Deprecations and changes
This article gives overview about breaking feature changes that you might consider in case you upgrade to a new version. Breaking changes are not backward compatible and you might loose a functionality that you have used before.
Changed behavior
Feature changes that are not backward compatible and might need some adaption of configuration or customizing.
Deprecated features
Feature deprecations are mentioned for a specific major version.
Feature | Description | Reason | Depricated in | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kernel extension (VFS) for macOS | Enabling connection from client to third party application, e.g. Adobe | Apple will deprecate Kernel extension. Less security | Release 2023.1 | Replaced by FuseT |
Server command Generate placeholder previews (client command) (app/modules/generate-placeholder-preview) | It allows the client to create placeholder images. | We have a replacement and the original is no longer maintained since 2012 | Release 2022.1 | |
Module abril (archive) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module bsh (groovy macros) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module endresshauser (SOAP, web collector, cert!) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module heliosk (Excel export) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module hevert (feature import, ) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module migros (barcode, images ...) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module natmags (Archive) -> hearst | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module natmags (Archive) -> hearst | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module weka (RTF export) | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module gsa (Google Search Appliance) | The Google Search Appliance applies Google Web Search to data in a censhare system. | Google Search Appliance is no longer supported and does not fit any longer in neither Google's nor censhare's product strategy. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module MOS | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module pageflip | Flash based pageflip functionality built in 2009. | Flash is no longer supported and we want to phase out old fashioned technology. | Release 2022.1 | |
Module Offline-DB | Working on an offline database | Old-fashioned technology | Release 2022.1 | |
Module linguistcs (Averbis, TopicZoom, unused, raw CDB handling format) | Keyword Tagging for text assets | No usage and the API changed heavily since implementation. If needed there are more modern solutions on the market. | Release 2022.1 | |
Adobe Indesign support for versions below CC 2018.2 | Layout designing software application, today censhare is supporting down to CS5 (released in 2010). After this deprecation only CC2018.2 or later will be supported | Maintaining backwards compatibility limits our design options and increases the time to market of our new indesign plug ins solutions. | Release 2022.1 | |
DownloadLinkViewerContainer | Customer specific module | Strategic decision to remove custom specific modules. | Release 2022.1 | |
Dark mode in Java Client | Dark mode enabled in the Java Client | Outdated library | Release 2022.1 |