Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.0.1 - released September 2009

Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.0 - released November 2008

These release notes cover Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.0, including patches and maintenance packs. For information on a particular release, go to the appropriate section of these release notes.

Release notes are occasionally updated after the release date. For the most up-to-date release notes, go to download.oracle.com.

At the time of release, Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.0 supports the following:

• Windows
  • Operating Systems:
    • Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86)
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with Oracle JRockit
  • Databases:
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2005 SP2 (32- and 64-bit in default or failover cluster configuration)
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • VMWare ESX 3 and above
    • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
• RedHat Linux
  • Operating Systems:
    • RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4.0 update 5 and above on x86
    • RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 5.2 on x86
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with Oracle JRockit
  • Databases:
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • VMWare ESX 3 and above
• Oracle Enterprise Linux
  • Operating Systems:
    • Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.7
    • Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with Oracle JRockit
  • Databases:
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • Oracle VM
• Novell SuSE Linux
  • Operating Systems:
    • SuSE Enterprise Linux SLES 9 on x86
    • SuSE Enterprise Linux SLES 10 on x86
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with Oracle JRockit
  • Databases:
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • VMWare ESX 3 and above
• Sun Solaris
  • Operating Systems:
    • Solaris 9 on 64-bit SPARC, requires the following patch: 111711-15 (32-bit Shared library patch for C++ ) or 111712-15 (64-bit Shared library patch for C++)
    • Solaris 10 on 64-bit SPARC
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with Oracle JRockit
  • Databases:
    • IBM DB2 UDB 9.5
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • Solaris 10 Containers (Zones)
• IBM AIX
  • Operating Systems:
    • IBM AIX 5.3 on 64-bit POWER, requires the following patches: AIX 5.3 Service pack 5300-05–06 and July 2007 IBM C++ Runtime Environment Component for AIX
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with IBM JDK 1.5.0
  • Databases:
    • IBM DB2 UDB 9.5
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • IBM Dynamic Logical Partitioning (LPAR)
• HP-UX
  • Operating Systems:
    • HP-UX 11i V2 or V3 on 64-bit Itanium
  • Application Servers:
    • Oracle Embedded Application Server 4.0
    • Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 (10.3.0) with Oracle JRockit
  • Databases:
    • Oracle9i Database (9.2.0.7) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.3) or Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.x and above) including RAC
    • Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.6 and above)* including RAC
  • Virtualization Systems:
    • None

• Web Browsers:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0
  • Apple Safari 2.0 and 3.0 (Mac and Windows)
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and 3.0
• Microsoft Office (For Office Plug-In):
  • Microsoft Office 2003 on Windows XP SP2 or Vista
  • Microsoft Office 2007 on Windows XP SP2 or Vista
• Groupware Servers
  • Lotus Notes 5.0.11
  • Microsoft Exchange 2000 (SP3 and higher)
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003
• Microsoft Project
  • Microsoft Project 2003 & 2007

* On Oracle 11g databases, customers must add the following parameter to the bottom of the init$ORACLE_SID.ora file: _optimizer_group_by_placement=false.

IMPORTANT: As this is a patch release, installing 10.3.0.1 requires an existing installation of Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.0. The installer will not run if it does not detect an existing installation of 10.3.0.

• There is a new feature in this release that integrates with the Sharepoint task pane available through Microsoft Office applications. When enabled and configured correctly this becomes an alternative for the "WebEdit" feature. See the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration Administrator's Guide for configuration instructions and the online help for more information about this feature.

The following product documentation is available at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13158_01/alui/collaboration/docs103/index.html.

• Although WebEdit was supported on Microsoft Vista in 10.3.0, it required Microsoft Office to be run in Compatability mode (see Known Issues below). With the addition of the new Sharepoint task pane feature, it is possible to use WebEdit on Microsoft Vista without requiring Microsoft Office to be run in Compatability mode when using this feature. (Issue 60153)
• Collaboration notification templates do not support the messageID variable. (Issue 7827344)
• When auto deletion is set to four weeks, all documents in the recycle bin are deleted. (Issue 8309894)
• Runtime error occurs with bulk upload. (Issue 7824745)
• The bulk upload applet certificate expired on August 15th. (Issue 8715963)
• Collaboration SMTP hangs after 10 connections. (Issue 8278864)
• Crawler deletes project-wide custom properties. (Issue 8625117)
• Edit folder properties navigation clears some settings. (Issue 8505367)
• Calendar times change when toggling between properties/security tabs. (Issue 7821654).
• Japanese language: Incorrect translation for "quicklinks". (Issues 7826779/7824687)
• Increasing the width of the name field in the document tab causes problems. (Issue 7827107)
• Problems when searching custom document properites. (Issue 7825368)
• Error messages in the log file cause confusion. (Issue 7825900)
• Allow notification of portal groups. (Issue 7824738)

• In the unusual case where portal is deployed using WebLogic Server on a port other than 80, the the port will need to be manually added to the gateway URL in the Collaboration Administrator page under the 'Portal Access' settings. (Issue 8487177)
• User is unable to delete a document from the Microsoft Office task pane even with appropriate permissions. (Issue 8500856)
• Task dates in the Microsoft Office task pane may be one day off in instances where there are multiple time-zones used. (Issue 8513980)
• The number of tasks displayed in the Tasks tab of the Microsoft Office task pane reflects only completed tasks, not the total number of tasks. (Issue 8579445)

• There are no new features in this release.

• Cross-site scripting vulnerability. (Issue #69602)

• In Windows Vista, the Collaboration toolbar does not display when opening an Excel document from a Web Folder. This only occurs when opening the document before the Excel application is launched.
  WORKAROUND: Launch Excel before opening the document from the Web Folder. (Issue #68603)
• Rebuilding the Collaboration search index creates temporary files on bea\alui\ptcollab\4.5\tmp that are not later removed by the indexing agent. These files need to be manually deleted. (Issue # 69367)
• The Phone Home feature in Oracle Configuration Manager is not supported for use by customers unless directed to do so by customer support.  (Issue #68098)
• The WebEdit functionality in Collaboration consumes multiple user sessions in the portal. If this functionality is used with a portal running with an SDK license, the user session limit will be exhausted quickly. Additional users will not be able to log in to the portal until one of the existing sessions has expired or the portal is restarted. (Issue #54472)
• The APIs for managing Collaboration subscriptions in the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Development Kit ("IDK") have been deprecated and are no longer supported. (Issue #67376)
• Collaboration Database RAC settings are not implemented in Oracle Configuration Manager. (Issue #70350)
  WORKAROUND: Collaboration's database.xml configuration file located in <install_dir>10.3.0⁄settings⁄config⁄ must be used to configure Collaboration database connection settings.
• Document Management
• Cannot upload document larger than 350kb on Collaboration environment with SSL enabled and WebCenter Interaction is running on WebLogic Server.  (Issue #67466)
• Modified custom property values do not get applied after republishing a document to the Knowledge Directory. (Issue #67145)
• When publishing to the Knowledge Directory, a space (" ") may be entered as the value for custom property that is "required to publish." Performing this action results in an error. (Issue #66610)
• An Internal Server Error returns when the file size reaches the maximum project size during bulk upload. (Issue #52442)
• Versions of Collaboration prior to 4.1 allowed the '#' character in documents and folders; however, these documents and folders cannot be accessed via WebDAV so it is no longer possible to create a document or folder with '#' in the name. (Issue #44909)
• When creating a shortcut to a document and deleting the original file, users can still search on the document from the Project Explorer. When clicking on the shortcut, users receive an error message. (Issue #67531, #67530)
• It is not possible to view details for document folders whose name contains a '/' (forward slash). The '/' character should be removed from all folder names. Document folders created in Collaboration 4.x will not contain the '/' character in the name, but folders created in versions of Collaboration prior to 4.0 may have included this character. (Issue #58642)
• WebEdit and WebFolders
• WebFolder mapping does not work on Vista. This is a Vista -- not a Collaboration -- issue. In order to fix this problem, you must download "Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306)" from Microsoft and install it on the Vista machine. (Issue #64731)
• WebEdit and WebFolders do not work correctly on clients running Office 2007 and Microsoft Vista. (Issue #60153)
  
  WORKAROUND: The client will need to run its Office applications in "Windows XP compatibility mode" (meaning they run as if they were running on Windows XP). This needs to be done on every client machine for the three Office applications: Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. The process for running these applications in Compatibility Mode is as follows:
  
      1. Locate the executable. For example: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.exe .
      2. Right-click on the executable, and click Properties.
      3. Navigate to the Compatibility tab.
      4. Select the Run this program in compatibility mode for: box . Choose Windows XP (Service Pack 2) in the drop-down menu.
• WebDAV might not function correctly if the WebDAV extensions are set to Allowed instead of Prohibited on the portal server gatewaying the traffic. This only applies when running the .NET version of the portal. (Issue #50584)
• When changing a Collaboration folder through Web folders, all the files underneath are treated as newly-uploaded files and generate subscription e-mails for every file. (Issue #52395)
• When using Firefox, the Collaboration window does not refresh after checking it in or out via WebEdit. Therefore the file state does not appear to update (Issue #47583)
• It is not possible to open two Microsoft PowerPoint files simultaneously via WebDAV. (Issue #47769)
• When editing files through Web folders, if the full Web folder path is greater than 229 characters, opening in Edit mode causes a DDE error. (Issue #47801)
  WORKAROUND: Make sure that the path of the file contains fewer than 230 characters. To do this, use one of the following methods.
  
      -- Rename the file so it has a shorter name.
      -- Rename one or more folders that contain the file so that they have shorter names.
      -- Move the file to a folder that has a shorter path name.
• WebEdit might not work in a multi-domain environment using SSL. The workaround is to modify Collaboration's config.xml file to < nonGatewayedAccess enabled="yes"/> (Issue #58576)
• Office 2007 Plug-in
• The Advanced section of Office Ribbon does not work when the Collaboration document or folder name contains non-ASCII characters. (Issue #65326)
• The Microsoft Office 2003 Plug-in does not support Asian languages. (Issue #47153)
• Pathways Integration
• AL Pathways tags with non-ASCII characters that are applied from the Collaboration project or the Office 2007 ribbon are not passed to Pathways correctly. (Issue #67324)
• AL Pathways tags with Asian characters that are applied from the Collaboration project or the Office 2007 ribbon are not encoded correctly. (Issue #67423)
• Other
• RSS feed authentication: Basic authentication user name and password for RSS feeds does not support multi-byte characters. (Issue #67920)
• Project overview: Wide project overview modules might not display properly if dragged onto narrow columns. (Issue #66787)
• Manage Project: A project image cannot be uploaded before the project is created. To upload a project image, first create the project. Then go to Manage Project and upload the image. (Issue #64174)
• Projects whose names contain the following characters will no longer be displayed as Web folders: \ / * ? < > | #. New projects with these characters in their names can still be created, but the person creating projects with these characters will receive a warning. (Issue #47479)
• Customers using Oracle might see the error "No more data available to read" in collaboration.log if statistics are not run on the database. All Oracle deployments must follow the steps in KB article DA_232966 to prevent this error.
• Experience Definition URLs include user-specific fragments that preserve the correct look and feel of Experience Definitions for individual users. These URLs are cached by the Notification Service. If a portal user changes his or her login domain, the cached Experience Definition URLs for that user becomes invalid. There are other, less-common reasons why Experience Definition URLs can become invalid. If you are experiencing the same problem for a different reason, restarting the Notification Service will most likely resolve the problem. (Issue #58836)
• If users encounter an error when creating an announcement or a discussion message in a multi-domain environment using SSL, it might be necessary to disable the Rich Text Editor by modifying Collaboration's config.xml to <richtexteditor enabled="no"/> (Issue #58569)
• When clicking the New or Edit discussion message button you might be prompted to download "blank.html". This only happens with certain versions of Internet Explorer 6 and can be ignored. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest service pack for Internet Explorer. (Issue #47329)
• If nonGatewayedUploads is set to "yes" in config.xml (by default it is set to "no"), it might be necessary to modify the URL specified in the nonGatewayedUploads node to add a "/collab" to the end of the URL if the URL does not already contain this. (Issue #57749)
• User with Write permissions cannot attach a file to a discussion after canceling out of the Attach Document editor. The user will need to log in again or have their permissions elevated to Editor. (Issue #65015)
• Security settings do not get saved properly when a new event is created. (Issue #63397)
• MS Project files that are exported in an operating system in a locale other U.S. cannot be imported into Collaboration. (Issue #64144)