The changes listed below for components named CF8... have all been carried forward to the version 9 equivalents named CF9. Build numbers later than 353 are now version 9 builds and appear in the main topic for version 9 in this Appendix.
Version 8.3.1.353 2023.10.11
FFCLIENT
Added a FAXFACTS.CFG variable No_FFCLENT_EMail which when set to a non-empty value will prevent the use of FFCLIENT for initiating e-mail transactions.
CVSINGLE
Improved the reporting of some conversion errors in Office Document files.
Fixed an issue where values * and # could not be dialed on the TE-Systems XCAPI interface.
Version 8.3.1.350 2023.05.04
COPIAFACTS
Fixed a problem which could cause an exception on some uses of the $display_box command.
CF8IMAGE
Fixed a problem which could cause memory allocation fragmentation and failure when converting to TIF very large documents with many pages
CF8SUPPORT
Fixed a problem which could cause some conversions to fail in the ConvertFile application support function.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed a regression which caused $action_phone actions with codes in the 300 range not to be performed.
Version 8.3.1.348 2023.03.13
COPIAFACTS
Fixed a problem which could cause an exception on some uses of the $display_box command.
CF8IMAGE
Fixed a problem which could cause memory allocation fragmentation and failure when converting to TIF large documents with many pages.
CF8SUPPORT
Fixed a problem which could cause some conversions to fail in the ConvertFile application support function.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed a regression which caused $action_phone actions with codes in the 300 range not to be performed.
Version 8.3.1.345 2023.02.04
Documentation
Improved the documentation of some XCAPI outcome codes, and added links to details of how to resolve the causes.
Scripts
Made changes to the PRI_FAX2EMAIL, PRI_FAX2EMAIL20, and PRI_FAX2EMAILsecure20 scripts to create a thumbnail of the incoming fax document once only, not for each generated FS. On high-capacity systems, this avoids the possibility of self-induced file locks in cases where multiple e-mail recipients are specified.
CF8IMAGE
Modified the handling of at-send-time HTML document conversions to reduce the likelihood of occasional conversion failures under heavy load.
CF8SUPPORT
Improved the error reports from the CreateThumbnail function.
Scripts
Fixed a regression in the script changes in build 343.
CFGATEWAY
Modified the loading of received messages to accommodate those with large numbers (hundreds) of lines of header messages.
Version 8.3.1.343 2023.01.29
Documentation
Improved the documentation of some XCAPI outcome codes, and added links to details of how to resolve the causes.
Scripts
Made changes to the PRI_FAX2EMAIL, PRI_FAX2EMAIL20, and PRI_FAX2EMAILsecure20 scripts to create a thumbnail of the incoming fax document once only, not for each generated FS. On high-capacity systems, this avoids the possibility of self-induced file locks in cases where multiple e-mail recipients are specified.
CF8IMAGE
Modified the handling of at-send-time HTML document conversions to reduce the likelihood of occasional conversion failures under heavy load.
CF8SUPPORT
Improved the error reports from the CreateThumbnail function.
Version 8.3.1.342 2023.01.06
CF8IMAGE
Modified the handling of certain unsupported PDF features in the default (PDFIUM) PDF Converter so that they do not cause the conversion to fail and trigger an automatic switch to the alternate (original) converter. These are the elements such as file attachments and non-text annotations (e.g. video and audio) which would not be rendered anyway in the output TIF file.
CF8JOBADM
Updated the lists of telephone Area Codes and Country Codes used for 'timed delivery by destination location'.
(multiple)
Built executable programs and libraries using an updated code-signing certificate.
Fixed some field-alignment issues on the process-setup screens.
FFMERGE
Improved the ability to add an extra document to be sent to all FFMERGE items in a task.
COPIAFACTS
Improved the tracing of $type fsfile infoboxes, to show the full pathname of the generated FS file, and its originating FS or MCF file.
Documentation
Added more advice on avoiding spam blocks in Appendix O.
GWMANAGER
Added the ability on the Error Handling tab to select a queue for the FS files which initiate a report to the sender of an e-mail rejected by the Gateway. Such FS files contain a FORCE_FAIL definition so may be processed on any free COPIAFACTS channel other than inbound-only.
CFUTIL CFUTILITY
Fixed a serious bug which could in the wrong files being concatenated by TIFCAT.
FFEXTERN
Modified the FXPDFSCAN special process to rename the processed PDF with a changed file extension, instead of deleting it.
FFEXTERN
Fixed some special process configuration screens where the existing scan folder name could not be edited.
FFEXTERN
Fixed a regression in the FXPDFSCAN special process which resulted in mis-positioning the overwrite blank text box used to remove text detected in regular-expression scans.
COPIAFACTS
Added a USE_TIFCAT environment variable to specify that the concatenation of multiple TIF files is to be performed outside the COPIAFACTS process.
CF8JOBADM
Built with the IANA 2022g Timezone database.
JOBADMIN
Fixed a problem which could occasionally cause a crash on selecting a column filter on the overview tab which shows only a very small number of entries.
Added an option on the settings page to hide the entries for logging in/out relating to a 'local resource'. These entries are otherwise included with system login and log out.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed an issue where the presence of a USE_CHANNEL_COMMANDS variable in FAXFACTS.CFG would in some circumstances cause commands using 'channel' as an alternative to 'line' to be omitted when a command file was written out.
Changed the detection of an application main thread freeze to default to disabled, in order to reduce the incidence of false positive automated bug reports and restarts. To restore the original behavior set a value such as 30 in environment variable BUGREPORT_FREEZE_SECONDS.
Scripts
Made a change in IIF files PRI_INIT, PRI_INIT30, PRI_FAX2EMAIL20, PRI_FAX2EMAILsecure20, PRI_EMLINK, PRI_EM, PRI_EM2, PRI_EM3 to make it simpler to use different TOSEND queues for e-mail and workerbox FS files. If you apply these changes to your post-receive scripts, all should be applied.
GWMANAGER
Reverted a change which prevented disabling the MatchEnvRecip check (that the SIP To: header must match the SMTP recipient of an incoming message). Disabling this check can result in multiple replicated messages being sent and retaining the check is strongly recommended.
CFGATEWAY
Fixed an issue which in some circumstances could fail to extract a phone number from the e-mail subject of an e-mail retrieved from a POP3 mailbox.
Version 8.3.1.339 2022.11.15
FFCLIENT
Added an option to use the DNIS number of an FFCLIENT user to set an override ANI for their outbound faxes.
FFCLIENT
Fixed a problem which resulted in incorrect syntax when adding custom user variables to generated FS files.
CFCLIENTADMIN
Changed the function to propagate settings from a UJP file to other destination UJP files, so that it retains an $outbound_ani command if already present in the destination.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed an issue which could under rare circumstances cause the engine to crash if its window was dragged from one monitor to another with a higher DPI setting.
Improved the handling of XLS and XLSX files not created using Excel.
Version 8.3.1.337 2022.09.16
COPIAFACTS
FIxed a regression in build 336 which caused the service/desktop mode to be omitted from the system information in the trace at the start of each session.
TRCVIEW
Added the ability to combine filter texts with 'and not' by adding a marker (default !) in front of the text, following the delimiter defined for 'and'.
COPIAFACTS
Improved the processing of XCAPI events when handling a high volume of inbound calls.
Version 8.3.1.335 2022.08.30
EMSETUP
Added a notification trigger for the start of a controlled shutdown caused by $kill_group. At sites where faxes with large numbers of pages are sent and received, it can take a long time before the shutdown notification is sent.
Added an environment variable VOIP_Q931 to specify that failed Copia VoIP Port calls should be reported with an outcome code using the Q.931 ISDN equivalent cause value (with 6000 added).
COPIAFACTS
Fixed a problem which for some conversion operations could cause the contents of the IMAGE_OPTIONS variable not to be applied to the $image_options value. This variable remains recommended for special purposes only.
COPIAFACTS
Improved the handling of call-time document conversion errors.
Fixed a problem where 'find next' (F3) and 'find previous' (shift-F3) failed to find a new instance when the string to be matched contained an 'and' operator (default &) to find lines with more than one matched string on a line.
Changed the TESTFS output for a speed test on a local drive accessed by means of a UNC path. This now shows separate totals for access directly to the local folder and access using the network redirector. Previously the times for the alternative methods were incorrectly added together as a single total.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed a problem which could cause some voice operations to be performed on XCAPI channels configured in CFHWL for fax only.
Fixed a problem where some very complex scripts assigning many long values to variables could result in an exception instead of a run-time error 4038.
COPIAFACTS
Changed the handling of environment variable BUGREPORT_FREEZE_SECONDS so that it can be set in the Windows system environment as well as using $environment.
Version 8.3.1.330 2022.07.07
CFUTIL, CFUTILITY
Fixed a problem where the FFVOX2WAV utility was not picking up the registry settings from the last use of FFPLAY.
COPIAFACTS, FFEXTERN
Fixed a regression which caused trace output from some of the CF8 DLLs not to be included in the FTx trace file when running in service mode.
Version 8.3.1.327 2022.06.30
CF8IMAGE
Fixed a regression which caused some types of text annotation to be omitted when converting a PDF to TIF in the default PDF converter. At the same time an issue was fixed which could cause a part of a converted PDF document to appear less crisp than the remainder.
COPIAFACTS, CFINFO
Improved the collection of system information to reduce the start-up time for an engine session in a large-system environment.
Changed the manifest to require 'run as administrator'. Some versions of Windows may require this to read certificates.
Multiple
In some cases, a numeric 'spin-edit' control failed to respond to the mouse-wheel to increment or decrement the value: this has been fixed.
CF8EMAIL
Fixed a recent regression which could cause e-mail MIME header text to be truncated if header-encoding keyword base64 was specified as the third parameter on an $email_charset command. This option is not recommended because the default of quoted-printable encoding is usually preferred (and is the default, when needed).
CF8EMAIL
Fixed a problem which ignored 8bit as the header-encoding keyword when specified as the third parameter on an $email_charset command. This option is not recommended because some mail servers will reject the e-mail or append a warning on incoming e-mail if 8-bit characters are used on e-mail headers without encoding.
COPIAFACTS
Added a new variable XCAPI_RECEIVE_NEGOTIATE_MS to control the amount of time that is allowed for negotiating incoming fax settings. The default remains 45 seconds (45000ms).
Version 8.3.1.325 2022.05.23
CF8IMAGE
Extended the tolerances for document sizes so that slightly undersized US-Letter landscape pages are correctly rotated in a PDF being converted for faxing.
TRCVIEW
Fixed an issue where text copied from the 'select text' dialog to the 'search/filter dialog' was sometimes not added to the 'most recently used' filter list.
GWMANAGER, CFGATEWAY
A session timeout in seconds can now be specified on the GWMANAGER Server tab, to override the default value of 30s. If you expect to receive very large attachments or are operating with a low bandwidth connection, a higher value can be set. Values should be between 5 and 600 ( = ten minutes).
CFGATEWAY
Added a new variable SMTP_MSGSIZE in the FS files written from the Gateway. This is an approximate aggregate size of the attachment and body parts of the message, after decryption and decoding, if needed.
Fixed a problem which could cause the base64-encoding of a multi-megabyte e-mail attachment to take a long time to complete, while building the message for transmission.
Modified the display of logical disk drives to show the percentage of free space in addition to the capacity.
COPIAFACTS
Added a report of XCAPI license information in the trace file, when Debug Configuration and Startup is enabled in the options.
EMSETUP
Added a notification trigger to warn of an approaching XCAPI Software Update Service expiration date. COPIAFACTS is not shut down automatically if the license has expired. The warning commences 4 weeks ahead of the expiration date, and is repeated daily or at the longer intervals specified in the trigger settings. If not already configured, this warning will be automatically enabled after upgrading to this CopiaFacts build.
EMSETUP
Improved configuration of trigger notifications by allowing the interval between repeats of the same notification to be specified in days, not only in minutes.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed an issue where in some circumstances trigger notifications were repeated at shorter intervals than specified.
Documentation
Added descriptions of the current list of trigger notifications to the documentation topic.
Documentation
Started adding syntax-examples to the configuration variables normally set using $var_def and $environment variables. These command examples in purple color are intended to show only the syntax; they do not represent recommended settings.
Documentation
Improved accessibility of the web help: when 'caret mode' is enabled in the browser (F7). you can use the keyboard to navigate with tab and shift-tab down and up in the contents area or between links in the text.
CF8JOBADM
Built with the IANA 2022a Timezone database.
COPIAFACTS
Changed the operation of $trace_line so that it no longer requires the trace option Trace IIF actions to be set.
COPIAFACTS
Fixed an issue where changes to queue and channel schedules from a COPIAFACTS instance running in Management mode from CFCP could fail to be saved for the service. In addition, management mode can not now be terminated with the Close button or Windows Close icon while schedule changes remain unsaved.
Version 8.3.1.322 2022.02.15
FFVIEWER
Fixed a problem where the File Save Wizard dialog could in some circumstances get confused over whether to save annotations in TIF mode (GCT, GTT) or in PDF mode (GPT).
CVSINGLE
Added support for LibreOffice version 7.3. With this release we have re-tested the LibreOffice interface in CopiaFacts and have been able to remove some of the special workarounds that allowed operation with Libre version 6 and early version 7 releases. You should therefore upgrade LibreOffice to version 7.3 or later if you are using an earlier Libre release, to operate with 8.3.1.322 and subsequent versions of CopiaFacts. See also the LibreOffice topic.
CFCERTINFO
Improved the validation of certificates to avoid very occasional marking of a valid certificate as invalid.
Documentation
Implemented new, more legible skins for the on-line web help and the 'eWriter' context-sensitive help.
Documentation
Modified the $run topic to update the considerations for running a batch file in current Windows environments.
Scripts
Modified PRI_INIT10 to better handle AD option settings for inbound fax.
