Release Notes

Theme of 2.5: Social Networking

Clearspace 2.5 enhances the social networking capabilities of Clearspace by enabling people to find, connect, follow, and interact, and interrelate with others. Here's what's included in these notes:

New Features

Enhancements

Fixed Issues

Known Issues

Note: For changes in previous versions, be sure to see earlier versions of this document:

New Features in the 2.5 Series

Groups - Member-created social communities based on members' areas of interest
Connections/Friends - Connect with and follow other people's activity in the community
Enhanced People Search - Easily find groups of people in the community based on similar profile attributes
Invite a Friend - Add viral capabilities to your sites by offering members a quick way to invite others to join the community
Configuration - Site and community admins can configure the look and feel of their site without the need for customizations
Basic Configuration - Easily configure your site's color scheme and logo for simple tailoring of the look and feel
Advanced Configuration - Download our developer kit, update the included images and CSS, and upload the the updated package to easily deploy custom themes
Global Rename - Rename Clearspace features and concepts to meet your specific vocabulary or nomenclature
Configurable Registration - Manage the fields that are displayed to new members when they register.

Enhancements in the 2.5 Series

RTE Enhancements - An enhanced authoring experience that is consistent with commonly used tools and eases the use of advanced capabilities through simplified wizards
Moderation - Consistent approach for moderation and report abuse across all content types
Project Improvements - New project statuses; follow projects to easily see roll-up reporting; import and export task data to integrate your project with enterprise project management tools
Cloud Sharing - Now your cloud participants can view attachments associated with documents that are being shared
Blog Permissions - Group blogs now follow the permissions of the community, project, or group with which they are associated
New Location Picker - Selecting the location of new content is simplified by an intelligent picker suggests the places (communities, projects, groups) that you use most often
Tag Navigation - Narrow your focus when navigating content by progressively selecting tags that are used together

Here's a list of things to know about this version of Clearspace, including, improvements and fixes since the previous version, and issues you might find.

Full Fixed Issues List

Improvements

[CS-14365] Save, Save and Continue do the same thing as Publish for blogs
[CS-13701] Add the ability for system admins to force the display of system name and email on outgoing messages

Bugs Fixed

[CS-14813] Filterable profile field counts are not being updated correctly
[CS-14800] Can't delete theme with ampersand (&)
[CS-14794] Un-Mark Thread as Question error shows i18n key
[CS-14755] Turning off blog post comments will break blog post deletion
[CS-14753] Translation error
[CS-14740] Spanish translation error
[CS-14736] Username property doesn't work for RSS proxy
[CS-14732] NullPointerException thrown by RecentHistoryManager when cookies are disabled
[CS-14699] User watch cache is never cleared after email address is changed
[CS-14696] don't maintain <bold> after creating a header
[CS-14694] Invitation manager does not check for ObjectType, this can cause conflicts when a documentid & social groupid match in the invitation.
[CS-14692] Theme name with forward slash (/) will not create them and shows "success"
[CS-14677] CLONE -Group and Community Management: Membership list - export entire membership list
[CS-14676] Freemarker locale usage is not thread-safe
[CS-14652] Moderators cannot move content
[CS-14640] CreateAccountAction doesn't respect user.default.displayEmailAddress system property
[CS-14539] Security vuneralbility in Webservices
[CS-14535] cursor problems when linking and unlinking content
[CS-14526] can't upload more than 1 image into a document
[CS-14521] Recent Content widget should not offer showing sub-space content when placed in groups
[CS-14511] Blog post drafts not listed for Group Admins
[CS-14504] HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability in JoinSocialGroupAction
[CS-14502] Inconsistant asterisk colors on personal blog creation
[CS-14500] Last post timestamp doesn't reflect updated messages
[CS-14468] Can't delete personal or system blogs in a cluster
[CS-14458] Creating a project with a description larger than 1000 characters will display an incorrect error message
[CS-14447] RTE + Safari: selecting all text in safari and pressing backspace removes the focus from the RTE
[CS-14433] /blogs/browse alphabetical ( A-Z ) sort not sorting properly
[CS-14424] Cursor jumps to beginning of quote or macro when using arrow keys from below the macro in Firefox
[CS-14409] Non JavaScript Injection in user-picker.jspa
[CS-14342] REST Web Services: createBinaryDocument does not work
[CS-14325] Select Style is not working properly in RTE
[CS-14320] Extra spacing in Your Stuff sidebar items tooltips.
[CS-14318] Blank email field results in 2 validation messages
[CS-14309] Global admins can't delete document versions in social groups
[CS-14282] Blog comment count still displayed when feature is disabled
[CS-14219] Banned user checks forcing excessive cluster traffic
[CS-14206] CSRF in Threads
[CS-14202] CSRF on /pm-folder-add.jspa & /pm-folder-edit.jspa
[CS-14140] XSS on /admin/reports-viewer.jsp
[CS-13935] Formatted text widgets with XML- looking tags remove all content - Need Documentation
[CS-13895] Missing key: error.profiles.fieldType.required in Profile and Homepage
[CS-13887] When creating or editing an announcement, the "Expire in a specific number of days" field isn't empty
[CS-13823] XSS in manage-group-members.jspa
[CS-13807] Email notifications show '&' instead of ampersand (&)
[CS-13595] Long discussion thread (40+ replies) causes display issue in ie7 ie8, reply to original post is pushed
[CS-13335] Very large text string in Project Status Widget shows a warning that is not corresponding
[CS-13314] userrelationship.creation.notify email template indicates incorrectly who did the connection
[CS-13105] Overdue task should not send notifications once project due date has been reached
[CS-12992] System Admins and Space Admins can't create attachments for Space Blogs
[CS-12865] Editing a draft saves last modified as original user, not editor
[CS-12458] Create blog post is shown for users who aren't authors to any blogs
[CS-11913] Document Drafts to Publish don't send email notifications
[CS-11654] Position/placement: editor validation errors
[CS-9880] Community Everywhere does not limit field size for name, can potentially break UI
[CS-9672] User Creation allowing blank spaces in email address
[CS-9053] There is no control of title length in Project Status widget
[CS-8774] location of error messages on create / edit document page is confusing / / unuseable
[CS-8210] Deleting bullet from sublist puts cursor in wrong place

Known Issues in this Release

[CS-15447] No option to choose Moderated Comment policy on document upload page
[CS-15324] Creating an announcement body with long unbroken text will cause IE scrollbar to hide content
[CS-15287] JiveServlet creates extremely large thumbnail files
[CS-15286] Adding images to documents via web services will fail due to missing document save
[CS-15284] Disabled feature text in Recent History
[CS-15254] Cannot enable Community Everywhere from UI
[CS-15248] PermissionGroupClearClusterTask should only remove single user from cache instead of all users
[CS-15246] Community blog posts not included in tag cloud query
[CS-15245] skin.default.changeEmailEnabled doesn't prevent users from changing email
[CS-15223] Editing comments on a document with comment moderation enabled provides no user feedback that the comment must be approved
[CS-15190] Adding a new document comment or sending as email will leave notification visible indefinitely
[CS-15188] Users Banned from Social Group can Create/Edit/Delete Blog Posts and Comments
[CS-15143] REST SocialGroupService: searchSocialGroups fails 500 error
[CS-15138] UNC path issues
[CS-15129] Blank LDAP values not synchronized to profile fields
[CS-15126] Creation date used for published date of blog posts in RSS feeds
[CS-15117] Inviting friends to SBS can result in weird labels if you're not the original admin
[CS-15109] Slash character '\' not escaped in LDAP admin password
[CS-15036] Project status update history not respected in recent activities
[CS-15029] Extremely long Ldap Sync Tasks when Disable-User option enabled
[CS-15016] Links in announcements in social groups are incorrectly adding "groups" to URL
[CS-14908] Active Blogs widget on Main Blogs page only shows personal blogs
[CS-14877] Quoted messages do not include full username when appropriate.
[CS-14862] When users enter their email address as their username, the email address shows up in the URL when viewing the person's profile.
[CS-14849] Deleting comments fires off the comment modified event
[CS-14830] Creating a blog post with a wide body will hide last line of content with a scrollbar in IE
[CS-14811] New User Registrations Report is inaccurate
[CS-14807] Changing approvers after several edits can cause some interesting bugs.
[CS-14769] Invalid HTML inserted by Firefox bug breaks content rendering
[CS-14751] PDF generator does not correctly output Asian characters.
[CS-14645] RTE: Spell checker is not pulling locale from Root / Space or User setting
[CS-14634] Profile Modified event does not include cleared-out fields in the list of modified field IDs
[CS-14632] Changing username for a user in moderation breaks 'Pending Approvals' for moderators
[CS-14627] Synonyms don't work for multi-worded tokens
[CS-14625] Synonyms don't work in profile fields
[CS-14606] Reason entered for User Registration Rejection is never stored
[CS-14596] Importing CSV for Group Invite does not detect current users
[CS-14593] "Your Tasks" widget does not handle overflowed text correctly when using german
[CS-14579] LDAP Admin Password decryption error message should be WARN
[CS-14508] 'User's Stuff' filter pushed down when user has no tasks
[CS-14505] Clearspace can't read XML documents with byte-order marks
[CS-14499] Poor formating of add friends widget (German) in IE6 and IE7
[CS-14491] PNG Images with transparency have black background when added through the RTE.
[CS-14454] Do not entitle your groupspace blog post "blog"
[CS-14453] Profanity filter does not filter group name and description.
[CS-14420] ProfileFieldService.editProfileField() creates entries in jivei18ntext
[CS-14398] If watches.enabled = false then you will not be able to save your user preferences
[CS-14375] Revoking global read blog permission will throw an FTL error when viewing any container (dev mode only)
[CS-14372] Javascript error in IE when creating a new piece of content
[CS-14356] Rebuild Tag Cloud/Popularity doesn't include Blog Post tags
[CS-14355] Editing Group permissions adds duplicate entries in jiveGroupPerm
[CS-14349] Disabled text is not localized in view-profile-header.ftl
[CS-14340] RTE shortcut key ctrl+8 while highlighting table doesn't produce expected behavior.
[CS-14322] Theme mappings are not respected on asynchronous action invocations
[CS-14296] Searching user profile fields with AND operator doesn't yield expected results
[CS-14287] Rejected documents can be published by restoring version
[CS-14275] Tags page doesn't redirect guests to login
[CS-14271] Large number of versions causes Image Picker performance issue
[CS-14241] User Profile shows a user's membership to a group after access is request, but before approval
[CS-14233] Tabbing in a Table doesn't consistantly add row
[CS-14197] MultiproviderUserManager.getUser(User) should be case insensitive by default
[CS-14185] Long description text in send-content-notification does not display correctly in IE
[CS-14183] File upload text box allows text input in IE
[CS-14167] Insert Video button overlapping text field in IE7
[CS-14162] Project Calender: checkpoint mouse-over/pop-up is blank for IE
[CS-14149] No validation for 'Number of Results' property for Recent Content Widget
[CS-14146] Moderation notes/comments aren't carried over
[CS-14141] Popular Threads RSS feed does not respect result number settings
[CS-14127] UserConverter parses both username and userid to locate user
[CS-14075] Pasting a link into the RTE containing a URL with ampersands causes a SAXParseException
[CS-14052] Load Next / Previous Threads can cause your load to shoot up to extremely high levels
[CS-14025] Tasks can be assigned to disabled users
[CS-13990] ChangeDb2LongVarcharToVarcharTask sets some columns to NOT NULL which need to be nullable
[CS-13958] Incorrect German translation for forum.thrd.thisQuestionIs.text
[CS-13957] No i18n property for 'No results match the current query' in the Places widget
[CS-13952] Creation date doesn't show up for discussion threads viewed as PDF
[CS-13948] Links to blog posts/videos is dropping/truncating tag context from the URL
[CS-13926] Firefox + RTE image bug. Add two images, publish, edit and lose one image
[CS-13925] Tag groups don't retain tag order/sort
[CS-13884] Creating a blog post named blog (in either your personal blog or space blog) breaks
[CS-13844] NPE when importing a blog with no uploaded file
[CS-13835] Image inserted into document and attached breaks preview of image
[CS-13813] 'Send Message to Selected' from Group Management with 'send me a copy' selected sends a copy for each user emailed (50 users emailed, 50 copies in your inbox)
[CS-13806] Expression blog is undefined line 1 column 84 ${blog.ID?c}
[CS-13792] Switching to HTML view in IE6 for RTE can remove line breaks
[CS-13791] jiveI18nText table does not use nvarchar for SQLServer UTF-8 support
[CS-13774] Community Everywhere Discuss Link doesn't redirect to comment box section of page
[CS-13773] Max attachment size is not correctly recognized above a certain value due to integer overflow
[CS-13748] Document author-discussions do not send watch/email notifications
[CS-13746] RTE IE6 renders <br /> tag differently during edit and after publish of blank bulleted lists
[CS-13656] Mismatched freemarker <#if statements in japanese email notification template
[CS-13633] Guests can edit/delete Project Tasks
[CS-13628] JiveRefererInterceptor does not handle UTF-8 characters correctly
[CS-13627] Some blog RSS feeds are displaying username instead of admin email
[CS-13626] Limit number of task executor threads for Recent Activity and Tag Cloud on People page
[CS-13589] Deleting a document from the front end does not return a 404
[CS-13580] User bar trying to load blogs from social groups which have been deleted
[CS-13559] CSS doesn't wrap well on Tags page on IE in German
[CS-13555] Non-standard URL rewriting wrong when app is deployed in root context
[CS-13527] Setting end date on a poll also sets the expire date
[CS-13496] View -> Blog Posts does not show correct number of posts when some are hidden
[CS-13477] After deleting blog post, users are always redirected back to the root of the application
[CS-13476] Friends action menu does not respect RSS feed visibility settings
[CS-13460] Deleting a thread leaves orphaned messages in moderation
[CS-13452] Deleting an FTL from a theme in the admin console does not propagate to the cluster
[CS-13448] German mistranslation in view-profile-approval.ftl
[CS-13432] Blog actions menu does not respect RSS feed visibility settings
[CS-13424] PermissionService.isUserAuthorizedOnCommunity isn't correctly determining permission
[CS-13412] Code macro when creating via email is converting characters incorrectly
[CS-13411] Creating a social group with webservices does not set the default widget layout
[CS-13397] Parsing exceptions from Spring LDAP DnParser need to be caught
[CS-13366] Cannot successfully change approvers in a document after initial approval
[CS-13341] Image uploads have the potential to fail with an unexpected error due to JVM bug.
[CS-13266] Ordered list "type" attribute in HTML gets overridden by CSS to only allow numbers
[CS-13255] HTMLFilter does not strip out base href tag
[CS-13232] Certain content in the formatted text widget causes it to break
[CS-13180] Digitally signed emails no longer work for email gateways
[CS-13163] Updating project status in a private space shows up in recent activity everywhere
[CS-13158] Leaving a note on a moderated document causes it to remain in moderation queue after being moderated by another user
[CS-13144] 'Stop Email Notifications' JavaScript can show SQL query in error message
[CS-13134] IE6 showing secure/insecure warning for container & user tooltip popups
[CS-13132] Removing a friend does not correctly update labels
[CS-13129] ALT text for profile tab on profile page
[CS-13126] View as PDF does not work for specific content
[CS-13123] Browse -> Groups can show incorrect number of groups
[CS-13117] DocumentService methods missing required @WebParam annotations
[CS-13095] Private Message to Multiple Users counts more than once
[CS-13091] RTE doesn't respond to down arrow with certain text input
[CS-13039] FastDateFormat ignores locale
[CS-13034] Recent activity does not handle comment deletions
[CS-13005] Adding approvers to document has 'conflicting versions' error incorrectly
[CS-12996] Accessing setup console always sets Allow user-created accounts to true
[CS-12995] Bad link for internal search queries containing colon
[CS-12987] jsessionids printed in the middle of "Last Post" link when anonymous browsing turned on
[CS-12977] Searching does not fully support spaces in username
[CS-12939] Web services call breaks next request (normal page or web services)
[CS-12884] Disabled users still appear in top participants list
[CS-12869] Revoking group invitation prevents further invites to that group
[CS-12867] Revoking group invitations in IE6 and IE7 produces javascript error
[CS-12831] User not found for ID -9223372036854775808
[CS-12824] Widgets at the root space should not have the option to be recursive/non-recursive
[CS-12815] Links to Blog Posts aren't working (blog name and date are being dropped from URL)
[CS-12803] Some users with Chinese usernames do not show in the People page (Oracle only)
[CS-12778] Inconsistent results in user picker
[CS-12775] When emailing friends, recipient addresses exposed Votes: 1
[CS-12760] Webservices don't support multiple container (social group, project) content creation
[CS-12743] Social Group invitations should not be case sensitive on email address
[CS-12702] we need a global state transition latch, currently causing timer tasks to fire incorrectly
[CS-12696] Tasks can be run when app isn't in 'RUNNING' state
[CS-12693] JiveServlet generateThumbnail can throw an uncaught IIOException
[CS-12687] Linking to internal links with edit parameters doesn't work
[CS-12645] Admin Permissions: Create Private Message Attachment doesn't do anything
[CS-12630] Filenames with double byte characters will not save with the correct file name
[CS-12629] In RTE, Right Click -> Insert Image does not respect permission settings
[CS-12627] Migrating blog to community doesn't add to entitlement
[CS-12606] "Add Member" field for permission groups parses both username and user ID to load a user.
[CS-12605] "Assign To" field in Create Task parses both username and user ID to locate user
[CS-12598] Primary reason/comment not shown on abuse reports for blogs
[CS-12588] Project Filter does not carry over to next page
[CS-12585] Secret groups hiding results on groups overview page
[CS-12548] Editing announcements offsets expiration date by one (timezones)
[CS-12538] Invalid project target date is off by one
[CS-12529] No placeholder image for Google Videos, Vimeo, etc
[CS-12486] Revoke blog read for anyone: prevents registered users from creating blogs / blog posts
[CS-12385] Blog post count can be inferred from pagination (when written in private areas)
[CS-12332] ProfileService addProfile method does not update existing fields
[CS-12221] forum.thrd.helpful_answer.text has wrong plural for German
[CS-12129] DocumentBodyStart html comment displaying inside of RSS feeds
[CS-12063] No error message when creating a document w/ approver that lacks permission to space
[CS-12062] Formatted Text Widget Links which are unauthorized for Guest access still appear as unauthorized for legit users
[CS-11956] Theme uploader does not support phrase substitutions in theme.xml
[CS-11711] Recent documents widget not sorting on modification date
[CS-11531] RenderCache is not cluster-safe
[CS-11525] Project Tasks inside
[CS-11213] Modify Blog Post shows up as Recent Activity for author, not modifier
[CS-11182] Exporting tasks from a project does not include BOM for UTF-8 characters
[CS-10939] Uploaded documents do not respect Max uploaded document size
[CS-10649] Org. Charts: no way of disabling manager and direct report choice
[CS-10590] Space specific blog reporting (missing community picker)
[CS-10588] Setting text color doesn't work with the formatted text widget in IE6
[CS-10464] Invalid character in content will cause NullPointerException and XML failure
[CS-10436] Numeric tag issues
[CS-10360] Blog posts scheduled for future publishing are published upon approval
[CS-10344] Document count in private group is always 0 if you're not a member.
[CS-10330] Workaround for favicon problem with Internet Explorer
[CS-10286] Inconsistent file extensions and file name when selecting view as pdf
[CS-10277] Large documents result in OutOfMemoryError heap when comparing/diffing
[CS-10246] JiveCompressionFilter.isLesserIE null pointer exception if no user-agent is set
[CS-10239] Avatars uploaded in the admin console are not displayed after settings are saved in a clustered environment.
[CS-9985] Editing a document with an attachment when you don't have attachment rights results in error
[CS-9762] Cancel button on login page does nothing
[CS-9724] Setting a cache to unlimited makes it uneditable in the Admin Console
[CS-9558] Quick Links lead to root space even if you cannot administrate the space
[CS-9430] Web services: addAuthor and removeAuthor don't work
[CS-9363] Remove insert/edit link option from context menu
[CS-9336] Error for 255+ characters in Blog Description is unclear
[CS-9259] There is a Private Message Draft folder, but you can't create a draft
[CS-9235] Branched thread, new title, caches not updated correctly Votes: 1