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Release note: See v2023.18.0.

⚙️ Customization and Configuration​

New Properties​

  • Spring Boot Profiles for External Connectors: To prevent configuration conflicts when using external connector JARs, a dedicated profile has been introduced (application-integrator.properties / application-integrator.yml). This ensures that custom configuration properties correctly take precedence over default application.yml or application.properties settings.

  • Download/Print document with rotation: Additional properties have been added to allow downloading or printing the PDF document with page rotation.

    • topPanel.documentMenu.downloadRotation=false: Enable or disable the download PDF with rotation button
    • print.includeRotations=false: Enable or disable the print PDF with rotation option.

  • Default annotation filter: Additional properties have been added to allow setting the default annotation filter applied.

    • annotation.comment.explorer.filter.types.enabled=false: Enable or disable the use of default annotation filter.
    • annotation.comment.explorer.filter.types=: Set the default annotation filter by types.

Deprecated and Deleted Properties​

  • No properties were deleted or deprecated in this release.

📦 Product​

Technical Changes and Security​

  • PDFOwl Upgrade: The internal PDF processing engine, PDFOwl, has been upgraded to version 1.24-22. This upgrade addresses several stability issues, including better handling of documents that previously failed to open or displayed missing pages.
  • Improved PDF Metadata Sanitization: We now properly handles PDF documents containing control characters (e.g., ASCII 26) or special characters (like quotes) within layer names. These are now sanitized before JSON serialization to prevent parser failures.

Performance Improvements​

  • Large Document Support: Optimized the generation of layouts for very large PDF files (100,000+ pages). By transitioning from linked lists to direct array management for page handling, processing time and memory overhead are significantly reduced.
  • Large Image Processing: Enhanced the stability and performance of the rendition engine when uploading and rendering PDF documents containing high-resolution or very large images, reducing the risk of timeouts.

User Experience Enhancements​

  • Video Player Updates: The video viewing interface now displays both the time spent and the total time for video documents.
  • PDF Checkbox Rendering: Checkbox display in ARender has been improved to more closely align with the visual standards of Acrobat Reader.

🔧 Integrator Section​

FileNet Connector​

The FileNet connector has been enhanced to natively support more complex document retrieval scenarios.

  • VSID Multi-Opening: Integrators can now open multiple documents simultaneously using their Version Series IDs (VSIDs).
  • Multi-ObjectStore Support: The connector can now resolve and open multiple documents even when they are stored across different ObjectStores.

Configuration Priority​

Integrators should be aware of the following change in configuration behavior:

  • When an external JAR and the main application JAR both contain the same configuration files, the external JAR configuration is prioritized.
  • It is highly recommended to use the new dedicated Spring profiles to manage environment-specific overrides.

💻 API​

New Functionality​

  • Manual Save Trigger in DocumentBuilder: A new manual trigger is available for the DocumentBuilder mode. This allows external scripts to programmatically initiate a save event.
  • External Event: A script can now post an event to ARender to trigger the "Custom document saved" callback without requiring a user to click the UI "Save" button.