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--- cloudappliance/applupdatev1906 [2019_08_15 18:03] – [Service Pack 1906.02] steven
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 ====== SME File Fabric v1906 Release Notes ======
-Released: 24th July, 2019
+Released: 08th September, 2020
-Document last updated: 22nd July, 2019
+Document last updated: July 6, 2023
-For new deployments see [[cloudappliance/applinstallv1906|]].
-For upgrades see [[cloudappliance/1906/upgrade-guide|]].
 ### New Features
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    * [SME-3615] - The Web File Manager does not correctly handle the case where the Default Bucket is not found during a Cloud Refresh.
    * [SME-3268] - In some cases image previews of files restored from trash are not displayed until a browser refresh has been performed.
-   * [SME-4344] - The configserver feature for updating the File Fabric (checking for, downloading and installing a new version) is deprecated and can not be used.
+   * [SME-4344] - The configserver feature for updating the File Fabric (checking for, downloading and installing a new version) cannot be used. It will be removed in a future version.
-   * [SME-4834] - When your M-Stream Update "number of threads" is configured to be below a browsers limit, more threads that entered may be used
+   * [SME-4833] - An erroneous message may be shown when sharing a file and the recipients "contact" file has been removed from the default storage.
-   * [SME-4832] - Upon multiple failed attempts at the File Fabric exercising your "Download from web" request, the File Fabric may produce an unexpected error depending on the storage being used.
+   * [SME-4923] - There are several issues with v2 and v4 signature compatibility in certain S3 compatible storage providers.
-   * [SME-4833] - An erroneous message may be shown when sharing a file and the recipients "contact" file has been removed from the default storage
+===== Deprecated =====
+  * The Backup feature currently accessible from appladmin's main menu will be removed in an upcoming release.
+  * The Lite File Manager will be removed in an upcoming release.
 ===== Service Pack 1906.01 =====
-Available in Alpha Release Channel. Contact support for more information.
+  * [SME-4878] - For larger data sets, a new flag is provided that can deliver faster search response delivery.
+  * [SME-4872] - In certain conditions, a Provider Sync (initial or resync) may stop if a folder could not be accessed. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4859] - The Resync performance for folders containing a large quantity of files has been improved.
+  * [SME-4852] - In certain conditions, the Package option called "Folder Quotas" would not appear. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4845] - In certain conditions, the Huddle provider could not be resynced.
+  * [SME-4841] - Authenticated users may have seen the default header color when they failed authentication for a password protected drop-folder. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4840] - The user activation screen has been improved.
+  * [SME-4838] - The parsing of responses from Amazon S3 has been improved.
+  * [SME-4832] - In certain conditions, the Download from Web functionality could cause a system error to be generated when all download attempts failed. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4873] - In certain conditions, the Provider Sync report would incorrectly show no files indexed, where no sub folders existed. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4877] - The reporting of in-progress Syncs has been improved.
+  * [SME-4884] - In certain conditions, the subfolders for a directory with real-time enabled would not be shown on first loading. This has been resolved.
-  * [SME-4878] - Index supported search option for large data sets ("Basic Search")
-  * [SME-4872] - Provider Sync no longer stops when an error is encountered.
-  * [SME-4859] - Real-time refresh performance improvements for large folders
-  * [SME-4852] - Package option "Folder Quotas" not appearing
-  * [SME-4845] - Resync fix for Huddle
-  * [SME-4841] - Header bar colour not observed on shared link with password
-  * [SME-4840] - Additional help text for Registration Activation screen
-  * [SME-4838] - XML Parser robustness for Amazon S3
-  * [SME-4832] - Download from web causes error in certain circumstance
-  * [SME-4873] - Sync reports 0 files affected when storage has files but no subfolders
-  * [SME-4877] - Provider settings screen shows no sync running when it could be
-  * [SME-4884] - Subfolders don't appear during real-time refresh (CIFS)
 ===== Service Pack 1906.02 =====
-Available in Alpha Release Channel. Contact support for more information.
+* [SME-4846] - The Download Archive button was incorrectly greyed out on Drop Folders. This has been corrected.
+* [SME-4834] - In certain conditions, the M-Stream upload via Web FM would use more upload streams than agreed. This has been resolved.
+* [SME-4848] - Provider types hidden by the Org Admin could remain visible to Org Members. This has been resolved.
+* [SME-4887] - For larger data-sets, prefetching of sub folders is now preventable by a configuration option.
+* [SME-4888] - Performance improvements have been made to the loading of the Audit Logs on the Audit Logs page.
+* [SME-4889] - Performance improvements have been made to the loading of the Shared Links screen.
+* [SME-4892] - Folders with names containing trailing spaces can now be supported via a configuration option.
+* [SME-4895] - The upper task limit is now configurable, and task cancellations are now processed regardless of the number of current running tasks. (e.g. threadslimit = 100 in /var/www/smestorage/cron/config.conf).
+* [SME-4854] - Obsolete folders have been removed from the File Manager ("Encrypted Files", "Public Files" and "Locked Files").
+* [SME-4848] - Providers that had been disabled and so shouldn't have been visible when adding a provider were visible to the org. admin.  This has been corrected.
+* [SME-4903] - If a re-sync of a provider was canceled and then reattempted after another provider had been sync'd in the interim, the status of the first provider's sync job was incorrect.  This has been resolved.
+* [SME-4894] - If a sync of a provider had been initiated and then canceled, the provider could not then be sync'd again.  This has been resolved.
+* [SME-4907] - Navigating to the root folder using the breadcrumbs in the File Manager caused an error which prevented  the contents of the directory from being displayed.  This has been resolved.
+* [SME-4932] - When a provider containing files encrypted by org. encryption was re-sync'd, the size of the file was incorrectly recorded in the file's metadata.  This has been resolved.
+* [SME-4869] - Private providers were not being created for new users when automatic configuration of CIFS providers was enabled.  This has been corrected.
+===== Service Pack 1906.03 =====
+ * [SME-4919] - Database search no longer treats ". %, _ and other symbols as wildcards.
+ * [SME-4916] - Restarting an initial sync could result in incorrect final counts of files and folders. This has been fixed.
+ * [SME-4915] - Audit logs export did not use the filtered result selected
+ * [SME-4914] - Broken link when prompting user to re-enter credentials
+ * [SME-4912] - Possible chance of DB Error when Syncing folder with large quantity of files.
+ * [SME-4910] - Removed double pass indexing of Folder with Solr on Sync + other sync optimizations
+ * [SME-4904] - Database error caused by resync not marking the last time it took an action when rate limiting
+ * [SME-4734] - Lock icon within File Manager doesn't clear when a file is unlocked through a different application or browser
+ * [SME-4912] - Syncing large folder may fail (mysql batch insert query). This has been fixed.
+ * [SME-4916] - Restart of initial sync may count folders twice leading to incorrect total folder count.
+ * [SME-4923] - Fixed OpenS3 signature issues for MPU uploads and non-standard ports.
+ * [SME-4931] - Disabling some user file counts on admin screens (to improve performance)
+ * [SME-4929] - Files locked by Admin don't appear locked to the admin
+ * [SME-4839] - Registration selection of package didn't work when only one package available
+ * [SME-4932] - Resolves miscalculation of encrypted file sizes on resync
+ * [SME-4741] - CIFS lock file not cleared after editing via MS Office Online
+===== Service Pack 1906.04 =====
+  * [SME-4956] The number of concurrent Provider Synchronizations per user can now be configured. See the Appliance Administrator's Site Functionality page.
+  * [SME-4954] The handling of operation timeouts on S3 buckets (for example, buckets with low prefix cardinality) has been improved.
+  * [SME-4953] The Statistics page can now be enabled and disabled.
+  * [SME-4946, SME-4960, SME-4973] The handling of database connections and tokens has been improved in certain circumstances.
+  * [SME-4950] An incorrect variable was set in the Shared File Downloaded email template. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4850] Improvements to ClamAV integration have been made.
+  * [SME-4955] Clients utilising localhost to access the File Fabric will no longer be restricted by the license key FQDN or IP address checks.
+  * [SME-4968, SME-4968, SME-4983, SME-4989] The detection of folder renames and other operations on ID-based providers (eg. Dropbox + Box) has been improved.
+  * [SME-4982] The handling of rate-limiting controls has been improved.
+  * [SME-4969] In limited conditions, previewing of MS Office documents could incorrectly cause repeated requests to MS Office Online.  This has been corrected.
+===== Service Pack 1906.05 =====
+  * [SME-4992] The performance to upgrade folders to Shared Team Folders has been improved for large directories.
+  * [SME-5019] Folders can't be upgraded to Shared Team Folders whilst a Provider Sync that contains the directory is active.
+  * [SME-4776] Under certain conditions, mentioning a user in the Comments may have returned a "Not found" message when searching for users. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5022] A directory name containing an ampersand "&" could not be displayed if it resided on Azure Object Storage. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5011] Locking for upload operations has been improved for Google Drive
+  * [SME-5003] Under certain conditions, the API function getDocumentAnnotationsUrl could return a 400 status code incorrectly. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5001] The user deletion delay is now applied consistently for Org Admin and ApplAdmin.
+  * [SME-4997] Directories and files can be excluded from the Provider Sync and Cloud Refresh process via configuration variable.
+  * [SME-4995] M-Stream is now enabled for S3-compatible storage provisioned via Appliance Default Storage.
+  * [SME-4990] Folder locking is improved on move operations.
+  * [SME-4966] Under certain conditions, the new OneDrive connector would not be available. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4959] If it was necessary to log in while following a File Manger link, the wrong page was sometimes loaded after the login.  This has been corrected.
+  * [SME-5028] Under certain conditions disabling SSL certificate checks was not honoured for downloads of objects. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5039] Audit logs and Re-sync report logs can be disabled via a configuration variable during Provider Sync for 'success' events.
+  * [SME-5038, SME-5055] - Emails (EML and MSG files) including attachements, can now be previewed from the Web File Manager.
+  * [SME-5015] - The performance of Solr content indexing has been improved.
+  * [SME-5041] - Under certain conditions, moving an MPU object to Trash resulted in a conflict error. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5054] - Licensing issue resolved.
+  * [SME-5064] - In some circumstances an uploaded file has a localtime set in the future. This has been resolved.
+===== Service Pack 1906.06 =====
+  * [SME-5141] - Multiple Team Folder conversion tasks can now be run in parallel.
+  * [SME-5134] - Calculating of storage usage for users can now be disabled on the Org Members screen.
+  * [SME-5116] - Performance improvements have been made to Managed Team Folder conversion tasks.
+  * [SME-5099] - The list-only permission modifier will now only list directories
+  * [SME-5097] - Under certain conditions, the icons for Permission Modifiers would not show. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5094] - The WYSIWYG editor was a missing French language pack translation. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5080] - Minimum search terms can now be set for searches.
+  * [SME-5058] - Performances improvements have been made in the Provider Sync process.
+  * [SME-5047] - The ability to manage the Trash of a team folder is now a permission that can be granted.
+  * [SME-5043] - Dell EMC Atmos S3 now supports configurable encoding options when used as Appliance Default Storage.
+  * [SME-5016] - In certain conditions an audit log entry would be missed when a folder removal is discovered during a Provider Re-sync. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4801] - Further improvements have been made to the Single File Sync API method.
+  * [SME-5166] - Users with single apostrophe's in their email address may have experiences issues loading the Web File Manager. This has been resolved.
+===== Service Pack 1906.07 =====
+  * [SME-5000, SME-5167, SME-5190, SME-5226] - A connector for Nasuni storage is now available.
+  * [SME-5243, SME-5198, SME-5201, SME-5178] - Internal optimizations for Sync & Resync have been made for cases where millions of files exist within a directory/prefix.
+  * [SME-5217] - User interface improvement has been made to the Users screen to improve the displaying of Group/Role memberships.
+  * [SME-5034] - LDAP-based automatic import is now supported when using  UserPrincipleName as the Login Field
+  * [SME-5245] - In certain conditions, the syncOnProviderEvent API method would incorrectly handle 2 or more consecutive colons in the path.  This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5236] - References to "Google Authenticator" are now replaced with "TOTP".
+  * [SME-5235] - In certain conditions, large prefixes in Azure Blob Storage would not be fully indexed. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5232] - A maintenance background job has been introduced to resolve hidden metadata files/folders that may result from uncompleted operations.
+  * [SME-5229] - In certain conditions, an error message may have appeared when visiting the Trash folder as Org Admin if Approval Functionality was enabled. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5211] - In certain conditions, background task status was displayed incorrectly for restarted tasks.  This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5204] - Anomalies in the paging of large directories in the File Manager have been corrected.
+  * [SME-5192] - In certain conditions, a Javascript error would appear if a directory's permission was removed for a user without browser refresh.
+  * [SME-5188, SME-5187] - Optimizations have been made to permission calculations where large volumes of Shared Team Folders or managed folders exist.
+  * [SME-5185] - In certain conditions, an error would occur during Cloud Refreshes of Smart Folders.  This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5176, SME-5172] - The handling of concurrent Cloud Refreshes has been improved.
+  * [SME-5170] - The handling of special characters in file paths to Azure Blob Storage is improved.
+  * [SME-5166] - Email address containing single-quote characters could stop the File Manager loading. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5143] - Providers with duplicate names are no longer supported.
+  * [SME-5141] - Shared team folder conversion tasks can now be run in parallel to improve performance.
+  * [SME-5134] - Efficiencies have been made to the loading of the Users page.
+  * [SME-5127] - Team Editing with MS Office Online would occasionally fail the first time if the user was not authenticated.  This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5108] - Folder/File permalinks can now open directories regardless of  folder paging limits
+  * [SME-5089] - In certain conditions, an error could be generated when an org user has the ability to manage the Org Trash. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-4858] - Performance improvements have been made to Cloud Refresh.
-* [SME-4846] - Drop folders now support zip downloads
+===== Service Pack 1906.08 =====
-* [SME-4834] - M-Stream Upload - FM should not use more streams than the limit
-* [SME-4848] - Non admin user could see providers that had been hidden by the Org admin
-* [SME-4887] - Eliminate Prefetching in UI of subfolder counts results in slow SQL query
-* [SME-4888] - Improvement in performance when reading audit logs
-* [SME-4889] - Improvement in performance loading "legacy" links
-* [SME-4892] - Support for CIFS folders with trailing spaces
-* [SME-4895] - Can now cancel tasks that are pending. New option to set maximum count of running processes (e.g. threadslimit = 100 in /var/www/smestorage/cron/config.conf)
-* [SME-4854] - Encrypted Files - Remove sections
-* [SME-4900] - Security issue fixes - Mobile only version
-* [SME-4894] - ReSync after cancel can not be started
+  * [SME-5471] - All AWS calls will now utilise Virtual Host style addressing
+  * [SME-5468] - In certain conditions, a problem moving a file to trash could result in conflict files unnecessarily.
+  * [SME-5464] - Resolution of bucket removal related to Smart folders in the Azure provider.
+  * [SME-5463] - Parallel copies of files using M-Stream could have issues on subsequent runs.
+  * [SME-5426] - Under certain conditions, Cloud Refreshing a directory in S3 could return an incorrect status message.
+  * [SME-5424] - Previewing of images in business groups is now possible.
+  * [SME-5423] - Improve handling of multi-process locks for Cloud Refresh operations.
+  * [SME-5409] - CloudEdit could not be performed whilst using MS Teams.
+  * [SME-5404] - Improved handling of file replacement with M-Stream.
+  * [SME-5395] - When files are removed from Trash and subsequent files are moved to trash, a conflict file will no longer be generated.
+  * [SME-5386] - Improved handling of mass-user import.
+  * [SME-5365] - Improved handling of OpenStack Swift storage with large prefixes
+  * [SME-5356] - Improved handling of Cloud Sync and Permissions operations
+  * [SME-5355] - In certain conditions, an M-Stream copy to Azure Blob would not succeed.
+  * [SME-5334] - Single File Sync now supports better diversity of status messages.
+  * [SME-5320] - Improved handling of MS Office + Web View Only
+  * [SME-5306] - The Multi-User CIFS and Nasuni providers now allow you to choose the authentication identifier if that should differ from the user's login name
+  * [SME-5302] - Performance improvements for Permission Sync
+  * [SME-5299] - Admin users could receive an error when managing permissions.
+  * [SME-5297] - In certain conditions, files with double extensions could not be detected.
+  * [SME-5293] - In certain conditions a Resync could fail with a fatal error.
+  * [SME-5287] - New Org Members will now get automatic access to Nasuni / Multi-Users CIFS providers if they have permission
+  * [SME-5278] - Improvements to initial sync performance for large clouds.
+  * [SME-5266] - In certain conditions, the last synced time does not display correctly for a provider.
+  * [SME-5260] - Improved handling for large-scale delete detection on Resync
+  * [SME-5203] - Performance improvement for Audit Event Log querying based on date
+  * [SME-5133] - Optimizes Bucket removal for large buckets.
+===== Service Pack 1906.09 =====
+  * [SME-5598, SME-5570, SME-5562, SME-5531] - API - SyncOnProviderEvent improvements for SMB storage.
+  * [SME-5597] - In certain circumstances, moving folders within Google Team Drive could not be performed. This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5585] - In certain circumstances, a Dropbox provider could not be added.  This has been resolved.
+  * [SME-5564] - In certain conditions, a file could not be unlocked on SMB based storage. Unlocking now works as intended.
+  * [SME-5558] - Improved caching in the CIFS-SMB Multi User and Nasuni  connectors.
+  * [SME-5556] - Improved conflict file handling.
+  * [SME-5547, SME-4972] - File Permalinks are now supported.
+  * [SME-5518, SME-5546] - A configurable option for removing duplicate folders has been added.
+  * [SME-5545] - The API method getFileTinyURL has been updated.
+  * [SME-5501, SME-5542] - SameSite cookie management has revised to improve interactions with SAML authentication providers and with Microsoft Teams.been improved.
+  * [SME-5525] - Upload API improvements when versioning cannot be performed.
+  * [SME-5507] - Download Toolbar item improvements for shared folders.
+  * [SME-5524] - Loading SIDs of groups has been accelerated in the CIFS-SMB Multi User and Nasuni  connectors.