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NoSQL DB provider supported by the Aspire 5.0.3 release:

• New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported (7.17.4)
• OpenSearch v. 1.1

Java version supported

• OpenJDK 11

New Features

• Connectors
  • Documentum DQL
  • Dropbox
  • Elasticsearch Lookup Caches
  • LDAP Identity
  • REST
    • Alternate query body format.
    • Allow Persistent Variables.
    • RequesterImpl - Update how headers are added.
    • Option to specify headers for each query request.
    • Option to configure a proxy.
    • Inherit data from parent query to child query (at document level).
    • Groovy editor popup like the one for Workflows.
  • ServiceNow
    • inherit Knowledge Base User Criteria for Knowledge Article items
    • Add deny ACL
  • VeevaVault - New Connector

• UI
  • Grovy editor popup like the one for Workflows.
  • Add option to copy entities
  • Extensions page error messages are not clear
  • Make code DXF control window bigger
  • Allow pause and abort actions while the seed status is pausing or aborting
• Framework
  • Add Delete Policies to Connections UI (all connector types).
  • Improved job distribution for crawls (connectorMaxBatchSize & workerRoundRobin)
  • Jobs Performance Statistics.
  • Seed allocation to use routing tags.
  • Property for Seeds that not support incremental crawls.
  • Autostart enabled using environment property.
• Workflow
  • Language Detector
  • Summarizers
    • Parquet Summarizer Executor
    • RDB Summarizer Executor
    • Sample Summarizer
    • SaS Summarizer Executor
    • Value Count Valuecount Summarizer
    • Tesseract OCR

Bugs Fixes

• Aspire Framework
  • General
    • Improve Job cleanup for idle connectors. Known issue on 5.0.2.
    • Manager source info initialization errors. Known issue on 5.0.2.
    • custom connectorMaxBatch size does not throw all the expected messages
    • Process Deletes add check to avoid infinite loop due to cyclic parent references
  • NoSQL Provider
    • Nodes are not shutting down in the time expected, having ES down. Known issue on 5.0.2.
• Connectors
  • DBServer
    • Incremental Crawl option enabled, but crawl type is not supported.
  • REST
    • Add option to specify connection throttling
  • ServiceNow
    • Public custom permissions must be reflected in the ACLs
    • Multiple roles are not processed for Catalog Items
    • Hierarchy exception crawling KA
  • Publishers
    • Publisher Framework
      • Batch monitor thread is not stopped when publisher is removed
    • Elasticsearch Publisher
      • The complete URL expects "/_bulk"
    • DBServer Publisher
      • DXF errors
    • File System Publisher
      • is displayed in JSON format in the publishToFile.jobs file
• UI
  • Some UX issues on navigation (page size, tag filter, etc.)
  • Resizing name column does not do the same for the text contained.
  • Narrow popup windows for WF applications.
  • Delete / Delete Incremental is missing in policy help pane
  • Credentials must be required when creating Veeva Vault connector
  • Rename "Index directories/binders" with "Index containers" in Veeva Vault Connections page
  • Error message is overlapping connection settings of Veeva Vault connection when scrolled down
  • Error message is overlapping with the response page size when API Base Version is invalid for Veeva Vault

Known Issues

• Aspire Framework
  • Throttling is considering control items during the crawl.
• Aspire UI
  
  • Edit page for Seeds loading empty rare times.
  • Seeds field should be required for any type of Schedule.
  • UI actions are limited for users with both Admin and Operator roles.
  • Filtering by name does not support the underscore character. Workaround: use the dash character as a separator; do not use space and underscore.  
• Connectors
  
  • SharePoint Online
    
    • Error crawling long URLs.

External Technical Limitations

• Connectors
  
  • ServiceNow
    
    • Security changes are not picked up by an incremental crawl

Migrating from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3

Update the aspire-mappings index to refresh 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"
    }
  }
}