Release 3.2 SP1

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Important Note: Due to the issues now recorded in the #Known Issues section, this release has now been withdrawn in favor of Release 3.2 SP1.9. If you have taken this release, please read #Known Issues before continuing.

The following notes discuss the release information for Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2 SP1

Installation

Please back up your database and content store before attempting to upgrade from a previous release.

For instructions on how to install Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 SP1, refer to the Alfresco Administering a Production Environment guide, available via the Alfresco Network.

Prerequisites

This service pack requires the jTDS driver version 1.2.5 for compatibility with SQL Server, unlike version 3.2 Enterprise, which was certified with the Microsoft driver. We plan to certify future versions with jTDS.

Updated installation instructions are in the sample alfresco-global.properties and on the Wiki
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Database_Configuration#MS-SQL_Databases

Known Issues

The following known issues are associated with this release:

Content Migration

v3.2.r introduced a new content storage model that allows orphaned content to be detected more efficiently. v3.2 SP1 migrates the content of existing installations to this new model to allow the problems reported in ALF-726 to be fixed. However, further testing recorded in ALF-2719 has revealed the possibility of data loss during migration of content to this new model.

If you have already installed this release and upgraded from a previous release, please run the following SQL in order to detect whether the problem has occurred.

  select * from alf_node_properties np 
  left join alf_content_data cd on (cd.id = np.long_value) 
  where np.actual_type_n = 21 
  and cd.id is null 

If any results are returned, it is important that you restore your backup of the content store and database and upgrade to Release 3.2 SP1.8 instead.

Email Templates

When there are existing email templates in Alfresco 3.1.1 and then an upgrade is performed  the templates are still present and in the same place as they were but can no longer be selected when specifying a template to use when creating a 'Send email to specified user' action in a rule.
This problem does not occur on a clean installation of Alfresco, only an upgrade one.

A fix ALF-1816 is provided for this in 3.3 Community release, but please 'cut' and 'paste all' actions to move all custom templates from their 'Email Templates' folder to either the 'Invite Email Templates' sub-folder (if they are templates for site invitations) or the 'Notify Email Templates' sub-folder (if they are templates for notifications of new content). The standard product ones will have been moved automatically.

now understand that this is configured with <edit-link-type> in web-client-config.xml.

Edit online via CIFS is not supported in Internet Explorer 7+/Firefox 3.x browsers

cifs link type no longer works due to heightened security in recent browser versions. We have removed cifs as a 'supported' value from web-client-config.xml and made following change,

                <edit-link-type>http</edit-link-type>, the value can be http or webdav.

Major Fixed Bugs

Key	Summary
ALF-1934	change the behaviour of \'Manage User Groups\' similar to \'Manage System Users\'.
ALF-861	HTTP 500 when filling in a WCM webform
ALF-1817	Websphere 7.0.0.7: Failed to compile model d:dictionary
ALF-725	MSSQL 2008: cannot bootstrap with the MS SQL JDBC driver (v. 2.0)
ALF-2100	CLONE -Alfresco Explorer still has dependencies on portlet.jar
ALF-944	Accessing groups in JSF client is slow and causes lots of sql queries
ALF-757	build 416: Cannot deploy on JBoss 5.1 (01220000 Audit configuration could not be opened)
ALF-1745	Poor performance when deleting several assets (with rendition)
ALF-1940	Accessing some AVM Content via the Javascript API prior to browsing the folder using the WEB UI causes the content to appear as if it is missing
ALF-726	Migrate pre-3.2 content URLs to new format and pick up tag existing orphaned content
ALF-2301	build 486: deploy on DB2 fails
ALF-2436	DM deployment does NOT start
ALF-2318	Impossibility to upload file if Description (and Title) field is empty for document
ALF-500	Mistake porting AlfrescoPostCreate-3.2-PropertyValueTables.sql script to mssql dialect
ALF-501	SQLServer index limit reached for \'idx_alf_props_str\'
ALF-1612	Having been saved Cyrillic symbols in builtin editor are shown in question marks
ALF-504	Alfresco failing to startup with Websphere 7 and IBM JDK 1.6_SR6
ALF-1026	\'Next>>\' link doesn\'t work on Links page in Share
ALF-1954	Regression: same item can be submitted multiple times to workflow
ALF-657	Runas admin in workflow
ALF-748	Checkout and \'copiefrom\' aspect
ALF-511	It is impossible to edit rendering templates for a web form
ALF-255	web UI (explorer) does not allow to upload 0 bytes (null) files
ALF-1950	Share - Wrapped Exception trying to search for a Folder on Site whose URL begins with a digit
ALF-1750	System Error if user trying submit web content based on web form which was deleted
ALF-2001	WCM - Problem rendering the dateTime xsd component into webforms
ALF-1974	VTI module authentication (SSP - sharepoint) is case sensitive while explorer is not
ALF-434	Cluster: My Web Forms dashlet needs re-login in order to show on node2
ALF-1997	With SSO enabled, non-SSO users can still log in to Explorer with a password, but not to Share
ALF-649	Web Service query() no longer returns metadata in 3.2
ALF-1057	Add External Users issue
ALF-572	NFS server not working, the content is not written.
ALF-765	Upgrade EHCache to 1.7.x (latest)
ALF-730	MLText is not fully carried during copy-paste
ALF-929	email to invite external users does not allow external users to login (no credentails)
ALF-708	fix for ETHREEOH-2797 SplitPersonCleanupBootstrapBean.java leads to an OutOfMemoryException
ALF-549	Cannot connect to JMX remotely
ALF-2101	Allow custom content types to be specified as the default when creating or adding content
ALF-1089	Workflow options hardcoded - no translation available
ALF-1725	submit document with different case reverts back to previous case.
ALF-885	Cannot retrieve cm:title from an avm node in freemarker (if persisted with actual type as MLText)
ALF-862	WCM submit execution will require locking in a clustered WCM authoring env
ALF-865	WCM / Cluster: unexpected error when concurrently submitting content
ALF-2231	alfresco webdav does not respect webdav locks
ALF-2131	Office webscripts: Missing close brace, \'}\'
ALF-2347	User with collaborator / editor role is able to move content
ALF-2322	Any discussion topic containing non-ascii characters cannot be saved.
ALF-626	Using \'null\' as an authority argument in clearPermissions() cause a java.lang.NullPointerException
ALF-1816	Email templates can no longer be selected when creating a rule for the action \'Send email to specified users\' following an upgrade
ALF-1012	\'Failure. Unable to save the blog post\' message appears when Site Collaborator tries to edit a post
ALF-1667	\'Failure. Unable to save the blog post\' message appears when Site Collaborator tries to edit a post
ALF-963	alfresco-global.properties should have jTDS rather than Microsoft JDBC example
ALF-25	Import doesn\'t work for saved search
ALF-917	submit process with items which are already part of another workflow
ALF-1037	Documents modified by all users are displayed at My Documents-I\'ve modified dashlet at Share
ALF-1091	Only 15 tags displayed in Tags section in Browser pane
ALF-1614	Impossible to create web content (bulk import)
ALF-2024	Share - Modify name is only Firstname and creator is username
ALF-192	WCM (Alfresco Explorer) - delete form - submit fails (with FormNotFoundException) if form has been deleted
ALF-507	Cannot start Deployment Receiver on Solarisb
ALF-2026	imap.server.web.application.context.url does not have any effect
ALF-1964	Share - Forms associations causes browser freeze
ALF-1539	Workflow / Share - exception after a workflow is started
ALF-732	Possible memory leak using the .getNodeRefs() method against a ResultSet (elementCount jumps to the total amount of unfiltered documents)
ALF-738	org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponentTest fails
ALF-1796	LDAP members in groups not synchronised
ALF-589	MT: Could not startup Alfresco with tenant after adding a custom model (and using tenant routing file content store)
ALF-660	node.activeWorkflows() thows an error when the node is apart of a custom workflow that is not started.
ALF-1767	Cannot change the case of letters in the file name (WCM only)
ALF-863	WCM - Test Server Deployment Failing
ALF-788	WCM standalone: ConcurrencyFailureException appears in case of concurrent access to the user sandbox (on promote to staging)
ALF-2107	Any change to web script javascript file now requires a refresh in the web script console
ALF-590	in multi tenant on a cluster, dynamic models fail
ALF-1958	Request to improve javascript API root object \'status\'.
ALF-729	NDC (nested diagnostic context) is not enabled although Multi-tenancy is enabled
ALF-900	Access denied exception when Deploying an item to a Selected Path via avm deployment receiver
ALF-955	Deletion of dynamic custom model succeeds, leaving orphan nodes
ALF-1894	RecordsManagementAdminServiceImpl.getCustomConstraintDefinition(s) hard-wired to RM cutom model namespace