2009-06-29

Maintenance Release

Avail has just released a maintenance release, G8.0.31. It is an incremental upgrade to G8.0.21 that was released at the end of last year. This release contains a set of bug fixes and set of minor new features. The upgrade is available free of charge to all existing customer using the eMarketing Suite. Contact support[at]avail.net for more information.

Important updates:
  • The Microsoft drivers have been deprecated as these cause JRE crashes and memory leaks. JTDS drivers have been added instead.
  • New Logger that logs to standard out. Very useful during debugging and development.
  • CIB is now more memory efficient and has improved multithreading.
  • FileLogger now has rolling seven day file log.
  • Unpublic reviews do not contribute to average rating anymore.
  • New command added addBillingReport. This sets up a monthly report that sends billing info to Avail.

Important Bug fixes:
  • Float arguments were incorrectly set to 0 before.
  • The Web Prompt has been updated to handle encodings correctly in IE and results are no longer cached in IE.
  • NTEventLog now works when running on a 64 bit JRE.
  • Before uploadCibData always reset protest limit to default value -1.
  • Windows service max memory setting was previously ignored.
For a full list contact Avail Intelligence.