Release Notes - Aspire 5.1

NoSQL DB provider supported by the Aspire 5.1 release:

• New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported (7.17.7).
• OpenSearch v. 1.3.7

Java version supported

• OpenJDK 17.

New Features

• Connectors
  • Confluence. Now supporting On-Premise and Cloud Servers.
  • Confluence Identity.
  • OneDrive.
  • REST
    • ASPIRE-11556 - 'Stop on Scan Error' option added. 
    • ASPIRE-11005 - Pagination by next page link.
    • ASPIRE-11377 - Support for expiration date format for Bearer authentication.
    • ASPIRE-11317 - Include children metadata info inside customizable field.
• Python Migration Scripts for Aspire 4.0 configurations. Available for the following connectors:
  • File System.
  • SMB.
  • Sharepoint Online.
• Publishers
  • Solr v. 8.9.
• Service
  
  • HTTP Listener.
• Workflow
  
  • Components
    • Archive Extractor.
  • Summarizers
    • Job Summarizer Executor
      • ASPIRE-11227 - 'Fetch row using slices' option added.
    • Saga Summarizer Executor
      • ASPIRE-11725 - 'Python server manager & cache' option added.
      • ASPIRE-11253 - 'Limit Entity Samples' option added to matched tags.

Bugs

• Aspire UI
  • ASPIRE-10468 - Improved redirect after creating configuration items.
• Aspire Framework
  • General
    • Critical vulnerabilities coming from scan reports.
  • NOSQL Providers:
• Workflow
  
  • Summarizers
    
    • Saga Summarizer Executor
      • ASPIRE-11296 -  'Entity Metadata' option removed.

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
  
  • ServiceNow
  • 'Can Read' permissions not considered for Knowledge Articles.
  • SharePoint Online
    
    • Error crawling long URLs on MS Windows. A Microsoft workaround is available.

External Technical Limitations

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

Migrating from 5.0.2 to 5.1

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"
    }
  }
}