New Features

• Brand 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.

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

• Field Mapper

Multiple Source Mappings not updating correctly.

Connectors

• eRoom

Extension List option and Open Data Stream not working with the Groovy script.

• IBM Connections

ACLs not being extracted.

• TeamForge

Exclude pattern works as expected.

Publishers

• Pub2HDFS 

WebHDFS exception.

Services

• JMS

Now loading correctly.

Known Issues

 Aspire Core 

• 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

• Archive Extractor

Deletion is not working with file names with special characters.

"Index Archive file job" is throwing exceptions or is not adding the job requested.

• PST Extractor

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

• IBM Connections

Adds are reported as Updates.

• RDB Tables

Need to flush jobs on RDB Source Connector.

• RDB Snapshot

Source - Full crawl not working. Console and UI got stuck.

• SharePoint 2010

NPE when Domain is empty.

• SharePoint 2013

Items crawled and Items with error are the same if domain is empty.

• Staging Repository

"Cannot get content source from job" error when Content Source field is not specified.

Solutions

• OCR

Publish to staging is not being added to the Workflow section when connector is added.

External Technical Limitations  

• Changes in Box notes content are not considered for incremental crawls.
• New items added to IBMConnections are reported as updated.
• Changes made to the attachments of the item type Opportunity in Salesforce are not considered for incremental crawls.
• Entitlements API is not supporting "User Overrides" on Jive connector. In this case, ACLs will not be retrieved.Documents with exact same date (including milliseconds) will affect the statistics for Incremental Crawls on Jive connector.

Important Note 

• MapDB is not used in the new connector framework.