Release 5.4

Date of Release: 7 August 2023

General Remarks

Release 5.4 is a patch release of the Glasswall Embedded Engine.

Component / Services Released

• Glasswall Embedded Engine (Glasswall_core2): v2.599.4
• Word Search And Redact (libglasswall.word.search): v1.49
• Archive Manager (libglasswall.archive.manager): v0.85
• Glasswall Command Line Tool (gwcli): v2.524
• SDK Editor Wrappers: v1.0 (20230519.4)

Fixes & Improvements

• Python wrapper documentation updated to specify upgrade parameter if an lxml update is required.
• Fixed issue where log error verbosity was not being propagated.
• Fixed issue where some badly formed docx files were not processed correctly.
• Fixed issue where zip files in sub-directories were not processed correctly when using the CLI ini file.
• Fixed issue where certain pdf files with AES256 encryption could not be parsed correctly.
• GWCLI documentation updates - https://docs.glasswall.com/docs/cli-tool-embedded-engine
• Fixed issue where some svg files caused a segmentation fault.
• Fixed issue in gwcli where relative paths were appended to absolute paths. In some cases, this led to a runtime error.
• Fixed issue where sub-directories were not processed correctly when running analysis mode.

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.
• Where using the GWCLI ini file, fileToFileMode = 1 must be specified (https://docs.glasswall.com/docs/cli-tool-embedded-engine). This option will be deprecated in a subsequent release.