Version 10.0 Installable (Feb 2014)
See also:
- Platform Release Notes for current version
- All Platform Release Notes for prior versions
- All Installable Version Release Notes for current and prior versions
Preparing for a First Installation
For First-Time Installation of the Application Server, ensure that dependent utilities are at the minimum levels specified in the Software Requirements.
Starting an Upgrade
Configure MySQL for Quartz Cluster
- If you are running a Quartz Cluster, you need to configure MySQL to set the transaction level to read-committed and the replication mode to row level.
- Learn more: Setting up a Quartz Cluster
Finishing an Upgrade
Reallocate Application Resources and Republish Packages
In version 9.0, new application resources (Objects, Web Tabs, Classes, Pages, Static Resources, Sites, and Components) are always created as part of the current application, and are not automatically available to all applications running in the current tenancy. That arrangement achieves a desirable separation that simplifies application development.
In order to assure backward compatibility, however, the upgrade process from version 8.2 to version 9.0 makes sure that all such resources are made available to every application in the tenancy. That allocation ensured that no applications were broken by the upgrade.
But as a side effect of that allocation, applications published as packages now contain every resource in the tenancy--not just the resources that the application previously included in the package.
Eliminating the side effect is a two step process:
- Reallocate application resources:
- ...
- Republish the package
Important: All published packages that will be used for installations need to be re-published after the upgrade. (Older packages will not work with the new version of the platform.)
Update Dependent Utilities
- After an Upgrade, it is strongly recommended that you update the JDK and MySQL to these minimum levels:
- JDK 7.0, release _06 or higher
- MySQL 5.5
- (The platform can be upgraded without updating these utilities, but it has been fully tested with them, both for functionality and for optimum performance.)
Install Open Office
- OpenOffice is now used to generate compound PDF documents from the new Word and PowerPoint Print Template Formats.
- Before users work with that feature, therefore, OpenOffice needs to be installed and launched at system startup.
- Learn more: Software Requirements
Notable Changes
Functional Changes
Support for Report Subqueries
- A new tenant-management capability has been added, to allow for Subquery Filters in Views and Reports.
- This functionality is resource-intensive, and should not be granted indiscriminately.
Packaging Restrictions Removed
- Restrictions on the packaging process have been removed, in order to simplify development efforts:
- Items in a subscribed package, as well as the package itself, can now be republished by any tenant who has package publishing privileges.
- In addition, any tenant with the capability to create a package can include system objects, so Tenant Capabilities no longer includes the Package System-Generated Objects option.
"Development Tenancy" Capability Replaced by Sandboxes
- The Service Provider Settings no longer contain a Development Tenancy option. Instead, Sandboxes should be used for development, now that packaging restrictions have been removed.
API Changes
Tenant Capability Changes
- A new tag has been added: <subquery_filter>, with values true or false.
- Learn more: REST API:tenantCapabilities Resource