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Version 9

9.5.9502 - June 28th, 2016

fixed - security issue in JSON API (SessionService.getLoginTicket). Affected versions are 9.5.9500, 9.5.9501 and 10.0.10000; all users of affected versions are urged to update to 9.5.9502/10.0.10001 as appropriate. The team would like to thank Enrique Tobis for the notice.

9.5.9501 - April 1st, 2016

added - configurable polling interval for GitHub integration (COLLAB-1320)
added - link to GitHub Pull Request in reviews created from them (COLLAB-1389)
added - enhance diff viewer support for COBOL files (COLLAB-1528)
fixed - spurious reviews created when GitHub and JIRA integrations simultaneously configured (dependency issue affecting JIRA triggers) (COLLAB-1600)
fixed - legacy xmlrpc API support broken in 9.5 (COLLAB-1598)
fixed - NullPointerException when editing non-existent review via command line (COLLAB-1557)
fixed - PDF file not rendered properly in diff viewer (requires 3rd party library update) (COLLAB-1525)
fixed - ensure that duplicate GitHub remote system configurations are not allowed (COLLAB-1377, COLLAB-1603)
fixed - allow multi-line values to be passed for custom fields from the command line (COLLAB-1239)
fixed - 9.5.9500 breaks client compatibility with some SCMs requiring native libs (e.g. TFS) (COLLAB-1618)
fixed - Error while uploading .docx files to review materials (COLLAB-1589)

9.5.9500 - March 8, 2016

added - Integration with Single Sign-On servers (COLLAB-361)
added - JIRA integration was improved to comply with JIRA 7 API (COLLAB-1402)
fixed - Updated Apache Tomcat server to version 8.0.28 to resolve a number of performance and security issues (COLLAB-583)
fixed - DiffViewer: Previous diff showing in HTML code for review sourced from JIRA (COLLAB-1477)
fixed - ccollab admin review edit command for custom field changes group to "All Users" (COLLAB-1451)
fixed - ccollab adddiffs does not work because of JSON API issue (COLLAB-1450)
fixed - Doubled pushpins with wrong locations between uploaded material's versions (COLLAB-1446)
fixed - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException being thrown from GitHub event handler (COLLAB-1440)
fixed - Wrong child group reflection in participant drop-down (COLLAB-1434)
fixed - "ccollab admin review edit --deadline" successfully executed with '0' in the admin settings of the UI (COLLAB-1426)
fixed - Server cannot be upgraded to 9401 because of pushpin issue (COLLAB-1421)
fixed - MKSAPI.JAR contains an unsupported version of Apache HttpClient (COLLAB-1420)
fixed - Client cannot parse the "p4 -G change -o" output if it contains Perforce's additional messages (COLLAB-1414)
fixed - IllegalStateException raised when running a diagnostic (COLLAB-1403)
fixed - Participant’s filter does not correctly show an account with a blank space in the “Full name” field (COLLAB-1397)
fixed - Review custom fields of Multi Select type are not highlighted (COLLAB-1374)
fixed - "ccollab admin review finish ask" does not work properly (COLLAB-1363)
fixed - Cannot execute addchangelist if password is omitted (COLLAB-1340)
fixed - CMVC, StarTeam, Surround, VSS and Vault support with older clients is broken on the server (COLLAB-1334)
fixed - JSON API: UserService: login values are case insensitive (COLLAB-1327)
fixed - Add "HTTPOnly" marker in the browsers session cookie (COLLAB-1243)
fixed - Add "Secure" marker in the browsers session cookie (COLLAB-1242)
fixed - "--restrict-access" parameter does not work with JSON API (COLLAB-1214)
fixed - Wrong groupId="1" in review then creating review via GUI Client (COLLAB-1143)
fixed - "Edit" button is grayed for uncompleted reviews (COLLAB-629)

9.4.9401 - December 16, 2015

fixed - Unable to open file in diff viewer that was added to review by MS Word add-in (COLLAB-1393)
fixed - improvements to GitHub pull request handling (COLLAB-1401)
added - Digital signatures on Windows installers updated
added - Windows and OSX installers use bundled JRE if none available (COLLAB-1392)

 

9.4.9400 - December 8, 2015

added - Rejected and Cancelled reviews can also be archived to Zip (COLLAB-1323)
added - Support for Rational Team Concert 6.0 (COLLAB-999)
added - Use CSRF tokens during web transactions to prevent cross-site request forgery (COLLAB-1241)
added - Administrators can specify a list of file types restricted for upload (to avoid malicious file uploads) (COLLAB-1234)
added - Filter user-input to avoid cross-site scripting vulnerability (COLLAB-1233)
added - Commands to administer remote system integrations via Command-Line Client (COLLAB-1306)
added - File upload security improvement. (COLLAB-1102) Web clients, by default, use an HTML5-based component for file uploads instead of the older Adobe Flash method.
added - GitHub integration: New "Ignore pushes for branches" setting to skip review creation for raw pushes to the specified branches.
fixed - GitHub integration: Polling thread stops if a comment exists on the pull request before Collab processes it (COLLAB-1373)
fixed - GitHub integration creates multiple reviews with a single push to main branch(COLLAB-1352)
fixed - Critical error when upgrading from 9.0 if database misses version data for some comments (COLLAB-1338)
fixed - JSON API: UserService: login values are case insensitive (COLLAB-1327)
fixed - Cannot click on a pushpin and have it select the conversation (COLLAB-1310)
fixed - GitHub integration is pulling extra commits into reviews (COLLAB-1299)
fixed - GitHub integration commits in the diff viewer show wrong timestamp (COLLAB-1298)
fixed - Some groups are missing from the pick-list of new reviews (COLLAB-1273)
fixed - Use TLSv1.2 protocol on Java 1.6 clients (COLLAB-1213)
fixed - Incorrect time stamp is displayed in DiffViewer for ClearCase Activity in 9200 Client (COLLAB-1174)
fixed - Updated Apache PDFBox library to version 1.8.10 to resolve a number of PDF-related document handling issues (COLLAB-1091)
fixed - Eclipse client dependency for JGit makes it difficult to install into RTC Eclipse client (COLLAB-962)
fixed - DiffViewer does not show upload number correctly when uploading git diffs multiple times (COLLAB-885)
fixed - The --non-interactive option is ignored when SSL certificate cannot be validated (COLLAB-357)
deprecated - Print To Review virtual printer driver - Collaborator now offers the ability to attach Word, Excel and PDF documents directly to a review. Additionally, you can install Collaborator add-ins for Word and PowerPoint.
deprecated - SOAP API - Collaborator introduced a new JSON API in January 2015 and the limited SOAP API is no longer needed.
deprecated - XML-RPC API - Collaborator's XML-RPC API is no longer needed because of the introduction of the JSON API.
deprecated - Visual Studio Add-in - We are currently working on a new add-in that will support Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 (and, hopefully, provide a much better user experience than the existing one).

9.3.9300 - October 13, 2015

added - Completed reviews can now be archived to Zip. (COLLAB-1105)
added - The style of coordinate comments and defects(pushpins) have been changed. Now the pushpins display an integer number in their head: icon-pin-grey-numbered The number corresponds to the order in which that pushpin was added to the document page or image. (COLLAB-1179)
Note: During the upgrade to Collaborator 9.3 all in-progress reviews have been updated and their pushpins (if any) were numbered. Converting only in-progress reviews during the upgrade, ensures that upgrading the server to 9.3 does not take too long. To append ordinal numbers to pushpins in all completed reviews, your administrators can use the respective command in the Diagnostic Utility. (This however may take some time to accomplish.)
added - Collaborator News panel in the WebUI. (COLLAB-1104) This panel displays news, release announcements, webinar invitations and other information from the SmartBear.
added - AES-256 encryption for database and LDAP passwords. (COLLAB-1077)
added - Send notification to the administrator when a user access was denied due to license limit. (COLLAB-985)
added - Support for Oracle 12c database. (COLLAB-1121)
added - Support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015. (COLLAB-1144)
added - Support for Microsoft Windows 10 (both server and client components of Collaborator). (COLLAB-1095)
added - Support for Microsoft Edge browser in Web Client. (COLLAB-1096)
fixed - Changes of document(s) uploaded to a review were not highlighted. (COLLAB-1145)
fixed - JIRA Configuration did not remove the trailing slash from Server URI. (COLLAB-1138)
fixed - Git's "The file will have its original line endings in your working directory." message was not ignored. (COLLAB-1107)
fixed - Collaborator did not apply the ASCII expansion to Perforce wildcards. (COLLAB-1103)
fixed - JSON API was not implemented for the "ccollab admin review-xml" command. (COLLAB-1084)
fixed - Customer's completed reviews showed the "overdue" status. (COLLAB-1066)
fixed - The smartbear.ccollab.upload.ignore.binary.file property was ignored by JSON APIs. (COLLAB-998)
fixed - Private or non-SCM files prevented review uploads from Eclipse Plug-in. (COLLAB-945)
fixed - The location data for defects within documents was displayed incorrectly in the Defect report. (919)
fixed - Some users could log in even if all floating licenses was consumed. (COLLAB-694)
fixed - The filters of the Diff Viewer's chat panel did not function properly. (COLLAB-710)
fixed - The Before and After drop-down lists of the Diff Viewer displayed file ids rather than commit ids for GitHub files.
fixed - Diff Viewer navigates between files alphabetically even when File View is set to "Compressed Tree". (COLLAB-389)

9.2.9200 - July 9, 2015

added - JIRA integration
added - GitHub integration
added - Electronic signatures can now be configured on templates basis (COLLAB-633)
added (open source, beta): IntelliJ IDEA plugin (https://github.com/SmartBear/idea-collaborator-plugin)
added - Eclipse Plug-in, GUI Client, and Command-Line Client all now use the JSON API completely and by default (to get old behavior specify --use-legacy-api option with Command-Line Client)
fixed - fixed HostGUID handling by JSON API; primarily affecting Perforce environments (COLLAB-1053)
fixed - Table naming issue in Oracle-based environments (COLLAB-1041)
fixed - Defect marking in Eclipse conversation tab stops changing colors (COLLAB-1035)
fixed - Action item list not refreshing after defect creation in Eclipse plugin (COLLAB-1034)
fixed - Respect a Perforce changelist's comment when submitting it to Collaborator (COLLAB-1021)
fixed - Diff viewer should handle empty and broken files (COLLAB-1005)
fixed - Collab tray notifier UnsupportedOperationException error (COLLAB-1003)
fixed - NullPointerException when ccollab addchangeslist is run with Perforce (COLLAB-966)
fixed - Eclipse client could not create line defects (COLLAB-979)
fixed - Failure to create new review in GUI client when debug was turned on (COLLAB-964)
fixed - Always allow listed authors to upload content to a review, regardless of restrictions (COLLAB-959)
fixed - Unclear GUI client error message during "test connection" if a 9.x client is used with a < 9.0 server (COLLAB-955)
fixed - Improved client support for copy-participants operation (COLLAB-954)
fixed - Improved client support for saving defect id on creation/editing (for "last" argument) (COLLAB-953)
fixed - Made checking mandatory custom fields consistent for defect commands in CLI in both legacy and JSON API modes (COLLAB-952,1069,1070)
fixed - Mandatory review custom field was not working for annotating phase (COLLAB-948)
fixed - Mandatory review custom field was not made obvious with the typical red label for mandatory fields (COLLAB-947)
fixed - Incorrect "send to completed" button and associated description for author in a "formal inspection" template review (COLLAB-937)
fixed - Clarified docs and enhanced behavior of assignReviewPool API call (COLLAB-923)
fixed - Made sure that review phase "Rework" always identifies as such w/ trigger substitution variables ${review.phase}/${review.phase.previous} (COLLAB-918)
fixed - Cannot delete .docx documents from review materials (COLLAB-878)
fixed - addcvsdiffs does not work w/ -N cvs option; use -skipN option to addcvsdiffs if needed (COLLAB-738)
fixed - Verify that we can run on JRE 8 (COLLAB-682)
fixed - Perforce update-changelist trigger fails when workspace has the "Host" field specified (COLLAB-667)
fixed - Uploading a new version of a file changed chat icons from acceptance to chat icon (COLLAB-226)

 

9.1.9101 - April 15, 2015

added - New "First uploaded vs. Last uploaded" option for the Diff Viewer Default Version Comparison setting (COLLAB-841)
added - JSON API: Allow defects and comments to be queried by review/user (COLLAB-840)
added - JSON API protocol implementation for trigger commands (COLLAB-799)
added - Allow pre-configuration of scale parameters during server installation (COLLAB-884)
fixed - Download Client Installers button points to version 8 download page (COLLAB-910)
fixed - Infinite Loading message when clicking Next button in diff viewer (COLLAB-888)
fixed - Mandatory review subscriptions prevent review from moving to completed phase (COLLAB-797)
fixed - Browser launching is broken in all *nix operating systems, including mac for all client apps (COLLAB-603)
fixed - Author receives "Respond to comments" email when all review pool slots are taken and review begins (COLLAB-601)
fixed - AccuRev addchanges fails when getting item transaction (COLLAB-503)
fixed - Blank default start menu folder name for client install (COLLAB-917)
fixed - addhgdiffs command with JSON causes NullPointer exception (COLLAB-886)
fixed - addfiles command does not allow to load "local" files when SCM set to "perforce" (COLLAB-867)

9.1.9100 - March 25, 2015

added - Most Command-Line Client commands (except for triggers) now support the --use-json-api global option.
added - Support for JSON API in GUI Client. Now this API is the default for GUI Client (COLLAB-779)
added - Support for JSON API in Eclipse Plug-in (COLLAB-855)
added - Add participant state to the Detailed Report (COLLAB-804)
added - Track user file activity from the Review Detail Reports (COLLAB-743)
added - The caption of the Approve button now changes depending on the next phase (COLLAB-564)
added - Add Collaborator to the list of web browser's search engines (COLLAB-821)
added - Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 browser in Web Client. (COLLAB-818)
fixed - Restrict upload if restrict access is set to "Yes" (COLLAB-849)
fixed - Running the ccollab admin review create command with the --use-json-api option requires the template ID (COLLAB-848)
fixed - Command line output for admin user create is confusing (COLLAB-833)
fixed - ccollab logout fails on Linux (COLLAB-832)
fixed - Eclipse client will not connect to 9.0 server (COLLAB-829)
fixed - JSON API with addchangelist and invalid login ticket dies, instead of prompting for password (COLLAB-819)
fixed - Reverted file are not removed from the review (COLLAB-567)
fixed - Git/Eclipse: Cannot add multiple commits (COLLAB-811)
fixed - RTC work item approvals do not get updated when a review is deleted in Collaborator (COLLAB-839)
fixed - Word document-handling memory consumption issues (COLLAB-539)
fixed - Perforce syncusers command issues; refactoring to fully support --use-json-api (COLLAB-801)

 

9.0.9001 - February 3, 2015

added - JSON API: review deletion, adding urls to review, dismiss commit todo, move review to annotate (COLLAB-760)
added - JSON API: findByGuid and getMembers added to GroupService (COLLAB-789)
added - JSON API: findByGuid and findByLogin to UserService (COLLAB-790)
added - JSON API: findById and getParticipants to ReviewService (COLLAB-788)
fixed - JSON API: fixed admin group create (COLLAB-771)
fixed - JSON API: fixed missing Action categories (COLLAB-715)
fixed - review pool notifications should send even if review has started (COLLAB-741)
added - added ability to stop users from deleting review pools via vmoptions (COLLAB-780)
fixed - handling of first git commit (COLLAB-769)
fixed - emailing everyone now includes all members of assigned review pools (COLLAB-742)
fixed - changed review title (COLLAB-767)
fixed - MKS products now referred to as PTC in UI after company acquisition (COLLAB-753)
fixed - Eclipse plugin client author field autofills (COLLAB-758)​
fixed - review xml now includes review pool data (COLLAB-580)

 

9.0.9000 - January 20, 2015

 

* FIRST RELEASE OF v9.0! *

Major features:

JSON API web service - a fast and effective way to exchange data between your application and Collaborator server.
Git integration with Collaborator Eclipse Plug-in
Command-line APIs were refactored.
Support for Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server 2014, SVN 1.8.
[beta] Ability to move comments in MS Word documents (.doc and .docx), PDFs and images. Supported in Chrome and Firefox only.

 

added — Command-Line Client now has the --use-json-api global option. If this option is specified, the Collaborator server will use a faster JSON API to execute commands.
added — Display full path in a tooltip for truncated file path at top of diff viewer (COLLAB-452)
fixed — Server-side debugging contains plain text passwords (COLLAB-699)
fixed — Cannot approve a review due to unread comments, but there are no unread comments (COLLAB-721)
fixed — CVS does not upload all the file as "cvs diff" (COLLAB-299)
fixed — Child group loses its child relationship when modified by group admin (COLLAB-683)
fixed — Spaces removed after PDF conversion (COLLAB-686)
fixed — Schema check misidentifies standard Oracle triggers (COLLAB-557)
fixed — Inviting a colleague sends an invalid link to the review (COLLAB-652)
fixed — broken I/O behavior around password prompts (COLLAB-735)
fixed — Changing review template wipes file-subscription's participants (COLLAB-534)
fixed — Populated mandatory review custom field prevents review from changing phases (COLLAB-720)
fixed — Square bracket in custom field name breaks database views in MS SQL (COLLAB-547)
fixed — Unable to login after upgrade from v.8100.008: Logging install4j errors and ErrorCode404Handler info entries (COLLAB-56)

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