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

Known Issues

Existing Feature Improvements

Fixed Issues

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

• Version 2.5.5 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.4 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.3 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.2 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.1 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.0.rc Release Notes

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.

Known Issues in 2.5.6

• [CS-10599] Email Gateway export fails on SSL
• [CS-10595] Email Gateways do not work with SSL connection (IMAP)
• [CS-10359] Adding/Removing users to/from a permissions group in a cluster causes system error.
• [CS-10223] Link to blog that was migrated from a system blog to community blog using old URL format strips parts of the URL on publish
• [CS-10102] Email Gateways do not work with SSL connection
• [CS-9964] Cannot manage pre-existing sytem blog users after migrating blog to a community blog
• [CS-9873] Formatted Text widget is throwing errors (JiveImageUrlBuilder)
• [CS-9769] Blogs don't pick up container context w/regards to Community-mapped themes
• [CS-9661] Attachments are deleted from the database
• [CS-9196] Tags group modification doesn't save changes
• [CS-8845] Revoking blog read permission does not work
• [CS-8827] HTML emails are not processed correctly via email gateway

Fixed Issues in 2.5.6

• [CS-10359] Adding/Removing users to/from a permissions group in a cluster causes system error.
• [CS-10198] Ordered list are misnumbered upon document publish
• [CS-10195] Send as email not sending email
• [CS-10162] Property Table Value columns should be defined as varchar not long varchar in DB2
• [CS-10102] Email gateways do not work with SSL connection
• [CS-10096] Userpicker on manage collaboration page does not open in Safari
• [CS-10061] DWR debugging needs to be turned off
• [CS-10028] Quotes do not display in editor, but exist when published
• [CS-10020] Read tracking can deadlock the entire JVM
• [CS-9984] Cannot disable readtracking
• [CS-9847] Entering HTML escape characters into formatted text causes it to display nothing Votes: 1
• [CS-9817] Can't migrate to system blog
• [CS-9781] Upgrade with old wiki links can break the links
• [CS-9659] Upgrade task needs to handle image sizing when upgrading from older releases of Clearspace to 2.5
• [CS-9626] XSS in documents
• [CS-9329] incrementing database version in a plugin causes bad stuff
• [CS-1671] Changing path breaks embedded images
• [CS-10240] Upgrading double encrypts LDAP admin password
• [CS-10236] Profile event not providing the field ID when the field is not filterable
• [CS-10214] LDAP sync doesn't always disable users not found in source
• [CS-10183] Spanish email template document.approved.notify is not working, wrong token used in XML
• [CS-10175] Chinese email template has an untranslated text in invite.friend.community
• [CS-10159] Cannot delete a social group which has extended properties
• [CS-10141] Fix NPE in HtmlRenderUtils when HTML is bad formated (or something is wrong...still not sure)
• [CS-10134] Links to . or .. break the TinyMCESupport
• [CS-10101] DB2 SQL error in archive task
• [CS-10077] Code macro lost line breaks for safari (and chrome!)
• [CS-10055] Profile Field value calculator fails on DB2 with SQL exception
• [CS-10018] Long space name can prevent you from using admin console interface
• [CS-9989] Manage group members broken when using German
• [CS-9947] DbAttachmentManagerDAO.getByDocTypeID explicitly closes db connection instead of just releasing it
• [CS-9937] FancyZoom loading causes IE6 to show a poorly rendered screen
• [CS-9927] View as PDF of document that uses table of contents macro and uses the same header string more than once causes system error.
• [CS-9845] Changing setting to allow space in usernames, results in system error
• [CS-9828] Subject in Japanese version of email template watches.email.community is not translated
• [CS-9787] Add a task which will clean up CS-9781
• [CS-9772] Duplicate user email addresses (case sensitive)
• [CS-9765] Hitting 'return' when sending social group members a message blanks out users selected
• [CS-9675] Save properties on Formatted Text Widget takes several clicks to actually fire in IE6
• [CS-9655] Paste bulleted list from word to RTE displays CSS conditionals in IE
• [CS-9574] Can't delete content (document, discussion) from a social group as System Admin
• [CS-9572] Document that uses a "display:none" style on a tag causes system error when try to view as PDF
• [CS-9556] Formatted text widget not doing well with bullets
• [CS-9521] User profile presence isn't updating
• [CS-9497] Creating a new space from one that was previously deleted
• [CS-9415] Moving spaces can cause duplicate watches
• [CS-9176] Social group send email to members functionality sends emails to null if emailVisible = false
• [CS-6179] Spell check error on IE6
• [CS-3546] Project calendar task due dates offset by a day
• [CS-3083] username in pdf created from a thread links to an invalid url
• [CS-10192] -webkit-border-radius is written some but not every place -moz-border-radius is used. Shorthand CSS needs different treatment.
• [CS-10177] Wrong order in words in subject in Spanish email template (blogs.comment.created)
• [CS-10165] Footer jumps up to near top of page when announcements are used (IE only)
• [CS-10092] Tooltip not working for LDAP host help
• [CS-10071] Blog posts with aligned images don't display correctly in IE6
• [CS-9990] Editor font color doesn't conform with OS settings
• [CS-9902] Cannot navigate links to a sub community that has the url of "/community"
• [CS-9602] i18n text without localization in Custom Home Page (from Italian translators)
• [CS-10179] Wrong spacing in blogs.comment.created subject in some email templates
• [CS-10131] Minor comment cleanup in EmailManagerImpl
• [CS-9633] Unable to view / edit a document that is pending moderation