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-22688] disabling blogs doesn't allow you to rename spaces
[CS-22590] StringUtils.fixHtmlSelfClosingTags is very CPU intensive and slow (Backport from 4.5)
[CS-22556] Admins should be able to customize valid subdomains
[CS-22552] CatchAllAuditor appends an extra comma to the parameter list
[CS-22358] Out of office email regex-based blocking is only done on subject; no way to block if subjects are not consistent
[CS-21659] Personalizing the 'Your View' tab makes it your landing page for the site, even if it wasn't the default tab before
[CS-19392] MutliProviderUserManager.getUserFromCacheByID() should not use containsKey()
[CS-14052] Load Next / Previous Threads can cause your load to shoot up to extremely high levels
[CS-11481] Discussions not shown in recent activity widget for moderator of a private space
[CS-8272] table border can't be set to zero - also, color can't be set

Known Issues in this Release

[CS-22998] Pasting formatted text in RTE breaks ability to remove formatting.
[CS-22907] MIME type text/plain not honored when discussion reply arrives via incoming email processor
[CS-22883] Importing invites to social group from CSV not working properly
[CS-22791] IE: Clicking link in RTE deletes content
[CS-22083] SBS with LDAP integration occasionally creates duplicate relationships between users
[CS-21333] Blank anchor tags show a #
[CS-20659] Advanced search with a space criteria do not return expected document results
[CS-21424] Web Services: createBinaryDocument has wrong parameters and parameter template
[CS-18279] read tracker blockage for anonymous users
[CS-17624] Announcements are not created with specific Expiration Days
[CS-17159] RTE display issues in IE8 (specific to 2.5)
[CS-16697] Cannot manage message templates in locales other than system's default
[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-14287] Rejected documents can be published by restoring version
[CS-14179] Registration Wizard: Multiple avatar selection produces the image to stop loading
[CS-13902] 3 Emails for every edit if you are the document owner and approver
[CS-13746] RTE IE6 renders <br /> tag differently during edit and after publish of blank bulleted lists
[CS-13576] HTML content is displayed while editing a binary document description
[CS-13460] Deleting a thread leaves orphaned messages in moderation
[CS-12448] Lots of project tasks cause IE to crash
[CS-12370] Upgrade to 2.5.6+ removes anonymous user read permissions for personal and system blogs if not explicitly set on the blog
[CS-11663] Using URL to an image from within Clearspace in an announcement causes jiveURL portion of image to URL to be truncated so image only renders in announcement at the root community
[CS-11527] Online users not updated properly in cluster
[CS-11430] Newsgroup Gateway: The export button is exporting the same content more than once
[CS-11427] Newsgroup Gateway does not display export errors
[CS-10635] Setting i18n.defaultLanguage jive property can break documents.