Release Notes

Aspire 5.0 Release Notes

New architecture under the concept of Manager and Worker nodes.
- No need of Zookeeper.
- Nodes properties configuration.
New Configuration and Control API:
- Connections API.
- Connectors API.
- Credentials API.
- Policies API.
- Schedules API.
- Seeds API.
- Workflow API.
Security API.
Manager and Worker communication API.
Containerized deployments support:

Resources API.
Enhanced User Interface (UI):
- Separated pages for Seed, Connector, Connection, Credentials, Policies, Schedules, and Workflow configuration.
- New tools:
  - Extension Manager for custom components.
  - Groovy Playground.
  - DXF Playground.
  - Guided tour - Aspire 5 UI features.
Updated all 3rd party dependencies to latest versions.
New sandbox QuickStart installation with Docker:
- Easiest way to get started with Aspire.
- Containers including Aspire, LDAP, Elasticsearch and Kibana, all secured with HTTPS.
- Not recommended for production environments.
Kubernetes deployment guide:
- Easiest way to get started with Aspire 5 in a Kubernetes environment with production recommended notes.
New Kibana Dashboards for Aspire.
- Crawl statistics and general information from crawls.
- Included as part of the QuickStart.
Connectors

Aspire Framework
- Improve Job cleanup for idle connectors.
- Manager source info initialization errors.
- Nodes are not shutting down in the time expected having ES down.
- Throttling is considering control items during the crawl.
Aspire UI
- Seeds field should be required for any type of Schedules.
- UI actions are limited for users with both Admin and Operator roles.
- No redirect page for 401 message (unauthorized) accessing Aspire Debug Console.
Publishers
- Elasticsearch
  - HTTPS option not supported for the 'Host and port' option.