Service Pack 3 addresses a number of bugs identified in Community Server 2008.5. You are eligible to download and apply this service pack if you are up to date on your license

If you are using:

  • Nothing yet and want the latest Telligent products: Download Telligent Community 5.0

  • Nothing yet but want to stay one version behind: Download the full Community Server 2008.5 Service Pack 3 package

  • Community Server 2008.5: Download and apply the services pack updates for SP1, SP2, and SP3

  • Community Server 2008.5 Service Pack 1: Download and apply Service Pack 2 update first, then the Service Pack 3 update.

  • Community Server 2008.5 Service Pack 2: Download and apply the Service Pack 3 update.

Contact Telligent Support if you have questions about your account.

Community Server 2008.5 Service Pack 3 contains fixes for:

Groups

  • Non-members no longer receive an exception error when submitting the contact form
  • Users no longer have to be an admin to submit a contact request
  • Disabled applications no longer display on group home pages
  • Users no longer receive errors after deleting a group forum post
  • Default group icon now displays for new groups

Users

  • Users who have created wiki pages can now be deleted with their content reassigned to another user
  • Users with conversation content can now be deleted with their content reassigned to another user

Blogs

  • Web service calls returning large amounts of blog results no longer cause errors

Forums

  • Fixed infrastructure calls to the database which caused errors in certain conditions 
  • Users no longer receive an error when deleting a forum post and submitting the reason form
  • Reply comment boxes now clear out after the reply is posted

Wikis

  • Deleted wiki pages are no longervisible to regular users
  • Disabled wikis no longer display in the Browse Wikis page
  • Users with wikiadmin and wikimoderator roles can now create wikis
  • Deselecting option for e-mail notification no longer causes an error when creating new Wiki pages

Media galleries

  • User now receives a Section Not Found error rather than a Resource Not Found error 
  • Multiple file upload now works in Flash 10
  • Introduced exception handling for file paths that are too long
  • Images now showing up when moderating posts as a Group Manager or Owner

REST API

  • REST timeouts no longer impact web parts features
  • REST timeouts no longer cause incorrect replies counts
  • SortBy search results using REST 1.0 no longer throws an exception

General

  • SharePoint Integration installation now includes versioning to help system administrators manage their systems 
  • SharePoint Integration handles errors from web service calls more gracefully.
  • Download permissions no longer have to be granted to the Everyone role for activity messages to be logged
  • Activity messages now return relative instead of absolute paths
  • Forms Authentication SSO modules now create new users properly when using a key/value pair profile cookie and encryption is turned on
  • Fixed case sensitivity issues which could cause problems in certain case-sensitive database configurations