Funnelback 8.0.0 release notes

Database collections have changed in layout, and now require an additional 'primary key' parameter. Please see the version 8 database collection upgrade guide for details.

Perl 5.8.8 is strongly recommended for all platforms:

Queries are now logged in their expanded form, not their pre-expansion form.

Document gathering from Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Domino

Faceted navigation

User tagging of results

User feedback on results

Basic Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Thai (CJKT) support

Feeds API

Crawling of content behind web forms

Automatically generated "support package"

Allow pre/post commands to use collection.cfg parameters

Broken link detection script for featured pages

Capability for fetching resources at query time for multiple collection types (databases, filecopy, TRIM)

Context sensitive help links open in new pages, not the current page

Display real-time collection update status on the administration dashboard home page

Import and export of featured pages and query expansions

Instant updates support filecopy collections

Instant update support for more collection types

Java is bundled with Funnelback

Logs for a collection go in a collection specific log dir, not the "system logs" dir

Log text on the "view file" page is more readable

Numerous improvements to form parsing (fixes for nested tags, res* tags that contain curly braces, etc)

Option to remove all data during uninstall

Reporting uses much less memory

Reports are viewable while they are generating, and a reporting error will no longer leave the reports unusable

Significantly improved database search, with "workflow" interface, incremental gathering and compressed storage

Support for extracting links from Javascript generated web pages

Updates for all collection types may now be halted (the halt may not occur until the end of the current update phase for some collection types)

When upgrading an installation, the license key is preserved

Add support for filtering .dot (MS Word Template) files

administration dashboard should include crawler.reject_files in its processing of the "file types to crawl" checkboxes

Allow collection parameter editing security model (parameter whitelists) to be applied on a per collection basis

Allow / ignore whitespace in various collection parameters

Ampersands in query* parameters are not parsed correctly

cache.cgi displays "XML parsing error" for pages in funnelback_documentation

cache.cgi does not perform security checks

cache.cgi links do not get properly URL encoded parameters

cache.cgi should strip meta refresh from its displayed contents to avoid sending users to incorrect locations

Cached XLS files don’t display correctly in IE6

Can enter empty featured page and query expansion

Can’t map the same xpath to multiple metadata classes

Change crawler to use MIME type rather than URL suffix when storing binary files

Check windows password is valid in installer

.ckpt index files should be removed by default

click.cgi links does not properly URL encode arguments

Clicking on filecopy results displays text in the error log

Click tracking not working by default

collection.cfg settings not being updated to point at new locations on an upgrade

Collection parameter whitelist not greying out fields

Collection summary rows should show successful update (green tick) after a successful index upgrade

Command line administration / Unix scheduling / Apache integration will not work if the Perl binary is not at /usr/bin/perl

Command line updates fail if not started from the bin directory

crawler_binaries parameter not being updated properly on an upgrade

Creating local collections with an unfindable source directory displays a confusing error message

_disabled__see_start_urls_file parameter being displayed in update log

Documentation CSS is indexed in the funnelback_documentation collection

Enable data reports for web collections on an upgrade

Filters not picking up title metadata from some Word docs

Fluster crashes when a query contains "(" or ")"

Fluster links have redundant CGI parameters

funnelback_documentation collection shouldn’t be deletable from admin interface

Funnelback installer should complain if empty input is given for some fields

htpasswd_modify is not fixed in an upgrade

Improved handling of URL case sensitivity in the crawler

Incorrect handling of numeric entities in crawled URLs

Investigate fallback for external filters

Investigate how to make query expansion work with Fluster

java_libraries contain duplicated path after upgrade

Local collection url prefixes don’t work as expected

Long logs are difficult to scroll

new-collection.pl does not create start.urls file

Old Jetty HTTPS server not shut down during upgrade

Padre displays result counts in minresults mode

PADRE failing to parse XML with empty elements

Padre date sorts don’t work for documents in the 16th / 17th century

Padre produces invalid XML for some documents that contain ampersands in their title

Padre segfault under rare combinations of gscopes and metadata searches

Parsing of meta parameters is broken

PDF not extracted correctly but output file with binary content was created

PDF results include shell error output

Permission errors under IIS

Remove trailing space in spelling suggestions

Reporting date routines do not handle leap years

Report links do not work under IIS

rss.cgi crashes when xsltproc is not found

RTF files filtered in trim collections do not have meaningful titles

Schedule updates page on windows incorrectly handles invalid input

Security violation displayed when empty filename is submitted for upload

Start URL parameter in instant update add doesn’t check for a protocol

The "results can’t be displayed because this collection has never updated" page looks awful

Various .cgi files do not have execute permission

Very rare hang caused by schtasks when upgrading from Funnelback 6.0.x to Funnelback 7.0.x

Viewing data reports forces the user displayed on the header to "admin"

Visual bugs when viewing administration under IIS

When editing a collection, changes are lost when navigating between tabs

Word expansion does not work with query_* parameters