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

Removed Features

Previous and Next Links Removed from Discussion Threads - To improve performance, as of version 2.5.28 the Previous and Next links that were displayed at the top of a discussion thread have been removed. The links were designed to allow users to browse threads consecutively. However, the presence of the links could severely reduce performance, particularly in communities with large numbers of threads.

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-23034] invalid field value for dueDate in german locale when creating task
[CS-22976] System error at Spaces -> Settings
[CS-22973] RecentContentManager may cause site crash while under high load
[CS-22957] Recent content widget is empty
[CS-22134] Blog post next/previous links are unreliable
[CS-17954] WatchService.deleteWatch(...) method signature and REST params don't match
[CS-17328] Feed for a specific blog shows the author's email address

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-22083] SBS with LDAP integration occasionally creates duplicate relationships between users
[CS-21333] Blank anchor tags show a #
[CS-19951] Blog view count doesn't increment for non-system/personal blogs
[CS-21424] Web Services: createBinaryDocument has wrong parameters and parameter template
[CS-18279] read tracker blockage for anonymous users
[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-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-14634] Profile Modified event does not include cleared-out fields in the list of modified field IDs
[CS-14322] Theme mappings are not respected on asynchronous action invocations
[CS-14179] Registration Wizard: Multiple avatar selection produces the image to stop loading
[CS-13948] Links to blog posts/videos is dropping/truncating tag context from the URL
[CS-13902] 3 Emails for every edit if you are the document owner and approver
[CS-13878] Your Stuff > Documents does not paginate correctly
[CS-12767] Community everywhere javascript error on first comment
[CS-12486] Revoke blog read for anyone: prevents registered users from creating blogs / blog posts
[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.