New Features

• Improved and redesigned User Interface.

• Brand new Connector Framework (for more information check here)

• Several connectors refactored and migrated to the new framework.

• Refactored Group Expansion to use MongoDB

• 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

[ASPIRE-3840] 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 

• NoSQLSet 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 Source

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

Full crawl is retrieving deleted documents.

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

Staging Source Connector - Wrong error shown when Storage Unit does not exist.

Staging Source Connector - No error shown when scope does not exist for the given Storage Unit.

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.