Release 14

Date of Release: 24 May 2024

General Remarks

This release does not contain Archive Manager, which has been deprecated since release 10.

Component / Services Released

• Glasswall Embedded Engine (Glasswall_core2): 2.967.0
• SDK Editor Wrappers: 20240520.1
• Word Search and Redact (libglasswall.word.search): 1.186.0
• Word Search Wrappers: 0.20
• Rebuild: 1.787
• Glasswall Runner: 20240521.3

New Features

• This release introduces beta support for text file pattern matching via the Embedded Engine Word Search library. This functionality is enabled using the system configuration setting enable_text_support, which is false by default. Setting to true enables the functionality.
• This release introduces a new Word Search API method which returns the message description for a specified return code.
• The Word Search C# wrapper has been updated with the new Word Search return codes introduced in Release 13.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue in pdf for files with ill-formed names in stream content (empty "/"). Files will now be processed successfully with a remedy.
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to open an svg file after processing with the Embedded Engine.
• Fixed a segfault when processing BMP files on Arm64.
• Fixed an issue when processing a docx file in export mode fails with the error message "Failure occurred while processing OPC nodes".
• Fixed an issue in Word Search where all search rules were using regex mode despite being configured as text.

Defects and Limitations

• The JavaScript wrapper is currently excluded from the release package. This will be reintroduced in a subsequent release.
• Archive Manager and Word Search Java wrapper compatibility is currently limited to JRE8.
• PDFs generated via the MS Outlook Adobe plugin are not supported.
• Word Search analysis XML no longer reports structural content or changes.
• Processing times may be impacted by changes made to licensing functionality.
• Processing files using multiple threads is not supported. Spawning multiple processes is advised in order to facilitate parallel processing.
• Word Search
  • 'text' or 'regex' can not be the same for 'require' or 'allow'/'disallow' as this will regenerate the file and ignore the 'disallow' or 'require' setting
  • | symbol at the start or end of 'require' can potentially cause the Engine to hang
  • The following symbols when present in <text> policy are not supported: ^ < > \ & ( ) [ + . ?
  • The following symbols when present at the start of a <text> policy are not supported: \ < > ^ $ ? [ + * ( ) .
  • The following symbols when present at the end of a <text> policy are not supported: < > & $ ^ | ( ) + .