 2016 | 8.3.1 | PM-2948 |
| Supported Systems | Remove Linux CentOS 6.5 * | 8.3.1 | PM-2950 |
| Supported Systems | Remove Oracle 11G R1 | 8.3.1 | PM-2983 |
| Supported Systems | Remove HTTP proxy * | 8.3.1 | PM-2871 |
| Supported Systems | Remove Java 7 | 8.3.1 | PM-1345 |
| Supported Systems | Remove Tomcat 7 & 8 | 8.3.1 | PM-127 |
| EOL | Remove spring-struts from the project | 8.3.1 | PM-2651 |
| Supported Systems | Include SHA-256 for SAML authentication | 8.2.18 | PM-2885/RDSM-28693 |
| Supported Systems | Include SHA-384 for SAML authentication | 8.2.18 | PM-2884/RDSM-28693 |
| EOL | Remove the external sources functionality | 8.2.18 | PM-1534 |
| Supported Systems | Include MySQL 5.7 database | 8.2.18 | PM-2536 |
| Supported Systems | Include Linux CentOS 7.0 | 8.2.16 | PM-2949 |
| Supported Systems | Drop Internet Explorer 9 | 8.2.2 | PM-65 |
| Supported Systems | Drop Internet Explorer 10 | 8.2.2 | PM-75 |
| Supported Systems | Include Tomcat 8 | 8.2.1 | PM-1346 |
| Supported Systems | Drop Internet Explorer 8 | 8.0.0004 | RDSM-22016 |
| Supported Systems | Include multibyte character set AL32UTF8 | 8.1.0001 | RDSM-18801 |
| Supported Systems | Include Microsoft Edge Browser | 8.1.0005 | RDSM-23220 |
| Core Library | Upgrade select2 plugin to latest version | 8.1.9 | RDSM-24531 |
| EOL | Remove the thumbnail view from the Media Library | 8.2.15 | PM-2643 |
| EOL | Remove the stylesheet tab from page layouts | 8.0.0001 | RDSM-14226 |
| EOL | Remove the placement tab on Content | 8.0.0001 | RDSM-20722 |
| EOL | Remove the reference to MySupport from user details | 8.0.0001 | RDSM-15985 |
| EOL | Remove the advanced option from login screen | 8.0.0001 | RDSM-6316 |
| EOL | Remove the File option from the menu (New Document and Print) TinyMCE | 8.1.0004 | RDSM-20637 |
| EOL | Remove "License Report" from the menus | 8.1.0004 | RDSM-21215 |
Please see an important note on support for Apache 2.2, HTTP proxy and the AJP proxy.
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