Hello,
The latest patch for version 7.3 is available and can be downloaded using the links below.
http://cdn.percussion.com/downloads/cmsystem/Patches/7.3/730_20131220/Readme.txt
http://cdn.percussion.com/downloads/cmsystem/Patches/7.3/730_20131220/rxPatch730_20131220_201306R01.zip
http://cdn.percussion.com/downloads/cmsystem/Patches/7.3/730_20131220/rxPatch730_20131220_201306R01.zip.md5
Read Me for reference:
Rhythmyx Patch for Version 7.3.0 build 201306R01
Patch id: 730_20131220
Patch Install Toolkit version: 1.0
Patch Installation:
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Shutdown or close all Rhythmyx applications (server, workbench, etc.).
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Install the Rhythmyx Patch Install Toolkit by extracting RxPatchInstallToolkit.zip to {installation root}.
If you do not have the toolkit, contact Percussion Software Technical Support to obtain it. If the toolkit
is already installed, go directly to step 2. The toolkit is installed if the following directory exists:
{installation root}/Patch/InstallToolkit.
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Extract 730_20131220.zip into {installation root}/Patch.
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Go to {installation root}/Patch/730_20131220 and run install.bat (Windows) or install.sh (Unix) in order to install
the patch. Uninstall.bat/.sh can be used to uninstall the patch. On Unix systems, the user must have execute
permissions in order to launch the shell script(s). During both install and uninstall, the following warning
message will be seen in the console:“Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in {installation root}\lib ools.jar.”
This message is expected and can be ignored.
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See “Additional Configuration” for manual steps which may be required after installing/uninstalling the patch.
Changes In This Release
- Updated patch Readme format based upon Markdown syntax. Additional information is now placed by patch it represents, if upgrading from a previous patch check for configurations that may not have been included for other patch versions between your current and this patch.
- This patch includes support for UTF-8 in Taxonomy administration
- Improvements to how siteid and folder id in Ephox inline relationships are modified when the dependent item is moved, the relationship may not have been fixed up previously when the previous site or folder id were invalid. Also resolves issues fixing up these ids when multiple sites are mapped to the same site folder path. There would not be much impact of this when site fixup is turned on as the link would be fixed up on assembly.
- Fixes for unpublishing. Using a relative path such as …/EI_Home.war as the publish path would prevent unpublish from working correctly.
- fixes to pass isRemoval flag on assembly item correctly when item is being unpublished as part of the regular unpublish then publish, or unpublish is occuring from use of sys_unpublishChangedLocation=true property
- Fix for folder/siteid fixup code to link by default to the site set for the parent snippet if it exists and the current relationships do not define a particular site or folder, this more closely resembles the old behavior in this case.
- Fixes for threading issues in Content Explorer Applet
- sys_lang was not being passed correctly from EditLive when requesting for translated version of Inline buttons and menus.
- Sets Background connection validation checking by default. This can have a major performance improvement for publishing in particular. May require manually adding for old connections see additional steps.
- Some other general error handling fixes
Known Issues
There is a known performance problem when first starting up content explorer and using the template and content type grouping options. It can initially takes a long time to cache some information the first time the menu actions are accessed, this is not resolved by fixing the caching config. If this is a problem the you can turn off this feature until we patch the issue in rxconfig/Server/server.properties
templatesGroupingInCX=false
contentTypeGroupingInCX=false
Additional Steps
New connections now add background connection validation, existing connections you may need to manually modify the connection properties. Edit AppServer/server/rx/deploy/rx-ds.xml file and add the following lines within the local-tx-datasource element
<background-validation>true</background-validation>
<background-validation-millis>150000</background-validation-millis>
<validate-on-match>false</validate-on-match>
Change List
D-01330 - Taxonomy not supporting accent characters
D-01389 - In IE Content Explorer page gets loaded in Quirks mode by default
D-01400 - Publisher API not passing isRemoval flag
D-01409 - sys_publish equals publish when unpublishing an item
D-01410 - Unpublish failing to do removal when Assemble Item For Unpublish is selected
D-01411 - Moving item to a different site does not update siteID in relationship if the item exists in a site as well as a staging site
D-01416 - In folder/siteid fixup use site id of the parent snippet if there is one as the site hint when the parent snippet was inserted with an included siteid.
D-76836 Handle codebase properly and replace PSHttpConnection with non static version.
76821 Remove statics in applet and refernces to these statics in rxcx. Add null checks in PSContentExplorerApplet
D-76838 Remove statics
D-01415 - Html parameters in in request for translation package not passing sys_lang correctly - Applet InsertInline menu and button localization
D-76847 Close Resultsets
D-76846 Close stream correctly
D-76845 Fix error handling on failed publish
D-76844 Fix Exception eating stack
D-76848 null pointer in updateSessionTimeout
D-76605 deliveryhandler
D-76854 Add background checking to rx-ds.xml file
D-76853 Don’t start auditlogreaper until spring started
Additional Configuration:
Previous Patches
Patch 730_20131125
This patch includes a major performance improvemnt to the speed of incremental publishing when the core content list query selects from a large number of items. e.g. a large site with many thousands of items. The order of processing has been modified to check the last modified date of all items before further processing or filtering.
This patch also includes some enhancements to the folder/site fixup code, a memory leak that would only be apparent when publishing many times over many days without a server restart. Also a change to improve the performance of the Publishing Design tab that was more apparent for a customer who has over 300 sites.
D-01398 Improve Caching of menu actions where only “targetStyle”,“target”,“launchesWindow” have changed.
If multiple Preview menu actions are created where only these properties are changed. For example if options for different window sizes, this change prevents multiple calls to the server for the list of templates improving performance. This is for a very particular use case where multiple menu options were being used where the only difference is the popup window size.
D-01393 Resolved error when linking to items under //Folders
Adding templates to slots from under //Folders structure was causing an error. It is still an error if we are attempting to generate a location to one of these items e.g. using rffSnTitleLink as the item does not have a publishing location within the site, but a reference to a callout stored in this structure e.g. rffBrief items or external link items would be allowed now.
D-01399 Run Incremental filter before all others
Publishing and item goes through a series of steps to filter out the items from the content list query. The incremental filter looks at the last modified date and was running after other filters. This filter often removes most items from the list most quickly, this has been moved to the first step and should improve performance for building the incremental content list for large sites where not many or no items have changed
D-01396 Publishing Design Tab takes a long time to load
Improves performance when there are a large number of sites.
D-01402 Slow memory leak when using transactional publishing over many iterations
A reference to temporary files used in transactional publishing was not being cleared. This could cause the memory usage to increase slowly over many days when continuously publishing
Patch B-01383
The main purpose of this patch was to provide support for Java 7u45. We recommend and support the latest version of the JRE to make sure our customers have the latest security fixes. If this patch is installed and a user is on a previous JRE version they may see some serurity warnings return.
Change List
TK-01923 Updates for Java 7u45
Oracle added further changes to the security model in Java 7u45 requring developer changes to the packaging of applet code. This update
addresses these issues and removes security warnings caused by the changes. The required chages are incompatible with changes required since
Java 7u21 to remove warning dialogs. Unless the client JRE is updated to update 45 these warnings will return with this patch to users
currently using older JRE versions since update 21.
As with previous version since Java 7u21 users may still see a dialog from the Publisher PERCUSSION SOFTWARE and when accessing the Editor form
from Ephox Corporation. These will warn the following
“This application will run with unrestricted access which may put your computer and personal information at risk. Run this application only if you
trust the location and publisher above”
This warning is now required for the applets to function and communicate with the browser via Javascript.
If the user selected the checkbox against “Do not show this again for apps from the publisher and location above” they should not see these dialogs
again.
We recommend that all customers update to this Patch and Java version to take advantage of the security fixes Oracle have added in this release.
Patch B-01331
Note the improved template processing and Ephox may not work with old XSLT style templates from version 5.7 and before of the product and we suggest these templates are upgraded before upgrading to 7.3 or this patch.
This patch also uses a variety of other fixes listed below.
Change List
B-01300 Changed parser to remove extra HTMLTidy process and handle content that may not be well formed xml.
Ephox has been updated also to version 9 in this process. This change has many improvements over the existing
field processing. White space and other non xml content are now handled with minimal re-formatting. Spacing
from inline templates is now passed through without change so templates should be reviewed if a particular
spacing/format is require.
See the separate document for the full information about the changes.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.percussion.com/downloads/cmsystem/Patches/7.3/B-01331/Ephox-Changes-in-B-01331.pdf
B-01321 Preview is not passing additional HTTP Parameters
Extra html parameters set up in workbench for Menus are now passed through to preview url making them available to template.
B-01294 FTP unpublish issue
The file path for unpublish was sometimes miscalculated with ftp publishing causing unpublish failure.
D-01189 Patch for folder and site ids improvements and fixes
See Additional Configuration from Patch B-01299
D-01024 In content editor, calendar control’s Today button does not populate current date calendar control
Control has been updated to a jquery control. The “time” control parameter is still used to indicate if the date or both date and time should be used.
D-01226 Adding a field to Contact Content type - Workbench Freezes
Adding and Removing fields no longer causes entire content table to be copied. Changing field data type will still clone and recreate table. A warning is provided as this can take a long time for large content tables and those containing binaries.
D-01256 System validates for email id for notification even if notification is not enabled in workflow transition
Email address for all uses in transition role was being retrieved from LDAP even when no notification was being sent.
D-01298 Error in assembly is not causing publishing failure
Some errors in assembly were not triggering failure of page to be published and error message would be delivered.
Aditional Steps
D-01226
The extra warning messages and prevention of table cloning on field deletion will not be available unless Workbench is upgraded. This patch
provides a new workbench version which can be downloaded from the server from the following path.
http://{host}:{port}/Rhythmyx/Administration/DeveloperTools/InstData/Windows/VM/devToolsSetup.exe
http://{host}:{port}/Rhythmyx/Administration/DeveloperTools/InstData/Windows/VM/devToolsSetup.exe
Modify User Velocity Macros
An old form of $rx.location.generate used in imghelp macro which comes with the Fast Forward User Velocity macros file does
not handle items in multiple folders well. To make use of the folder and site fixup here, you should change this to pass
$sys.assemblyItem as a parameter. This allows the function to accesse the original site and folderid of the page in caluclating
the correct folder and site for the passed in node. Some of the other parameters on this method are no longer required as the
values can be obtained from the $sys.assemblyItem. This should be changed elswhere in the template code it is also used with these
same parameters.
Change the following line in User Velocity Macros:
#macro(imghelp $image $template)$rx.location.generate($template, $image, $rx.location.folderPath($image),$sys.assemblyItem.getFilter().getName(), $sys.assemblyItem.getSiteId().longValue(), $tools.number.toNumber($tools.list.get($sys.params.get('sys_context'), 0)) )#end
to:
#macro(imghelp $image $template)$rx.location.generate($sys.assemblyItem, $template, $image)#end
B-01300
Review the separate document outlining the changes to Ephox and check if inline template code requires modifications.
Patch B-01299
This patch enables a new process to contexually calculate a valid site and folder id for a relationship based upon where it is being run. This takes into account the current folder and site id of the root page being assembled as well as any folder and site id that were specified in the relationship when the link was created. Before this broken links may occur if in the following cases due to the wrong folder site id.
- No folder id passed, from a view, or search result
- dependent items in multiple folders or sites (Copy as Link)
- Multiple sites with the same root folder path
Note further enhancements to this have been made to more recent patches, it is suggested you upgrade this patch version.
This new feature allows the system to resolve the link path based on several criteria:
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Only one item: If an item is in only one folder in the entire system this feature should always link to only that
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One or more copy of an item: If a copy of an item is created using copy as link, the system automatically
calculates the right item version to link to even if the include folder or site was not selected in the content
browser. If include folder or site was not selected, the system will assume that the link is to the version that is
in the closest folder path. Please note that for some unknown reason if such links are still broken, recreating the
links by including the folder path in the content browser will ensure that the correct version of the item is linked.
Example use case: The original version of an item is in the local site, but you want to link to the copy of this
item from another site.
3. Multiple sites with same folder path: There may be cases where more than one site is configured pointing to the
same folder path. Such sites configurations allow publish the same site content to multiple servers like staging, qa
or production. If you currently have this setup, turning on autofixFolderSiteIds feature will log errors to indicate that additional configuration is required. If you have this configuration of see these messages in the server.log file see below for additional configuration.
Change List
D-01189 Publishing to Staging server de-activates “Rx inline links”
Additional Configuration
- D-01189 Fixup site and folder ids
By default this feature is disabled. To enable add autofixFolderSiteIds=true property in
Root/rxconfig/Server/server.properties file.
Some customers have more than one site definition pointing to the same root folder path in Content Explorer. Doing this would originally could numerous issues when linking between sites, this is becuase the system would treat the different site definitions the cause we now need to decide which of the site ids we link to when linking to an item in that folder. This works by assuming that one of the sites is the default, this would be the one we would link to if we have no further information. In a configuration where we have separate site definitions for development, staging and production sites pointing at the same path the production would normally be the default. Every other site with the same path needs to be assigned a group, e.g. development and staging groups.
The concept is that if we are publishing a development version of a site we would always link to a development version of another, site if available, if the other site does not have a development version we would create a link to the production version.
Once you have decided which site groups you have you need to modify the rxconfig/Server/server.properties file to mark which sites are in which group. We do not need to include the default sites.
The site groups are configured using the following structure the groupName can be any name to identify the group. the property is set to a comma delimeted list of all sites in that group.
siteGroups.<groupName>=<siteid>[,siteid]
if staging site id is 305 then in server.properties file to
create staging site group you need to have siteGroups.staging=305. In case of multiple staging sites in the system,
separate the site ids by comma as siteGroups.staging=305,307.
You will see errors in the server.log file if you map the same site to more than one group, if you allocate all sites to groups (e.g. no default), or if there is more than one site still without a group set.
Patch B-01297
This fixes a patch install issue with Patch B-01267 where the updated EditLive files may not be updated based upon their timestamp.
Change List
D-01282 Update 7.3 patch 7.3 Install may not overwrite Ephox plugin jars
Patch B-01267
Fix for ephox in a field group
Change List
D-01257 : Inline controls in Ephox EditLive 8.1 broken when the edit live field is in a field group