⚠ Please Note:
Version 7.4.2 contains a large amount of User Interface refactoring. If you have customised your interface, please ensure you have all the appropriate back-ups prior to updating.
In order to help minimise display issues in line with UI modifications, we have implemented “browser cache defeat” – however, if your customers experience oddities in the display, please advise them to clear their browser cache.
Release overview
Release Date: 13 Nov 2014
Release Versions: On-Premises v7.4.2
New Features
| Feature | Feature Description | User(s) impacted | Impact description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add in-line images when composing an email via web user interface | Introducing the ability to insert images in-line with text when composing an email using the atmail webmail user interface | End users who use the web mail interface | Webmail users have the ability to insert in-line images when composing an email: Steps:
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Feature Enhancements
| Impacted Feature | Enhancement description | User(s) Impacted | Impact description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web User Interface, Email, User - Settings - Email Filters | Introduce “OR” operator to add rules to filters. (Currently only supports “AND” operator) | End users who use the webmail user interface | Impacted users have the ability to use both "AND" and "OR" operators when creating rules within User Settings >> Email Filters. |
| Web User Interface, Email | Email recipients (“To:”) to be displayed when viewing email in WebMail | End users who use the webmail user interface | Impacted users can see all recipients ("To") of an email when viewing the email. (Previous versions only displayed sender email) |
| Web User Interface, Email, User - Settings - Webmail Settings | When user setting "Trash Button Action" is set to "Permanently delete selected email", when deleting an email prompt user confirmation to confirm "Permanently delete", "Move to Trash" or "Cancel" | End users who use webmail user interface who has set user setting "Trash Button Action" to "Permanently delete selected email" | Impacted users are prompted a confirmation when deleting email(s) to avoid accidental permanently deletion of emails |
| Web User Interface, Email | UX: UI: WEBUI: EMAIL: Embedded images (IMG tag) are rendered max view in the UI (Introduce CSS max-width attribute for these elements so it will render in the max size of the window) |
End users who use the webmail user interface | Impacted users who receive emails with large embedded images will be able to view the image without having to scroll. (The image will be resized to fit window size) |
| Admin Interface, Admin - User Manager - Login to Account, Admin - Security - Authentication | Improve "Login As" feature / setting terminology to be consistent across system | System administrators who use the Web Admin Control Panel. |
Text/UI improvement for Impacted Users to understand "Login to Account" feature and related "Time out setting" of feature (Consistent wording) |
| Web User Interface, Tasks | UI/UX: Tasks > modify task dialogue box location and direction of the arrow | End users who use the webmail user interface | Impacted users now have a better user experience in terms of the modify task dialog box location and direction of arrow. |
| Web User Interface, Email - Custom Folders, Email - Folder Manager | Folder manager > deleting a folder containing subfolders | End users who use the webmail user interface | Impacted users who use "Folder Manager" to delete a folder will be given a more accurate confirmation prompt when the folder contains sub folders. |
| Web User Interface, Email, Email - Custom Folders | UI/UX: Improve positioning of (+) and (-) icons to Add/Delete folders - Currently (+) icon slides to the left to create space for (-) | End users who use the webmail user interface | Minor UX improvement in terms of positioning of (+) and (-) icons to "Add" /"Delete" folders for impacted users. |
| Web User Interface | UI: Change accessibility icon on Web User Interface | End users who use the webmail user interface | Minor UX improvement in terms of the image used as a link to Accessibility Interface within Web Users Interface. |
| Mobile/Accessibility User Interface, Calendar, Contacts, Email, Settings, Tasks | WCAG Support - AA / AAA Compliance | End users who use Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Mobile/Accessibility User interface has been improved to be compliant with WCAG Support - AA / AAA standards. |
| Web User Interface, Email - Custom Folders | UX: Web UI: Email: Folders: Ability to expand/collapse User Folders (Tree) is not intuitive | End users who use the webmail user interface | Minor UX improvement to indicate to impacted users that Custom Folder Tree can be expanded and collapsed by clicking on "Folders" link. |
| Contacts, Email, Search, Web User Interface | UI/UX Improvement > Search > move search box from header to tool bar. | End users who use the webmail user interface | End users will now have more space within header for email tabs as "Search" box has been moved to "Toolbar". |
| 3rd Party Mail Client, Email, Web User Interface | Emails from Atmail render in Outlook 2013 with the font ignored, Outlook defaults to Times new roman in a small font which looks bad | End users who use webmail user interface and Outlook 2013 | When email sent using web user interface is opened via Outlook 2013 the font will not be ignored. |
| Mobile/Accessibility User Interface, Login/Logout | [Mobile UI] Refactor the mobile UI structure, separate login page into another zend controller action | End users who use Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | No known end user impact (changed experience). Code/Database improvements to adhere to best practises. |
| Web User Interface, Email, Email - Filters | Security > Email Filters > Emails from facebookmail.com should not appear in system filter "Notifications" (facebookmail.com is a known scamming/phishing domain) | End users who use the webmail user interface | Impacted users will no longer see any emails from facebookmail.com within system filter "Notifications" |
| iOS Provisioning | Remove the blue gradient background that the logo sits in from the iOS login page | End users who use iOS device to access email via iOS provisioning. | No end user impact. Change of colours to be more generic with atmail new branding and custom branding. |
| iOS Provisioning | remove version string from the "powered by" message on the iOS profile login page | End users who use iOS device to access email via iOS provisioning. | No end user impact. Change of text to be more generic with custom branding. |
| Installation / Install Script, MySQL / Database, Upgrade / Upgrade Script | Set DEFAULT CHARSET on ALL tables to utf8 and remove field level CHARACTER SET settings unless it has to be something other than utf8 | Users of: Web Admin Control Panel Webmail User Interface Mobile/Accessibility Interface |
No known end user impact (changed experience). Code/Database improvements to adhere to best practises. |
| Installation / Install Script, MySQL / Database | Adding an index to table calendarDelegates to assist future migrations | Users of: Web Admin Control Panel Webmail User Interface Mobile/Accessibility Interface |
No known end user impact (changed experience). Code/Database improvements to adhere to best practices. |
| Mobile/Accessibility User Interface, Screen Reader (Accessibility) | Accessibility: Voice support on email content inside iframe | End users who use Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Impacted users can use Apple VoiceOver, Window-Eyes, JAWS or NVDA to read email content within an iFrame (using special keys specific to each different screen reader software) |
| Web User Interface, Login/Logout | Make it clearer what the 'Accessibility' link on the user login page is for | End users who use webmail user interface | Minor UX improvement for impacted users within login page to make the "Accessibility" link clearer. |
| Installation / Install Script | Atmail installer support for Ubuntu 14+ and apache 2.4+ | System administrators who install and upgrade atmail on-premises solution in Ubuntu 14+ / apache 2.4+ environment. | Impacted users can now install/upgrade atmail on-premises using the installer script / update script. |
Defect Fixes
| Impact Category | Impacted Feature | Issue outline |
|---|---|---|
| UX - User Experience | Admin - License - Registration, Email, Email - Composer, Storage, (Web User Interface) | Despite the feature not licensed for use, the “Attach from storage” button displays within the email composer in a “basic” license installation. |
| UX - User Experience | Admin - User Manager - Domains, Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface), (Plugin - Cloud) | Cloud Admin > User manager > Edit User button returns an error message if domain dashboard is selected |
| UX - User Experience | Calendar, User - Settings - Webmail Settings, (Web User Interface) |
Despite the feature not licensed for use, “calendar week start on” setting displays under Webmail > Settings in a “basic” license installation. |
| UX - User Experience | Contacts, Email, (Web User Interface) |
UX: Web UI (User): Email > Pencil Icon drop-down menu > New contact: Although the user is taken to contact tab, a new contact form is not opened. |
| UX - User Experience | Contacts, (Web User Interface) | When leader board advertising is enabled, the clickable area to upload your contact image is misaligned. |
| UX - User Experience | Custom Branding, (iOS Provisioning) | Custom branding is not honoured on the iOS profile login page |
| UX - User Experience | Custom Branding, (Web User Interface) |
When a custom logo has been uploaded via branding settings the default atmail logo may briefly appear before being replaced with the correct logo upon page load |
| UX - User Experience | Drag n Drop, Storage, (Web User Interface) | IE8: Drag 'n' Drop functionality error |
| UX - User Experience | Drag n Drop, Storage, (Web User Interface) |
UX: Web UI (User) > Storage: A message should be displayed to the user stating that Drag and Drop file upload is not supported in IE8, IE9 and Safari 5.1.7. |
| UX - User Experience | Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | Enlarge Font Size, Smaller Font Size and Font Colour Options do not work when using IE |
| UX - User Experience | Email, Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) |
UX: Web UI (User): Email: Compose: A message should be displayed to the user stating that Drag and Drop file upload is not supported in IE8, IE9 and Safari 5.1.7. |
| UX - User Experience | Email, (Mobile/Accessibility User Interface) | Mobile UI: Emails with in-line images gets truncated when viewed for the first time |
| UX - User Experience | Email, (Mobile/Accessibility User Interface) | Mobile UI: Browser refresh doesn’t always refresh the email list. |
| UX - User Experience | Email, (Web User Interface) | IE8 > Email: Unclose-able tab bug |
| UX - User Experience | Email, (Web User Interface) | When “trashing” an email from the "Email" tab view it should close any open tab for that email |
| UX - User Experience | Login/Logout, Plugin - Welcome Message, (Web User Interface) | CSS bundled with atmail for the “Welcome Message” plugin is overridden by other CSS and the "close" button will not display |
| UX - User Experience | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | IE8 > Mobile UI: Script error after login |
| UX - User Experience | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Shift + Tab key combination should reverse focus through elements |
| UX - User Experience | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Screen reader reads mail content instead of mail list |
| UX - User Experience | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | IE 8: Mobile / Accessibility UI: Improve browser support in terms of functionality, UI and UX for IE8 |
| UX - User Experience | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Vision Impaired message view problem with IE 8 |
| UX - User Experience | Storage, (Web User Interface) | Deleting multiple files returns success status based on last file deleted only |
| UX - User Experience | User - Settings, (Web User Interface) | IE8 > Main Tab text still "Loading..." after page loading. |
| UI - User Interface | Admin - Dashboard, (Admin Interface) | Subadmin > Dashboard > Account Profile > Usage graphs are not correctly generated. |
| UI - User Interface | Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | IE8 > WebAdmin > User Manager > Map |
| UI - User Interface | Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | When uploading a user image via Admin Interface the image is not resized (although same image uploaded via User >> Contacts is resized) |
| UI - User Interface | Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | Admin console > Edit User > Date of Birth calendar popup > Next/Prev icon doesn't display with Chrome. |
| UI - User Interface | Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | Admin console > User Manager > Email(group) is hidden by next buttons |
| UI - User Interface | Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | Admin console > User Manager > Summary >Text is out of the box. |
| UI - User Interface | Calendar, Calendar Events, (Web User Interface) | IE8 > Calendar > Event Dialogue |
| UI - User Interface | Calendar, Tasks, (Web User Interface) | UX: Task Name and Location field help text in Calendar Event Details View / Task Details View should be grey text instead of tool tip |
| UI - User Interface | Contact Lists, Contacts, (Web User Interface) | The favourite "star" within add/edit contacts overlaps "First Name", "Last Name" input boxes when accessed via Firefox in Ubuntu |
| UI - User Interface | Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | UI issues: Compose > Contact list > broken formatting |
| UI - User Interface | Email - Filters, (Web User Interface) | In IE, filter folders like Unread, purchase etc display with font which is difficult to read |
| UI - User Interface | Email - Folder Manager, (Web User Interface) | Folder manager > select/deselect dropdown dialogue not greyed out |
| UI - User Interface | Email, Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | UX: UI: Email composer To/CC/BCC fields autocomplete drop down overlay is transparent instead of being opaque and goes across text within text editor in IE |
| UI - User Interface | Email, Plugin - BannerAd, (Web User Interface) | Email tab > 3 pane view > Skyscraper advertising enabled - subject text can run too long |
| UI - User Interface | Email, (Web User Interface) | Issue with drop down menu for tabs with IE browser (8,9,10). For multiple tabs the dropdown menus scatter. |
| UI - User Interface | Email, (Web User Interface) | IE-8 mail view is much smaller than firefox and chrome |
| UI - User Interface | Email, (Web User Interface) | “Not-Spam" button has an incorrect icon |
| UI - User Interface | Installation / Install Script | Incorrect support email address given in installation script |
| UI - User Interface | Installation / Install Script | Installation > Rebranding |
| UI - User Interface | iOS Provisioning | iOS Profile Page UI css file broken |
| UI - User Interface | iOS Provisioning | iOS Provisioning: Regressed styling in iOS provisioning |
| UI - User Interface | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Accessibility >> Mailing list >> Tab focus does not stop on each email, it stops on first email and focus jumps to "Search from Server" directly. |
| UI - User Interface | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | IE8 > Mobile UI > Footer button icon doesn't render correctly in Mail List page |
| UI - User Interface | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Mobile UI: Spam Folder: Wording needs to be changed to "Not SPAM" instead of "SPAM" when you are within the SPAM folder |
| UI - User Interface | Tasks, (Web User Interface) | IE8 > Tasks > Add Task Button |
| UI - User Interface | Tasks, (Web User Interface) | IE8 > Tasks > Tasks Dialogue box |
| UI - User Interface | User - Settings - Webmail Settings, (Web User Interface) | Date of Birth Format is not updated from settings |
| UI - User Interface | Web User Interface | IE8 > Top-right dropdown menu: top-right dropdown menu causes a displaced arrow to appear above the user profile picture |
| Security | API | CSRF bug - API calls resulting in "general error" for some environments |
| Security | Core | Remove Password from UserSettings of Zend Registry |
| Security | Email, Email - Attachments, (Web User Interface) | Preview of html attachments could execute malicious code |
| Security | Login/Logout, Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Password (encrypted) is sent out in a response |
| Functionality | 3rd Party Mail Client, Email, Email - Custom Folders, (Web User Interface) | Subfolders moved to Trash / subfolder created in Trash via other MUA is displayed as a normal folder in webmail client |
| Functionality | ActiveSync/Push, Calendar, Contacts | CardDav and CalDav loss of function bug |
| Functionality | Admin - Dashboard, Admin - Dashboard - Service Logs, (Admin Interface) | Cloud Admin Interface: Dashboard: Service Logs: Sent Mail: Although sent messages exist, the graph displays "0" messages |
| Functionality | Admin - License - Registration, Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | Issue with multiple serial types |
| Functionality | Admin - License - Registration, (Admin Interface), (Web User Interface) | New serial key problems |
| Functionality | Admin - Security - Authentication, Admin - Security - Sub Admin, (Admin Interface) | Login to Account from WebAdmin fails |
| Functionality | Admin - Services - Mass Mail, (Admin Interface) | Mass mail non functional, wrong SQL request |
| Functionality | Admin - Services - Mass Mail, (Admin Interface) | Mass Mail Fail |
| Functionality | Admin - Settings - Global Settings, Admin Interface, Boot-loader | If session_timeout is not set then we default to 60 hours not 60 minutes |
| Functionality | Admin - Settings - Groupware Settings, Admin Interface, Calendar, Calendar Sharing, Tasks, (Web User Interface) | Users are able to share calendars/tasks lists and view shared calendars/task lists at all times irrespective of the groupware zone is set via Web Admin (System, Domain, Off) |
| Functionality | Admin - User Manager - Import Users, (Admin Interface) | Unable to import users via CSV in WebAdmin (Node 5) |
| Functionality | Admin - User Manager - Import Users, (Admin Interface) | Admin console > User Manager > Import Users > Download sample CSV link broken. |
| Functionality | Admin - User Manager - Users, (Admin Interface) | Admin console "Map" function |
| Functionality | Admin Interface | Login as Admin >> Console >> User Manager >> Edit Domain Settings: Change Inherit Settings to ON/OFF, change License Type from Basic to Pro options are disabled |
| Functionality | Admin Interface, Appliance / RPM | Saving settings in WebAdmin fails to restart services |
| Functionality | Admin Interface, Translation, (Web User Interface) | Review and improve PT-BR translation files |
| Functionality | API | API groupUpdate bug |
| Functionality | Calendar, Calendar Events, (Web User Interface) | Cannot edit calendar events |
| Functionality | Calendar, Calendar Reminders, (Web User Interface) | Calendar snooze does not work |
| Functionality | Calendar, Calendar Reminders, (Web User Interface) | Calendar data freezes notification |
| Functionality | Calendar, (Web User Interface) | Create & delete calendar > duplicate entry bug |
| Functionality | Contacts, Import/Export Contacts, (Web User Interface) | .vcf export |
| Functionality | Contacts, User - Settings, (Web User Interface) | Skyscraper advertising support missing from some tabs |
| Functionality | Contacts, (Web User Interface) | Contact > Edit contact > ' replaces to \' |
| Functionality | Core, Email, (Web User Interface) | Atmail crashes Zimbra on body.peek for specific messages |
| Functionality | Core, Installation / Install Script | Server installer stops during unattended mode |
| Functionality | Core, Login/Logout, (Web User Interface) | Specifying IMAP port on email field crashes the app |
| Functionality | Core, Upgrade / Upgrade Script | ONPREM UPGRADE in CLOUD INSTALLATION deletes the clusterDomain record from Config table |
| Functionality | Custom Branding, iOS Provisioning | iOS landing page does not honour branding logo |
| Functionality | Email - Attachments, Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | Unable to delete attachments in composed e-mail |
| Functionality | Email - Attachments, (Web User Interface) | IE8 > Attachment issue when drag and drop or attach the same file via 'Attach from Computer' |
| Functionality | Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | IE 8: User is unable to use up and down arrows to navigate through the autocomplete list |
| Functionality | Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | Enlarge Font Size, Smaller Font Size and Font Colour Options do not work when using IE |
| Functionality | Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | Message editor issue with IE11 |
| Functionality | Email, Email - Attachments, Security, (Web User Interface) | CSRF plugin adds csrf tokens to forms in html attachment files |
| Functionality | Email, Email - Attachments, Storage, (Web User Interface) | Webmail > Attach from Storage |
| Functionality | Email, Email - Attachments, (Web User Interface) | Unable to open attachments in webmail |
| Functionality | Email, Email - Attachments, (Web User Interface) | Download E-Mail Attachment error - Attachment not found |
| Functionality | Email, Email - Composer, (Web User Interface) | To: field you should be able to click the mouse anywhere to the right of current characters and continue with name |
| Functionality | Email, (Mobile/Accessibility User Interface) | IE8 > Mobile UI > Email content got partial rendered inside iFrame |
| Functionality | Email, (Mobile/Accessibility User Interface) | Image not displaying correctly in mobile device |
| Functionality | Email, Mobile/Accessibility User Interface, (Web User Interface) | A blank screen (no content) displays when certain emails are opened using web mail or mobile user interface |
| Functionality | Email, Mobile/Accessibility User Interface, (Web User Interface) | Anchors in html email |
| Functionality | Email, MySQL / Database, (Web User Interface) | Error "General error: 1267 Illegal mix of collations" |
| Functionality | Email, Right Click, (Web User Interface) | Webmail > Right click does not work in IE8 |
| Functionality | Email, Search, User - Settings - Webmail Settings, (Web User Interface) | dd/mm/yy Date format changes to "time ago" after using search |
| Functionality | Email, User - Settings - Email Filters, (Web User Interface) | Email filter options "is" and "is not" do not function as expected |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Webmail > View Email > some inline-styles are escaped. |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Linkify jQuery plugin has been disabled in IE8, IE9 and IE10 instead of ONLY IE8 |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Reply/forward an email don't work using "reply" and "reply all" action buttons from the top menu |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Read messages show as unread |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Content-Type: in email |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Problems visualising emails |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | Multiple threads - Secondary reply/reply-all does not work |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | User mailbox in webmail stops working when receiving some emails |
| Functionality | Email, (Web User Interface) | While viewing an email in the draft folder, clicking the trash button doesn't delete the draft email. |
| Functionality | Installation / Install Script | Upgraded ubuntu installation and IMAP has lost functionality |
| Functionality | Installation / Install Script | Ubuntu Installation Improvements |
| Functionality | iOS Provisioning | iPhone provisioning not working |
| Functionality | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Mobile Interface Not Working Properly In AtMail 7.4 |
| Functionality | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Accessibility: Tab key should stop on items on email header in view email page |
| Functionality | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Accessibility UI > Tab key doesn't stop on contact folder selection page |
| Functionality | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Mobile UI - Windows Phone IE 10 cannot open emails |
| Functionality | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Accessibility UI > When deleting an email it is not removed from UI |
| Functionality | Utilities - Migration Script | Add Zimbra 5.0 to Atmail migration script files to utilities |
| Functionality | Web User Interface | IE11 > Toggle from desktop version to accessibility version got js error |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | WCAG Support - Pass SortSite Accessibility Validation Check |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Avoid specifying a new window as the target of a link with target="_blank". |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | IMG tags must have an ALT attribute. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Use the LANG attribute to identify the language of the page. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | LABEL elements should be associated with other controls, or form control has to be associated LABEL element |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Rewrite signup page, avoid using table html element |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Admin login page page has markup errors, causing screen readers to miss content. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | All ONCLICK handlers should have an equivalent ONKEYPRESS handler. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Avoid animated images over 5 seconds long that can't be paused or stopped. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Create pages that validate to W3C recommendations. This document contains markup errors. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | This page has no H1 tag, which violates Bing webmaster guidelines. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Pages have broken links and wrong image type |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Change the style to avoid obscuring the focus outline around A elements, which is used when tabbing through links |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Text-based form controls with absolute font sizes do not resize correctly. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | H element cannot be empty |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Omitting IMG WIDTH or HEIGHT attributes means page text jumps about as images load. |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | The INPUT TYPE="DATE" attribute is only supported by Chrome and Opera |
| Compliance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | Use relative rather than absolute units in CSS property values. |
| Code Maintenance | Core | Remove RedirectLogout plugin from source |
| Code Maintenance | Core | Remove usage of "exit" from controllers - impacts Zend Framework |
| Code Maintenance | Mobile/Accessibility User Interface | The TD HEIGHT, WIDTH attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.01 |
| Code Maintenance | Web User Interface | Typo error in compactlist.phtml |
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