What's new in OpenEMM 2015
Feb 24, 2015
- Usability:
- improved usability on sending page
- improved agnTag validation
- order in administration menu
- minor improvements like more reasonable default settings, better sorting, improved output formatting, etc.
- OpenEMM reports an instructive error message if database can not be contacted
- Mailings:
- FCK editor replaced by CK editor
- bulk download for all graphics components of a mailing as one ZIP file
- HTML mailing preview with optional image suppression
- stepping and blocksize visible in sending tab
- Recipients:
- names of import profiles in dropdown sorted now
- export exports field user_remark as well
- time driven automated import and automated export
- Target Groups:
- new target groups based on mailing received, mailing opened and mailing clicked
- Actions:
- double opt-in action with option for multiple opt-ins
- Administration:
- more options for user self service
- Webservices:
- new webservice methods for bulk operations
- Backend:
- configurable mailing generation lead time (emm.properties: mailing.generation.minutes=60)
- revised and updated bounced mail detection and processing
- Security:
- filtering of harmful statements in Velocity scripts
- extended user activity log for better monitoring
- information about former failed logins
- Other:
- online update takes over more configuration settings from old installation
- better error reporting in case of database access problems
- code and libraries ported to run with Java 8 and Tomcat 7 or 8
- Bugfixes in release 2015
- Statistics:
- recipients statistics initially shows zero values only
- archive statistics show no net click values (fix contributed by ...)
- Backend:
- fix for online update feature to recognize version numbers with blanks like "2013 R2"
New in OpenEMM 2013_R2 (Nov 22, 2014)
- Other:
- latest version of context sensitive online help
- all JARs compatible with Java 7
- BUGFIXES:
- Mailings:
- the embedded HTML editor does not launch
- after update to OpenEMM 2013 buttons are missing to edit target groups
- defining delivery time for date-based mailings more than 3 hours in the future results in mails not sent
- Recipients:
- custom profile fields can not be filled with times before 12:00:00
- numeric profile fields can not be edited in the recipient detail view
- recipient list shows error "Resource key ... not found in default bundle"
- blacklist import mode does not accept duplicates in the import file
- menu "blacklist" does not work if permission to view recipients is missing
- Actions:
- action scripts lead to error forms even if they should not
- Webservices:
- legacy webservices 1.0 are vulnerable to SQL injections
- methods AddMailing and UpdateMailing of Webservice API 2.0 do not work
- method SendMailing of Webservice API 2.0 does not send mails
- method AddContentBlock of Webservice API 2.0 fails to include images
- Backend:
- rule-based conversion of softbounces to hardbounces does not work
- Plugins:
- extension "blacklist_wildcard_search" does not work
New in OpenEMM 6.2 (Dec 13, 2010)
- New features :
- Mailings:
- when editing a CM-template based mailing the right bar shows only removed content modules to speed up performance
- Mailing:
- global setting of follow-up action for link clicks
- Mailings:
- speed of mailing delivery can be trottled with parameters blocksize and stepping
- Mailings:
- property attachment.maxSize in file emm.properties defines maximum size of email attachments
- CMS:
- list of CM templates for mailing assignment shows mailing descriptions instead of mailing IDs
- Other:
- online update preserves old settings in emm.properties and cms.properties
- Other:
- improved speed of database
- Bug fixes :
- Mailings (Source: internal):
- Mailing wizard does not create an exception after step 2
- Mailings (Source: internal):
- save button for content is no longer missing after mailing was sent but content can not be changed
- Mailings (Source: SourceForge, BugID: 2947705):
- Mailing can now be archived after being sent
- Mailings (Source: OpenEMM forums):
- Image browser of FCK editor works with Internet Explorer (contributor: inteco)
- Recipients (Source: internal):
- after deleting the content of a custom field in a recipient profile the content is no longer reset to its default value
- Recipients (Source: internal):
- setting a filter in the recipient overview and clicking on "Update" instead of "Add" does not result in a misleading error message
- Recipients (Source: internal):
- Import wizard no longer shows a mailinglist error even if the real cause for the error is different
- Recipients (Source: internal):
- Import digests backslash characters in data fields
- Target groups (Source: SourceForge, BugID: 3057540):
- empty target groups are no longer storable and do not lead to error when selected in recipient list
- CMS (Source: internal):
- Assigning of a content module to more than one mailing at the same time works flawlessly now
- New features:
- GUI:
- some optical improvements for left navigation, buttons and messages
- Recipients:
- checkbox in import profile to define handling of multiple duplicates
- Recipients:
- improved speed of import process
- Recipients:
- maillists in import view sorted alphabetically
- Recipients:
- entries in drop down box of DB field mapping for import profiles sorted alphabetically
- Target groups:
- deleted target groups used by a mailing are listed as deleted, preview of mailing works, sending does not
- Target groups:
- target group statistic now shows users bound to no mailing list too
New in OpenEMM 6.1 (Jun 12, 2010)
- New features
- Recipients
- new selection option "Waiting for user confirmation" (Double opt-in)
- Statistics
- statistic for opened mailings shows when mailing was opened for the first time, not last time
- Bug Fixes
- Usability
- sort icon for table columns does not overlap with column head caption in Firefox
- Mailings
- tab "trackable links" in mailing menu lists all links of the mailing in any case
- Recipients
- Import works when key column defined in import profile does not exist in import file
- Forms
- forms will be prefilled correctly with existing user data from database
- Forms
- no exception after existing form has been deleted
- Backend
- Mail generation recovery works even if process takes longer
- Database
- CMS demo database is accessible from OpenEMM by default
New in OpenEMM 6.0.1 (Jan 20, 2010)
- New features:
- Recipients - new selection option "Waiting for user confirmation" (Double opt-in).
- Statistics - statistic for opened mailings shows when mailing was opened for the first time, not last time.
- Bug Fixes:
- Usability - sort icon for table columns does not overlap with column head caption in Firefox.
- Mailings - tab "trackable links" in mailing menu lists all links of the mailing in any case.
- Recipients - Import works when key column defined in import profile does not exist in import file.
- Forms - forms will be prefilled correctly with existing user data from database.
- Forms - no exception after existing form has been deleted.
- Backend - Mail generation recovery works even if process takes longer.
- Database - CMS demo database is accessible from OpenEMM by default.
New in OpenEMM 5.5.1 (May 6, 2009)
- Campaigns (Source: internal)
- Campaigns statistic shows real values
- Campaigns (Source: internal)
- Campaings will be included when copying mails and templates
- Mailings (Source: internal)
- Mailing wizard adopts mailinglist if template is selected
- Mailings (BugID: 1998219, Source: SourceForge)
- agnDATE tag no longer ignores type
- Targets (BugID: 2033778, Source: SourceForge)
- Date pattern matching using YYYYMM is fixed
- Statistics (BugID: 2015803, Source: SourceForge)
- Opened mails statistic shows only openings from 1 to 12 a.m.
- Backend (BugID: 2015771, Source: SourceForge)
- Problem when using internal SMTP server instead of Sendmail
- Other (BugID: 2009460, Source: SourceForge)
- recipient list generate "out of heap space" error
- Other (BugID: 2018286, Source: SourceForge)
- Upgrade from very old version generates ConversionException for customerid
- Other (Source: internal)
- Link after update leads back to correct port 8080