filesender/filesender 1.1

Release 1-1

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Release Version 1.1

Release date: 5 November 2011

Release 1.1 is also available in the Debian and RPM package repositories and the Subversion repository. Currently Release 1.1 is distributed from the testing repositories. Release 1.1 switched to HTML5 for uploading large files, if you need still need the previous version using the deprecated Gears plugin please use Release 1-0-1.

Installation

See Installation - Linux Source

Upgrade Notes

When upgrading from a previous beta version (including 1.0(.x) RELEASE) please read the Upgrade notes before upgrading.

Changes since 1.0.1 RELEASE

•     Major change since 1.0.1
  • Dropped Gears dependency, upload of large (>2G) files now requires a browser that supports the HTML5 FileAPI, other browsers are limited to 2G uploads using the Flash upload mechanism. This change also obsoletes the following Gears-related issues in 1.0:
          #176 >2GB upload on MacOS hangs at ~2GB (Gears enabled)
          #290 File select fails in Linux/Gears for files of 2G or more.
          #358 Filename accents not displayed in GUI when using Gears

This means that FileSender 1.1 also allows large uploads from the Mac OSX and Linux platforms, provided a supported HTML5 browser is used.

• • Note that only user visible references to Gears have been changed. In the code and config.php references to 'gears' are still used. No changes are required in config.php except for the URL pointing to more information on HTML5:
    
             $config['gearsURL'] = 'http://html5test.com/';

• Minor fixes and changes
  • revision:993 filesender_db.sql: make fileauthuseruid character varying(500)
             When upgrading from previous versions you should fix the relevant
             column size in the database with:
                  #sudo -u postgres psql filesender
                  ALTER TABLE files ALTER fileauthuseruid TYPE character varying(500);
                  \q
  • #563 Compare of UID attribute with admin uid broken when attribute is not in an array
  • #569 Case-sensitive references to Files in cron.php
  • #582 Inconsistent file size limit warnings
  • #583 Email addresses rejected at maximum for uploads & voucher issue

• Packaging
  • The Debian package has been adapted to use the default baseurl of the simplesamlphp 1.7+ debian packages which changed from 'simplesaml' to 'simplesamlphp' to adhere to standard Debian policy.

Known issues

See Known issues in v1-1.

Support and Feedback

See Support and Mailinglists and Feature requests.