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TechDoc 11 has been released. The setup program is intended to be used for a new installation or an upgrade of TechDoc 10 or TechDoc 10.1. Some of the main enhancements for TechDoc 11 release are shown below. See the release notes for full details on the release.

• Support for deploying TechDoc 11 on the cloud. Initially, support for Azure has been added as it most closely aligns with the platforms that our customers currently run on. TechDoc can now use Azure SQL Databases for storage instead of using SQL Server. Other cloud providers will be considered in the future
  based on customer interest.
• Render is also supported in the cloud by installing the DM on an Azure server that supports nested virtualization. After TechDoc is installed on the DM, a
  Render VM can be created on the DM Azure server using Hyper-V. This first Render configuration simplifies management and costs of the DM and
  Render in the cloud. Other cloud-based Render configuration scenarios may be considered in the future based on customer interest.
• Improved security was a major focus of this release; including static code analysis of the entire code base and a thorough review of all third-party libraries and modules, which included the elimination of many, the upgrading most remaining ones, and a further tightening of their configuration and use to eliminate as may unneeded features as possible.
• Improvements to allow TechDoc to house and process even more documents with less resources.

The setup program is available on the TechDoc 11 Downloads Page and the installation guide and release notes are available on the TechDoc 11 Documentation Page.

TechDoc Client 11 Build 06/22/2023 has been released and features the following improvements:

• Added support for servers running TechDoc 11 while still maintaining full support for TechDoc 10 servers.
• Updated Java JRE to Amazon Corretto 11 update 19 to provide the latest Java security and updates.
• Migrated the client executable from 32-bit to 64-bit to work with the Java 11 JRE.
• Added the ability to purge older generations of a document by allowing user to specify how many unreleased and how many released generations to keep.
• Added a caching mechanism for keywords and other metadata to greatly improve performance over slow network connections and to reduce the load on the server.

DocuBrain Workflow Editor 11 Build 06/22/2023 has been released and features the following improvements:

• Added support for servers running TechDoc 11 while still maintaining full support for TechDoc 10 servers.
• Updated Java JRE to Amazon Corretto 11 update 19 to provide the latest Java security and updates.
• Migrated the client executable from 32-bit to 64-bit to work with the Java 11 JRE.

We have completed the migration of the DocuBrain Forums to Backdrop CMS. Authenticated users are now able to post new forum topics and comments again.

Thank you for your patience while we completed this transition!

The DocuBrain.com web site is now running on Backdrop CMS. It was a bit of an effort but we feel that we will be able to better serve our customers. We will be spending less time maintaining the site while our customers can enjoy the more responsive experience that Backdrop CMS offers.

We are still in the final stages of porting the Forums to the Backdrop CMS way of doing things but it shouldn't be much longer until you will be able to post to the forums.

Thank you for your patience while we complete this transition and thanks to the Backdrop CMS developers that helped us with multiple issues we encountered during the process.

TechDoc Client 10 Build 03/28/2022 has been released and features the following improvements:

• Updated the "Move Here" dialog box so that previous used reasons that are really long don't disrupt the location of the buttons on the dialog.
• Updated Java JRE to Amazon Corretto 8 update 322 to provide the latest Java security and updates.
• Updated the TechDoc SSO bowser plugin from NPAPI to Webextentions API so that it works with the latest browsers.
• Changed the Help menu item to invoke the user's current PDF reader so that they can view the help with the reader that they are most familiar with.

The TechDoc 10.1.2 patch has been released. The setup program is intended to be used for a new installation or an upgrade for TechDoc 10, 10.1, or 10.1.1. The embedded Java has been upgraded to 8u302 for the latest security baseline and several report style files were missing from the previous 10.1 and 10.1.1 installers.

Since this patch contains security updates, it should be applied at your earliest convenience.

The TechDoc 10.1.1 patch has been released. The setup program is intended to be used for a new installation or an upgrade for TechDoc 10 or 10.1. An enhancement was made to assist users that search using doc numbers with spaces even though doc numbers don't contain spaces. Nothing was changed on the DM other than the version number.

Since this patch does not contain any security updates, there is no urgent need to apply this patch. However, if you have end users that tend to search for documents using spaces in the number, this patch can significantly improve the search experience for those users.

TechDoc 10.1 has been released. The setup program is intended to be used for a new installation or an upgrade of TechDoc 10. Some of the main enhancements for TechDoc 10.1 release are shown below. See the release notes for full details on the release.

• Completed Section 508 improvements that were started in TechDoc 10 and finished as part of TechDoc 10.1. This includes full migration to HTML 5 and removal of DOJO scripting for improved security and reduced network traffic on page loads.
• Enhanced SAML Authenticator security by supporting newer encryption methods, eliminating older weaker methods, and optional automated fetching of IDP metadata.
• Significant enhancements to the Workflow engine including much larger workloads with less memory consumption, deferred process starts to allow queuing of processes even while the engine is currently stopped, improved SOAP support, and file support for sending/receiving files and performing operations on them.
• Improvements to reports including selectable styles, report totals, and numerous virtual columns (such as disk space usage per document, associated commenters, distribution, and notification) to documents and other tables.

The setup program is available on the TechDoc 10.1 Downloads Page and the installation guide and release notes are available on the TechDoc 10.1 Documentation Page.

Render 10 is now available on the TechDoc 10 Downloads page. If you already have a Render 9.* machine, you can update it by simply following the section called "Periodic Maintenance of the Render Machine" in the Render Installation guide. The following is a list of changes from Render 9.2.3 to Render 10:

• Render can now be installed on a 64-bit edition of Windows 10 using 32-bit or 64-bit applications for rendering.
  If you have no 64-bit applications that need to be installed, you can still continue to install Render on a 32-bit edition of Windows 10.
• When used with TechDoc 10 or higher, manual rendering mode is fully supported. Please refer to the section called
  "Manual Versus Normal Rendering Mode" in the Render Installation guide for more details.
• When rendering with products that require the use of a printer, Render now uses the "Microsoft Print to PDF"
  packaged with Windows 10 to perform printing to PDF.

TechDoc Client 10 Build 12/04/2020 has been released and features the following improvements:

• Now follows the system theme throughout the whole product. When a high contrast theme is used, the client follows it.
• Updated Java JRE to Amazon Corretto 8 update 272 to provide the latest Java security and updates.

TechDoc 10.0.1 has been released. The setup program is intended to be used for a new installation or an upgrade of TechDoc 9, 9.1, 9.2, or 10. The TechDoc 10.0.1 release is intended to fix two issues with TechDoc 10:

• Modify Group can remove a member from all groups that the member is on; not just the group that is being modified. The issue could affect Groups for local users, remote users, and remote emails. This issue does not create a security risk but it causes the inconvenient situation that the Group member will have to be manually added back to other groups they were on before they will receive access or email granted by the association of those other groups to documents and/or folders.
• Exporting Form Submissions can fail due to an HTTP/HTTPS chunking issue that causes the export to fail.

The setup program is available on the TechDoc 10 Downloads Page and the installation guide and release notes are available on the TechDoc 10 Documentation Page.

TechDoc 9.2.1 has been released as a Setup program and a Patch. The setup program is intended to be used for a new installation or an upgrade of TechDoc 9, 9.1, or 9.2. The patch is intended as a much quicker way to patch TechDoc 9.2 to TechDoc 9.2.1 with the least number of changes possible. The TechDoc 9.2.1 release is intended to fix two issues:

• Modify Group can remove a member from all groups that the member is on; not just the group that is being modified. The issue could affect Groups for local users, remote users, and remote emails. This issue does not create a security risk but it causes the inconvenient situation that the Group member will have to be manually added back to other groups they were on before they will receive access or email granted by the association of those other groups to documents and/or folders.
• Exporting Form Submissions can fail due to an HTTP/HTTPS chunking issue that causes the export to fail.

The setup program and patch were available on the 9.2 Downloads Page and the installation and patch installation guides were available on the 9.2 Documentation Page.