What's new in Blackout 5.0
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Blackout 5.0 Release Overview
- Note: Blackout 4.8 and above, will require SQL Server 2016 with compatibility mode set to at least 130.
HTML Viewer Deprecation
Starting from version 5.0, a notification in the HTML viewer informs reviewers that not all Blackout features will continue to be available on the Classic Viewer.
Features
Redaction Suggestions
The Blackout Suggested Redaction function introduces a new card in the Aero Image Viewer, displaying suggested terms for redaction on the current document. Users receive notifications while navigating between documents with suggestions generated based on terms redacted at least twice. Clicking the notification allows users to view and implement the suggested redactions. Manual redactions or Find & Redact operations trigger the Blackout API to calculate and store redacted words for future suggestions.
Image OCR Storage Moved to Disk
Starting in Blackout 5.0, the generated OCR data for Blackout will no longer be stored within SQL. Instead, the files will be stored within the assigned default file repository for the workspace. This change was made to reduce the overall load on the SQL Server where OCRing many pages at a time could cause unnecessary strain.
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where, when manually creating rules for spreadsheet markup projects, the subtype would reset to the default value when the markup type was changed even if the subtype options did not change.
- Fixed an issue where dtSearch rules over 250 characters would cause errors in Analyze Projects.
- Fixed an issue where Find & Redact could error if a document's OCR was in latin.
- Resolved an issue where missing font information within a PDF document could cause that file to fail during production preparation.
- Resolved issue where Blackout was erroring on PDFs that required a password to edit but not to read. Now such documents will not require a password to process correctly.
- Resolved an issue where the Document with Warnings button was difficult to see on Analyze project results.
- Corrected typo in description of PDF Markup Project.
- Resolved an issue where redacting content with an automated project could cause the marked text to disappear within the Image QC Pane. This is a security vulnerability as it technically allowed script injection to occur if content being redacted could render as actual HTML on the page. Low chance of abuse, but still a vulnerability.