Release 15

Date of Release: 21 June 2024

General Remarks

This release contains numerous performance improvements and enhancements across the Glasswall Embedded Engine SDK projects.

Component / Services Released

• Glasswall Embedded Engine (Glasswall_core2): 2.985.0
• SDK Editor Wrappers: 20240621.0
• Word Search and Redact (libglasswall.word.search): 1.208.0
• Word Search Wrappers: 0.23
• Rebuild: 1.802
• Glasswall Runner: 20240615.1

New Features

• Updates to PDF encryption support.
  • Revision 6 encryption/decryption is now supported as per ISO 32000-2.
• Editor and Word Search C# Wrapper upgrades.
  • Both Editor and Word Search Embedded Engine wrappers are now built for .NET 8.0 compatibility.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed issue in PPTX that sometimes led to the failure "Validation of PrintSize.printSize failed".
• Fixed issue in SVG analysis reporting where TotalSizeInBytes was reported as '0' for some sanitisation items.
• Improvements to MP4 File determination. Addresses issue where some text files were incorrectly identified as MP4.
• Fixed issue in SVG where some remedy items were reported with '0' IDs.
• Improvements to WMF File determination. Fixed issue in WMF where some files were incorrectly identified as PFB files.
• Fixed issue in Word Search analysis reporting where ItemMatchCount was double counted for some patterns matched.
• Fixed issue in Word Search where partial matches were reported where using text search policies.
• Enhancement to Word Search to ensure all special characters are escaped or replaced when text search policies are loaded.
• Fixed issue in Word Search where patterns including matched symbols were redacted with additional characters.
• Fixed issue in the Word Search C# wrapper where analysis reports did not correctly report policy violations.
• Improvements to error handling in Word Search.

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 where using regex search policies