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Version 5

FOX5 is the latest version of FOXopen. Source code and build instructions are available on GitHub

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Version 4

FOX4 is a legacy version of FOXopen. Source code is available on SourceForge

Version 4.05.27
Released 28^th August 2014

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FOX4 Changelog

4.05.27

• Search drop down fixes.
• Document generation enhancements.

4.05.26

• Fix for text limits and calendar.
• IE 11 should now work with the spatial widget.

4.05.25

• Fix for digital signing of arbitrary PDFs.

4.05.24

• Fixed bug whereby a user's session could be switched when opening a popup window.
• Fixed 2 minor issues with HTML generation.

4.05.23

• Enhanced HTML generation to be more flexible.

4.05.22

• Hints can now display more relevant information.

4.05.21

• Fixed bug with dropdown widgets.
• Prevent an error caused by having pagination on expired screens.
• Fixed theoretical XPath injection vulnerability.
• Enhancements to search selector (tagger) widget.
• Fixed paging to allow for greater flexibility of page control positions.

4.05.20

• Search-Selector suggestions are now ordered correctly again
• Search-Selectors in single mode should have removable values in IE <=9
• WYSIWYG editors resize vertically to fit content

4.05.19

• Fixed display bug relating to search selector and HTML widgets.
• Document generation can now prevent tables splitting over page breaks
• Added support for charting in some reports
• Enhanced the display of comparison data where forms are being compared

4.05.18

• Added JavaScript session timeout prompts extending sessions by amount specified in portal param SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS
• Link(+) Widget Hint Implementation, new attributes linkHint and hintTitle can be applied on widget 'Link'.

4.05.17

• Search-selector widgets load faster when there's lots of data in them
• Fix display bug with IE-quirks mode
• Search Selector widgets can run actions when changed

4.05.16

• Fixed bug in document signing
• Fixed display problems with the date widget and rich text widget.

4.05.15

• Minor changes to separate document signing from filing
• Minor fix to HTML generation.

4.05.14

• Improved styling of the search selector widget
• Fixed some security vulnerabilities
• Added support for generating XLS/XLSX output for reporting system
• Minor improvements to document generation

4.05.13

• Enhanced HTML generator so more dynamic HTML is possible.
• Added support for controlling the visibility of certain page components without requiring a page churn.
• Added search selector widget for improved searching.
• Made validation command more effective.

4.05.12

• Fixed bug caused by displaying maps in Internet Explorer 6 - 9
• Fixed bug which allowed an engine to be deployed without a virus scanner defined on it
• Fixed minor bug which caused invalid HTML to be generated when a tickbox or radio button doesn't have a prompt
• Minor CSS change

4.05.11

• £, € and some space characters are no longer stripped from the WYSIWYG editor
• Digitally signed PDFs now contain the signing department's name in the signature block
• Digital certificates are now cached correctly
• Minor fix for generating links and buttons
• Fixed page expiry issue caused by user loading multiple pages simultaneously
• Improved support for web browsers' email features

4.05.10

• Spellchecker
• Can double click suggested words to replace
• Stop corrupting other words when replacing words with shorter words
• Better handling of single-quoted words and sentences
• Better support for keeping the case of words when making suggestions
• Keeps space between words when words either side of the space have different styles
• Download helper has bold text headers
• Minor improvement to selector and tick box widgets

4.05.09

• Fixed bug that stopped us from deploying a new engine
• Fixed how spellchecker is displayed and how dictionaries are stored in the database
• Fixes for how WSDL files are generated for Web Services
• Deleted some unused files

4.05.08

• Changed the method used for determining if secure cookies should be sent
• Performance improvements to digital signing
• Changed caching so development environments cache the same amount of data as live environments
• Fixed minor bug caused by user having a missing cookie
• Added ability to sign PDF/XML files with a full certificate chain (in either PKCS7 or PKIPATH format)
• Added new way of putting conditional logic into FOX actions
• Added feature to improve mapset generation logic
• Added shortcut method for quickly generating a link on the page

4.05.07

• Made JavaScript Library compatible with IE 10
• Minor fix for digital signing test harness
• Improvements to memory usage of the FOX engine
• New command for initialising data in an XML document
• Made page timing information more visible to developers
• Added ability to set the secure flag on a cookie if HTTPS is being used (security enhancement)
• Improved performance when downloading large text files

4.05.06

• Fixed bug which prevented document generation in some circumstances
• Fix regression in web service authentication code that prevented web service users logging in
• Don't save empty log data from the reporting system
• Made validation of file uploads stricter to improve security
• Fixed a potential security issue where user input was being converted into HTML
• Improved general page accessibility by adding skip links and alt text to images
• Upgraded the WYSIWYG editor for improved support for pasting from Microsoft Word
• Added spell checking support to the WYSIWYG editor

4.05.05

• Fix for minor bug relating to file downloads
• No longer put potentially sensitive information in generated XLS files
• Minor fixes to database interface, web service, Excel generation and internal functions
• Improved stability when a user is using tabbed or multi-window browsing

4.05.04

• Minor pagination fixes
• Fix to prevent potential XSS vulnerability
• Cookies are now served in a more secure fashion
• Internal information is no longer sent out in the case of an error on a production server
• New command for generating spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX, formatting support)
• Support for resumable web service sessions
• Minor enhancement to authentication to allow for more granular security restrictions for user login
• Ability to digitally sign SOAP envelopes

4.05.03

• Security fixes for minor security problems
• Added the ability to specify a specific file type when serving a file - so that browsers understand what file type they are receiving
• Prevent unnecessary FOX error when user navigates to an expired page (using the back button)
• Allows workaround of an issue where extra whitespace is introduced to documents by Oracle
• Handles network errors more gracefully if the user has a problem uploading files
• Internet Explorer now properly sizes upload windows
• Added the ability to serve out files directly from FOX rather than via a popup window
• The FOX engine now generates rich report outputs using Jasper

4.05.02

• Allow digital signing to be disabled for individual documents in a group that would otherwise all be signed
• Fix a minor bug in document generation that caused FOX to consume a lot of Oracle connections in the event of an error
• Change digital signing track

4.05.01

• Added the ability to upload PKCS8 (certificate key) files for digital certificate management screens

4.05.00

• Integrated and reworked digital signing code to be more performant, stable and part of FOXopen standard release builds

4.04.45

• Minor presentation fix

4.04.44

• Minor fixes for spreadsheet generation. Can have bigger validation lists now

4.04.43

• Minor fixes for spreadsheet generation

4.04.42

• Spreadsheet generation - fix column validation so that data values are not the same for all columns of the same type
• Remove older versions of POI from the build (reduce build size)
• Fix up unit test for Cookie implementation

4.04.41

• Security fixes
• Minor fixes for upload problem (caused by network problems)
• Fix for upload window not resizing in IE9
• Minor bug fix to Oracle binary XML support
• Minor pagination fixes
• New command for generating spreadsheets (xls, xlsx, formatting support)
• Support for resumable web service sessions
• Minor enhancement to authentication to allow for more granular security restrictions for user login

4.04.40

• Added new download functionality to support serving binary files directly as a response to an HTTP request
• Fix minor bugs in download code when using query-based downloads

4.04.39

• Security fixes
• Improved support for Oracle's Binary XML feature

4.04.38

• Fix a minor error caused by user clicking the back button
• Added integrated support for Jasper reports

4.04.37

• Added ability for support personnel to view internal data DOMs on live environments
• Fixed date widget validation problem
• Fixed minor cosmetic document generation bug relating to list numbering