Funnelback 11.4.0 release notes

Released: 6 February 2012

11.4.0 - New Features

  • Support for refresh updates when storing content in WARC files.

  • Locale support for result sorting.

  • Added support for cross-domain query completion.

  • Introduced padre-mi tool for merging search indexes.

11.4.0 - Upgrade Issues

  • Please note that the version numbering scheme for Funnelback has changed with this release. In future, the second digit in the version number (e.g. 4 in 11.4.0) will always be even in officially released, stable versions, and odd in internal release versions.

11.4.0 - Selected improvements and bugfixes

  • Added ability to send collection update emails on failure only.

  • Fixed a regression in 11.1 where geographic sort ordering was incorrect if other numeric metadata fields were used.

  • Improved crawler performance when using WARC files and on multi-domain collections.

  • Introduced the ability to provide results inline for facet categories to avoid multiple search requests.

  • Fixed incremental crawling when using WARC files and a previous crawl which had been restarted.

  • Allowed custom code to control crawler file storage.

  • Provide clearer errors when an invalid workflow.cfg file is in use.

  • Fixed handling of empty padre_opts.cfg files for Windows installations.

  • Configurable error handling on the Modern UI.