FileCloud Version: 21.2
21.2.4.17315 – Dec 17, 2021 | |
Log4j vulnerability, Apache Solr upgrade | Patch Release: This patch upgrades Apache Solr to Version 8.11.1 which resolves the Log4j vulnerability. |
21.2.3.17313 – Dec 07, 2021 | |
Server | Patch Release: When users logged out, cookies were not deleted immediately and could be used up to half an hour after the session was terminated. This has been fixed. |
21.2.2.17308 – Nov 15, 2021 | |
Automated workflows | Patch Release: An error causing workflow trigger options to fail to appear has been fixed. |
DLP | Patch Release: DLP rules did not effectively block file downloads if the rules allowed their parent folders to be downloaded. This has been fixed so that a parent folder and all of its contents cannot be downloaded if any file in the folder is blocked from download. |
SMS 2FA | Patch Release: Now, when users choose SMS 2FA, the phone number field automatically inserts the country code. |
SSL | Patch Release: An SSL syntax error preventing Apache from starting has been fixed. |
21.2.2.6683 – Nov 11, 2021 | |
Drive | Patch Release: An issue causing Drive to fail after fresh installs on some Windows configurations has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: An issue causing Drive mount to fail on fresh installs on BigSur and Catalina MacOS has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: An issue preventing Drive from listing shared files when the username and Team folder had a common prefix has been fixed. |
Known Issues | |
Drive | Patch Release: Drive currently fails to mount on MacOS Monterey on M1 Mac. |
21.2.1.17295 – Oct 15, 2021 | |
Server | Patch Release: Login was not working for users in nested AD Groups. This has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:Additional log entries have been added to show reasons for authorization failures. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem causing AD group sync with FileCloud to fail for users with mixed case email addresses has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:When AD group sync imports users with mixed case email addresses, the usernames are converted to all lower-case. |
Server | Patch Release:Incomplete AD entries were making it difficult for those users to log in and was breaking AD group sync. This has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:An issue with the Disable Anonymous Binding setting causing the AD connection to fail has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:To prevent cron from failing, a flag to exclude the fcbackup database check on the server when cron is running has been added. |
Server | Patch Release:By default, the backup server URL is no longer accessible. However, it can be configured to be accessible. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem preventing ClamAV from scanning and deleting files in network shares has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:An error in compliance status when metadata for rule 120.6 was deleted has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:An issue in how Container definitions are handled was found and fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem causing disabled DLP rules to appear as enabled after paging has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:The link to the Getting Started help from the Installation Checks page was broken but has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:Files with names that begin with spaces are no longer allowed. |
Server | Patch Release:An issue causing the license installer to update the license for all sites on a server instead of just the sites on an allow list has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem causing sync DB references to go to the wrong tenant sites has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:NTFS permissions were not working for network folders with long paths. This has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem causing OnlyOffice to use the default language (English) instead of the user’s FileCloud UI language has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:An issue causing incomplete passwords to appear in share emails has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem preventing recovery of deleted recycle bin files when enabled has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:An issue preventing Limited users from logging on when Salesforce integration was enabled has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:Thumbnail previews that were not working for a number of file types are now appearing. |
Server | Patch Release:A problem causing webedit to redirect to an internal URL when an alternate URL was set has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:An issue causing File Approval requests to show requestor as workflow creator has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:The message on a Create Share dialog box that share approval is required was appearing whether or not a share approval workflow was required. This has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:A share was requiring approval although no approval workflow had been created. This has been fixed. |
Server | Patch Release:The share workflow was not being triggered correctly. This has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: v21.2.1.6674 A warning was appearing to Apple M1 users that Drive could not be opened. This issue has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: v21.2.1.6674 A problem causing some DLLs to remain in the install folder after Drive was uninstalled has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: v21.2.1.6674 An issue causing Drive to crash has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: v21.2.1.6674 A problem causing new version update notifications to fail to appear in Drive has been fixed. |
Drive | Patch Release: v21.2.1.6674 The “Mute all notifications” setting now suppresses the status pop-up window as well as other notifications. |
Sync | Patch Release: v21.2.1.6674 Messages about skipped Thumbs.db files are no longer shown in Sync. |
21.2.0.17160 – September 15, 2021 | |
Major | Workflow Automation: New feature that enables end-users to automate repetitive document processes. |
Major | MS Teams Integration: Integration with Microsoft’s new meeting and file sharing application for teams |
Major | Compliance Centre for ITAR: A new dashboard that helps you become more compliant with ITAR regulations. |
Major | Desktop Edit Client: A new client application has been added that enables users to seamlessly edit files from the FileCloud Web browser in their native applications. |
Major | Online Onboarding: New sample components make it quick and easy to get up to speed on FileCloud Online. |
Major | Group Management: Users now have the ability to create and share with their own user groups. |
Major | OnlyOffice Integration: Integration with OnlyOffice’s documentation editor. |
Major | DLP: The Smart DLP user interface has been updated to include a Rule Expression Builder wizard. |
Major | Standalone File Browser: A standalone file browser client for accessing FileCloud content is now available. |
Major | File Approval Actions: Users are now able to send file actions for approval. |
Enhancements: Server | |
General | AD login now includes authentication which requires that the log-in user’s AD email address and FileCloud email address match. The AD account name used in the Active Directory settings should also have an email ID added in AD user properties. |
General | Apache has been upgraded to version 2.4.48 (Note that for RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 it is at version 2.4.6.) |
General | The following application libraries have been updated to the latest stable version: mongodb, endroid qr code, nyholm and serializer, monolog, slim, slim psr7, php di, symfony expression language, twilio sdk, phpmailer, phpzip |
General | Composer has been upgraded to version 3.185.15 |
General | Fpdf has been upgraded to version 1.8.3 |
General | Previously, FileCloud only used NTFS base permissions for access control, but now NTFS special permissions are also evaluated. |
General | FileCloud Online’s trial installation has been enhanced for onboarding to include more sample components and other features. |
General | OpenSSL has been upgrade to version 1.1.1k. |
General | Preview and thumbnail support has been added for the file extensions *.psd, *.sgi, and *.tga in the user portal, Android, and iOS. |
General | A setting has been added that enables admins to receive summary emails once a week or once a month instead of every 24 hours. |
General | Now, when a user outside the AD group limit tries to log in to FileCloud it is shown in the audit log. |
General | A file’s checksum is now included in email notifications and the activity stream. |
General | A command-line tool has been added for downloading large numbers of files. |
General | If a share has an Expiry Date, it now appears on the share email. |
General | Limited users can now log in with their email address, and automatically created limited users are given their full email address as usernames. |
General | MS Office metadata tags are now extracted from PDF files. |
General | Azure Information Protection (AIP) metadata is now extracted from uploaded files and applied to them as FileCloud metadata. |
General | Support has been added for priorities in parallel queue records. |
General | When a user without NTFS permissions was added to a network share, the network share root folder was shown in the user portal. It is no longer shown. |
General | A setting in has been added that enables Admins to configure whether the requirement for users to change their password on their first log-in can be bypassed. |
General | The sidebar PDF preview for public view that is VPAT-friendly and supports more features. |
General | When the EVERYONE group was assigned to a policy, the policy was then assigned to Limited users as well as Full users. Now it is only assigned to Full users. |
General | A new report, Get anonymous/unauthorized login geolocation, has been added. |
General | When a metadata search is selected for color tag metadata, users can now choose to search for files with any color tag applied. |
General | In addition to automatically restricting upload of files with PHP and PHP5 extensions, FileCloud will now also restrict upload of files with the PHAR and PHTML extensions. |
General | Improved security against XXE and XEE has been added. |
General | In Shared with Me, the share name is now displayed for publicly shared folders |
General | The SIEM audit logs now show more information. |
General | Admins can now test SMS configuration validity. |
General | New scripts are now available for identifying and indexing un-indexed files. |
General | New settings make it possible to change the size of thumbnail images from the default of 10 MB for document files and 100 MB for image files. |
General | Admins can now configure the system to require that email addresses are used as usernames. |
General | The “If a New User is Created” workflow has been enhanced by a parameter for email domain that is used to determine the user’s access. |
Enhancements: Drive | |
General | Admins can now disable the option to “Show Dashboard at Startup” through the registry editor. |
General | As a centralized option, Admins can now set a value in the registry to override the default server quota set for Drive. |
Enhancements: Drive and Sync | |
General | Where the FileCloud dashboard listed “Darwin” under Client Device Distribution by OS it now lists “MacOS release#” |
General | On logout, users are now notified that the configuration and contents of the Sync folder may be cleared, and users may now exit the apps without logging out. |
Enhancements: Outlook Add-in | |
General | Expanded folders are no longer cleared on exit; when users restart Outlook, they return to the last opened folder. |
General | Now, when a folder is renamed (and no changes to files or subfolders are done) the rename is performed as a single action instead of as a delete of the old folder and upload of the new one. |
General | When a local-to-remote sync folder is added, and its “remote delete” option is checked, any files or folders which are deleted locally will now also be deleted from the server. |
Bug Fixes: Server | |
General | A problem with users enrolled via DUO not being able to re-enroll has been fixed. |
General | When users reset the DUO policy, the QR scan code was not shown. This has been fixed. |
General | In the AD Group Import Members dialog box, clicking the Group List button worked correctly but recorded an error in the logs. This has been fixed. |
General | A problem with AD group import from second AD with multi AD setup has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing users to become disabled when the AD server went down has been fixed. |
General | Audit and log entries have been added to record removal of shares when a full user account is changed to guest or limited. |
General | Now, when a user outside the AD group limit tries to log in to FileCloud it is shown in the audit log. |
General | A problem causing audit trimming to result in errors being displayed has been fixed. |
General | The backup agent no longer checks the validity of the dbpath. |
General | A problem causing the backup server with RSYNC to fail if the OS-Username on the FC server is a domain user or the storage path contains a space has been fixed. |
General | Rsync backup was failing due to double slashes in the path name. This has been fixed. |
General | To fix distortion in the UI, when the browser is resized below 1200 px, the layout is converted to tablet view. |
General | An issue preventing the Admin password to be reset from the FileCloud control panel has been fixed. |
General | FileCloud was showing the wrong version of Windows for some devices. This has been fixed. |
General | For small screen resolutions, an empty device page appeared incorrectly. This has been fixed. |
General | A new DLP condition has been added to allow the main admin to log in when external logins are blocked. |
General | An issue causing adding of a group to a share to fail when a DLP rule to prevent share to external users was activated has been fixed. |
General | Text of long DLP rules was cutoff on the Rule Update dialog box. This has been fixed. |
General | Large file downloads were failing in Chrome, and the user portal was not showing the error. Both of these issues have been fixed. |
General | An issue causing export of a PPTX doc to cause an internal server error has been fixed. |
General | When a custom message was sent with a share, the ^HEADING^ placeholder was not replaced with the custom subject if the ^MESSAGE^ placeholder was not present in the default email template. Now, the ^HEADING^ placeholder is replaced with the custom subject even if the ^MESSAGE^ placeholder is not present in the default template. |
General | S3 encryption sensitive information has been removed from logs. |
General | An encryption issue involving memcache key expiry has been fixed. |
General | The filter for root folders for Network Folders, Team Folders, and Shared with Me was not appearing. This has been fixed. |
General | Support has been added for a header used by ICAP servers to flag a file as infected. |
General | A problem causing an error message that the allowed memory size has been exhausted has been fixed. |
General | Node.js has been upgrade to version 16.6.1. |
General | A problem preventing limited users with mixed character usernames from logging in or resetting their passwords has been fixed. |
General | The info for the file lock icon now shows if there is read permission or not. |
General | A problem causing the previous day’s log to be updated instead of the current day’s has been fixed. |
General | When limited users were automatically created, they were prompted to create a new password twice. This has been fixed. |
General | An causing the incorrect alert “Desynced set definitions found in the metadata_values collection” to appear has been fixed. |
General | The mobile browser displayed the app download button even when the option to show it was disabled. This has been fixed. |
General | MongoDB queries were using too much CPU. This has been fixed. |
General | When a node was down, instead of an alert being sent, an error was thrown. This has been fixed. |
General | Disabling music playback in settings was not working; this has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing downloading of large files from network shares to time out has been fixed. |
General | When the news feed link in the user portal is clicked, the page opened in the same tab. Now it opens in a new tab. |
General | The misspelling of “upload” in the fie upload notification has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing notifications in the user portal to display “Invalid date” has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing errors with sub-folder share notification overrides has been fixed. |
General | A problem preventing a folder listing from refreshing on upload if NTFS Caching is enabled has been fixed. |
General | The script for resetting the Admin password now includes an option to not display the message that contains the password in plain-text in the console output. |
General | PDF preview has been modified to be VPAT compliant and resolve rendering issues. |
General | Unnecessary extensions have been removed from php.ini to avoid errors in the Windows event viewer. |
General | When a policy was changed through user edit, the policy for other users was reset to the default policy. This has been fixed. |
General | A problem preventing policies to be saved in the Admin UI has been fixed. |
General | In a public share of a folder with view only permission, office file preview was not working. This has been fixed. |
General | An issue preventing promoted admins from adding users and groups to Folder Permissions has been fixed. |
General | A problem preventing promoted admins with Customization permission from updating the user login background has been fixed. Important: Beginning with FileCloud 21.2, the promoted admin must have Update checked for the Customization permission in order to change the user login background. |
General | An issue allowing users to delete files from the recycle bin when “clear recycle bin” was disabled in policies has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing a blank page to appear when users accessed the Admin portal or user portal in RHEL or CentOS systems has been fixed. |
General | In S3 and Azure, thumb previews were shown as broken images. This has been fixed. |
General | Settings in the .htaccess file have changed for SalesForce integration. |
General | A timeout was occurring when the Admin UI sent a savestats request. This has been fixed. |
General | The Scan tool was moving too slowly. This has been fixed. |
General | When Results Count was set to All in the new UI, all search results were not returned. This has been fixed. |
General | The metadata search option was misaligned for several languages; this has been fixed. |
General | Users were allowed to attempt to log in repeatedly with incorrect passwords regardless of the number of times set. This has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing the security tab to disappear from My Files has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing the Share button not to appear in the classic UI for 21.1 has been fixed. |
General | When additional info was added to an invited user on a share, the info was not being saved. This has been fixed. |
General | Path selection in public shares and drag and drop on publicly shared folders is now disabled. |
General | A problem causing share authentication to fail when the share password contained a special character has been fixed. |
General | When a share is orphaned, users now receive a message that the share is invalid. |
General | When a Team Folder share was created from the Admin portal and Allow Delete was unselected, Allow Delete was shown as Yes instead of No. This has been fixed. |
General | FileCloud was showing the wrong version of Windows for some devices. This has been fixed. |
General | For small screen resolutions, an empty device page appeared incorrectly. This has been fixed. |
General | Share history was not displaying email addresses that links were shared with. This has been fixed. |
General | Problems with handling special characters in SIEM integration have been fixed. |
General | Problems with upload and sendemail CEF messages being received by the SIEM server during upgrade have been fixed. |
General | A problem causing some files to fail to be indexed in Solr has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing SAML SSO login to fail when multiple IDP URL’s were present in the SAML response has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing the S3 proxy flag to be ineffective has been fixed. |
General | Downloading multiple files when using S3 was causing FileCloud to hang up. This has been fixed. |
General | Importing files from the Admin portal was not working for S3 buckets. This has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing failed or incomplete uploads to appear as successful when using S3 has been fixed. |
General | In the S3 Network Folders Details settings, Sharing could not be set to Shares Not Allowed. This has been fixed. |
General | An issue caused by thumb files not being deleted when files were uploaded using S3 has been fixed. |
General | An issue causing data loss when a folder was renamed in a Wasabi bucket has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing FileCloud to randomly stop working has been fixed. |
General | The upload size limit option was not displayed for private shares of team folders. This has been fixed. |
General | A number of phrases and message that were not translated in the UI are now translated into supported languages. |
General | Exporting users filtered by guest status has been fixed. |
General | If a watermark is added to a pdf, it is now included when the file is downloaded. |
General | An issue preventing the workflow “If user is inactive for “x” days than disable user” from working correctly has been fixed. |
General | Some workflows did not work in Linux systems due to issues with the /tmp folder. A workaround for this problem has been provided. |
General | A problem with the workflow “Perform an action periodically at specific time” has been fixed. |
General | Use of / to indicate global path for My Files is now supported in workflows. |
General | A problem with the “If user is inactive for x days” workflow has been fixed. |
General | An error preventing loading of some DLL files has been fixed. |
Bug Fixes: Drive and MacDrive | |
General | A problem with editing Adobe Kit files has been fixed. |
General | An issue preventing a user from saving changes to an Excel file unless the user renamed it has been fixed. |
General | The logic for releasing a lock on a file has been improved so that files inadvertently left closed when users shut down are not left locked for lengthy periods. |
General | A problem with Drive crashing when opened has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing an error message to appear when a user modified the share link name has been fixed. |
General | Errors in Dutch language translations have been fixed. |
General | If a user renames a file while uploading it, the upload is unsuccessful but the file is renamed. This has been fixed. |
General | When a user entered the URL with the port number, Drive returned an error. This has been fixed. |
General | Drive now replaces invalid characters in the URL name. |
Bug Fixes: MacDrive | |
General | A problem causing MacDrive’s connection to terminate after 10 or 15 minutes has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing XLS files to become corrupted after being edited in MacDrive has been fixed. |
Bug Fixes: Sync | |
General | The Sync activity log was not displaying file deletions. This has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing Sync to fail to display details of files of uploaded folders has been fixed. |
General | Sync was not deleting a local folder that was deleted in the server if there was a conflict in it. It now deletes the local folder. |
General | Sync was reuploading deleted folder if a file in the folder was in use. This has been fixed. |
General | The Sync service exe is now be available in the installer for Sync2. |
General | An issue causing Sync to crash when it was paused during online syncing has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing Remote Management to appear as disabled in the Admin Portal even when it was enabled in Sync has been fixed. |
General | If access to team folders is removed, their locally synced files are now deleted. |
General | The Sync tray icon now indicates if Sync status is successful, warning, error, or in progress. |
Bug Fixes: Drive and Sync | |
General | An issue that prevented versioned file downloads from Sync and Drive to fail has been fixed. |
General | When special characters are used in the passwords for protected shares in Drive and Sync the password was saved with the wrong characters. This has been fixed. |
General | Enabling “Enforce Session Timeout for Devices” in a policy causes an error to appear when sharing from Sync and Drive. This has been fixed. |
Bug Fixes: ServerSync | |
General | An issue causing the application to crash has been fixed. |
General | When the change approval percent has been reached, the message for choosing the sync operation now indicates that the percent has been reached. |
Bug Fixes: ServerLink | |
General | Serverlink synchronization was not working due to duplicate metadata keys. This has been fixed. |
General | A problem causing the secondary server to fail to download changed files from the primary server and create paths has been fixed. |
General | Export of files via DRM was failing primary server failed and secondary failure was used by system; an alternate URL setting which fixes this issue has been added. |
General | Problems causing a file download to result in a crash, a Default folder to appear for Favorites, and an alert remaining open when OK was clicked have been fixed. |
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