Contents

Version History

Release Notes Overview

Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, and Browsers

Version 10.3.0.1.0
Upgrade Path
Documentation
Reverting Back to 10.3.0
Resolved Issues
Known Issues

Version 10.3.0.0.1
New Features

Version 10.3.0
New Features
Upgrade Path
Documentation
Resolved Issues
Known Issues
Features Deprecated or Removed

Version History

Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.0.1.0 - released September 2009

Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.0.0.1 - released January 2009

Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.0 - released November 2008

Release Notes Overview

These release notes cover all releases of WebCenter Interaction 10.3.

Release notes are occasionally updated after the release date. For the most up-to-date release notes, go to http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13158_01/alui/wci/docs103/index.html.

Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, and Browsers

For the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers, see the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction spreadsheet on the Oracle Product Supported Configurations page at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/suppconfigs/index.html.

At the time of release, Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.x supports the following:

* Note: When running WCI with Oracle 11g with the provided initPLUM10.ora file, make the following modification: Change ‘compatible = 10.2.0.0.0’ to ‘compatible = 11.0.0’. Also, to prevent problems with "group by" optimizations when using WCI with Oracle 11g you must add the following configuration to the bottom of your init$ORACLE_SID.ora file: _optimizer_group_by_placement=false.

Version 10.3.0.1.0

Upgrade Path

- You can upgrade to 10.3.0.1.0 directly only from 10.3.0.
- If your deployment runs a version earlier than 10.3.0, you must follow the upgrade path to 10.3.0 before upgrading to 10.3.0.1.0.
- You must update any server where the Search Service has been installed with the MSVC SP1 redistributable ATL security update. The redistributable can be found at the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en
- We strongly recommend you do a full backup of the installation folder before proceeding with the patch installation.
- We strongly recommend you stop all WCI related backend services including all App Servers before proceeding with the patch installation.

Documentation

The following product documentation is available on http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13158_01/alui/wci/docs103/index.html.

Document Document Description

Upgrade Guides

Describes the prerequisites (such as required software) and procedures for upgrading Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.0 to Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.0.1.0.

Administrator Guide

Describes how to manage and maintain Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

User Guide

Describes how end-users browse and interact with Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

The following documentation is provided with the product distribution.

Document Document Description

Attributions Files

*_Attributions.txt provide lists of third-party technologies used in the product, along with licensing information.

Online Help

Describes the user interface and gives detailed instructions for completing tasks in WebCenter Interaction.


How to Revert Back to 10.3.0 After Patch Installation

The patch installer backs up all original 10.3.0 files that need to be changed to a backup directory prior to updating. To revert back to 10.3.0.0.0, perform the following steps:

Portal Server/Admin Server

.NET Installs:

  1. Stop IIS, WWW, and WCI Automation services
  2. Copy the backed-up portal server files from PT_HOME/backup/ptportal/10.3.0 to their original location.
  3. Copy the backed-up descriptor.component.portal-systemproperties.1.0.xml from PT_HOME/backup/descriptors to the original location.
  4. Copy the backed-up configuration.xml from PT_HOME/backup/settings to the original location.
  5. Restart IIS, WWW, and WCI Automation services

Java Installs:

  1. Stop the WCI Automation service and Java Application Server that is deploying the Portal web application.
  2. Copy the backed-up portal server files from PT_HOME/backup/ptportal/10.3.0 to their original location.
  3. Copy the backed-up descriptor.component.portal-systemproperties.1.0.xml from PT_HOME/backup/descriptors to the original location.
  4. Copy the backed-up configuration.xml from PT_HOME/backup/settings to the original location.
  5. Restart the WCI Automation service and Java Application Server.
Automation Server
  1. Stop the WCI Automation service
  2. Copy the backed-up automationserver.jar from PT_HOME/backup/ptportal/10.3.0/lib/java to the original location.
  3. Restart the WCI Automation service
Document Repository
  1. Stop the WCI Document Repository service
  2. Copy the backed-up dr.war from PT_HOME/backup/ptdr/10.3.0/webapp to the original location.
  3. Restart the WCI Document Repository service
Search Server
  1. Stop the WCI Search Service
  2. Copy the queryd.exe and queryd.pdb (just queryd if on Unix/Linux) from PT_HOME/backup/ptsearchserver/10.3.0/bin/native to the original location.
  3. Restart the WCI Search Service

Resolved Issues

Analytics Events
Automation Server
Communities
Configuration
Crawlers, Agents, and Job Servers
Diagnostic
Document Repository
Error Handling
Friendly URLs
Localization
Portal Object Migration
Portlets and Gateway
Search Server
Security and SSO
UI Infrastructure
Upgrade

Known Issues

Installer
Diagnostic
Experience Definitions
Documentation
Version 10.3.0.0.1

New Features

Version 10.3.0

New Features

Adaptive Layouts for UI Customization

Key Usability Enhancements

Upgrade Path

Customers can upgrade to 10.3.0 directly from 6.5.x. Customers running versions prior to 6.5.x must follow the upgrade path to 6.5 MP1 before upgrading to 10.3.0.

Documentation

The following product documentation is available on http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13158_01/alui/wci/docs103/index.html.

Document Document Description

Installation Guides

Describes the prerequisites (such as required software) and procedures for installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction. Separate guides are available for each supported operating system.

Upgrade Guides

Describes the prerequisites (such as required software) and procedures for upgrading Oracle-BEA AquaLogic Interaction 6.5 MP1 to Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3. Separate guides are available for each supported operating system.

Administrator Guide

Describes how to manage and maintain Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

User Guide

Describes how end-users browse and interact with Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

The following documentation is provided with the product distribution.

Document Document Description

Attributions Files

*_Attributions.txt provide lists of third-party technologies used in the product, along with licensing information.

Online Help

Describes the user interface and gives detailed instructions for completing tasks in WebCenter Interaction.

Resolved Issues

Automation Server
Communities
Crawlers, Agents, and Job Servers
Directory
Friendly URLs
Global Maps
My Pages
Portlets and Gateway
Security and SSO
UI Infrastructure

Known Issues

Administrative Object Hierarchy
Alternative UIs
Automation Server
Communities
Configuration Manager
Core Server
Crawlers, Agents, and Job Server
Directory
Documentation
Experience Definitions
Flyout Editor
Friendly URLs
Installer
My Account Settings
My Pages
Navigation
Object Migration
Optional Enterprise Web Components
Performance
Portal Object Editors
Portal Objects
Portlets and Gateway
Search
Search Server Cluster
Security Login and SSO
UI Infrastructure
WS Server

Features Deprecated or Removed

None.