PowerFolder Server 11 SP5

PowerFolder Server 11 SP5

PowerFolder Server 11 SP5 Release Notes

  • Release date: Jan 2018

  • Build Number: 11.5.629

  • Type: Drop-In

 

Upgrade Information

  • Please follow the regular upgrade documentation for Windows or Linux.

  • No extra steps or configurations are required during this upgrade. Please read our LDAP configuration documentation before updating a system with LDAP authentication. New LDAP Configuration with Version 11.5

  • Upgrading any previous version is possible.

  • Cluster: Running different versions on the servers in the cluster is supported but limited to version >= 11.5 when using LDAP.

  • Federation API is incompatible to version below 11.5. Please review our documentation before upgrading.

  • For upgrading from a version < 11.4 please read the Upgrade information for the 11.4.565 release.

Downgrade information (optional)

  • In case a downgrade to a previous version is necessary:

  • Version 11.5 is forward and backward compatible to older and newer versions.

  • Simply replace the PowerFolder-Server.jar file with that from the previous version you would like to run.

  • When you are using LDAP authentication:

    • Enter your PowerFolder.config file before starting the server.

    • Delete the entries LDAP.<index>.

    • Delete the x in front of the old LDAP configuration entries.

  • Log messages due to the higher schema version of database can be ignored:

    • [DatabaseMigrator]: Database layout version is newer than expected.

 

Improvements

  • [PF-931] - Security Update: Clickjacking vulnerability fixed

  • [PF-970] - Unvalidated redirect to external pages not possible

 


  • Release date: Dec 2017

  • Build Number: 11.5.619

  • Type: Service Pack

New documentation

 

New Feature

  • [PF-819] - External authentication via OAuth2

 

Improvements

  • [PF-843] - Extension of the maximum LDAP connections

  • [PF-895] - OAuth2 Improvements

  • [PF-615] - API: Support for Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) v0.0.3

  • [PF-911] - Show "Keep logged in" again and check box by default

  • [PF-929] - Accounts get redirected between servers less often

  • [PF-780] - External users are not longer able to merge into LDAP accounts

  • [PF-507] - Log rotation changed to 12AM instead of every 24 hours

 

Bugfixes

  • [PF-847] - Sync now correctly finishes on all folders

  • [PF-842] - Use existing folders in the default storage path combined with dynamic folder mounting now working correctly

  • [PF-900] - Fixed XSS Vulnerability for originalURI and autoLogin in login page

  • [PF-867] - Recover password link fixed

  • [PF-817] - Problem with double link creation fixed

  • [PF-837] - Quota for a single user can't be set to the maximum of the organization

  • [PF-816] - JRE Version Info. Removed query parameters

  • [PF-903] - Removed hardcoded reference to objectClass person while authenticating

  • [PF-917] - Small bugfixes FileLink Uploads