Release Notes Xinet 19.2

Portal Marquee UI, Video Reel Generator

The imagetox command now embeds XMP data when when converting images into PNG format. This feature is available because the PNG library (libpng) has been upgraded to version 1.5.

XIN-5999

XIN-4732

For the Marquee Video Reel Generator Plugin, improved appearance so that the entire window is used.

XIN-5477

Portal Admin

For Portal Admin, when editing sites in the "server defaults" tab, improved the interface by removing extra inputs for "Xinet Servers." Only one Xinet server is now supported per Portal server.

XIN-5640

Annotations, Batch Report, Portal Marquee UI

For Marquee, improved formatting of annotations in batch reports. (From Collection > Batch Report > Generate Batch Report.)

XIN-5656

Portal Exhibit UI, Adv. Search

For Marquee/Pilot Advanced Search, when an expanded folder is selected, checkmarks now appear to indicate all its subfolders (children) are also selected. Note that this fix does not apply to folders that are expanded after being selected.

XIN-5999

Xinet Core

The libpng libraries have been updated from version 1.2 to version 1.5. This new library enables better embedded XMP support.

XIN-3194, XIN-4317, XIN-4888, XIN-7513

XIN-6501

For Quick Search, added an option to limit search results to what's in a particular folder (and its subfolders). Search for a term, then use the Navigator Panel located under the search field to select a folder. The search results shown will be from the selected folder only.

XIN-4228,XIN-7777, XIN-7882

XIN-6873

For Marquee, the Custom Order image option "Include Metadata" is now available.

XIN-6855

XIN-7039

Interpreter

Improved handling of shading patterns when converting placed EPS images to PDF.

XIN-7438

When applying batch keywords, the "quickcheck" function now checks for nested Venture volumes to ensure permissions are properly applied across volumes.

Files with names starting with ~$, typically temporary owner files created by Microsoft Word, are ignored if users attempt to load them.

XIN-7620

AppleShare

Fixed creation dates that were set to 1970 for certain files that were added to the Xinet database when using the venturelog command.

XIN-7629

Batch Apply

XIN-7639

userperms GUI, Video Support, WebNative

Enabled user selection of video resolution for the default streaming option in the webnative administrative user interface. Also updated the list of resolutions for non-default streaming entries to include 854x480.

XIN-6551

XIN-7645

For Marquee and Pilot, improved the look and feel of file navigation by making indentation consistent when users expand folders, no matter the type of volume being expanded.

XIN-7649

Portal Marquee UI, Venture, WebNative

On upload, added an option to allow users to leave keyword data fields blank without overwriting existing values, if they already exist, with a blank value.

An "Ignore Blank" admin option is added to the userperms settings in Admin GUI. This setting is indicated by the value "2" in the "FieldUpload" column in the permsetfield table.

Marquee and Pilot (but not Exhibit or Uploader) have been updated to omit keywords on upload (and leave current values as is) if this admin option is set and users leave the keyword fields blank.

XIN-8186

XIN-7653

CAD File Support

Upgraded the CAD library to the latest version. As a result, the following CAD file types are now supported: DGN, DWG, DXF. Small, large and thumbnail previews are generated for these files. The 3D files are "playable" so that they rotate in various directions.

XIN-7235

XIN-7666

Portal Exhibit UI, Adv. Search

Improved highlighting of search terms when showing search results.

All parts of the text content that match a search term are highlighted in mview in Exhibit; text content display is no longer truncated after a match; and content matches now keep the text display open if it's the only match on the page.

XIN-7704

Annotations, Portal Marquee UI

Improved processing when Xinet installations are syncing volumes to the database using synvoltodb -delnorm. The -delnorm option used to set all files across all folders offline by default, recursively down the tree (Online=0). This default has been changed to set only one folder off at a time, and not offline (Online=3) so they still show online to browsers. We also streamlined recursive sync to copy paths down the file system tree less often, which should result in a performance improvement.

XIN-7755

Improved logging in "View History" to provide descriptions rather than the event type numbers that occasionally appeared (for example, when annotations were deleted).

XIN-7396

XIN-7757

Venture, WebNative

Added a new date setting section, [Log Rotate], to the dblogd.conf file to allow for separate scheduling of rotation for the log files trigger.log and venture.log (they are both rotated together).

This setting is only needed if you do not want the rotation to occur at the same time as periodic syncs (this is the "Refresh Time" setting in the GUI) or, if periodic syncs are not set, you do not want the rotation to occur at the default time of midnight on Sundays.

XIN-7764

portalDI

Users can now specify the maximum results that a portalDI search query should return.

XIN-7772

AppleShare, AppleShare, Client, FullPress, Venture, WebNative, Xinet Installer

Now supporting macOS Sierra 10.12 for Xinet Server.

XIN-7792, XIN-7771

XIN-7781

Interpreter

Fixed an issue where previews of certain PDFs were being generated with missing field backgrounds. In particular, fixed mixing overprint painting in a transparency environment to accumulate painted channels instead of resetting them.

XIN-7784

On macOS Sierra 10.12, fixed an issue where a printer queue was failing.

Fixed the Xinet server installer shell script to successfully handle Centrify-enabled Samba systems during SMB2 installation. (On Centrify-enabled systems, the Samba library path was updated in smb.conf from /opt/centrify/samba/lib/samba/ to /opt/centrify/samba/lib/.)

XIN-7792

Print Spooling

XIN-7772, XIN-7883

XIN-7804

Office File Support, PDFOPI

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.9, fixed a problem where temporary LibreOffice files ("o2pdf*") were not being removed and filling up the /tmp folder.

XIN-7836

Fixed an issue where previews of certain PDFs were being generated in greyscale.

XIN-7855

Venture, WebNative

We have added a "30-day" option to the list of values in the "triggered by" pull-down for date triggers, when administrators edit/set a trigger set.

XIN-7870

Added a Portal Admin option to block the rollover tooltips that are shown to Marquee users when, after a search, they hover over a found file. In the Portal Admin Site Options, deselect "Show matches in popovers over search results" to disable these rollovers.

XIN-7962

XIN-7894

Portal Admin, Portal Installer

Now supporting macOS Sierra 10.12 for Portal Server.

XIN-7906

userperms GUI

Improved the user interface to provide more space for administrators to see and edit the text in the following fields:

Database > Actions > edit setting > Keyword IDs

Volumes/Users > Groups > edit group > [lists of users]

XIN-7907

For Pilot, improved triggering of zipped files on upload. An "Aggregated Upload" event is now triggered for these files.

XIN-7915

Portal Exhibit UI, Portal Marquee UI

Fixed an issue where Portal was not authenticating when SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) was enabled but TLS (Transport Layer Security) supported the earlier version 1 only.

XIN-7926

It is now possible to use keywords in the process environment under which actions are run (via the KEYWORD#_NAME and KEYWORD#_VALUE parameters), even if those keywords are hidden from users through a permission set.

XIN-7927

When using HTML in email action settings, fixed an issue when users were uploading a single file where the footer was replicated twice inside the email.

XIN-7929

Documentation

The solrutil command has been given its own help page that can be accessed with the Unix man command.

XIN-7911

XIN-7949

For the upgrade from 18.1.2 to 19.1.2, fixed the installer to reliably restart mysqld to prevent a later "ALTER TABLE" Query error.

Improved behavior when running syncxmp on a JPEG file with corrupt IPTC records. Changed the XMP library to ignore corrupt IPTC records, and only look at the first one in a Photoshop Resource Block.

XIN-7951

Venture, Xinet Installer

XIN-7000

XIN-7957

Xinet Contextual Menu Plugin

Updated the Xinet CM plugin for Chrome so that it opens and displays files that do not have previews. This plug-in update is available in the Google Chrome Web Store as version 3.2.4.801.

XIN-7958

Document FPO previews are now created if they don't already exist when documents are copied from non-Venture volumes.

XIN-7967

Portal Marquee UI, Venture

The email action now adds the Asset Timer keyword variables for replacement in the email body.

XIN-7992

Documentation

Improved the man page help for the ksrm command to list the -r (recursive) option.

XIN-8015

Contact Sheet Plugin

Improved the behavior of the Contact Sheet plugin to more gracefully handle folders it encounters while placing image data into contact sheets or Portal PDFs.

XIN-8020

Improved the Red Hat (RHEL) installer script for Xinet SMB to better map the "auth methods" (authentication methods) setting in the smb.conf file to the "server role" setting as determined by Samba defaults.

XIN-8023

Fixed an issue where Samba users were denied access when a Xinet Access Control List (ACL) was applied to a Centrify identity services platform volume.

XIN-8030

Video Support

Now support Avid MXF OP-Atom video and audio file merging for video previews. Each sidecar audio file has its own audio channel, so downloading a low-resolution video and playing it on an external player will allow you to select the track.

The following setup is required:

- Add the following line to vsp.conf (maintaining valid XML):

- Sidecar audio files must be accessible physically on disk

XIN-8073

XIN-8032

Enabled the use of a default blank password when logging in to PORTALADMIN.

Fixed a Xinet bug that caused the last option in an KASPubVols entry line to be ignored by Xinet SMB modules. (KASPubVols is the AppleShare list of public volumes.)

XIN-8042

Portal Admin

XIN-8043

Portal Admin

Enabled PORTALADMIN login when Venture servers have no volumes configured.

XIN-8045

Improved robustness for starting dblogd after a server restart.

XIN-8048

portalDI

When a requested fileID does not exist, portalDI now exits more gracefully with a 404 error.

XIN-8056

Improved the robustness of the Xinet image library to better handle previews for TIFF files with compression method 0x80B2 (obsolete ZIP).

XIN-8073

Portal PHP, Video Support

FFmpeg has been upgraded to its 3.4.1 release (from 2.6), for improved video streaming behavior and other features provided by the intervening FFmpeg releases.

This upgrade also introduces the Intel/DVI ADPCM (Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation) format.

XIN-4247, XIN-8030

XIN-8077

Interpreter

For preview generation, improved behavior when password-protected PDFs are detected. Previews are not attempted for these documents, which are now labeled as "unsupported" images.

XIN-8086

Adv. Search

Improved the behavior for advanced search so that the latest search criteria are remembered and shown after returning to browse.

XIN-8087

Fixed an error introduced in 19.0 that prevented the event table from being purged. ("dbmgr -purgeevents" no longer causes an error.)

XIN-8089

solrutil -movecoredata <name> <path>

Fixed the solrutil utility to handle the moving of Solr core data from one location to another, with the following solrutil option:

If you find this option does not work, please contact our Support team for manual instructions.

XIN-8090

Adv. Search

Improved performance for non-Solr text content search queries of multi-token strings, particularly for large databases. In particular, indexes are now used by the mysqld daemon.

XIN-8101

Portal PHP

For increased security, we reduced the maximum session time for inactive sessions.

Important Note: For existing installations, we recommend changing the default session lifetime setting.

1. Find out which php.ini is loaded by Apache on the Portal server by running phpinfo() from a php test file under docroot on that server.

2. Open this php.ini file with a text editor and find the session.gc_maxlifetime setting. Change it to 24 minutes. Save the file.

3. Restart Apache, log out and back in

4. Go to a Portal site and test that an inactive session times out after 24 minutes.

XIN-8102

Changed the maximum password length from 20 to 100.

XIN-8108

Improved the robustness of the Xinet image library to better handle corrupt TIFF files.

XIN-8110

Improved behavior to retain other triggers (including Solr triggers) when FullText Index (FTI) triggers are updated.

XIN-8116

Portal PHP

Added a Gallery view for users of Marquee and Pilot to browse images that reside in the same folder.

This view must be enabled by the administrator, who must check the "Show Gallery View" site option in PORTALADMIN for the specific site.

After this setting is turned on and Marquee and Pilot users log in again, they will be able to compare images in the same folder by opening the annotations view for one of the image files. There are arrows for them to step back and forth through the folder. Hovering over the bottom of the window will reveal thumbnails of all the images, which can be paged using additional arrows on either side of the thumbnails.

XIN-2183, XIN-5219, XIN-6276, XIN-6949

XIN-8121

Portal Marquee UI, portalDI, Venture

Improved the solrutil program to better detect a corrupt database where file IDs are out of range. The program now skips out-of-range file IDs when it encounters them, rather than crashing.

XIN-8189, XIN-8178, XIN-8169

XIN-8128

Annotator ID, Drag and Drop ID, Picture Wrangler, Xinet Metadata ID

For macOS, tested the following shipped Xinet plug-ins to ensure they work with InDesign CC 2018.1 (13.1):

- Annotator ID CC 2018 (13.2.5)

- Picture Wrangler ID CC 2018 (13.8.4)

- Xinet Metadata ID CC 2018 (13.0.1)

- Xinet Support ID CC 2018 (13.1.3)

Testing was with InDesign CC 2018 (13.1.0.76) on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1212).

XIN-7580, XIN-8129

XIN-8129

Annotator ID, Xinet Metadata ID

For Windows, tested the following shipped Xinet plug-ins to ensure they work with InDesign CC 2018.1 (13.1):

- Annotator ID CC 2018 (13.2.5)

- Xinet Metadata ID CC 2018 (13.0.1)

XIN-7579, XIN-8128, XIN-7600

XIN-8136

Added a new "Replace" File Event trigger to execute actions upon save/overwrite updates on files (instead of relying on formerly improperly-generated Delete triggers).

XIN-8144

Restored Solr search behavior in Portal Quick Search when there are multiple words separated by spaces. The search engine no longer escapes spaces in filename searches (treating multiple words as a single token).

To search for a filename with a space in it, the full string must be quoted. For example, ["Fish Dog"] (including the quotes).

This change now allows logical operator searches to work as documented, such as in, [Fish OR Dog].

To enable the old behavior where exact searches were always applied for multiple words, add the following line to the solr.conf file:

legacysearch=1

XIN-8158

Updated the Solr search to handle spaces in filenames. For example, “My File.jpg”

XIN-8144, XIN-7801

XIN-8165

Fix Solr search result count calculation for large result cases.

XIN-8171

Added support for Nikon D850 RAW files.

Improved robustness of the Venture database daemon (dblogd) which could crash when encountering a filename at the maximum length of 255 characters.

XIN-8188

Raw Camera Files

XIN-8194

Portal PHP

Xinet Portal can now be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 systems where PHP 5.6 is installed. (There is a new combined RHEL 6 & 7 installer, XWNPortal-19.2-PHP5.6.tar.)

XIN-8201