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1.X Releases
Changes/fixes since 1.2RC1
- Guest User support for JBossPortal2.2 bundle.
- Saved Searches functionality now automatically upgraded from a pre 1.2 database (no admin steps required)
- Multiple category searches in a specific space issue fixed
- Configuration file reorganisation - to allow easier extension and simple upgrading between versions:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Web_Client_Configuration_Guide
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Repository_Configuration
- External Access URLs now correctly redirect to login page if additional permissions are required to process a node.
- Creation Date and Modified Date not picking up server machines UTC offset time fixed.
- Improvements to web-services samples and Linux support.
- Repository memory leak issue fixed - would eventually cause an out-of-memory error after many thousands of requests to the server.
- Improved Lucene lock handling - Lucene lock exceptions no longer occur under extremely heavy server load.
- Import/Export process improvements and fixes.
- FTP server fixed.
- Guest User support added to CIFS server.
- Guest User support added to FTP server, mapped to the FTP anonymous login.
- Ability to have automatically generated URL files in CIFS folders that link back to the web-client view of the same folder.
- Saved Search and direct Lucene query support added to Templating API:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Template_Guide
- Inherit Parent Space Permissions checkbox issue fixed on IE browser
- Update of all example template files - fixes and example enhancements
- Fix for issue where the Locale was not being set to a default for Guest user
- Other fixes - please see JIRA!
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Introducing_the_Alfresco_Java_Content_Repository_API
- Forums and Discussions Space
- Forum spaces allow users to create a hierarchy of forums. This also enables items in the repository to be 'discussed'. The discussions remain attached throughout the lifecycle of the document.
- Alfresco + JBoss Portal bundle upgraded to run in JBossPortal 2.2.0.
- Instructions are also provided here if you wish to deploy Alfresco into a vanilla install of JBossAS 4.0.3 or similar:
http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=582&start=19
- Guest User support for repository and web-client.
- The default view without a user login is now the Guest Home Space. The Login action can be used to Login as a specific user. Alfresco content, template and external access URLs now support Guest for remote access to Guest readable repository objects without a specific user login.
- NOTE: Cookie support is now required in your web browser for the 1.2 web-client.
- NOTE: For RC1, Guest access and Guest access URLs are supported in servlet containers only!
- Document level security added to the web-client
Upgrading from V1.0 and V1.1.x
Enhancements
- Repository Patch system - automatic upgrade process of previous repository schemas to the latest schema version.
- Repository Configuration Extensions mechanism - to reduce pain with upgrade procedure for customized versions of Alfresco.
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Repository_Configuration
- Saved Searches functionality in the web-client
- NOTE: For RC1, to activate Saved Searches functionality for a pre 1.2 database, the Admin user must grant the 'Contributor' role to the 'Everyone' Group for the 'Saved Searches' folder (found in 'Company Home/Data Dictionary') using the Manage Space Users dialog.
- Advanced Search improvements - full-text/filename field is no longer mandatory for an advanced search, so user can perform searches without including a specific text/name match, such as 'show all files in category abc', 'show all content with author of xyz', 'show all folders under my home folder created after date 1-2-05'.
- Simple and Advanced Search now supports basic operators - use '-' for NOT and '+' for AND terms e.g. one +two -three will find documents containing 'one' and containing 'two' but not 'three', the default is still OR if no operators specified.
- Import and Export process improvements - supports Permissions import and export,
- Signficant performance improvements to the Permissions framework - response time to generate most screens in the web-client improved by up to 70%
- Performance improvements to login response time when there are many 100's of users loaded into the system.
- Multiple category search added to Advanced Search screen
- Take Ownership of a Space functionality available through the web-client
- WebDav URLs now correctly support non-ASCII characters correctly (UTF-8 encoding)
- Node Browser admin tool XPath support and improvements
- Action web-service, Admin web-service, Access Control Web Service
- Client config setting to allow the Shelf component to be hidden by default
- System users administration page now uses a search based approach rather than showing all users by default.
- Additonal Open Office and Star Office document formats added for full-text indexing
- CIFS support for a URL link file that maps back to the web-client browse view of the same folder.
- CIFS server can now be disabled by removing the configuration section from file-servers.xml
- More action and conditions added
- Support for Model content type allowing dictionary models to be stored and bootstraped from within the repository.
- Java web service client moved to a separate JAR with clearer samples and utility classes to help with common actions.
Fixes
- Memory leak issue patched (in Lucene 3rd party library) - would eventually cause an out-of-memory error after thousands of requests to the server
- Fix to remove the 'AccessDenied' error message seen on some installs when the user first logs into their Home Space.
- SQLServer2000 schema creation failure fixed
http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2943#2943
- Date Picker Component now correctly displays current year and N years before it.
- Fix to problem trying to access the Alfresco WebDAV server using OpenOffice.
- Default email reply address for Alfresco notifications is now configurable
- Fixed a number of common CIFS problems when running under Linux (and other non-Windows platforms) where the firewall settings and/or broadcast mask default setting can cause CIFS server startup problems.
- Many other fixes - please see JIRA!
Notes
- There are changes to JavaScript and CSS files - please clear your temporary internet files browser cache!
Known Issues
- Override the transformer.ImageMagick bean found in <config>/alfresco/content-services-context.xml and modify the commands to suit your OS needs.