Aspire 5.2.1

NoSQL DB provider supported by he Aspire 5.2 release:

• New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported v. 8.12.0
• OpenSearch/Dashboards v. 2.11.1

Java version supported

• OpenJDK 17 

New Features 

• Aspire Framework

• • Disable option Allow to disable identity cache population.
  • Manager - Add logic to check if items are assigned to dead nodes.
  • Reduce aspire-settings index searches per second rate.
• Workflow
  • Field Mapper: Newly migrated.

Improvements

• Aspire Framework

• • Disable option Allow to disable identity cache population.
  • Manager - Add logic to check if items are assigned to dead nodes. 
  • Reduce aspire-settings index searches per second rate.
• Connectors
   
  • Vulnerabilities found in REST connector on Aspire 5.2.1_all_daily image. 
  • Salesforce - change placeholder for include/exclude patterns. 

• Publishers

• • Saga Publisher - UI:
    • Hide the Default action option when the Best bet recognizer type is selected. 

Bugs

Total number of bugs fixed:  108

• Aspire Framework
  
  
  • Aspire 5.2.1: Cannot start Aspire: Failed to start appBundle: com.accenture.aspire:app-cf-manager.
  • Aspire QuickStart - Aspire is not starting correctly. 
  • Office Thumbnail Generator Error with Docs and PDFs. 
  • Performance impact when running lots of seeds at the same time. 
  • Performance problem with Manager batch assignment. 
  • Salesforce - Exclude functionality is not working. 
  • Error processing deletes. 
  • Migrate the Publisher to Saga to Aspire 5. 
  • Queues not reassigning jobs when the worker is decommissioned. 
  • Extract Text stage encountering RecordFormatException. 
  • Azure Identity Crawl does not index custom User attributes. 
  • Aspider - Selenium Auth and Sitemap parsing error. 

• Connectors

• • File System Connector
    • Aspire5.3-SNAPSHOT: Exception getting script from pool. 
  • All connectors: Generating 2 titles. 
  • REST
    • endless crawl by enabling Pagination option (250). 
    • Unsaved changes message for untouched Seed configuration. 
  • Kafka
    • Connector with credentials not working | ClassNotFoundException Error. 
    • Error crawling: component is not being loaded on Aspire. 
  • Salesforce
    • Accounts:  Fetch Attachments: Crawl failed: Query for object type Attachment is not configured. 
    • Error on the console while Crawling an idea with a file attached to a text control. 
  • Connector Framework
    • Update snapshot entry to include if item was processed. 
    • Update Process Delete stage, so items are filtered and checked before being enqueued. 
  • Elasticsearch provider -
    • QueueSAO - Update queue entry to include new timestamp in claim method. 

• Publishers

• • Saga Publisher
    • There is an error publishing to a Saga tag with Basic Authentication. 
    • Entity: There is an error publishing to the Saga tag.
    • Bestbets: Nothing is published in Saga executing a full crawl. 
    • Entity: The publisher should not duplicate entities in the Saga tag. 
    • Entity: There is no error publishing to a Saga tag using a tag name of another recognizer type. 
    • Bestbets: Entities are published with a required field missing. 
    • It does not support authentication. 
    • Entity: There is no difference between publishing to Saga using the Default action 'Add new entities' or 'Update existing entities'. 

• UI

• • Aspire UI
    • Update password dxf control to no encrypt env variables. 
    • Unsaved changes message for untouched REST configuration. 

• Workflows

• • Aspire 5 Workflow: JSON Extractor: Mappings: From and To  not working at all. 
  • Workflow components not catching hotfixes. 
  • Workflow components not catching hotfixes. 
  • Aspire Workflow & Extension Manager - cannot delete workflow with EM components loaded there. 

• DBServer

• • Schema is not being extracted for view objects. 
  • Connector does not escape wild card characters. 
  • T-Mobile - DB server connector parsing exception. 

Known Issues

• Aspire Framework

• • Extract Text - NoClassDefFoundError errors.
  • Aspire has an API limitation of 10000 seeds. 

Migrating from 5.x to 5.2.1

For the identity cache index, follow the steps detailed in the guide 5.2 - How to migrate Identity Cache

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"
    }
  }
}