Release Notes Xinet 19.1.1

Release Date: September 1, 2017

Contents:

•	What’s New Highlights

•	Resolved Issues

•	Known Issues

•	Installation Instructions

If you have any questions about this release or about the material that is included in the manuals, please contact Xinet Technical Support at help@northplains.com.

The Xinet Release Notes change every release because they describe the resolved, limitations, and known issues within the Xinet release. This update replaces the previous version of this document.

What’s New Highlights

Upgrades

The following are now supported:

•	Version 6.9 and 7.4 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS operating system (XIN-7636, XIN-7604)

•	Samba 4.6, the default for RHEL 7.4 (required for SMB support) (XIN-7595)

•	Firefox 52.3 ESR browser (XIN-7554)

Feature enhancements

•	Filter labels are more meaningful, and administrators can now customize them (XIN-2753)

•	Quick search can be adapted to return search results based on a logical AND instead of a logical OR of the search tokens. (XIN-6165)

Performance

•	Improved robustness of the Venture database when running on InnoDB storage engines preventing query deadlock errors. (XIN-7506, XIN-6803, XIN-7335, XIN-7400)

End-of-Life Announcements

•	Minimum supported browsers: Safari version 10, Chrome version 41, Firefox version 45 ESR.

•	Updates for Xinet server platform: Xinet 19.1.X will be the last version of Xinet to support Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Linux 6.0 through 6.4 (RHEL and CentOS).

•	Updates for support Mac clients: Xinet 19.1.X will be the last version of Xinet to support OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks as a client.

•	Xinet 19 will be the last Xinet version to support OpenOffice.

•	Adobe client software updates: Xinet 19.1.X will be the last version to support Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) (as Adobe has put CS6 in limited support mode and ended support for CS6 in March, 2017) and Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) 2013.

•	We have removed the following legacy code from our distribution: AppleTalk, FlashNet, WebNative Archive, Dongle support (Sentinel)

•	LibreOffice 4.x is no longer supported for all functionality. (See XIN-7359, XIN-7542 for details.)

You can see the latest end-of-life and product support announcements online. See the Xinet EOL Life Letter and Xinet Product Support Grid, available in the Documentation section in the Download area of the Xinet Portal on our website.

Resolved Issues

Specific additions and bug fixes that are included in this release are detailed below.

 

Resolved Issues, Xinet 19.1.1

Key	Components	Description	Linked Issues
XIN-2753	Portal PHP	For Portal Marquee theme, improved usability of filter labels by making them more meaningful. Also added the ability for administrators to customize these labels (by editing the language style.js file).	XIN-7627, XIN-7628
XIN-4686	Pilot UI	Updated online documentation to include Windows Pilot (including installation and configuration differences from macOS).
XIN-6165	Solr Search	Added an option to change quick search so that it always does searches for users with "Aggregate Has Each." This search uses a logical AND for each Quick Search token. Search results are returned from any field the user has permission to search. To search for phrases, users can apply quotes in their search tokens for exact matches of two or more tokens (words). For example, the search term "red bus" only searches for terms containing "red bus" (not "red" and "bus"). This feature may take searches longer to complete, especially for large installations.
XIN-6791	AppleTalk (Deprecated), Venture, WebNative	Improved processing of files that do not have a Type or Creator. Changed the "dtrebuild -fpo" process to detect files with a blank or "????" OS X Type, and to reassign them if they are of type, "image."	XIN-5701
XIN-7359	Office File Support	The officesync command now works with LibreOffice 5.x rather than LibreOffice 4.x, which is no longer supported (deprecated December 2015). In particular, we added double dashes to the following parameters to avoid officesync deprecation errors: --headless --nofirststartwizard --nologo --invisible
XIN-7373	Portal Marquee UI	For Marquee and Pilot, removed unnecessary refreshes for collections (baskets) when plug-ins are closed that do not require refreshes.
XIN-7405	Solr Search	For the Solrutil natural sort name function, improved robustness for the situation where the Windows Uploader includes illegal UTF8 characters in path names.
XIN-7456	Interpreter	Fixed a font issue that occurred when converting a PDF to PDF-X4 from a hot folder.
XIN-7494	Picture Wrangler	Picture Wrangler ID now searches through all of the sub-folders of folders selected by users.	XIN-6306, XIN-6736
XIN-7506	Portal Marquee UI, Venture	Improved robustness of the Venture database when running on InnoDB storage engines. We have reduced the possibility of deadlocks during Marquee uploads, which consequently led to user logins to Pilot or Portal to fail, and/or the API File Manager to fail.	XIN-6803, XIN-7335, XIN-7400
XIN-7515	Business Rule Filters, WebNative	Users are no longer permitted to save a filter containing a parent folder and path with no string value.	XIN-7504
XIN-7522	Venture	OS 9 Japanese encoding is supported again by Xinet. Upgraded Xinet versions will now display folder names correctly, if those folders were created in OS 9 and their names include Japanese characters.	XIN-7602
XIN-7526	Office File Support	Previews of Keynote files without links now show text on the first page.	XIN-7542, XIN-7489, XIN-7131, XIN-7508
XIN-7528	Portal PHP	For Xinet Portal, fixed an issue where irrelevant messages concerning undefined offsets and undefined variables were being generated in Apache's error log	XIN-7516
XIN-7532	Portal Marquee UI	For Marquee, folders created inside empty folders now appear automatically without the need for a browser refresh.
XIN-7539	Portal Marquee UI	For Marquee/Pilot, in the Details:Pages view, improved alignment and spacing of multi-page assets (such as PDFs) being displayed in portrait orientation.
XIN-7541	Venture	In the Venture database log, the setmeta command can now set Boolean fields with a NULL value to 0 (zero).
XIN-7542	Office File Support	Previews of Keynote 7 files are now being generated for the LibreOffice office suite (Version 5 only). This requires a separate patch for LibreOffice 5.	XIN-7526, XIN-7508
XIN-7543	Pilot UI	For Pilot, changed drag and drop behavior determining whether images come from the For Placement Only (FPO) vs. High Resolution (HR) volumes. If only the FPO volume is mounted, then any assets dragged from Pilot include the FPO version. If both volumes are mounted, the HR version is used instead. For any functionality that requires high resolution images (for example, the contextual menu "Reveal High"), an attempt is made to mount the HR volume and from that point on the HR images are used for the drags.
XIN-7546	WebNative	Fixed a German translation error "Date wurde gelöscht" has been updated to "Datei wurde gelöscht".
XIN-7549	GUI	Improved the Xinet user experience to consistently display the Xinet version, regardless of the browser being used. Users can now see the version string to the left of the right-most links in the "header" section of the Admin GUI pages.
XIN-7554	Portal Marquee UI	We have tested Xinet against the Firefox 52.3 ESR browser. Note that you need to enable Support Contextual Menu Plugins and Add-ons manually for Firefox versions after 45. See XIN-4914 in the Known Issues section.)
XIN-7556	Portal Marquee UI	In Portal, improved the user experience when users try to upload folders with no metadata set for them.
XIN-7565	Interpreter	Improved robustness when creating FPO and/or WEB previews. In particular, during ripping, core files are no longer produced to potentially fill up server drives.
XIN-7566	Pilot UI	In Pilot, improved the user experience by continuing to display the "Advanced Search" button even after search results are displayed.
XIN-7582	Office File Support	Enabled text extraction from LibreOffice for Keynote 5 and 6 documents. (Note that Keynote 7 is not yet supported.)	XIN-7552
XIN-7589	Pilot UI. Portal Marquee UI	For Pilot, improved user experience when downloading collections, with users now presented with an appropriate message.	XIN-7592
XIN-7595	SMB2	We have tested against Samba 4.6, the default Samba version installed by RHEL 7.4. Samba allows our file server to deliver files via the SMB protocol. Our Xinet installer also installs the Xinet SMB plugins automatically, based on the Linux and Samba version.	XIN-7618
XIN-7604	Xinet Core	Version 7.4 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS operating system is now supported for Xinet Server.	XIN-7636, XIN-7034
XIN-7608	Venture	For the import command, improved handling of metadata fields containing the string "CoLon". This string is now correctly being converted to a colon (:) without corrupting the rest of the field name. This problem was occurring with newer versions of Linux.
XIN-7636	Xinet Core	Version 6.9 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS operating system is now supported for Xinet Server.	XIN-7604, XIN-7643
XIN-7641	Portal Marquee UI	Improved performance for users accessing Portal when toplevel facets are turned on and there are large numbers of records.

Known Issues

Known issues for this release are listed below.

 

Known Issues for Xinet 19.1.1

Ticket	Component	Issue
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.
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-3885	Portal UI	Portal UI: Advanced Search Engine cannot load saved "File/Folder is" searches.
XIN-3938	Portal PHP, WebNative	When uploading a file whose name contains double quotes ("), the double quotes are converted to the percent-encoded “ %22 ”.
XIN-4756	Portal Marquee UI	Portal Marquee UI: Custom Image Order does not return to the Details view.
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-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-4914	Xinet Contextual Menu Plugin	To support Firefox 45.2 ESR on Mac OS X and later, you need to enable Support Contextual Menu Plugins and Add-ons: 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-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-5419	Pilot UI, Portal Marquee UI	Add the ability for users to set their own download preferences.
XIN-5806	Portal Marquee UI, Portal PHP	Restore linked file preview highlighting.
XIN-5835	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-6494	Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee, in File Manager > Copy, if you create a new folder, it will exit after creating that folder and will not let you continue on to copy the file into that folder.
XIN-6495	Portal Marquee UI	In Marquee, in File Manager > Copy, you cannot create folders in any place other than the current location (even though it lets you select other folders).
XIN-6738, XIN-6802	Plug-ins	PictureWrangler ID for Adobe InDesign CS6 requires AFP mounts and does not work over SMB.
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-6981	Business Rule Filters, WebNative	When specifying a Pre-requisite Path in a filter, you need to type in the full path (rather than selecting folders from dropdowns).
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.
XIN-7489	Office File Support	Text is not rendering in previews of presentation files from Apple Keynote software, version 6 and later. (The text renders fine for Keynote version 5 and earlier.)
XIN-7531	Xinet Contextual Menu Plugin	The Xinet Contextual Menu (CM) may fail to install for the following Mac OS X configurations: - Safari 9 browsers - Safari 10 on OS X 10.10 Yosemite This is a known Mac issue where clicking on the "Trust" button sometimes dismisses the dialog without installing the extension. This issue does not occur with Safari 10 on newer Mac OS X systems (OS X 10.11 El Capitan and above.
	PictureWrangler	PictureWrangler for Adobe InDesign CS6 requires AFP mounts and does not work over SMB.

Installation Instructions

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:

1.	For new Xinet users:

a.	Create a system user for any new users.

b.	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.

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

2.	For existing Xinet users:

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

b.	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 Partner Portal at the bottom of the page to locate the installer appropriate 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.

Install Windows Pilot

To install the updated Windows Pilot on Windows client machines:

1.	Ensure the Administrator has updated Xinet server with this release.

2.	From the client machine, connect to the Xinet Server as the user "macfiles".

3.	Download the file XinetPilotInstaller.exe.

4.	Double-click on the XinetPilotInstaller.exe.