Release information
censhare 2022-1
2022-1-0 September-06, 2022
With this major release, we bring some long-requested and important product updates to you .
In addition, we improved and enhanced several features and solved multiple issues.
2022-1-1 March-06, 2023
With this minor release, we roll out multiple bug fixes and security enhancements. We updated all critical third-party libraries to catch up with the industry best practices.
2022-1-2 July-18, 2023
With this patch release, we roll out multiple bug fixes, changes, and optimizations.
2022-1-3 January-09, 2024
The newest patch release for censhare 2022.1, fixing all bugs found since the previous patch.
Upgrade notes
Why
In times of distributed organizations and decentralized work scenarios, the performance of your applications is of high importance. Page load speed and responsiveness are key to an engaging user experience. That is why we have been transitioning to new webpacked technology. Like many modern web applications, censhare now uses bundling and minification technology to reduce communication and data traffic between the web browser and the censhare Server.
censhare now provides an external authentication solution, Keycloak, that can integrate existing authentication methods. U sers can be authenticated within Keycloak against an Active Directory or an LDAP server. If you use an external identity provider, Keycloak serves as an identity broker between the identity provider and censhare. If you use Keycloak with the censhare standard authentication, Keycloak serves as a gatekeeper to the censhare Server.
Deployment
- Additional components and tools need to be installed and initially configured.
Authentication and authorization
censhare now provides authentication options through Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution.
- The user management needs to be adjusted accordingly.
- Migration of users must be carried out in Keycloak.
- The login page must be customized in Keycloak.
- We provide comprehensive authorization mapping that helps you synchronize your user and authentication management between censhare and Keycloak.
Frontend customization
- A custom frontend now requires a modified upgrade workflow that is significantly different from previous versions. It includes packaging, building and releasing your customizations, such as brandings or multiples locales, into webpack bundles on your test or deployment system and copying them to your production system.
We highly recommend that you read the relevant guides carefully. Please plan more time and efforts for your upgrade.
Highlights CORE
censhare Mail service - Modern Authentication OAuth 2.0 addedThe Mail microservice connects to Exchange Online using the modern protocol Microsoft Graph API. Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that you can use to access data in Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. | Read more Installation Setup Configuration |
Deployment and customization improvementsImprovements on deployment and customization workflows. | Read more Getting started censhare for developers Customization recipes for developers Installation tutorial (RPM-based) Initial configuration for productive systems |
Asset Deletion 3 - ImprovementsPreviously, asset deletion policies could be configured to remove all asset versions. Starting from censhare 2022.1.2, keeping the first version of an asset is enforced. Users cannot configure Asset Deletion 3 to keep zero versions. We also solved the issue with the Asset Deletion 3 report: it is now in sync with the actual process and shows correct information, helping admins to double-check which assets are going to be deleted. | Read more Asset Deletion 3 - Remove versions SysAdmin |
macOS - Monterey and Ventura supportcenshare officially supports macOS 12 Monterey and macOS 13 Ventura, also for the Adobe plugin. | Read more censhare compatibility with operating systems Adobe plugin compatibility matrix |
VFS improvementsThe size of data which is transferred between server and client is now configurable via a prefetch size parameter and disk space that is available for the client's file cache. By increasing the prefetched size, larger data chunks are exchanged, hence, reducing the amount of RMI network calls. Depending on the network connection, a larger value can significantly increase the performance. Available for 2022.1.1. | Read more |
Highlights DAM
censhare Client (aka Java Client) - Communication tab enhancementIn the censhare Client, users can now add comments and markers to image assets. The communication is immediately reflected in censhare Web for a seamless communication. | Read more |
Stored searches - Improved structureA new asset type search group is available. On the search group the stored searches and search groups can be assigned. As an administrator you can set up a search group hierarchy in the system workspace. | Read more Users: Store, share and manage searches_user Administrators: Manage stored and shared searches |
Video previews and transcoding - Support for AWS Elemental Media ConvertGenerate video previews and transcode videos into other formats and sizes with AWS Elemental MediaConvert. | Read more Video previews and transcoding with AWS Elemental MediaConvert |
Highlights PIM
Product assets - Change detection in asset structuresMany use cases require data modeling in asset structures. For example in products and layouts. The change detection allows to detect changes in asset structures in the root assets of a structure, and trigger a subsequent event. | Read more |
Highlights Print Production
Editor for Adobe InCopy documents - Find & replaceYou can now search and replace text in an ICML Story and also in tracked changes. | Read more |
Adobe plugin - Adobe 2022 supportThe censhare Adobe plugin supports Adobe 2022 on macOS and Windows. | Read more |
Adobe 2023 supportcenshare now supports the file type for documents created in Adobe 2023 as well as offers a plugin for this Adobe version. | Read more |
Highlights HCMS
HSMC 3.1 Release | Read more |
Release Notes - Updates and fixes
The release notes provide the list of new features, enhancements, resolved issues for major and minor censhare releases.
Download full list of updates and fixes
Deprecations
General
- Server command Generate placeholder previews (client command) (app/modules/generate-placeholder-preview)
- The censhare Adobe plugin without VFS is no longer supported.
- Adobe Creative Cloud/Suite for versions below Adobe CC 2018 is no longer supported.
Modules
The following modules are disabled:
- Module abril (archive)
- Module bsh (groovy macros)
- Module endresshauser (SOAP, web collector, cert!)
- Module heliosk (Excel export)
- Module hevert (feature import, )
- Module migros (barcode, images ...)
- Module natmags (Archive) -> hearst
- Module weka (RTF export)
- Module MOS
- Module gsa (Google Search Appliance)
- Module pageflip
- Module Offline-DB
- Module linguistcs (Averbis, TopicZoom, unused, raw CDB handling format)
- Module DownloadLinkViewerContainer - Create slideshow download link
Third-party deprecations | 3D model formats
The following formats for 3D models have been recently deprecated by their third-party providers:
- .AWD
- .BABYLON
The data can be kept in the censhare system, but no preview can be generated for such models.
Known issues
An overview of known conceptual and functional limitations. The overview is not intended and does not serve as a binding and complete bug and missing features list.
InCopy Editor known issues
We are constantly working on improving our InCopy Editor. However, for now, there are a few known issues we would like to inform you about. Please refer to this page for the full list.
Content Editor known issue
Footnotes get split up into multiple ones when a part of the footnote is formatted. We recommend to refrain from using any formatting with footnotes and apologize for the inconvenience.
Static resource server in version 2.0.43
The static resource server is using an old spring version with contains a security vulnerability. https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/spring-rce-vulnerabilities/
We will update the spring version soon.
Version parity required between censhare Java-based clients and censhare Server when Keycloak is used as identity broker
You can only connect with a censhare Java-based client (censhare Client, Admin Client, Render Client) 2022.1.x via Keycloak to the censhare Server of the the same version 2022.1.x. Older clients do not work and the following error message displays: UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "socket-timeout-millis".
Exception: Keycloak with censhare standard authentication
Flatplan known issue
When working with flatplans for print & publication planning, you may encounter the following problem. When you add a multipage PDF in the flatplan editor, the size of the pages will be shown bigger as they are and as exceeding the size of the issue pages.
Both censhare Web flatplans and censhare Client flatplans are affected. In censhare Client, you will also see the error Parts are outside of the printable area in the Warnings tab. Possible consequences are:
- Issue asset export. If you use the Standard export option to export the issue asset, the sizes of all page should be correct and as specified on the issue asset. Other export options may not work as expected.
- Workflows that rely on the page sizes may inherit the wrong calculation. This is currently being investigated.
We are actively working on solving this issue.