Release information

2022-1-Release-notes.xlsx 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

Highlights DAM

Highlights PIM

Highlights Print Production

Highlights HCMS

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 

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. 

Known issue with markers in PDF documents

When a multi-page PDF document with markers is replaced by a version with fewer pages, markers associated with deleted pages remain in the asset but can no longer be edited. Attempting to edit a marker on a deleted page will result in an error message.

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