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. |
Do you have more details on that Highlight App? Is it entitled with Connections or does we need seperate licenses?
When I check https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10731735&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=R&cm_sp=swglotus-_-OCSSYGQH-_-R these uninstall instructions, it would be interesting how it is licensed, what happens to the already licensed ICEC?
It is a limited use license. The highlight app only allows for integrating Connections internal content within Communitys. Think of it as ICEC light. If you have the full ICEC if course you will be able to continue using it. What it means in terms of installation – not sure, yet. Doing an installation of CR3 on a system with ICEC already enabled just now.
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