Funnelback DXP change log

3 Bug fixes

16.28.0.3

Fixed the issue where setting the lang parameter via curator wasn’t processed the same as the CGI/query parameter.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.2.5

Extended the Clone documents plugin to support the cloning of documents based on repeated values in a field.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.2.4

Extended the Split XML or HTML plugin to support inclusion of meta tags for HTML documents, namespaced XML fields and all configuration fields in a configuration file.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.2.3

Extended the Generate start URLs plugin to support HTTP basic authentication when downloading the start URLs.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.2.2

Extended the Access restriction to search results plugin with an option to allow unrestricted access to auto-completion and click tracking endpoints.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.2.1

Extended the Generate auto-completion from search index plugin to add an option, Collapsing signature, that allows a result collapsing signature to be applied to remove duplicate items when generating the auto-completion.

3 Bug fixes

16.28.0.2

Fixed the issue where a data reload would occur with previous content in the configuration admin UI.

3 Bug fixes

16.28.0.2

Fixed the issue where exceptions would occur for disabled plugins in a data source/results page configuration.

3 Bug fixes

16.28.0.2

Fixed the issue of incremental crawl not following links from copied files.

3 Bug fixes

16.28.0.1

Increased the allowable size of the response headers

3 Bug fixes

16.28.0.1

Fixed the issue where the order of results returned by the /s/suggest.json endpoint may vary.

2 Minor improvements

16.28.0.0.6

Fixed the issue in Generate auto-completion from search index plugin which caused punctuation characters to be included in the trigger terms.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.0.5

Added the Generate start URLs plugin to generate a list of start URLs for a data source based on a field containing a total number of pages, which can then be used to generate page numbers passed in a URL to the API.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.0.4

Extended the Modify the search result URL plugin to support defining multiple URL match patterns and reformatting templates.

1 New and revised features

16.28.0.0.3

Added the new Clean text input plugin to remove non-printable or control characters from downloaded text content.

2 Minor improvements

16.28.0.0.2

Added support for XSLT 2.0 and XSLT 3.0 within the Transform XML data plugin.

2 Minor improvements

16.28.0.0.1

Extended the Map URL parameters plugin to support modification of extra searches.

1 New and revised features

16.28

Moved storage of session cart and session history to browser local storage instead of database. Changed implementation method for session history (search and click history) from writing complete HTML content to only customizing templates in simple.ftl.

Upgrade instructions for session history can be found here: * Upgrading a template with a default sessions and history widget * Upgrading a template with a customized sessions and history widget

3 Bug fixes

16.28

Fixed issue with javascript scrolling for highlighted query in search page.

1 New and revised features

16.26.0.0.5

Added the Exclude by content plugin to enable the definition of indexing exclude rules based on content.

1 New and revised features

16.26.0.0.4

Added the Transform XML data plugin to apply a transformation to XML data before indexing.

3 Bug fixes

16.26.0.0.3

Updated the Split XML or HTML plugin to fix a bug where the plugin was not generating valid XML.

3 Bug fixes

16.26.0.0.2

Updated the Query language - wildcard (truncation) support plugin to fix a bug where sometimes no search results were returned.

2 Minor improvements

16.26.0.0.1

Updated the Modify the search result URL plugin to add an option to also update the displayUrl field of the data model.

2 Minor improvements

16.26

Extended the Funnelback DXP developer role dxp~developer to allow editing of configuration keys crawler.ignore_robots_txt and crawler.ignore_nofollow.

2 Minor improvements

16.26

Fixed an issue preventing analytics email notifications from being delivered.

2 Minor improvements

16.26

Added annotation in analytics UI that all reports are displayed in UTC.

3 Bug fixes

16.26

Fixed as issue where the time after midnight for the last modified in logs UI was displayed as 24 instead of 00.

2 Minor improvements

16.26

Suppressed invalid collection ID warnings in update/push logs.

3 Bug fixes

16.26

Fixed an issue where invalid characters were acceptable in the plugin configuration UI when setting the configuration key with parameters.

2 Minor improvements

16.26

Lowered the minimum allowed value from 2 to 0 for the auto-completion.length configuration key.

3 Bug fixes

16.26

Fixed an issue where selecting multiple data sources as source for a single facet tab wasn’t working.

3 Bug fixes

16.26

Fixed an issue where scrolling in accessibility auditor audit document UI didn’t work in Chrome browser.

1 New and revised features

16.24.0.0.1

Updated "Tabs - Set default" plugin (v.1.2.0) to allow configuring default tab sourced from a metadata field.

1 New and revised features

16.24

Added a plugin to gather and index content from the Acalog academic catalog management system.

1 New and revised features

16.24

Added batch polling of the push data source status in a multi-server environment.

2 Minor improvements

16.24

Provided an option to publish a new plugin on creation.

2 Minor improvements

16.24

Improved the filter chain configuration for plugins to display descriptive labels for the filters.

2 Minor improvements

16.24

Improved the search within the plugins section to search over the documentation content.

2 Minor improvements

16.24

Updated the plugin listings to display a notification when a newer plugin is available.

2 Minor improvements

16.24

Improved the upgrade script to automatically upgrade plugins, where possible.

2 Minor improvements

16.24

Improved management of search from the DXP console by integrating with the DXP metrics collection service.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where the API token generation screen did not return all token details.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where configuration was left in an unrecoverable state when publishing a new plugin.

4 Important changes

16.24

Upgraded Angular to v16.

4 Important changes

16.24

Upgraded Jsoup to v1.17.1.

4 Important changes

16.24

Upgraded the search authentication module to integrate with the Squiz DXP IdP.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where analytics emails ware not being sent.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where filtering results by URL in accessibility auditor all document UI wasn’t working.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where restoring files from backup in the configuration file manager UI would navigate to the not found page (404 error).

1 New and revised features

16.24

Added option to adjust time zone for analytics charts.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where plugin key configuration was throwing error for allowed value of type different than string.

3 Bug fixes

16.24

Fixed an issue where plugin UI doesn’t show the filter chain for a plugin that enables Jsoup filters.

3 Bug fixes

16.24.0.1

Modified email logic to use TLS1.2+ so it can connect to AWS SES.

3 Bug fixes

16.24.0.1

Fixes the issue where adding documents sourced from push data source to cart won’t work.

3 Bug fixes

16.24.0.1.1

Updated the Strip HTML markup from XML plugin to fix an issue where extra whitespaces would be added before closing XML tag.

2 Minor improvements

16.22.0.1.1

Extended the Fetch external metadata from URL plugin to support downloading metadata from multiple URLs.

3 Bug fixes

16.22.0.1

Fixed an issue where publishing a new plugin sometimes resulted in environment specific keys being incorrectly set, resulting in plugin configuration that was available only in the live view.

1 New and revised features

16.22

Added the ability to kill a document of a list of documents returned by a query using plugins.

1 New and revised features

16.22

Added the ability to define the Query Independent Evidence (QIE) to a given document or a list of documents returned by a query within a data source as part of a plugin’s functionality.

1 New and revised features

16.22

Added sort options for use with result collapsing, to sort the collapsed result set.

1 New and revised features

16.22

Added integration with the DXP metrics service to track client license usage.

2 Minor improvements

16.22

Improved the debug API to obfuscate sensitive information and added a new security permission sec.api.debug to provide access to the feature. Developers within the DXP are now able to access the Debug API, which was previously restricted to administrator level users.

4 Important changes

16.22

Existing plugins that are configured on searches were automatically upgraded to the latest supported version to unlock the new plugin management interface for existing searches.

4 Important changes

16.22

Removed the real-time preview feature for best bets and curator.

3 Bug fixes

16.20.0.3

Fixed an issue where plugin configuration keys containing sensitive content were incorrectly encrypted via plugin PUT API.

3 Bug fixes

16.20.0.2

Fixed an issue where the default values of configuration keys aren’t populated on the data source creation screen.

3 Bug fixes

16.20.0.1

Fixed an issue where some newer valid top level domains did not pass the external metadata validator.

1 New and revised features

16.20

Added new administration screens for the setup and configuration of plugins.

1 New and revised features

16.20

Added the ability to kill documents/URLs on the basis of search queries using a new configuration file (query-kill.cfg).

1 New and revised features

16.20

Added a new plugin to gather content from an SFTP server.

1 New and revised features

16.20

Added the ability to define query independent evidence weightings on the basis of search queries using a new configuration file (query-qie.cfg).

1 New and revised features

16.20

Added validation of external metadata configuration files with a configurable error tolerance. Added an indexer option, -externalMetaErrorThreshold to set an error threshold for the handling of external metadata.

1 New and revised features

16.20

Added support to extract URL links from non-HTML files.

2 Minor improvements

16.20

Extended the plugin framework (and released Funnelback shared v16.20) to support the new plugin UI, to provide a new interface for setting start URLs and to use asciidoc formatted documentation.

2 Minor improvements

16.20

Upgraded existing plugins to support the new plugin management interface. This results in a minor version bump to existing plugins (the plugins do not provide any new functionality).

3 Bug fixes

16.20

Restored the ability to stop and clear the locks of a stuck or crashed update.

3 Bug fixes

16.20

Fixed an issue with the delete client API that resulted in an HTTP 409 error being returned.

3 Bug fixes

16.20

Fixed an issue with the session cart that caused it to incorrectly display no items in your shortlist after adding an item to the shortlist.

3 Bug fixes

16.20

Fixed an issue with accessibility auditor that resulted in the unchecked documents report returning an error.

3 Bug fixes

16.20

Fixed an issue with the Funnelback installer that resulted in incorrect filesystem group permissions being assigned.

4 Important changes

16.20

Changed the Funnelback crawler default behaviour on the handling of canonical URLs. Pages that have a canonical URL defined are now re-fetched using the canonical URL.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.4.2

Extended the XML date filter plugin to support html and released this as a new date filter plugin. The xml date filter plugin is now deprecated. We recommend upgrading any data sources that use this plugin to use the new date filter plugin.

2 Minor improvements

16.18.0.4.1

Extended the Instagram gatherer plugin to gather all available attributes, which can be mapped to metadata classes for use with the search.

3 Bug Fixes

16.18.0.4

Fixed the issue where contradicting messages were displayed in the SEO auditor optimization tips. Prior to the update some words were shown as frequently occurring in one section whilst another section stated the same words cannot be found.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.3.2

Added a new plugin that allows you to strip HTML tags from XML document content.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.3.1

Extended the Split XML or HTML plugin to support the sourcing of split document URLs from one of the XML or HTML fields.

2 Minor improvements

16.18.0.3

Improved the search package, data source and results page management screens to identify the type of item you are managing, and to make it easier to manage linked items.

3 Bug Fixes

16.18.0.3

Prevented the creation of objects within Freemarker template files to ensure that template editors can not cause external code to be executed.

3 Bug Fixes

16.18.0.3

Fixed a ranking issue caused by the incorrect calculation of the main hosts score.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.3

Added new global configuration keys to configure Jetty HTTP connection.

3 Bug Fixes

16.18.0.2

Fixed an issue where search results were skewed by ranking option cool.23 'host_incoming_link_score'.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.1.4

Added a new plugin that allows content to be gathered from Twitter using the Twitter V2 API.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.1.3

Added a new plugin that allows videos to be indexed from the Vimeo social media platform.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.1.2

Added a new plugin, human readable document type that adds a human friendly document type to indexed content.

1 New and revised features

16.18.0.1.1

Added a new plugin, access restriction to search results that allows you to control access to search results pages using a token.

3 Bug Fixes

16.18.0.1

Fixed an issue with accessibility auditor which prevented quick access to the linked content auditor report.

3 Bug Fixes

16.18.0.1

Fixed an issue with the calculation of main host scores that caused inaccurate and inconsistent information to be displayed in SEO auditor.

1 New and revised features

16.18

Added a new data source configuration option qie.default_weight to change the default weighting set for query independent evidence.

1 New and revised features

16.18

Added a new data source configuration option qie.default_weight to change the default weighting set for query independent evidence.

1 New and revised features

16.18

Added a plugin to index content from a Google Calendar.

3 Bug fixes

16.18

Fixed an issue where the insights dashboard quick search did not allow searches of the preview version of a results page.

3 Bug fixes

16.18

Fixed an issue where content auditor incorrectly displayed empty panels on the overview report for metadata

3 Bug fixes

16.18

Fixed an issue where SEO auditor did not show the link information for a document being audited in a search package.

3 Bug fixes

16.18

Fixed an issue where content auditor anchor links were not being displayed correctly.

4 Important changes

16.18

Decreased the maximum size for images processed by the /s/scale endpoint to limit the potential for server outages.

4 Important changes

16.18

Updated the support package permissions to allow users with sec.support-package permission to read collection.cfg backup files via WebDAV.

4 Important changes

16.18

Removed the requirement for an appid and secret when creating a new Facebook data source. A valid access token is now the only requirement when creating a new Facebook data source.

1 New and revised features

16.16

Added new curator triggers: the number of search results, modify extra search run, no query

1 New and revised features

16.16

Added new curator actions: add URL parameters, disable extra search run, remove URL parameters, set sorting options, select facet category, deselect facet category

2 Minor improvements

16.16

Updated the menu presented on Funnelback administration screens to provide a more consistent DXP experience. The insights dashboard now restricts the view to results pages for the current client and provides the ability to switch between clients.

2 Minor improvements

16.16

Return a 405 HTTP status code when accessing /s/search.* or /s/all-results.* endpoints using an unsupported request method. (HTTP GET is the only supported request method).

2 Minor improvements

16.16

Extended list of string matching options for curator rules by adding string starts with and ends with (both case-sensitive and case-insensitive variants).

3 Bug fixes

16.16

Fixed an issue affecting the annotation and spelling index build that resulted in confusing errors being written to the update logs.

1 New and revised features

16.16

Added an indexer option, canon.anchor_collapse to control the behavior of anchor collapsing in URL canonicalization.

1 New and revised features

16.16

Added the ability to set system network device IP address ranges to be ignored during the processing of access restriction by IP address.

1 New and revised features

16.16

Added new Force HTML Mime Type filter to the set of built in filters.

2 Minor improvements

16.16

Improved the accessibility auditor H44 check to skip hidden elements when looking for <label>.

1 New and revised features

16.14.0.6.1

Added a plugin to maps URL parameter to alternate data model input parameters when a query runs.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.6

Fixed an issue where the all-results endpoint would not accept system queries.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.5

Removed unused Honeycomb tooling that consumes resources and fills up a log file with noise.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.4

Fixed an issue where the recommender wouldn’t return results if accessed on search HTTPS or admin port.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.4

Fixed an issue where the SEO Auditor would display an error if the search package contained data sources which had no results or had not been updated at least once.

1 New and revised features

16.14.0.3.2

Added a plugin to index content from the Instagram social media platform.

1 New and revised features

16.14.0.3.1

Added a plugin to split XML and HTML documents. This plugin adds XML splitting support for push data sources and other improvements to the built-in splitter.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.3

Fixed an issue where Freemarker templates would return an error if no query string parameters were returned by the request URL.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.3

Fixed an issue where the all-results endpoint would return a 500 error if no query parameter was provided.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.2

Recompiled and statically linked funnelback-outliers with libstdc++ so that it can run properly on Centos 7 systems.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.1

Fixed an issue where the Perl script to trigger analytics update didn’t set the correct update type.

3 Bug fixes

16.14.0.1

Fixed an issue where the date range picker in the search analytics UI didn’t work correctly.

1 New and revised features

16.14

Extend the plugin framework to allow plugins to update their persistent configuration settings. This enables plugins to maintain state between updates, and to update configuration settings such as API tokens that require a periodic refresh.

1 New and revised features

16.14

Added the ability to administer results page configuration files from the administration dashboard.

1 New and revised features

16.14

Improved the file manager so that it does not prevent the administration dashboard from being used while uploading a file.

2 Minor improvements

16.14

Added a log file (audit.push.log) that captures audit messages for the push API.

3 Bug fixes

16.14

Fixed an issue in the file manager where some backup files could not be accessed.

4 Important changes

16.14

Exposed additional data source configuration files via WebDAV and the file manager.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.5

Fixed an issue where the environment was not detected correctly in the configuration, resulting in configuration key values to revert to the default value.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.5

Fixed an issue with client-based APIs where incorrect permissions were returned.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.5

Fixed an issue with the IncludeUrl Freemarker macro that prevented some relative links from being converted to absolute links.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.4

Fixed an issue that prevented internal documentation within the administration dashboard from displaying in some circumstances.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.3

Fixed an issue that caused administration dashboard labels to display intermittently.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.2

Fixed an issue where the Freemarker template upgrader incorrectly upgraded custom variables named metaData.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.2

Fixed an issue where trend alerts notifications were not generated.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.1

Fixed an issue where the upgrade utility wouldn’t always set correct file access permissions depending on the user executing the script.

3 Bug fixes

16.12.0.1

Fixed an issue preventing the correct export of content auditor and accessibility auditor documents in CSV format.

1 New and revised features

16.12

Added an indexer option, -ignore_noindex, which allows indexing of pages, even when there’s a noindex robots meta tag.

1 New and revised features

16.12

Upgrade utility wrapper script logs console output to file in addition to displaying on console.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Added support for new DXP user roles.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Replaced the extra search configuration file with corresponding configuration keys.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Extended the plugin framework to enable the use of encrypted plugin keys within the server configuration.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Added an interactive mode for the upgrade utility.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Added a log file that captures the output of the upgrade utility.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Provided basic documentation on how to provide a stemming blacklist.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Removed unused configuration file curator-advanced.json.

2 Minor improvements

16.12

Improved the ability to exclude data folder components when using the upgrade utility.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Fixed a bug that allowed the incorrect scheduling of unsupported types of data source updates for certain data sources.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Fixed a bug where the wrong HTTP status code was sometimes returned for pages after an administration user’s session expired.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Fixed a bug where the wrong HTTP status code was sometimes returned for invalid request parameters.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Fixed a bug in the faceted navigation editor that prevented gscope based categories from being added as tabs.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Fixed a bug where a user was sometimes redirected to a default page instead of the page they were currently on after logging back in after their login session expired.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Fixed a bug in the metadata mapping API where metadata mappings were not returned for search packages.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Improved the configuration upgrade tool (update-configs.pl) to prevent default values from being inserted into the collection configuration on upgrade.

3 Bug fixes

16.12

Added the ability to restore configuration file backups on the file management screen.

4 Important changes

16.12

Modified the logic that retrieves metadata for search package collections to ensure the list of metadata classes returned includes the metadata classes of the component data source collections. This changes the response from the metadata-mapping endpoint of the Admin API.

4 Important changes

16.12

Exposed results page configuration files via WebDAV.

4 Important changes

16.12

Introduced new permission sec.auto-completion allowing modify results page configuration file auto-completion.csv via WebDAV.

4 Important changes

16.12

Upgrade utility wrapper did not have executable permissions. This has been fixed.

3 Bug fixes

16.10.0.4

Fixed an issue where adding a new category to a tab or custom facet via administration dashboard was prevented in some conditions.

3 Bug fixes

16.10.0.3

Fixed an issue where an invalid profile value provided in the search request returned a 500 server error.

3 Bug fixes

16.10.0.3

Fixed an issue where unknown product configuration key values are not expanded correctly for the $COLLECTION_NAME variable.

3 Bug fixes

16.10.0.2

Fixed an issue where fetching Facebook comments would cause an infinite loop due to changes within the Facebook endpoints.

3 Bug fixes

16.10.0.1

Fixed a security vulnerability where com.google.oauth-client hasn’t implemented PKCE support in accordance with the RFC for OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Added option to upgrade utility to support importing resources in bulk by defining an affix.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Provided a simple command line alias for running the upgrade utility.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Provided a confirmation step before executing the upgrade utility command.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Improved the upgrade utility so that configuration files that don’t apply to the current collection type (e.g. data sources, search packages) are now removed.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Improved logic for the upgrading of collection IDs in existing configuration.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Improved the upgrade utility by adding detection of using deprecated functionality.

1 New and revised features

16.10

Fixed the upgrade utility handling of invalid component collections of a meta collection so that invalid collections are removed from the upgraded search package.

2 Minor improvements

16.10

Updated the default metadata mappings to detect descriptions added to Microsoft Word metadata.

2 Minor improvements

16.10

Improved the plugin documentation template that is created when generating a new plugin using the Maven archetype.

3 Bug fixes

16.10

Fixed a bug where scheduled analytics updates were not correctly set for collections upgraded from v15.

3 Bug fixes

16.10

Exposed reporting stop words configuration file via WebDav API for search packages and results pages.

3 Bug fixes

16.10

Fixed a bug in the administration dashboard where the redirects.txt log file was not accessible from the log viewer.

4 Important changes

16.10

The default version of Handlebars used in the default template and knowledge graph widget preview has been upgraded to 4.7.7.

4 Important changes

16.10

The default version of jQuery used with auto-completion and cache highlights widgets has been upgraded to 3.6.0.

4 Important changes

16.10

Upgraded the Angular version to 12.2.15.

1 New and revised features

16.8.3.3

The following plugins have been added:

1 New and revised features

16.8.3.2

The following plugins have been added:

1 New and revised features

16.8.3.1

The following plugins have been added:

3 Bug fixes

16.8.3

Removed broken administration dashboard used to configure reporting email as since v16 those settings are configured via results page configuration UI.

3 Bug fixes

16.8.3

Upgrades log4j2 to version 2.17.1 to fix the security vulnerability where Apache Log4j2 Thread Context Lookup Pattern is vulnerable to remote code execution in certain non-default configurations.

3 Bug fixes

16.8.1

Upgrades log4j2 to version 2.15 to fix the security vulnerability where log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker-controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints.

1 New and revised features

16.8

The following plugins have been added:

1 New and revised features

16.8

Extended the metadata scraper filter to support a number of content checking rules.

1 New and revised features

16.8

Extended the undesirable text filter to support separated or combined undesirable text sources and individual values provided via configuration keys.

1 New and revised features

16.8

Extended the metadata normalizer filter to support XML documents.

1 New and revised features

16.8

Added CGI parameters that enable a user to search for results containing a specific metadata class (set to any value), or results that are missing a specified metadata class.

3 Bug fixes

16.8

Fixed the positioning of the live chat widget so that it does not obscure other functionality.

3 Bug fixes

16.8

Fixed a bug in the upgrade utility where it did not correctly handle environment specific configuration keys.

3 Bug fixes

16.8

Fixed an issue where the collection tool would return an error for the index presence check.

3 Bug fixes

16.8

Restored access to data reports from the administration dashboard.

3 Bug fixes

16.8

Fixed an issue which resulted in some URLs being incorrectly handled in SEO auditor due to problems with URL encoding.

3 Bug fixes

16.8

Fixed an issue that caused counts for metadata on the metadata mapping screen to be incorrect or marked as not found.

4 Important changes

16.8

The following plugins will automatically be upgraded due to upgrades to underlying dependencies.

4 Important changes

16.8

The default behaviour of the metadata scraper filter has changed between versions when using regex matching. An option includeFirstCaptureGroup can be set to true to restore the former behavior.

4 Important changes

16.8

Upgraded Freemarker to 2.3.31.

3 Bug fixes

16.6.2

Fixed a bug in the auto-completion plugin where summaries were truncated to 1 character. This issue is fixed in the auto-completion plugin v2.0.2

1 New and revised features

16.6.2

The following plugins have been added:

1 New and revised features

16.6.1

The following plugins have been added:

1 New and revised features

16.6

The following plugins have been added:

1 New and revised features

16.6

Extended the plugin framework to support:

1 New and revised features

16.6

Release of the program finder and local government stencils.

1 New and revised features

16.6

Extended the metadata scraper filter to support XML.

1 New and revised features

16.6

Added support within the Squiz DXP for the management and editing of configuration, template and web resources using a WebDAV client.

1 New and revised features

16.6

Added support for basic HTTP authentication with an API token when using the Funnelback APIs.

1 New and revised features

16.6

Added support for result page thumbnails to be set from the administration and marketing dashboard.

1 New and revised features

16.6

Improved WebDAV support for Windows Explorer and MacOS Finder.

2 Minor improvements

16.6

Improved the task scheduler listing screen to enable additional tasks to be scheduled.

2 Minor improvements

16.6

Added support for a custom HTTP header x-funnelback-request-detailed-logging which can be supplied with a HTTP request to increase the modern UI log level for the duration of the request.

2 Minor improvements

16.6

Added support for auto-completion to be called on preview versions of results pages.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Fixed a bug in the configuration/template files UI where in incorrectly reported that there were unpublished files.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Fixed a bug in the raw configuration editor that prevented some configuration keys from being saved.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Fixed a bug in the YouTube gatherer that was triggered by an empty playlist ID.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Fixed a timeout issue that prevented data sources and search packages from being created correctly under certain conditions.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Restored global domain redirects (redirects.cfg) functionality.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Fixed a bug to enable search package and data source management API functions to work correctly with query processors which run in read-only mode.

3 Bug fixes

16.6

Fixed a bug preventing the publication of configuration files when using the perl file manager.

4 Important changes

16.6

The following features have been deprecated:

4 Important changes

16.6

Added the following new permissions:

4 Important changes

16.6

Added or updated the following API calls

Updated the following API calls to v2. These APIs now return additional username and password fields that can be used to authenticate (via HTTP basic authentication) with the Funnelback APIs. The corresponding v1 calls are now deprecated. v1 tokens will continue to work but require regeneration to use HTTP Basic Authentication.

2 Minor improvements

16.4

Improved the security of the download support package feature and enabled users of the Squiz DXP to access this function.

1 New and revised features

16.4

Added administration screens for scheduling of data source and analytics updates.

1 New and revised features

16.4

Added WCAG 2.1 support to accessibility auditor.

2 Minor improvements

16.4

The new workflow.publish_hook.batch allows for batching up configuration changes before publishing to query processors to reduce network load.

2 Minor improvements

16.4

Added an option to view the details of configuration keys when the system is running in read only mode.

2 Minor improvements

16.4

Increased the summary text limit (indexer option RSTXT) to 10000000 bytes.

2 Minor improvements

16.4

Revised the top level structure of the documentation to make it easier for users to find relevant information.

2 Minor improvements

16.4

Added a new API for getting the licence usage of a client.

3 Bug fixes

16.4

Fixed a bug in the web crawler where base href tags were not processed correctly.

3 Bug fixes

16.4

Fixed a bug where instant updates would always include the start URLs.

3 Bug fixes

16.4

Fixed a bug where YouTube data sources could not be updated without a channel ID.

3 Bug fixes

16.4

Fixed an issue with the document title fixer filter that caused it to insert bad titles sourced from h1 and h2 tags.

3 Bug fixes

16.4

Fixed an issue where the faceted navigation editor screen became unresponsive when there were too many templates to check for legacy facets.

4 Important changes

16.4

The push API no longer returns a HTTP 302 status code when SAML is enabled. A HTTP 401 status code will be returned to unauthenticated users. Users should authenticate using API tokens rather than directly when using a web browser. When using a web browser to access push API endpoints you should first authenticate using the admin API.

1 New and revised features

16.2

Added a new upgrade utility to support the migration and upgrade of collections from Funnelback v15.24 to v16.

1 New and revised features

16.2

Added a new configuration file, v15collectionremap.cfg, to support the mapping of v15.24 and earlier style collection IDs to v16 search package/data source IDs for public search and push API endpoints.

1 New and revised features

16.2

Added various API calls to support the upgrade tool.

4 Important changes

16.2

Collection scheduled updates times are not preserved when upgrading from 15.24 and earlier.

4 Important changes

16.2

Collection ID format change when upgrading from v15.24

4 Important changes

16.2

v15 default roles are assigned to a default client on upgrade from Funnelback 15.

4 Important changes

16.2

The Funnelback installer now automatically rebuilds indexes after an upgrade.

4 Important changes

16.2

Upgrading to v16 may affect ranking on any collections which were not of the web or meta types due to the automatic wrapping of such collections in a meta collection/search-package. Explicitly setting -SSS=0 as a query processor option on any affected search package will restore the previous ranking behaviour for non-web, non-meta collections.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added support for Funnelback for higher education in the Squiz DXP.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added an auto-completion plugin which generates structured auto-completion to be generated from an existing Funnelback index.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new enhanced update task scheduler.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added the ability to log in to the administration dashboard using a simple user ID that omits the client ID. This enables login with an email addresses as the ID if it has been used for the username when setting up the account.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added support for a global plugin to validate all content updates added to the files via the admin-api.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new screen to the administration dashboard for the management of client application tokens.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new API (services/v1/services/{service}/thumbnail) for the management of thumbnails used for results pages.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new API (/plugins/v1/plugins/version/{version}/debug/run-on-index) that enables a user to debug a plugin to see the result of running the plugin on an index.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new API (/config/v2/server/keys/intercom.id) and configuration option (intercom.id) for configuring the Intercom ID. Users require the sec.server.config and edit.key.intercom.id permissions to modify the value.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new API (/clients/v1/clients) for creating clients. A new user permission sec.clients.create has also been added to control access to this API.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2108

Added a new API (/internal/clients/{client-id}/collections/{collection-id}) for adding a collection (search package or data source) to a client.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2108

Updated the push API (/v1/collections/{collection}/restore/from-remote) to support v15 remote servers.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2108

Search packages analytics updates are now automatically scheduled when they are created.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2108

Updated the client~primary administration role so that administration users with this role are able to grant the client~primary role to other administration users or tokens.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2108

Added support for system administrators to define range restrictions on configuration keys with a duration type value.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2108

Fixed an issue with accessibility auditor that caused the user interface to break when the user’s web browser language was not set to English.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2108

Fixed an issue with the web crawler that caused it to ignore the http_source_host configuration option.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2108

Fixed an issue with best bets where it failed to remove a search result that had the same URL as the best bet URL when the removing matching search result option was selected.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2108

Fixed an issue with the web crawler form interaction feature that caused it to incorrectly handle form parameters with empty values.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2108

Fixed an issue that caused invalid XML to be returned when the query contained a vertical tab character.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2108

Fixed an XXE vulnerability in cached documents that allowed files to be read from disk.

4 Important changes

16.1.2108

Updated the default configuration to enable accessibility auditor by default. Accessibility auditor can be disabled on a data source by setting the accessibility-auditor.check configuration option to false.

4 Important changes

16.1.2108

The outliers (trend alerts) cron job is no longer able to be scheduled via the administration dashboard. A system administrator can update or delete this scheduled update by editing the search user’s crontab.

4 Important changes

16.1.2108

Legacy best bets (from v14.2 and earlier) have been removed.

4 Important changes

16.1.2108

Funnelback no longer supports additional administration service providers or single logout (SLO) when using SAML authentication.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2041

Added support for client API access tokens, which enabled applications and scripts to access the admin API using a token that is independent of specific administration users.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Added warnings to the administration dashboard when license limits are exceeded.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Improved the admin API’s JSON representation of timezone and other date/time related config settings.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Introduced support for higher-performance zstd compression in push document storage.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Improved presentation of errors from SAML user mapper scripts.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Improved performance of administration dashboard pages showing large numbers of data sources.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Improved administration dashboard messaging when Funnelback server is in read only mode.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Eliminated the use of jsessionid cookies when using SAML authentication.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Product documentation links now refer to the hosted documentation which can be updated when errors are identified.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Added user interface for enabling plugins.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Improved administration dashboard breadcrumbs in a number of areas.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Added client application tokens, an improvement for application tokens, suitable for use on the Squiz DXP

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2041

Added plugin servlet filter hooks, a replacement for custom servlet filter hooks, suitable for use on the Squiz DXP

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed handling of missing originalQuery entries in search query history.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed preservation of URL parameters through the SAML login flow.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed broken funnelback_documentation search result template.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed support for access_restriction settings based on hostnames when Funnelback is deployed behind a load balancer.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed accessibility auditor to account for the removal of the legacy facet data model.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed display of default web collection file type restrictions.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed return key handling when adding web data source URLs.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2041

Fixed a number of cases of old 'collection' terminology usage within administration dashboard.

4 Important changes

16.1.2041

The legacy metaData section of the result data model has been removed. listMetadata should now be used instead.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2034

Introduced screens for managing plugins and enabling/disabling them on search packages and result pages.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2034

Added instant-update and push logs to data source log viewing and WebDAV.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2034

Analytics email settings are now configured in result page config instead of a dedicated file.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2034

Improved the performance of the tuning dataset administration dashboard when many entries are added.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2034

Added a message to the administration dashboard when the server is set to read-only mode.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2034

Simplified the search transaction data model by removing some deprecated sections.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2034

Fixed handling of profiles containing hyphens in the legacy perl CGI administration pages.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2034

Fixed handling of permissions within some areas of the administration dashboard to disable inaccessible options.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2034

Accounted for the new client ID requirement within LDAP authentication.

4 Important changes

16.1.2034

The removal of some data model elements to simplify its usage may cause some freemarker templates, plugins and hook scripts to fail when they reference the removed elements.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2032

New administration dashboard, terminology and client separation

Funnelback’s administration dashboard has been overhauled to make search implementation easier.

1 New and revised features

16.1.2032

Plugins for reusable custom code

1 New and revised features

16.1.2032

The support for performing the following tasks via REST APIs has been introduced:

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

The query_processor_options configuration setting is now supported on results pages, overriding whatever is set on the search package configuration.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

The individual data source components and associated relative weightings of data sources in search packages can now be set via the configuration APIs with the meta.components and meta.components.[component].weight settings. When modified, these settings will be automatically applied to the search package.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

Streamlined knowledge graph administration experience.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

Tuning runs are now subject to the same task queueing system as data source and analytics updates.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

Updates to the default template to support results page level configuration settings where possible.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

Added support for knowledge graph scripts at the results page level.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

The data source components of a search package can now be set within the configuration editing screens.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

A number of improvements to SAML authentication support, in particular reduction in the number of SAML service providers required for administration setups and to support integration with Auth0.

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

Added a Content-Type response header to the push API endpoint

2 Minor improvements

16.1.2032

The 'Intercom' support tool has been integrated into the Funnelback administration dashboard.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Prevented WebDAV clients which take long-timeout locks and do not reliably release them from locking out other clients.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed recommender operation on filecopy data sources.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed the all-results.json endpoint to handle when search sessions are enabled.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed presentation of sparklines within trend alerts reports.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed possible configuration setting loss when encrypting configuration values for the first time after installation.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Prevented creation of users with service user prefixes.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed the web crawler to handle responses without a Content-Type header.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Improved Padre handling of invalid XML characters.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed handling of ui.modern.pseudonymise_client_ips when Funnelback is used behind a proxy or load balancer.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed publication of web resources files containing spaces in their filenames.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed isAdminUI Freemarker macro when search and administration ports are the same.

3 Bug fixes

16.1.2032

Fixed consistency of status codes resulted by the update history API.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Tuning is now a task under the task queue, this means when it runs can be controlled by the task picker. Tuning can no longer be started by post /search-quality/v1/tuning/collections/{collection}/profiles/{profile}/runs?action=START_TUNING, instead it can only be started by using the task queue API: post /task/v1/queue/TUNING.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

The task queue now allows running tasks to be added to the queue and allows multiple tasks which use the same resources (for example, the same data source), to be in the queue at the same time.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

query_processor_options now supports configuration environments.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

The meta.cfg config file no longer exists, being replaced by the meta.components search package configuration setting.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

The groovy script specified by the auth.admin.saml.groovy-permission-mapper setting now supports defining roles the user is always permitted to edit.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

The administration dashboard’s edit file-manager rules pages are no longer available. Any remaining cases where custom file manager rules are required must be set directly in the relevant .ini files.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Naming of log files has been made more consistent between data source types. For example, crawl.log is now named gather.log to be consistent across the product.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Local data sources are not supported in this version, reflecting the restriction on direct filesystem access in the AWS SaaS environment. Existing local collections should be converted to either a web or custom data sources depending on the logic implemented in the local collection.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Search package and data source IDs are now limited to 192 characters

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Freemarker templates are now only able to import/include files which end in .ftl

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Removed the deprecated collection_root and data_root configuration keys.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032a

The question.collection.configuration data model exposed to Freemarker no longer contains server (global) configuration settings.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

The padre_opts.cfg profile configuration file has been removed. Query processor options specified within this file should now be set in the results page configuration, query_processor_options. The behavior has also changed slightly - the query processor options now override any options specified in the search package or default server configuration. This behavior differs from padre_opts.cfg in Funnelback 15.24 and earlier which merged the options.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

SAML authentication now creates user .ini files representing logged in users to support cross-component authentication.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

The _default profile is now hidden in the administration dashboard, but can still be accessed via WebDAV.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Added a post_collection_create_script and pre_collection_delete_script server configuration options that run a defined script when a collection is created or deleted. The pre_collection_delete_script supersedes the pre_collection_delete_command from previous versions.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Removed several Mediator API calls.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Removed support for the angularJS sessions widget (funnelback-sessions-1.0.0.js or funnelback-sessions.js).

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Removed support for the search.classic and padre-sw.cgi legacy search endpoints.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Removed support for the slack collection type.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Removed support for multi-server filecopy gathering.

4 Important changes

16.1.2032

Knowledge graph