Release 2.1.2

[resplin]

Major Fixed Bugs

Below please find a list of major issues fixed in 2.1.2 Enterprise. For a full list of
closed / fixed issues, please see JIRA issue tracking system.

Release notes for Alfresco's earlier maintanence release, Alfresco 2.1, can be found here or from our Enterprise Plan of Record.

Enterprise Content Management

Repository	Summary
AR	Fixes to handling of invalid web script definitions on startup of server.  Improved logging as well as show invalid web scripts in /service/index update page.
AR	Contribution: Integrity checker ignores exceptions that would normally trigger transaction retries.
AR	Fix to Template API where content was not retrievable from custom d:content properties on a node
AR	Fix for potential time-based GUID issues
AR	Fixed dependecy list for SDK for jug-lgpl-2.0.0.jar
AR	Fix problem where an existing file is not truncated when opened for overwrite when using the older CIFS open file request, as used by
AR	NodeRef + child path relative URLs support for DownloadContentServlet
AR	JMX server connector is now lazily instantiated in the server context.
AR	Include the alf_child_assoc.type_qname in the check for duplicate children.
AR-1217	OpenOffice connection is actively maintained
AR-1696	Support for long text in aspect names
AR-1807	Web Script JSON callback throws exception
AR-1830	Search not returning expected results for umlauts
AR-1832	Allow setting of timeout value in the Java webservices client
AR-1862	Failure to map Alfresco properties whose namespace prefix contains _ to jBPM variable
AR-1863	Major version's can now be created via the web service API;
AR-1873	Add Location to webscript response status
AR-1875	New Edition on a multilingual document when a rule is present on the parent space
AR-1879	JBPM Timer never fires
AR-1884	Improved Unicode wildcard processing
AR-1889	Added filtering of pseudo files when a partial wildcard search path is used, such as '*.csv'.
AR-1900	Extension was being lost and defaulting back to '.doc'
AR-1901	Fix for ML Text i Oracle
AR-1917	WebDav document url now available in Template/Script APIs
AR-1923	Fix audit date behaviour
AR-1940	WebDAV Excel and Powerpoint plugins open files in read-only
AR-1962	CIFS Server Does Not Truncate Existing File When Using smbclient
AR-1964	Myspaces URL encoding broken in IE7
AR-1977	/api/path/content web script doesn't work with AVM stores
AR-1978	Added support for SPNEGO to the CIFS passthru authenticator
AR-1985	SQL Server dialect is derived from Sybase dialect so needs additional no-op script
AR-2037	Javascript debugger does not work on OS X Leopard
AR-2041	NPE checks during indexing
AR-2043	XpathMetadataExtrator extracts empty strings
AWC	Fix for File Upload message XSS issue
AWC	Fix for handling of UTF-8 application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoded form arguments
AWC	ML contribution fixes
AWC	Added support for Range and Content-Range headers to support Download managers and Resume features for HTTP downloads
AWC	Fix for 'Save to Alfresco' link disappearing in Office addin
AWC-1089	Nodes in the navigator component should be ordered alphabetically
AWC-1357	Improved message for assignment issue
AWC-1463	MyWebForms and MyWebFiles templates check for existence of stores
AWC-1578, AWC-14	Category picker fixes
AWC-1661	Cannot edit details of user who has had their home space removed
AWC-1662	NPE when searching for users
AWC-1677	Japanese User Search in the 'invite Users Wizard' does not work correctly
AWC-1686	WebClientPortletAuthenticator does not start usertxn when calling public services
AWC-1743	Generated phrase searches no longer escape values between the quotes
AWC-1753	Editing a Discussion shows 'new lines' as ' '
AWC-1792	AssociationEditor strange behavior on User Search
AWC-1795	The Utils.stripUnsafeHTMLTags method can corrupt safe HTML tags
AWC-1799	WebScript JSR168 authenticator calls security protected service inappropriately
AWC-1838	Changes to the User Details are not saved after logging out
AWC-853, AWC-935, AWC-1180, AWC-1660	Improvements to all web-client People pickers - function and performance
RM-31	LDAP auth; confusion with capital letters
WCM	Improved cache use for large snapshots.
WCM	This makes issuers compatible with clustering without a huge performance drop.
WCM	Debugging output for getAPath(). Possible partial fix for LazyInitialization errors seen by some customers.
WCM	Removes vary bad scaling behavior FS deployment receiver.
WCM	Fixed sub optimal tree pruning in filesystem deployment.
WCM	Fixes a number of problems with FS deployment. Should work on windows now.
WCM	Missing AVM Store system descriptor properties prevents system startup
WCM	Fixes transient submit failures when submitting deleted directories with no ancestors.
WCM	Virtual Server fixes
WCM	The linkvalidation service now provides a public API
WCM	Additional indexes for AVM
WCM-1039	Problems with case insensitive name handling.
WCM-1051	Creating a web project with a non admin user and no invitees results in an 'empty' web project
WCM-790	Date conversion for metadata extractors
WCM-893	Now only users explicitly invited to a Web Project can see it in the web-client
WCM-934	Disabling link validation poller by setting poll interval to 0 causes NPE
WCM-940	XPath metadata extractor selector handles malformed and empty XML files
WCM-949	AVM content is not indexed correctly when you recreate a directory
WCM-967	Paths are not correctly ISO9075 encoded in the AVM index

Release Notes
2.x Releases