Patch Deployed to Fix Private Item Dashboard Issue

During our development sessions today, in route to video support and group creation, we noticed a small issue related to private content items that needed to be fixed. If you don't know already, private content items are items that have all the attributes of other content items (eg, tasks, events) but are visible only to the creator, and the users that are referenced. This system was put in place to avoid having to create groups and workspaces - so you can just quickly submit a private item without any hassle.

Anyway, at the top of the dashboard are two panels - Recent Content, and Recent Comments. Each panel had a issue related to private items. The Recent Content panel was originally configured to never show any private items - just for maximum security. Now, since our patch was just released, it will show private items, only if the user has access to them (that way, private items don't go hidden behind the scenes).

The Recent Comment panel had a more serious security issue. Regardless of whether or not the user had access to the private item, the comments on the private item would be visible (although, you wouldn't be able to click on them to view them). This has also been patched.

And, in an interesting note, we were able to deploy the patches without any downtime at all.

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