IBM Connections 6.0 CR3 is out

Today CR3 for IBM Connections 6.0 has been released. It contains all fixes of CR1 and CR2 as well as the ones from the list below.  In addition CR3 improves Communities by leveraging IBM Connections Engagement Center technology to allow surfacing interesting information better inside of a community (Highlight App). You can now also search for the community you are looking for right from the community catalog page.

You can download it here (1,56GB).

You will also need to update the databases using the scripts here.

As always you can use the update guide published here for guidance with the upgrade.

There also is a known issue when using Cognos and WebSphere 8.5.5.14.  You can find the details & the workaround here.

Highlight App:

 

Community filtering:

It fixes the following things:

APAR#	Component	Problem Description
LO94031	Activities	Improvements in the display of the navigation bar in Activities
	Activities	Fixed a problem with Activity Entry and Todo where extended content would not be available in event data
	Activity Stream	Addressed a security error in IE11 when posts contained http:/ /emailaddress
LO94026	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Fixed the problem where the color of Upper border was not changed on table for Blogs entry
LO94061	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Blogs tables now retain cell spacing
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Fix a problem where the “Public Blogs” and “My updates” options in the navigation bar for Blogs were not selectable
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Improved the consistency of the  behavior in Blogs for restricted access
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Fixed the behavior where an @ symbol was not removed in Blogs when @mentioning user was not member of the community
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Addressed log noise for Blogs
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Corrected the Preview of a user in an @Mention in Blogs
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Fixed a hung thread with hit count in the Blogs database
	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Addressed an encoded character display issue for Bookmark in notifications and in the  Activity Streams
LO93976	Blogs & Bookmarks & Calendar	Corrected the behavior of Bookmarks and getting authentication using a proxy server
LO93977	CCM/FileNet	Selecting the Folder’s thumbnail in a community library returns to the Community Overview page
LO94015	Communities	Apostrophes and other special characters in the Subject field of in Community  Mail are correctly displayed
	Communities	Fixed the problem where a Community would continuously reload under certain circumstances when the Rich Content widget was enabled on Overview page
	Communities	Fixed a problem where the selected menu for Community blogs is Apps instead of Community
LO94070	Common UI	Improvements in CSS resources from CKEditor iFrame
LO94045	Files	FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles now creates temp index directories where it was previously failing
	Forums	Corrected the display issue where an extra @ in an @mentions was displayed in the EE comments for Forums
	Forums	Fixed the problem when after running the wsadmin command ForumsService.reCountForumById(),  the Topics/Messages counters on the Forum Page would gets set falsely to 0/0
	Forums	Corrected the display for special characters in the Forum title in the Community Forum widget
LO94069	General	General improvements in Forums, Homepage, News, and Mobile
LO94091	Homepage	Non-ascii characters are no longer encoded in the Widget title of a custom homepage widget
	Homepage	General improvement to adminapi.jsp
LO94046	Infrastructure	General improvement in the Rich Content widget user agent
	Install	Uninstalling a Connections application no longer removes some shared WAS variables
LO94051	Mobile	FCM Endpoint is used instead of GCM for Android Push Notification Support
LO94020	Mobile	New APNS Certs for Mobile Connections
	Mobile	Orientation of pictures taken with Mobile phones are now displayed correctly
LO93405	Notifications	Fixed an issue in the notification center (bell icon in header) where it was not working if a users profile was tagged
LO94101	Search	General improvements to Search
LO94081	Search	External users are no longer set to inactive by the people_finder search index if they do not belong to a community
LO93777	Widgets	Fixed the problem where third party widget were de-registered after the News application was restarted
	Widgets	Fixed a problem where a DBCS URL would fail in “Add to my bookmarks”
	Wikis	Fixed the problem where overlapping occurred when using a Table of Contents in the Community Wiki page with a top level menu.