Release Notes - Aspire 5.2

NoSQL DB provider supported by the Aspire 5.1 release:

• New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported (7.17.11).
• OpenSearch v. 2.5

Java version supported

• OpenJDK 17. 

New Features 

• Connectors. Newly migrated.
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
  • Salesforce
  • Sharepoint 2013
• Tools. Newly migrated.
  • Export/Import options. 
• Workflow. 
  • Azure OpenAI Connection.
  • Azure OpenAI Embeddings.
  • Azure Open AI Chat Completions.
  • Saga Python Bridge Connection.
  • Saga Python Bridge Vectorization.
  • Text Splitter
• Publisher. Newly migrated.
  • Azure Search Publisher.

Improvements

• Aspire Framework
  • General
    • ASPIRE-12298 Added missing JDK module (jdk.net.ExtendedSocketOptions) for the Aspire docker image.
  • Scan Reports
    • ASPIRE-11265 Security Assessment Dynamic: Terms of use or legal notice warning banners added to the application.
  • NoSQL Provider:
    • ASPIRE-12126 Improved management for doc missing errors when flushing requests.
    • ASPIRE-12162 Added index validation process for Storage Provider initialization.
•  Connectors
  • Azure Identity
    • Bulk action option added. 
  • DB Server
    • ASPIRE-12180 Extended functionality to crawl a configurable list of object types.
  • OneDrive
    • ASPIRE-12058 Enabled the Skip ACLs option for the connector.
  • REST
    • ASPIRE-12124 Added "createChildItemWithSignature" method call example to scripted query.
• Schedules
  • ASPIRE-11770 Added option for sequential schedules to execute only if previous crawls were successful.
• UI
  • ASPIRE-12182 Added option to specify seed state in schedule filter.
  • ASPIRE-12283 Enabled clone option for wofklow in the UI.
• Workflow
  •  Valuecount Summarizer
    • ASPIRE-XXXX Histogram information for unique values.

Bugs

• Aspire Framework
  
  • General:
    • ASPIRE-12213 Crawl ending with invalid combination of state and phase.
    • ASPIRE-12165 Single Sign-on issue-changing to nonce.
  • NoSQL Provider:
    • ASPIRE-12264 Assume Role was not working using AWS Authentication.
• Connectors
  • Aspider
    • ASPIRE-12243 Crawl failing using Sitemap configuration. 
    • ASPIRE-12246 Minor issue using Proxy with authentication.
  • Azure Identity
    • ASPIRE-12082 Issue caused by the Scan stage to break the component. 
    • ASPIRE-12151 Issue causing an Elasticsearch mapping explosion exception. 
  • DB Server
    • ASPIRE-12188 Fixed Oracle random sampling issue.
    • ASPIRE-12292 Fixed bug in the connector that was preventing the proper handling of tables with spaces in their names.
  • Elasticsearch
    • ASPIRE-12087 The connector was not inheriting the SSL context from Aspire.
  • Group Expansion
    • ASPIRE-12217 Users containing the SP Online local groups. 
  • REST
    • ASPIRE-12123 Scroll option was not working properly.
  • Sharepoint Online
    • ASPIRE-12156 Addressed bug with the Security Trimming option.
• Schedules
  • ASPIRE-11236 Sequence Schedule started despite a previous one was failed.
• UI
  • ASPIRE-12118 Dxf picker control: fixed an issue where the control was loading the first page.
  • ASPIRE-12117 Extension Manager: resolved issue that prevented the deletion of extensions after being added.
  • ASPIRE-12186 Scheules: addressed an issue where the Schedule filter object and Seeds list were not mutually exclusive.
  • ASPIRE-11466 Seeds page: fixed bug where long names caused the action button to disappear until the column width was increased.
  • Several minor issues.

Known Issues

• Aspire Framework
  • Throttling is considering control items during the crawl.
• Connectors
  
  • AEM:
    • ASPIRE-12245 Changes in the On/Off Time properties handled like adds and deletes during incremental crawls for pages.
    • ASPIRE-12255 Changes in the jcr:content properties handled like adds and deletes during incremental crawls for pages.
    • ASPIRE-12260 Deletes actions are ingested for incremental crawls no matter the include/exclude property.
    • ASPIRE-12271 Updates not indexed during an incremental crawl using exclude properties.
  • REST
    • Bearer authentication failing with unknown expiring time format.
• UI
  
  • Edit page for Seeds loading empty rare times.
  • UI actions are limited for users with both Admin and Operator roles.

Migrating from 5.0.2 to 5.2

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"
    }
  }
}