Bugfixes

Incident number
Summary (problem description)
Resolution
PUB-280Security vulnerability in the API where a user could publish/unpublish without having the required permissions

Add authorization checks

PUB-297Publisher doesn't work with an MS SQL databaseUpdate sqljdbc driver to mssql-jdbc 6.4.0.jre8
PUB-298After the introduction of working-revisions, publishing released versions caused a parse exception while reading the project exportParse using correct objects for both working-revisions and released versions
PUB-300

CVE-2021-29425 in commons-io < 2.7

Update commons-io to 2.8.0

Upgrade Instructions

There are no specific upgrade instructions but when you upgrade from version 4.x, please take a look at the Platform support and Installing Publisher 5 due to the upgrade to Java 11.

3rd Party Libraries

There is also a page available which lists all the 3rd party libraries that are used in the Publisher. See for more information: Blueriq Publisher 5 libraries.