The ARender team presents version 4.8.14 of ARender.

Caution: A regression has been identified regarding emails and zip files, where annotations are not being fetched or saved correctly. The ARender team will soon release a fix for this issue. In the meantime, please refrain from updating to version 4.8.14 if you have emails and zip files.

Reminder: Multiple major security fixes have been added since the version 4.8.8: if you have not update to 4.8.8 yet, we highly recommend all our customers to update to version 4.8.14!

Evolution

‣ Performance

• PDF with high-quality JPEG 
  • Significantly faster rendering of PDFs that include high-quality JPEG images.

‣ Annotation

• Database storage
  • Add PostgreSQL as a supported database for annotation storage

‣ Rendition

• Supported OS
  
  • Add the support of Amazon Linux 2 OS

Fixes

‣ M-Files

• Document visualisation 
  • Fix the issue when the M-Files document could not be opened in ARender since a security update in ARender 4.8.8

‣ UI fixes

• Print
  • Fix the issue when the Print All feature was failing for multiple documents
• Annotation
  • ViewOne INI format
    • Fix the issue when INI annotation was not at the right position in version 4

• Annotation explorer
  • Fix the issue when a deleted annotation could still be visible in the comment explorer

‣ Rendition fixes

• Rendering
  •  E-Mails
    • Fix issues when specific e-mails that were not rendered
  •  Images
    • Fix the issue when, on Windows 10, HEIC/HEIF images that were not rendered
  • Multiple documents
    • Fix the issue when the upload of multiple documents was taking too much time to be rendered
    • Fix the issue when an unsupported document in a zip was making the rendering slower than it should

• Installer
  • Fix an issue when the installer failed on an offline Redhat 8 OS

Documentation

‣ Rendition configuration on PDF and E-Mails

• Activate the click on hyperlinks or local file links on PDF and E-Mails
  • Since version 4.8.13 and for security reasons, clicks on hyperlinks and local file links are disabled. The below documentation is what you need to activate them back:
    • https://docs.arender.io/configuration/rendition/task-conversion/

Known issues

• DirectOffice optional third party is not compatible with the Linux Rendition installer.