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Release information for 3.3.0
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This release contains various improvements which require your manual
interaction during an upgrade from an earlier version. You should definitely
make a backup of your database and possibly your content folder.

Folder search
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The new folder search has introduced a new database field which has to
be initially filled. Without that field searching for subfolders in a
folder will not work. See below.

Data conversion
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The conversion of strings like names and comments of documents and folders,
when saved in the database, has been completely droped. The conversion was
originally done for security reasons, both to prevent sql injections and cross
side scripting. Basically any field data that could do any harm, was replaced
by 'harmless' chars. Ampersands, semi colons, quotes, etc., they all have been
replaced by their html entity or masked by a backslash. The output of those
fields on html pages was not decoded anymore, but any other application that
accessed the database had to decode the data.

The new approach with less impact on the data keeps the data 
unmodified when saving it in the database without opening new security
wholes. Protection against cross side scripting is done when the data
is placed on a html page.

As a consequence the complete database has to be searched for those
previously converted strings and converted back into the original value. 

The conversion is done right after the database update during the
installation and upgrade process.

Content directory
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Each document in LetoDMS is associated with a directory in the file system.
Consequently, there is a limitation of documents set by the maximum number
of subdirectories in a directory of the filesystem. The currently most used
filesystem on Linux (ext3) supports only 31998 directories. In order to
overcome this limitation another level of directories has been put inbetween
the content directory and the document directory numbered from 1 to
maxDirID.  This allows a theorethical maximum of square(maxDirID) documents.
The path to the document folder consists of the new path id and the document
id (<pathid>/<docid>). The path id is derived from the document id by the
formula

  floor(docid/maxDirID) + 1

Hence, all documents with an id from 1 to maxDirID have the path '1/<docid>'.
The limiting factor of this schema is the number of document ids. It cannot
be higher than square(maxDirID).

If you intend to switch to the new multi level content directory format, you
will have to set maxDirID to a value > 0 (possibly 31998) and create one or
more new directories starting with name '1' below the content dir and move
all document directories into it.  How many new directories are needed
depends on the maximum document id already used. If the maximum document id
is <= maxDirID, then you will only need one directory named '1'. If the
maximum document id is <= 2*maxDirID you will need another directory named
'2'.  If you have already a document with id 1 (or 2, 3, 4, ...), you must
choose a different name for your new sub directory and rename to 1 (or 2, 3,
4, ...) after all document directories have been moved.

If you want to keep the current content directory structure set maxDirID to
0. Make sure the maxDirID remains unchanged for a content directory.

After finishing update
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Once you are done with the update, log in as administrator and make an
object check in the admin tools. This will fill the new database field
needed for the folder search and fill it with the appropriate value.