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Release date: September 2013
Build number: 8.2.44
Client release notes can be found in the client documentation.
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Important Notes about the PowerFolder Server 8 Service Pack 2 ReleaseAJP connector portTo support authentication through external sites like Shibboleth IdP portals, we now introduced an Apache JServ Protctol port, which can be enabled by a Server Configuration File setting:
The port is not enabled by default, means if you want to use it, it has to be explicity added and set to the Server Configuration File. Separate documentation about how to use it together with Shibboleth and other external authentication systems will follow soon with the PowerFolder Server 9 release. Improved startup scriptThere have been some bugfixes and improvements in the server startup script, therefore we recommend to replace the old Please note to change the values for Furthermore the New setting for inviting external usersIn the past it was not possible to control if existing users can invite new users, so they get an account on the server, without disabling the invitation function completely, except when using LDAP. Now we introduced a new Server Configuration File setting to disable external user invitations, when using the database only for user authentication:
The setting is by default set to "true", means it is enabled, to not break existing installations. Therefore in most cases you don't need to change anything. Please also check the Permissions section in the Server Configuration File documentation |
PowerFolder Server 8
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Service Pack 2
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Changelog
Improvements
- AJP protocol support
- Folder scanning improvements
- Ha cluster node now shuts down instead of getting slow when running in a OutOfMemoryError situation
- HA cluster performance improvements
- Improved multi-hashing and salting of password in the database
- Improved Shibboleth web login to get authenticated on the IdP portal first
- Improvements to reduce the risk for config file corruption
- MSSQL support
- Option to force TLS encrypted connections to SMTP
- Option to prevent invitation of users not existing in LDAP
- Performance optimization while checking user quotas
- Prevent folder creation if user does not have quota
- Reduced unnecessary log output in cluster environments
- Remove folders with no user or group members
- Removed config parameter which stores removed folders in HA environments
- Support for third LDAP server
- Trial activation creates a new trial account automatically if account doesn't yet
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