Changelog

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Newest Release

2018.3.2 – 20 Jun 2018

• Added
  Adds support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Google Cloud SQL for Postgres. (#1578)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug, where the server was unable to start with some supported Postgres versions. (#1601)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug causing wrong log messages in case there was a problem fetching a PDF. (#1602)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where HTTP status 400 instead of 500 was returned in case there was a problem fetching a PDF. (#1602)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug, where documents with forms including long form field names could not be stored. (#1604)

Previous Releases

2018.3.1 – 4 Jun 2018

• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where some server configuration variables were ignored. (#1591)

2018.3 – 31 May 2018

• Added
  Adds API endpoint to delete layers. (#1539)
• Added
  Adds support for password protected PDFs. (#1565)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where layer names with special characters were not displayed correctly in the dashboard. (#1567)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the document.json endpoint returns 404, when a layer is specified. (#1576)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where timestamps were not viewed correctly in the dashboard because timezone data was ignored. (#1575)

2018.2.1 - 2 May 2018

• Changed
  Increases the size limit for multipart/form-data requests, when uploading a document. (#1566)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the server did not corretly return HTTP status 404 for some invalid URLs. (#1543)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where documents with attachments and multiple layers could not be deleted. (#1553)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the server could not migrate to another asset storage due to non-existing attachment files. (#1555)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where uploading multiple documents at the same time could block other request for a certain time. (#1557)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the instant.json API endpoint returned internal server error when using an asset storage backend other than built-in. (#1568)

2018.2 - 28 Mar 2018

• Added
  Adds layer support to the dashboard. (#1420)
• Added
  Adds API endpoint to fetch a pages text lines. (#1477)
• Added
  Adds support to prerender and cache documents via Redis. (#1496)
• Added
  Adds support for ignoring invalid annotations on PDF export instead of failing the export. (#1521)
• Added
  Adds support for validating a JWT via the Dashboard. (#1522)
• Added
  Adds API endpoint to fetch highlighted text within a page. (#1525)
• Added
  Adds a warning to the dashboard when the default secret key base value is used in production. (#1519)
• Changed
  Improves asset storage cache performance. (#1511)
• Changed
  Improves pagination design in dashboard. (#1515)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the server could not start with the default secret key base. (#1519)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where form information was lost when importing and exporting PDFs without the Forms feature. (#1514)

2018.1.4 - 15 Mar 2018

• Changed
  Allows startup with default SECRET_KEY_BASE value with trial and development licenses. (#1513)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug in the license check for starting multiple nodes. (#1510)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug causing subsequent document uploads to fail after a previous upload crashed. (#1516)

2018.1.3 - 8 Mar 2018

• Fixed
  Fixes several bugs preventing downloads of PDFs. (#1499, #1503, #1505)
• Fixed
  Fixes bug preventing copying of layer containing attachments. (#1507)

2018.1.2 - 28 Feb 2018

• Added
  Adds support for automatic link extraction from text. (#1487)
• Changed
  Improves error messages when timeouts occur on the document cache. (#1494)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where PDFs including attachments stored on S3 could not be downloaded. (#1491)

2018.1.1 - 14 Feb 2018

• Changed
  Adjusts default limits for HTTP header value length. (#1483)

2018.1 - 8 Feb 2018

• Added
  Adds support for XFDF and Instant JSON import and export. (#1427)
• Added
  Adds check to prevent Server startup when using default SECRET_KEY_BASE value. (#1448)
• Added
  Adds support for updating a license without restarting the server. (#1418)
• Added
  Adds pagination to the documents view in the dashboard. (#1412)
• Changed
  Improves error messages for asset storage migrations. (#1429)
• Changed
  Improves warnings, when insecure default options are used. (#1214)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where pdfs with large image annotations could not be loaded. (#1383)

2017.9.4 - 24 Jan 2018

• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where some internal endpoints returned 500, because of a transaction rollback. (#1446)

2017.9.3 - 12 Jan 2018

• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where deprecation warning were unnecessarily shown. (#1425)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where some documents can not be loaded, when instant is disabled. (#1443)

2017.9.2 - 20 Dec 2017

• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the edit-annotations permission is missing when the all-2017.3 or all-2017.9 permission is used. (#1407)
• Fixed
  Fixes the instance.destroy() is not a function JavaScript error in the dashboard. (#1410)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the server is not able to migrate between asset storage backends. (#1413)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the server is not able to migrate the database when documents with long titles (> 100 characters) exist. (#1416)

2017.9.1 - 15 Dec 2017

• Fixed
  Fixed a bug that prevented forms from being shown when uploading already existing documents to local storage. (#1402)
• Fixed
  Fixed activation of trial licenses. (#1403)

2017.9 - 14 Dec 2017

• Added
  Adds form support via Instant. (#1367)
• Changed
  Introduces Instant Layers for Web. (#1367)
• Fixed
  Fixes use of deprecated functions in migrations. (#1393)

2017.8.1 - 6 Dec 2017

• Fixed
  Fixes a bug preventing sync on copied documents. (#1380)

2017.8 - 22 Nov 2017

• Changed
  Improve logging during asset storage migrations. (#1364)
• Changed
  Changes annotation IDs from numerical to client-side generated string IDs. (#1234)
• Changed
  Update to Erlang 20.1 and Elixir 15.2. (#1292)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug causing asset storage migrations to crash. (#1365)
• Fixed
  Fixes auth_payload_size_limit too low. Increased to 10k byte. (#1368)

2017.7.1 - 15 Nov 2017

• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where the server failed to start on single core systems. (#1347)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where setting the user id via the API caused requests to fail. (#1342)

2017.7 - 25 Oct 2017

• API
  Implemented version 2 for the following HTTP API endpoints (#1302):

  • Changed
    /api/documents/:document_id/annotations
  • Changed
    /api/documents/:document_id/annotations/:annotation_id_string
• Added
  Adds support for connecting multiple servers to one database. (#1171)
• Added
  Adds support for adding documents by URLs. (#1247)
• Added
  Adds Built-In storage backend. (#1260)
• Fixed
  Fixes a bug where temporary files did not get deleted correctly. (#1322)

2017.6.1 - 2 Oct 2017

No server-specific changes in this version.

2017.6 - 18 Sept 2017

• Added
  Added an API endpoint to delete documents: DELETE /api/documents/:document_id. (#1249)
• Fixed
  Fixed a bug where the original parameter of the pdf endpoint does not work. (#1270)

2017.5.4 - 31 Aug 2017

• Fixed
  Fixed a bug where the dashboard required a valid Instant license. (#1254)
• Fixed
  Fixed a bug with the S3 asset storage configuration. (#1248)

2017.5.3 - 17 Aug 2017

No server-specific changes in this version.

2017.5.2 - 9 Aug 2017

No server-specific changes in this version.

2017.5.1 - 24 Jul 2017

No server-specific changes in this version.

2017.5 - 20 Jul 2017

• API
  Changes some of the HTTP API endpoints:

  • Changed
    POST /api/document is deprecated in favour of POST /api/documents.
  • Changed
    GET /api/document?document_id=:document_id is deprecated in favour of GET /api/documents/:document_id/pdf.
  • Changed
    GET /api/document_properties?document_id=:document_id is deprecated in favour of GET /api/documents/:document_id/properties.
  • Changed
    PUT /api/document_properties is deprecated.
• Added
  Adds support for connecting PSPDFKit for Android and iOS to PSPDFKit Instant.
• Added
  Adds S3 and S3-compatible object storage services as supported asset storage backends.
• Fixed
  Fixes issue where newly created documents did not sync until a user creates an annotation. (#1191)