Funnelback 8.0.1 release notes
Released: 16th September 2008
Key Improvements
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Upgraded the TRIM adapters integration with TRIM, allowing search results to link directly to the TRIM client software, and allowing integration with TRIM versions 6r2 and later.
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Improved faceted navigation support for categories automatically included from document metadata, including support for phrases, dates, and existing definitions of metadata fields.
Changes
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Improved metadata extraction from Office documents
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Fixed problem with tagging page not always returning back to search results page
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Fixed unclear error message in database collections that do not have the correct primary key set
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Fixed problems when doing inline filtering on Persistent Sharepoint collections
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Fixed faceted navigation configuration problem that didn’t set the correct PADRE options
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Fixed facet category navigation not resetting the start_rank parameter
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Fixed occasional inaccurate PADRE RMC counts
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Fixed the hard coded windows paths in is_windows() checks
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Fixed incorrect SYSTEM_ROOT under Jetty
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Fixed problem with the 'clive' option with meta-collections
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Fixed problem with the ExternalFilterProvider closing filtered filehandles
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Prevented the upgrade process from removing some pre- and post- commands
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Removed file-lock caused by update.bat that could prevent multiple scheduled updates occurring at once
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Fixed problem with the TRIM gatherer ignoring the 'extracted filetypes' parameter
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Fixed problem with the upgrade process leaving old plugins on the file system
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Fixed timeout issues with unusual noindex_expressions
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Fixed user/group problem with Funnelback/Apache integration
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Fixed problem with complex regular expression featured pages
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Fixed problem with temp files not being deleted from Windows temp directory
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Fixed issue with Win32 Event logging not being properly initialized
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Fixed numerous minor query parsing issues in PADRE
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Fixed case of a userfile not being created on install
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Fixed numerous faceted navigation display problems
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Improved the detection of pre Funnelback 7 installations at install time, and included safety measures to prevent old installations from operating after upgrades.
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Minor documentation corrections
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Fixed featured pages upgrade issue from pre Funnelback 7 installs
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Fixed numerous input validation issues in the administration dashboard
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Fixed character encoding problem on the tagging login page that caused some users to be unable to log in
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Removed fluster scores from the default UI as they were being confused with counts
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Fixed problem with negation in 'Compare' search UI tags
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Changed default faceted navigation UI to search within the selected categories by default when entering new searches.
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Fixed display bug that caused duplicated tree elements in the fluster search UI.
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Added faceted navigation tags to the default advanced form.