--- title: "Release Notes – Version 3.x" source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/guide/installation/release_notes/release_notes_version_3.html last_updated: 2026-08-07T17:09:54+10:00 tokens: ~2540 --- # Release Notes - Version 3.x ### Version 3.24 (3 April 2006) The following changes were made: - Allowed HTTP redirects to pass through filter to browser with automatic URL re-writing. - Set response encoding to UTF-8 whenever xformat=xml or xformat=data.xsl parameter is specified. ### Version 3.23 (21 March 2006) The following features were added: - **Simplified:** user interface with customization via CSS. - **Added:** *PDF* generation customization via FO configuration files. - **Added:** Rendition menu customization via configuration files. - **Added:** 'Save Release' and 'Compare' functions for document editing. - **Created:** new documents and links to them using the XRef tool when editing. - **Added: **Logging of authenticated username in Tomcat access logs. - **Added: **'On Vacation' option under My Preferences. - **Added: **'Approver' group role for issue workflow. - **Allowed:** `` element for Schema format to be identified by `` - **Added:** listed, notify, details, fields1..15 parameters to RegisterMember function. - **Added:** link in help to download schema for standard document format. - **Added:** email moderation option to group properties and made 'Can be added by' editable by group managers. - **Added:** ignorePrefix property to global.properties to hide certain files in the Document Explorer. - **Allowed:** spell checking of selected text in rich text editor. - **Added:** a drop down menu to select the 'Assigned To:' user in the Issues view. - **Allowed:** properties `` for `` tags in HTML. - **Added:** '(Status Change)' prefix to email status notifications. - **Added: **Editing comments now saves an archived copy of the original for auditing. - **Added:** support for proportional table column widths in standard XML format. - **Added:** HTML rendition to standard XML format. The following changes were made: - **Changed:** Exception now returned as XML if xformat=xml parameter is set. - **Fixed:** error in Acrobat 6 with annotation that don't have content. - **Fixed:** error when contributors add a status change comment. - **Changed:** Issue notification sender is now the user that changed the status. - **Changed:** Notes entered on issues are now emailed along with status change notification. - **Fixed:** filter encoding problem when the document source is a web server. - **Changed:** Defaulted filter document source to port 80 as per integration examples. - **Allowed:** arbitrary attributes starting with 'xsl-' in \ - **Tightened:** mail loop detection to reject any reply with the same content as a previous reply - **Fixed:** problem of double numbering of headings and lists in some WML files - **Allowed:** registration details form and properties to be customizable by group. - **Changed:** the 'My Issues' function under a group to 'Issues'. - **Fixed:** existing \ tag recognition for filtered HTML documents. - **Fixed:** problem removing files with escaped characters. - **Fixed:** XRef explorer displaying correctly for contributors. - **Disabled:** issue tracking for replies to comments. - **Allowed:** New Member Message to be customizable by group. - **Fixed:** filter problem with spaces in URL. - **Fixed:** character encoding problem in RTF rendition. - **Added:** /:\[port\] to absolute URL rewriting for filtered HTML. ### Version 3.22 (10 October 2005) The following features were added: - **Added:** Editing of external documents via filter API. - **Added:** API to plugin external rendering engines. The following changes were made: - **Fixed:** problem inserting new pages to group general discussion. - **Allowed:** folders to be removed. - Added: list items to default auto seeding. ### Version 3.21 (5 September 2005) The following features were added: - **Added:** Notification of group managers when comment status set to 'Resolved' or 'Closed' The following changes were made: - **Changed:** Returned email messages are forwarded without altering To & From headers - **Improved:** IndexLoader interface ### Version 3.20 (29 August 2005) The following features were added: - **Added:** 'New Document' right-clicking option on folders in the Document Explorer - **Added:** Customizable Status, Priority and Assign To fields when adding a new comment - **Added:** Customizable Status column in the Comment Detail which can be filtered - **Added:** My Issues option in the Group Explorer - **Added:** Comments, Documents, Uploads & Edits, My Issues options at the top level of the Group Explorer - **Added:** RTF rendition for XML editing - **Added:** Support for double tags in autoSeed property under global.properties (e.g. `` will seed the last cell in each row of a table) The following changes were made: - **Added:** notifyFromAddress=user|group|suppressed and mailReturnedAddress properties to global.properties - **Added:** reviewMaxXLinks=100 and searchMaxXLinks=100 properties to template.properties - **Standardized:** XML output from com.pageseeder.Search function - **Renamed:** username/password fields to fix unwanted browser autocomplete ### Version 3.11 (8 August 2005) The following features were added: - **Added:** XML Editing: numbered headings, automatically updated cross references and image upload. - **Added:** Issue tracking - **Added:** Document searching framework - **Added:** Ability to assign comments for a document to a particular contributor The following changes were made: - **Added:** notifyProcess=true and ignoreExtensions=.xml\_BAK,.xsd\_BAK properties to global.properties ### Version 3.10 (28 June 2005) The following features were added: - **Added:** XML editing/commenting with change history, *PDF* rendition, spell checker and WIKI markup support. - **Added:** XSD documentation and occurrence editing/commenting - **Added:** Addition of arbitrary properties to XLinks The following changes were made: - **Added:** XML output support to Upload function ### Version 3.05 (1 December 2004) The following features were added: - **Added:** Rename Document/Folder function - **Added:** Support for Acrobat 7 client - **Added:** Support for *PDFs* produced by Acrobat 7 The following changes were made: - **Changed:** Date of comment is not changed when it is edited ### Version 3.04 (5 November 2004) The following features were added: - **Added:** Ability to allow commenting from contributors only - **Added:** Ability to set default role and notification for new group members - **Added:** Move comment function for group managers - **Added:** Documents and Comments nodes to Review Group tree - **Added:** Page level commenting on MS Powerpoint documents The following changes were made: - **Fixed:** making comments accessible to other groups when moving documents - **Fixed:** problem uploading/moving/archiving files with strange characters in the name ### Version 3.03 (5 August 2004) The following changes were made: - **Fixed:** automatic saving of annotations when *PDF* is closed. - Fixed: error in Comment Detail when sorting replies - **Changed:** General Topic is now not displayed in Comment Detail ### Version 3.02 (21 July 2004) The following changes were made: - **Fixed:** Upload Document function - **Fixed:** deleted annotations appearing in HTML pages - **Fixed:** Move function incorrect naming of nested folders - **Added:** error message when moving a folder inside itself - **Added:** error message when removing a group's archive folder ### Version 3.01 (28 June 2004) The following features were added: - **Added:** Page level comments for Microsoft Word documents - **Added:** New XML processing framework - **Added:** Update database function The following changes were made: - **Fixed:** autoseeding problem with returns and extra white space after tag names - **Added:** icons for new Acrobat 6 annotation types - **Changed:** Archiving comments prefixes contentRole with 'archive-' in all cases except when contentRole is null - **Fixed:** scrolling to annotation location for landscape or rotated *PDF* documents - **Fixed:** problem with strange characters in document filenames and URLs - **Changed:** Trees now automatically scroll to display the opened node ### Version 3.0 (18 May 2004 - also called 2.31) The following features were added: - **Added:** Moderation of *PDF* comments - **Added:** Editing of *PDF* comments - **Added:** Tree based Review Space interface - **Added:** Tree based comment interface - **Added:** Enhancements to custom module framework - **Added:** Full security for all file formats - **Added:** Extensible document processor framework - **Added:** Full-text searching for Oracle database - **Added:** New Review wizard - **Added: **Archive group function - **Added: **Automatic archiving/versioning of documents - **Added: **Archive document/folder function - **Added:** Move folder function - **Added:** Add member function - **Added:** Reply to comments using normal email client reply function - **Added: **Enhanced email loop detection - **Added: **On-line Read Me First documentation - **Added: **Optional document display title - **Improved:** file attachment handling - **Added: **Printable comment list The following changes were made: - **Disabled:** alternate email prefix feature - **Disabled:** automatic URI moving based on title/datetime params - **Disabled:** the following *PDF* annotation types: File Attachment, Sound Attachment and Custom/Dynamic Stamp. - **Changed:** Database admin functions are disabled by default - **Changed:** Delete comments is disabled by default - **Changed:** Different members cannot have the same email address - **Changed:** Moderators now have the same permissions as Managers - **Changed:** Settings autoExtension, autoExtension2 & pdfExtension in global.properties are no longer supported - **Changed:** Filters invalid unicode characters from XML - **Upgraded:** XSLT processor to Saxon 7.9.1 - **Upgraded:** object relational mapping to VBSF 3.12 - **Upgraded:** servlet engine to Tomcat 5.0.19 - **Upgraded:** JRE to 1.4.2\_03