Blog Discussion: Xperience by Kentico Refresh - December 12, 2024

I love to see SVG files are now supported. This is what I was missing in Kentico for years. To be honest: only a few of my past clients understood the difference between SVGs and other image formats ;-) For them an SVG was always "the sharp image format" and they didn't understand why this was not supported by default while it was in other CMS systems. They did not concern about security issues of SVG files. And I also dont, because most SVGs are created programmatically in the design tools a client or partner is using. But yes, technically it is a security risk because SVGs are markup.

Uploading images and optimize them to be used on websites is great. Compared with other CMS systems this was always expected by many editors to be done by default.
This is what is usually done when uploading images in 2025 to many systems. But I also think it is very important to have a way to change and optimize every uploaded image individually.
This is a great solution.

The content hub becomes more and more the ONE core feature of XbyK. Great to see rights can control who can access what kinds of items now.

Great refresh, i love it.

There's a TON in this refresh I absolutely love.

SVG Support was definitely big, but even bigger was adding back in the width/height metadata to the Content Item Asset Metadata, as now i can reference it when setting width/height attributes (which is vital to reducing page layout shifting)

Workspaces are also awesome as it opens up the content hub even more, as somethings are more 'objects' that some people shouldn't manage while others should, or in general just shouldn't clutter up the main content.

And of course, SCHEDULED TASKS are back!

Field visibility also was a big one since I leveraged this a lot to make the form cleaner.

I’m truly so happy with this release! 🎉 We got started with it right away, and I’m confident our customers will be thrilled with the clone functionality! 🤩 Really impressive that you managed to pack all of this into a single refresh. A great gift for the holidays! 🎁🎄

jQuery default flipping to be an opt-in feature is such a great move - easy for this to go unnoticed but it really does need to be appreciated!!

Trevor, you sound exactly like the developers I work with, they are over the moon 🌑 that scheduled tasks exist 🤣

I have already shown workspaces to a couple clients, and they really like the idea of silo-ing content, not everyone needs access to everything!

Wow, converting images to WebP was a common need for custom development. Now, it's out-of-the-box and so easy to configure -- click, click, click, DONE!