Trados GroupShare 2020 SR1 Cumulative Update 6 - build 15.1.6.8686, (released on February 14th 2022)

We are constantly reviewing and improving our products. We release enhancements and fixes to resolve customer issues as and when required. This article lists the enhancements and fixes for our latest major release, Trados GroupShare 2020 SR1. All changes and fixes are bundled into the cumulative update which you can install from RWS Account > Downloads.

This installer, named SDL_Trados_GroupShare_2020_Service_Release_1_CU6.exe (1,7 GB) is a full installer and can be used to install fresh instances as well as perform an update from Trados GroupShare 2017 SR1 (Service Release 1) CU10 (Build 60175) and Trados GroupShare 2020 SR1 CU5

Third-party authorization

Starting with GroupShare 2020 CU06 we support the automatic assignment of user roles in SSO login flows. As a prerequisite, this requires setting up a group or role membership in the identity provider. Both SAML tokens and JWT claims are supported with automatic role assignments.

Enhanced security policies

To enhance security, the default Trados GroupShare configuration no longer allows you to access the Online Editor via a different URL than the one set up as External Server Address in the GroupShare Console. You can still configure custom URLs if you want to use them for accessing the Online Editor. However, we recommend using the one set up as External Server Address for convenience. To see how to configure those URLs, see the Changing the External Server Address topic in the Online Help

Improved defense against cross-site scripting

This CU improves the way GroupShare encodes output data on the Web UI. This ensures potential hackers or malware cannot inject HTML and script characters that could make Trados GroupShare vulnerable to cross-site scripting. We have also updated Jquery to version 3.6. This version prevents cross-site scripting better than previous ones. (CRQ-24131 and CRQ-26899)

Find your project templates easier

The project template list in the Trados GroupShare Web UI is now displayed alphabetically. (CRQ-24625)

Automatic configuration CP-S: Authentication Server Address 

The Trados GroupShare installer now automatically configures the CP-S Authentication Server Address to http://localhost:41234. As a result, you no longer need to manually configure it for multiple installations. (LTGS-4006)

Interactive Logon permission is no longer required

Installing Trados GroupShare no longer requires Interactive Logon. Previously, specifying a service account that did not have the Interactive Logon permission would lead to an installation error. Additionally, the „Log on as a service” permission will be granted to the service user specified in the Trados GroupShare installer. (CRQ-25634)

Custom Properties Service API

The GET /api/properties-service/info API call now returns the „ServiceVersion” property instead of „serviceVersion”. This helps prevent some issues related to word capitalization when using the search function, for example.

GroupShare REST API improvements

If a translation file exists in GroupShare with a RelativePath property set, the following API calls will return the RelativePath property of the file:

GET /api/projectserver/v2/projects/{projectId}/files/detailed-information
GET /api/projectserver/v2/projects/{projectId}/files

This helps developers support users with files in sub-folders via the GroupShare API. (CRQ-24022)

Updated requirements

.NET Core 2.2 is no longer required

This release upgrades CP-S to use .NET Core 3.1 instead of .Net Core 2.2. This means that you can now uninstall .NET Core 2.2 from your machine if no other applications are using it.

Apache Tomcat

Security testing results proved that using  Apache Tomcat version 9.054 prevents certain security issues. We recommend upgrading to version 9.054 of Apache Tomcat if you use an earlier version.

Fixed issues

• Fixed an issue that caused duplicate project versions for Trados GroupShare projects when working with Trados Studio. (CRQ-18227)

• Trados Studio projects published on the GroupShare server now correctly display their .sdlxliff translatable files in the Files view if they use language codes with mismatching capitalization. (CRQ-4301)

• You can now edit Windows users whose Display Names contain special characters. (CRQ-26671)

• Trados GroupShare now enables you to create projects using any combination of batch tasks, ignoring those that are not supported. Previously, accessing projects with project templates that included certain batch tasks was not possible from the Web UI. (CRQ-24232, CRQ-22321)

• Fixed "Single sign-on error: Error that occurred when retrieving bearer token. Response (Unauthorized): Authentication failed." This occurred when trying to log on with an IdP user and the UpdateIdpUserInfo value was set to true. (CRQ-26224)

• Trados GroupShare could not use Language Weaver Machine Translation to pre-translate files from projects created with Re-send drafts and translated segments set to false. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-25907)

• The Reindex task was not working correctly for some TMs. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-25942)

• Reports and word counts now generate correct results when creating new projects based on project templates that have the Report internal fuzzy match leverage setting enabled. (CRQ-25264)

• When editing TMs, the Save button under the Advanced Settings field now correctly stores Recognize values. (CRQ-25140)

• You can now correctly generate Analyze Files reports for projects created on the Trados GroupShare Web UI. (CRQ-24891)

• The Dashboard and Reporting tabs now load correctly on the GroupShare Web UI when the webapp is set to run in a sub-folder. (CRQ-24739)

• Fixed an issue with the Online Editor that caused recognized terms from termbases to disappear after confirming a segment. (CRQ-24535)

• Exporting project packages from the Web UI failed for projects with templates that used the NOT condition for the TM filter.  This issue is now fixed.  (CRQ-24513)

• Projects created in Trados GroupShare with project templates that use the NOT condition for TM filter would result in broken word counts. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-21468)

• Creating a project template would fail if your termbase friendly name contained the “&” symbol. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-24057)

• Opening the Lookup pane in the Online Editor would result in an error if the termbase you added to the project didn’t match the project language pairs. This issue is now fixed. (CRQ-23909, CRQ-12481)

• When multiple files are selected in the project Planning section, the Set as active phase buttons are now correctly disabled. (CRQ-20883)

• Projects from sub-organizations are now correctly displayed when selecting an organization in the Projects tab. (CRQ-19356)

• Fixed an issue that caused project creation to randomly fail and display the following error: “An error occurred while executing the command definition. See the inner exception for details”. (CRQ-22620)

• Creating projects using project templates with invalid characters in their name resulted in the following error: “Illegal characters in path”. To avoid this, it is no longer possible to create project templates that use invalid characters in their names.  (CRQ-19159)

• “Modified by” and “Created by” fields in MultiTerm Online are now correctly populated with the name of the user currently logged in, instead of the Windows account that runs the Trados GroupShare services. (CRQ-16853)

• Fixed an issue that allowed users without the appropriate permissions to delete termbases. (CRQ-14874)

• Downloading files that contain accented characters from the Online Editor will no longer produce target files with incorrect names. (CRQ-13587)

• TM lookup now works correctly in the Online Editor after enabling HTTPS and disabling HTTP or when specifying custom ports during installation. (CRQ-11469, CRQ-11453)

• Termbase restrictions now work correctly in sub-organizations and permissions are now correctly inherited from the root organization. (CRQ-8823)

• You can now log in to the GroupShare Web UI as a user with a username that contains accented characters without getting the “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error. (CRQ-8575)

• Fixed an issue that prevented users with accented user names from seeing server-based TMs in Trados Studio. (CRQ-8563)

• When the Application server role and Web Server role/Multiterm Online roles are installed on different machines, you no longer get the following error in the GroupShare Console: “An unknown error occurred. Please restart the application. Details: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Server\Web\configs.js”. Instead, you will now be notified that you need to update the configs.jg file by a warning message. (CRQ-9871)

Known issues

Breaking change in TM-Service REST API

Creating TMs as a user that is assigned to multiple organizations triggers the following error: “An internal server error occurred. An error occurred while processing your request.”. To avoid this, when creating TMs, make sure that the POST request payload contains both location and ownerId. The location parameter must contain the organization path for the new TM, whereas the ownerId should be set to the respective organization's GUID. This change in parameters applies to language resource templates and field templates as well, so you need to send both location and ownerId. (CRQ-25767)

Emoji issues in the Online Editor

In the Online Editor, you cannot delete emojis in target segments unless you add a few characters after them. Trying to repeatedly add emojis will lead to unwanted characters and incorrect emoji placement. Additionally, downloading or checking in the native file from the Online Editor after inserting emojis in target segments will result in errors. To avoid these errors, make sure that you use the same emojis in the same order as they appear in the source when translating segments.

AutoSuggest in the Online Editor disabled for Asian languages

With the current releases, the AutoSuggest feature in the Online Editor is disabled when translating or reviewing into Asian languages. We’re bringing AutoSuggest back for Asian languages to the Online Editor in Trados GroupShare with the upcoming 2020 SR1 CU7 release soon. (CRQ-24823)