- Fixed a problem causing the localized text to be missing from the download page. If upgrading an existing installation please check the "Use SVG Template" for the real-time template "Prez".

- Fixed problem where quota limits were not checked on a sub configuration. Only limits on the share itself were checked.

- Updated Canto Cumulus templates for backwards compatibility.

- Fixed problem where you could not add more than one user to a group in Internet Explorer.

eRez 5.0.5 Changes

- Fixed a problem where deleted files were not deleted from the SQL database.

- Fixed a problem where the "Use Proxy" checkbox was displayed during publish to web even when there is no CDN connector defined

eRez 5.0.4 Changes

- Fixed problem where ICC-profile was not set correctly when editing download templates.

eRez 5.0.3 Changes

- Users with administrative rights will now implicitly be member of all groups. This behavior is now the same as in eRez version 4.

- Fixed some problems where FSI viewers would not work correctly with configurations and encrypted strings.

eRez 5.0.2 Changes

- License text in HTML format is now displayed correctly when using “Install Package” from the Management Console.

- Fixed a problem where groups did not get the correct permissions on imported eRez version 4 shared folders.

- Added support for entering eRez4 compatible “System Passphrase” from Management Console.

- Fixed a problem where the default user and admin user accounts were not imported from eRez version 4.

- Fixed a problem with Custom Cache URLs being incorrectly imported from eRez version 4 settings. Allow previously entered Custom Cache URLs to be cleared.

- eRez 4 saved collections can now be moved to eRez 5 by copying the folder "erez4/WEB-INF/private/collections" and all its content to "erez/WEB-INF/private/collections"

- Fixed security issue with "fsi-private" share. eRez 5.0 users: Please make sure to manually disable anonymous edit, delete and upload permissions to the "fsi-private" share after upgrading to 5.0.1.

- Fixed a problem showing the non-flash (DHTML) folder tree as empty.

- Shares, Users, Groups, Realtime and Download template lists are now sorted when displayed in the Management Console.

- Synchronize Color Management is now turned on by default. eRez 5.0 users: Please make sure to turn on “Synchronize Color Management” in the Management Console.

- The FSI Viewer 4 compatibility skins are now available.

- Fixed problem where you could not login in to the management console when you renamed the “admin” user.

eRez 5.0 known issues and limitations

- This is an English language only release.

- The FSI Viewer 4 compatibility skins are not included.

eRez Imaging Server and FSI 5.0 – new features

This chapter lists some of the major new features included in eRez Imaging Server 5.0 and FSI 5.0.

Logistics

eRez 5.0 offers several major improvements in the area of logistics.

Use of embedded or external SQL databases. eRez 5.0 stores a variety of information regarding media files, meta data, configurations, status etc. in an SQL database. eRez 5.0 includes an embedded, zero-configuration Apache Derby database which will be used per default. This Derby database can optionally be replaced by an external database such as MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL or DB2. The addition of a standard JDBC compliant database offers many advantages, including:

Ease of integration with other systems through employment of the database as a new point of integration. External applications can read, and in some cases (and with great care), write information to and from the database.

Many housekeeping tasks – including logging and statistics – are greatly simplified.

Completely new management console, including:

Support for all new features, including multiple configurations and sub-administrators.

Simplified license activation and reporting.

An e-mail is sent to the administrator a few days before an license expires.

Great looking “live” Flash-based charts.

Improved reporting of status and internal queues.

Easy access to warnings and system messages.

E-mails sent are now logged and can be view from the management console.

Tracking of downloads.

Quotas on disk space, number of images and number of users.

Improved error reporting.

Support for alternative images in cases where a requested image isn’t available.

Scalability and Performance

RAM-based image cache.

Optional “CDN Connector” license, offering automated integration with Content Delivery Networks and Reverse Proxy servers such as Mirror Image, Akamai and Squid.

Numerous added performance and scalability improvements.

Installation and Licensing

Automatic configuration of optimal thread and memory usage settings based on available CPUs, RAM and license restrictions.

The eRez Server will now run on systems containing more CPUs than permitted in the purchased licensing agreement; however, the server will only take full advantage of the number of CPUs permitted in the agreement.

A notification is sent by email to the administrator a few days before a license expires.

Simplified upgrade from version 4 by importing version 4 configuration files to the SQL database.

Imaging and Media Handling

Black Point Compensation greatly enhances the appearance of CMYK source images.

Support for video and sound playback using Flash or Quicktime players.

JPEG images can optionally be preserved on the server as JPEG files. eRez will create private copies in optimized TIFF format and use those for internal processing – but this process is completely transparent for the user.
Preconfigured generic support for the 500 common file formats.

Several PDF Splitter improvements including support for splitting multiple PDF documents in parallel and PDF metadata support.

Several upload improvements:

Support for ZIP files with non-ASCII file names such as Asian.

Optional support for preserving folder structures in ZIP files.

Option for allowing uploaded ZIP files to remain packaged, rather than unpacking them.

Check for maliciously constructed “ZIP Bombs”.

Localization

In addition to English, German, French and Danish, the following localized versions are being prepared:

Simplified Chinese

Traditional Chinese

Italian

Spanish

Additional miscellaneous localization improvements will be included as well.

Indexing and Searching

SQL database keeps record of all media files and associated metadata.

IPTC metadata can now be associated with any file format by means of external “side car” files and the SQL database.

Improved searching for parts of filenames seperated by underscore and other special characters.

Support for queries with leading wildcards.

eRez Web Interface

Major enhancements to the web interface include:

New Flash-based navigation tree with on-demand loading provides instant access to very large folder structures.

Integration of new FSI hyperlink editor for Pages and Hotspots.

Integration of new FSI Pages overlay editor for easy insertion of video and other overlays to FSI Pages.

Define and store FSI Pages “Chapters” directly from “Publish to Web”, without having to manually create XML files.

Option to store the current “Publish to Web” configuration as an "FSI Preset".

Ability to write custom FSI configuration files etc. to the file system directly from the “Publish to web” pages.

FSI Viewer, Pages and Showcase 5.0

eRez 5.0 comes bundled with the new FSI 5.0 viewers. Major improvements to FSI 5.0 include:

FSI Pages 5.0:

New optional Shopping List plug-in product.

FSI Pages Link Authoring. Web-based tool based on FSI Pages, enabling the user to author links in pages (square and polygons).

Sticky Notes for FSI Pages. See figure below.

Thumb bar and page markers. See figure below.

New options for links (open product page, zoom page, zoom product, add bookmark, print, etc.).

Optional "mirror" effect.

Zoom function works on double page spreads.

Links to related catalogs.

New overlay editor for inserting videos and other overlays.

FSI Viewer & FSI Showcase

Print and Save dialogs in FSI Viewer and Showcase.

Navigation in FSI Showcase to publish folders with sub-folders.

Extended styles for dialogs in custom FSI Viewer skin including "close" buttons.

New FSI Viewer default skins.

FSI Cache

The FSI product ZoomCache will be renamed “FSI Cache”, now included as part of a suite of server side applications together with “FSI Converter” and “FSI Connector” (used for retrieving live data from FSI Pages from SQL servers etc.).

Miscellaneous

eRez is now fully compatible with Tomcat 6 which is also bundled with the Windows and Mac installers.

Discontinued Features

Support files for integration with Canto Cumulus Web Publisher Pro is no longer included and maintained. eRez 5 is designed to work transparently with the integration files bundled with eRez 4.