Release 3.1

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3.1
Release Notes
3.x Releases
The following notes provide detailed information on the Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.1 release. For summary information, see Alfresco Enterprise 3.1.

Table of Contents

• 1 New and Enhanced Features
  
  
  
  • 1.1 Alfresco Explorer (formerly Alfresco Web Client) Enhancements
  
  
  • 1.2 Share Enhancements
  
  
  • 1.3 Repository Enhancements
  
  
  • 1.4 Enterprise Enhancements
  
  


• 2 Download


• 3 Installation


• 4 Prerequisites


• 5 Known Issues


• 6 Major Fixed Bugs

New and Enhanced Features

This release includes many new features, enhancements and fixes to the Repository, Alfresco Explorer web client and Alfresco Share web application.

Alfresco Explorer (formerly Alfresco Web Client) Enhancements

• Rules and Actions:
  
  • Composite Conditions - mix AND/OR operators in rule conditions
    
  • Trigger rules based on property values
    
• Automatic user interface language selection based on browser locale
  

Share Enhancements

See full list of Share features

• Updated rich-text editor providing improved performance and reliability
  
• Wiki editor includes enhanced rich text formatting, drag resizing of editor and full screen mode
  
• Significantly improved Flash document previewer including zoom, auto fit page/width, thumbnails and full screen view to allow easy viewing and reading of content without requiring any download
  
• Favorite Sites - Sites can be added to a personal list of favorite sites to allow quick access
  
• Simple On-line Edit for MS Office Documents
  
• New calendar including drag n' drop event updates, overlapping event support
  
• New Links component for capturing links to URLs
  

Repository Enhancements

• Administration Group - New 'Administrators' system group; membership of the administrators group defines repository administrators
  
• Updated SharePoint Protocol Support including support for Links
  
• WCM Services - RESTful API for WCM services to support custom WCM application development
  
• CMIS - Enhanced support for Web Services Binding
  

Enterprise Enhancements

• Major enhancements to JMX based System Monitoring providing access to a comprehensive collection of server metrics
  
  • Metrics include: Database, Authority and Authentication, Connection Pools, Content Stores, Transformers, Licensing, Lucene Indexes, Modules, Patches, Jobs, System Properties
    
  • Editable properties via JMX include: File Server Configuration, Logging, User Sessions
    
  • Plug-in for Hyperic Systems Monitoring and Management providing auto discovery of Alfresco services
    
• Unicast clustering providing flexible cluster configuration based on TCP. Simplifies cluster set-up and entry/exit of servers into and out of a cluster
  
• Server configuration via Java command line arguments
  

Download

Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 can be downloaded from the Alfresco customer and partner repository or from the new Alfresco Enterprise Network service for services and support.

A 30-day trial is also available via an Enterprise 3.1 Trial. This gives you the ability to try out a fully featured version of Alfresco Enterprise Edition and the Alfresco Enterprise Network within your own infrastructure for thirty days.

Installation

For instructions on how to install Alfresco Enterprise 3.1, refer to the Administering an Alfresco ECM Production Environment guide, available via the Alfresco customer and partner repository.

Prerequisites

For this release, the Alfresco Share client requires a minimum of Flash Player Version 9.0.45 to upload files and view Flash previews.

• The uninstaller for Flash can be found on the Adobe site here:
  

    http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#uninstaller

Known Issues

The following known issues are associated with this release:

• Only en, de, fr, es, it and jp language packs for TinyMCE are provided.  If a user's language setting is any other than these, then the HTML editor will not be displayed in Share or Explorer.  Instructions are provided on how to add new TinyMCE language packs
  
• Kerberos is not supported in the Share application
  
• Multiple instances of Alfresco in a single Oracle instance is supported, but requires some manual schema operations
  
• Enabling quotas on an existing repository takes considerable time and should only be enabled after upgrading to at least 3.0.0 (due to costly interaction with other data upgrades)
  
• Tomcat does not always close down completely, but can be safely terminated
  
• Source code for Share and Surf is not in the SDK, but is available from SVN
  
• Using the Share RSS Feed Dashlet to read RSS feeds from other Share sites is unsupported
  
• The Web View dashlet exhibits undesired behaviour when showing a Flash heavy site in IE7, when either the Web View or RSS dashlets 'configure' screens are shown. Believed to be a Flash / IE7 issue (not exhibited in other browsers)
  
• Offline synchronization is currently not supported on MS Vista
  

Major Fixed Bugs

Below please find a list of major issues fixed since 3.0 SP1 Enterprise. For a full list of
closed / fixed issues, please see JIRA issue tracking system.

Key	Summary	Priority
ETHREEOH-1540	DM version store migration - Unable to check in Content Node due to system error:The current implementation of the version service does not support the creation of branches.	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1313	System Property Overrides not working when using the installer	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1308	Update AMPs to indicate unsupported status	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1303	Calendar only shows events for currently logged-on user	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1221	Hard-coded use of 'admin' username	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1157	JSF Dialogs Absorbing Exceptions	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1141	Making a Site a favourite causes Share to stop responding in a timely manner.	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1101	org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError - TypeError: Cannot parse XML - when trying to view site members where username is like andy@andy.test.com	Blocker
ETHREEOH-1517	FreeMarkerWithLuceneExtensionsModelFactory.java not closing ResultSet objects	Critical
ETHREEOH-1512	CLONE -Upgrade from 2.1.2a to 3.1 fails with Error: Unknown column 'recipient' in 'alf_authority'	Critical
ETHREEOH-1489	Merge of CHK-5592 for web service result size	Critical
ETHREEOH-1475	Upgrade from 2.1.2a to 3.0 fails with Error: Unknown column 'recipient' in 'alf_authority'	Critical
ETHREEOH-1472	Changes to systemBootstrap - making it a singleton - cause bootstrapping ACP's not to work	Critical
ETHREEOH-1459	New offline check in/out is broken	Critical
ETHREEOH-1444	Ability to run Alfresco from unexploded .war file with embedded license	Critical
ETHREEOH-1437	Container creation induces an unexpected permission allocation in Share	Critical
ETHREEOH-1435	Share doesn't extract document metadata correctly	Critical
ETHREEOH-1415	Hibernate classloading bug appears in Liferay	Critical
ETHREEOH-1377	alfresco-jlan-embed.jar to be included in the SDK for 3.1 drops	Critical
ETHREEOH-1351	Schemas containing an enumeration with an empty string as one of the values prevents forms from rendering correctly	Critical
ETHREEOH-1294	Edit comment function does not work on Links page	Critical
ETHREEOH-1292	WCM Content Contributor can't revert/delete changes in their own sandbox	Critical
ETHREEOH-1277	MT is not picking up custom webclient.properties	Critical
ETHREEOH-1239	User needs to have owner on their person	Critical
ETHREEOH-1206	Throwing Alfresco Exception on OnUpdateProperties behaviour resets Encoding field to Big (first entry)	Critical
ETHREEOH-1196	User can see all sites, 'URL' name of which begins with the same symbols	Critical
ETHREEOH-1183	Incorrect mime type for Share Wiki pages	Critical
ETHREEOH-1175	Site Members page fetches all site members	Critical
ETHREEOH-1170	Need to test Liferay portlets for 3.x	Critical
ETHREEOH-1169	Site Profile Dashlet does a full member list when obtaining site managers	Critical
ETHREEOH-1105	Share cannot be used as application on Jboss and Weblogic	Critical
ETHREEOH-1081	Unable to revert previous version of Wiki Page	Critical
ETHREEOH-971	CIFS + Inline edit not working	Critical
ETHREEOH-965	Share and Guest user - Status 500 - Internal Error	Critical
ETHREEOH-483	Unable to upload files [with Flash 10 installed]	Critical
ETHREEOH-449	Attempt renaming the same site's blog by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Critical
ETHREEOH-115	Attempt to rename the same wiki page in the same site's wiki by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Critical
ETHREEOH-113	Attempt to save changes have been done for the same page in the same site's wiki by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Critical
ETHREEOH-82	Attempt to create wiki page with the same name in the same site's wiki by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Critical
ETHREEOH-24	Attempt to comment the same blog post by many users (20 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Critical
ETHREEOH-23	LockAcquisitionException	Critical
ETHREEOH-19	Attempt save changes made via editing the same blog post by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Critical
ETHREEOH-1458	Multi Tenancy user cannot manage deleted items	Major
ETHREEOH-1457	Multi Tenancy enabled - Check in / Check out issue	Major
ETHREEOH-1376	Set Value of MaxUsers mode for Alfresco from JMX doesn't work	Major
ETHREEOH-1375	Set singleUserOnly mode for Alfresco from JMX doesn't work	Major
ETHREEOH-1366	Flash preview Zoom/size/fullscreen/navigation buttons need to be I18Ned	Major
ETHREEOH-1360	Links don't show up in the Search Results page	Major
ETHREEOH-1343	Share Calendar inline 'add' button should be an icon	Major
ETHREEOH-1338	Dates displayed in the User Calendar are shown in XML date format - should be formatted for presentation	Major
ETHREEOH-1318	Creating a site with the same name as one that already exists, but with a different URL gives nasty error	Major
ETHREEOH-1299	LDAP Auth with CIFS not working	Major
ETHREEOH-1270	Generating many Share sites (say 100's) causes 100's*N new GROUP objects to be created - they should be filtered from group pickers in JSF client lists	Major
ETHREEOH-1241	Share logins are not audited	Major
ETHREEOH-1238	Cannot use Jsp:include feature in XSD - 'Store not found' exception	Major
ETHREEOH-1235	Share wiki: Modification controls (Delete, Rename, Edit Page, etc.) should be disabled or hidden if user doesn't have write permission for the page	Major
ETHREEOH-1234	If the customised dashboard fails, Webscript dashlets are never returned correctly	Major
ETHREEOH-1231	org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptException - Web Script format 'uk' is not registered	Major
ETHREEOH-1226	MySQL configuration	Major
ETHREEOH-1223	Share Calendar: Week view incorrectly displays items scheduled between 08:00 and 09:59	Major
ETHREEOH-1220	Update LDAP-authentication-context to include allowGetEnabled entry to support Share	Major
ETHREEOH-1215	Site Calendar does not show events	Major
ETHREEOH-1207	Incorrect working 'MY Web Files' component on My Alfresco Dashboard page	Major
ETHREEOH-1202	WCM services - access to other author sandboxes is not currently restricted for non-content managers	Major
ETHREEOH-1200	user authenticated using ldap can not update their profile in share.	Major
ETHREEOH-1197	Title of docs in russian language displays incorrectly at 'Site Activities' and 'My Site Activities' dashlets	Major
ETHREEOH-1195	Web View dashlet causes XHTML page validation errors	Major
ETHREEOH-1187	IE: 'Next' Button disabled, even when a script is selected	Major
ETHREEOH-1181	NTLM authentication periodically fails over CIFS - 'Read-Write transaction started within read-only transaction'	Major
ETHREEOH-1179	Customise Dashboard never returns in large user/site repository	Major
ETHREEOH-1174	Change Add Dashlets -Link dashlet naming	Major
ETHREEOH-1172	nodeService.getProperties sometimes returning instance of 'Collections.SingletonList' for multivalue properties	Major
ETHREEOH-1162	Issue with skipCount parameter for CMIS query service	Major
ETHREEOH-1160	Favourite Sites - Favourite is spelled incorrectly	Major
ETHREEOH-1159	Unexpected behaviour when user with already exist username creating	Major
ETHREEOH-1133	Incorrect Blog page title	Major
ETHREEOH-1115	Attempting to create a shared workspace using a document with a - in the name fails	Major
ETHREEOH-1110	Impossible to open 'Manage Multilingual Content' page when 'New Edition' action was taken	Major
ETHREEOH-1095	Update the Readmes for Service Pack 1	Major
ETHREEOH-1088	CIFS - Failed to open passthru auth session	Major
ETHREEOH-1072	Attempt to save changes have been done for wiki-pages in different sites by several users (10 or more) simultaneously leads to DB update error appearance	Major
ETHREEOH-1065	Nothing is displayed on My Site Activities dashlet on My Dashboard page	Major
ETHREEOH-1064	Wiki: web script error appears on attempt to open Main Page in any site's wiki	Major
ETHREEOH-1049	Notification about Blog post deleting doesn't appear on Site Activities dashlet	Major
ETHREEOH-1007	'Cancel file Editing' option is not working after new version of working copy was uploaded	Major
ETHREEOH-999	Audit fails in cluster env with external auth.	Major
ETHREEOH-996	Couldn't delete space after 'Start Discussion' action has been canceled	Major
ETHREEOH-994	Incorrect work when we try to open document by cliking on its version number on View Details tab(Microsoft Office Add-in)	Major
ETHREEOH-981	It is impossible to convert GIF images(FF2)	Major
ETHREEOH-911	TinyMCE Data truncates in FireFox	Major
ETHREEOH-900	Upgrade tinyMCE to support Safari	Major
ETHREEOH-885	mapAuthorityToName tests don't handle sub-classed objects correctly.	Major
ETHREEOH-835	Paste of text into an empty Comment component and the Create Comment button stays in a disabled state	Major
ETHREEOH-821	SDK AlfrescoEmbedded' project 3.0 SDK, missing jar files : json.jar - ibatis-2.3.0.677.jar , jlan.jar	Major
ETHREEOH-819	WAR distribution: commons-el.jar needs to be in tomcat/lib	Major
ETHREEOH-814	LDAP synchronization doesn't support native character	Major
ETHREEOH-741	User with consumer role able to delete wiki page created by other users	Major
ETHREEOH-680	Bootstrapping multiple Alfresco fails on Oracle	Major
ETHREEOH-678	Command line setting of properties doesn't work	Major
ETHREEOH-667	Consumers should not be able to create/update wiki pages	Major
ETHREEOH-666	Consumers should not be able to create calendar entries	Major
ETHREEOH-649	Alert appears when trying to create an event with XSS 'What' field	Major
ETHREEOH-636	Incorrect tag working at 'Discussions' page when trying to add topic that contains tags with XSS text	Major
ETHREEOH-566	Attempt to rename DIFFERENT pages in the same site's wiki by several users (10 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for part of them	Major
ETHREEOH-561	Attempt to save changes have been done for the DIFFERENT pages in the same site's wiki by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for part of them	Major
ETHREEOH-537	Attempt to create wiki-pages with different names in the same site's wiki by many users (10 or more) simultaneously leads to error appearance for some of them	Major
ETHREEOH-514	Unable to save changes to calendar entry where the time is 'All Day'	Major
ETHREEOH-415	bad rendered for the 'new-edition-from' action	Major
ETHREEOH-411	JMX access is open by default	Major
ETHREEOH-386	Error closing Manage Multilingual Content page after new edition added.	Major
ETHREEOH-282	Cannot install on Weblogic	Major
ETHREEOH-272	It is possible to specify path to content which does not exist	Major
ETHREEOH-176	Alfresco application fails to deploy if any session data is stored in app server temp dir	Major
ETHREEOH-154	Incorrect display of events at 'Calendar' page	Major
ETHREEOH-101	Incorrect display of events on 'Day' tab at 'Calendar' page	Major
ETHREEOH-80	Nothing is displayed on My Activities dashlet on User Dashboard page	Major
ETHREEOH-37	HTTP session serializes beans	Major
ETHREEOH-10	RSS cleanup/redo to be coherent with other rss feeds	Major
ETHREEOH-1287	AlfrescoJobExecutorThread doesn't check read-only status of repo	Minor
ETHREEOH-1124	When using 'url.context' in a web script JS or FTL in a web app that has been set as the default webapp on tomcat 5.5, url.context returns '/service' and not '' or '/' as the context.	Minor
ETHREEOH-991	Window without scroll bars is opened when we click 'Manage' button on 'Task details' screen(Microsoft Office Add-in)	Minor
ETHREEOH-988	Incorrect work of Search Alfresco tab(Microsoft Office Add-in)	Minor
ETHREEOH-743	Script error on the add content to my sandbox page in IE7	Minor
ETHREEOH-572	Attempt to leave the same site by several users (2 or more) simultaneously leads to StaleObjectStateException appearance in alfresco.log	Minor
ETHREEOH-516	Incorrect work of Paste all action on Forum space page	Minor
ETHREEOH-509	Incorrect behaviour of application when trying to upload something with incorrect location to 'My Spaces List'	Minor
ETHREEOH-102	Thumbnail service doesn't support animated GIFs and no placeholder returned	Minor
ETHREEOH-77	No notification is displayed when trying to create wiki page with the name that already exists	Minor
ETHREEOH-55	Incorrect displaying of event's name if is too long	Minor
ETHREEOH-1010	IE window was not closed when we click 'Save Changes' button on 'Manage Task' page(Office Add-in)	Trivial
ETHREEOH-671	Incorrect Create Wiki Page layout	Trivial
ETHREEOH-271	It is impossible to enter file name in 'Upload' field for 'My Spaces List' component	Trivial