Release Notes - Aspire 5.2.1

NoSQL DB provider supported by he Aspire 5.2 release:

• New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported (8.10.4)
• OpenSearch v. 2.11.1

Java version supported

• OpenJDK 17 

New Features 

• Aspire Framework

• • ASPIRE-12651 Disable option Allow to disable identity cache population (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12652 Manager - Add logic to check if items are assigned to dead nodes (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12653 Reduce aspire-settings index searches per second rate (Closed)

Improvements

• Aspire Framework

• • ASPIRE-12539 Disable option Allow to disable identity cache population (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12339 Manager - Add logic to check if items are assigned to dead nodes (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12455 Reduce aspire-settings index searches per second rate (Closed)
• Connectors
  • ASPIRE-12632 [VUL][SCAV-21] Vulnerabilities found in REST connector on Aspire 5.2.1_all_daily image (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12461 Salesforce - change placeholder for include/exclude patterns (Closed)

• Publishers

• • ASPIRE-12439 Saga Publisher - UI: Hide the Default action option when the Best bet recognizer type is selected (Closed)

Bugs

Total number of bugs fixed:  108

• Aspire Framework
  • ASPIRE-12554 Aspire 5.2.1: Cannot start Aspire: Failed to start appBundle: com.accenture.aspire:app-cf-manager (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12289 Aspire QuickStart - Aspire is not starting correctly (Resolved)
  • ASPIRE-12403 [CIO] - Office Thumbnail Generator Error with Docs and PDFs (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12606 Performance impact when running lots of seeds at the same time (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12619 Performance problem with Manager batch assignment (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12572 Salesforce - Exclude functionality is not working (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12400 [CIO] - Error processing deletes (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12407 [CIO] - Migrate the Publisher to Saga to Aspire 5 (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12489 Queues not reassigning jobs when the worker is decommissioned (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12480 Extract Text stage encountering RecordFormatException (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12427 Azure Identity Crawl does not index custom User attributes (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12379 Aspider - [CIO] Selenium Auth and Sitemap parsing error (Closed)

• Connectors

• • ASPIRE-12553 File System Connector - Aspire5.3-SNAPSHOT: Exception getting script from pool (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12316 All connectors: Generating 2 titles (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12557 REST - endless crawl by enabling Pagination option (250) (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12556 REST - unsaved changes message for untouched Seed configuration (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12518 Kafka Connector with credentials not working | ClassNotFoundException Error (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12470 Kafka Connector: error crawling: component is not being loaded on Aspire (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12452 Salesforce: Accounts:  Fetch Attachments: Crawl failed: Query for object type Attachment is not configured (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12460 Salesforce: Ideas: Error on the console while Crawling an idea with a file attached to a text control (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12397 Connector Framework - Update snapshot entry to include if item was processed (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12396 Connector Framework - Update Process Delete stage, so items are filtered and checked before being enqueued (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12398 Elasticsearch provider - QueueSAO - Update queue entry to include new timestamp in claim method (Closed)

• Publishers

• • ASPIRE-12473 Saga Publisher: There is an error publishing to a Saga tag with Basic Authentication (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12474 Saga Publisher - Entity: There is an error publishing to the Saga tag (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12445 Saga Publisher - Bestbets: Nothing is published in Saga executing a full crawl (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12449 Saga Publisher - Entity: The publisher should not duplicate entities in the Saga tag (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12457 Saga Publisher - Entity: There is no error publishing to a Saga tag using a tag name of another recognizer type (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12471 Saga Publisher - Bestbets: Entities are published with a required field missing (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12430 Saga Publisher: It does not support authentication (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12454 Saga Publisher - Entity: There is no difference between publishing to Saga using the Default action 'Add new entities' or 'Update existing entities' (Closed)

• UI

• • ASPIRE-12630 Aspire UI - Update password dxf control to no encrypt env variables (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12571 Aspire UI - unsaved changes message for untouched REST configuration (Closed)

• Workflows

• • ASPIRE-12498 Aspire 5 Workflow: JSON Extractor: Mappings: From and To  not working at all (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12326 workflow components not catching hotfixes (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12500 [HOTFIX] workflow components not catching hotfixes (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12273 Aspire Workflow & Extension Manager - cannot delete workflow with EM components loaded there (Closed)

• DBServer

• • ASPIRE-12547 DBServer - Schema is not being extracted for view objects (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12366 DBServer connector does not escape wild card characters (Closed)
  • ASPIRE-12383 T-Mobile - DB server connector parsing exception (Closed)

Known Issues

• Aspire Framework

• • ASPIRE-12349 [CIO] Extract Text - NoClassDefFoundError errors (Reopened)
  • ASPIRE-12469 Seeds 10000 limitations (Resolved)

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"
    }
  }
}