Released on February 8th, 2024

NoSQL DB provider supported by he Aspire 5.2 release:

  • New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported v. 8.12.0
  • OpenSearch/Dashboards v. 2.11.1

Java version supported

  • OpenJDK 17 

New Features 

  • Aspire Framework
    • Disable option Allow to disable identity cache population.
    • Manager - Add logic to check if items are assigned to dead nodes.
    • Reduce aspire-settings index searches per second rate.
  • Workflow
    • Field Mapper: Newly migrated.

Improvements

  • Aspire Framework
    • Disable option Allow to disable identity cache population.
    • Manager - Add logic to check if items are assigned to dead nodes. 
    • Reduce aspire-settings index searches per second rate.
  • Connectors
     
    • Vulnerabilities found in REST connector on Aspire 5.2.1_all_daily image. 
    • Salesforce - change placeholder for include/exclude patterns. 
  • Publishers
    • Saga Publisher - UI:
      • Hide the Default action option when the Best bet recognizer type is selected. 

Bugs

Total number of bugs fixed:  108

  • Aspire Framework

    • Aspire 5.2.1: Cannot start Aspire: Failed to start appBundle: com.accenture.aspire:app-cf-manager.
    • Aspire QuickStart - Aspire is not starting correctly. 
    • Office Thumbnail Generator Error with Docs and PDFs. 
    • Performance impact when running lots of seeds at the same time. 
    • Performance problem with Manager batch assignment. 
    • Salesforce - Exclude functionality is not working. 
    • Error processing deletes. 
    • Migrate the Publisher to Saga to Aspire 5. 
    • Queues not reassigning jobs when the worker is decommissioned. 
    • Extract Text stage encountering RecordFormatException. 
    • Azure Identity Crawl does not index custom User attributes. 
    • Aspider - Selenium Auth and Sitemap parsing error. 


  • Connectors
    • File System Connector
      • Aspire5.3-SNAPSHOT: Exception getting script from pool. 
    • All connectors: Generating 2 titles. 
    • REST
      • endless crawl by enabling Pagination option (250). 
      • Unsaved changes message for untouched Seed configuration. 
    • Kafka
      • Connector with credentials not working | ClassNotFoundException Error. 
      • Error crawling: component is not being loaded on Aspire. 
    • Salesforce
      • Accounts:  Fetch Attachments: Crawl failed: Query for object type Attachment is not configured. 
      • Error on the console while Crawling an idea with a file attached to a text control. 
    • Connector Framework
      • Update snapshot entry to include if item was processed. 
      • Update Process Delete stage, so items are filtered and checked before being enqueued. 
    • Elasticsearch provider -
      • QueueSAO - Update queue entry to include new timestamp in claim method. 


  • Publishers
    • Saga Publisher
      • There is an error publishing to a Saga tag with Basic Authentication. 
      • Entity: There is an error publishing to the Saga tag.
      • Bestbets: Nothing is published in Saga executing a full crawl. 
      • Entity: The publisher should not duplicate entities in the Saga tag. 
      • Entity: There is no error publishing to a Saga tag using a tag name of another recognizer type. 
      • Bestbets: Entities are published with a required field missing. 
      • It does not support authentication. 
      • Entity: There is no difference between publishing to Saga using the Default action 'Add new entities' or 'Update existing entities'. 


  • UI
    • Aspire UI
      • Update password dxf control to no encrypt env variables. 
      • Unsaved changes message for untouched REST configuration. 


  • Workflows
    • Aspire 5 Workflow: JSON Extractor: Mappings: From and To  not working at all. 
    • Workflow components not catching hotfixes. 
    • Workflow components not catching hotfixes. 
    • Aspire Workflow & Extension Manager - cannot delete workflow with EM components loaded there. 


  • DBServer
    • Schema is not being extracted for view objects. 
    • Connector does not escape wild card characters. 
    • T-Mobile - DB server connector parsing exception. 


Known Issues

  • Aspire Framework
    • Extract Text - NoClassDefFoundError errors.
    • Aspire has an API limitation of 10000 seeds


Migrating from 5.x to 5.2.1

For the identity cache index, follow the steps detailed in the guide 5.2 - How to migrate Identity Cache

Update the aspire-mappings index to refresh mappings:

aspire-mappings
PUT aspire-audit/_mapping
{
  "properties": {
    "audit.timestamp": {
      "type": "date"
    },
    "audit.seedId": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.crawlId": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.type": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.worker": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.statistics.seedId": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.statistics.connectionId": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.statistics.connectorId": {
      "type": "keyword"
    },
    "audit.statistics.id": {
      "type": "keyword"
    }
  }
}
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