FileCloud Release Notes v20.3

20.3.3.13232 – April 09, 2021
Server	Patch Release: An issue causing the file listing to appear incorrectly on IOS devices has been fixed.
20.3.3.13230 – April 05, 2021
Server	Patch Release: For AD configuration, when a period instead of a comma is inserted in AD Base DN, and Get Email ID is clicked when testing the configuration, the user’s password is displayed in the log when it is set to debug mode. This has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: Due to a vulnerability in Solr, the version of Solr has been updated to 8.8.1 in FileCloud’s Windows and Linux installers and upgraders. See Advisory 2021-04 Security Issues in Apache Solr for more information.
Server	Patch Release: A problem causing Drive to take excessive time reading the locks on files has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: The hostname is now included in ICAP response headers.
Server	Patch Release: The method of migrating policies has been changed to improve performance.
Server	Patch Release: A problem causing the User Quota report in the dashboard to appear blank has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: An issue preventing retention policies from being applied has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: Two new utility tools have been added to calculate storage usage and to find files missing from physical storage.
Server	Patch Release: ServerLink now uses a common share URL for all servers so that the URL will automatically point to an alternate server when necessary.
UI	Patch Release: Instead of showing a “page not found” message when a file that a user tries to download is locked, the user interface now indicates that download ipermission s not enabled.
UI	Patch Release: An issue causing search options to be omitted in the metadata search in the new UI has been fixed.
UI	Patch Release: A problem preventing the upload button in the mobile browser from functioning has been fixed.
UI	Patch Release: In the user portals Share by Me view, when the Share Details icon was clicked, an error occurred. This has been fixed.
20.3.2.13174 – February 01, 2021
Server	Patch Release: A potential security issue in which users with access to a folder but not its sub-folders could see names of its sub-folders and their contents in their activity streams has been fixed. This affects all versions of FileCloud. See FileCloud Security Advisory 2021-01-29 for more information.
Server	Patch Release: An issue preventing an Admin from logging in if there were single or double quotes in the password has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: A problem causing downloads of large files to fail has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: A problem with passwords that prevented Admin users from logging in has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: The metadata report was returning incorrect results. This has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: An issue preventing limited users from accessing Team Folder shares if the user name of the share included the name of the Team Folder account has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: A problem preventing share passwords with the character “<” in them to be saved has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: Limited users were prevented from uploading shares from Network Shares. This has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: An issue blocking access to public shares from Team Folders has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: A problem causing Solr indexing of an Office file to fail when the Author metadata field was set has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: SOS now supports multiple memcache servers.
Server	Patch Release: An authorization problem preventing SSO login has been fixed.
20.3.1.13094 – January 12, 2021
Server	Patch Release: In Version 20.3, when a group was denied access to a shared team folder’s sub-folders, but a single user from the group was given access, the other users in the group could view sub-folder names only. This has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: A problem causing the server to perform a full backup when an incremental backup was selected has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: After upgrading from 20.1 to 20.3, a user was unable to log in with a custom admin username. This has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: A problem preventing the correct application of metadata to files uploaded by limited users has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: The User Consent Dialog Text box, which is no longer used, has been removed from settings.
Server	Patch Release: A problem that prevented users from sharing sub-folders and their contents in S3 Network Folders has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: The 2FA TOTP SMS provider was experiencing delays when a large number of uploads were in progress. This has been fixed.
Server	Patch Release: Support for overriding server URL for SAML SSO authentication has been added.
20.3.0.13059 – December 21, 2020
Major	OCR support – A new character recognition feature that enables searching for content in image and PDF files.
Major	Metadata color tagging – Enhancement that enables users to apply color tags to metadata.
Major	TLS 1.3 support – Support for TLS 1.3 on all Windows, Mac OS, and Linux clients.
Major	ICAP DLP – ICAP DLP has been added as a provider for FileCloud’s content classification engine, enabling it to flag files for blocking or deletion by DLP rules.
Major	Theme settings – New settings have been added for customizing themes and more built-in theme choices have been added.
Major	Mobile browser support – You can now access FileCloud’s new interface through your mobile device’s Web browser.
Major	Sync and ServerSync mass conflict resolution – A new feature in FileCloud Sync and ServerSync enables users to resolve all conflicts at once.
Major	Android app enhancements – New additions to the Android app include an in-app media player and metadata editing support.
General	Custom notifications – Custom notifications are now available in the new FileCloud interface.
General	The Dicom viewer for DCM files is now supported in the new FileCloud user interface.
General	Limited users can now be added to groups.
General	A new mass conflict resolution feature has been added to FileCloud Sync and ServerSync.
General	An option to send each AD user a welcome email when AD users are bulk imported has been added. In addition, the ability to send an account welcome message to an AD user without resetting the password has been added.
General	There is now an option for admin users to switch from the user portal to the admin portal.
General	An alert now appears on the Admin dashboard if the message queue is not processing.
General	The API now returns raw sizes in number format only (in bytes) as well as formated size data that includes a number and a unit.
General	Filtering and sorting by name and modified date have been added to the Copy and Move dialog boxes.
General	The Retention and Smart Classification pages now notify users of the last Cron execution date. In addition the Smart Classification page shows the last run date for each rule.
General	A new rule expression that checks if the IP address used to execute the action matches the given CDIR range has been added.
General	A feature for importing and exporting DLP policies, CCE rules, and metadata settings has been added.
General	A setting has been added that enables admins to specify a custom “reply to” email address.
General	An option to add a user to the Do not email list is now available in the Email settings in the Admin portal.
General	FCAPICore now supports the FileCloud proxy setting.
General	Admins can now navigate in Team Folders using breadcrumbs.
General	An option has been added to export members of a group.
General	Policies now include an option for preventing the EVERYONE group from being available for shares.
General	When the language is changed to Arabic, the user interface now flows from right to left.
General	A new report that lists files that have metadata has been added.
General	Playback of .m4v files has been added. Playback of .wav, .mp3, and .mp4 files is already supported.
General	CDATA sections are now supported in the news feed xml.
General	Failed system checks are now included on the admin Daily Summary report.
General	Additional columns have been added to the CSV download of the User Quotas report.
General	A new report, Managed Storage File, Folder Count and Size has been added.
General	Users can export a list of files contained in a folder from the Folder Properties window.
General	Users are now able to add a prefix to S3 network shares to create different paths within buckets.
General	Admins can add a “cookie same-site” setting that specifies whether or not cookies are sent to sites in other domains.
General	Share history now displays which users have been added to or removed from a share.
General	Admins can now change the ownership of a Network Folder or Team Folder reshare.
General	A property that enables SIEM logs to distinguish which site a request goes to is now available.
General	A property that stores record id is now available.
General	Admins can now add a logo for dark themes.
General	The Email Template Tool has been added to import email templates into FileCloud and to export them.
General	In the Admin portal, the Users list can now be filtered by default or SSO users.
General	Now, when users open view-only documents in the JS Viewer, there are no buttons or controls that allow downloading of the file.
General	FileCloud is now in compliance with VPAT guidelines 1.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.5, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2
General	New workflows to send notifications to admins when users upload or download files greater than a specified size have been added.
General	The configuration file setting for using natural sort order now applies to user lists as well as file lists.
General	Modified and Size fields have been added to the Resolve Conflict dialog boxes.
General	When remote to local sync is configured, the message “SKIP NEW READONLY ITEM” appears in the logs. The message has been changed to “SKIP NEW READONLY ITEM (could be due to read-only permissions, or remote-to-local sync config)”.
General	Dashboard settings now enable advanced users to configure settings that were previously only available through the configuration file.
General	A new setting has been added to disable metadata syncing.
General	Bug Fix: When files are renamed, the audit database lists “rename” but email and acitvity notifications list “delete” and “add.” “Rename” is now shown in all lists.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing AD users to be imported with incorrect display names has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The proper error message was not returned when an admin attempts to create a user named “Admin”. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing the Admin to be logged out mid-session has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The getaccessdetailsforpath API was returning details if a path did not exist. Now it returns an empty response XML.
General	Bug Fix: The getstats API request now supports the GET method.
General	Bug Fix: A flag has been added to the file exists API call to enable it to check for case-insensitive matches. See the API help.
General	Bug Fix: The new user interface now supports playing back M4A files.
General	Bug Fix: The audit log was not displaying details about changes admins made to user profiles. Which fields have been changed is now displayed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing the Recent Access Locations widget on the dasboard to show locations of unauthenticated access has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: In local Network Folders mounted on the OneDrive/Azure folder with Directory Scraper enabled, files stored remotely were shown with a size of 0.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing the backup server to throw an error while storing items to the backup list has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: An issue causing setup of a new RSYNC target on a Linux/CentOS backup server has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing incorrect handling of network paths when Rsync was used in the backup server has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem preventing the filter box for files in the user portal from searching for the + character has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: An issue preventing a user from viewing files in the new UI has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A sample upload form that could not be closed was appearing behind the share window. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: On 2FA login, focus was not appearing on the 2FA Security Code text box. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When Internet Explorer 11 user tried to access the user portal, they were told to switch to the classic UI but could not. Now, when IE 11 users log in, they are automatically sent to the classic UI.
General	Bug Fix: A problem preventing complete loading of the new UI after login has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Some PII search patterns were not being matched correctly in some Office docuents saved to PDF. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: If a CCE rule was executing while it was being updated, the rule was marked unexecuted after the edit to indicate that the rule had to be rerun. This was confusing. Now users are warned that the currently executing rule will abort if it is updated.
General	Bug Fix: An issue preventing a second user from opening a file shared by a first user for co-authoring has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing custom links to appear even if they were removed from the custom URL screen in the Admin portal has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The Web UI displayed a counter that prevented users from performing other actions when the system was deleting multiple items. The counter no longer runs on the UI so other actions can be performed.
General	Bug Fix: When a user could not download a file because downloads were disabled, the message implied that the file didn’t exist. Now the message indicates that the download limit has been met.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing the Edit in Desktop option not to appear in the new UI has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Wording on templates for share emails has been updated.
General	Bug Fix: The Email template preview for the “Passowrd Expiration Notification Email” template was not working. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: In the classic UI, users were automatically removed from expired shares. Now, as in the new UI, they are not removed.
General	Bug Fix: When the language was changed from English, folders expanded in the navigation panel all displayed the four top-level folders below them. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The Manage Group Members window was only able to display 10 members and could not navigate to the next page. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Group Names now support Korean characters.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing Guest users to automatically be directed to the Shared with Me folder when they chose to view the dashboard has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing the ICAP interface to fail has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Each time the language setting was changed on the log-in screen, the newly selected language was appended to the previously selected language at the end of the URL. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: IA problem when language was set to Dutch, that was causing a share expiry date to return to Never after being set has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Multiple OU support has been added for LDAP authentication.
General	Bug Fix: An issue preventing text and markdown files from locking when limited users opened them has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The server log showed the password in plain text for a failed log-in attempt. This has been fixed.
General	A problem causing default admin and promoted admin logins to fail when the usernames were entered in mixed case has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing default admin and promoted admin logins to fail when the usernames were entered in mixed case has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing 2FA login to fail if there was an upper-case character in the username has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: An issue causing the message queue to work incorrectly if the server was using a different port than the load balancer, proxy, or firewall in front of the server has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: MongoDB queries on metadata were not performing quickly. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Moved files were listed as renamed in Email notifications. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: In the Superadmin interface, the folder link for the default multi-tenant site was accessing the wrong site. The link has been removed.
General	Bug Fix: Watermarks were not working correctly on network share file previews. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: In Network folders, Upload limits were failing for large files that were uploaded that were uploaded in chunks. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When the name of a network share was changed, when limited users attempted to view the share, an error was returned. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When a user edited and saved a file in a network share, the notification said the file was added instead of updated. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When files that had download permissions were previewed over Quick JS there was no print option. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem preventing preview of image files shared publicly with view+upload permission has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Proxy settings in the Admin UI were not working when the Admin UI was being upgraded. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Restoring a team folder from the recycle bin failed if a folder with same name existed. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: An issue causing reports with a large amount of data to take too long to run has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing Arabic characters to render incorrectly in report download to Excel has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Problems causing copying or restoring files from the recycle bin to retain retention policies only meant for the recyle bin have been fixed. In addition, move and rename is now allowed for files under Retention, Trash Retention, and Archival retention policies.
General	Bug Fix: Retention and archival types of retention policies no longer block moves. See Create an Archival Policy and Create a Retention Policy
General	Bug Fix: Copy files from team folders to My Files was failing for customers who were using Digitalocean for S3 storage. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing thumb creation to fail on installatins with S3 has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: In Team Folders, when multiple folders were checked and a user clicked outside the folders, the folders are all deselected. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing a shortcut added by a limited user to be listed twice has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Solr indexing was not working on a non-default site in a multi-tenant setup. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: WOPI onine edits were causing duplicate live files to be created. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When multiple guests were added to a team folder share, the Misc Permissions pop-up for each guest shared with could not be closed. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Missing translations in the Web user interface have been included.
General	Bug Fix: When a limited user received an account invite with a share, and then created a new acct. and entered a password, the user was incorrectly required to enter another new password when logging in. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Users were being imported when invalid storage locations were set. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem enabling users to download view-only video files when they were playing has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Timestamps on the same files in team folders appeared to be in different time zones in the Admin portal and in WebDAV. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When files with special characters in the names were opened in Web edit, an error resulted. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Promoted Admin accounts were incorrectly marked as not being used in a certain number of days, and therefore were deleted. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem preventing users from opening Azure cold and host files after upgrade has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: DocIQ was not releasing the lock when a file was saved with a different name and the Office application was closed. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: There was a lag when Drive created files in sub-levels of highly populated directories. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: When a share was being created for a folder in Drive, and upload permission was not being given, the upload limit coud be changed. The upload limit no longer appears when upload permission is not given.
General	Bug Fix: When an SSO login failed, the log-in button became unresponsive. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing auto-login in SSO to work incorrectly has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The FileCloud 20.2 version of Sync does not show a navigation pane option under Quick Access in File Explorer. The option has been added.
General	Bug Fix: A problem causing Sync to repeatedly send emails with 2FA codes to users has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Issues causing the client to reset the language to English whenever it is restarted and to display English for translations when a different language is set have been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: A Relocation Read-Only (or RELRO) flag has been added to the Linux Sync application for better security.
General	Bug Fix: An issue causing FileCloud Online limited users to be logged out of the mobile browser has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: The add-in crashed during drag and drop from email to FileCloud. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: During a public share with a password, upload limit settings were disabled. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: Files were not being removed from downloads folder after drag and drop from FileCloud to email. This has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: An issue that was preventing private sharing from working correctly in the Outlook add-in has been fixed.
General	Bug Fix: AD authentication was not available for users added in Version 20.2. It is now available for Version 20.3.

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