2026 Optimizely Product Information Management release notes
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August 27
Enhancements
- Split the General Statistics published count into Published – Active and Published – Archived, so archived products no longer inflate the total. See PIM dashboardPIM dashboard.
August 4
Enhancements
- Added primary category management for PIM products, which lets you mark one category as a product's primary from the Category tab. You can also add the Primary Category column to the product list to see each product's primary category.
June 26
Enhancements
- Improved performance when opening and saving Bulk Edit on the Product List, so editing many products at once is faster.
- Added an automatic retention policy that removes notifications older than 30 days, keeping the notification list relevant and faster to load.
- Improved security.
Bug fix
- Fixed an issue on the Variant Type page where data entered for an unselected value disappeared after the first entry.
- Fixed an issue in the asset drawer where a search returned no results after the list was scrolled to the bottom.
- Fixed an issue where attributes did not keep their position after being reordered with drag-and-drop.
- Fixed an issue where the application showed a blank screen after being left idle, requiring a page refresh.
- Fixed an error that could occur when publishing PIM updates to B2B Commerce.
June 23
Bug fix
- Fixed the issue where the product detail page displayed properties out of the order set in the property group configuration.
June 22
Enhancements
- Updated the PIM interface with Optimizely's new color scheme and logo to match the unified Optimizely brand.
- Added a Rename Product Number import type for bulk product-number renaming from an Excel file (SKU standardization). See Rename product numbers in PIM.
June 11
Bug fix
- Fixed an issue where you could not drag and drop images in different places and could only move the image to the front or back.
May 5
Enhancements
- Improved performance of Bulk Edit on the Product List page so the edit panel loads and saves more quickly when editing multiple products at once. See Product list page for information about bulk edit.
- Added a notification retention policy that automatically deletes notifications older than 30 days. PIM also stops polling for notifications during a session when a user has none, reducing unnecessary requests.
- Improved security.
Bug fixes
- Fixed the issue where data entered in the Unselected value field disappeared after the first input when creating a variant type.
- Fixed the issue where the asset search in the Assign image drawer returned no results after scrolling to the bottom of the list, even when matching assets existed.
- Fixed the issue where attributes did not retain their order after being repositioned with drag-and-drop.
- Fixed the issue where PIM displayed a blank screen after a long idle session, forcing the user to refresh the page to continue.
- Fixed the issue where the PIM-to-B2B Commerce publish job threw a TaskCanceledException while syncing dynamic categories. The job had previously run for hours before being cancelled.
February 26
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where you could not drag a child category out of the category tree to make it a parent category.
- Fixed a performance issue when you filtered products with the Manufacturer attribute.
PIM Connector release
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Publish Approved Products job failed with the error “Invalid column name 'Id'".
- Fixed an issue where the Publish job failed when you deleted a website synced to PIM with assigned categories and products.
January 14
Enhancements
- Released Opal ChatOpal Chat, letting you interact with Opal from PIM.
- Released system tools for PIM in Optimizely Opalsystem tools for PIM in Optimizely Opal, which help you retrieve general statistics from the Dashboard.