Overview
TinyMCE 5.10.3 was released for TinyMCE Enterprise and Tiny Cloud Tuesday, February 15th, 2022. It includes TinyMCE 5.10.3 and additional changes to premium plugins. These release notes provide an overview of the changes for TinyMCE 5.10.3, including:
- Accompanying Premium self-hosted server-side component changes
- General bug fixes
- Security fixes
- Upgrading to the latest version of TinyMCE 5
Note: This is the Tiny Cloud and TinyMCE Enterprise release notes. For information on the latest community version of TinyMCE, see: TinyMCE Changelog.
Accompanying Premium self-hosted server-side component changes
The TinyMCE 5.10.3 release includes changes affecting the TinyMCE self-hosted services for the following plugins:
- The Enhanced Media Embed plugin (
mediaembed
) - The Image Tools plugin (
imagetools
) - The Link Checker plugin (
linkchecker
) - The Spell Checker Pro plugin (
tinymcespellchecker
)
The Java server-side components have been updated to the following versions:
ephox-spelling.war
: 2.118.4ephox-hyperlinking.war
: 2.105.9ephox-image-proxy.war
: 2.106.1
This version requires Java 8 or higher. For information on the removal of Java 7 support, see: Removal of Java 7 support for TinyMCE 5.3 and later.
For information on:
- The Spell Checker Pro plugin, see: Spell Checker Pro plugin.
- The Link Checker plugin, see: Link Checker plugin.
- The Image Tools plugin, see: Image Tools plugin.
- The Enhanced Media Embed plugin, see: Enhanced Media Embed plugin.
- Deploying the server-side components, see: Server-side component installation.
Updating the self-hosted server-side components
The new versions of the server-side services provide updates for the Java-based server-side components. To deploy the updated version of the server-side components:
-
Update your Java Application Server to the minimum required version:
- Eclipse Jetty 9.4 or later
- Apache Tomcat:
- 9 or later
- 8.5.12+
- 8.0.42+
- 7.0.76+
-
Replace the existing server-side
.war
files with the.war
files bundled with TinyMCE 5103 or later.
For information on:
- Deploying the server-side components, see: Server-side component installation.
- Deploying the server-side components using Docker, see: Containerized service deployments.
General bug fixes
TinyMCE 5.10.3 provides fixes for the following bugs:
- Alignment would sometimes be removed on parent elements when changing alignment on certain inline nodes, such as images.
- The
fullscreen
plugin would incorrectly reset the scroll position when exiting fullscreen mode.
Security fixes
TinyMCE 5.10.3 fixes the following security issues:
All 3 server-side components updates include dependency updates that address security issues. This includes Low severity vulnerability fixes.
For information on the server-side components updates, see: Accompanying Premium self-hosted server-side component changes.
Upgrading to the latest version of TinyMCE 5
The procedure for upgrading to the latest version of TinyMCE 5 depends on the deployment type.
Upgrading Tiny Cloud
Tiny Cloud provides the latest enterprise version of TinyMCE. For information on configuring Tiny Cloud, see: the Cloud deployment guide.
Upgrading TinyMCE Self-hosted manually
To upgrade to TinyMCE 5.10 using a manually downloaded package:
-
Backup the
tinymce/
directory so any customizations can be restored after the upgrade.Customizations for TinyMCE are typically stored in the following directories:
tinymce/ ├── icons/ ├── langs/ ├── plugins/ ├── skins/ │ ├── content/ │ └── ui/ └── themes/
-
Download the latest version of TinyMCE.
- For the TinyMCE Community Version, download
tinymce_<VERSION>.zip
from Get TinyMCE - Self-hosted releases, where<VERSION>
is the latest version of TinyMCE. - For the TinyMCE Enterprise Version, download the TinyMCE Enterprise Bundle from Tiny Account > Downloads. The downloaded file will be named
enterprise_latest.zip
.
- For the TinyMCE Community Version, download
- Extract the downloaded
.zip
file to a temporary location. - (If required) Install the latest language packs from Get TinyMCE - Language Packages.
-
Copy customizations to the new
tinymce/
directory. Ensure that only custom changes are added the newtinymce/
directory, such as:- Custom icons packs
- Custom plugins
- Custom skins
- Custom themes
- Delete the existing
tinymce/
directory and replace with the newtinymce/
.
Note: To simplify the upgrade process to future versions of TinyMCE:
- Host the TinyMCE customizations outside of the
tinymce/
directory.Update your TinyMCE configuration as required:
- Set the location of content CSS customizations using
content_css
.- Set the location of custom plugins using
external_plugins
.- Set the location of custom icon packages using
icons_url
instead oficons
.- Set the location of custom localization packages using
language_url
instead oflanguage
.- Set the location of custom skin packages using
skin_url
instead ofskin
.- Set the location of custom themes using
theme_url
instead oftheme
.
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