Jive Forums 5.5.21 Changelog

5.5.21 - October 06, 2008

Bug: severe performance problem with tagcount SQL [FORUMS-3476]
Improvement: backport LazyLdapGroupManager to Forums [FORUMS-3483]
Bug: Branching can lead to orphaned threads [FORUMS-3509]
Bug: message.maxBodySize not respected for new content [FORUMS-3502]
Improvement: make the size of the DefaultCache in the TinyMCECompressionServlet [FORUMS-3497]
Bug: Calendar selector does not work with German locale [FORUMS-3496]
Improvement: BiDi: Message header does not display correctly when viewing in RTL language [FORUMS-3493]
Bug: Inherited message filters functionality does not work [FORUMS-3492]
Bug: RTE link button has target options but rendering engine doesn't use them [FORUMS-3453]
New Feature: Add ability for DbForumCategory.getThreads to respect tags in the result filter [FORUMS-3500]

5.5.20 - August 21, 2008

Bug: Failed request execution for DistributedCache service / BulkRemovalFilter, cast exception [FORUMS-3482]
Bug: Wiki syntax link using file:// will never render [FORUMS-3464]
Improvement: Performance improvements to DbForumFactory & thread-row.jspf (Betfair/Jive collaboration) [FORUMS-3478]
Bug: Email gateway auto export of new messages does not work unless import is enabled globally. [FORUMS-3474]
Bug: View counts erased if originating forum for a moved thread is deleted. [FORUMS-3470]
Bug: Maximum private messages users doesn't actual limit the number of PM [FORUMS-3479]

5.5.19 - July 17, 2008

Bug: Keyword Interceptor is not invoked against a message when it is editted, only when first created. [FORUMS-3426]
Bug: Disabling new account creation does not change the login link text in footer of page [FORUMS-3460]
Improvement: BiDi Compliance: 'Your Control Panel' and Breadcrumb [FORUMS-3443]
Bug: LinkRenderer throws error for certain links to other threads when using full URL [FORUMS-3459]

5.5.18 - June 19, 2008

Bug: 3429 Breaks poll-form.jsp on OC4J [FORUMS-3455]
Bug: RTE invalidates wiki syntax for link to forum [FORUMS-3454]
Task: Update version and license to 5.5.18 [FORUMS-3452]
Bug: Content marcos are missing a "/" [FORUMS-3433]
Bug: Admin console attachment dissalow types not working [FORUMS-3234]
Bug: Broken links in Jive Forums documentation [FORUMS-3218]

5.5.17 - May 29, 2008

Bug: SAP - Accessibility Reading Order [FORUMS-3402]
Bug: Login form messages are not correct [FORUMS-3429]
Bug: User search does not find usernames with special characters [FORUMS-3251]
Bug: Admin Login: Can't do it if you have html characters in password [FORUMS-3447]
Bug: Saving a draft with no content in body leads to error and no save [FORUMS-3446]
Bug: NPE on Admin Manage Content with blank Subject [FORUMS-3442]
Bug: DbForum.getThreadListSQL() ignores tags in the ResultFilter [FORUMS-3449]

5.5.16 - May 8, 2008

Bug: Very wide unbreaking text does not format properly with scrollbar in IE6 and Safari [FORUMS-3431]
Improvement: Change connection pool to use proxool [FORUMS-3415]
Bug: Announcement calendar does not work with Arabic locale [FORUMS-3413]
Bug: Deletion of thread that is a question leaves user's open question count unchanged [FORUMS-3432]

5.5.15 - April 17, 2008

Bug: Can't retrieve forum messages with user objects due to getPassword throwing Unauthorized Exception [FORUMS-3155]
Bug: Whitespace in thread-messagebox.jspf causes weird issues in oc4j [FORUMS-3419]

5.5.14 - March 28, 2008

Bug: SAP - Accessibility Keyboard Access [FORUMS-3400]
Bug: New Messages Report and Gateway Settings create but don't close statements in a loop [FORUMS-3405]
Bug: LDAP connection leak in LdapGroupManager [FORUMS-3406]
Bug: Trying to delete a status level from the admin console gives error [FORUMS-3414]
Bug: Sitemesh filter isn't applied to tags page in oracle [FORUMS-3398]
Bug: database.mysql.useunicode local property won't set encoding [FORUMS-3394]
Improvement: Add utility method getLocalizedJivePropertyNames to JiveGlobals [FORUMS-3410]

5.5.13 - March 6, 2008

Bug: Tag cloud links broken in forum view [FORUMS-3240]
Bug: HTML filter doesn't handle <%=values [FORUMS-3263]
Bug: No UI to watch a user [FORUMS-3283]
Bug: Admin console attachment settings clicking "move left" button for disallow/allow content types puts value of "null" in list [FORUMS-3376]
Bug: Creating user ban with an expiration date of Never doesn't work [FORUMS-3378]
Bug: Registration date shows up in user's locale, not page user's locale [FORUMS-3383]
Bug: Invalid query term string causes Top Query Terms Report to fail [FORUMS-3386]
Bug: Security - Search Profile [FORUMS-3387]
Bug: Messages with large amounts of new lines can cause high load on server [FORUMS-3392]
Bug: Text on user watches page does not replace {0} with value for number of days before watch deletion. [FORUMS-3384]
Bug: Posting attachment from NNTP fails if content type is too long [FORUMS-3380]
Bug: Plain Text Help box doesn't have spaces around subscript & superscript [FORUMS-3391]

5.5.12 - February 14, 2008

Bug: Posting a wiki link where the URL contains javascript event words or the string "style" causes link to not show up [FORUMS-3373]
Bug: HTMLFilter throws IllegalArgumentException if URL ends in % [FORUMS-3190]
Bug: Clustering: Private Message settings in admin console are not updated across nodes [FORUMS-3336]
Bug: Simultaneous calls to filter messages in the same forum can lead to possible NPE's and other unexplained errors [FORUMS-3368]
Bug: Call to DbForumCommunity.getMessages() results in SQL that is ambiguous [FORUMS-3370]
Bug: Search page date range options are 1 day off when logged in as a user with a different time zone than system time zone. [FORUMS-3365]
Bug: Recent threads table when viewing a category with Forums silver license spans too many columns [FORUMS-3369]
Bug: NPE: forum event in debug log [FORUMS-3377]

5.5.11 - January 24, 2008

Bug: Online users is not in synch across nodes [FORUMS-3364]
Bug: Creating a status level does not initialize the properties Map [FORUMS-3367]
Bug: Oracle specific sequence generation code doesn't always work because of object type mismatches [FORUMS-3366]

5.5.10 - December 27, 2007

Bug: jiveAttachmentProp table is not deleted when deleting an attachment [FORUMS-3349]
Bug: {Code} tag disappears gong from RTE to PTE [FORUMS-3353]
Bug: Code filter doesn't work in preview [FORUMS-3352]

5.5.9 - December 6, 2007

Bug: Can't delete avatars within the admin console [FORUMS-3285]
Bug: Clustered: Edit Post: The thread cache does not get updated on second node [FORUMS-3320]
Bug: Clustered: Top User Icon: Large image lost on secondary node [FORUMS-3319]
Bug: Localization issues in posting messages and viewing individual messages [FORUMS-3238]
Bug: create-profile.ftl does not honor default values for custom properties [FORUMS-3276]
Bug: Image attachment thumbnails don't work in clustered environment [FORUMS-3322]

5.5.8 - November 15, 2007

New Feature: Add a new filter to set the proper http header to allow browsers to cache images [FORUMS-3302]
New Feature: Add ability to compress html, js and css content served from Jive Forums [FORUMS-3301]
Major Improvement: Optimized SQL queries for loading threads and messages in a category [FORUMS-3267]
Improvement: Improve digest email code to allow for sending digest emails from all cluster members, not just the master cluster node. [FORUMS-3300]
Improvement: Add new database indexes to improve application performance [FORUMS-3266]
Improvement: Reduce contention when loading resources via the ResourceLoaderServlet [FORUMS-3304]
Improvement: JiveFreemarkerManager is forcing freemarker into creating a lot of unnecessary objects on every request. [FORUMS-3303]
Improvement: AuthFactory unnecessarily calls loadAuthFactory() on every method call which can reduce concurrency significantly. [FORUMS-3306]
Improvement: Retrieval of sequence ID's and forum index values require a cluster wide lock because of the sql used. Create optimized paths for oracle and mysql to eliminate this requirement [FORUMS-3288]
Improvement: Retrieval of sequence ID's and forum index values require a cluster wide lock because of the sql used. Create optimized paths for oracle and mysql to eliminate this requirement [FORUMS-3288]
Bug: No email validation on creation of user [FORUMS-3309]
Bug: Email template for keyword interceptor is not allowing CERTAIN freemarker tokens [FORUMS-3315]
Bug: Enabling or disabling view counts in a cluster only disables view counts on the cluster member where the change was made [FORUMS-3265]
Bug: Issue with saving messages where if a message doesn't insert into the database it can get into an infinite wait situation [FORUMS-3312]
Bug: Saving read tracking information to the database can fail with 'Duplicate entry" constraint exceptions [FORUMS-3311]
Bug: Avatars do not load in IE if username has foreign characters [FORUMS-3259]
Bug: Clicking on radio button to choose avatar generates a javascript error [FORUMS-3316]
Bug: Recieve Watch Emails Once A Day: getLastBatchEmail can be null [FORUMS-3327]
Bug: PNG attachments don't have thumbnails [FORUMS-3305]

5.5.7 - October 25, 2007

Improvement: Cache presets are too low [FORUMS-3277]
Improvement: ViewCountManager over synchronizes when getting counts for categories, forums and threads. [FORUMS-3286]
Improvement: JiveRenderManager should cache inherited filter lookups instead of looking up for each request [FORUMS-3272]
Bug: XSS bug on search pageFixed an XSS vulnerability on the Forums search results page in which HTML could be injected via the URL. [FORUMS-2934]
Bug: Reports date format not showing appropriate error message [FORUMS-3294]
Bug: Uploading avatar that is not a valid image results in system error [FORUMS-3264]
Bug: ReadStatsManager only reads enabled/disabled flag on startup [FORUMS-3268]
Bug: ClearCacheRunnable doesn't implement Serializable [FORUMS-3284]
Bug: Popular threads in a forum are cleared on every post instead of only being updated every 15 minutes. High level performance impact on busy sites. [FORUMS-3287]
Bug: User search by email address and name fails in admin console [FORUMS-3292]

5.5.6 - September 13, 2007

Improvement: Make url skin fields into links when a user profile is viewedModifyed URL Skin files so that they turn into links. [FORUMS-2777]
Improvement: Archive logic is poorly performing for large system with many threads to mark as archived [FORUMS-3244]
Bug: TinyMCE icons don't show up in Websphere [FORUMS-3145]
Bug: Forums log-out bug [FORUMS-3227]
Bug: forum.getPropertyNames() is vulnerable to ConcurrentModificationException errors [FORUMS-3243]
Bug: Wiki link syntax has configuration for changing the allowed schemes for links but doesn't respect any changes made by the administrator [FORUMS-3236]
Bug: An error occurred trying to retrieve data from server. Please try again in a few minutes. [FORUMS-3199]
New Feature: Allow for the ability to set a custom 'Approved' header when sending out messages via gateways [FORUMS-3220]
Bug: can't access /forums/resources/scripts/tag-selector.js on WAS [FORUMS-3216]
Bug: Filters that create links on the subjects blow up forum page as the subjects need to be "basic text" [FORUMS-3114]
Bug: Content created in older versions of jive forums (pre 5.5) can look wrong in 5.5 because of unescaped wiki-style syntax [FORUMS-3241]
Bug: Unexpected behavior from getLatestMessage() in DbForumThread [FORUMS-3248]
Bug: Freemarker template override does not work as expected [FORUMS-3178]
Bug: questions.ftl doesn't handle paging properly [FORUMS-3253]
Bug: Open Questions filter ignores modValue [FORUMS-3121]
Bug: settings-autosave.jsp does not save the user applied setting [FORUMS-3187]
Bug: Disabling the Wiki Renderer filter should change the tabs produced by the B, I and U buttons in editor [FORUMS-3185]
Bug: SearchTopQueryTermsReport date limit off by one [FORUMS-2942]

5.5.5 - August 22, 2007

Bug: Short term query cache is broken - tags and entity descriptor queries cause problems. [FORUMS-3228]
Bug: DigestWatch can contain too many messages killing the message cache and crashing the server [FORUMS-3212]
Bug: Profanity Filter does not work on Search Results [FORUMS-2981]
Bug: Editing tags does not do as much cache clearing as it needs to. [FORUMS-3229]
Bug: tag-clouds.jsp not internationalized [FORUMS-3221]
Bug: Tags are not html filtered [FORUMS-3213]
Bug: Security issue with underlying XWork framework [FORUMS-3219]
Bug: Saving User Interface Features creates incorrect Home link [FORUMS-3222]
Bug: Pagination in Online Users page is brokenFixed a bug on the Online Users page in which only the first page of users would be displayed. [FORUMS-2945]
Bug: Broken links in Jive Forums documentation [FORUMS-3218]

5.5.4 - August 8, 2007

Bug: Add the following text to the message - this indicates when changes were made and by whom. is NULL when empty [FORUMS-3159]
Bug: Cannot create new user through the "register" process in Jive Forums [FORUMS-3167]
Bug: User Search Broken [FORUMS-3194]
Bug: If first character is a space, whole line is not rendered [FORUMS-3201]
Bug: Cannot logout when remember me is checked [FORUMS-3153]
Bug: com.jivesoftware.base.theme.Theme needs a default constructor for JRocket [FORUMS-3000]
Bug: Popular threads and Forums are never updated [FORUMS-3207]
Improvement: Add tag cloud to the Forum page [FORUMS-3122]
Bug: New user registration error if name field left blank [FORUMS-3205]
Bug: First thread tag can't be deleted [FORUMS-3148]
Bug: Can add message to locked threads via answered not answered links [FORUMS-3137]
Bug: Sort by buttons on tag cloud screen don't resize well [FORUMS-3152]
Bug: Text editor javascript error when autosave is disabled [FORUMS-3198]
Bug: Recent Messages and Questions on profile page is unfiltered [FORUMS-3156]
Bug: User without "can vote" permission can see the options to vote. WHen submitting, they are redirected to login page. Should see resutls instead. [FORUMS-3203]
Bug: Build script defines custom.source.dir but never uses it. [FORUMS-3142]
Bug: Spell Checker does not load all dictionaries (lexicons)Fixed issue where spell checker dictionary was not loading, resulting in words being incorrectly flagged as misspelled [FORUMS-2962]
Bug: GroupServiceImple doesn't convert objects [FORUMS-3206]
Bug: Name and Email visable options not saved in user creation [FORUMS-3200]
Bug: If a user's name is hidden, it shows up as 'null' in address book drop down of PM [FORUMS-3209]
Bug: Change Password enabled flag uses a different Jive Global key values causing it not to work [FORUMS-3133]
Bug: Wrong source path in build.xml for the customer source disto. [FORUMS-3143]
Bug: Invalid Javadoc links in the shipped documentation [FORUMS-3119]
Bug: Space between file and 's' on the settings-search.jsp page in the admin console [FORUMS-3179]

5.5.2 - June 21, 2007

New Feature: Create a Salesforce.com plugin [FORUMS-3161]
Bug: Category specific locales don't load properly [FORUMS-3171]
Bug: Add no-op property for upgrade tasks that execute DDL statements [FORUMS-3087]
Bug: History link causes javascript error [FORUMS-3163]
Bug: Unable to edit any installed Interceptor with a Boolean value [FORUMS-3123]
Bug: Update link to javadoc on documentation home page [FORUMS-3139]
Bug: 4.1/4.2 to 5.0 Upgrade can take upwards of 2 hours depending on data set size, but docs indicate 5-10 seconds. [FORUMS-3164]
Bug: pop3 email monitor bug if unhandled content type [FORUMS-3169]

5.5.1 - April 11, 2007

Bug: Create Batch Email Upgrade task that was missing for 4.2.x to 5.0.x upgrade [FORUMS-3125]
Bug: XSS vulnerability with user profile fields [FORUMS-3127]
Bug: Wiki List rendering incorrectly handles lines starting with periods as a list [FORUMS-3132]
Bug: Deployment missing the java and .net client libraries [FORUMS-3130]
Bug: Moderation from admin console missing 3 i18n keys [FORUMS-3128]
Bug: Can't edit ThemeMaps in a clustered environment--objects aren't serializable [FORUMS-3117]
Bug: Posting a message causes an illegal state exception to be thrown [FORUMS-3129]

5.5.0 - March 28, 2007

New Feature: Community Everywhere (Gold only). This allows the discussion engine to be aggregated by a Javascript call. Use this if you want to enable simple feedback pages or comments on static articles that are not part of the Jive Forums webapp. For more details, read the "Community Everywhere" guide in the documentation or view the settings page in the Admin Console.
New Feature: Web Services API. Full set of APIs which allows remote control of nearly any object or function in the system. For more information, read the web services developer guide in the documentation.
New Feature: Email reply to watches. This feature allows participation in discussions by email postings. For example, a user can receive an email notification of a new thread and reply to that email to post their response. This requires an email server with a dedicated email account.
New Feature: Save as Draft. Message content can be saved as it is being edited. This works automatically after a certain period of time or can be manually triggered by the user. This prevents work from being lost from session timeouts or browser crashes.
New Feature: Tagging. Threads and messages are now taggable and content can be organized by tags. This allows for more organization and more navigation options for users.
New Feature: Better text markup. An improved filter and macro engine allows for more simple text markup styles. For example, typing *bold* will make the text bold.
New Feature: Upgrade framework. Upgrades are now significantly better thanks to a new upgrade framework. This framework automatically controls installing or modifying database tables and also running any data or environmental modifications. When the newer application is run for the first time, you'll be prompted for the admin user's password. After that you'll see a summary of changes and have the ability to trigger the upgrade. This framework will automatically migrate from versions as old as Jive Forums 4.2.x and will handle upgrades in future releases.
New Feature: Plugin framework. Plugins can be written for the system which run inside of their own classloader and have access to the Jive Forums APIs. For more information please read the plugin developer guide in the documentation.
Improvement: Significant UI improvements to the message posting process. All functionality is on one screen (as opposed to separate screens for attachments, previews, etc). Both a "Plain Text" and "Rich Text" modes are available for posting as well as instant previews. The size of the editor is much bigger and can be easily resized. The GUI editor has been upgraded to the latest version of TinyMCE.
Improvement: UI improvments in the default header and breadcrumbs. Also, better template design which allows better control over UI customizations.
Improvement: Stability and reliability of clustering. Upgraded to latest version of Tangosol Coherence.
Improvement: Admin documentation. The administrator's guide has been rewritten and made much more lightweight.
Improvement: Documentation. More thorough installation instructions and a compatibility matrix of appservers and databases is now available.
Improvement: Newer icon set. Many of the default icons have been updated to a newer design.
Bug fixes: various bug fixes.

5.5.0 Beta - March 12, 2007

Full change available in final release