Funnelback 7.0.0 release notes

Previous versions of Funnelback enforced the creation of a search user - This user may now be selected during the installation.

Funnelback’s installation no longer attempts to configure local web servers (Apache and IIS) to serve Funnelback. An embedded web server is installed, and instructions for configuring Apache and IIS are included in the Funnelback installing and upgrading guide.

Intuitive graphical installation

A bundled web server for easy setup

Fluster result clustering

Update scheduling interface for Windows

Date based reporting

Instant updates

Word 2007 text extraction

Form security options for advanced configurations

Improved TRIM support

Improved filecopy support

Improved document text extraction

Improved administration user interface

Improved default search interface

Anchors.cgi analysis tool

Options to control server duplicate detection

New files created from the administration dashboard can now be based on a template

Webcrawler support for specifying preferred site names

Ability to crawl links within HTML comments

TRIM live link serving script

Use regular expressions to exclude parts of page from indexing

Multiple start URLs

Support for specifying a cookie to use during a web crawl

Integrated crawl data statistics reports

Meta-collection dictionary checking

Integration of search term highlighting with padre thesaurus expansion

Quiet mode for xml-splitter.pl

Selection of IIS web site to configure for Funnelback

The 'clive' parameter used for dynamic meta collections uses collection names

Links in file-copy collections can be prefixed to make them valid

Better report formatting

Protection from padre-fl killing all documents

Cache.cgi checks the offline view if the required file is not in the live view

Stopped swizzling .vec files

Display padre help on STDOUT rather than STDERR

Remove window_size and table_size collection.cfg options

Add timestamps to url_errors.log file in the Webcrawler

Click tracking editable from the administration dashboard

Support a search over the local installed Funnelback documentation

Change default setting for crawler.check_case_sensitivity to false

Update collection automatically after collection creation

Check all/uncheck all option for manually building report database

Add robots.txt file to prevent crawling of administration dashboard

Crawl XML pages by default

Avoid overloading server with a lot of virtual hosts

Installation fixed on Windows machine with no hostname

Null query didn’t respect kill bits

Drop in crawler throughput on multi-site collection

Max files stored was confusing when restarting from a checkpoint

Spell.cgi only checked query

Scheduler validation case problem resolved

Padre no longer not assumes utf-8 input

Spell.cgi’s pos values were incorrect when multiple terms have the same spelling suggestion

UTF-8 characters could be mangled in queries

Featured pages with '#' weren’t encoded properly

File-copy collection, filtering failed when file contains leading spaces.

Featured pages should not be considered as rank #1 for click tracking

The HTTP password field in the administration dashboard was stored incorrectly

administration dashboard didn’t allow a max_link_distance value of 0

Illegal divide by zero in reports-load-queries-log.pl caused report load to fail

Apostrophe in collection (internal) name did not work

Some TRIM document extraction errors were not being reported

Non admin user actions failed under IIS

TRIM password field was a plain text field

File permissions on Windows installs were not set correctly

TRIM logs weren’t flushed regularly

Windows detection code in perl caught other OSes (Cygwin, Darwin)

Xml.cgi didn’t output spelling suggestions on Windows because the call to spell.cgi didn’t work

Deleting a collection did not delete its report data from the reports data directory

Query_phrase parameter was broken

Upper case metadata classes incorrectly displayed in forms

.vmbx extraction in TRIM skipped document contents

administration dashboard showed the copy form section even if the user is not able to use it

administration dashboard stylesheets weren’t displayed correctly under IE 7

Padre output invalid XML when summary buffer overflows

Empty description metadata showed empty summary field

Cache.cgi displayed poorly on newer browsers

Search.cgi fixed with POST requests

Filemanger confirmation links used GET requests rather than POST

Title didn’t appear for MS word docs with titles

BASE HREF as returned by cache.cgi was invalid in XHTML documents

Indexing failed if external-metadata.cfg does not end in a newline

File copy collections now have their own type

Collection names returned by padre may have been incorrect

Removed the basic collection view from the administration dashboard

Query Expansion fixed on Windows

Use of crawler.remove_parameters no longer harms ranking quality

IUSR_$computername is given read access to C:\WINDOWS\Temp for rss.cgi

Padre failed to chsize() on windows with index size > 2GB

Xml.cgi didn’t operate correctly meta_

Improved include text for editing config files

Spaces in the URL prefix broke the generated live URL.

Left truncation operator (e.g. *ate) didn’t produce any search results

Padre produced invalid XML when a custom stop words list is used

Using a custom stop words list with no new line character at end caused segfault

Blocked users from creating a collection with no include pattern via administration dashboard

Scope parameters are now passed with all report URLs

HTML encode display of query logs to avoid malicious queries

Create-collection.cgi allows protocol-less start URLs for a web collection

The Funnelback public UI produced invalid HTML in some cases

Update logs not always written on windows

Query_expansion.cfg was required to end in a newline

Word_expansion.cfg did not show up in the files section

Padre failed with out of memory errors when told to index an empty or missing directory

Collection display name was not HTML safe

Cache.cgi was displaying strangely with query terms that use the '#' operator

File manager rules for "Create Folders" did not check for invalid internal folder name

Query/word expansion did not work with certain query_processor_option ordering

A phrase search for "gibbet maker" did not find the text "gibbet-maker"

Show-file.cgi now HTML escapes the files it shows

Featured pages containing HTML now show up correctly in the reporting UI

Deleting a collection on Windows didn’t delete its scheduled updates

Delete-rules.cgi and delete-folder.cgi now require confirmation through a form post

Search.cgi didn’t HTML escape ampersands in featured page URLs

Formatting error in query processor options documentation

Padre-iw did not recognize the combined form of ISO 8601 date/times

Detect if IIS is not installed in configure_iis_for_funnelback.pl

Invalid URLs were displayed for local collections in "Documents per Site" report

Padre QIE didn’t work on Solaris (does not upweight matching documents)

Padre geospatial queries didn’t work on Solaris