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3. ox 4 1 3 This sets this value An informal contract of a bundle or plug in will specify valid attribute names and values Change 532 Unsetting dynamic User Attributes with CLT by Prefix For custom integrations dynamic user attributes can be added to a user object In the command line tools they can be set by using a namespace name pair to denote the dynamic nature of the attribute com openexchange recipes favoriteFood chocolate_pudding Up to now these dynamic attributes could not be removed using the command line tools Now they can be removed by prefixing the fully qualified attribute name with remove remove com openexchange recipes favoriteFood This is an extension of the existing CLT and therefore is a backward compatible change HTTP API Changes Extensions Change 462 Parameters for Appointment Search The validation of a bug disclosed that the API description for performing an ap pointment search is not consistent with the given functionality Request body parameters startletter This parameter has been removed It has not been evaluated any where in our code URL parameters sort optional This parameter has been added Its value has to be the integer value of the column by which the results shall be ordered See body parameter cols order optional This parameter has been added Its value can be ASC or DESC for ascending or descending order of the results C
4. Appointment Reminders always individual Reminders for an appointment are always individual Even if someone schedules a group appointment a potential reminder only applies for him herself Partici pants need to set their own reminder Spanish Dutch Polish Japanese Import of MS Outlook CSV Exports The Dutch Spanish Polish and Japanese versions of MS Outlook export CSV files with different field names than in other languages Such MS Outlook CSV Exports can currently not be imported as is Changing the user password requires to re authenticate for subscrip tions For some subscription services user credentials for the service are stored in the OX6 server For security reasons these credentials are not stored as clear text but will be encrypted using the user s OX password When a user changes his her OX password the decryption would not work anymore Discussions about secure ways of an automated solution are still pending For now this means that credentials for subscriptions need to be re entered af ter changing the OX6 user password Known Bugs of Severity blocker critical or major Some issues have been reported when creating massive numbers of contexts or users at the same time The effects still needs to be reproduced Workaround Reduce the number of user to be created at the same time to batches smaller than 500 000 16879 No Connection to WebDAV in Windows 7 32 amp 64 bit This is a known issue with Wind
5. Session timeout on writing mails with above html signatures Move date picker header under new appointment header Popup message for changing PW in English for German users Root entry shown when mails are moved search field not available in embedded mode new e mail folder creation throws error message naming machine not understandable in US should be computer eMail folder creation sometimes creates a folder without asking the user to de fine a foldername Wrong folder selection in Mailfilter configuration after deleting eMail folder infostore locked document unlock panel all grayed out window title branding disappears on new email Send button does not fit in Wizard Creating sub folders in shared IMAP folder generates error message Update using Updater Outlook settings changed window document title jumps back to default Hand cursor shown for not clickable buttons SQL error in webdesktop SQL Problem ResultSet is from Update No Data Error message Missing UID item in FETCH response Renaming mail sub folder in connected pop3 account not possible max open files not set for gw process on rhel and sles View source windows can be made into iframes by closing it before content is loaded Mail and Infostore quotas aren t displayed in expert mode Subscription dialogue after password change isn t shown in user s language password has changed dialogue for subscriptions should reference the old password SiteName can not be used a seco
6. Time of the Last Password Change Some customer environments require to have the time of the last password change to be stored in the existing database field shadowLastChanged The existing database field shadowLastChanged is now set to the current time expressed in the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970 whenever a user changes the password via the open xchange passwordchange database Changes in Packaging Bundles Change 456 Bundle for the OXtender for Mac OS X Additional bundle for delivering the MacOxXtender It can deliver the pkg and serves as source for update information from Sparkle Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 19 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Change 460 Resellers Managing Sub Admins New package open xchange admin plugin reseller adding an additional layer of admin privileges in order to provide a reseller functionality The oxadminmaster account is now able to manage sub admins which can then manage contexts according to specific restrictions like e g subadmin foo can create a maximum amount of 10 contexts or a maximum amount of 1000 users within all contexts The package contains an additional RMI interface and a SOAP interface The API might still be subject to change Installation instructions can be found in the file README SETUP shipped with the package This feature is optional Nothing changes when this package is not installed Change 470 Host Name of an LDAP Server The new bundle o
7. 2 3 4 2 4 opt open xchange etc admindaemon plugin open xchange admin soap properties How long in seconds the system should wait for a lock before throwing exceptions LOCK_WAIT_TIME 10 This setting defines the maximum wait time before an error is thrown in case the lock cannot be acquired If this setting is not contained in the property file a default of 10 seconds will be assumed So this change is backward compatible Change 542 DISPLAYNAME_UNIQUE removed The Option DISPLAYNAME_UNIQUE caused numerous conflicts and could not be considered properly Thus it had to be removed from the file etc admindaemon User properties Change 551 Default Tree View Enhanced vs Flat A new plug in has been introduced where the administrator can change the de fault folder tree view enhanced or flat tree view unless a user already changed this setting To activate and configure the plug in a property file must be added on the backend see oxpedia org for details The following options can be set in this property modules com openexchange settings folder show true enable the check modules com openexchange settings folder condition 1 3 condition 1 all user 2 all user with infostore 3 as 2 but user must have at least n files stored in the infostore modules com openexchange settings folder minFiles 1 if condition set to 3 this is the minimum number of files a user must have Changed Defaults Change 502
8. HANGE Inc 27 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 6 2 2 Known Bugs of Severity blocker critical or major 15240 An Exception of a recurring Appointment may get lost after moving it in Outlook This effect may occur in cases where a recurring appointment is created in the Open Xchange web front end and later in Outlook the last instance of the se ries gets moved For unknown reasons Outlook seems to send a Delete exceptions and the last appointment of the series is still shown in Outlook shown but not in the OX web front end any more Workaround Create recurring appointments and their exceptions only in either environment in the OX web front end or in Outlook and avoid switching envi ronments when modifying the same series 16166 Group Appointment could not be deleted after Group Definition changed Assume an appointment had been scheduled for a group and thereafter an addi tional user is added to that group Then that additional user may not be able to delete the appointment via MS Outlook Workaround Delete the appointment using the OX Web GUI Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 28 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 6 3 6 3 1 6 3 2 Known Issues OXtender for Business Mobility Functional Limitations Private Mobile Phone Number isn t Synced The EAS protocol used for the OXtender for Business Mobility only allows one field for mobile phone numbers This field is currently mapped to
9. In some installations we have seen the scrollbar flickering when moving the mouse or on other screen events Reasons for this effect are being investigated This only affects older version of Internet Explorer 7 Workaround Please update your browser from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8 Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 26 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 6 2 6 2 1 m AN beep in touch QEN XCMG Known Issues OXtender for MS Outlook Functional Limitations MS Outlook 2003 Appointment confirmation In MS Outlook 2003 setups we have seen deadlock situations after confirming an appointment or checking an appointment s status page When closing the MS Outlook window the Outlook application may reside in memory If such situa tions occur the user can close Outlook using the system s processes window We strongly recommend updating to MS Outlook 2007 where this effect has been fixed MS Outlook 2007 Reminders of recurring Appointments and their Ex ceptions Reminders of a change exception of a recurring appointment won t show up in MS Outlook 2007 due to a limitation in MS Outlook It s not possible to add re minders to exceptions of recurring appointments when the main series has been created with no reminder set This is also described at http msdn microsoft com en us library ee204069 aspx However MS Outlook 2003 seems to be able to handle exceptions with remind ers when the main series
10. Its default value is false Change 532 Rate limit configuration With v6 18 2 we need to introduce a rate limit setting so that no one can send to many mails in a given timeframe and add too many recipients to a mail This should prevent spammers from using OX for their criminal activities In the past we had introduced the setting com openexchange smtp smtpRateLimit 0 in the smtp properties file This setting will be removed as we need to be flexible to use the setting also for other transports which might come up in the future As a replacement the following three settings have been added to the mail properties file Define if the rateLimit and maxToCcBcc settings below will only affect the primary account or all accounts com openexchange mail rateLimitPrimaryOnly true Define the time in milliseconds which must pass by before a new mail can be sent A value of 0 disables the limit com openexchange mail rateLimit 0 Define the allowed maximum number of recipients in a mail A value of 0 disables the limit com openexchange mail maxToCcBcc 0 Please note This change is not backward compatible Change 533 Password Change Permission for webmail and pim AccessCombination To fix a bug the editpassword module access has been added to all module access combinations webmail pim etc Change 537 Encryption key setting for encrypting passwords in flight during session migration When one node in a clus
11. Keys added to Contact Tables To fix bug 17600 Slow performance of Groupware after update to 6 18 1 additional keys had to be added be to improve performance especially for auto complete queries To do so the SQL script file contacts sql has been changed to contain the miss ing indexes when creating contact tables Changed Configuration Files Change 462 File Information for MacOXtender Updates The updater for the OXtender for Mac OS X needs a configuration file to know about things like Where are the files What naming pattern do the files have The file macupdater properties is the new configuration file containing configura ble information needed for delivering updates of the MacOXtender updates Change 473 Extending Session Life Times The complete code in the SessionD has been streamlined for implementing very long session life times of a week To reduce memory consumption because of sessions creating during that week everything not really necessary is removed from SessionD bundle Sessions should now live their normal defined sessionDe faultLifeTime and then they are put into a long term session container All tem porary session data is then removed from the sessions to reduce memory con sumption Additionally all session bound data somewhere in the OX systems is deleted too This may cause temporary slowdowns or even temporary problems with image or proxy data but that can be fixed by reloading the UI For str
12. Theming and Icon Changes The new Open Xchange release provides an improved menu bar with large new icons These new files and features require a small amount of CSS changes A list with new and changed images and CSS files can be found in our OXPEDIA Wiki documentation for theme changes The following changes have been applied since 6 18 1 One new CSS file called branding css With this CSS file the administrator is able to place a new Logo for his product on the far top side of the product A few minor changes in the global css CSS file Four new icons in the folder img arrows and one changed icon in img toolbar called toolbar_bg png The new menu bar icons can be found in the following theme folder gt themes theme name icons In this folder you will find all new icons separated by their size 16x16 pixel 24x24 pixel and 32x32 pixel These folders will be the new place for all upcom ing icon changes Outdated or unused icons will be deleted in later releases For further details please refer to the OXpedia page http oxpedia org wiki index php title ThemeChanges Change 488 New Icon Set With v6 18 2 Open Xchange Server comes with a new set of icons for the default theme Both the default and the Light Breeze theme will be equipped with these new icons Customers are still able to provide their own icons for each theme if they want to Change 544 Integration of custom Logos Please perform the follow
13. a sources can be configured in the new config file dataRetrieval properties Lifetime of a token in milliseconds If this value is not set or negative the to ken only expires at the end of the session com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval lifetime 60000 Whether the token expires after the first access or not Defaults to true com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval onetime true Additional information about change 509 can be found under HTTP API changes section 4 1 3 and Packaging Bundles changes Section 4 2 4 Change 515 HTTPOnly Flag for Cookies A new property com openexchange cookie httpOnly has been introduced in server properties to enable disable the cookie HttpOnly flag Default value is true Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 15 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Change 511 Excluded Update Tasks also for Admin Daemon So far it was not possible to exclude specific update tasks for the administration daemon Therefore the configuration file excludedupdatetasks properties has been moved from opt open xchange etc groupware to opt open xchange etc common In its new destination the file is relevant for both the groupware process and the administration daemon Change 519 Essential Logging Information The configuration file file logging properties for configuring the JDK logging framework has been extended by the following two lines com openexchange login internal LoginPerf
14. cal redesigned icon set for the user interface All icons are available as vector graphic to provide an improved theme ability of the Open Xchange user interface Additionally it was necessary for the new convenient panel design to create new icons with dif ferent size With the new icon set the default and the Light Breeze theme will be provided with these new icons Customers are still able to provide their own icons for each theme if they want to If you have added your own icons theme please check your user interface after the update Maybe it is necessary to re create your own icons or to add new one Please refer to the OX6 User Manual for updated screenshots of the new layout 3 Party Libraries and Licenses None Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 22 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 5 Bug Fixes The following list shows the resolved bugs reported by customers and partners since the last release Bug No 17304 17539 15825 17203 17309 17330 17355 17516 17590 17605 17627 14653 17223 17329 17371 17515 17557 17562 17600 17601 17691 17723 17734 17736 17752 17758 17780 17789 17812 17844 16080 17158 17231 17272 17289 17293 17303 17310 17314 17316 17319 17320 17323 17328 17338 Severity blocker blocker critical critical critical critical critical critical critical critical critical major major major major major major major major major major maj
15. ccc eceeee ence e eee 25 6 1 Known Issues Open Xchange Server 6 cccsseeseseeeeeeeeeaeeeeneneeeeeeeeeas 25 6 1 1 Functional LiMitations ccc nnn e ne 25 6 1 2 Known Bugs of Severity blocker critical OF Major sssssssssssrrrrsssrrrrrrsss 25 6 2 Known Issues OXtender for MS Outlook csceeesceeeseeeueeeeeeeeeueeenaes 27 6 211 FUNCtIONAll LMitatioN Sisse na s de behaes an aN wet ian aden Peony cation ence 27 6 2 2 Known Bugs of Severity blocker critical OF Major ssssssssssssrrrrrssssrrrrrsss 28 6 3 Known Issues OXtender for Business MObility c scsscsseseesseseeeeeee 29 6 3 1 Functional LIMItationS ccc Enna 29 6 3 2 Known Bugs of Severity blocker critical OF MAJjOM cccecceee eee eee eee eeeeaeeaes 29 Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 2 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 About this Release This is the release v6 18 2 of Open Xchange Server 6 OX6 the basis for the Open Xchange Hosting Edition and the Open Xchange Server Edition It contains some significant enhancements in features and API extensions In line with Open Xchange Server 6 the following components products will be released OXtender for MS Outlook Open Xchange Client Updater OXtender for Business Mobility Originally also a major release of the OXtender for Mac OS X was planned for v6 18 2 Unfortunately it could be finalized in time with reasonable quality A preview will soon be available and we
16. cox Open Xchange Server 6 v6 18 2 Rev14 Release Notes 1 01 Release Date 2010 12 22 Please review the limitations described in this document before using this release in productive environments Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 1 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 heepintoxch OPEN XCHENGE Table of content 1 About this ReleaSe cccscsscssesseeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeaeeaeeaseaseaseaneaaeaseneeesensenaes 3 2 Shipped Packages and Version scsscsscsseeeeeceeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeaneaseaseuseasensensensensense 4 2 1 Open Xchange Server 6 cccsceeesceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeuaeeeeaseauaseeuaseauaseanags 4 2 2 OXtender for MS Outlook cccscseceeeeceeneeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeaneasenseasenseseessessensenee 4 2 3 OX Client Updater cccccsecseeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaseaseaseaseaseaseneesseneessense 4 2 4 OXtender for Business Mobility sssssssusssnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 4 3 New Features ccccceeeceeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeseseeeseaneeseaeeeeaeeeeeaeeeeeeeeeesgeeneags 5 3 1 Open Xchange Server Highlights cc ccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeenae 5 3 2 Open Xchange OXtender for MS Outlook cccssseeesseeeeeeeeesseeeeeseeseees 5 3 3 Open Xchange OXtender for Business Mobility ccsccsscsseseeseeseesseseees 5 4 Major Changes sccccsceeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaseeuaseeuaseesaeeasageauaseesaseauageauaseauagenuags 6 4 1 For Developers API Changes
17. dated after some time which can be configured for 2 different scenarios a a complete sync i e all pending server changes have been reported to the client b an incomplete sync i e only some of the server changes have been reported to the client in this case the client normally performs another sync call to re trieve the remaining changes until the sync is complete For performance reasons the cache is completely in memory and therefore server local Cached data will be automatically removed if memory is running low For each scenario the cache can be disabled by setting the timeout value to 0 Time in milliseconds for which cached data will be stored for a complete sync default is 60000 ms 1 minute com openexchange usm session sync cache time limit complete 60000 Time in milliseconds for which cached data will be stored for an incom plete sync default is 1200000 ms 20 minutes com openexchange usm session sync cache time limit incomplete 1200000 Change 540 Configurable lock wait time for admin soap At the moment the lock for the RMI reconnection in the admin soap bundle throws an exception directly if the lock cannot be acquired If the admin is under load with several soap connections this leads to sporadic errors which can be omitted if a wait time is added to the lock Therefore a new setting has been added to Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 18 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 4
18. eamlining the SessionD bundle firstly a lot of configuration options that have been removed because they never have been used with OX6 com openexchange sessiond isServerSocketEnabled com openexchange sessiond isServerObjectStreamSocketEnabled com openexchange sessiond serverPort com openexchange sessiond serverObjectStreamPort com openexchange sessiond isTcpClientSocketEnabled Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 12 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 com openexchange sessiond serverBindAddress com openexchange sessiond isDoubleLoginPermitted com openexchange sessiond sessionAuthUser com openexchange sessiond isSecureSocketConnectionEnabled com openexchange sessiond caFile com openexchange sessiond certFile com openexchange sessiond keyFile The following 2 parameters have been removed because they are now calculated from the com openexchange sessiond sessionDefaultLifeTime Before those pa rameters are only another definition of the life time and the shorter one wins com openexchange sessiond sessionContainerTimeout com openexchange sessiond numberOfSessionContainers The timeout for the random token was always configurable but that parameter was never mentioned in the sessiond properties file Now it is mentioned there with its default value com openexchange sessiond randomTokenTimeout 1M The timeout for very long session life times is configurable through a new para meter com openexchange
19. elease Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 3 3 1 3 2 3 3 New Features Open Xchange Server Highlights Highlights in this release are New Convenient Panel Design Features Functions and general Improvements Search for Categories Mapping of Participants New Icon Set for more Flexibility and new Panel Displaying of appointments on behalf of Creator iCal Behavior Appointment edit generates Mail Error Message for useless import Data Administration Technical Extensions Plug ins etc More Platform Enhancements to prepare the OXtender 2 for MS Outlook Platform Enhancements for the OXtender for SyncML and Mobile App Beta Open Xchange OXtender for MS Outlook Bug Fixes Open Xchange OXtender for Business Mobility Support of Windows Phone 7 Support of Mail For Exchange 3 0 e g Nokia Symbian Support of HTC Sense version 1 32 405 e g HTC Desire HD For more detailed descriptions of the new features listed here please refer to the v6 18 2 Features Document http software open xchange com OX6 doc Feature Overview OX6 6 18 2 pdf or the user and administration manuals coming with this release For details about configuration setting changes additions please check section 4 of these release notes Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 5 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 4 1 4 1 1 4 1 2 Major Changes This chapter describes the major changes a
20. exchange outlook updater bundle itself Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 20 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Change 509 Accessing External Data Sources In this release introduce two new bundles have been introduced com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval and com openexcxhange groupware dataRetrieval mail The bundles allow clients to obtain download URLs for certain binary data that can be retrieved by a third party system i e without authentication cookies com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval contains the framework and plugg able architecture com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval mail the plug in for mail attachments For API details of the new bundles please refer to change 509 under HTTP API section 4 1 3 Change 512 Mail Attachments from external Sources A user wants to attach a file to an e mail Therefore the OX UI passes an appro priate data source description containing a download URL and metadata to the OX server when sending a mail Please see detailed description here http oxpedia org wiki index php title HTTP_API Attach_data_sources Change 520 Logging Frameworks A new bundle configuring the two logging frameworks has been added This bundle is named com openexchange logging and configures some log levels in the logging framework JDK java util logging and org apache log4j Log4J is still optional and the bundle has an optional dependency on it Configur ing the log levels fro
21. expect its release very early in 2011 Please Note Please review the limitations described in this document before using this release in productive environments Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 3 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 Shipped Packages and Version Open Xchange Server 6 Version v6 18 2 Rev14 2010 12 22 The version number is the same for the groupware server and the groupware front end When reporting bugs please make sure to include this version number in your bug report The version revision number can be found a in the Login dialog b in the About dialog Question icon in the upper right gt About OXtender for MS Outlook Version v6 18 10 2010 11 30 File name OXtender_for_Microsoft_Outlook_ lt language gt _ lt version gt msi When reporting bugs please include the version number in your bug report The version number can be found a in the splash screen when starting Outlook b Extras gt OXtender for MS Outlook gt About OX Client Updater Version v6 18 3 2010 11 22 When reporting bugs please include the version number in your bug report The version number can be found via Windows action bar gt OXUpdater Icon gt RMB gt About OXtender for Business Mobility File names open xchange usm open xchange eas When reporting bugs please select 6 18 2 from the version field Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 4 R
22. hange 465 Permission Flag for Mail Folders The description of the permission flags of folders http oxpedia org wiki index php title HTTP_API PermissionFlags had not been complete for mail folders Mail folders contain a 29th bit that can be 1 or O This bit indicates if the folder allows additional user flags on mails or not Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 7 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Change 468 Restricted use of the sequence field To properly process iMIP updates some restrictions for the field sequence 225 in the HTTP API have become necessary The field sequence it is set to 0 during creation of an object and auto incremented by the server with each update If written it s value must be 0 on creation and greater than the current value on updates It is recommended to let the server handle the value and only read this field Change 489 Session Timeouts and Secret Cookies To avoid timeouts due to the secret cookie expiring we introduced a new action for the login request refreshSecret gets a session and re news the expiry date for the secret cookie This is a separate request from the one to refresh the expiry date on the session cookie because Apache tends to mess up sessions if both cookies are changed in the same request Change 494 iCal Import Requests A new optional parameter has been added to the iCal import request This para meter is named suppressNotification Its
23. has no reminder set so we still set the appropriate values into the exceptions which results in the following behavior e MS Outlook 2003 same as seen in the groupware web interface e MS Outlook 2007 reminders of exceptions not visible when the main series was created with no reminder set OXtender and iMip Attachments Appointment Duplicates To become more compliant with calendar standards iCal iTip iMip Open Xchange Server v6 16 introduced a new handling for appointment notifications and provides attachments to notification mails This conflicts with the way the OXtender for MS Outlook retrieves calendar data directly from the OX Server To avoid appointment duplicates the OX Server Administrator needs to make sure that appointment attachments for internal participants are disabled Private Appointments not visible in Shared Calendars In OX6 private appointments are limited to the owner of the respective calendar i e there are no private group appointments and the private appointment is only visible in the owner s calendar 3rd party clients like MS Outlook would allow to manipulate the appointment by shared users Synchronizing back these modified private appointments would vi olate the OX6 privacy limitation To avoid numerous synchronization errors pri vate appointments are not send out via the WebDAV XML interface Thus private appointments will not be visible to shared users in MS Outlook Copyright 2010 OPEN XC
24. ing steps to enable and to configure the area where you can show your own logo 1 Change to the UI installation path mostly var www ox6 2 Change to your theme path or the path you want to modify e g themes name css 3 Expand the file concat cssz using gzip gzip d S cssz concat cssz 4 Open the file concat using a text editor e g vim concat 5 Search for the tag branding Please note Further details how to enable the logo or how to change the height of the logo area can be found in the comments 6 After editing the file save your work and compress it again gzip S cssz concat Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 10 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 To test your modifications clear your browser cache and hit the reload button of your browser Please note You will have to re apply these changes on each update you install 4 1 5 MAL Mail Abstraction Layer No changes applied Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 11 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 4 2 4 2 1 4 2 2 For Administrators This section covers changes relevant for administrators including Database changes and necessary update tasks Changes in configuration files Changed defaults Changes in packages and bundles shipped DB Schema Changes and Update Tasks This section documents the most important changes in the database schema and the respective update tasks Change 538 Missing
25. it This property allows to specify the time range in milliseconds in which no further mail may be sent The default value is 0 meaning rate limit is disabled Change 458 InfoStore Bundle To further decompose the monolithic server bundle into smaller bundles the util ity classes for the InfoStore transaction handling move to their own bundle com openexchange tx Please note This bundle is still required for all installations of OX Change 486 base Tag Removed from whitelist properties The base tag has been removed from whitelist properties to properly display re ferenced inline images in HTML content of a mail Change 490 No more InfoStore in serviet properties The file serviet properties contains an entry for the path ajax infostore That line needs to be removed because the implementation of the infostore HTTP API has moved into its own OSGi Bundle using the current servlet registration me chanism see also change 491 Therefore the old InfoStore servlet must not be mounted into the servlet con tainer any more Change 498 Proper MIME Type Recognition of docx Files Setting proper HTTP response headers on docx attachment download Thus IE browser offers properly associated application for docx file The user may open the file directly with e g MS Word application Furthermore the mapping file mime types is enhanced by a mapping for docx files to detect proper MIME type by file extension applica
26. item without session cookies Datasources Mail Can load mail attachments id The message id folder The folder id attachment The attachment sequence number Change 507 Life Time for Session Cookies To fix the back end part of Bug 17203 Sessions become invalid before session lifetime exceeds a new preference item has been introduced to let the front end know about the cookie lifetime cookielifetime This changes the HTTP API For more further details please refer to http oxpedia org index php title HTTP_API Module_ 22config 22 Change 513 Mail Attachments from external Sources The HTTP API has been extended to support following use case A user wants to attach a file to an email Therefore the OX UI passes an appro priate data source description containing a download URL and metadata to the OX server when sending a mail Please see detailed description here http oxpedia org wiki index php title HTTP_API Attach_data_sources Change 516 HttpOnly flag for Cookies To enable disable the cookie HttpOnly flag the new property com openexchange cookie httpOnly has been introduced in server properties By default this property is set to true meaning cookies will contain the HttpOnly parameter Note This change will affect 3rd party HTTP clients Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 9 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 4 1 4 Changes of Front End Customizations Change 485
27. m the code base is necessary to ensure that essential log ging messages does appear in the log files even if everything has been disabled by configuration files Change 528 Individual Authorization Mechanisms In addition to the standard OX authentication it is now also possible to provide an own authorization implementation The new bundle com openexchange authorization standard implements the be havior as it has been before so there are no changes in any published API or behavior It is now possible to replace the default implementation by an individual imple mentation Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 21 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 4 3 4 3 1 4 3 2 4 4 For End Users New Panel Design The panel menu bar has changed for all modules and all secondary windows The new panel is more streamlined modern and clearly structured The most frequently used functions are just a fingertip away As default they are shown as increased icons Thanks to this new structure and the increased main icons the functions are more clearly visible and can be recognized at a glance The panel can be expanded or collapsed per module That s extremely helpful as you might want to leave it expanded for a module the functions you frequently need and leave it collapsed for other modules that you do not use extensively New Icon Set for more Flexibility The new release v6 18 2 provides users with a complete techni
28. nd time after deletion Wrong folder path in selected shared calendar Permission to change password not available for webmail and PIM Access Combination Refresh needed for correct sorting of newly created folder names customer translations contained in public packages Infostore hinzAVafgen available for webmail user Operation with two or more SOAP Client leads to race condition errors Wrong tab translation within My Social OX Subscriptions module Email not selected in the embedded OX e mail app framework Space missing when displaying HTML mails Empty Trash displays wrong text Duplicate scrollbars in mailfilter folder selection Missleading error message while deleting crawler account mobile configuration gui product name not branded outlook wizard tab and settings not branded mobile configuration gui product name not branded in wizard Changing from a mail with an invitation to an appointment to an empty folder invitation frame stays on the screen To learn about all fixes coming with this version please refer to the change log files provided with the software packages Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 24 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox 6 6 1 6 1 1 6 1 2 Known Issues Known Issues Open Xchange Server 6 Functional Limitations Confirmation Status for recurring Appointments For recurring appointments the confirmation status can be set for the series as a whole not for its single instances
29. ng folder Mail folder not shown working in non expert mode Connecting Twitter account not possible outgoing not closing http connections do waste all filedescriptors Sync with HTC Desire HD not possible Some shared calendars are displayed twice as shared and as a general calen dar Nullpointer at MailFolderStorage getFolder Folder defaultO is not visible to user xyz in context 1234 Publications contain IP address instead of hostname Unknown Module view system error while clicking to E Mail No upsell layer on add participants within appointment and task dialogues us ing IE8 Refresh of subscribed Infostore Folder doesn t refresh documents Unlogical new folder options at simple views not enough information in stack trace for actionGetMessage Invalid email ad dress intercom context switch bug Login hangs at 90 for oxadmin user on older installations The action store is disabled due to server configuration Clicking on settings button in panel does not select Configuration Option folder tree in home screen does not disappear on deselecting advanced view inbox not displayed but error Fehlermeldung UngA Yltiger Content Type Wert gif name logo gif docx attachments will be opened as zip file Error message thrown when reading broken mail is not displayed new folders are some times named new folder 2 for german users no contacts imported from Facebook after successful subscripton box does not disappea
30. or major major major major major major major major normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal Description Fehlermeldung Kein passender Ordner Speicher fAYar Baum ID 0 und Ordner ID null FLD 1004 934169575 21 Very high load in groupware nodes Groupware dies with java lang OutOfMemoryError PermGen space Sessions become invalid before session lifetime exceeds Subscribed shared IMAP folders from other users are not shown in GUI rename email folder generates endless request loop USM Update Tasks haven t been executed during the 6 18 1 update Problem with Nokia Mobile s Anniversarys and Memorandum Custom Sun crawler throws error while trying to subscribe to source system execution of unwanted javascript code in html emails possible Lots of IMAP connection timeouts and connection refused error since update to 6 18 1 Accepting Declining an appointment in OL2007 generates changed appoint ment mails ISO 2022 JP encoded e mails aren t displayed correctly in OX Contact collector leads to unusable system Not possible to send contacts as vCards using IE8 readme txt for new Apache configuration contains Debian version only High load on webmail machins during normal production Not possible to import Appointment from OX invitation Slow performance of Groupware after update to 6 18 1 Width of folder tree window is reset to default after changi
31. ormer level INFO com openexchange sessiond imp SessionHandler level INFO The same is done for the Log4J logging framework The configuration file log4j xml has been extended with the following part lt logger name com openexchange login internal LoginPerformer gt lt level value INFO gt lt logger gt lt logger name com openexchange sessiond impl SessionHandler gt lt level value INFO gt lt logger gt Session life time tracking is extraordinary essential when vulnerability issues oc cur Important note These options ensure that all login relevant information is logged cor rectly Such information is essential to detect and to address session is sues potentially caused by 3rd parties Open Xchange strongly suggests NOT to modify these configuration set tings unless you are forced to do so by specific legal requirements e g privacy regulations If these settings are changed Open Xchange will take no responsibility and will exclude support regarding any session issues and potential se curity breaches arising thereof Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 16 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Change 521 Thread Pool Block Added possibility to add a blocking behavior to thread pool when submitting a task The caller waits for space to become available in work queue of the thread pool The file threadpool properties has been enhanced by the property com openexchange threadpool blocking
32. ows 7 Unfortunately this bug cannot be fixed using one of the workaround sugges tions The digest authentication requires the server to be aware of the clear text password for a user Since Open Xchange server does not store clear text pass Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 25 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox words for any user the digest mechanism is impossible Alternative workarounds for this Windows issue will be evaluated 14653 Accepting Declining an Appointment in OL2007 Generates changed appointment Mails Fixing this issue in short term has high potential of other side effects This will be addressed in a future major release 17201 Appointments with private flag in shared calendar aren t sent via WebDAV XML Private appointments in OX6 are limited to the owner of the respective calendar i e there are no private group appointments and the private appointment is only visible in the owner s calendar If such appointments would be synchronized to 3rd party clients e g MS Out look that client would allow to manipulate the appointment by shared users Synchronizing back these modified private appointments would violate the OX6 privacy limitation To avoid numerous synchronization errors private appoint ments are not send out via the WebDAV XML interface Thus private appoint ments will not be visible to shared users when those use e g MS Outlook 17871 IE7 Side Panel Scrollbar is Flickering
33. pen xchange hostname ldap provides an implementation for the HostnameService to the system which will deliver a hostname for the given cid read from a provided LDAP server The hostnames are cached for the local server using our caching system to minimize the requests to the LDAP server Therefore not only the configuration file opt open xchange etc groupware Idaphostname properties is added but also opt open xchange etc groupware Idaphostname ccf which contains the cache settings Change 491 InfoStore bundled separately A new bundle com openexchange file storage infostore has been introduced to adapt the old InfoStore system into the new file storage infrastructure This is mandatory for all OX installations Change 492 Updater Bundles for different OXtenders In accordance with the requirement to update the upcoming OXtender 2 for MS Outlook using the OutlookUpdater it s necessary to introduce two new bun dles com openexchange outlook updater oxtenderl and com openexchange outlook updater oxtender2 These bundles provide the necessary XML data that is needed by the OutlookUp dater to update either the current OXtender for MS Outlook or the upcoming OX tender 2 respectively From now on the binaries of the update files and the xml templates are part of their own bundles This enables the possibility to extend the list of updatable products by building new bundles and registering a service without touching the com open
34. pplied since release of v6 18 1 cov ering changes relevant for Developers Administrators End Users and License changes For Developers API Changes This section contains information about RMI changes Changes of the Command Line Tools CLT Changes of the HTTP API Changes in the Mail Abstraction Layer MAL Changes of Front End Customization Theming RMI None CLT Command Line Tools Change 447 User specific Configurations Plug ins and bundles may need provisioning information attached to a user Since we cannot foresee which data will be needed we need the ability to store arbitrary configuration data for a user For that a new interface to the data in the key value pair table user_attributes has been added Dynamic user attributes are prefixed with a namespace that should follow the usual Java convention of inverted domain names The attribute name itself is appended with a slash So a valid name would be com openexchange openid id to e g hold the openID URL of a user Plug ins and bundles can then retrieve this value through their respective user loading mechanisms The command line scripts treat every parameter prefixed with a namespace as a dynamic attribute so the createuser and changeuser scripts accept additional attributes in this form com openexchange openid id http open xchange com people joe Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 6 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1
35. r after deleting the last subfolder Portal shows fledged folder tree of previous module Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 23 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 17341 17379 17388 17389 17397 17400 17466 17517 17523 17528 17530 17531 17538 17554 17561 17573 17584 17586 17587 17618 17652 17653 17672 17710 17713 17714 17721 17722 17735 17738 17740 17746 17747 17751 17753 17762 17765 17778 17786 17824 17848 17855 17173 17581 17583 17591 17616 17619 17666 17732 normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal normal minor minor minor minor minor minor minor minor custom mail implementation subfolder not shown if parent ends with InfoStore screen persists even after going to different module additional space added to contacts Name while synchronization You have an error in your SQL syntax on password change Today button in calendar only works for GMT deleteFolder call must remove whole hierarchy in custom MAL implementation Wrong Polish translation for Login Message File does not exist on deleting users Database update tasks are triggered in admin regardless of excludedupdate tasks properties IE8
36. sessiond sessionLongLifeTime 1W Not touched configuration options are com openexchange sessiond maxSession com openexchange sessiond maxSessionPerUser com openexchange sessiond sessionLongLifeTime 1W com openexchange sessiond sessionCacheConfig com openexchange sessiond autologin com openexchange sessiond cookie ttl From the system properties the configured path SESSIONDPROPERTIES has been removed because it is not used at all Change 477 HMTL White listing for Publications New config file publications properties with property com openexchange publish microformats usesWhitelisting which is true by default This feature enables disables white listing of HTML which is used to exclude elements that might allow users to steal sessions of other users Change 478 Default Folder Tree The default setting for com openexchange folder tree is changed from 0 to 1 This changes the default used folder tree for new users New users saw by de fault the Open Xchange folder tree layout Those users will now see by default the Outlook like folder tree layout Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 13 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Change 479 Limiting the Number of Mails to be Sent In order to support a configurable rate limit to limit the number of mails a user is allowed to send in the configured amount of time the property file smtp properties is enhanced by property com openexchange smtp smtpRateLim
37. ter goes down sessions are moved into other nodes caches where they can be retrieved on subsequent accesses This is how the session migration feature of OX works When transmitting sessions and more Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 17 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 importantly the users passwords that has to be known for sessions the data has been sent in clear text To make it harder to gleam passwords from network traffic passwords are encrypted and decrypted using a configurable encryption key Therefore a property has been added to the file sessiond properties com openexchange sessiond encryptionKey which should be set by admins to a new value Please note This value MUST be the same on all cluster nodes Change 539 Caching System for USM Universal Sync Module A new caching system has been introduced to the USM sync system As long as there is no immediate need to make sure the newest OX server data is compared to the client data requests the data from previous sync calls will be cached and no OX call will be performed to determine its current data for the content of a folder or for the folder hierarchy The cached data will be invalidated if an OX event indicates that some change has occurred and it won t be used if any client requests crea tion change deletion are received the sync system has to make sure that the client requests are compared to the current data on the server It will also be invali
38. tion vnd openxmlformats officedocument wordprocessingml document docx Change 499 DNS Change Tolerance DNS changes are not recognized in Open Xchange The default behavior of Java does not keep in mind that IP addresses could change The following Java properties should solve this problem Dsun net inetaddr ttl 3600 Dnetworkaddress cache ttl 3600 Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 14 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 Dnetworkaddress cache negative ttl 10 These properties have been added to opt open xchange etc groupware ox scriptconf sh Change 505 Support of long Session Life Times To support long session life times the JSESSIONID cookie must not be a session cookie anymore Since the cookie time to live then is a more general property and not only bound to sessiond module the property is moved from sessiond properties to server properties The default value is still 1W 1 Week Furthermore the property AJP_JSESSIONID_TTL in file ajp properties is obso lete und thus is removed 1 A property com openexchange cookie ttl has been added to the file server properties with default value set to 1W 2 The property com openexchange sessiond cookie ttl has been removed A comment has been added to hint to new property 3 The property AJP_JSESSIONID_TTL in file ajp properties has been re moved Change 509 Accessing External Data Sources The lifetime of the token for accessing external dat
39. value does not matter With this optional parameter multiple appointments can be imported through the iCal interface without generating new appointment notifications Those notifica tions can be annoying especially when a larger number of appointments are im ported Change 509 Accessing External Data Sources NOTE This change describes all in one Two new bundles a new API and a new configuration file In this release we introduce two new bundles com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval and com openexcxhange groupware dataRetrieval mail The bundles allow clients to obtain download URLs for certain binary data that can be retrieved by a third system i e without authentication cookies com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval contains the framework and plugg able architecture com openexchange groupware dataRetrieval mail the plug in for mail attachments The following API is provided by these bundles GET ajax data retrieval action register Copyright 2010 OPEN XCHANGE Inc 8 Release Notes OX6 v6 18 2 Rev14 1 ox datasource Name of the data source to use session The session id Further dynamic parameters as defined per data source Response with a JSONObject representing the file in its data attribute Structure of the file metadata filename The filename may be null or unset length The file size may be null or unset mimeType The mime type may be null or unset url The url to retrieve the
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