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

Fixed Issues

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

• Version 2.5.7 Release Notes
• 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 2.5.8

• [CS-12392] Space Blog associations are not carried over from 1.10.x to 2.5.x
• [CS-12220] Web services do not work with WAS 6.1 and Clearspace 2.5.7
• [CS-12052] People page filters contain values from users that are disabled
• [CS-11678] RTE Link Picker does not respect user name privacy settings
• [CS-11676] registration moderation can be bypassed if email validation is turned on

Fixed Issues in 2.5.8

• [CS-12161] Backport - Improve logic in CommunityProxy.getCommunityCount() to better support large numbers of communities
• [CS-11875] Browsing spaces (/community) causes the page to load indefinitely with a large # of spaces
• [CS-11793] Typo error in plugin upload: atleast
• [CS-11792] Recent content hovering of a guest avatar fails with system error
• [CS-11776] Escaped characters from wiki syntax are showing the escape backslash after content is converted to 2.5 format
• [CS-11739] Email templates have some hardcoded locale settings for i18n keys
• [CS-11593] Body content conversion process can fail with some 1.10 content if the APPLY_CUSTOMER_SPECIFIC_CONTENT_CONVERSION variable is set to true
• [CS-11546] Inconsistencies in page titles
• [CS-11522] social group cannot be deleted if it contains a banned member
• [CS-11473] Organizational relationship -> filter by user name showing incorrect results.
• [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-11352] UserService disable / enable annotations are reversed
• [CS-11343] UserContainerManager is null when running through setup
• [CS-11301] Compare versions has scrollbar in IE7 that cuts off last line of text
• [CS-11282] IPInterceptor email subject and body needs real text
• [CS-11281] Report abuse on thread changes modification date
• [CS-11260] More context links dropped when linking via RTE
• [CS-11191] Approving/Rejecting content reported as abusive sends a confusing email to the content author
• [CS-11123] Default peoples page view: cannot set to sort by name
• [CS-11120] Accepting connection request can result in erroneous friend graph for requesting party.
• [CS-11104] Moderation: rejected messages still show-up for admins/moderators
• [CS-11075] Thread paginator does not take moderated messages into account when determining how many pages to show
• [CS-11061] Migration from MSSQL server to postgres is not migrating document bodies
• [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-11034] Setting max number of Message Attachments < 3 causes Social Group image creation error - Bullfrog
• [CS-10989] Tabs: cursor interprets as text instead of link for IE
• [CS-10714] Can't invite users to projects
• [CS-10658] Time zone selection under 'Your Preferences' does not change with locale.
• [CS-10626] Punctuation from UTF8 languages is not recognized as valid in poll options
• [CS-10587] <BODY></BODY> on Live Writer is breaking BLOG
• [CS-10554] Tags that contain double quotes cause the Javascript on the view tags page to give errors
• [CS-10460] Editing the space name and display name or deleting a space should clear the community cache
• [CS-10423] Wiki documents containing unbalanced HTML tags fail to upgrade from 1.10 to 2.5
• [CS-10422] StackOverflowException encountered in WikiLexer during upgrade
• [CS-10417] Keyboard navigation in the RTE is buggy at times
• [CS-10390] Recent content only has 100 items
• [CS-10386] IP Interceptor email not being sent due to a typo
• [CS-10382] XSS on DOCs IE6
• [CS-10372] Email Visible setting not saving changes
• [CS-10368] Responding to email and adding a gateway address as recipient creates blank guest post
• [CS-10320] LDAP user First and Last name fields get merged into First Name on Clearspace
• [CS-10319] The discussions and document tabs on a community home page are not lining up with other tabs in IE
• [CS-10302] Invitation to Group doesn't work if user previous left group
• [CS-10300] userproxy incorrectly delegates isSetNameVisibleSupported to isSetNameSupported
• [CS-10246] JiveCompressionFilter.isLesserIE null pointer exception if no user-agent is set
• [CS-10215] Restarting the server will change an email gateway's IMAP folder to INBOX, and reset SSL enabled to false
• [CS-10209] Search -> More options still has box for Discussions and Documents even when those features are disabled
• [CS-10208] On User Profile Invite Friends to Join Link Has Incorrect Parameters
• [CS-10176] Report abuse on a thread makes the last post by information incorrect until a new message is posted
• [CS-10164] Incoming link to document still shows after document isn't linked anymore
• [CS-10136] Images are not displaying correctly if resized and/or sitting in a table cell
• [CS-10133] User Search in Admin Console doesn't paginate
• [CS-10105] Inconsistent result filter behavior with extended properties
• [CS-10098] Document page does not open in a highly populated database
• [CS-10074] Spotlight search is not looking for tags
• [CS-10059] XSS on blog Comments as Guest
• [CS-10049] Suggested tags and popular tags list contains tags from all spaces rather than just the one the user is in
• [CS-10001] XSS on Blog trackbacks
• [CS-9987] System error viewing to PDF a document with international characters
• [CS-9934] The Browse Spaces page is very non performant when there are a large number of spaces
• [CS-9895] Index rebuilds continuously due to overflow
• [CS-9755] Default Status Level show null as a large image
• [CS-9754] Missing status level image: statusicon-46.gif and statusicon-52.gif
• [CS-9751] TOC macro hidden after initial publish
• [CS-9748] Reset Password allows you to go under 6 character minimum
• [CS-9746] Changing a user's username will result in incorrect path to their blog
• [CS-9702] modification date on containers isn't be updated when new messages or new blog posts or new comments are posted
• [CS-9661] Attachments are deleted from the database
• [CS-9603] You View tab broken when using non-English locale
• [CS-9594] Excell 2007 icon not showing on the binary body
• [CS-9484] Display bug in Admin Console Discussion Management IE
• [CS-9483] Give the tag display page for a space the option to be recursive
• [CS-9445] Html code macros containing object/param tags fails to render
• [CS-9417] Minor information disclousre in /clearspace/people
• [CS-9338] Out of memory error in tomcat when sending private messages in clustered environment
• [CS-9117] Wrong translation of verb "to be" in email template in Spanish
• [CS-9106] Plugin based macros are not properly applying their properties
• [CS-8940] all watches are created as expirable which means watches on users, spaces, groups, projects and communities are getting deleted
• [CS-8827] HTML emails are not processed correctly via email gateway
• [CS-8687] Updating Formatted Text Widget Will Fail if Widget Text is Too Long Votes: 1
• [CS-8317] Upgrade "Restart Needed" screen should have link back to site.
• [CS-7896] Senior Cluster Node Not Showing Recent Content Beyond Front Page
• [CS-7654] Jump to Blog is displaying error, if blog address is longer than 40 characters.