FileCloud Version 23.252 Release Notes

Major Release

FileCloud server version 23.252.0.31122
GA release date: October 6, 2025

Installation and upgrade information

Installing FileCloud Server Upgrade Notes for FileCloud 23.252.0.31122

SHA256 release checksums

filecloudupdate.zip 16dc9ab0d0bb320d9db1d860226db36aae8a850e0bf54fbab94ad70da8cbce3c
FileCloudSetup.exe b2ee0f1686cb2592600c10170131c4069527b21034326dd9ef79d7a6a48296ef

Minor/Patch Releases

Major new features

SCIM 2.0 support for central management of users and groups from your IdP

FileCloud now supports SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) 2.0, making it easy for admins to streamline user management across their organizations. With SCIM, you can automatically sync users and groups from identity providers like Okta, Entra ID, and Google with FileCloud and your other service providers. This eliminates the need to log in to FileCloud and manually request an update from your IdP.

A new Misc settings section is available in the admin portal for configuring SCIM access.

For more information, see Configuring OAuth for SCIM Integration.

Functionality added for using dynamic user codes in watermarks

Admins can now configure a dynamic watermark placeholder that generates a unique, non-identifiable code for each document preview. These preview IDs do not expose usernames or timestamps in the preview:

To enable you to trace activity and investigate potential data leaks. the coded preview IDs are listed with the corresponding usernames in the audit logs:

To specify use of an encoded preview ID, place the new PREVIEW_ID parameter into the watermark fields in the Preview settings screen:

For more information see Enabling Watermarks On Previews.

Support for user authentication across multiple AD domains

Admins can now enable user authentication across multiple trusted AD domains that are managed by a Global Catalog (GC). Users across all of your trusted domains can sign in with their email addresses; you are not required to create separate setups for each AD domain within this group. FileCloud's AD authentication settings now include the Enable multiple AD domains setting for enabling this feature.

Groups that are imported using this configuration are named with the group name + the domain name to avoid confusion if different domains have groups with the same name:

When users imported from these domains log in, they must use their full email address (the UPN) as their username:

For more information see Authenticate Users Across Trusted AD Domains.

Private Secure Web Viewer Shares

Users can now create private as well as public Secure Web Viewer shares. Private Secure Web Viewer shares can only be shared with members of your organization, and share permission is always view-only. Note that this type of private share is primarily intended for external users.

The Secure Web Viewer option has been changed from Allow anyone with Secure Web Viewer link and a password to Secure Web Viewer, and now includes the additional setting Allow selected users or groups.

Configuration for a Secure Web Viewer public share

When Allow selected users or groups is checked, the Password field no longer appears and a selector for adding users or groups becomes visible.

Secure Web Viewer share configuration for a private share

For more information, see Private File Sharing with Secure Web Viewer Protection.

UI Changes in FileCloud 23.252

Admin Portal

Custom Azure auth and graph domain settings for Azure SSO API
Azure GovCloud admins can now enter their custom domain URLs to enable integration with Azure SSO API. When admins go to Settings > Third Party Integrations > SSO API and click Add Integration and then Azure, the settings now include the fields oAuth Azure Auth URL and oAuth Azure Graph URL.

Information for Admins

A new Externals group has been added that automatically includes all External users. External users are no longer included in the Everyone group, including users in previous builds who were included in the Everyone group. The Externals group functions to prevent External users from having the same share, folder, and policy access as users in the Everyone group.

Previously created DLP rules that denied access to the Everyone group will now deny access to both the Everyone and Externals groups. Previously created DLP rules that allowed access to the Everyone group will continue to allow access to the Everyone group and not to the Externals group.

If your use cases require that external users have the same access to files and folders as other users, you can give the Externals group the same permissions as the Everyone group by running the tool assignexternalsgroup.php. See Assign the Externals Group the Same File Access as the Everyone Group for help.

The current version of the Windows Update Tool is 23.251, which is effective for installing FileCloud Version 23.252.
As of FileCloud 23.252, support for installation of FileCloud with Digital Ocean, Vultr, and Linode has ended; you must install a Windows or Ubuntu server in these apps to install FileCloud.

Enhancements

Reference Number	Area	Feature
Server
FCL-2933	Admin workflows	To prevent potential errors and ensure smooth workflow execution without manual intervention, FileCloud now automatically substitutes an empty object when all parameters in a required section are optional and left blank. The enhancement applies to both new and edited workflows.
FCL-2122	Azure SSO API	Azure GovCloud users can now add custom values for their Azure auth and graph domains to enable them to integrate with the Azure SSO API.
FCL-127	Groups	A new group named Externals has been added. This group automatically includes all External users. Now, External users are not included in the Everyone group.
FCL-1879	Metadata	A new inline metadata set for identifying ITAR information in files has been added.
FCL-1878	Metadata	A new inline metadata set for identifying CUI information in files has been added.
FCL-2623	PHP	PHP has been upgraded from version 8.3 to version 8.4.
FCL-2047	Preview	Preview support has been added for Apple iWork Suite file types (.pages, .numbers, .key).

Server-only Enhancements

Reference Number	Area	Description
Server
FCL-3343	Logging	An issue causing server log rotation to occur infrequently or not at all for some nodes in an HA environment has been fixed.

Security Fixes

Reference Number	Description
FCL-3620	Solr has been upgraded to 9.9.0 to fix several security vulnerabilities.

Bug Fixes

Reference Number	Area	Description
Server
FCL-2138	Cron	A problem causing the Cron job that cleans up thumbnails to run slowly has been fixed.
FCL-1817	FileCloud DocConverter	An issue causing FileCloud DocConverter to use excessive memory has been fixed.
FCL-3684	MongoDB, Cron	A problem causing a MongoDB exception during a Cron quota calculation step has been fixed.
FCL-3015	PDF	When metadata was extracted repeatedly from large PDFs, excessive memory was used. This has been fixed.
FCL-4018	Preview	After upgrade to FileCloud 23.251.1, file previews failed. This has been fixed.
FCL-2487	Reports	The Get Effective Permissions for Teams report was not returning results correctly. This has been fixed.
FCL-3365	SSO API	An issue causing only the first Azure group to appear in the Import SSO Groups dialog box has been fixed.

Client Bug Fixes

Reference Number	Area	Description
Drive
FCL-3180	Login	An issue preventing users from logging in to Drive has been fixed.
FCL-804	SSO	When the admin set login to SSO-only, other authentication methods were allowed on clients. This has been fixed.

Server-only Bug Fixes

Reference Number	Area	Description
Server
FCL-2071	Authentication	The option to enable basic authentication through a user policy did not appear after configuration was added. This has been fixed.
FCL-2282	ServerLink	An issue causing ServerLink to fail when large files were uploaded has been fixed.
FCL-3242	ServerLink	In the primary node, the recycle bin allowed folders to have the same name but different cases, but when the folders were synced to other nodes, the recycle bins returned an error. This has been fixed so that primary nodes and other nodes allow folders in the recycle bin with the same name and different cases.
FCL-1092	Upgrade	An issue causing a fatal runtime error message to appear on upgrade has been fixed.