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Please Review 7.2.1 Release Notes
Who is this article for?Please Review administrators responsible for managing Please Review.
IT access will be required to implement this update.
Please Review 7.2.1 is a maintenance and feature release that has been developed by listening to the voice of the customer, with specific changes to comment and change handling, 2-way SSL communication and security updates.
This article includes details on the changes to Please Review 7.2.1 and also provides a link with instructions on how to perform the upgrade. This article is split into the following sections:
1. Feature Changes
Comment/Changes Handling
The Comments/changes Handling feature enables reviewers to quickly expand and collapse all comments in a review, making it easy and more intuitive to collaborate in a review with a high volume of comments/changes.
Note: The state of the comments (collapsed / expanded) is specific to users and not for all, i.e., if one user collapse the comment then it is in an expandable state to other users unless they collapses.
The 2-way SSL Enhancements
The Please Review Offline Client (OLC) and Word Plugin now support Client Certificate Authentication (or Client Authentication or 2-way SSL/TLS authentication.
Note: Support for Client Certificate Authentication to attempt automatic login into Please Review using a browsers was introduced in Please Review 7.1.2.
This enhancement was introduced to provide enhanced privacy and data integrity for communication between a server and a client.
Word Plugin:
Offline Client:
Security Updates
In order to ensure that you're protected from security vulnerabilities. Please Review 7.2.1 introduces the following security updates:
Node.js Update
Node.js has been upgraded to version 16.16.0 to protect users from potential vulnerabilities.
Cross-site Scripting
Cross-site scripting vulnerability on the client side. Please Review has already prevented malicious injections at the server site in the past. Please Review 7.2.1 extends the protection to the client side “Rest Password page”.
Moment.js Upgraded
Moment.js has been upgraded to version 2.29.4 to protect users from potential vulnerabilities.
Want to upgrade to 7.2.1? Visit Getting Started with Please Review 7.2.1 for more details!
2. Software Improvements
Please Review 7.2.1 includes the following improvements:
| Issue Reference | Description |
|---|---|
| PR-26705 | Fixed pages rendered horizontally in review for specific document |
| PR-26630 | Generate New Paragraph default html content |
| PR-26408 | An issue that caused documents to disappear from reviews has been fixed |
| PR-26406 | An error when upload a failed document followed by successful document has been resolved |
| PR-26241 | Selection redactions no longer cause PDF downloads with comments to fail |
| PR-26186 | An issue causing audit trail entries to fail and comments to disappear has been fixed |
| PR-26185 | An issue causing documents to disappear from DCTM based review has been fixed |
| PR-26160 | Incorrect publish button no longer appears in pdf sub-review |
| PR-26023 | Import PDF annotations no longer error because of missing creation date |
| PR-26003 | Example of multiple regex is no longer missing from the description for Password Allow and Password Deny |
| PR-25823 | Making a change on a paragraph no longer breaks hyperlinks in it |
| PR-25785 | Can now see always failed document in new review UI when review failed documents = permit |
| PR-25744 | You can now download document with customize comment selector options on Review Closeout |
| PR-25730 | Email address characters/format now accepts "-" |
| PR-25729 | Auto complete for DCTM no longer fails if checked out doc is replaced in DCTM |
| PR-25679 | Password policy allows long passwords to be entered in the web UI |
| PR-25506 | An issue stopping the marking of user accounts as disabled has been resolved |
| PR-25499 | Change Password hit parsing exception with invalid values on Regex Password policy has been fixed |
| PR-25392 | An issue that caused document removal has been resolved |
| PR-25357 | Recon reports that failed to Open with extra tara:parabreak has been fixed |
| PR-25279 | Downloaded document with comments and download report as word hit download failed when redaction applied on attached document has been resolved |
| PR-25258 | Recon reports that failed as put in extra empty pPr and tara:parabreak have been fixed |
| PR-24992 | Page of PDF document fails to prepare in iText method has been resolved |
| PR-24618 |  in document xml no longer cause preparation failure |
| PR-24284 | Keeping link to a networked template location after roundtrip has been fixed |
| PR-23747 | Revised tooltip message for User Types configuration settings |
| PR-22446 | Changing Review Due Date now correctly sends additional reminder emails |
| PR-22160 | User type reconciliation report now correctly disables |
| PR-22088 | Audit trail entry is not added to checked in version but to original checked out version has been fixed |
| PR-22074 | Annotation object for the checked in document has open comments is always attached to the checked out version but not the new version checked in |
| PR-17113 | Malformed table merged cells with word control has been fixed |
| PR-17105 | Add user to workgroup screen fails with use email as username with updated email has been fixed |
| PR-13907 | Hyperlink in document now work in round trip if change accepted on paragraph |
| PR-8478 | Table formatting now copes better with different merged cells |
| PR-4146 | Overdue email is no longer sent when review is in recycle bin |