New features and enhancements in LiveContent S1000D 5.9
This section lists features and enhancements introduced in LiveContent S1000D 5.9.
Publishing enhancements
This release introduces the LiveContent S1000D Publish tool (Windows only), which provides a user interface for generating and managing IETPs. You can also use the tool to build and manage packages of publications for distribution.
During installation or upgrade, the Publish tool LiveContentS1000DPublish.exe executable is delivered to the LiveContent/PublishUI folder on the Windows LiveContent S1000D Publishing Server. It generates and maintains log files in a Log directory it creates in that folder.
The labels for its menus, fields, and other controls can be localized using the new resources.xml file delivered by default to the publishData subdirectory in the LiveContent S1000D data folder.
Client Certificate Authentication
LiveContent S1000D can now be configured to allow users to log in using Client Certificate Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) authentication. To enable client certificate authentication, a public key certificate must be obtained from a certificate authority (CA) and installed on the user's web browser. Once the user has provided authentication to the operating system, such as with a Common Access Card (CAC), LiveContent S1000D uses this certificate to authenticate the user's credentials. LiveContent S1000D client certificate authentication is based on the X.509 standard issued by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T).
You can configure LiveContent S1000D to allow users to authenticate with a Common Access Card (CAC) without supplying a password. Alternatively, a public key certificate can be obtained from a certificate authority (CA) and installed on the user's web browser to enable client certificate authentication. For further information, refer to Using Client Certificate Authentication in the LiveContent S1000D documentation.Support for the S1000D infoNameVariant element
In S1000D Issue 5.0, a new, optional infoNameVariant element was added as a child of the dmTitle element. This element extends the information included in a document title.
When it exists, the value of the infoNameVariant element is appended to info name.
S1000D Issue support
Support for older S1000D Issues 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.9, 2.0, and 2.1 has been added in this release.
UTF-8 XSL stylesheet encoding
In this release, UTF-8 character encoding is used for the LiveContent S1000D XSL stylesheet (instead of ISO-8859-1 encoding, which was used in previous versions).