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SME File Fabric v1712 Release Notes

New Features

  • [SME-3535] - The File Fabric, depending on edition, contains a new feature, mstream, that allows large file downloads to be substantially accelerated when copied or moved between S3, OpenS3, Swift and CIFS providers.
  • [SME-3367, SME-3345] - A new feature, dependent on edition, called foreverfile recovery, has been added to the Fie Fabric. ForeverFile provides a convenient interface that allows previous versions of a file to be restored.
  • [SME-3403] - Support for multipartuploading (MPU) has been added to the OpenS3 (S3 compatible) and S3 providers.
  • [SME-3440] - Virus scanning has now been integrated into the file upload workflow.
  • [SME-3319] - A new viewer allows medical images in the DICOM format to be displayed in the Web File Manager.
  • [SME-3437] - The File Fabric now honours the proprietary file locking schemes of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice when used with CIFS providers. See File Locking.
  • [SME-3438] - Team admins can now choose the storage location for members’ thumbnail and preview files.
  • [SME-3582] - Zoho’s (TM) new Europe-based Web editors can be used with the File Fabric for on-line editing and Team Editing.
  • [SME-3416] - Synchronisation between the File Fabric and a newly added storage provider is now optional, and real-time mode can be activated automatically for auto-provisioned users.

    Improvements

  • [SME-3436, SME-3507, SME-3510, SME-3567] - Many small improvements have been made to the File Fabric’s Web interface.
  • [SME-3370] - Files of up to 4 GB can now be downloaded directly to a File Fabric directory from the Web. Previously the limit was 1 GB.
  • [SME-3478] - HTTPS is now forcibly used with Windows Azure providers.
  • [SME-3515] - When a user is deleted, any tasks created by that user are now also immediately scheduled for deletion.
  • [SME-3517] - The speed of deleting auto-provisioned CIFS user has been increased.
  • [SME-3520] - The Burnt PDFs folder can now be hidden for team members by the team admin.
  • [SME-3544] - Internal document previews are now updated when the files they represent are changed.
  • [SME-3602] - Automatic capitalisation has been switched off for the login fields.
  • [SME-3532] - Terminology has been changed on the Dashboard to more clearly identify personal data that is stored.
  • [SME-3208] - When two factor authentication is in use, the second factor must be provided when login is automatic due to use of “Remember me”.
  • [SME-3235] - Google Sites providers can now be added from SME client Tools.
  • [SME-3347] - Restrictions on concurrent operations in the same folder have been eased providing better throughput.
  • [SME-2704] - The list of users in the Audit Watch management dialog box is now presented in alphabetical order.
  • [SME-3487] - Folder contents are listed more quickly than previously in real-time mode.
  • [SME-3499] - The endpoint and logo have been updated for the Leonovus connector/provider.
  • [n/a] The CIFS connector/provider now provides direct support for Microsoft DFS.
  • [n/a] Certificates for storage providers that are accessed over HTTPS are now checked more rigorously. The pre-change behaviour can be restored through configuration.

    Resolved Issues

  • [SME-3588] - An incorrect count of internal messages waiting to be read was sometimes displayed in the Web interface. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-2930] - Searches sometimes exposed results from folder that had ben hidden by the team admin (My Quick Uploads, for example). This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3069] - Under some circumstances it was possible for a team member to create a private Backup Provider for a team cloud. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3148] - When the default bucket was being changed for an object storage provider, entries in the bucket list were sometimes mislabelled. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3188] - When a Backup Provider was added for a connector/provider containing files in its root, the backup files that were created were sometimes mislabeled. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3202] - If a failure occurred while a bucket was being restored from Trash, the bucket might no longer be visible in either Trash or the location to which it was being restored. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3328] - The information panel on the search screen was sometimes partially hidden by search results. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3336] - Pressing the button to test Zoho integration caused an error message to be displayed when there was no underlying error. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3356] - Folders with names containing hyphens could not be created on Azure Blob Storage. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3397] - Large copy operations sometimes timed out. This has been corrected.
  • [SME-3421] - An issue that sometimes caused tags not to be visible to users who should have been able to see them has been resolved.
  • [SME-3449] - Importing large numbers of files in a single directory and listing large directories sometimes failed. The number of files that van be handled by these operations has been increased substantially.
  • [SME-3469] - In some cases storage providers that use OAuth authentication could not be added through the Microsoft Edge browser. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3482] - Under some circumstances folders containing files appeared to be empty the first time an auto-provisioned user logged in. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3488] - A setting was repeated in the SMTP configuration on the Email and Filebox settings page. Also on the Email and Filebox page, the “From” email address in the Gmail configuration could be different that the “From” email address in the SMTP configuration and (incorrectly) overwrote the “From email address in the SMTP configuration. Both of these issues have been resolved.
  • [SME-3491] - The File Fabric sometimes tried to use TLS encryption for its outbound email connection when the connection had not been configured to use TLS. In some cases this prevented email from being sent This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3505] - A message indicating a fatal error was displayed if a team member was deleted by the team admin while the member was logged in. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3513] - The new provider password for auto-provisioned users was sometimes not saved by the File Fabric after the password had been changed in Active Directory. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3514] - When an auto-provisioned CIFS user was deleted, the user’s CIFS provider directory was not immediately unmounted. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3521, SME-3573] - An API method (getListOfFiles) to fetch the list of items in a folder sometimes failed due to memory exhaustion when operating on large directories. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3531] - A File Fabric feature that allows the appliance administrator to list online users was not functional. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3536] - In some situations the SharePoint provider double encoded URLs, sometimes the URLs to be rejected by SharePoint. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3537] - The File Fabric was unable to rename files on S3 or OpenS3 providers if the name of the file to be renamed had a leading or trailing space. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3543] - Users who had been invited to access Drop Folders were unable to access them unless the users were logged in. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3553] - In some cases saving a file after removing the tags associated with it caused the tags to reappear. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3556] - Large file uploads to DropBox sometimes failed. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3557] - An error indicating invalid instructions to the database was sometimes generated when a Backup Provider was added for storage on the appliance default storage provider. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3570] - Copying a file to the root directory of the appliance default storage provider sometimes resulted in the file being copied instead to its source directory. Thus has been resolved.
  • [SME-3587] - Some options were repeated on the appliance administrator’s User Packages page. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3591] - The wrong email template was sometimes used for emails reporting errors. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3598] - Cloud Refresh sometimes failed with an error message indicating that a bucket could not be found. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3601] - An incorrect icon was displayed for IBM Cloud Object Storage. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3633] - An API method checkIfFolderExistsSimple has been modified to allow greater concurrency and properly handle previously mishandled arguments.
  • [SME-3638] - Two API methods (doUpdateBucketsList and doDeleteEmailAccount) that sometimes returned invalid XML have been corrected so they no longer return invalid responses.
  • [SME-3643] - An unintended page was sometimes displayed for assigning roles to team members. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3652] - Under some circumstances database upgrade steps were run in an incorrect order. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3661] - When Audit Log records were exported to a CSV file, the final value in each row contained a spurious character. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3666] - Attempts to export large numbers of Audit Log records to a CSV files sometimes resulted in incomplete files being produced with unintended contents. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3668] - Chunked files sometimes could not be uploaded correctly to FS (filesystem) providers. Thus has been resolved.
  • [SME-3669] - The process of saving values for options set by the appliance administrator was unduly sensitive to the contents of the configuration file ti which the values were being saved. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3671] - When a folder was renamed its associated thumbnails folder was not removed. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3672] - Downloading files sometimes caused two Audit Log records to be written instead of the expected on. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3682] - Spurious Audit Log records were sometimes created when Policies settings were changed. In most cases this has been resolved.

    Known Issues

  • [SME-3475] - Operations on large sets of files sometimes caused memory exhaustion errors. Memory management for these operations have been improved but the issue is not fully resolved and memory errors may still be reported in some cases.
  • [SME-3520] - When the Burnt PDFs folder has been hidden and is subsequently exposed, it may appear in the wrong place in the Web FM.
  • [SME-3615] - The Web File Manager does not correctly handle the case where the default bucket is not found during a Cloud Refresh.
  • [SME-3661] - Audit Log exports to CSV files may be malformed when the records being exported contain non-UTF-8 characters.
  • [SME-3367] - On Forever File's file restoration screen the option to restore from a backup may be available when there is no backup version of the file.
  • [SME-3437] - Under certain conditions the File Fabric does not correctly implement or interact correctly with OpenOffice and Microsoft Office proprietary file locking schemes.
  • [SME-3682] - In some cases spurious Audit Log records indicating incorrectly that an email template has been modified are created when Policies settings are changed.
  • [SME-3752] - When some character sets are used in file names UTF-8 decoding is done incorrectly, preventing the files from being uploaded through CloudFTP.

v1712.01

Resolved Issues

  • [SME-3765] - When an object storage provider that exposed more than one bucket was synchronised using Provider Re-sync, empty copies of folders from one bucket were sometimes created in another bucket. This has been resolved.

v1712.02 (release pending)

New Features

  • [SME-3695] - M-Stream's fast transfers of large files have been extended to the filesystem (FS) storage provider.

Improvements

  • [SME-3722] Memory consumption when printing PDF files from the browser has been reduced.
  • [SME-3836] - Performance when listing the contents of a folder containing hundreds or thousands of direct subfolders has been improved.

Resolved Issues

  • [SME-3716, SME-3798] - Issues with uploading and operating on large files when SSE is enabled for S3 and Open S3 storage providers have been resolved.
  • [SME-3597] - The iOS app showed empty directories when versions were hidden from users. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3841] - Updated files were sometimes saved to invisible locations if the original files had been imported to an object storage provider under specific conditions. This has been resolved.
  • [SME-3818] - When Google Storage was used in S3-compatible mode, sometimes only the first 50 items were shown when the contents of a directory was being listed. This appears to have been the result of a defect in Google's S3 interface. A work-around has been implemented in the File Fabric to resolve the issue.
  • [SME-3871] - When a file on a CIFS provider was opened through the CloudDAV interface and edited with a Microsoft Office program such as Word or Excel, the edited version could not be saved. This has been resolved.