Web Crawler named Aspider Connector replaces the Legacy Heritrix Connector.
Salesforce Connector has been refactored to include the following features:
Runs in the new connector framework.
Supports execution in a distributed environment.
Allows concurrent crawling of multiple endpoints.
Provides faster incremental crawls.
Uses snapshots.
New way to manage Failed Documents for all of the Source Connectors:
Allows document reprocessing that previously failed in both processing and publishing stages.
Avro Reader Extractor Application and Avro Publisher. ALPHA VERSION
Parquet Extractor Application. ALPHA VERSION
SMTP Connector. ALPHA VERSION
HDFS Connector and Web HDFS Publisher. ALPHA VERSION
Http Generic Service. ALPHA VERSION
Documentum DQL
Error tolerant option to index metadata when fetch document fails.
New RenditionType option for indexing.
Support of Azure Authentication on the SharePoint Online Connector.
New features for the SharePoint Connector (2007/2010):
Supports default snapshots on incremental crawls.
Supports crawling-specific views on lists.
Implemented a single security key-store throughout all of Aspire.
Updated SharePoint 2007/2010 Web Service Extensions.
Bug Fixes
Aspire Core
Incorrect Historical Statistics for a new connector after another was executed.
Negative DPS appeared on the Statistics.
Link related to Aspire Authentication was updated in the config/settings.xml file.
Crawl Begin/End Auditing actions displayed different elements on Auditing.
NPE when a crawl stopped without pausing.
NPE when a crawl stopped in ReleaseController after pausing.
UI not showing correctly the error for an invalid groovy script.
Content source name could be updated with blank spaces.
Historical Crawl Statistics for one connector appearing in another one.
Incorrect Logs showed in QueueLoader component.
Exception loading workflow.xml file when an empty custom groovy script was added.
Advanced scheduler option was not working.
Server error was encountered when displaying Audit Log.
Group Expansion and Advance properties check boxes were misplaced.
Page was stuck when adding a Custom Publisher.
Service start and stop buttons displayed wrong tooltips.
Crawl stalling in Linux after publishing end job.
Couldn't save content source when using multiple check box selectors with one option checked.
OpenDXF was not escaping characters in JSON inputs.
Any exception thrown produced a NPE in the app-rap-connector.
Failover: Dual instance full test (interrupted) - Recovery Option Full - Not all items Crawled
Failover: Dual instance full test (interrupted) - Recovery Option Incremental - Never ended crawling
Allowed laxing of deletes policy in connector framework.
Aspire not detecting changes in the connector settings and not asking to save them.
Stop crawl option not working correctly.
Crawl showing wrong time when crawling in Linux.
Statistics showing items In Progress when paused.
Docs not crawled were reported as Adds on Auditing.
Server error was encountered when displaying Audit Log.
Aspire.sh -create_master option not working properly on Linux.
Hierarchy extractor needed to have default values selected on Workflow jobs to work properly.
Minor improvements and fixes in Aspire UI.
Validations improvements and fixes for several components.
Applications
Archive Extractor
Incremental on archives files was not working using the Lotus connector.
Nested archive threw an "Archive not recognized" error.
Connectors
CIFS
Malformed URL was not being validated.
Removed slash character at the end of name attribute on Hierarchy.
Confluence
Name attribute for the level 1 hierarchy showed the name of the content source.
Documentum DQL
Fixed NPE when running an incremental crawl.
DisplayUrl field was not separating webtop from document id
Include/Exclude fields appeared as part of the configurations.
eRoom
Updates and Deletes were not picked up by Incremental crawl over certain items (Comments and Votes for polls.)
UI validation when using wrong URL.
No error was reported when setting a wrong username/password.
FileSystem
Improved the wording in some tooltips.
Heritrix
Implemented deletes handling feature from Heritrix in the connector framework.
Jive
Changes on Document ACL's were reflected incorrectly for both Activity Incremental and Normal Incremental.
Non-text Document filtering reported Add instead of Update for the documents filtered.
Page Size value was not using the UI parameter.
Lotus
Exclude pattern was not working as expected for items that were not attachments.
Incremental on archive files was not working.
Incremental crawl with index containers was not working.
No error showed if the database and view were the same.
RDB Snapshot
Full crawl not working. Console and UI got stuck.
Crawl was not finishing with the Use Slices option and set bad Extract SQL.
No error was reported when setting a wrong ACL SQL.
Wrong sql statement in Full crawl was not showing errors.
RDB Tables
Action column was ignored for the incremental crawl.
Service Now
Displayed incorrect URL field in Knowledge Articles (XML representation).
Inclusion\Exclusion pattern was not working for attachments.
Aspire error when two images files were attached and a full crawl was run.
Social Cast
Tag nonTextDocument was missed in the Aspire Object.
SharePoint 2007
Error on console and UI while crawling an item updated on root using both Index Containers and Scan Recursively disabled.
NPE processed container after changing ACL on an Incremental crawl.
ACLs showed the same item as group and user.
SharePoint 2010
Minor fixes to the tooltips.
SharePoint 2013
Incremental reported duplicate jobs when adding a subsite.
Delete job had the incorrect displayUrl and fetchUrl after renaming a file.
SharePoint Online
Adding specific site collections made incremental crawl everything.
Renaming an item returned an add, update and delete on the same crawl.
Error when crawling site URL with encoded blank spaces.
Publishers
Publish to Solr
Deletes were not working correctly.
Services
Add Service button was not working.
Azure Group Expander
Azure GE and SharePoint Online GE were not deleting users.
CEWS Listener
PropertyOflong and PropertyOfArrayOflong were not working.
Fast Content API
Missing validations.
Group Expansion Manager
Fixed 'Missing version number' error when service was loaded.
Some validations were missed.
LDAP Cache
Some validations were missed.
Problems with tooltips for LDAP Attribute in Cache user and Cache group options.
External Technical Limitations
Zip files are not crawled with the Activity Incrementals when they are created inside Jive Documents.
When a Salesforce SOQL statement selects a number of large fields (such as two or more custom fields of type long text) then Salesforce may return fewer records than defined in the page size in order to control the overall response payload size. The reduction in page size also occurs when dealing with base64 encoded fields (or blob fields), such as the Body. Remove these fields from the query if you want Salesforce to return the number of rows specified on the page size.
To Be Released
Box
IBM Connections
Items to Deprecate on Aspire 3.2
The following items are marked to be deprecated on the next Aspire version:
Elasticsearch bootloader
aspire-elastic-bootloader
DCM
aspire-dcm-enterprise
aspire-amazonec2-dm
aspire-zk-dm
The old Admin UI(s)
Parts of aspire-application
Big Data
app-semantic-co-occurrence-hadoop
app-semantic-co-occurrence-hadoop-soln
aspire-hadoop-job-launcher
aspire-hadoop-hdfs
aspire-hadoop-wiki-dict-generator
aspire-load-hdfs
Connectors
Staging Repo Connector (File System)
Solutions
OCR
Semantic Co-ocurrence
Publishers
Cloudsearch
Staging Repo Publisher (File System)
Known Issues
Aspire Core
Importing connector with special characters in the path fields not loading correctly.
Auditing
Dump option not working with Solr 6.2.0 & 6.3.0
Dump option not working with ElasticSearch 5.0.2
Incremental Crawl - Unchanged documents not displayed in Audit Log.
Aspire Shell
The option load-content-sources not working.
Relative paths were not working for the commands that create jobs.
Sometimes it was possible to delete the Aspire Shell prompt.
Failed Documents
FailedDocuments - Connector getting stuck when stopping the crawl.
Failover
Single instance, full test, interrupted, incremental recovery: Error Processing some files after resuming crawl.
During full crawls, some documents were left out if an instance was killed.
File System connector resumed crawling after restart.
Applications
Archive Extractor
Routing options not working with OnError.
Delete by Query not working as expected Using ElasticSearch 5.0.1
AVRO Extractor
Routing Workflow for add/update jobs to On Error does not work
Connectors
Include and Exclude pattern trimming empty spaces.
Aspider
Aspider - Crawl statistics not displayed on the UI when version was used.
CIFS
Due to a security issue observed with the protocol, Microsoft has recommended deactivating SMB1 from Windows servers.
Documentum
GroupExpansion marking groups as users.
Error on console was displayed while crawling a folder: "Stream handler unavailable due to: null"
Heritrix
Reject Images/Videos/Javascript/CSS not working for external site out of domain.
Jira Issues
Multiple connection timeouts occurring.
Jive
Crawl generated unnecessary deletes on Normal Incremental with the Use Progressive Retries option.
RDB Snapshot
bigINT SQL Server database type not supported for SQL Slices.
Inconsistency when crawling ACL information using ACL fetching options.
Crawl not working with a specific column when the Use column from Extraction SQL option was specified.
RDB Tables
Wrong value in "sequence column" parameter not showing UI error.
Inconsistent crawling ACL information when using ACL fetching options.
SharePoint Connectors
Renaming one document included by a pattern not generating a deletion.
No descriptive error with non-existent URL.
SharePoint 2007
Connector generating wrong hierarchy on updates.
Custom headers not being added to the request.
SharePoint 2010
Documents inside a folder not being picked up by incrementals if the parent ACL changed.
Publishers
Publish to SharePoint 2013
Due to a security issue observed with the protocol, Microsoft has recommended deactivating SMB1 from Windows servers.
Services
Import Service option not working when the service under the same name already existed.
Group Expansion Service
Removing GE collection from mongo causing unusable GE for connectors.
Group Expansion Manager
GE Manager - More than one GE Service using the same servlet name generating an error.
UI
Add Source List not showing until clicking refresh sources.
Update service name to chain of spaces was not validated all the time.