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

Bugs Fixed

[CS-17917] GroupService discloses too much information about users
[CS-17744] Status Icon in trackback moderation does not show correctly in firefox, doesn't show at all in IE
[CS-17726] Visiting Blog Post (in system blog) when not authenticated takes user to unauthorized page instead of login page
[CS-17675] Concurrent access to parentLookupMap can cause a thread to busily wait indefinitely
[CS-17661] Email gateway needs a note about usermapping and attachments
[CS-17455] Document upload allows for just a space ' ' as the title
[CS-17427] Gateway export fails with class cast exception when using IMAP
[CS-17283] Manage group members > Send email, is exposing user emails
[CS-17224] Project status updates activity stream showing always last status for all users
[CS-17200] Theme with no description still created
[CS-17114] Browse Projects pagination loses prefix/alphabetical filtering
[CS-16771] Upload document - date i18n character displays incorrectly when the translation / replacement is greater than 14chars
[CS-16661] /template/global/choose-container.ftl missing closing divs
[CS-16606] Unable to create a theme with apostrophe, but then can't delete the entry in admin console
[CS-16545] Admin Console : The lines inside the table are not spawned to the end of the table on Space Permissions
[CS-16471] "Delete Poll" is in a different row leaving all the other actions
[CS-16222] Jive SBS fails to renew JSESSIONID on login
[CS-16063] 1.10 to 2.5 migration causes several problems with pure html documents.
[CS-15248] PermissionGroupClearClusterTask should only remove single user from cache instead of all users
[CS-14651] Unlikely exploit in admin console on /admin/user-create.jsp
[CS-14593] "Your Tasks" widget does not handle overflowed text correctly when using german
[CS-14355] Editing Group permissions adds duplicate entries in jiveGroupPerm
[CS-14185] Long description text in send-content-notification does not display correctly in IE
[CS-13998] In the spaces settings, the scrollbar is shown when it shouldn't
[CS-13557] ManagingGroupMembership.html help file is not localized
[CS-13478] getUserByUsername webservice call returns a NPE instead of a UserNotFoundException
[CS-13305] Add gateway creating a new space checking against wrong combo box
[CS-13232] Certain content in the formatted text widget causes it to break
[CS-10370] Incorrect focus behavior in user management (Social Groups)
[CS-10330] Workaround for favicon problem with Internet Explorer
[CS-10277] Large documents result in OutOfMemoryError heap when comparing/diffing
[CS-10047] Cannot manage plugin updates
[CS-9762] Cancel button on login page does nothing
[CS-9534] Invalid input is not being checked when testing connection
[CS-8558] On "Manage group members" filtering members shows a wrong number of invitations
[CS-5945] Deletion of content object awaiting moderation does not respect it's workflow entry
[CS-5796] Admin: Log Viewer: Email function does not work
[CS-3263] Max number of uploaded avatars should default to 1, not 0.

Known Issues in this Release

[CS-17825] getApplicationUsers() in MultiProviderUserManager should not load all users and return a complete list
[CS-17808] Spell check custom dictionary words doesn't update across all nodes
[CS-17805] Last Post Minutes link causes 404 error on first visit to page.
[CS-17714] Wiki Syntax character escaping does not work for Email Gateways
[CS-17697] Automatic URL to link conversion stops at ! (exclamation mark)
[CS-17687] rankBy date not respected in Search RSS Feed
[CS-17679] Moderation keyboard shortcuts are fired when using Search bar
[CS-17642] <span/> element with style attribute not rendered by PDF generator
[CS-17631] ViewProfile (Document Draft) should use SimplePaginator
[CS-17626] Blog.getUserCount() doesn't scale for blogs with lots of authors
[CS-17575] PDF generator doesn't honor colspan element on <th/>
[CS-17569] Document filters: Presentations doesn't include pptx
[CS-17534] Formatted Text Widget: Insert Link/Video/Image displayed off page
[CS-17471] fix XmlUtils.loadMap() to include avatar images
[CS-17417] Blog Comment RSS feed always returns an empty feed
[CS-17405] Watch notifications are sent out before a thread is posted when attachment types are rejected
[CS-17382] Certain DateUtil methods cannot be accessed from FTL
[CS-17328] Feed for a specific blog shows the author's email address
[CS-17268] POI task and index write lock should eventually timeout
[CS-17209] Incorrect error message when using CSV to invite members who have pending invitations
[CS-17203] Community Everywhere: null value for custom Title/Discussions
[CS-17190] Settings polls.enabled=false doesn't actually do anything.
[CS-17164] Blog Post Reports don't work in subcommunities
[CS-17056] Cannot delete a document within a project unless you are the author
[CS-16854] Upload document does not have RTE (only HTML editor) which results in HTML being visible on edit
[CS-16839] New versions of binary documents are not indexed
[CS-16793] no singular definition for forum.thrd.replies.gtitle on threads page
[CS-16761] Locale drop down is not sorted by current locale
[CS-16698] Dragging a link into the RTE creates a relative link which doesn't always work
[CS-16697] Cannot manage message templates in locales other than system's default
[CS-16695] vCard export doesn't work correctly with a language such as Korean
[CS-16441] Adding group admins not reflected in cache if admin has previously been removed
[CS-16427] System blogs are found when searching Personal blogs
[CS-16405] Revoking 'View' of a space throws an error for Space Admins of child spaces
[CS-16077] Default name visibility (skin.default.displayFullNames) not respected
[CS-15588] Removing uploaded image doesn't remove from corresponding text
[CS-15561] Number of days in months incorrect/unchecked in blog post scheduler.
[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-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-15219] CLONE -REST Web Services: createBinaryDocument does not work
[CS-15190] Adding a new document comment or sending as email will leave notification visible indefinitely
[CS-15138] UNC path issues
[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-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-14751] PDF generator does not correctly output Asian characters.
[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-14606] Reason entered for User Registration Rejection is never stored
[CS-14508] 'User's Stuff' filter pushed down when user has no tasks
[CS-14454] Do not entitle your groupspace blog post "blog"
[CS-14453] Profanity filter does not filter group name and description.
[CS-14374] Remove uploaded image does not remove from RTE
[CS-14372] Javascript error in IE when creating a new piece of content
[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-14197] MultiproviderUserManager.getUser(User) should be case insensitive by default
[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-14127] UserConverter parses both username and userid to locate user
[CS-14052] Load Next / Previous Threads can cause your load to shoot up to extremely high levels
[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-13746] RTE IE6 renders <br /> tag differently during edit and after publish of blank bulleted lists
[CS-13452] Deleting an FTL from a theme in the admin console does not propagate to the cluster
[CS-12693] JiveServlet generateThumbnail can throw an uncaught IIOException
[CS-12627] Migrating blog to community doesn't add to entitlement
[CS-12598] Primary reason/comment not shown on abuse reports for blogs
[CS-12548] Editing announcements offsets expiration date by one (timezones)
[CS-12538] Invalid project target date is off by one
[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-12127] Reset Password username entry is case sensitive. Should be case insensitive.
[CS-12063] No error message when creating a document w/ approver that lacks permission to space
[CS-9945] document approval results in unauthorized exception
[CS-9259] There is a Private Message Draft folder, but you can't create a draft