Synchronizing Meridian Enterprise Server with an Active Directory no longer records user account updates in the audit log.

An issue has been fixed that could cause the Add comment permission to not work correctly in Meridian Explorer.

An issue has been fixed that could cause Meridian Explorer import jobs to fail if many property validations fail for the same document.

An issue has been fixed that could cause SAML authentication failures by the CAD links and site cache.

An issue has been fixed that could cause Access denied errors in vaults with no security roles assigned and SAML authentication enabled.

A Publisher server license is no longer required for users to perform import/export package operations.

To help prevent accidental changes, the Server name setting described in Viewing and editing the connectivity settings may now be changed only by members of the local system Administrators group or the Meridian Application Administrators group.

PowerWeb, Meridian Explorer, and Application Integration (site cache client) can now be configured with SAML authentication as described in:

• Configuring a site cache connection
• Configuring SAML authentication
• Configuring SAML authentication

• Electronic signatures are not supported with SAML authentication.
• The Meridian authentication portal (https://auth-prd.meridiancloud.net) must be added to the Trusted Sites list of clients for single sign-on to all Meridian clients.

A command line tool is now available from Accruent Support that produces a report of documents and folders that were added or deleted by the Vault Consistency Wizard as described in Running the Vault Consistency Wizard.

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, a user with the User Administrator role may no longer assign users to groups that have permissions that the user does not have.

An issue has been fixed that could cause Internet Information Services to stop working on the Meridian web server when multiple users attempt to create documents at the same time.

An issue has been fixed that could cause Windows Search to stop working on the server after the Meridian search integration is installed.

An issue has been fixed that could cause the file AcETransmit.dll to not be deleted when Meridian is uninstalled.

Vault data that is collected by Meridian Analytics is now hashed for more secure transmission to Meridian Cloud.

Oracle 18c (18.0.0.0) is now supported in Meridian 2018 and 2019.

Beginning with Meridian Enterprise 2019, the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server must be installed on the Meridian server to create vaults stored in any version of SQL Server. This driver adds support for the latest TLS 1.2 standard and is backward compatible with the SQL Server Native Client but is not included with the client. The driver is required whether TLS 1.2 is used or not.

For more information about and to download the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server (MSOLEDBSQL), which replaces the legacy OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB), see:

• Announcing the new release of OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
• Released: Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
• Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
• Download Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server

The Link to Project privilege described in Folder privileges has been renamed to Link to Portal Project.

A new Meridian license server may be selected during installation that connects to a single pool of subscription licenses managed in Meridian Cloud. The licenses are then claimed for 24 hours to allow for continuous use regardless of brief interruptions in Internet connectivity. The cloud license server does not support "follow the sun" license assignments.

An issue has been fixed that could cause unexpected results when creating project copies of a batch of documents.

An issue has been fixed that could cause extra rendition files and PDFTron intermediate (XOD) stream files when documents are published or rendered.

A new option named Import scanned packages has been added to the Meridian 360 tenancy connection options in Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console as described in Viewing and editing the connectivity settings. If enabled, packages that are successfully scanned are imported automatically and do not need to be imported manually as described in Importing an import package. This option is intended for use with packages sent from Meridian Portal to accelerate the document handover process.

The WorkSpaceLocation, WorkSpaceLockID, and WorkSpaceNoUserName registry values may now be set in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive and are overridden by values with the same name in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive if they exist. For more information, see HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Client\Settings.

The Connect as current user command described in Configuring a site cache connection has been changed to Logout and the user must now manually log in with different credentials.

A new server registry value WorkSpaceSharedCheck has been added that, when set to 1, detects shared workspace folders during document downloads and recreates them if they do not exist, which can take a unacceptable amount of time. If this value is 0 (default), this checking is not done and downloads occur faster but referenced drawings may not be resolved correctly. For more information, see HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Client.

An issue has been fixed that could cause No E-mail address for System.Reflection.Missing messages in the Application event log when the Project copy created event is enabled for email notifications but no users are subscribed to the source document when a project copy is made.

The Meridian 2019 license server requires Meridian 2019 licenses and will not work with earlier licenses. Earlier license servers will work with Meridian 2019 licenses.

An issue has been fixed that could cause vault upgrades to Oracle 9.0 to fail.

An issue has been fixed in the Meridian client installation package that could cause the Meridian Portal authentication settings to be missing after installation.

An issue has been fixed that could cause synchronized documents to be missing in a Meridian Explorer repository hosted in SQL Server if the database uses accent insensitive collation.

An issue has been fixed that could cause the Meridian server installation package to fail to prompt for service account credentials when adding services to an existing installation.

The Check and Repair option has been removed from the Vault Consistency Wizard.

An issue has been fixed that could cause the Meridian server to stop working after upgrading a vault.

An issue has been fixed that could cause the EDM server to stop working and not be able to be started again.

An issue has been fixed in the installation package that could cause the Windows Search service to not restart after an upgrade is installed.

An issue has been fixed that could cause the EDM server system time to jump ahead unexpectedly and results in users receiving Invalid effectivity errors.

A new server registry value ViewerWithoutMDS has been added that, when set to 1 (default), prevents metadata and other data files from being sent along with document files for viewing. If this value is 0, the metadata is always sent as in prior versions. For more information, see HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\WebLink.

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, an issue has been fixed that prevented the Before filter from being applied to date fields in the audit log.

Information is now logged when site cache servers fail to register in Meridian Enterprise Server to aid with troubleshooting.

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, an issue has been fixed that could cause errors when configuring scheduled site cache cleanups.

The names Meridian 360 and the abbreviation M360 in the user interface have been changed to Meridian Portal. Any remaining references to them in the software or documentation should be read as Meridian Portal.

New commands named Check for locked documents and Unlock documents have been added to Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console. The commands can be used to view and unlock the documents, respectively, that are locked by a selected user as described in Managing a Meridian Enterprise vault.