Below you can find the list of new features and improvements of BIMcloud.
BIMcloud 2023.3
This release introduces Archicad 27 support and cloud licensing capabilities.
Fixed issues
- BIMC-17410: On rare occasions, BIMcloud update could lock the user outside the Web Interface on browser session.
- BIMC-14794: Keep alive Teamwork connections were not honored for lengthy operations.
- BIMC-8316: Revamped icon set for Dark Mode in macOS.
- BIMC-8535: Favicons went missing on Web Interface.
- BIMC-3397: Tray icons were visually not consistent across different platform OS.
BIMcloud 2023.1
For on-premise users, this is a cumulative relase including the improvements from 2022.4
Fixed issues
- BIMC-14500 – BIMcloud SaaS:In rare cases tenant owners could lock out themselves with “Bring Your Own License” selection.
- BIMC-16112 – BIMcloud: Added the option to view model in the latest BIMx Desktop Viewer.
- BIMC-1477 – BIMcloud: Enhanced performance of project data synchronization between BIMcloud components through revamped Model Server Synchronizer.
- BIMC-16023 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: Exporting more than 100 user/groups through the web interface silently failed.
BIMcloud 2022.4 (SaaS only release)
Fixed issues
- BIMC-13919: Searching projects with some punctuation characters, returned no results.
- BIMC-15740: Activities Export on selected project was exporting a corrupted zip file.
- BIMC-15372: Some Teamwork Send requests get no response causing deadlocks on client side.
- BIMC-15191: Occasionally BIMcloud tray icon would disappear from system tray upon restart.
- BIMC-14687: Search field in Projects tab was querying results too fast on typing inactivity.
- BIMC-14551: Manager was throwing a generic error message instead of specific “There are no suitable servers” error.
- BIMC-14480: Text string on listing menus was not localized upon language change until the page was refreshed.
- BIMC-14235: Move operation on subfolder was not respecting the root folder permissions.
- BIMC-14230: Manually Assigned filter in BIMcloud User Licenses listing was not querying the right results in a timely manner.
- BIMC-13140: Server Backup creation failed when using colon punctuation characters in snapshot naming.
- BIMC-12583: Project name changes in the Project Settings where not reflected on the Users Joined Teamwork projects listing.
- BIMC-15857: Team Client was unable to reserve license automatically.
- BIMC-3402: Token was not replaced with notification message in case of license update.
BIMcloud 2022.3
This is cumulative List of Improvements for BIMcloud 2022.1 on-premises users and BIMcloud as a Service 2022.1 tenants. This release includes the halted BIMcloud as a Service 2022.2 fixes.
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-15488 – BIMcloud as a Service: BIMcloud Client Access licenses (CAL) were falsely allocated by the system in early halted 2022.2 release.
- #BIMC-13596 – BIMcloud as a Service: Revamped the Graphisoft ID Invite link for easier orientation for newly invited users.
- #BIMC-15100 – BIMcloud: Introduced retention policy for hosted project files.
- #BIMC-14712 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: “Move” and “Delete” icons were disappearing when “Select All” filter was used.
- #BIMC-13919 – BIMcloud / TEAMWORK: Tenant Owner GSID users could not use Teamwork messaging.
- #BIMC-12305 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: Notifications popup always closing when a notification was deleted.
- #BIMC-14621 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: BIMcloud Manager did not show all permissions with monitor resolutions lower than 2K.
- #BIMC-14829 – BIMcloud: Auto-purging of User Activity entries were not optimized.
- #BIMC-14431 – BIMcloud: Server did not parse properly UNC paths in configuration files.
- #BIMC-13955 – BIMcloud: Snapshot schedules were not globally available at the project root.
- #BIMC-12613 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Status Bar icon color did not switch between light/dark depending on background.
- #BIMC-11539 – BIMcloud: Upgraded OpenSSL library to latest version.
BIMcloud 2022.1
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-13056 – BIMcloud / TEAMWORK: Files hosted on the BIMcloud that had file names with special characters were not accessible by Archicad running on macOS.
- #BIMC-13203 – BIMcloud: Adding user through Manager when base URL was truncated was not permitted.
- #BIMC-13589 – BIMcloud: Backup operation in-progress could not be aborted.
- #BIMC-14240 – BIMcloud: After a backup restoration the BIMcloud Manager offered the creation of default user tags, that had already been imported.
- #BIMC-14237 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: Inherited access from root folders was not displayed, except for the masteradmin.
- #BIMC-14239 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: Misleading message of successful operation appeared when performing Move operation without changing the folder location.
- #BIMC-11771 – BIMcloud: Entity duplication operations in the database were not optimized for performance and data integrity.
- #BIMC-9280 – BIMcloud: Roles with special characters were not exported with Safari browser.
- #BIMC-12804 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: Permission list text was truncated in display resolutions below 2K.
- #BIMC-13753 – BIMcloud: User with GSID license sometimes disappeared from online list of users for a while.
- #BIMC-13935 – BIMcloud: Manager backup was accumulating unnecessary data and significantly increased database size.
- #BIMC-14045 – BIMcloud: Web interface timed out when loading a large BIMx file.
- #BIMC-12587 – BIMcloud: Manager used only the primary domain address for file uploading.
BIMcloud 2021.3 (BIMcloud as a Service only release)
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-13370 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager replaced space with + sign in file names when they were uploaded to the BIMcloud via a browser.
- #BIMC-13375 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: A BIMcloud Manager browser tab could become unresponsive if another tab was opened to the same BIMcloud and later closed.
- #BIMC-9985 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager disappeared from the BIMcloud Monitor (tray icon) when its process was stopped with ‘Disable All’.
- #BIMC-10454 – BIMcloud: Users could log in with their passwords synced from a user directory even if the user directory had been previously disconnected.
- #BIMC-12308 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: ‘Remember me’ checkbox was available without any functionality.
- #BIMC-13485 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Projects were sorted incorrectly by Last Snapshot date.
- #BIMC-12591 – BIMcloud / TEAMWORK: It was not possible to open directly the Projects page on BIMcloud from Archicad.
- #BIMC-13935 – BIMcloud: File size of the BIMcloud Manager’s database increased significantly when a full BIMcloud Manager backup was enabled on large systems.
BIMcloud 2021.2
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-3369 – BIMcloud: Project and library export failed when BIMcloud Server’s URL ended with a path prefix.
- #BIMC-4048 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Permissions settings wrongly became available during navigation, which caused failed settings.
- #BIMC-6477 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Current version number of BIMcloud appeared wrongly on the bottom of the Dashboard page.
- #BIMC-7282 – BIMcloud: User Export / Import included LDAP users too.
- #BIMC-9053 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Web user interface did not report in time if a BIMcloud backup was missing.
- #BIMC-9831 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Web user interface wrongly reported failed BIMcloud Manager backup as a failed BIMcloud Server backup.
- #BIMC-9864 – BIMcloud: Daily notification emails were sent twice.
- #BIMC-9866 – BIMcloud: When a BIMcloud Server backup was restored, newly configured path for files was not replacing the old path.
- #BIMC-11120 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: BIMcloud user interface did not load if the URL contained expired ID.
- #BIMC-11314 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: LDAP preview did not open to let data modify after the first setting.
- #BIMC-11406 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: User interface falsely reported working connection when the “/” was missing from the end of the path of the primary address of BIMcloud Server.
- #BIMC-11473 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Activities appeared in the wrong time order on the Activity panel.
- #BIMC-11570 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Monitor restarted BIMcloud Manager more frequently than it was necessary.
- #BIMC-11571 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager could become unresponsive for a long period due to frequent requests from Archicad.
- #BIMC-11769 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Cursor jumped to the opposite end of a string when data was entered to different fields (e.g. renaming groups, users, etc.)
- #BIMC-11869 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Notification did not appear when Change Host operation failed.
- #BIMC-11870 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Notifications may not appear correctly when notification text was long.
- #BIMC-11881 – BIMcloud / TEAMWORK: Archicad 24 could not list all projects in Open/Join Teamwork project or Share Teamwork project dialogs when there were more than 500 folders on BIMcloud.
- #BIMC-12301 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Server kept creating backups even if backup creation was set to “Don’t create”.
- #BIMC-12312 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud released license immediately when connection was lost with Archicad.
- #BIMC-12553 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: E-mail preferences were not editable after the first configuration.
- #BIMC-12554 – BIMcloud: “Request password change” option sent out a broken link in e-mail.
- #BIMC-12587 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: All file uploads used the primary address of BIMcloud only.
- #BIMC-12831 – BIMcloud: Communication issues could happen when BIMcloud was in a reverse proxy environment which reused connections between reverse proxy and BIMcloud services.
- #BIMC-12870 – BIMcloud: List of project and library snapshots did not load sometimes when number of projects and their corresponding snapshots was a large number.
BIMcloud
BIMcloud 2021.1
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-9931 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: There were no error messages when a file download failed from BIMcloud Manager.
- #BIMC-10640 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Loading content of the Access tab was slow during the first load.
- #BIMC-3364 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: The language of the BIMcloud Manager sometimes did not conform to the preference settings.
- #BIMC-10862 – BIMcloud: The BIMcloud Server had a memory leak with reservations that involved more than a few thousand elements.
- #BIMC-11118 – BIMcloud: Folder names with trailing spaces caused upload / publish errors from Archicad.
- #BIMC-10423 – BIMcloud / CRASH: The BIMcloud Manager sometimes crashed during logging.
- #BIMC-8142 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Loading elements for selection on the Project page was slow on large BIMcloud setups.
- #BIMC-9534 – BIMcloud: Notications sometimes did not appear during intense resource use.
- #BIMC-9083 – BIMcloud as a Service: Subscription on more than a few hundred folders and files was slow.
- #BIMC-9403 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Monitor falsely reported GitHub Inc. as its publisher.
- #BIMC-9363 – BIMcloud: The BIMcloud Monitor did not restart the BIMcloud Manager automatically every day, which sometimes caused operational issues.
- #BIMC-10641 – BIMcloud Support Tool: BIMcloud Support Tool did not collect configuration files of the BIMcloud Servers.
- #BIMC-11408 – BIMcloud / CRASH: BIMcloud Manager sometimes crashed on slower computers.
- #BIMC-6337 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: Search bar on the Projects page misleadingly reported ‘No Results’ when searching for projects instead of tags.
- #BIMC-9724 – BIMcloud: Project export failed when BIMcloud ran behind a reverse proxy.
BIMcloud 2020.3
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-9374 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: The number of reserved BIMcloud User Licenses and BIMcloud Team Client Licenses was incorrectly displayed on the BIMcloud Manager web UI under heavy load of the BIMcloud Manager.
- #BIMC-9359 – BIMcloud: In some rare cases BIMcloud 2020.2 could not read the Manager database file from previous BIMcloud versions correctly.
- #BIMC-9230 – BIMcloud: Check for Updates in BIMcloud components did not work in some cases.
BIMcloud 2020.2
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-8271 – BIMcloud – BIMcloud Manager database compaction was optimized.
- #BIMC-3356 – BIMcloud – When a database file became corrupt, the BIMcloud Manager often replicated the corrupt file until data storage was exhausted.
- #BIMC-7283 – BIMcloud – It was not possible to delete previously LDAP server imported users.
- #BIMC-7161 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE – Text in the BIMcloud Manager’s Project page search field sometimes disappered if the text was too long.
- #BIMC-6815 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE – Error message when the BIMcloud Server’s address was malformed mentioned BIMcloud Basic instead of BIMcloud.
- #BIMC-6258 – BIMcloud – A “/” was appended to any manually set BIMcloud Server address.
- #BIMC-3395 – BIMcloud – It was possible to assign a BIMcloud Server folder to one that did not support Windows 8.3 naming.
- #BIMC-3415 – BIMcloud – Teamwork related operations, like Open / Join sometimes failed due to an incorrect cache handling process between BIMcloud and Archicad.
- #BIMC-3750 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE – The Default Server setting layout was corrected on the BIMcloud Manager web user interface.
- #BIMC-4908 – BIMcloud Basic – BIMcloud Manager web UI sometimes failed to load if a “/” was missing from the Manager’s address and the computer hosted several BIMcloud Basic installations.
- #BIMC-3349 – BIMcloud – A new warning message has been added when an installation or update is not possible.
- #BIMC-8292 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE – Manager web UI permited granting projects with “Unknown” status access to the Project root.
BIMcloud 2020.1
Fixed issues
- #BIMC-3350 – BIMcloud: Full Disk Access Tool did not start automatically when installation was not located on macOS 10.15.
- #BIMC-3357 – BIMcloud: Installation of BIMcloud could fail if the BIMcloud Monitor (tray icon) was running.
- #BIMC-4190 – BIMcloud: Full Disk Access Tool did not inform the user it must be set for each and every BIMcloud installation individually.
- #BIMC-4493 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager constantly restarted when the Manager could not start in time.
- #BIMC-5022 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager Configurator could not open the default browser on macOS 10.15.4 to finish installation process.
- #BIMC-5085 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager Configurator showed wrong address to finish installation.
BIMcloud 2019.4
Fixed issues
- #266842 – BIMcloud Basic / USER INTERFACE: Activation of BIMcloud Basic was possible with social media accounts (Google, Facebook).
- #265297 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager Configurator sometimes falsely reported an error when the BIMcloud Manager initialization took longer than 1 minute.
- #264601 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Configurator on macOS lacked enough authority to write into folders it had previously created.
- #262904 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager erroneously reported available BIMcloud servers when the BIMcloud Server started before the Manager.
- #262900 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: The snapshot list for a given project refreshed unexpectedly slowly on web page refresh due to data caching algorithms.
- #262076 – BIMcloud: Change Host process sometimes silently failed due to insufficient available data store space on the host server.
- #261233 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager/Server syncronization was improved.
- #259378 – BIMcloud / BIMcloud Basic: The process of downgrading from BIMcloud to BIMcloud Basic sometimes had negative performance ramifications.
- #259268 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE: The project tree filter was modifiable while a snapshot schedule was being edited this lead to unexpected results.
- #259250 – BIMcloud / USER INTERFACE / FREEZE: An interface freeze with the snapshot schedule happened when the containing library folder of the dependent project / library snapshot was not visible due to an applied filter.
- #258743 – BIMcloud Basic: The upgrade process of BIMcloud Basic was not guarded by a validation dialog and immediately started when one clicked on the “Upgrade” button.
- #257475 – BIMcloud: Manager erroneously reported folder size prior to data synchronization.
- #245024 – BIMcloud: On macOS, a spurious volume was mounted by the BIMcloud Manager if the proper volume was not accessible at start.
BIMcloud 2019.3
Fixed issues
- #247298 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: A default address choice for BIMcloud was so sensitive that clicking on anything but designated buttons could select an undesired option.
- #257786 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: The Configurator’s language remained in English when launched from the BIMcloud’s installation folder.
- #259268 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: It was possible to change filter settings before a modified snapshot schedule or similar was saved leading to unexpected results.
- #260640 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager configuration values have been optimized to handle larger loads.
- #261300 – BIMcloud: A race condition between BIMcloud components could cause issues when a full BIMcloud Server backup was created.
- #261452 – BIMcloud: Online and license reservation status sometimes was incorrect if Archicad crashed or was not closed properly due to a computer restart.
- #261907 – BIMcloud: It was not possible to restore a Full BIMcloud Backup on macOS when it was created on Windows before.
- #261962 – BIMcloud: In rare occasions, Teamwork palette message handling created a corruption that interfered with the completion of the full BIMcloud Server Backup.
- #263596 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud could become unresponsive while it was collecting data for its Activity Monitor.
- #264282 – BIMcloud/USER INTERFACE: The number of reserved BIMcloud User Licenses and BIMcloud Team Client Licenses was incorrectly displayed on the BIMcloud Manager web UI.
BIMcloud 2019.2
Fixed issues
- #259748 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud occasionally went offline if HDD sleep setting was activated.
- #258959 – BIMcloud: PLN snapshots were not created and the BIMcloud Manager showed a pending status.
BIMcloud 2019.1
Fixed issues
- #256384 – BIMcloud: Update could fail if there was a missing line break at the end of the Config.xml.
- #255898 – BIMcloud/UI: BIMcloud Configurator was not visible on Parallels Virtual Machine on macOS.
- #255584 – BIMcloud: A network error could put the BIMcloud Server into an infinite loop.
- #255559 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Server could not be paired to a BIMcloud Manager different from the one it was paired to originally without using a workaround.
- #254521 – BIMcloud Basic: If the BIMcloud Server’s primary address was an IP address, the BIMcloud Basic upgraded to BIMcloud.
- #253709 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Basic sometimes upgraded to BIMcloud if there was an issue with the built-in license.
- #253331 – BIMcloud: Snapshot files were not handled properly if their name contained the “[“, the “]” or the “#” characters.
- #252101 – BIMcloud/UI: If BIMcloud Basic was not activated, Archicad issued a missleading warning when trying to access the BIMcloud.
- #250885 – BIMcloud: It was not possible to downgrade from BIMcloud to BIMcloud Basic if the BIMcloud Server’s primary address was an IP address.
- #250208 – BIMcloud/UI: Warning dialog of deleting the BIMcloud Server appeared in English with Polish language settings.
- #250202 – BIMcloud/UI: BIMcloud Server’s Configurator buttons showed up incorrectly in case of reconfiguration process with Polish language settings.
- #249462 – BIMcloud/UI: BIMcloud Manager’s Activity Chart was not compatible with Apple accessories.
- #249446 – BIMcloud/UI: Some Help Center links on the interface were invalid.
- #249031 – BIMcloud: It was not possible to import an archive from another BIMcloud Basic of version 21 or lower.
- #248804 – BIMcloud/UI: BIMcloud tray icon showed content in English with Korean language settings.
- #248803 – BIMcloud/UI: BIMcloud Configurators showed content in English with Korean language settings.
- #248675 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud related services valid for an older BIMcloud may have continued to run after updating to 2018.2 or above.
- #248448 – BIMcloud/Installer: A Help Center link was so sensitive that clicking on anything but designated buttons could open the link.
- #247892 – BIMcloud: Downgrade failed if there were user groups.
- #247205 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud tray icon did not run optimally.
- #245863 – BIMcloud: CodeMeter sluggish performance sometimes degraded BIMcloud performance.
- #244362 – BIMcloud: Downloaded activity reports often were not complete.
- #243659 – BIMcloud: There was no notification if a BIMcloud backup did not finish.
- #243100 – BIMcloud/UI: Default Host Server settings dialog has been changed to be more informative on the BIMcloud Manager’s web interface.
- #241909 – BIMcloud: The company logo sometimes disappeared after updating the BIMcloud.
- #238591 – BIMcloud: Users from a higher build numbered BIMcloud Manager could not be imported.
- #232386 – BIMcloud/UI: The Snapshot panel incorrectly stated “at least # copies” would be kept when it should have stated “keep the last # of copies.”
- #231167 – BIMcloud: BIMcloud Server and Manager could only be paired if their web protocol (HTTP/HTTPS) matched.
- #231054 – BIMcloud: A folder could not be renamed if it contained a large number of subfolders and projects.
BIMcloud 2018.2.1
Fixed issues
- #249911 – BIMcloud: Installation/upgrade of BIMcloud Server was not supported on Windows 7/8 based Operating Systems.
- #247871 – BIMcloud: Change Host process sometimes failed if the project or the library was very large.
- #247598 – BIMcloud: It was not possible to abort a full BIMcloud Server Backup from the BIMcloud Manager’s web interface.
- #244977 – BIMcloud: Full backup could not robustly handle mount issues with the configured target path.