Release Notes Xinet 19.0.1

Version:19.0.1

Release Date: February 8, 2017

Contents:

•	What’s New for 19.0.1

•	Resolved Issues

•	Known Issues

•	Installation Instructions

What’s New for 19.0.1

This fix release provides various enhancements on the Xinet 19.0 release:

Fixed an issue with Xinet SMB, so that users can now log in to Xinet via SMB2 after January 10th

In the Xinet 19.0 release, we didn't turn off the Beta expiration feature for Linux 7 distributions. We released a fix immediately and made it available in the Download section on our website. This fix is incorporated into this release.

Xinet-CM browser extension for Safari 10 is now a Safari App extension

We converted the Xinet Contextual menu Browser extension for Safari from a Javascript Extension to a Safari App Extension. This means that users are no longer prompted with a security alert. Safari App Extensions are supported for Safari 10 on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and higher.

Increased the maximum index length for path tables from 768 to 3000 characters for InnoDB databases

We changed the maximum index length for the path, activepath and filerename tables for InnoDB to 3000 characters. The default InnoDB table format was limited to 767, less than the MyISAM limit of 1000. This change prevents problems that were occurring because of this limit mismatch.

Implemented a pre-locked mode for Asset Timer

We re-implemented a pre-locked mode for the Asset Timer into our Marquee site. If it is configured, users will be warned if an asset is about to expire and the Asset Timer icon will show as an unlocked lock. The number of days is configurable in the site settings.

Added support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.3 and CentOS 7.3

Version 7.3 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS operating system is now supported for Xinet Server 19.0.1 and Xinet Portal 19.0.1. Linux 7.3 includes Samba version 4.4.x. We have updated our SMB2 support to work with this samba version.

Documentation Updates

The Xinet Release Notes are unique for each Xinet release because they describe the resolved, limitations, and known issues for that release. This update replaces the previous version of this document.

We are working on the latest Online Help for Xinet. Online Help for Xinet in available at http://docs.xinet.com/. This site provides Xinet documentation in a fully searchable, browsable, online format – helping you to quickly and easily answer your questions about installing, setting up, and using the product. Please submit your feedback to the following email address: xinetdocs@northplains.com.

Resolved Issues

The full list of specific additions and bug fixes that are included in this release are detailed below.

 

Key	Component/s	Release Note Text	Linked Issues
XIN-3546	Client Installer	Xinet PDF/IR PDF Export Preset (.joboptions) settings are now available to Windows users from the InDesign Plug-ins from the Adobe Add-ons store.
XIN-5976	Portal Exhibit UI	In Portal, improved behavior so that "Batch Keyword Apply" works on empty folders. Added an option to "quick check" and accept empty folders as being OK, and set the option on for all plugins that do quick check, except for Batch Order.	XIN-6336
XIN-6280	Portal Marquee UI	For a Marquee site, users are always asked what to do when uploading multiple files and at least one file already exists with the same name on the server (that is, to rename or overwrite it). Previously, the default (to rename the new file) was always being applied when the setting "Show facets for the whole tree starting at the current path when browsing" was selected.	XIN-6945
XIN-6339	Portal Exhibit UI	In Portal Exhibit UI, improved usability by allowing users to replace (overwrite) existing saved baskets. They can now load a basket, change some of its content, and then save the same basket. (Previously, they had to save a new basket and then go back and delete the original.)	XIN-7031
XIN-6446	Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee/Pilot, improved usability for when users enter a basket from within a Quick Search search result, with the addition of a "Return to search" breadcrumb so they can return back to the search result.
XIN-6535	Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee, improved the user interface behavior when users switch the theme to "Slate," put a file into a basket, and choose from the list of collection plugins. The list of plugins is now dismissed after one is chosen.
XIN-6657	Portal Exhibit UI	In Exhibit, improved behavior when users try to revert to a previous version of a file.
XIN-6676	Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee/Pilot, fixed behavior where the browse window would occasionally lose its scroll position after a user opened and closed the details window for one of the files listed in the window.
XIN-6688	Portal Exhibit UI, Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee, the "Add all linked files to basket" icon, available from the Details modal of an InDesign file with linked files, now works in the situation where the linked files have been archived and Solr is not enabled.	XIN-4106
XIN-6822	Asset Timer Plugins, Portal Marquee UI	Warnings no longer occur in Portal's Apache error_log when the "Request Usage" feature is used.
XIN-6868	Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee, fixed an issue where the Upload button disappeared after a quick search.	XIN-6892
XIN-6909	Portal Marquee UI	For Marquee/Pilot, when Batch Image Order is used, the "Clipping paths and masks behavior" configuration setting is now preserved.	XIN-3340, XIN-3258
XIN-6922	Pilot UI, Portal Marquee UI	In Pilot and Marquee, improved behavior when files are being downloaded, with more indication to users that the file is being downloaded.
XIN-6928	Portal Marquee UI	For Marquee/Pilot, implemented a warning when users enter metadata that exceeds the maximum configured character limits for the "Batch Keyword Apply" data field. (Note that the string they enter may still cause the data to exceed the maximum string length if they are appending to an existing string.)	XIN-7068, XIN-5416
XIN-6932	Portal Marquee UI	In Short view and List view, keywords that are locked but otherwise visible now appear in the list of keywords that can be used for sorting. Keywords can be locked individually, either in a user's template or with a permission set in the Xinet Admin UI.
XIN-6947	Portal Marquee UI, WebNative	In Xinet Portal, JPEG image files in the CMYK color model are now assumed by default to be always inverse rendered (showing the negative) and are corrected accordingly. This matches the behavior of other rendering software. (Previously, this assumption was only made if certain Adobe markers were present, and a negative-looking image was often displayed.)
XIN-6964	Venture	Improved behavior when importing image metadata from the IPTC "special Instruction" field through Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP).
XIN-6967	OPI	Set mkfpo to ignore truncated ICC profiles (in the PhotoShop resources) to create previews for atypical JPEG files with an unusually large partially-embedded ICC profile.	XIN-7028
XIN-6979	Business Rule Filters, WebNative	In nativeadmin, improved behavior when users try to edit business filters on new installations where there are not yet any filters set up. (In this situation, errors are suppressed if the Database > Filters > Edit Filters tab is selected, and input boxes and buttons are removed from the tab.)
XIN-6995	Xinet Contextual Menu Plugin	For Xinet sites running on Safari 10 browsers on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and above, implemented a Safari App Extension to remove the “Do you want to allow this page to open “Xinet Support”?” prompts that were appearing when users tried to view CM menu items (Reveal High, Reveal FPO or Open). This solution automatically replaces the Xinet CM Safari (JavaScript) Extension. The user will be prompted once to install the extension, and this should occur after using the Xinet Client Installer from 19.0.1. Note: Safari App Extensions are only supported for Safari 10 on OS X 10.11 El Capitan and above, and are not available for OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
XIN-7000	Venture	Fixed an issue organizations encountered when converting their storage engines from non-InnoDB (MyISAM) to InnoDB. The InnoDB path table index now supports 3000 characters, so that conversions to InnoDB are no longer limited to indexes of 767 instead of what should have been a 1000 character length. To do this, we adjusted the following variables for the path, archivepath and filerename tables: innodb_large_prefix=1 innodb_file_format=Barracuda innodb_default_row_format=COMPRESSED
XIN-7003	Xinet Installer	For customers wanting to install Xinet for Linux on an external drive, we no longer overwrite symbolic links in /usr with our own files. The symbolic links remain, pointing to an external drive that actually will contain the Xinet files. To do this, we changed our "tar" command to skip top-level directories, and changed the installer to make sure the permissions on those directories are OK.
XIN-7028	OPI	Improved robustness of the mkfpo program when processing certain JPG files.	XIN-6967
XIN-7034	Xinet Core	Version 7.3 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS operating system is now supported for Xinet Server. (This includes Samba version 4.4.)
XIN-7035	Xinet Core	Version 7.3 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS operating system is now supported for Portal.
XIN-7036	portalDI	Changed the Solr algorithm to improve performance when querying for all the facets for a given volume.
XIN-7042	Venture	Changed the syncxmp process to check for "blank" (with a space) numeric XMP fields and set the Venture keyword field to NULL when that happens (so that syntax errors don't occur for integer values).
XIN-7043	Pilot UI, Portal Marquee UI, Portal PHP, portalDI	Implemented a "Pre-Locked" mode for the Asset Timer feature so that users are visually queued that an asset will be locked soon. This duration (30 days by default) is configurable per site in the PORTALADMIN UI. The new settings is called "Number of days an asset is in Pre-Locked mode". If an asset is to be locked via the pre-configured Asset Timer fields and the expiration date is going to occur within this pre-locked duration time, the Asset Timer Lock icon shows as an unlocked icon, to indicate that the asset is about to expire.
XIN-7045	Xinet Core	Replaced code for Linux 7 SMB modules that expired on January 10, 2017.
XIN-7046	Video Reel Generator	Improved appearance of the Video Reel Generator styling.	XIN-7087
XIN-7055	Portal Exhibit UI, Portal Marquee UI	In Portal, when downloading images in batch, changed the batch image order algorithm to accept multiple types for GIF, PNG, BMP and EPS images. For example, PNGf files are now processed as PNGs, not another default format such as JPG.
XIN-7062	Venture, WebNative	In Webnative, custom data fields with default values that contain apostrophes (') no longer lock up the admin screen.
XIN-7069	Client Installer	Removed Firefox Support from the default Xinet Contextual Menu (CM) installation, and placed it in a separate "Firefox ESR 45.0 Support" package in the Client Installer (disabled by default). Firefox ESR 45.0 is the last version of Firefox that is supported by Xinet. Safari and Chrome will be the only supported browsers going forward.	XIN-6514
XIN-7072	Portal Marquee UI, Portal PHP	For Marquee/Pilot, improved performance when adding or deleting an item from a collection (with no more double calls).
XIN-7095	Pilot UI, Portal Marquee UI	Improved usability in Marquee/Pilot for clearing collections. Users no longer need to open the collection panel and scroll to the bottom of the list; instead, the “Clear Collection” button is in the Collection panel title bar for easier access.
XIN-7106	SMB2, Xinet Installer	Added support for Samba 3.6.25 (in addition to the currently supported 3.6.23).
XIN-7103	Venture	Improved behavior for upgrades (19 to 20). "dbmgr -updatetables" no longer fails if the UUID field already exists in the "file" table.

Known Issues

The full list of known issues that are included in this release is detailed below.

 

Ticket	Component	Issue
XIN-6997	Drag and Drop ID	Drag and drop from Safari requires "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" in the "Develop" menu to be enabled for downloaded files. For more information, see the appendix.
XIN-6981	Business Rule Filters, WebNative	When specifying a Pre-reequisite Path in a filter, you need to type in the full path (rather than selecting folders from dropdowns).
XIN-6980	Business Rule Filters, WebNative	When adding or editing a date field in a filter, you need to type in the whole date as text (rather than selecting from drop down menus).
XIN-5835	Portal Marquee UI	Portal Marquee UI: Though a folder is highlighted in grey when you hover over it, you must click on the name of the folder to browse to it.
XIN-5806	Portal Marquee UI, Portal PHP	Portal Marquee UI: Restore linked file preview highlighting.
XIN-5419	Pilot UI, Portal Marquee UI	Pilot: Add the ability for users to set their own download preferences.
XIN-5331	Pilot UI	Installation: When upgrading to version 18.1 or above, Pilot preferences are overwritten.   Workaround: Pilot users must re-enter the Xinet Pilot URL by typing the IP address or FQDN of the Portal server, followed by /PORTAL/pilot. For more information, see “Launching Xinet Pilot” in the Xinet Client Guide.
XIN-4939	Portal Marquee UI	Portal Marquee UI: ATrequest and AFR are incomplete. Styling missing and external links are broken. The link inside the atrequest_email.tmpl.html template can be adjusted by using our external link syntax, like this:   <a href="http://<portalserver hostname>/PORTAL/BROWSE.php?path={FILE_PATH}&showid={FILE_ID}&showmode=details&server=<serverid>=&siteurl=<siteid>">Show Asset</a></th>
XIN-6738, XIN-6802	Plug-ins	PictureWrangler ID for Adobe InDesign CS6 requires AFP mounts and does not work over SMB.
XIN-4914	Xinet Contextual Menu Plugin	To support Firefox 45.2 ESR on Mac OS X: To enable Support Contextual Menu Plugins and Add-ons on this version: 1. Type or paste "about:config" in the address bar and press Enter or Return. 2. Click the button promising to be careful. 3. In the search box above the list, search for: {{xpinstall.signature}} 4. If the xpinstall.signatures.required preference is bolded and the user set to true, double-click it to switch it to false.
XIN-4842	Portal Marquee UI	Portal Marquee UI: Long file names without any place to break exceed space in File Manager windows and File Manager Tooltips.
XIN-4756	Portal Marquee UI	Portal Marquee UI: Custom Image Order does not return to the Details view.
XIN-4722	Portal Marquee UI	Portal Marquee UI: Annotations: Confirmation required when users leaves page if non-saved annotations are not applied.
XIN-4771	AppleShare	AppleShare Performance Issues: Previews are slow to display on Mavericks and Yosemite client machines due to file sharing performance connection problems.   Workaround: Option 1: Turn off previews in the Finder.   Option 2: TRY setting the “Maximum size of the FPO (in Kilobytes)" in the preview settings to something smaller, like 4000 instead of the default 7168. If they're making EPS FPOs and don't need images in their "thin" output, you could turn on the "Omit images (include a gray Bounding Box only)" option.
XIN-3885	Portal UI	Portal UI: Advanced Search Engine cannot load saved "File/Folder is" searches.
XIN-3103	Xinet Server, Portal	Portal passwords using the percent (%) character fails.
XIN-3061	Pilot UI	Saved search queries for Portal users, using the default search engine (not Solr Search), are not displaying the results from the saved path.
XIN-3001	Xinet Portal	Legacy migrated sites to Portal 4.6 do not show folders in the Portal main area unless the site is saved. This occurs when the site option Display folder in the main area is selected.   Workaround: Open the Administration view and save the Portal Site settings in the Portal tab.

Installation Instructions

Important!

Xinet 19 ships with a new version of Solr (Solr 6.2.1) to improve stability and performance. This new version requires your Solr search index to be reindexed, and to ensure this happens the Xinet19 installer automatically deletes the old Solr index, which would no longer be functional due to incompatibilities in data formats between Solr versions. You will need to reindex your Solr index database. This may take some time to complete, depending on the size of your Xinet environment. Please be aware that Java 1.8 is required to run Solr 6.2.1. If you are not already running Java 1.8, we recommend upgrading to this version prior to the Xinet installation.

Set Up File Sharing

SMB file sharing will automatically be installed with the Xinet installers for the Linux platform as long as the appropriate samba packages are installed and up to date.

Prior to installing Xinet, run:

# yum install samba

To enable SMB access:

For new Xinet users:

1.	Create a system user for any new users.

2.	Create a Xinet user in the Admin GUI for new users. This will automatically create the SMB user and password if you already created a system user.

3.	Enable the "Can access SMB Volumes" for users.

For existing Xinet users:

1.	Create a system user for any new users. Many users may already have this access, because it was necessary for AFP access.

2.	Enable the "Can access SMB Volumes" for users. This will require a password change.

 

Where to find Xinet Installers

Xinet installers are available online. Visit www.northplains.com and click Xinet Portal at the top of the page to locate the appropriate installer for your platform.

For full details on how to install the Xinet server and client, see Installing Xinet in our Xinet Administration Guide. For full details on installing the Video Module for Xinet, see Installing the Xinet Video Module in our Xinet Administration Guide.