KnowledgeTree Version 3.7

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Overview

KnowledgeTree 3.7 is the first server release built on Zend Server. This version also provides a new Setup Wizard that guides you through the configuration of KnowledgeTree, for installs and upgrades, so that your system is set up and ready to use as easily as possible.

Release Date: December 2009

Platform Requirements

Server

2 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
4 GB of system memory OR 2GB above what is needed by the OS and additional software
2 GB of storage for the application data and repository storage as needed. (KnowledgeTree requires 1GB to install)
Broadband connection to internal network. Linux based servers require an external network connection to download from the repositories.

Workstations

2 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
512MB storage space
Broadband connection to internal network.
- Linux based servers require an Internet connection to download from the repositories.
- Windows systems require an Internet connection to download the MySQL server install. Alternatively, MySQL can be downloaded and installed separately.

Browser

Firefox - 3.x
Internet Explorer - 6.0.x; 7; 8

Extensions

KnowledgeTree Instant View requires Adobe Flash Player 9 or 10.

Server Stack Installer Package Requirements

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 server (32-bit x86)
Ubuntu Server Edition 8.04.2 LTS (32-bit x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (64-bit) (IIS 6 only)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (IIS 7 only)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit) (Evaluation only)
Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit) (Evaluation only)

Source Only Software Requirements

PHP 5.2.x
PHP LDAP extension (if LDAP or ActiveDirectory integration is required)
PHP Exif extension (if header extraction from JPEG and TIFF files is required)
PHP mbstring extension (functions for multi-byte character sets)
PHP mysql extension (interface to mysql database from php)
PHP json extension (functions for working with json structures)
PHP fileinfo extension (functions for resolving mime types of documents)
MySQL Server, Client, and PHP libraries, version 5.1 or above
Apache 2.0 or above
Java Runtime Environment 1.5+ (Required for Apache POI and Lucene)
pstotext (required for indexing of postscript files)
OpenOffice 2.4+ (required for PDF conversion)
Info-Zip (required for extracting contents of zip files)

What's New

Deployment on Zend Server
Document Thumbnails
Instant View Functionality (Requires Adobe Flash Player 9 or 10) - Commercial Edition only
Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, IIS 6 and 7 Support
Native RPM and DEB packages
New web-based Setup Wizard
New Date, Large Text and Multi-select field types
CMIS 0.61 Interface
OpenSearch Interface
Indexing of Microsoft Outlook Emails

See the KnowledgeTree New Releases page for more details.

Bug Fixes

KTS-4515 The Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts in Win Vista 32bit fail to launch KnowledgeTree

KTS-4499 Permissions error on initial login of KT after install with script Ubuntu 8.04

KTS-4495 Permission not set for the config path

KTS-4488 Upgrade installers: The port for KT should be the port that was entered with during the installation.

KTS-4466 Hardcoded text on the MSI is misleading

KTS-4461 Webroot is set to the IIS default : /inetpub/wwwroot

KTS-4459 The URL is wrong when attempting to open KnowledgeTree from the Desktop shortcut.

KTS-4458 The colour scheme on the first pages pf the install shield is not in keeping with the expected KnowledgeTree colour scheme

KTS-4456 The icon for KT in the Start Menu is given as a Zend icon

KTS-4455 The Support info for KT in the Add/Remove section is wrong

KTS-4454 The icon for KnowledgeTree in the Add/Remove section on Windows appears to be a Zend icon

KTS-4452 The EULA in the MSI is version 2.3 while it has to be 2.4

KTS-4440 Open Office (version 2) preventing Universal Installation Script from completing successfully

KTS-4407 Function for storing non-base64 files required by CMIS document content functionality missing

KTS-4406 KT Email plugin is not enabled by default & no error returned by webservice on attempting to use KT Email plugin

KTS-4379 Document email url is incorrect

KTS-4350 CLONE -Can not select any group/ role when adding notification to workflow state (SUP-2069)

KTS-4349 Individual notification of file deletion upon folder deletion

KTS-4345 Documents viewable through KTAPI by user who does not have permissions

KTS-4342 KTCoreSelectionWidget doesn't manage multiple selection when not in simple_selection

KTS-4338 CLONE -Copied folder renames to '1' (SUP-1977)

KTS-4335 Negative z-index on dashlet title bars causes bars to be hidden when pageBody has a background

KTS-4319 The KnowledgeTree logo is stretched or distorted.

KTS-4295 tmp directories grow to massive size

KTS-4255 CLONE -Sorting by creator in Document View doesn't work (SUP-1803)

Known Issues

KnowledgeTree Documents directory not readable on Linux after upgrade to version 3.7

Thumbnails not showing after upgrade to 3.7 on Windows until KnowledgeTree 3.6.1 stack uninstalled.

Uninstalling KnowledgeTree 3.7 on Windows 2003 and 2008 does not remove the KnowledgeTree virtual Directory in IIS

KnowledgeTree Instant View Search does not find content in non-indexible PDFs

KnowledgeTree Indexer fails if required font is not available.

Example of the error message which appears in Lucene.out:

14266782 [XML-RPC-0] ERROR com.knowledgetree.textextraction  - Text Extractor: Failed with message - TIKA-198: Illegal IOException from 
org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser@e8eeca

Document comparison feature not working on Linux environments because of bug in OpenOffice.org 3.1.

KTS-4505: 'Import from Server location' does not work when IIS user does not have read access to location

This issue has been found to occur on Windows 2008 64-bit with IIS, and may also occur on Windows 2003 64-bit with IIS. A Windows security feature prevents KnowledgeTree's 'Import from Server Location' from working unless permissions on the folder are set to allow 'read' access to the IIS user (IUSR), or when 'Everyone' has the 'read' permission on the folder.

KTS-4500: Initial MySql services not started during script install RHEL

This issue requires an additional step in the installation procedure for the simple script install on Redhat Enterprise Linux - the additional step has been added to this procedure.

KTS-4512 PostScript document indexing not functioning on RHEL and Ubuntu because of missing pstotext binary

Search on deleted, unarchived documents returns incorrect results

Search criteria isDeleted 'True' and isArchived 'False'. Related call: KTS-4205

Cross site request forgery and Web-based applications

Be aware that most web-based applications, including KnowledgeTree, may be vulnerable to cross-site-request-forgeries (CSRF). CSRF is entirely different to XSS – whereas CSRF exploits the trust a server places in a user, XSS exploits the trust a user places in the server. CSRF attacks are difficult to determine because the HTTP request containing the attack is sent by a trusted user. To reduce the risk of CSRF attacks, we strongly recommend that KnowledgeTree system administrators familiarize themselves with the issue of CSRF, and take the necessary precautions to protect their KnowledgeTree installations from such attacks.