What’s New for Oracle WebCenter Content

This section introduces the new features and enhancements of Oracle WebCenter Content.

14c (14.1.2.0.0) - April

Feature Description
New Redwood User Interface The Redwood UI and Viewer introduce a modern interface for WebCenter Content, created with the Oracle Redwood design system. This general-purpose interface is available as an optional standalone client application, enabling users to upload, search, browse, manage, and view documents within the repository. See Using the Redwood User Interface of Oracle WebCenter Content for more information.
Multithreaded indexing (OTS) Multithreaded indexing is now supported for OracleTextSearch engine in WebCenter Content. See Multithreaded Indexing in Administering Oracle WebCenter Content.
REST API The WebCenter Content REST APIs allow you to interact with content in WebCenter Content. See REST API for Oracle WebCenter Content.

14c (14.1.2.0.0)

Feature Description
OpenSearch OpenSearch is an insight engine offered as an Oracle-managed service. You can store, search, and analyze large volumes of data quickly and see results in near real-time. See Managing OpenSearch in Administering Oracle WebCenter Content.You can now configure OpenSearch v2.x for Oracle WebCenter Content. See Configuring OpenSearch in Administering Oracle WebCenter Content.
New options related to expired content items Users will now be able to view expired content items and perform certain actions on them. For more information, see About Expired Items in Using Oracle WebCenter Content.
Elasticsearch WebCenter Content supports all minor versions of the Elasticsearch 7.x product version starting with 7.6 and newer. See Configuring Elasticsearch in Administering Oracle WebCenter Content.
Configuring OCI Object Storage Object Storage is a new storage provider component that is available in WebCenter Content to store documents. See Configuration for OCI Object Storage in Administering Oracle WebCenter Content.
Managing Object Storage Migration The Object Storage Migration tool migrates the content from the WebCenter Content On-premise system to an OCI system. See Managing Object Storage Migration in Administering Oracle WebCenter Content.
Large dID WebCenter Content now supports very large dID (BigInteger range in Java). Until now, dID had been limited by the range of Java’s Integer type (2,147,483,647). dIDs of large size can now successfully flow through the system. A dID is an internally generated integer that refers to a specific revision of a content item. To understand what dIDs are, see Developing with Oracle WebCenter Content.
WebCenter Content on Kubernetes You can create and manage Oracle WebCenter Content instances on Kubernetes. See Deploying and Managing Oracle WebCenter Content on Kubernetes.
GET_WORKFLOW_INQUEUE_LIST_EX A new service GET_WORKFLOW_INQUEUE_LIST_EX has been added. It returns a list of content items present in the workflow and provides support of parameters like ‘doMarkFavorites’, ‘ResultCount’ and ‘StartRow’, and metadata fields like ‘xComments’. See GET_WORKFLOW_INQUEUE_LIST_EX in Services Reference for Oracle WebCenter Content.
OCIMigrationExcludedServers OCIMigrationExcludedServers is a new configuration variable that has been introduced. It is used to specify the servers to be excluded from OCI migration. See OCIMigrationExcludedServers in Configuration Reference for Oracle WebCenter Content.
getWccAdfConfig getWccAdfConfig is a new WLST command that returns the configuration attributes of the Oracle WebCenter Content user interface application. See getWccAdfConfig in WebCenter WLST Command Reference.
Albany fonts are no longer shipped The Albany fonts are no longer shipped in the PDF Watermark component. For more information, see Known Issues for Oracle WebCenter Content.
Desktop admin app for Mac OS WebCenter Content’s desktop admin app for Mac OS now supports newer versions. It has been tested specifically only with Sonoma 14.5 (on latest Intel/M1 processor).