Funnelback 6.0.0 release notes

Released: 31 Oct 2006

New features

Completely rewritten administration interface, including the ability to create multiple users, and delegate permissions for specific tasks and collections.
New crawler for TRIM Context repositories. (http://www.towersoft.com/global/Product/TRIM+Context+6+)
Per-document security support over TRIM and file-copy (NTFS only) collections.
Higher performance search query reporting system with many new reports and plug-in architecture.
Inbuilt support for incorporating end-user click data to improve search result ranking.
Internal indexing and query processing rewritten to work internally in UTF-8 for better foreign character set support.
Thesaurus / query expansion.
Ability to eliminate words known to be misspelled in the corpus from the corpus dictionary.
Direct access to search results with spelling suggestions via xml.cgi REST web service.
General scoping mechanism for setting and querying bits on specific documents.
Sorting options expanded to cover all metadata fields.
padre-fl tool for removing documents from search indexes is now included by default

System name changed from Panoptic to Funnelback. Includes changes to default forms and license key location.
Under windows, the default administrator user is now named funadmin rather than panadmin.
Default search forms now include CSS styles in-line for easier customization.
Default search forms no longer provide a link to user help documentation. Sample user documentation is still available within the administration documentation.
Default search results per page changed from twenty to ten.
Spelling suggestions are now provided by default for the following CGI parameters: query, query_and, query_or, query_phrase and query_sand. Customization is available via the query_parameters attribute of the CheckSpelling tag.
refine.cgi now processes all query_* CGI parameters except query_not. Previously, only the query was processed.
Featured pages are now matched against the search query prior to canonicalization, rather than after.
When configuring Apache, Funnelback now binds to all IP addresses (*) rather than the old behaviour of choosing the first IP address of the first interface.
During installation, addition of the web server user to the search group is now optional.

Crawler check-pointing previously failed under Windows
Crawled document URLs are now canonicalized more effectively.
Dates in the future can now be indexed, where as previously they were ignored.
Fixed default page matching in external_metadata.cfg
Installer no longer assumes that web server user and group are the same.
analyse-size.pl previously displayed warnings when run in empty directories.
crawl.pl previously produced warnings if log, idx or data directory was already empty.

When upgrading an Apache configuration, the old httpd-panoptic.conf configuration file will be removed from Apache’s httpd.conf, and replaced by a new httpd-funnelback.conf configuration file. Any environment specific customization in the httpd-panoptic.conf file should be manually transferred to the new configuration file during the upgrade.
Under Windows, the default installation root has changed from C:\Panoptic to C:\Funnelback. While the C:\Panoptic location remains supported, we encourage you to move your installation to C:\Funnelback if possible for consistency.