Theme of 2.5: Social Networking

Clearspace 2.5 enhances the social networking capabilities of Clearspace by enabling people to find, connect, follow, and interact, and interrelate with others. Here's what's included in these notes:

New Features

Enhancements

Known Issues

Existing Feature Improvements

Fixed Issues

Note: For changes in previous versions, be sure to see earlier versions of this document:

• Version 2.5.3 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.2 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.1 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.0.rc Release Notes

New Features in the 2.5 Series

• Groups - Member-created social communities based on members' areas of interest
• Connections/Friends - Connect with and follow other people's activity in the community
• Enhanced People Search - Easily find groups of people in the community based on similar profile attributes
• Invite a Friend - Add viral capabilities to your sites by offering members a quick way to invite others to join the community
• Configuration - Site and community admins can configure the look and feel of their site without the need for customizations
• Basic Configuration - Easily configure your site's color scheme and logo for simple tailoring of the look and feel
• Advanced Configuration - Download our developer kit, update the included images and CSS, and upload the the updated package to easily deploy custom themes
• Global Rename - Rename Clearspace features and concepts to meet your specific vocabulary or nomenclature
• Configurable Registration - Manage the fields that are displayed to new members when they register.

Enhancements in the 2.5 Series

• RTE Enhancements - An enhanced authoring experience that is consistent with commonly used tools and eases the use of advanced capabilities through simplified wizards
• Moderation - Consistent approach for moderation and report abuse across all content types
• Project Improvements - New project statuses; follow projects to easily see roll-up reporting; import and export task data to integrate your project with enterprise project management tools
• Cloud Sharing - Now your cloud participants can view attachments associated with documents that are being shared
• Blog Permissions - Group blogs now follow the permissions of the community, project, or group with which they are associated
• New Location Picker - Selecting the location of new content is simplified by an intelligent picker suggests the places (communities, projects, groups) that you use most often
• Tag Navigation - Narrow your focus when navigating content by progressively selecting tags that are used together

Here's a list of things to know about this version of Clearspace, including, improvements and fixes since the previous version, and issues you might find.

Known Issues in 2.5.4

• [CS-9843] First and Last name fields are editable when using LDAP even though they're externally managed.
• [CS-9719] Publishing a link is dropping the context root of the link.
• [CS-9654] Guest cannot post comments in space blogs.
• [CS-9649] Pending task process can throw NPE if task is assigned to a user that is banned.
• [CS-9586] LDAP user sync process can fail with NPE if existing Clearspace user's email address in LDAP is made blank.
• [CS-9448] Authenticated SOAP web services are substantially broken.
• [CS-9436] Cannot attach an attachment to a document when you have the permissions.
• [CS-8845] Revoking blog read permission does not work.
• [CS-8827] HTML emails are not processed correctly via email gateway.
• [CS-7516] can't create two blog posts with different names when using local language.

Fixed Issues

• [CS-9735] Integration of Clearspace with Openfire results in infinite update loop.
• [CS-9687] Widget drag and drop does not work in IE6/7 - Part 2.
• [CS-9661] Attachments are deleted from the database.
• [CS-9637] Widget drag and drop does not work in IE6/7.
• [CS-9579] Changing the color of text in a list in the text editor adds spaces to the content when published.
• [CS-9578] Update DummyAutoSave to include more dummy methods.
• [CS-9575] Bulleted lists are adding new lines on every edit / publish.
• [CS-9570] Project widets do not show up in CSC.
• [CS-9517] Keyword interceptor is not being run on edits of messages.
• [CS-9489] Without a cookie, advanced theme fails on first request.
• [CS-9472] Clearspace is missing some Axis jars that are required dependencies of wss4j.jar.
• [CS-9466] ModifyViewCountSize upgrade task doesn't work on SqlServer.
• [CS-9399] Embedded lists don't look right in PDF output.
• [CS-9388] Smaller resolutions can't access all global permissions.
• [CS-9381] Read tracking is turned off after every restart.
• [CS-9379] Error trying to edit custom profile field that does not have a description.
• [CS-9350] Cannot view private messages when clustering is turned on.
• [CS-9313] Spam is misspelled in settings-registration.ftl.
• [CS-9301] Mark all as read is hidden.
• [CS-9240] Top Participants widget renders incorrectly on IE when used in a large column.
• [CS-9239] Guests can access edit-profile.
• [CS-9208] Revoking create image rights from anyone/registered users grays out image icon in RTE for system admins.
• [CS-9171] Theming of one of the templates used in template.ftl decorator do not propagate across cluster.
• [CS-9125] Blog tab shows up in projects even when Blog is disabled.
• [CS-9098] UserService.updateUser will not work in 2.5 with firstname and lastname.
• [CS-9089] LDAP case sensitivity affects user login.
• [CS-9040] Trailing slash on .../thread(s) page breaks images.
• [CS-8994] Author comments tab will not display.
• [CS-8943] Workflow username field update task fails on SqlServer.
• [CS-8924] Moving thread with specific user permissions causes unauthorized error because perms cache isn't cleared.
• [CS-8628] Description of AdjustBlogUrlMappingsTask says "2.1", should say "2.5".