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 2.5.6 Release Notes
• 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 2.5.7

• [CS-11678] RTE link picker does not respect user name privacy settings
• [CS-11454] Applying a new license should not change system properties
• [CS-11375] Guest messages with name property don't show name in thread list or recent content
• [CS-11343] UserContainerManager is null when running through setup
• [CS-11162] Active Directory integration does not allow synchronization with unescaped spaces in path name
• [CS-11060] Upgrade from 1.10.x to 2.5.x documents with wiki links to other documents and no title, title gets changed to URL of document on edit
• [CS-9964] Cannot manage pre-existing sytem blog users after migrating blog to a community blog
• [CS-9746] Changing a user's username will result in incorrect path to their blog
• [CS-9661] Attachments are deleted from the database
• [CS-9338] Out of memory error in Tomcat when sending private messages in clustered environment
• [CS-8845] Revoking blog read permission does not work
• [CS-8827] HTML emails are not processed correctly via email gateway
• [CS-5673] Email registration moderation workflow is broken

Fixed Issues in 2.5.7

• [CS-10470] "Update formatted text widget" upgrade task is failing when text is near to 3500 chars (tested in PostgreSQL and Oracle)
• [CS-10847] Draft documents can be deleted upon publish
• [CS-10595] Email gateways do not work with SSL connection (IMAP)
• [CS-10453] Applet execution on RTE
• [CS-10359] Adding/removing users to/from a permissions group in a cluster causes system error
• [CS-10102] Email gateways do not work with SSL connection
• [CS-9769] Blogs don't pick up container context w/regards to community-mapped themes
• [CS-9207] Clearspace does not start after loading a broken plugin
• [CS-9196] Tags group modification doesn't save changes
• [CS-1671] Changing path breaks embedded images
• [CS-10593] Social group description is undefined
• [CS-10448] Original author's name being used when a document is moderated
• [CS-10400] Drill-down / union searches do not work
• [CS-10395] The search page doesn't include the query string when checking for themes
• [CS-10322] Users who have registered but who have not been approved by a moderator can be browsed in the people pages
• [CS-10315] Disabled users can be added as document approvers and continue to receive email notifications about approval items
• [CS-10301] Search sort by subject does not work appropriately when search results contains content other than discussions
• [CS-10222] Fix NPE in ImageFilter when trying to limit oversized images
• [CS-10052] Newsgroup gateway doesn't convert output to wiki syntax on export (like email gateway)
• [CS-10051] Newsgroup gateways throw NPE when used
• [CS-9956] Social group recent activity is not consistent
• [CS-9926] Users with a non-registered (6) status appear in the People browser
• [CS-9914] System errors on setup if guest page caching enabled
• [CS-9814] Max attachment size integer overflow
• [CS-9707] Unexpected Error: Creating social group with images
• [CS-9650] Getting more information on people with profile filters does not work with multiselect fields
• [CS-9567] Profile field filters on custom multiselect fields with special characters do not work
• [CS-9556] Formatted text widget not doing well with bullets
• [CS-9236] Can't access a document that has been previously deleted
• [CS-2637] Cannot delete tags from blog post or thread Votes: 1
• [CS-2114] Long custom user profile field name messes up people search filter box
• [CS-10934] Stack trace saving "bidirectional" on user relationship setttings admin console view
• [CS-10547] Renaming space name doesn't change the blogs name
• [CS-10530] Any user can add checkpoint to a project
• [CS-10369] Incorrect WSDL generated for SystemProperties service
• [CS-10279] Advanced theming file upload should check mime type based on file name
• [CS-9716] Setting max number of message attachments < 3 causes social group image creation error
• [CS-9710] Trackbacks from comments in a poll to documents won't link back to the poll
• [CS-8855] Link picker: search: tab title should change from 'space search' to 'search'
• [CS-10260] Update references to "index.jspa" with a reference to "/index.jspa"
• [CS-10212] Missed space in email template
• [CS-10196] Email templates: Typo in sgroup.approved.member.email
• [CS-9425] NullPointerError posting private message