Magnolia 5.6 reached end of life on June 25, 2020. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
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Before Magnolia 5.4, the only way to define (configure) templates, dialogs, apps and other definition items was only through JCR in the configuration
workspace. The Magnolia 5.4 release brought 4 brought configuration via YAML as another possibility, mainly because:
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With the release of Magnolia 5.5.4, importing and exporting JCR data can be done with YAML files. Until then this was possible only in the XML format.
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