Category: Technical Notes

In order to provide you with even more tailored and useful information about our development and API products, we have split up the former Dev Blog into two different channels: 

• This blog will be dedicated to PTV xServer, providing you with general information, code samples, tutorials, new features, updates, and bug fixes.

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With PTV xServer 1.34 we updated several third party components to recent versions. This also included a major update of Apache Log4j from version 1 (PTV xServer < 1.34) to version 2 (PTV xServer 1.34). As PTV xServer 1 is downward compatible only the latest PTV xServer 1 version gets updates and we recommend to use always the newest one.…

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As the PTV xServer API versions 1.34 and 2.x are affected by the critical vulnerability in the Apache Log4j logging framework we work on updates integrating the security update Log4j 2.15.0. We will announce the new on-premise versions here and recommend to use them as soon as they are available.…

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The latest update to this post is available here!

On Friday 09.12.21 a critical vulnerability (Log4Shell) in the widely used Java library Log4j has been identified. According to the assessment of many authorities, this leads to an extremely critical threat situation, which is why, among others, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Germany has upgraded its existing cyber security warning to warning level red (see Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and BSI).…

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We are now working on the upcoming xServer Version 2.23.
These version is the first containing compiler updates for Windows and Linux.

On windows Systems, there are no updated requirements, since the xServer2 compiled with VC16 is backwards compatible.…

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