New FeaturesBrand new Connector Framework (for more information check here)
Several connectors refactored and migrated to the new framework.
Refactored Group Expansion to use MongoDB.
Improved and redesigned User Interface.
- Added the creationDate filter option and Progressive Retries for Jive Source Connector.
New applications: Archive and PST Extractor.
- New Connector: Documentum DQL
Bug Fixes
Aspire Core
Fixed issue on DXF with the escapeValue flag.
Workflow - Validation allows to re-save a workflow rule.
Workflow - Component with a DXF text field is now saved.
Workflow - Deleting Components now works properly.
Scheduler General Tab - Content Source configuration saved is now being displayed in the UI.
UI - Deleting references do not delete application if shared.
Failover - After a single instance full crawl it's possible to run another one.
Aspire Framework crashing when include/exclude pattern is left empty.
Hierarchy Extractor - Fixed NPE.
Workflow - Rules are editable even if disabled.
General Auditing fixes.
Applications
Multiple Source Mappings not updating correctly.
Connectors
Extension List option and Open Data Stream not working with the Groovy script.
JiveACLs not fetching when the option is checked.Fixed Non-text Document Filtering issues.Include/exclude patterns not working at all.Hierarchy is not being updated after moving document to a different place.Adds/Deletes reported for the same Places.Group Expansion not retrieving all users.Security plugin being used even when selecting Entitlements API option.Some unused metadata info being retrieved.Multiple Public groups in Jive ACLs.Some minor UI issues.IBM ConnectionsACLs not being extracted.
Exclude pattern works as expected.
Publishers
WebHDFS exception.
Services
Now loading correctly.
Known Issues
Aspire Core
- Aspire does not detect changes in the connector settings and is not asking to save them.
- New NoSQLSet utility class is not working as expected.
- Source Connector disabled in distributed scenario crawls items and counts them in the statistics.
- Auditing Tool - filtering by "Batch" and "All" & "Job and All" is not working.
- Debug console broken in Firefox.
- Aspire does not load even after the console says is loaded.
- Add option does not show results when filtering from the last page.
Applications
Deletion is not working with file names with special characters.
"Index Archive file job" is throwing exceptions or is not adding the job requested.
Connector indexes containers.
Connectors
- Aspire Connector Archetype
Aspire connector archetype not compiling because of a wrong dependency. In order to make it work, change the "aspire-connector-framework" dependency version from 3.0 to 3.1
Special characters are not handled properly for filenames and content.
'LastModified' field is not being generated when items are modified.
Adds are reported as Updates.
Need to flush jobs on RDB Source Connector.
Source - Full crawl not working. Console and UI got stuck.
NPE when Domain is empty.
Items crawled and Items with error are the same if domain is empty.
"Cannot get content source from job" error when Content Source field is not specified.
Solutions
Publish to staging is not being added to the Workflow section when connector is added.
To Be Released
External Technical Limitations
- Changes in Box notes content are not considered for incremental crawls.
- Changes made to the attachments of the item type Opportunity in Salesforce are not considered for incremental crawls.
Important Note
- MapDB is not used in the new connector framework.
- 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.
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- Parquet Extractor Application.
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- SMTP Connector.
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- HDFS Connector and Web HDFS Publisher.
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- Http Generic Service.
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- 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.