FileVista v9.7.2

Version 9.7.2 - October 20, 2025

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Updated PDF.js library to 5.4.296 for stability and performance.

  • Added: Ability to add, edit, view comments in the document.
    New permission DocumentViewerPermissions.EditComments which is included in default permission DocumentViewerPermissions.All.

  • Improved: Ensure toolbar menus are clamped to the viewer window
    and repositioned when viewer window is scrolled, resized or menu is resized.

  • Improved: Ensure top toolbar menus are always over vertical toolbar menus.

  • Improved: Overwrite existing CacheTrim.log if it was created before DocumentCache.MaxAge to avoid very large log files.

FileVista v9.7.0

Version 9.7.0 - October 2, 2025

• Improved: In "Choose Location" dialog for root folders, made "Connect as" options more explanatory:
  Application user -> Application pool identity
Authenticated user: Windows -> Web Server authenticated identity
Authenticated user: Claims -> Claims UPN identity (S4U Kerberos)

• Improved: When using auto login via Windows Authentication or External User Cookie,
  errors like "There is no FileVista user defined with the same name" will be displayed in login page (login.aspx)
  below login form instead of the simple response page for error message. This way user can login with a FileVista admin account
  and import/create that missing user in administration panel without having to switch off Windows Authentication.
  Also if auto login is available for Windows/External user, Auto Login button will be displayed below login form for easy login.
  In previous versions, user had to navigate to (or be linked to) /filevista or /filevista/default.aspx.

• Added: Czech (cs) translation for FileManager.

• Fixed: FileUploader could fail with "Safe handle has been closed" error when
  AuthenticatedUser.Windows was used for PhysicalLocation after v9.6.5.

• Improved: Updated installer.

FileVista v9.6.5

Version 9.6.5 - September 26, 2025

• Fixed: In administration panel, if "Import Users" dialog was opened via context menu but current selected section was not "Users"
  in the tree, after the import the section was not properly switched to "Users", although the grid listed new imported users.
  In effect double-clicking on users, showed an error page instead of "Edit User" dialog.

• Improved: In "Import Users" dialog, made "Machine" as default selection for "Connect to" field and auto-populated current machine name
  in name field for convenience, so that user can immediately click on "Find All" button without entering anything.

• Improved: Ensured Configuration wizard configuration.aspx and Update wizard update.aspx works even when ASP.NET Classic
  impersonation is in effect. Writes to App_Data folder and database connections will be done by reverting impersonation if necessary.
  These wizards will now also show "Reverted Identity" along with "Current Identity" as information on the page.
  For example;

  • If impersonation and anonymous authentication is enabled for an ASP.NET application,
    IUSR may be impersonated (default setting in IIS is <anonymousAuthentication userName="IUSR">).
  • If impersonation is enabled and anonymous authentication is disabled for an ASP.NET application,
    User authenticated by IIS will be impersonated.
    These users are not member of IIS_IUSRS by default so they will not have write access to app's App_Data folder.
    It's observed that ASP.NET runtime itself (System.CodeDom.Compiler) reverts any impersonation so it can write to "Temporary ASP.NET Files".
    In previous version, we were also reverting impersonation but not in all places.
    So now if no write access to app's App_Data folder or cannot open database connection, we will revert to Application Pool Identity
    (all are automatically member of IIS_IUSRS by default), which will usually be IIS APPPOOL\FileVista (created by installer).

• Fixed: FileUploader upload queue was not resuming (or stopping when there was only 1 file) when there was an error
  for current file from the server, e.g. a permission error (Access to the path is denied).
  The UI was stuck displaying "Cancel all" button, where it should be reset to new upload queue mode (stop and hide progress bars).

FileVista v9.6.2

Version 9.6.2 - September 10, 2025

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Updated PDF.js library to 5.4.149 for stability and performance.

  • Improved: Created toggle-able sub-menus for scrollMode and spreadMode buttons
    to reduce crowdedness of the vertical toolbar.

  • Improved: Stability of Loader and some page events.

• Improved: Stability and performance of image thumbnails, image viewer.

• Fixed: Wrong viewport size on phones and tablets after v9.6.1

FileVista v9.6.1

Version 9.6.1 - September 1, 2025

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: Enlarged toolbar height in older browsers like before Chrome 115 (2023).

  • Fixed: Wrong theme colors in older browsers (before Chrome 123 and iOS Safari 17.5).

  • Improved: Toolbar and Find dialog size on phones.
    Zoom buttons and selection are unnecessary on phones (user can pinch to zoom),
    especially for mobile mode (large UI sizing) so hide them to fix toolbar overflowing.
    Fixed Find dialog size on phones, the dialog contents should wrap.

• Improved: Made Loader responsive so that components can be viewed better on phones and tablets
  (set width to 100 percent automatically on non-desktop devices).

• Fixed: Some JS errors for legacy browsers (very old like IE).

FileVista v9.6.0

Version 9.6.0 - August 27, 2025

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Updated PDF.js library to 5.4.54 for stability and performance.

  • Improved: Scrollbar colors are beautified and made consistent for all themes.

  • Improved: Stability and performance of Portable formats.

  • Improved: When using Any Wordin the Viewer's Find dialog, now the quotation marks can be used to specify phrases
    inside a query.
    For example;

    • red "four wheels" petrol will match red or four wheels or petrol or red four wheels petrol
    • red ""four wheels"" petrol will match red or "four wheels" or petrol or red "four wheels" petrol
      Note that two consecutive quotation marks "" can be used to escape, i.e. to search for a quotation mark literally as ".

• Improved: Stability and performance of image thumbnails, image viewer and video thumbnails.

• Improved: Updated installer.

FileVista v9.5.9

Version 9.5.9 - July 3, 2025

• Fixed: For "Open" action, disabled window auto-close because this does not work well intermittently, for example for PDF files.
  There is no reliable way to detect if browser will be able to display the file or trigger downloading of the file.
  So if the browser triggers downloading of the file, the user can manually close the empty window.
  Note that this does not effect or is related to "Preview" action.

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: Viewing of some TIFF files. The output image was corrupted or had wrong colors especially for files with
    RGB Photometric and LZW compression. This happened because of mistreating BitsPerSample tag and for some files re-using Predictor tag.

  • Improved: Avoid memory pressure and errors for TIFF to PDF conversions (e.g. 100 pages TIFF file).
    For all image to PDF conversions, restrict image size to A4 paper bounds, to avoid unnecessary large PDF files,
    to have good enough size for printing.

FileVista v9.5.8

Version 9.5.8 - May 6, 2025

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Improved: Updated PDF.js library to 5.2.133 for stability and performance.

  • Improved: Viewer's progress bar below toolbar for download progress was not showing since DocumentUltimate v7.2.0
    (should be shown after preparing document is completed).
    Also fixed progress bar position when ToolbarAtBottom property is set, in that case progress bar should be above toolbar.

  • Improved: When ToolbarAtBottom property is set, prevent collapsing of viewer container (toolbar shifts up) when document is loading or closed.

  • Fixed: When DocumentViewerPermissions.OpenLocalPdf is denied, drag & drop of PDF files to the viewer should also be disabled.

  • Improved: Stability and performance of Portable formats.

  • Improved: Stability and performance of DICOM formats.

• Improved: When session expires, FileManager dialogs for DocumentViewer and ImageViewer should not browser-cache SessionExpired page even for short time.
  When user re-logins and clicks on the same file DocumentViewer and ImageViewer should not still show SessionExpired page.

FileVista v9.5.6

Version 9.5.6 - April 25, 2025

• Improved: Document Viewer:

  • Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts were not respecting the denied permissions. Especially CTRL + P for print and CTRL + S for save.

  • Fixed: Pages outline color when focused.

FileVista v9.5.5

Version 9.5.5 - April 18, 2025

• Improved: Attempt to fix "refresh page loop due to session loss" issue for .NET Framework in some cases.
  Use window.location.reload() instead of window.location.href = window.location.href in refreshPage function, which may help if there is caching.
  Attach to earlier httpApplication.BeginRequest event in WebActivationModule for HandleCookielessSession.