Nuxeo Enhanced Viewer Release Notes

NEV 10.6.2

Summary

New Features

Keep User Preferences

Nuxeo Enhanced Viewer provides a way to customize the annotations by changing the type of arrows, font, size, line thickness, highlight, fit to page, etc.

Previously, the user needed to change the annotation style for each new annotation. Starting from NEV 10.6, annotations style changes are now saved per user and per type of annotation. So that, for a given user, each new annotation is created with the same type as the previous one of the same kind.

See NEV-274.

Improvements

Optimizations on the Temporary Files Management

The ARender file storage micro-service (Document File Storage service) has been merged with the broker service to reduce the exchanges between services and improve the renditions performances.

Submit and Reply Actions New Design

The submit and reply link actions have been replaced by buttons to improve the user experience. It also allows to quickly view the action available whatever the size of the sticky note.

Major Fixes

Improve Download PDF/FDF Action Speed

The new version of NEV introduces improvement on the download PDF with FDF annotations to accelerate file download action.

See NEV-358.

NEV 10.5.4

Summary

Major Fixes

This version is dedicated to fix issues on videos previews.

NEV 10.5.3

Summary

Major Fixes

This version is dedicated to bug fixes on the ARender Renderer and Broker services to prevent freeze and crash down in case of high usage of the application (mainly due to temporary files management).

NEV 10.5.1

Summary

Major Fixes

Add Chinese and Korean font to ARender Rendition

In order to support Chinese and Korean text, we added new fonts to the available ones in the ARender Rendition. See NEV-426.

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NEV 10.5

Summary

Improvements

Make the Rendition Service "Document File Storage" HA

The rendition service "Document File Storage" is now HA (High Availability) to support a high level of charge and prevent service degradation in case of an instance crash.

See NEV-425.

Major Fixes

Infinite Loop When Opening TIFF Files

An infinite loop occurred when opening some TIFF files on the rendition service, producing slowness in the preview of the files.

See NEV-429.

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NEV 10.4.7

Summary

This new version is dedicated to increase the maximum number of connections in the Previewer.

Major Fixes

Increase the Maximum Number of Connections to 800

We increased the number of available connections into the Previewer to support up to 800 simultaneous user connections.

See NEV-451.

NEV 10.4.6

Summary

This new version is dedicated to bug fixing.

Major Fixes

Thread deadlock on the Document File Storage service

Additional Deadlocks have been fixed following the initial fix NEV-399

See NEV-418.

Fix the DFS oldStyleJPG error

Clean logs by removing irrelevant exception error in the logs of the Document File Storage service.

See NEV-404.

Fix group permission on files copied to previewer image

Since the NEV 10.3.x release, the files copied inside the docker image don't have the group write permissions which is an issue when mounting additional configuration inside /docker-entrypoint-init.d because the entrypoint can't append to destination file.

See NEV-345.

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NEV 10.4.5

Summary

This new version is dedicated to bug fixing.

Major Fixes

Slowness and preview failures with high volume of users

Deadlocks on the Document File Storage micro-service involved slowness and rendering failures.

See NEV-399.

Share the OkHttp ConnectionPool to avoid thread leak

We improved the OkHttp ConnectionPool management to avoid threak leak and so slowness for the users.

See NEV-401.

Upgrade Java from 12-ea+29 to at least 12+33

We upgraded the java version on ARender containers as the previous version has a bug for some Intel CPUs, see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219151.

See NEV-395.

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NEV 10.4.3

Summary

This new version is dedicated to bug fixing.

Major Fixes

ARender Broker and Renderer stability improvement

ARender Broker and Renderer services were crashing and restart at the same time due to healcheck probes unstability.

See NEV-381.

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NEV 10.4.2

Summary

In a nutshell, this new version includes the following changes:

• Several optimizations on how files are streamed, renditions performances, scalability
• UX improvements on the sticky notes, arrows, and annotation left section
• “Download with FDF annotations” feature is enabled by default (annotations are seen as Adobe annotations when viewing the document in Adobe Reader)
• Sound can now be turned off when annotating a video
• Bug fixes (MP3 rendition, preview on HTML, email and ZIP, repeat mode,…)

Improvements

Download with FDF Annotations

The "Download with FDF annotations" action allows downloading a document as a PDF with annotations in the Forms Data Format (FDF). Then, you can for instance open the document in Adobe Reader and see the annotations as if you have created them into Adobe Reader.

See NEV-323.

Turn on/off sound when annotating a video

It is now possible to turn off the sound when annotating a video.

See NEV-45.

UI/UX

Replace Sticky Notes Pointers by Pointers With Numbers

The sticky notes annotations have a new look & feel. They now include a number into the pointer to easily link the annotation in the document to the text into the left section of the Annotations tab.

See NEV-349.

Better Icons Into the Arrow Annotation Bar

The arrow annotation bar includes a button to customize each side of the arrow. This new version improves those buttons icons for a better visibility.

See NEV-238.

Empty Annotation Look & Feel

The left annotation section has been improved for empty annotations, in order to reflect that the annotation is editable.

See NEV-250.

Performance and Stability

The new version of ARender includes stability improvements, mostly on the renditions and conversions sides (cf. major fixes section).

Major Fixes

Rendition of MP3 Files

MP3 files are now correctly rendered in the Annotations tab.

See NEV-332.

Rendition of HTML Files

Some HTML files were not correctly rendered in the Annotations tab.

See NEV-354.

Renditions of Emails

The rendition of emails has been improved with better support of EML and msg files.

We also fixed language issue.

See NEV-370 and NEV-330.

Renditions of ZIP Files

ZIP files are now correctly rendered in the Annotations tab.

See NEV-370.

Stop Repeat Mode Button Is Not Working Well

Clicking on the button with repeat mode didn't correctly stop the repeat mode, involving to create a last annotation before it stopped.

See NEV-335.

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