ANN: Yozons eSignForms 20.8.15 released

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Version 20.8.15 - 15 August 2020

• Added Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Short Message Service (SMS), aka Text Messaging to mobile devices.
  You must create an Amazon Web Service (AWS) account and login to the AWS Console. It is best to use the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service to create a Group 'YozonsSMS' (use any name you like) and grant it the Permission's Attached Policy 'AmazonSNSFullAccess'. Then create a User 'YozonsSMS' (use any name you like) and Add User to Group to add this user to the 'YozonsSMS' group you created. Under the User's Security Credentials, click 'Create access key' to generate and then show the access key id and the secret access key. You will need to record these two values in the ESF/Lib/Template's property set 'AmazonSNSForSMS'. Note that if you don't record the secret access key above, you'll need to create a new access key and record it then.
  
  Also, each eSignForms user who wants to receive text messages must have a configured mobile phone number. SMS may also be used for 2FA, though less secure than the Twilio Authy app. If Authy and SMS are enabled for 2FA, Authy is used.
• Added the Outbound SMS processor thread status to the Deployment Stats view.
• Added a new SMS phone number to transfer a party via the Tran Search's and Report's transaction detail view's party list when SMS is enabled.
• Added a View SMS logs button to the User view, and to the Tran Search and Reports transaction details view when SMS is enabled.
• Added a Send SMS Action to the package custom logic setup so you can send an SMS at any point in the workflow.
• Added the mobile phone number to the User listing and filter.
• Updated the TranAdmin API for renotifying a party to allow a new SMS phone number to be used as it could before for just an email address via the TRANSFERTOSMSPHONE param.
• Added Amazon's AWS SDK for SNS 2.13.66.
• Resolved a thread timing/deadlock issue between User and Group objects.
• Added a Refresh button to the User List, Group List and Package List. This re-retrieves all corresponding records without having to close and reopen the list.
• Upgraded to BouncyCastle JCE and PKIX 1.66.
• Upgraded to Vaadin 8.11.2.
• Upgraded to libphonenumber 8.12.7.
• Upgraded to log4j 2.13.3.
• Upgraded to Apache Tomcat 9.0.37.
• Upgraded to OpenJDK 14.0.2.
• OPERATIONS VERSION UPGRADE NOTICE:
  • Database updates required (pre.sql/update.sql/post.sql): YES
  • rundbsetup/DbSetup DB conversion required: YES
  • web.xml changes required: NO

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We forgot to mention the two other new features for using SMS for party notifications and sending a text message during your workflow:

• Added SMS notification setup to package parties.
• Added Send SMS Action to package custom logic.