Release 2.2.0

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New and Enhanced Features

Details of the new and enhanced features can be found here for the core services and  here for the WCM services.

Major Fixed Bugs

Below please find a list of major issues fixed in 2.2.0 Enterprise. For a full list of
closed / fixed issues, please see JIRA issue tracking system.

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

Issue	Summary
AR-609	alfresco core contains log4j.properties
AR-786	Benchmark loading breaks user logins
AR-833	Warning from ehcache 1.2.2 (handing of defaults)
AR-1010	Outbound check out rule results in confused state
AR-1022	Update rules firing, when apparently nothing has been updated
AR-1043	Cannot open Open Office presentation from CIFS
AR-1152	Guest user should be able to log in with any password
AR-1160	If you delete a node that gets sent to the archive, the beforeDeleteNode and onDeleteNode policy gets fired twice
AR-1217	If OpenOffice becomes disconnected, reconnect works, but the transformer registry seems to have removed the transformer
AR-1366	InvalidNodeRefException when accessing directory via CIFS
AR-1392	audit java.sql.BatchUpdateException ORA12899
AR-1413	CIFS, WebDAV and FTP clients need to be resilient to missing nodes
AR-1466	Search sort fails with some index structures- may be a lucene issue
AR-1474	Linux installer doesn't replace @@ALFRESCO_DIR@@ everywhere in the startup scripts
AR-1488	Able to add content to a 'forum' space
AR-1496	org.alfresco.util.ApplicationContextHelper.closeApplicationContext() method should be static
AR-1519	Duplicate entry in archive store
AR-1526	Cannot open PDFs in 'My Network Places'
AR-1533	Index folders not tidied up as expected during FTP and CIFS import
AR-1538	Audit Interceptor should perform quick check for global enabled='false' config flag before performing any work
AR-1571	javascript fails execution with hebrew encoding
AR-1572	Export of a folder with ML content will reimport into another location but cannot browse into it due to error
AR-1585	SDK CustomJSP sample - fails at runtime when trying to display document details in the Web Client
AR-1586	Reapply same AMP gives exception
AR-1601	NTLM Passthrou authentication with null pointer exception
AR-1663	OnCopyCompletePolicy is only being executed once per transaction, and not once per node being copied.
AR-1686	KeywordSearch does not filter by locale
AR-1694	Lucene indexes are backed up into the dir.root
AR-1695	Index tracking on ADM must reindex ALL transactions from the missed one
AR-1702	Keyword search using WS Search API fails to retrieve documents
AR-1707	Web services do not properly escape some characters
AR-1720	Enable E4X extensions
AR-1756	Null pointer exception for org.alfresco.util.RuntimeSystemPropertiesSetter.postProcessBeanFactory
AR-1759	Space Rules are not propogating down a pasted space tree
AR-1762	Use ServletRequest.getServerName() instead of ServletRequest.getLocalName() in ContentWebService line 138
AR-1773	Registering a model problem.
AR-1778	putContent method in the org.alfresco.webservice.util.ContentUtils class fails to upload *.java, *.txt, *.xml/html files ok with *.doc,*.pdf, *.jpg, *.zip
AR-1807	JSON callback throws exception
AR-1808	childrenByXPath() doesn't allow position query?
AR-1812	Can't have two schemas, bootstrap fails
AR-1827	Command-line export creates bad ACP file
AR-1828	createUsers SOAP call is not thread-safe
AR-1837	Error aborting rejected workflow in clustered environment
AR-1840	alf_audit_fact.return val column too small for some event
AR-1842	Error message appears when checking links on Web Project page
AR-1845	Error message appears when creating or adding new content in space with 'Check Out' rule
AR-1848	Properties for Web Forms are displayed not correctly after deleting any Web Form
AR-1849	Error message appears on Manage Task: Verify Broken Links page
AR-1850	Chaining sample
AR-1856	Import of ACP inside a space with rule fails
AR-1871	Modifing ML property value (such as cm:description) causes classcastexception in OnUpdateNodePolicy.onUpdateNode()
AR-1875	New Edition on a multilingual document when a rule is present on the parent space
AR-1882	Error message appears when trying to Approve WCM workflow on server C
AR-1885	CIFS Path limit
AR-1886	Impossible to audit NodeService.setProperties(NodeRef, Map) in an Oracle 10gr2 environment
AR-1888	Not full list of possible features appears when trying to create a rule and select 'Add aspect to am item'
AR-1890	License details lost causing server to be in read-only mode
AR-1894	Error message appears when trying to open Manage Adhoc Task, which creator was deleted
AR-1895	org.alfresco.sample.webservice.ContentReadAndWrite creates content the wrong way so that created content cannot be retrieved by path afterwards.
AR-1902	Double posts when emailing to a document
AR-1903	Text attachments should be treated the same way as other attachments
AR-1904	Attachments via email should be allowed on forum posts
AR-1907	Move rule into folder with rules
AR-1909	OpenOffice bootstrap start fails with java.io.exception: .... not found
AR-1923	Audit can stuff up the date used
AR-1927	Impossible to see Multilingual Content Info on server B for content, which was made multilingual on server A
AR-1932	Error message appears when trying to rename Forum Space
AR-1938	User is not informed about invalid characters when creating Space in My Spaces List
AR-1939	2.1.1 phpintegration module fails to install with version erro
AR-1956	ISNULL (and ISNOTNULL) do not work when the property is in an ASPECT
AR-1957	MS-Office temp files are versioned when using CIFS
AR-1973	Sort by cm:modified does not work
AR-1977	'/api/path/content web script doesn't work with AVM stores
AR-1996	custom-repository-context.xml.sample is incorrect
AR-2003	AVM Permission patches should report progress
AR-2006	problems with versioning nd Microsoft office documents in CIFS
AR-2016	Webdav : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setAttribute: Non-serializable attribute
AR-2017	Content0 items found in advanced search
AR-2041	NPE on IndexTracking
AR-2046	Authentication chaining is broken by JMX additions and JMX support bean may fail to initialise
AR-2055	FileFolderService.makeFolders has incorrect permission check
AR-2060	Full index rebuild doesn't reindex OpenOffice documents
AR-2069	WebService tickets are expired when upload and download sessions they have used are timed out
AR-2072	when using aspect versionable, copying and deleting a document generates an exception Transaction didn't commit: nodeRef is a mandatory parameter
AR-2079	ContentStoreCleaner causes OutOfMemory
AR-2093	org.alfresco.repo.admin.RepoServerMgmt.java uses AuthenticationServiceImpl instead of AuthenticationService
AR-2127	Patch hibernate to avoid out of memory issues as the ActionQueue executions list grows
AR-2128	Work around for hibernate thread local memory leak
AR-2129	ACL upgrade and changing on AVM is slow - need a better way to find nodes referenced by layering
AR-2130	Add to hibernate session management to only throw the unwanted stuff and keep earlier stuff in the session
AR-2133	2.1 -> 2.2 upgrade fails with null qnames on avm store properties - they are not correctly mappeded to the .empty namespace
AR-2136	AVM set ACL should only cascade update AVM nodes if any ACL has versioned
AR-2137	Transaction isolation level is not reset in AVM permission patches
AR-2138	AVM permission patch requires to add SetPermission permission for ContentManagers (as the UI now does)
AR-2139	Oracle can not track AVM permission patch progress as it does not suport TX isolation level 1 (dirty read)
AR-2141	Exception org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.CopyServiceException: The aspect has not been added to the destination node.
AR-2154	ehcache-custom.xml.sample.cluster is incomplete
AR-2157	Child association's target's role makes very common code not work
AR-2165	Regress - cannot login when repo is in read-only mode
AR-2196	when uploading a large number of users (5000+) from LDAP the home older is not created correctly
AR-2212	Some data is not getting flushed to the database during large transactions
AR-786	Benchmark loading breaks user logins
AR-833	Warning from ehcache 1.2.2 (handing of defaults)
AWC-1149	Resource bundles in AMP files
AWC-1211	ResourceBundle not serializable prevent cluster session failover
AWC-1302	Modify categories page shows two links to add the item into a category - the one above the 1/2 stage box is rubbish
AWC-1303	Data Dictionary, Guest home and User Home not being translated with the chosen language.
AWC-1353	Incorrect displaying user interface text after switching to any language except English
AWC-1359	'Create' link doesn't work.
AWC-1361	The information in My Tasks (webscripts) component isn't displayed
AWC-1362	System error appears after deleting space and clicking on deleted space in navigator.
AWC-1363	Incorrect Boolean Search (syntax is the next: 'word +word1')
AWC-1367	Incorrect Boolean Search (syntax is the next: 'word +word1 -word3' and 'word -word3')
AWC-1368	Incorrect Boolean Search (syntax is the next: '-word')
AWC-1376	On clicking 'Close' button system returns on wrong page.
AWC-1380	Search results aren't saved after refusal to delete (recover) items.
AWC-1390	'Paste All' option doesn't work for Forum Spaces, Forums, Topics
AWC-1432	Recovery location is not shown on clicking 'Recover' button on 'Manage deleted items'
AWC-1443	Permissions problems in MySpaces web script
AWC-1461	Breadcrumbs bug with IE7
AWC-1462	Unfriendly error notification appears when you try to create space with the name containing '*' symbol
AWC-1465	Unable to select users during Invite to space.
AWC-1467	Don't control incorect name for 'Advanced Space Wizard'
AWC-1469	Impossibility of creation a new pooled task
AWC-1470	Empty line in the clean_tomcat.sh script file
AWC-1472	Wrong display of side bar in Navigator menu
AWC-1473	Incorrect display of Shelf bar
AWC-1484	Access denied when executing Beanshell
AWC-1488	Update function doesn't work in Document list, My Spaces List components
AWC-1491	It is impossible to upload the file in My Spaces List component
AWC-1515	E-mail doesn't reach user's mail box, if it was created with the help of templates (invite_user_email.ftl, notify_user_email.ftl)
AWC-1519	Error message appears when user cancels creation of new discussion for content
AWC-1534	Error message appers when Search field is empty on 'Workflow Options' page
AWC-1547	homeFolderManager fails if client customizations have been specified
AWC-1548	Some symbols cause errors while searching users on Workflow Wizard page
AWC-1552	System Error message appears while clicking 'Manage Task' icon in 'All active task' component for the task, for which the user, who created the task, will be deleted.
AWC-1560	System Error message appears while clicking 'View Completed Task' icon in 'My Completed Task' component for the task, for which the user, whom this task was assigned to, was deleted.
AWC-1561	System Error message appears while clicking 'Manage Task' icon in 'My Task To Do' component for the task, for which the user, who created this task, was deleted.
AWC-1566	Reapplying rules on a space even disabled rules are executed
AWC-1567	Allow dynamic reconfiguration of log levels, without a server restart
AWC-1572	The association target multiplicity has been violated Error
AWC-1576	In AssociatedQuerySession.java test for association is backward?
AWC-1578	Category picker when wrapped by Multi-Value editor displays editor too early
AWC-1588	Open Office Transformer exception is not thrown correctly:
AWC-1590	Incorrect Boolean Search (syntax is the next: '-trance')
AWC-1591	Incorrect Advanced Search (syntax is the next: '-trance')
AWC-1592	Impossibility to navigate to next and previous template with the help of 'Next Item' and 'Previous Item' buttons on 'Preview of Space' page
AWC-1598	The user can't be searched by first name, last name and first name with last name
AWC-1599	Impossibility to Start Advanced Workflow because of system error
AWC-1601	System Error appears after Dashboard configuration is finished and Configure link press again
AWC-1602	Create Space function in My Spaces List component doesn't work
AWC-1604	lucene query with wildcards
AWC-1606	Error message appears on 'User Homes' page
AWC-1608	Outcome for the task done is not display
AWC-1614	Impossibility to View in CIFS the content
AWC-1615	Generate 'class' attribute in multi value editor and not 'styleClass'
AWC-1616	Error message appears on 'Company Home' page
AWC-1630	NavigationBean patch which would enable additional navigation items in titlebar
AWC-1633	Unable to edit rule added via web service.
AWC-1636	WCM Task cause 500 error in MS Office Add-in
AWC-1637	Getting an error when auditng is switched on
AWC-1638	NullPointerException in Web Client when using Browse View (with missing model file)
AWC-1639	Workflow History doesn't render correctly with IE
AWC-1651	Referring to /alfresco/navigate/showDocDetails/ shows properties of parent node
AWC-1661	Cannot edit the details of a user who's home space has been deleted
AWC-1664	InvalidNodeRefException backtracking in Advanced Space Wizard
AWC-1672	Space/Folder links not shown in My Spaces WebScript
AWC-1690	Override navigation not working when we 'close search'
AWC-1693	In a client failover cluster, error shown when attempting to create a space
AWC-1697	Exception AccessDeniedException is thrown if guest user access Version History prop of a doc.
AWC-1705	Can not Cut a piece of content that has multilingual translations - Cut option is not shown
AWC-1706	Trying to give user accounts permissions (contributor, Consumer, etc) so that they can have rights to Edit, Check In, Check Out
AWC-1711	All approve and reject actions for basic workflow should be restricted with 'WriteProperties' permission
AWC-1719	Need to alllow Rules to account for a space being deleted
AWC-1724	Alfresco fails to start after indexes auto rebuild
AWC-1728	It's impossible to find deleted item by content
AWC-1740	Alfresco Node Browser doesn't show all nodes
AWC-1748	Alfresco Web Client & Yale SSO(CAS) Integration
AWC-1750	User properties can be modified in Administration Console on Manage System users page, but it is not displayed in External directory
AWC-1751	It is possible to delete User from the list on Manage System users page, but he is not deleted from External Directory
AWC-1760	Impossibility to enter Manage System Users page in Administration Console
AWC-1763	Impossibility to enter Export page in Administration Console
AWC-1768	Error message appears when trying to create content
AWC-1776	Direct downloads and deletes are not shown in Audit log
AWC-1777	Error message appears when trying to create Advanced Space Wizard'->Based on an existing space
AWC-1787	Bypass task security with pooled tasks
AWC-1807	User not involved in a workflow can accept or reject it.
AWC-1814	Modify categories: Layout-Problems
AWC-1831	Extensions cannot customize/add jscript root object for (alfresco/extension/*-context.xml)
AWC-1835	Error after pressing 'Login(guest)'
AWC-1836	Error message appears on clicking 'Cancel' button for 'Start discussions'option for Space and Content
AWC-1843	NullPointerException when using Create Space Wizard with configured type thats missing
AWC-1900	Error message appears on Configure Dashboard Wizard (Step1)
AWC-1915	All uses of JSF DataModel are broken following UI cluster changes
AWC-1957	Administrator is unable to add any user to 'Selected users/groups and their role(s)' list.
AWC-1961	On Advanced search page it is impossible to remove added category from the list
AWC-1962	User and his selected role for a Space does not display in the 'Selected users/groups and their role(s)' on Invite Users Wizard page (Step1)
AWC-2022	Error message appears on clicking 'Cancel' button for 'Start discussions'option for Space and Content
AWC-237	Category-based content browsing
AWC-615	Test for cookies not working in Safari
AWC-794	HttpSession attributes are accessed after session invalidation when logging out
AWC-798	Error connecting as Guest ff the Guest users Home Space is deleted
AWC-821	Renaming a user's home space to an existing space results in same name spaces.
AWC-913	The example AJAX component can leave the summary panel on screen
WCM-1007	Close Search should return user to the Web Project View, not the user's sandbox
WCM-1009	Impossibility to go to Summary page on Create Web Project Wizard
WCM-1018	The GUI should disable the 'Check Links' control if the link validation service is disabled.
WCM-1019	2.2 WCM Task Resources showing all assets in sandbox instead of change set
WCM-1023	File Deployment Receiver fails due to missing class
WCM-1027	Error message appears trying to create Web Project
WCM-1033	Only the administrator user seems to be able to create new web projects
WCM-1034	Virt server JMX cannot connect to alfresco webapp due to bad spring config: java.net.UnknownHostException: ${avm.remote.host}
WCM-1037	Update case handling in deploy compare logic to handle case-preserving nature of repos
WCM-1052	Error - Failed to signal transition 'reject' from workflow task
WCM-1058	The link validation service is not working with the new permissions in AVM
WCM-1066	PermGen error on 2.2 BETA using HSQL after heavy use
WCM-1069	Error message appears when user tries to create Web Project
WCM-1070	Need to take lock on asset when select for edit in web client for both form-generated and non-form generated assets
WCM-1079	Users with Content Reviewer role cannot approve content via workflow
WCM-1085	Content can be uploaded via FTP direct to the Staging Sandbox
WCM-1102	Assign a reviewer that does not belong to a web project will result in NPE when clicking on task
WCM-1105	Web Form Details in Web Project Edit is not functioning properly
WCM-1108	ACL upgrade from 2.1 -> 2.2 does not set permissions correctly
WCM-1109	WCM permission upgrade does not create a snapshot at the end
WCM-1110	WCM permission patch incorrectly sets store access for Content Managers - it should just set READ/CHANGE permissions
WCM-1111	WCM Staging area has 'change permissions' mask for Content Managers - they should also have 'read permissions '
WCM-1120	Impossibility to create Webapp Folder by user with content manager rights
WCM-1121	Error mesage appears when the user3 try to approve the task of WCM workflow
WCM-1151	Impossible to invite new user to the created project from Invite Web Project users page
WCM-1168	Content Managers Sandbox is still dispalyed in Web Project when this user is deleted from Manage System Users page
WCM-41	Need ability to create sites based on existing site
WCM-420	Staging snapshots from Today date filter sometimes disappear
WCM-437	Show Items per Page control in WCM sandbox view
WCM-460	CIFS AVM interface does not go through the nodeservice - no security applied to AVM file access
WCM-462	Cloning Web Projects
WCM-485	All content inside a web project is of type wcm:avmplaincontent
WCM-489	Limit view of available web projects
WCM-490	cannot create web project: Unable to prepare: Transaction is already prepared
WCM-501	Cannot install alfresco.war in Oracle Application Server
WCM-515	Picker widget should provide search capabilities
WCM-519	Widget level ACLs
WCM-527	Deployment targeting / veto
WCM-533	It should be possible to inject custom DeploymentCallback classes into the deployment process
WCM-548	Deployment reports needs to be saved along with each deployed snapshot
WCM-549	Need ability to preview older snapshots prior to deploying
WCM-554	In-line callouts should be able to reference a JSP stored and maintained in the Data Dictionary
WCM-560	Paste content as link for AVM stores
WCM-638	WCM GUI allows user to click 'submit selected' when no items are selected
WCM-663	Deployment UI should request a 'targetName' for file server deployments
WCM-665	Configuration for deployment should be in Spring not in web-client-config-wcm.xml
WCM-667	Need ability in GUI to see change set associated with each snapshot
WCM-675	Error message appears on try to create web content with the help of XML schema
WCM-691	Improvements to startup batch file for deployment server
WCM-70	AVM Needs security.
WCM-701	Changes to folder descriptions not tracked under Modified Items
WCM-708	Deployment receiver process should include a stop script
WCM-712	The task window should offer controls that approve or reject the task and complete the task in a single step
WCM-732	If we type an uppercase letter in a dns name, the virtualization server doesn't recognize it.
WCM-751	Incorrect error notification appears on trying to create two web projects with equal DNS names and 'Finish' button doesn't work.
WCM-774	Non-admin repository users cannot create content in an existing web project
WCM-783	Deployment receiver process doesn't write log output to disk on Windows
WCM-789	Content type relationships cannot be typed and the file picker widget is not enforcing type safety
WCM-793	Need ability to deploy in-progress changes to remote test server before pushing to staging
WCM-795	PermGen out of memory error after working for a bit on (rev 6642)
WCM-798	Undo Selected on an XML or Generated Asset doesn't Undo all related assets
WCM-815	Deployment report stack traces are not formatted correctly
WCM-817	Web Project cannot be undeleted properly
WCM-818	Regenerate renditions on web form throws exception
WCM-825	Alfresco Authoring Tool Search does not find Web Project Files
WCM-843	maxLength xsd restriction mapped to maxlength instead of maxLength on xformsNode
WCM-849	Add virtualization support to allow the ROOT directory location and name to be defined on a remote server.
WCM-855	Security issues with Folders uploaded via CIFS to WCM
WCM-863	Broken links checker returns NullPointerException
WCM-865	Optimistic locking failure caused by large submit
WCM-873	Exception when using Bulk Import simultaneous in two separate sandboxes in one web project
WCM-875	Exception when using Bulk Import into a sandbox with simultaneous file copy via CIFS
WCM-876	Exception while submitting sandbox during simultaneous copy operations
WCM-877	CIFS does not respect locking when configure CIFS to use AVMLockingAwareService
WCM-884	Recent snapshots in Staging Sandbox not listing snapshots for entire day
WCM-889	CIFS should mark all STAGING sandboxes as read-only
WCM-890	Need ability to filter view of available sandboxes based on user
WCM-901	file_picker annotation (alf:appearance) is not working anymore if wrapping the xs:anyURI into a xs:simpleType
WCM-905	xmlNodeModel gives ERROR if the object is referred directly in Web Script's FTL file
WCM-928	CIFS view onto replicated Web Projects does not show Web Projects
WCM-943	File deployment time increases with the number of directories being deployed.
WCM-946	FTP put to overwrite an existing WCM document doesn't register
WCM-948	Impossible to browse/access wcm project while submitting to Staging
WCM-952	WebForm: Integer value has to be provided for optional xs:integer element
WCM-959	Clicking on folder in modified items list in submit dialog causes error
WCM-961	'Release Server' action does not have a confirmation dialog
WCM-962	'Delete All Deploy Reports' action needs confirmation dialog
WCM-964	AVM Id issuers do not support rollback - these ids need to be DB generated as elsewhere
WCM-965	TinyMCE Insert Link's Browse button broken on IE
WCM-993	To edit default webfolder (Default Webapp:ROOT) Release Notes