Behavioral Change / UI Removal

Versions Affected: 2026.q1.1, 2026.q1.2, 2026.q1.3

A development-stage feature related to Page Management Rules was inadvertently exposed in the UI without its corresponding Feature Flag. This may have led users to configure settings that are not yet fully supported or functional.

Starting from version 2026.q1.4, this entry point has been correctly hidden behind a Release Feature Flag. Any configurations made or errors encountered in previous subversions will no longer be accessible or supported.

Customers experiencing issues with this experimental interface must upgrade to version 2026.q1.4 or later.

What changed: All findByXxx_PrevAndNext and filterFindByXxx_PrevAndNext methods have been completely removed from generated persistence classes (*Persistence, *PersistenceImpl, and *Util) for entities utilizing Service Builder 7.4+. Previously, these methods returned a 3-element array containing the previous, current, and next neighboring entities from an ordered result set.

Why: To significantly reduce codebase bloat. Within DXP, these methods generated over 600,000 lines of code but were only used in three internal places. Existing finder methods easily replicate this behavior.

Who is affected: Developers using Service Builder on 7.4 or Quarterly releases who currently rely on PrevAndNext finder methods in their custom logic.

How to migrate:

Choose one of two methods based on your dataset size:

• List Lookup (Recommended): Fetch the current entity using findByPrimaryKey, then retrieve the full matching list using standard findByXxx methods. Find the current entity's index to grab the previous (index - 1) and next (index + 1) items.

• DSL Queries (For large datasets): Use dslQuery with a limit of 1 to execute two targeted database queries — one fetching the immediate previous entry, and one fetching the immediate next entry.

File system artifacts are now deleted when a company partition is removed.

Previously, removing a Virtual Instance (company) with Database Partitioning enabled only dropped the database schema, leaving behind file system artifacts such as Document Library files (data/document_library/{companyId}), search indexes, and configuration files.

Action required: If Database Partitioning is enabled, ensure any needed data is backed up before deleting a partition, as file system artifacts will no longer be recoverable after deletion.

As part of a major search and re-indexing performance optimization, several public search and indexing APIs have been simplified.

• Custom indexer implementations extending BaseIndexer must rename their doReindex(String[] ids) override to doReindexCompany(long companyId).

• Modules using ModelIndexerWriterContributor will need minor updates as helper classes (BatchIndexingActionable, ModelIndexerWriterDocumentHelper) have been removed in favor of direct use of their underlying equivalents.

• The Queries OSGi service has been replaced by the static QueriesUtil, and a small number of other search API methods have had parameters removed or their types updated to reflect their actual usage

Please see full breaking changes list for details.