Hello,

Oracle strikes again. In their fight for Java security, they released an update which made all our uploaders inoperable. Fortunately, it was not so difficult to release a fix for this problem (Upload Suite 8.0.33), but all our customers have to update their uploaders on their sites. 

I have described the problem and the solution on the FAQ section on Upload Suite forum. Meanwhile, let me give some extra insight.

As you know, there are two series of uploader exist: new (version 7 and above) and old (version 6 and below). They have different API, and although we strongly recommend to switch from v6 to the latest version, we realize that it is not always possible. That's why besides of the version 8.0.33, we will release updated version 6 which will be a fix for all old-generation uploaders. Hopefully it will be ready within few next days. I will keep you posted here.

You may wonder what you can do if you don't have a maintenance subscription or it is already expired. Although this situation is a main reason why we always recommend renewing the maintenance subscription in time, we understand that this problem is too critical to abandon all customers who decided not to purchase updates (as the Java uploader becomes absolutely useless). That's why we decided that we will provide all new-generation uploader customers who request the update to solve this issue with free license key for the version 8.0.33. Just email us at info@aurigma.com. 

UPDATE: We have released Image Uploader 6.5.27 for old-generation uploader customers. You can download it on the legacy downloads page.

Today we released new File Downloader 7. This new release includes Java-based file downloader, so the product now supports not only Internet Explorer but all widespread web browsers. New release is available for download from our website.

Those existing customers who would like to upgrade to new version do not hesitate to contact our sales team at sales@aurigma.com, we will assist you with this.

It seems that Oracle is taking efforts to make Java more secure. Some time ago our clients started to complain that while installing Image Uploader Java displays the following warning: “Java has discovered application components that could indicate a security concern. Block potentially unsafe components from being run?” Several times we did attempts to reproduce the problem locally but we failed every time. I tried to dig deeper into this problem and found the Mixing Signed and Unsigned Code article explaining the behavior. As it turned out, starting from Java SE 6 update 19 Oracle has added heuristic to the process of applets installation checking whether an applet contains both signed and unsigned code or not. If it is the case, it warns a user. I am not sure why this problem happened with Image Uploader because it does not have unsigned code. The interesting thing that not all our clients suffered from this problem but only small part of them.

The article mentioned before suggests approach allowing Java developers to prevent displaying this warning dialog. We followed these guidelines and today we posted the updated Image Uploader 6.5.6 to our site. I hope that all things suggested by Oracle is working properly and the updated version of our product will be free of this annoying problem. During the next several weeks we will see the results.