Release 16.8.0

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Date of Release: 20 August 2025

Components / Services Released

  • SDK Editor: 2.1779.0
  • SDK Editor Wrappers: 20250729.3
  • Word Search and Redact: 1.357.0
  • Word Search Wrappers: 0.34

New Features

  • The Glasswall Python wrapper now includes two additional higher level functions where analysis reports can be written out together with a regenerated file on Content Import -
    • import_and_analyse_file
    • import_and_analyse_directory
  • New TIFF content management policy introduced.
    • <tiffConfig> now includes an <undefined_type> content switch for the handling of IFD entries.
    • A setting of sanitise, allow, or disallow can be used to handle IFD entries of type undefined and their associated value / offset referenced data.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Fixed issue in PDF where Digital Signatures stored inside Acroforms were handled under the Acroform and not the Digital Signature content management policy.
  • Fixed issue in XLS where some embedded files were reported with an allowedID of '0'.
  • Extended content validation and remediation in TIFF.
  • Fixed issue in XLS where some remedy items were missing from the analysis report.
  • Fixed issue in XLS where a "Failure occurred while post-processing CFB nodes" issue item was reported instead of "Digital signatures present in Digital Signature Stream".
  • Fixed issue in DOCX files (created using the desktop version of Word) where the combination of Aptos and Emoji fonts could cause segmentation faults during engine processing.
  • Decoupled file processing failures from the (-16) run session return code (which is used for files rejected by policy). A (-1) return is now returned instead.
  • Fixed issue affecting Java wrapper integrations where a '-11 Failed to initialise camera' was returned where attempting to process a second file after an initial problematic file failed engine processing.
  • Fixed issue affecting the Windows build where the presence of some Unicode characters in the file path led to a "-6 unableToLoadInput" error being returned.
  • Fixed issue in XLS on Document Import that could lead to the failure "Failure [b6] occurred while processing CFB node : '#01CompObj'" where using certain combinations of content management policies.
  • Updated Quazip dependency from version 0.7.4 to 1.4
  • Updated SafeInt dependency from version 3.0.20 to 3.0.28a
  • Updates to config.xml (example policy file) and gwConfigurationManagement.xsd.

Defects and Limitations

  • The Alpine library is currently excluded from the release package and will be reintroduced in a future release.
  • The JavaScript wrapper is currently excluded from the release package and will be reintroduced in a future release.
  • The 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 functionality is provided as Beta:
    • 'text' or 'regex' cannot 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