With version 24.10 of i-net CoWork, we have significantly improved the connection process for voice and video calls. Calls are now made directly via the CoWork server instead of via a peer network. This means that all users now only connect to the CoWork server and no longer to each other, everyone to everyone. This not only ensures a more stable connection for calls with several participants, but also reduces the bandwidth usage of the individual clients. In addition, the resolution and frame rate for webcams and screen sharing can now be individually adjusted in the user settings.

In addition to other improvements, we are making the new "Waiting Queue" plug-in available. This allows users to make consultation requests by dragging a queue number. The requests can then be viewed, managed and processed in a separate dialog.

• The parser.pdf plugin replaces the previous decoder.pdf plugin

• In the channel list, members have an options menu that can be used to start a direct message or enter a mention in the input field. This is also possible via the context menu of a message.

Fixed Bugs

• The admin user could not send a bot message if the user had no channel privileges. This was intended to be possible.

• The connections for voice and video calls have been switched from a peer network to centralized control by the CoWork server. This allows multiple participants in a call with lower bandwidth utilization of the clients.
  • Attention: The ports and the public NAT address can be configured in the configuration so that calls can be made via the server. Please adjust the settings in the firewalls if necessary.
• The resolution and frame rate of the webcam and shared screens can be changed in the settings.
• Update Bouncy Castle encryption library to FIPS-certified edition. FIPS certification ensures cryptographic modules meet rigorous security standards, enhancing security and trust.

• Meeting room administrators can remove individual members from meeting rooms. The action for this can be found in the options menu behind the user in the member list.

• With the new CoWork function "Waiting queue", members can submit consultation requests to other users by drawing a waiting number. The requests can be viewed and managed in a separate dialog.

• Added Gemini, Claude, and Mistral support as AI Providers.

• For calendar triggers and series, added the placeholders calendar.event.startDatePretty and calendar.event.endDatePretty which use the server timezone to create a more readable form of the dates.

• The language of the DeepL Task Planner job can now be set via dynamic placeholder. The value should be one of the language keys, e.g. EN or DE.

• Added feature to mount external services like Google Drive, Dropbox or FTP into the servers Drive
• Added feature to create links to folders. The links can have different permissions.
• Structural adjustment of the internal data structure for performance optimisation
• Added event log for drive operations

Fixed Bugs

• Activating/deactivating plugins with file extension for Drive now updates the data for the search.
• If the link had an FTP mount as the target, authorised users would not be able to access the content.

• Filename encoding for connections with SFTP Servers can be changed using VM argument "sftp.encoding", e.g. "-Dsftp.encoding=BIG5". Note: it is not supported in case of SFTP Server implementing SFTP version between 3 (inclusive) and 5 (inclusive).

• Added options to send an additional body content instead of just the JSON field.

• Update Bouncy Castle encryption library to FIPS-certified edition. FIPS certification ensures cryptographic modules meet rigorous security standards, enhancing security and trust.

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed a potential error that could occur when deleting a user in the background while the user's data was being changed at the same time.
• Fixed a potential error that could occur when attempting to reactivate or deactivate a user which had already been deleted.

• MS Teams Webhooks can now be changed in the configuration without needing to modify Task Planner tasks which referred to them.

Fixed Bugs

• Updating to 24.10 could run into an error ("NoClassDefFoundError") if the MS Teams plugin was activated but the Task Planner plugin was deactivated.

• Azure AD / Entra ID supports group names for authentication groups.

• Made the plugin more versatile to be available for the reporting, PDF comparison and drive applications
• Added PDF preview rendering for the Drive application

Fixed Bugs

• In the HTML editor, some images copied from external sources were not recognized as attachments and generated a very large text.

• The bundled Eclipse Temurin Java VM was updated to version 21.0.5.
• Docker Images are available for amd64 as well as arm64v8 platforms. That means that pulling an image by it's tag will automatically load a platform specific docker image.
• Remote Recovery can also be used via HTTPS if it is configured in the server.
• Supports the unequal search of phrases in quotation marks in the form: field:<>"text phrase".

• The file change trigger supports now the integration of other sources, such as the Drive plugin.
• The Next Task trigger provides the option to pass any placeholders from the current task on to the next task along with a prefix which can be prepended to the placeholder key names.
• Tasks in the list can now be filtered down by their name - quickly find your tasks this way.
• When deactivating users who have tasks, a notification will be generated for administrators in the notification group "Task Planner Warning (Admin)".
• Result actions can be moved forwards and backwards in the result action order with the options "Execute earlier/later". This is helpful for cases in which the order of these actions matters.
• The e-mail action has an optional setting for the sender.
• With the Hosting plugin installed, tasks of the Master user account are not visible to other users anymore.
• When in maintenance mode, any triggered tasks are paused, queued, and run once the maintenance mode is deactivated.
• With the Hosting plugin installed, tasks of the Master user account are not visible to other users anymore.

Fixed Bugs

• When deactivating users who have tasks, the generated notification for administrators could not be removed.

Security Fixes

• Additional verification of user permissions before accessing target location during execution of Task Planner's action "Save File"

• Update Bouncy Castle encryption library to FIPS-certified edition. FIPS certification ensures cryptographic modules meet rigorous security standards, enhancing security and trust.