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en:release:3.09_release_notes [2018/09/13 03:00] – [Firefox browser doesn't remember you being logged into greenstone] anupamaen:release:3.09_release_notes [2019/07/10 03:43] anupama
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 **Release Name:** 3.09 **Release Name:** 3.09
  
-**Release Date:** unknown+**Release Date:** 30 May 2019 
 + 
 +** Released: ** 
 + 
 +   * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mac Mojave/10.4 (but may also work on Mac Sierra/10.12).\\ All the binaries have only been spot-tested, since the 3.09 release candidates, which came out a few weeks before, were tested more extensively on all the tutorials. Source distributions and source components compile on Windows 8. \\ [[http://svn.greenstone.org/main/tags/3.09/|svn tag page]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/3.09|trac tag page]]. Code revision up to 33119. Tag revision: 33122. 
 +      * The Mac binary is generated on High Sierra/10.13 and tested partially on that but mostly on Mojave/10.14. 
 +      * The Windows binary was largely tested on Windows 10, but partially on Windows 8.1 
 +      * The Linux binary was largely tested on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and partially on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. 
 + 
 +** Release Candidate History ** 
 + 
 +  * Greenstone 3.09 rc1: Release Candidate 1. Released 6 May 2019. \\ Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, Mac High Sierra/Mojave. (Mac version generated on MacOS High Sierra/10.13 and tested on Mojave/10.14. It may still work on El Capitan/10.11 and Sierra/10.12, but is untested on these.) \\ Download from the [[http://www.greenstone.org/snapshots | snapshots]] page \\ [[http://svn.greenstone.org/main/tags/3.09rc1/|svn tag page]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/3.09rc1|trac tag page]].  Code revision up to 33051. Tag revision: 33057. 
 + 
 +As always, many thanks to our TSG (tech support) who made this and previous releases possible by setting up test machines for us and getting us access to them, all on short notice. Thanks to TSG, bugs could be found and fixed and 3.09rc1 got a release at last. 
  
-   
 ===== Installation Instructions===== ===== Installation Instructions=====
  
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 ===== Further instructions ===== ===== Further instructions =====
 +==== Setting up your Greenstone to run over https ====
 +The more secure https protocol is increasingly required by browsers and gradually superseding http. Given that you meet the following requirements and configure your GS3 as below, Greenstone 3 has now been automated to obtain an https certificate for you from the free Certification Authority "Let's Encrypt".
  
 +Requirements: because we need to temporarily run a server on port 80 to get a certificate issued and because port 80 has some access restrictions surrounding it on most machines,
 +  * on unix (linux and mac) systems you need to have sudo permissions
 +  * on windows, you probably need admin rights
 +  * ensure nothing is running on port 80 when you're ready to set up https certification for your GS3 
 +
 +Steps:
 +  - Edit build.properties as follows:
 +     * set ''tomcat.server'' to the //primary// hostname/domain name that you want your Greenstone3 to run as and which is to be registered in your certificate. This would be the host name of your machine.
 +     * set a value for ''keystore.pass''.\\ This will be the password on your final certificate used by tomcat.
 +     * Ensure ''server.protocols'' contains ''https''.\\ The ''server.protocols'' property is a comma-separated list that indicates which protocols are to be supported by your Greenstone 3 server. This property can be set to one of 
 +        * ''http''
 +        * ''https''
 +        * ''http,https''
 +        * ''https,http''\\ The first in the list becomes the default protocol used for previewing with the GS3 server application, ''gs3-server''.
 +     * By default ''tomcat.port.https'' is set to 8443. Ensure this port is not already in use, otherwise change it to a port value that's not in use.
 +  - Make sure you have read and agree with the [[https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-2017.pdf|Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement]]
 +  - Use a terminal to go into your GS3 installation folder, run ''gs3-setup.bat'' on windows and ''source ./gs3-setup.sh'' on linux and mac to set up the GS3 environment, then run the ''ant setup-https-cert'' target. For example on Linux,\\ <code>cd /path/to/GS3
 +source ./gs3-setup.sh
 +ant setup-https-cert
 +</code>\\ You'll be asked for an **email** that Let's Encrypt can optionally communicate to you on, as well as **any additional domain names** you want in the //same// certificate (additional domains are **untested**), and whether you **agree** with the Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement.\\ **On linux or mac, you may be asked to enter your sudo password** to briefly run a server on port 80. **Note:** On Mac and windows, GS3 uses the **//third party//** [[https://zerossl.com/usage.html|ZeroSSL]] to get Let's Encrypt to issue certificates, which will result in GS3's own tomcat server to be run on port 80 during certificate issuance. On Linux, we use //Let's Encrypt//'s own certbot-auto script for the certification process, and have it set to run a standalone temporary server on port 80.
 +  - Once the setup-https-cert ant target has finished, you can start your web GS3 server by either running the gs3-server application or by running "ant start" from the terminal.
 +  - If you ran the gs3-server application, press the Enter Library button to open your DL home page. If you ran ''ant start'' from the command line, then open a browser manually. Point your browser to ''https:%%//%%<tomcat.server>:<tomcat.port.https>/greenstone3/library'', adjusting the tomcat.server and tomcat.port.https values as per what you set for these properties in your GS3 installation folder's toplevel ''build.properties'' file.\\ //**BE AWARE:**//
 +     * when visiting your digital library over http**s**, remember to prefix htt**ps** to the address and use the htt**ps** port defined with ''tomcat.port.https'', and do not use ''localhost'' but the actual domain you registered which is defined in the ''tomcat.server'' property you set.
 +     * If you've also turned on http support alongside https, then to visit your DL over regular http, return the URL to having the htt**p** prefix and remember to change the port number to what's defined for htt**p** in property ''tomcat.port.http''. For http URLs, you can use the domain name set in ''tomcat.server'' too, or try either of ''localhost'' or ''127.0.0.1'' denoting the local host machine.
 +  - Once your https home page has loaded, confirm that your certificate is properly installed by looking for a green padlock next to the address bar. (Depending on your browser, you can click the padlock to get more information on the certificate issuer.)
 +
 +There are 2 more https-related automated ant targets you can run from the command line:
 +  * ''ant remove-https-cert'': to revoke your https certificate
 +  * ''ant renew-existing-https-cert'': This is to renew a certificate that you'd already earlier obtained with ''ant setup-https-cert'' explained above. A Let's Encrypt certificate needs renewing every 90 days, at which point your certificate will need to be reinstalled. For renewal, you will once more need to ensure all the same conditions as for issuance (the same conditions as when you ran ''ant setup-https-cert''), such as nothing running on port 80. Since renewal reinstall your certificate, you will need to stop your GS3 server first before running the ''ant renew-existing-https-cert'' target, then after the target has finished, run your GS3 server once more. Renewal will not take place despite running the ''ant renew-existing-https-cert'' target unless the approximate time for expiry has been reached (+/- 10 days on Windows/Mac).
 +
 +**Important:** Beware that if you've configured your GS3 to support http and https, by setting the ''server.protocols'' property to include both http and https, then switching between the two protocols when you visit your GS3 pages in your browser could result in the //http// variants of GS3 web pages not remembering you when you log in to them. For the solution and for further details, consult the section [[en:release:3.09_release_notes#troubleshooting|Troubleshooting > Your browser doesn't remember you being logged into greenstone]]. 
 +
 +
 +==== PDF plugin restructuring and the NEW PDFv2Plugin ====
 +
 +From GS3.09 onward, the GS3 binaries will henceforth include additional tools for converting from PDF to various text/html/image/image+text formats. (For GS2, only the nightly binaries at http://www.greenstone.org/caveat-emptor/?latest=latest will contain these changes.)
 +
 +We're deprecating the old "PDFPlugin". And in its place there will be 2 plugins to handle PDFs:
 +  * "//PDFv1Plugin//" which is the same as the old PDFPlugin but minus the PDFBox_conversion option. It returns to using the old ''pdftohtml'' tool to do the conversions, and is limited to older versions of PDFs.
 +  * **the recommended "//PDFv2Plugin//"**, which will contain the new functionality and should handle a greater range of PDF versions, including the newer ones that the old ''pdftohtml'' (now used by PDFv1Plugin) can't handle. The "PDFBox conversion" facility has been moved to the new PDFv2Plugin, but is now invisible: it will be triggered automatically depending on the "convert_to" format that you select when you Configure the PDFv2Plugin. PDFv2Plugin also uses additional conversion tools in the background to support the additional output formats.
 +
 +For the eventual 3.09 release, the old PDFPlugin that you're familiar with, the one which has the ''pdfbox_conversion'' flag but also makes use of the old ''pdftohtml'' tool behind the scenes, will hang around with a deprecated warning, to allow people to port over their collections and keep rebuilding with the old settings or to rebuild their collection with one of the 2 new PDF plugins. However, **new collections will have the //PDFv2Plugin// in the Document Plugins pipeline by default for GS3, and PDFv1Plugin by default for GS2, since GS2 doesn't come with the PDFbox extension out of the box.** So GS2 users will have to manually add in PDFv2Plugin in place of PDFv1Plugin for new collections, after setting up the pdfbox extension. But then it should work as usual.
 +
 +
 +The "convert_to" options/output formats of the new PDFv2Plugin are:
 +  * ''text'': a single stream of text;
 +  * ''html'': a single stream of basic html from just the extracted text, no images;
 +  * ''pretty_html'': each page is now an HTML page consisting of extracted text overlaid on top of a screenshot of the rest of the PDF page;
 +  * ''paged_pretty_html'' (also the default when convert_to is set to auto): ''pretty_html'', but each page is a section;
 +  * ''pagedimg_<png|jpg>'': every PDF page as an image, sectionalised by page. Not searchable, since there's only images;
 +  * ''pagedimgtxt_<png|jpg>'': every PDF page as an image plus that page's extracted text, sectionalised by page.
 +
 +As always, text is only extracted from a PDF where extractable. This depends on user permissions for a PDF, whether the PDF contains actual extractable text and not just images of text, whether the PDF is undamaged, and any other such factors.
 +
 +There may be further adjustments made, including to display strings, but so far, we've decided on the above output formats and they seem to work on my regular PDF test documents. 
 ====Changing the admin password==== ====Changing the admin password====
 Login to the administration page, 'edit' the admin account, and click 'change password'. Alternatively, you can login as admin via the login button at the top right of each page. Once you are logged in, this button will change to say 'admin'. Click this button and select 'account settings'. From there, you can select 'change password'. Login to the administration page, 'edit' the admin account, and click 'change password'. Alternatively, you can login as admin via the login button at the top right of each page. Once you are logged in, this button will change to say 'admin'. Click this button and select 'account settings'. From there, you can select 'change password'.
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 2. Make the Greenstone "collect" directory, located in web/sites/localsite, writeable by the webserver user. 2. Make the Greenstone "collect" directory, located in web/sites/localsite, writeable by the webserver user.
  
-On Unix, use //chmod//.+On Unix, you would do 
 +<code>chmod -R a+w /path/to/your/GS3/web/sites/localsite/collect</code>
  
 On Windows, run in a DOS prompt: On Windows, run in a DOS prompt:
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 ===GLI Java Web Start application (replacement for GLI Applet) - Additional Steps=== ===GLI Java Web Start application (replacement for GLI Applet) - Additional Steps===
-Many browsers have stopped supporting Java applets, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and perhaps Microsoft Edge, still support it. For this reason, 3.09's GLI is now no longer provided as an applet, but has been converted into a Java Web Start application.+**You will need a Java Development Kit (JDK) v 7 or 8 installed for this.** 
 + 
 +Many browsers have stopped supporting Java applets including Microsoft Edgethough Microsoft's Internet Explorer still supported it. For this reason, 3.09's GLI is now no longer provided as an applet, but has been converted into a Java Web Start application.
  
 Instructions for using the GLI Java Web Start, which works over the JNLP protocol, are below. Instructions for using the GLI Java Web Start, which works over the JNLP protocol, are below.
  
   - First follow the instructions above for [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.09_release_notes#setting_up_a_remote_greenstone_3_server | setting up the Remote GS Server]]   - First follow the instructions above for [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.09_release_notes#setting_up_a_remote_greenstone_3_server | setting up the Remote GS Server]]
-  - Next, generate the SignedGatherer.jar:+  - Next, generate the SignedGatherer.jar as follows. Be aware that to run the ''jarsigner'' utilities, you will need a JDK installed.
       * Use a terminal to go into the Greenstone "gli" directory, then run <code>    keytool -genkey -alias privateKey -keystore appletstore -storepass greenstone</code> Enter the appropriate details for your organization. When it asks to enter the key password for <privateKey>, choose your own password or hit Enter to use "greenstone".       * Use a terminal to go into the Greenstone "gli" directory, then run <code>    keytool -genkey -alias privateKey -keystore appletstore -storepass greenstone</code> Enter the appropriate details for your organization. When it asks to enter the key password for <privateKey>, choose your own password or hit Enter to use "greenstone".
-      * Next, run <code>    jarsigner -keystore appletstore -signedjar SignedGatherer.jar GLI.jar privateKey</code> +      * Next, run <code>    /PATH/TO/YOUR/JDK_INSTALLED_FOLDER/bin/jarsigner -keystore appletstore -signedjar SignedGatherer.jar GLI.jar privateKey</code> 
-When it prompts, enter the password you used above.+When it prompts, enter the password you used above (''greenstone'').
   - Move the created ''SignedGatherer.jar'' file from the ''gli'' directory into GS3's ''web/applet'' subdirectory.   - Move the created ''SignedGatherer.jar'' file from the ''gli'' directory into GS3's ''web/applet'' subdirectory.
   - You need to associate JNLP files with Java Web Start (''jre/bin/javaws'').   - You need to associate JNLP files with Java Web Start (''jre/bin/javaws'').
       * On Windows, create the association in the usual way: when you first access the GLI Web Start application through Greenstone, a JNLP file called "GLIappWebStart.jnlp" will be offered for launching or download. If JavaWS is not already the default application to open JNLP files with, rightclick on the downloaded GLIappWebStart.jnlp file and choose ''Launch/Open with ...''. Browse to your Greenstone3's ''packages/jre/bin/javaws.exe'' or any installed Java's ''jre/bin/javaws.exe'' to use Java's Web Start application as the launcher.       * On Windows, create the association in the usual way: when you first access the GLI Web Start application through Greenstone, a JNLP file called "GLIappWebStart.jnlp" will be offered for launching or download. If JavaWS is not already the default application to open JNLP files with, rightclick on the downloaded GLIappWebStart.jnlp file and choose ''Launch/Open with ...''. Browse to your Greenstone3's ''packages/jre/bin/javaws.exe'' or any installed Java's ''jre/bin/javaws.exe'' to use Java's Web Start application as the launcher.
-      * For Linux, create a file with ''.desktop'' extension (e.g. "javawebstart.desktop") containing the following and save this file into ''~/.local/share/applications'':\\ <code># This file makes Ubuntu associate .jnlp files with Java Web Start (javaws)+      * On Mac, .jnlp files may already be associated with the Java Web Start application for launching JNLP files (Java web start applications). Otherwise, see page 3 of http://online.unm.edu/help/learn/faculty/tools/web-conferencing/common/web-conferencing-pdf-files/jnlp-file-association.pdf for instructions on creating the file association for this. Once the file association between the Java Web Start application and .jnlp files has been made, you can just double-click on the ''GLIappWebStart.jnlp'' file you downloaded.  
 +      * For Linux, create a file with ''.desktop'' extension (e.g. "javawebstart.desktop") containing the following, **edit the path to javaws**, and save this file into ''~/.local/share/applications'':\\ <code># This file makes Ubuntu associate .jnlp files with Java Web Start (javaws)
 # This file should be adjusted and then copied into ~/.local/share/applications # This file should be adjusted and then copied into ~/.local/share/applications
 # as a file with .desktop extension, e.g. javawebstart.desktop # as a file with .desktop extension, e.g. javawebstart.desktop
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 Name=Java 7 Web Start Name=Java 7 Web Start
 Comment=Java 7 Web Start Comment=Java 7 Web Start
-Exec=/home/greenstone/Desktop/linux/jre/bin/javaws %u+Exec=/EDIT-THIS-PATH-TO-YOUR-JAVA-JRE/bin/javaws %u
 Terminal=false Terminal=false
 Type=Application Type=Application
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 MimeType=application/x-java-jnlp-file; MimeType=application/x-java-jnlp-file;
 </code> </code>
-  - Launch the Java Control Panel by running ''jre/bin/javacpl.exe'' on Windows or ''jre/bin/ControlPanel'' on Linux. (GS3 binaries now include a JRE in the ''packages'' folder if you want to use the bundled JRE.) In the Java Control Panel, go to the ''Security'' tab, set Security level to ''High'' if not already set. Click ''Edit Site List'', and then press ''Add'' to add the //host:port// that the GS3 will run on. Remember, to be accessible to the outside world, the host can't be "localhost", but would be the hostname of your machine or public IP. +  - Launch the Java Control Panel by running ''jre/bin/javacpl.exe'' on Windowsor ''jre/bin/jcontrol'' (formerly jre/bin/ControlPanel) on Linux or follow the instructions at https://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_controlpanel.xml for mac. (GS3 binaries now include a JRE in the ''packages'' folder if you want to use the bundled JRE.) In the Java Control Panel, go to the ''Security'' tab, set Security level to ''High'' if not already set. Click ''Edit Site List'', and then press ''Add'' to add the //http:%%//%%host:port// (or //https:%%//%%host:HTTPS-port// if you've [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.09_release_notes#setting_up_your_greenstone_to_run_over_https|set up https support]]) that the GS3 will run on. Remember, to be accessible to the outside world, the host can't be "localhost", but would be the hostname of your machine or public IP. Click OK to exit the Java Control Panel with your changes in effect
-  - Once the GS3 code is compiled upstart up the GS3 web server and visit your DL library home page, ''http://[hostname]:8383/greenstone3/library''+  - Make the GLI link on the home page active: Open web/interfaces/default/transform/pages/home.xsl for editingfind the line <code> 
-  - Since you have set up the JNLP file association in a previous step, you can now click on the "The Librarian Interface" link and your browser should offer to save or launch a file called ''GLIapplet.jnlp''. If the browser is able to successfully launch it, Java Web Start will be used to run the GLI application indicated by the JNLP file. If launching through the browser is not possible, then choose to save the JNLP file. It will download the file to a temporary user area (like C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp on windows). And then you can rightclick on the downloaded GLIappWebStart.jnlp file, to launch it with the Java Web Start program you already associated with this file type. +<!--<gslib:libraryInterfaceLink/><br/><br/>--> 
-  - After authorising the GLI to run, the JNLP version of the GLI Applet will eventually run and behave like the usual client-GLI (and like the old GLI applet) from this point onward.  +</code> and remove the comments. i.e. change it to <code> 
- +<gslib:libraryInterfaceLink/><br/><br/> 
 +</code> Save the changes and close the file. 
 +  - (Re)Start the GS3 web server and visit your DL library home page, ''http://[hostname]:8383/greenstone3/library''
 +  - Since you have set up the JNLP file association in a previous step, you can now click on the "The Librarian Interface" link and your browser should offer to save or launch a file called ''GLIappWebStart.jnlp''. Click ''Open With'' and in the dropdown box beside it, one of the launcher applications, at least on Windows, should be the "Java(TM) Web Start Launcher" application (javaws.exe) that you associated with .jnlp file extensions. Choose that application as the launcher. If the browser is able to successfully launch ''GLIappWebStart.jnlp''then Java Web Start will be used to run the GLI application indicated by the JNLP file. If launching through the browser is not possible, for example, if the launcher application is not listed, as may happen on Linux machines, then choose to save the JNLP file. It will download the file to a temporary user area (like C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp on windows). And then you can rightclick on the downloaded GLIappWebStart.jnlp file, to launch it with the Java Web Start program you already associated with this file type. This way should work on both Linux and Windows
 +  - You will need to **authorise** the GLI to run. After that, the JNLP version of the GLI Applet will eventually run and behave like the usual client-GLI (and like the old GLI applet) from this point onward: starting with providing your account username and password on Greenstone that you created when setting up the remote GS3 server. You may also be asked for your proxy authentication details if set up for behind a proxy.
 === Converting a GS2 collection to GS3 when working with a remote GS3 server === === Converting a GS2 collection to GS3 when working with a remote GS3 server ===
 The new Format Conversion Wizard to convert GS2 format statements to GS3 format statements (see [[en:user:gs2_to_gs3 |this page]]) only appears when you're working with GLI, not client-GLI. The client-GLI for GS3 will only perform the most basic initial step in the conversion process, which is to preserve the GS2 format statements in inactive XML tags in the new collection's collectionConfig.xml. The new Format Conversion Wizard to convert GS2 format statements to GS3 format statements (see [[en:user:gs2_to_gs3 |this page]]) only appears when you're working with GLI, not client-GLI. The client-GLI for GS3 will only perform the most basic initial step in the conversion process, which is to preserve the GS2 format statements in inactive XML tags in the new collection's collectionConfig.xml.
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 ===== Important Changes and Bug Fixes ===== ===== Important Changes and Bug Fixes =====
- +  * **HTTPS support:** Greenstone will obtain a certificate from the Certification Authority Let's Encrypt to run your GS3 tomcat over https. However, on unix systems (macs and linux), you will need to have sudo permissions. And on Windows you will probably need admin rights. For instructions on usage, see [[#setting_up_your_greenstone_to_run_over_https|Setting up your Greenstone to run over https]] 
 +  * **GreenstoneSQLPlugin/-out:** used in place of GreenstoneXMLPlugin/-out to write metadata and/or fulltext into a MySQL database instead of Greenstone doc.xml files. You can then use SQL statements to mass-edit metadata/fulltext and rebuild your collection with the modified metadata/fulltext. See the wiki page on [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user_advanced:greenstonesqlplugs|Using the GreenstoneSQLPlugout with GreenstoneSQLPlugin]]. 
 +  * **The UnknownConverterPlugin:** if you have a command line tool installed that can convert from a document format to text or html (or png/jpg/gif images) and which you're able to successfully run from the command line to do such a conversion, then you can configure the new UnknownConverterPlugin to launch that command line tool and run the conversion automatically. This will allows document formats unrecognised by other Greenstone plugins to have their full text extracted and made searchable in Greenstone. There is a tutorial for Greenstone 3 that covers how to use the UnknownConverterPlugin. 
 +  * **User comments** are now supported in GS3 as well. Refer to [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user:user_comments|Enabling user comments]] 
 +  * OAI deletion policy 
 +  * Better way to run processes from GLI will avoid some occasional and unexpected errors when GLI runs perl scripts 
 +  * Bug fixes to file locking issues on Windows when using Lucene as indexer 
 +  * **SOLR updates and bugfixes:**  
 +    * Patch to SOLR extension to circumvent SIGPIPE errors on large collections 
 +    * fixed bug where multiple metadata values for a single field were concatenated into a single facet term 
 +    * fixed some/all search handling 
 +    * Russian morphology analyzer replaced by more efficient version. 
 +    * Added russian morphology analyzer configuration into solr-jdbm-demo collection 
 +    * Standard SOLR highlighter replaced with the faster FastVectorHighlighter 
 +  * Patches to perl code upgrading perl syntax to work with newer versions of perl 
 +  * GLI updates: 
 +    * The GLI Applet has been converted to a Java WebStart Application. Java Web Start not supported from Java 9 or onwards. To use the JRE bundled with your Greenstone, ensure no custom installed System Java is in the environment. 
 +    * GEMS can now launch in languages other than English
 ===== IMPORTANT information ===== ===== IMPORTANT information =====
  
 For ease of access this section has been brought across from the [[en:release:3.08_release_notes|3.08 Release Notes]], but not all of it may be relevant to the 3.09 release. For ease of access this section has been brought across from the [[en:release:3.08_release_notes|3.08 Release Notes]], but not all of it may be relevant to the 3.09 release.
 +
 +==== Patches to 3.09 ====
 +These are corrections to a 3.09 installation that should be easy for Greenstone users to make.
 +
 +1. Bugfix to online document editor not calculating the correct subsection being edited
 +
 +Download the file [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/perllib/cgiactions/metadataaction.pm?rev=33311&format=txt|metadataaction.pm revision version 33311]] and put it into your GS3.09's gs2build/perllib/cgiactions folder, replacing the existing file by that name.
 +
 +2. Fix to solrserver on Windows not detecting that the GS3 server isn't running
 +
 +Download the file [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/gs3-extensions/solr/trunk/src/perllib/solrserver.pm?rev=33315&format=txt|solrserver.pm revision version 33315]] and put it into your GS3.09's ext/solr/perllib folder, replacing the existing file by that name.
 +
  
 ==== Troubleshooting ==== ==== Troubleshooting ====
  
-=== Firefox browser doesn't remember you being logged into greenstone ===+=== Content Encoding Error when visiting the local solr servlet page ===  
 +If you see a Content Encoding Error when opening your GS3's solr servlet page at ''http://127.0.0.1:8383/solr'' or ''http://localhost:8383/solr'' in your browser, then this may have to do with the version of Java you have installed on your machine. From GS3.09 onward, if your machine has its own Java installed, then assuming that its version is sufficient and its bit-architecture (32 or 64 bit) matches, Greenstone will use your Java in preference to the bundled Java Runtime (JRE) that Greenstone ships with. We found that a recent version of Java (version 1.8.0_161 was problematic for us), caused the Content Encoding Error when visiting the solr servlet, whereas the bundled JRE and slightly earlier and much newer versions of Java such as 1.8.0_144 and 1.8.0_191 did not have these issues. 
 + 
 +**Solution:** if you have a problematic version of Java installed,  
 +- either unset JAVA_HOME and remove this Java's ''bin'' folder from the PATH environment variable too, thus helping Greenstone 3 use its bundled JRE instead 
 +- install a newer version of Java on your system. We found that the current latest one, 1.8.0_191 worked successfully for this purpose. 
 + 
 +=== SIGPIPE errors when building a collection === 
 +We've added a work around to one kind of SIGPIPE errors which could occur with large collections when using ''solr'' as indexer. However, a couple of people on the mailing list encountered SIGPIPE errors on occasions when solr was not the indexer. **If your collection is using ''jdbm'' as the database type** and the error messages surrounding the SIGPIPE mention issues with "transaction commit", then Mariana Pichinini on the mailing list found that the following helped: 
 +  * change the database type from ''jdbm'' to ''gdbm'' 
 +  * or leave the database type at ''jdbm'' and move your GS3's bundled JRE (the GS3's ''packages/jre'' subfolder) outside your GS3 installation. Next install a newer Java on your system so that GS3.08 can find that. If on Linux, ensure you open a new terminal before running GLI or command line building your collection. 
 +=== Your browser doesn't remember you being logged into greenstone === 
 +**The issue:** 
 +The following scenario can occur if you set up GS3 with https, and your server.protocols property in build.properties contains both ''http'' and ''https'' (i.e. you have ''server.protocols=http,https'' or ''server.protocols=https,http''). 
 + 
 +Switching between visiting your Greenstone 3 digital library (DL) using http and https URLs can result in the http version of the pages not remembering your login details despite you logging in. This can happen if you ever started off with the https version of the URL to a Greenstone3 DL page and then moved to using the http version of your GS3 URL, or if you ever logged in to your GS3 over https and then attempt to log in later using http. 
 + 
 +**The solution:** 
 +The solution is to either start a private window if you want to access your GS3 DL pages over http, or to first clear your browser cookies related to your GS3 DL before swapping from https to http. 
 + 
 +**The cause:** 
 +Using https causes session cookies to have the secure flag set to true. When a session cookie has the secure flag thus set, non http URLs cannot return that cookie in their subsequent requests to the server. Only https URLs can. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies section "Secure and HttpOnly cookies" which states "A secure cookie is only sent to the server with an encrypted request over the HTTPS protocol" and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2321224/cookie-across-http-and-https-in-php\\ It further seems that in http mode, the browser does not want to overwrite secure cookies created in https mode with new cookies sent by the server when using http mode. Thus after using https and acquiring secure session cookies, the server can no longer track a user's session when they switch to http until the cookies are cleared either explicitly or through opening a private window. 
 + 
 +<!--
 If you're on firefox and you just logged in to to a running Greenstone 3 digital library (DL), but visiting subsequent pages in the DL shows you that it has forgotten you're logged in, then you're probably encountering a restriction that your firefox browser has.  If you're on firefox and you just logged in to to a running Greenstone 3 digital library (DL), but visiting subsequent pages in the DL shows you that it has forgotten you're logged in, then you're probably encountering a restriction that your firefox browser has. 
  
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 After relaunching Firefox in Safe Mode, test whether your login details are being remembered this time. If it works now, it could indeed be an addon/extension/plugin or the hardware acceleration feature. Follow the suggestions and instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1213229 and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forum-response-disable-hardware-acceleration to narrow down which of these it is. After relaunching Firefox in Safe Mode, test whether your login details are being remembered this time. If it works now, it could indeed be an addon/extension/plugin or the hardware acceleration feature. Follow the suggestions and instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1213229 and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forum-response-disable-hardware-acceleration to narrow down which of these it is.
 +-->
  
 === Mac Installer fails === === Mac Installer fails ===
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 ===== Updated Translations ===== ===== Updated Translations =====
  
-Thanks to the following people for new and updated translations since 3.09:+Thanks to the following people for new and updated translations since 3.08: 
 + 
 +  * French Yvan Arnaud 
 +  * Arabic to Kamal Salih Mustafa Khalafala. 
 +  * Diego Spano for Spanish translations 
 +  * Vano Tsertsvadze for Georgian translations 
 +  * Japanese Gaku Yamaguchi 
 +  * Lavji Zala for Gujarati translations 
 +  * Catalan (GS2 interface) Eduardo del Valle Perez
  
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