Collaba Software Releases

Collaba 10.0

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:36:54 EDT

- Reorganized and simplified server directory
- New user-friendly cross-platform server startup application
- Full internationalization support
- Improved built-in WebDAV server
- New platform expansion features and capabilities
- Optimized and cleaner server source code
- Support for built-in incremental server backups
- Built-in integration support for Learn360, Dabbleboard, Zoho and more
- Improved Calendar module
- Dozens of other enhancements, improvements and fixes

Collaba 9.0

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:07:01 EDT

- Enterprise interface now standard
- Visual improvements throughout the platform
- New Day view in the Calendar
- New External Clients information panel
- New undelete option for archived messages
- New disable option for calendar layering
- Pre-configuration support for Mozilla SeaMonkey
- Customization options for the default welcome page
- Dozens of other enhancements, improvements and fixes

Collaba 8.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:19:55 EST

- Prices on all perpetual licenses cut by up to 50%!
- New Platform Expansion API
- Single-sign-on support for Learn360
- Roles support in Service Expansion API
- New options for purging user data
- Improved WebDAV server
- Improved POP3 server with support for Mozilla Thunderbird
- Dozens of other enhancements, improvements and fixes

Collaba 8.0

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:32:31 EDT

- Completely new product line
- New modernized user interface
- New demo interfaces
- More flexible blog appearance customization
- Smart wiki editor with section detection
- Ability to include relative links and images in wiki articles
- Local wiki namespace makes it easier to integrate wiki-powered content into web pages
- New user-friendly installer for MacOS X
- Dozens of other enhancements, improvements and fixes

Collaba 7.3.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:13:46 EST

- Added HTTPS (SSL) support to Collaba's embedded Apache Tomcat server
- Improved file download reliability using Internet Explorer on Windows over https
- Improved support for HTTPS service provided by a front Apache HTTP Server
- Updated admin documentation

Collaba 7.3

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:08:32 EST

- Collaba's default web server engine is now Apache Tomcat (embedded)
- Can now run as a standard Java servlet
- New Apache Ant-based startup system
- Smoother startup without root access
- New AJAX-based live chat module
- Built-in Comet API
- Access rights can now be customized for personal web sites as well
- Virtual File System limits can now be customized on-line
- Improved editing for bookmarks
- Numerous under-the-hood changes in preparation for the upcoming transition to Apache Struts 2 + JSP + Tiles
- Hundreds of other enhancements, improvements and fixes

Collaba 7.2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:53:55 EDT

- New built-in CAS 2.0 server
- Significant performance improvements for very large sites
- New To Do feature
- New Projects module (to manage assignments)
- Forums can now be linked to individual users
- Calendar week view's day schedule is now customizable
- Bookmarks can now be imported and exported
- Added new display control options to service expansion API
- Read-only text files now previewed in Files section
- Customizable access rights for web sites
- Improved portal usage statistics (by user type)
- User group creation assistant restored
- Forums can now be given a disk space quota
- Users can now subscribe to forums by e-mail
- New SMS service
- Added a search tool in the Help section
- Every group can now have a dedicated web site
- Hundreds of other enhancements, improvements and fixes

Collaba 7.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:37 EDT

- Support for Zoho, a powerful on-line office suite
- Significant performance and stability improvements
- Enhanced Single-Sign-On expansion API
- Improved built-in CAS authentication server
- Projects can now be organized into categories
- Time grid week view
- RSS feeds can now be displayed directly in the Bookmarks module
- Multimedia blog attachments now displayed in-line
- Improved support for YouTube, GoogleMaps and other special objects
- Support for Mozilla Sunbird, Mozilla Thunderbird+Lightning and others
- New LDAP tool for detecting deleted user profiles
- LDAP synchronization performance improvements on high-traffic sites
- Persistence API, a new platform-wide database interface
- Massive clean-up of the source code
- Updated admin manuals
- Modified/improved/fixed hundreds of other features/issues

Collaba 7.1 GM 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:56:00 EDT

- Finalized 7.1 release;

Collaba 7.1 Beta 2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:54:39 EDT

- Improved installer to avoid reporting false errors when upgrading individual files (#1126);
- Optimized many classes to avoid potential memory leaks;
- Revised the minimum server memory requirements for Collaba (600MB is the strict minimum for the -Xmx startup parameter);
- Added a memory-sensitive object closing system to improve chances of recovery under low-memory conditions;
- Added a significant performance improvement to message listings;
- Significantly improved user concurrency by adding various memory-sensitive caches, IO-controlling semaphores and other mechanisms;
- Improved reliability of Collaba's built-in portal testing system;
- Added server startup parameter for disabling the entire logging system (thus improving server performance significantly when receiving heavy traffic);
- Fine-tuned performance of the kernel's network server foundation to improve reliability under heavy traffic;
- Fixed critical issue with server-wide MIME conversion system (issue was introduced in 7.1 Alpha 2) (DM#1252);
- Added thread safety to VFS construction, making sure that no two instances of a same VFS can be prepared simultaneously by multiple threads;
- Fixed remote mail history access (DM#1250);
- Added a visual indicator in the VFS to pinpoint files that have been uploaded or modified in the last 48 hours (DM#882);

Collaba 7.1 Beta 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:13:12 EDT

- Improved installer to support cross-volume installation;
- Began developing a JDBC implementation for the Persistence API;
- Database tables used by Collaba can now be recreated automatically in an SQL database (tested with MySQL);
- Fixed Z-Time format function to compensate for daylight savings time (fixes time discrepancies in iCalendar files);
- Improved support for accentuated characters in VFS;
- Updated admin documentation;

Collaba 7.1 Alpha 3

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:07:11 EDT

- Enhanced new document creation in VFS, allowing users to create new Microsoft Word, Excel and other types of documents, which can then be edited on-line with Zoho;
- Added experimental "time grid" week view for calendars;
- Added keyboard shortcuts for most VFS actions (N,D,R,.,C,V,E);
- Added "nocommunity" config keyword to exclude a group from the Communities module;
- Added calendar window auto-refresh triggered by the event editor;
- Altered header fields in message composer so that they automatically expand with the window;
- Added "rss" special config keyword in Bookmarks so that RSS feeds can be displayed inline;
- Fixed a bug in the SMTP line reader and writer;
- Improved accuracy of e-mail recipient search in super directory;
- Fixed a bug in the mail delivery system for forums (introduced in 7.1a1);
- Disabled automatic digital portfolio migration mechanism (no longer required);
- Disabled automatic bookmark migration mechanism (no longer required);
- Dramatically reduced direct IO dependency for the entire CollabaObjects layer;
- Added support for "-Dsypecom.database.persistence.impl=memory" startup parameter to allow administrators to select the new experimental "memory-only" database implementation. When running in memory mode, Collaba will not store data to disk; everything is stored in live memory and is erased at server restart;
- Added size constraints to embedded blog images (DM#1169);
- Disabled TinyMCE for the Description field in Web Assistant (DM#1122);
- Altered mail attachment download action to produce slightly more appropriate HTTP headers when necessary (DM#1140);
- Fixed text line auto-processing in some TinyMCE editors (DM#1170 & #1207);
- Increased displayed mail subject length from 25 to 35 characters (DM#1100);
- Fixed display bug in message editor visible in Firefox (DM#1102);
- Added a "Sort by last name" option in the Members list of user groups (DM#1157);
- Added quick access to last search in Directory (#923);
- Added support for YouTube, Google Maps and other embeddable objects in the message composer and the web page editor (#785);
- Hundreds of other fixes and improvements over the last few releases;

Collaba 7.1 Alpha 2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:06:24 EDT

- Added support for Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning plug-in in Mozilla Thunderbird;
- Added support for full two-way synchronization of calendars over WebDAV;
- Added experimental support for on-line Zoho viewing and/or editing of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other documents; (set your API Key in data/server/zoho/zoho_apikey.txt);
- Designed the new Persistence API to improve database access neutrality;
- Developed an SMFL implementation for the Persistence API;
- Added support for BLOB and CLOB fields to the SMFL engine;
- Migrated all SMFL-dependent objects to the new Persistence API;
- Enhanced SMFL database core to support queries based on column index;
- SMFL field names are now case-insensitive;
- Added standard JDBC ResultSet implementation for SMFL databases;
- Fixed an issue with the script automator to skip misconfigured events;
- Fixed bug in iCalendar importer's UID matching subroutine;
- Updated to Eclipse 3.3.2;
- Fixed DN search routine in LDAP authentication code;
- Fixed numerous potential minor issues throughout the platform (picked up by new warnings introduced in Eclipse 3.3);
- Added a server-side screen capture tool to help administrators monitor their server and assist in remote-diagnosing issues;
- Improved WebDAV server to recognize existing Collaba sessions in addition to standard authentication methods;
- Removed a number of deprecated or unused classes throughout the platform;
- Added "calendar", "mailbox", "flags" and "contacts" options to PURGEUSERCONTENTS scripting command;
- Fixed URL encoder so that spaces are encoded with %20 instead of +; This fixes file download issues with some browsers;
- Fixed central security manager's initialization mechanism;
- Designed a volatile memory-based Persistence API as a test case for confirming SMFL independence (the whole Collaba platform can then live mostly in RAM), which also acts as a lightweight reference implementation for developers;
- Redesigned kernel's primary configuration manager to remove depency on Log4J and Commons Digester;
- Decoupled the standard VFSCL file from the "current user" function, allowing VFS instances to be created for off-line users;
- The Collaba project has been migrated to Eclipse 3.3.2 and the final distribution is now built on a Mac Pro Dual 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (moving off the PowerPC arch.);

Collaba 7.1 Alpha 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:25:43 EDT

- Re-engineered the entire Collaba platform into SYPECom's new CollabaKernel application server, CollabaObjects application layer, and CollabaInterfaces developer API;
- Deprecated many obsolete classes and packages;
- Moved many classes and packages under development to SYPECom Lab;
- Moved many legacy classes and packages to SYPECom Lab;
- Removed references to legacy classes from active classes;
- Replaced deprecated security managers by newer security policies system;
- Reorganized Collaba application startup process;
- Removed unused external libraries from extlibs: eSCORTE, iText, Novell NJCL, Jakarta Oro, WSDL4J, Apache Axis, Apache Xerces, Wikiparser;
- Updated license information for all external libraries and cleaned up extlibs directory;
- Added new "platform" class in the kernel to provide low-level access to vital runtime data;
- Improved cohesion link resolver to improve performance for routed paths;
- Added size constraints to blog logo (DM#869);
- Fixed translation of message composer recipient validator (DM#905);
- Designed new Collaba distribution packager;
- Improved smart text cutter to extract HTML body and count only text outside tags (DM#1085 et #934);
- Fixed plural text for on-line users summary (DM#913);
- Improved contact share function to avoid the Contact Saved notification (DM#834);
- Improved display of background color or image in blogs (DM#1059);
- Fixed a display bug on the My Profile page (DM#1090);
- Improved computation of message flags for some actions (delete, move, etc.) (DM#847);
- Improved vCard and iCalendar VFS plug-ins to avoid import issues;
- Enhanced VFS Virtual Native Driver to track "exists" flag properly;
- Improved UTF-8 support in vCard and iCalendar import and export functions;
- Fixed display of very long URLs in copy-paste function in Bookmarks section (DM#772);
- Fixed links on icons in Communities module;
- Fixed navigation links in Communities list to preserve the list scope (DM#866);
- Fixed SUBSCRIBE scripting command which always reported an error (DM#901);
- Fixed permission issue with categories in Bookmarks module (DM#1036);
- Modified blog edit button so that it appears only when viewing the blog from within the portal (DM#1047);
- Fixed encoding problem in podcast Description field (DM#1041);
- Added inline blog attachment viewers to blog editor (DM#1043);
- Fixed issue with icon selector and custom icons (DM#933);
- Web (bookmarks) section can no longer be seen by parent (DM#924);
- Image portlet can no longer be edited by parent (DM#848);
- Fixed Edit Folder button in mailbox to default to inbox (DM#928);
- Fixed selection of default module to open at portal entry (DM#819);
- Added auto-renaming of files uploaded to drop boxes (DM#792);
- Added group priority number to privilege calculation window (DM#919);
- Added intendation in list of Available Calendars for sub-calendars (DM#917);
- Added visual indicator of selected mail folder (DM#839);
- Changed behavior of DMLB list reversing function so that the list is actually reversed;
- DMLB list cut operator now works properly on reversed lists;
- Mail trash now lists a maximum of 30 deleted messages;

Collaba 7.0.7

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

- Fixed navigation tool in blogs;
- Added Wiki in Publish section;
- Improved support for dynamic mapped paths in HTTP server;
- Fixed a security issue in the chat invitation mechanism (the issue was introduced in 7.0.6);
- Added ability to use wikis for managing public web site contents;
- Added magic words {{language:en}} and {{language:fr}} to provide a way of writing bilingual wiki articles;
- Group wikis can now be linked to a custom presentation template;
- Improved the core object cohesion system to support exception signals that should traverse the cohesion process intact;
- Added support for #collaba tags in wikitext (ex: {{collaba.web.time}});
- Updated Bliki library to 3.0.3;
- Restored clipboard tool in Bookmarks section;
- Added support for in-line listening of audio files in blogs;
- Added "smarttruncate" and "smartcut" Collaba xhtml tag operators to avoid braking HTML tags and words;
- Updated Home page by removing scroll boxes around news articles, smart-truncating articles to 250 characters and adding "Read more"-style links;
- Fixed version number of RSS feeds and podcasts (was 2.00, should have been 2.0);
- Improved RSS 2.0 standard compliance (now passes validation);
- Fixed special parameter carrying mechanism in HTTP server to cover component redirecting as well;
- Fixed geographical location editor which did not detect valid coordinates;
- Added a number of missing tools to the web page editor in the Files section;
- Moved portal properties system to HTTP request layer, to make portal properties available to any HTTP request instead of just component-oriented ones;
- Added ability to edit wiki pages with a WYSIWYG editor;
- Added EMBED and OBJECT html tags to allowed list of tags in WYSIWYG editor;
- Added ability to rename categories in Bookmarks section;
- Added option to sort by last name in Directory and Users(admin) sections;
- Fixed directory sorting to support accentuated characters;
- Added 10 more years to the calendar time selector;
- Added previous and next navigation arrows to month and week calendar views;

Collaba 7.0.6

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:07:48 EDT

- Enhanced wiki security (see documentation);
- Fixed encoding issue in Contacts module;
- LDAP group resynchronization delay can now be customized in Synchronization panel;
- Improved VFS anti-virus scanner to avoid scanning empty files;
- Added calendar authorization to allow exclusion of conflict search;
- Added custom mapped paths to the HTTP server;
- Fixed the default wiki namespace so that images are linked to the correct host;
- Fixed CAS server so that service tickets are void after a single use, as per the protocol specs;
- Added non-standard J period to ISO-8601 time movement systems, allowing French-speaking users to enter a number of days with the "J"our suffix instead of the "D"ay standard;
- Added "timeconflictlocal" and "timeconflictspecific" group keywords to instruct the calendar conflict finder to narrow the search scope;
- Fixed a critical issue in the HTTP server which prevented some server components from properly accessing HTTP parameters included in a POST request encoded in multipart/form-data;
- Improved uniform decoding of HTTP request parameters;
- Fixed Copy Members function;
- Updated forum groups module;
- Restored chat invitation mechanism;
- Fixed chat room manager selector;
- Improved cache of keys;
- Removed pre-compiled HTML versions of basic wiki articles in the standard distribution of Collaba, to avoid broken images;

Collaba 7.0.5

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:43:19 EST

- Improved Forum configuration panel (manager's view), restoring the ability for managers to create sub-forums and configure other options;
- Fixed issue with the Everyone group, which did not successfully map to all users;
- Improved internal group members listing to avoid a specific rare issue with non-user members;
- Fixed encoding consistency issue with text editing in VFS and in HTTP parameter decoding (now using ISO-8859-1 consistently);
- Fixed bug with user group delete button;
- Added additional configuration help to the ClamAV configuration file;
- Improved performance of XPVI security policies evaluation system;
- Improved Communities lists for users that have access to more than 100 communities: the full list is now accessible via a navigation tool;
- Improved support for web file transfer of text-based files by circumventing JavaMail's automatic objectification of text parts. Multipart web form file parts are now retained as byte streams, regardless of their String compatibility properties;
- Disabled auto-play on Quicktime movies presented inline in blogs;
- The "info_ent" XiTi field can now be customized in user groups just like the "info_etablissement" field was;
- Fixed a bug with the WebDAV server's folder creation function;
- Normalized URL encoding/decoding throughout the platform, thus improving support for accentuated characters in a number of server components;
- Improved support for accentuated characters in WebDAV server;

Collaba 7.0.4

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

- Introducing beta version of Collaba Wiki!
- Added Wiki engine;
- Added Wiki web interface;
- Updated Commons Lang library to version 2.3;
- Fixed issue with language selection when logged out;
- Fixed incorrect permissions in VFS for group Urls folders;
- Improved user group LDAP synchronization so that it will skip a group if it is already being synchronized;
- Added a 5-minute group LDAP synchronization wait period, so that a group that has already been synchronized less than 5 minutes ago will not be re-synchronized;
- Fixed URL encoding issue with new embeddable file browser;

Collaba 7.0.3

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:29:41 EST

- Added a new tool for locating LDAP-mapped user accounts that no longer exist in the LDAP directory, and inserting them into a new user group;
- Multimedia attachments of blog articles now display directly in blog page (movies are embedded, images are displayed in-line, etc.);
- Added easy file browser integration for web pages (see /Collaba/etc/collaba-webdocuments/);
- VFS projects (AssignmentFlow) can now be sorted into categories;
- Fixed an issue with the XPVI layer not finding standard components properly when a custom module with only selected components was present;
- Fixed the forum permission editor which did not display the Delete button when using the French interface;
- Disabled console printing of group LDAP DNs during synchronization;
- Added built-in leaf-level data encryption to TreeCore;
- Added web user interface for browsing/editing TreeCore databases;
- Improved performance of DN-based directory search operations;
- Added support for schemas to TreeCore;
- Added ability to configure an RSS feed's maximum number of articles;
- Number of RSS articles displayed on home page can now be customized;
- Fixed home page RSS portlet to support "feed://" and "rss://" URL protocols;
- Modified VFS SMB native driver to ignore a specific connection issue;
- Fixed automatic blog permission configuration;
- Added editors for default, override and custom portal properties for users and groups;
- Fixed the Web Assistant module which did not save page descriptions properly;
- Fixed localized GID format;
- Updated security checks for editing user, group and forum profiles;

Collaba 7.0.2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

- Designed a new tree-based performance-oriented database engine with very low memory footprint (SYPE TreeCore);
- Enhanced CSE Level-3 so that Java classes can actually perform complex interactions with users;
- Added ability for CSE Level-3 plug-ins to read and write data in a TreeCore database;
- Added ability for CSE Level-3 plug-ins to set user session properties;
- Added ability for CSE Level-3 plug-ins to get and set HTTP request parameters;
- Improved News module to avoid repeating forums;
- Fixed a bug in the keychain cache system which did not return all the keys;
- Fixed a security checkpoint which was too restrictive for administration assistants;
- Fixed the User Creation Assistant's manager selector;

Collaba 7.0.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

- Added support for persistant HTTP connections, thereby improving web portal and WebDAV performance significantly;
- Enhanced basic read and write VFS operations by allowing major optimizations (speed and memory usage improvements) when dealing with direct disk-to-disk reads or writes;
- Improved session tracking system and session cookie management;
- Improved handling of expired session keys;

Collaba 7.0

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:27:28 EST

- New unified Collaba product, licensing and prices;
- Migrated Collaba to Server Core 3;
- Support for Java 6.0 and 64bit systems;
- Hugely improved database performance;
- Optimized user interface;
- Portal performance improvements for mega-sites;
- Improved anti-virus support;
- User creation assistant;
- Improved WebDAV server;
- Restored disk quotas in virtual file system;
- Improved RSS reader for international feeds;
- New user privilege inspection tool;
- Added scripting command to purge user data;
- Updated admin manuals;
- Modified/improved/fixed hundreds of other features/issue;

Collaba 7.0 GM 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

- Improved privilege inspection tool;
- Fixed issue with privilege calculation;
- Finalized admin documentation, and updated the MacOS X installation guide;
- Added HTTP param delimiter decoding;
- Finalized 7.0 release;

Collaba 7.0 Beta 2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

- Numerous performance improvements for Collaba sites with more than 100,000 users;
- Disabled sorting of groups lists for many internal functions, improving performance significantly when a user is member of hundreds of groups;
- Added a transaction-level cache system for dynamic privileges, improving performance for very large sites;
- Added a session-level memory-sensitive cache system to improve performance of complex operations that are frequently needed (like getting the list of keys the user can reach);
- Added limits to a number of lists to improve performance: VFS Groups folder (100 groups), VFS Group Members folder (60 members), Communities list (100 communities);
- Modernized the DataDrive File Manager's synchronization system to use reentrant locks instead of Java's native synchronization scheme;
- Improved handling of Keychain files to avoid leaving files open;
- Added a cache system to the XHTML optimizer and link realigner, allowing the server to cache optimized files and reduce server startup time by a factor of 30;
- Optimized user privileges calculation system to avoid Java reflection completely, thereby improving performance;
- Added a user privilege inspection tool;
- Added function to unsubscribe all users from a specific group;
- Added function to permanently delete all user accounts that are member of a specific group;
- Improved internal text search routine to allow callers to specify if a search can be case-sensitive, thereby improving performance and memory usage significantly throughout the platform;
- Fixed a minor memory leak in the FTP server;
- Improved the user session management system to better track session state;
- Improved visual interface selection and dynamic swapping;
- Improved group membership expiration configuration so that when expiration is reached, the user whose membership just expired can be subscribed to an alternate group (like an "Expired" groups);
- Added a PURGEUSERCONTENT scripting command to make it easier to automate deep server cleanup;
- Fixed a security checkpoint in the recipient approval system which checked for a privilege that is not accessible from the privileges management interface;

Collaba 7.0 Beta 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:47:25 EST

- Activated new Collaba licensing program;
- Deactivated support for Collaba Education Portal, Collaba Enterprise Server, Collaba Special Edition and Collaba VL licenses;
- Collaba can now run on Java 6.0!
- Migrated Collaba to Server Core 3;
- Modified the "access for parents" feature so that it is simply turned on for the entire user base with a single "educational site" license;
- Added an automatic protocole switch option for the login screen (to https);
- Based on user feedback, the hierarchical ownership feature is now disabled by default. To enable, add -Dcollaba.deepownership=yes in Collaba's startup command line;
- Improved anti-virus API (tested with ClamAV);
- Added a startup environment assertion to test the JavaMail library, to detect Java 6.0's broken JavaMail and provide a solution to the user;
- Restored disk space quota feature in VFS;
- Restored anti-virus scanning feature in VFS;
- Improved RSS reader to support multiple charsets;
- Updated admin manuals;
- New fix for the global search feature;
- Added ability to easily define conditional interface blocks based on selected component;
- Improved encapsulation of VFS calls to scripts; This fix solves an issue with the bookmarks module;
- Improved support for XML storage of structured content for web pages;
- Improved permanent request parameters support when accessing Collaba from non-80 port;
- Added a basic event notification system to the VFS, allowing the object tree to be notified of the following events: UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD, DELETE;
- Added ability to force interface and language selection using privileges;
- Added ability to disable hierarchical ownership support;
- Added a central mechanism for inserting permanent request parameters linked to specific host names;
- Added ability to download a single message in MIME format;
- Improved support for MIME messages included as attachments;
- Fixed a bug in the Automate VFS plug-in which caused script processing to enter an endless loop under some conditions;
- Fixed global search feature, which did not produce results in some cases;
- Fixed drag & drop feature on Home page;
- Fixed issue with the DMLB Optimizer which caused the optimization process to fail;
- Included default ClamAV configuration file in standard Collaba distribution;
- Externalized anti-virus warning message to file data/server/antivirus/warningmessage.txt
- Restored the User Creation Assistant feature;
- Added group priority LDAP synchronization;
- Fixed an issue with the new DMLB tree optimization system which over-optimized a number of specific blocks;
- Fixed an issue with the new directory entry ownership authority;
- Fixed a privilege issue which prevented a user with ONLY a read-only access to user profiles to actually be able to access the profiles;
- Improved source code of platform core by systematically adding Java "generics" to all collections;
- Optimized platform core by eliminating circular references and other conditions which prevented some objects from being collected by the Java garbage collector;
- Improved DataDrive (Collaba's database server) performance significantly by reimplementing the multi-thread synchronization mechanism using Java's concurrent Reentrant Lock system;
- Added a DMLB tree optimization system to make internal representations of dynamic web pages more compact, thereby significantly improving UI rendering performance (the current version of Collaba's standard XHTML interface scored 31,558 dynamic optimizations!);
- Optimized DataDrive engine to increase overall performance;
- Optimized the Web Link Detector to avoid using the java.net.URL class which has an expansive constructor;
- Fine-tuned entity ownership authority so that hierarchical owners are properly detected;
- Fixed an issue with a security warning being out of scope when a user has access to a news forum with a permission to see but not open the forum;
- Fixed forum permissions so that the final dynamic list of permissions is sorted correctly;
- Improved SYPE World API's cohesion linker so that routed links are fully resolved;
- Added a low-level cache layer to the SMFL database system, providing an efficient way of caching performance-impacting data;
- Fixed an issue with the XML response to a WebDAV PROPFIND query on a collection;
- Designed an automated server test suite for evaluating the platform's performance and behavior under stress. Already, numerous performance improvements have been made based on the results of the first tests;

Collaba 6.1.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:54:41 EST

- Enhanced bookmark display so that web sites can be displayed within Collaba's portal interface;
- Added an LDAP synchronization diagnostic tool;
- Added support for POP3 SSL and SMTP SSL;
- Added an RSS portlet, allowing users to display multiple RSS feeds on the home page;
- Added a live communication system, to receive chat invitations, mail notifications and other events live;
- Added ability to force specific users or groups of users to use HTTPS, and reject any attempt to login over regular HTTP;
- Improved shielding of the VFS against errors occuring in native drivers;
- Modified the VFSCL source so that the group members folder is not rendered if it is deactivated (instead of being rendered with a CAN SEE permission to off);
- Fixed the contextual help button so that it is controlled by the Help privilege has well;
- Fixed language selector for non-HTTP connections;
- Fixed incorrect permissions in FTP, WebDAV and SMB native drivers which prevented users from uploading files to the root of VFS objects using these drivers;
- Fixed a security checkpoint which prevented users authorized ONLY to use the Server Broadcast feature (and not other admin privileges) to actually transmit the broadcast;
- Improved permanent object management in VFS so that objects with empty names, or objects that already exist are not added;
- Added a special mechanism to the VFS for reporting native connection errors (an explanatory Error.txt file is inserted dynamically in a folder listing if its native contents cannot be retrieved for some reason, informing the user that an error occured, and does so in a way that works through all connection methods);
- Improved overall reliability of VFS branches native FTP, WebDAV and SMB drivers;
- Limited members lists in VFS to 60 users (to avoid huge VFS instances);
- Fixed a number of issues with the FTP server;
- Designed a new XPVI component decoration system, primarily intended to introduce XiTi measurement of specific components without actually modifying Collaba's XHTML code;
- Extended ownership concept by including "hierarchical" managers (users that are managers of managers, up to 10 levels);
- Fixed blog article re-editing to so that the category can be edited as well;
- Fixed a bug in the login form which was breaking the SSL-for-authentication-only pre-configuration (it did work for user selection, but not for pre-configuration);

Collaba 6.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:17:38 EST

- 2nd-generation Virtual File System (VFS G2);
- New VFS Scripting Language for powerful automation;
- New VFS construction language for flexible virtual file systems;
- New VFS native drivers for local file system, FTP, SMB and WebDAV;
- New VFS plug-ins for advanced workflows and document pre/post-processing;
- Ported all VFS-dependant modules to the new VFS G2;
- Improved mobility of storage spaces on local servers;
- Added "paste as zip archive" function to the VFS;
- Improved assignment workflow (classroom projects) in VFS;
- Enhanced the Collaba Service Expansion (CSE) API;
- Improved vCard import/export;
- Improved e-mail addressing, with better checking for faulty addresses;
- Enhanced built-in POP3 client with new options;
- Added support for message tracking in built-in POP3 server;
- Added "Possible abuse" log which tracks failed uses of the RCPT TO POP3 command;
- Support for multiple DNS servers;
- Completely revised the on-line Help system, and added contextual help everywhere;
- Users can now edit their blog's title (instead of being their name);
- Improved portal session timeout detection;
- Modified/improved/fixed hundreds of other features/issues;

Collaba 6.1 GM 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:16:00 EST

- Updated documentation;
- Finalized 6.1 release;

Collaba 6.1 Beta 3

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:15:23 EST

- Divided Public VFS folder into Drop box and a Pick-up box folders;
- Completed the new contextual help system and the new on-line user manual;

Collaba 6.1 Beta 2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:19:49 EST

- Designed and implemented a VFS Scripting Language (VFSSL);
- Added customizable scripted actions to VFS objects;
- Designed a developer API for creating Java-based extensions to VFSSL;
- Renamed VFS Structure Language to VFS Construction Language (VFSCL);
- Enhanced filing settings to better control a number of VFS folders;
- Modified workflow for VFS Projects, so that the collection process is linked to a new Hand-in folder;
- Designed an Authentication Supervisor to detect repetitive login attempts from a given IP address within a certain time window;
- Connected the Authentication Supervisor into SMTP, POP3 and FTP servers to deny connections from abusive IP addresses;
- Improved help system;
- Improved support for accentuated characters in the built-in WebDAV server;
- Reversed "Pick-up box" and "Drop-box" for group managers;
- Fixed a number of incorrect permissions in the VFS' Projects sections;
- Fixed a bug with accentuated characters in e-mail recipients;
- Fixed a bug with HTML messages not converted to MIME properly;
- Improved the News section so that entire articles are now displayed un-cut in scrollable areas; (to avoid problems with truncated HTML messages that become broken HTML);

Collaba 6.1 Beta 1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:13:59 EST

- Deployed 2nd-generation Virtual File System (VFS G2);
- Ported built-in web-based Files browser to VFS G2;
- Ported built-in WebDAV server to VFS G2;
- Ported built-in FTP server to VFS G2;
- Ported Bookmarks and Communities modules to VFS G2;
- Ported Portfolio and Blog image selections to VFS G2;
- Ported mail attachment server-side selector to VFS G2;
- Ported the portal-wide search feature to VFS G2;
- Designed VFS G2 native drivers for the local file system, FTP, SMB, and WebDAV protocols;
- Designed VFS plug-ins "distribute" and "collect" for re-implementing AssignmentFlow;
- Designed VFS plug-ins "icalendar" and "vcard" for the Special folder;
- Designed VFS plug-ins "script" to re-implement the Scripting system;
- Designed VFS Structure Language to build VFS instances using XML-like syntax;
- Improved movability of storage locations for most VFS-linked branches;
- Added dynamic Members folder to Projects folders, providing direct teacher access to individual student projects;
- Added "can see" permission property to folders, allowing the VFS to hide specific files and folders from normal viewing while making them physically available for internal features (the Urls folder is now hidden, although it still exists);
- Added ability to assign complex projects to students by uploading Zip files to the Assign folder;
- Changed behavior of normal e-mail reply function so that only the reply is addressed to the original sender only (CC addresses no longer included);
- Added support for multiple domain name servers (if one produces connection errors, the next one is queried, and so on);
- Added NFD normalization to the VFS' LFS native driver to work around an issue with java.io.File.getName() on MacOS X; this change improves support for accentuated names for files stored on MacOS X servers;
- Added ability to copy VFS files and directories and paste them as zipped archives;
- Fixed and improved the vCard import function;
- Fixed multilingual path support in VFS;
- Fixed default date selection in Calendar module;
- Added user account creation and modification date, last known IP address and creator name to Users Directory report;
- Added vCard import and export functions to mailing lists;
- Fixed a bug in a message sending sub-routine which caused problematic addresses not to be reported properly, making it especially difficult for users to determine which e-mail address in a local mailing list is invalid;
- Added a blog permission auto-fix system, so that re-created user accounts are properly updated in their linked blog;
- Added a nickname resolver to the E-mail Reply function, allowing Collaba to properly address replies of messages originally sent to nicknames only;
- Fixed JavaScript errors affecting the forum and group icon pickers on some browsers;
- Improved contextual help system;
- Fixed a permission application issue with message deletion in forums;

Collaba 6.0.9

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:30:59 EDT

- Enhanced Collaba Server Expansion (CSE) API to support access to dynamic data from within CSE Level-3 Java classes. New supported data types are: user ldap fields, user session properties, user privileges, and HTTP requests;
- Fixed a bug in the UIDL POP3 command implementation which did not produce a proper list format when only one message was available;
- Fixed an issue with Collaba's SMFL database engine which caused race conditions for file descriptors in specific uses;
- Added support for the "user_enteredid" variable in the Collaba Service Expansion API;
- Fixed Calendar module navigation so that calendar selection is passed properly;
- Fixed attachment download bug in calendar events;
- Fixed a bug in the XHTML optimizer which mistakenly unfolded the first line of some JavaScripts, if it happened to be on the same line as a wrappable tag. This fix actually fixes a number of other reported issues which were caused by this bug;
- Updated third-party libraries: commons-logging-1.1.jar, commons-discovery-0.4.jar, axis-ant.jar, axis.jar, log4j-1.2.8.jar, saaj.jar.
- In admin documentation, fixed REMOVEALLMEMBERS command: renamed it UNSUBSCRIBEALLMEMBERS;
- Updated admin documentation on CSE Level 3 data access;
- Added support for special "!" prefix option to the ADDR+ user and group profile fields, allowing the field's content to completely override the e-mail address(es) retrieved from LDAP;
- Modified user group profile's Members panel to prevent manual addition of members in LDAP-managed groups;

Collaba 6.0.8

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:32:35 EDT

- Added user option to control automatic message deletion upon POP3 retrieval;
- Added support for UIDL command in POP3 server;
- Added option in built-in POP3 client to keep track of downloaded POP3 messages and skip those downloaded previously;
- Changed stall time on failed SMTP authentications from 1 second to 10 seconds (to annoy dictionary attackers :)
- Changed image input processor to avoid unnecessary color space conversion (bug Sun #4705399);
- Moved "Attach from server" button within the message editor, to avoid issue with wrong default button activated with the Return key;
- Fixed a bug in the mail recipients validator which included disabled LDAP gateways in search operations;
- Fixed the mail rules listing to properly display all mail rule types;
- Modified the XHTML Optimizer to support lowercase tags as per XHTML specs;
- Enhanced HTML Optimizer to avoid stamping the default Content-Type if one already exists;
- Fixed a bug in the Forum module's RSS feed generator which prevented enclosures from being declared properly;
- Added "Paste from Word" and "Tables" plug-ins to the TinyMCE mail-related configuration;
- Added a "plural" action to facilitate adapting words in visual interfaces based on list lengths;
- Fixed the Bookmarks section's "Open in a new window" feature;
- Added a navigation system to the top of the bookmark and category editors;
- Modified bookmark lists so they appear sorted by title;
- Added an Edit button to blog articles;
- Fixed a bug in the server's blog selector which caused some references to be miscalculated;
- Added Title field to blog, so to allow users to alter the default blog title;
- Improved blog authoring permission check to authorize managers that are not members to edit group blogs;

Collaba 6.0.7

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:18 EDT

- Added XHTML block ID detection to the DMLB layer, allowing low-level manipulation of xhtml rendering in a plug-in fashion;
- Added some infrastructures to support a new contextual help system being developed;
- New HTTP Search References log which lists HTTP queries that come from search engine results (only supports Google at this time), as well as keywords searched;
- Enhanced session timeout system to support custom values specified in user and group privileges;
- Increased default session timeout from 15 to 30 minutes (without activity);
- Enhanced main platform auto-refresh to set itself to 3 minutes less than the session timeout in effect;
- Enhanced portal properties system to support value toggling (use - sign before value);
- Fixed LDAP group synchronization issue;
- Added missing "name" attribute to FORM xhtml tags with only an "id" tag, to compensate for browsers that do not properly support XHTML;

Collaba 6.0.6

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Properly re-labeled RBL technology to DNSBL;
- Fixed print version of Parents list;
- Fixed a bug in the global session tracker which prevented, in some specific cases, timed-out sessions from being completely disabled;
- Improved behavior of the mail center 411 service when an authenticated user sends mail to an invalid but local (domain-based) e-mail address;
- Added instant report of an invalid local e-mail address when sending a message;
- Added auto-refresh to the main platform interface, so to keep user sessions active;

Collaba 6.0.5

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Day labels defined in the Everyone group are now always displayed, even when specific calendars are selected;
- Fixed a bug in the licensing system preventing some servers from re-activating their licenses;
- Fixed a bug in the Calendar section preventing users from accessing group calendars (when authorized to do so) from the Directory module;
- Fixed a bug in the Files section preventing Windows users from downloading files;
- Added support for "noshareddir" group advanced config, which disables only the Shared directory in the Files section;
- Fixed issue with red flag not brought down when reading mail;

Collaba 6.0.4

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Deployed internationalization infrastructure
- Made main platform menu internationalizable
- Updated installer manifest;
- Fixed a bug in the Available Calendars section which disabled direct calendar access;
- Fixed a portal entry sub-routine which incorrectly added a question mark to a redirection URL;
- Added special user account undelete feature;

Collaba 6.0.3

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Fixed a messaging listing issue which caused non-authenticated listings to be empty in some cases;

Collaba 6.0.2

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Fixed blog access issues;
- Fixed mail rules editing bug;

Collaba 6.0.1

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Recompiled EDU core (a VL core was incorrectly included in 6.0.0);
- Improved unauthenticated blog access issues;
- Added calendar permissions to limit edit/delete rights to creators only;
- Fixed editing of forum permissions;

Collaba 6.0

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

- Collaba now built atop Server Core G2
- Major security enhancements
- Extreme revision of the web interface
- Portal pages now in XHTML + CSS
- Modular reusable component-based interface
- 95% less JavaScript code
- No more HTML frames
- Portal functional without JavaScript technology
- Keyboard shortcuts for frequently used functions
- Language-sensitive XHTML blocks
- Podcast support in blogs and forums
- Versioning in Files section
- Text editor and QuickTime viewer in Files section
- WebDAV quick-access in Files section
- Full WYSIWYG HTML editor in Files section
- Copy-paste function for files and directories
- Anti-Virus Service API (works with ClamAV and others)
- Revised and optimized mailbox
- New LDAP-enabled portal expansion features
- Editable help system
- New Site Map
- Help now features "Report an issue" and Site Map
- Platform-wide search tool
- New Authentication API
- Support for CAS, JAAS, SMTP-Auth, POP3-Auth, HTTP-Auth
- New built-in CAS Server
- Improved Collaba Service Expansion (CSE) API
- Persistant properties database
- Upload-less attachment of files already on the server
- New short messages module
- Ability to subscribe to forum threads by e-mail
- Export e-mail messages to mbox files
- Ability to share calendars
- Group calendar notifications by e-mail
- Improved support for iCalendar synchronization
- Individual contact sharing
- New centralized Profile module
- Resource-level settings for garbage collection
- New and improved scripting commands
- XML support in scripting system
- Ability to set expiration dates to group memberships
- New user self-registration system
- Custom icons for communities
- Hundreds of other changes, fixes and enhancements!

Collaba 5.3

admin@sypecom.qc.ca (Admin) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

- built with Eclipse
- new built-in server backup system
- interactive Collaba Service Expansion API
- new Collaba External Integration API
- revised accessibility concept for account managers
- new options for LDAP synchronization
- final version of new AssignmentFlow feature
- new cache system for dynamic web files
- improved garbage collector (10x speed)
- new table view and search tool in calendars
- support for attachments in blog articles
- new honeypot feature in SMTP server
- new privilege to control del.icio.us service
- default privilege set, for easier initial startup
- hundreds of fixes and smaller enhancements