Funnelback 9.1.0 release notes

Released: 5th August 2010

New Features

  • Integration with an enterprise repository connector system, supporting SharePoint and Lotus Domino gathering with high performance document level security.

  • Improved query report presentation, including a dashboard and interactive charts.

  • Incremental updating of query reports and ability to view reports while updating.

  • Higher performance document filtering, multi-threaded filtering and in-crawl filtering.

Upgrade Issues

  • The "SEARCH_SERVICE" environment variable is no longer supported, having been replaced by the bureau_mode_enabled setting in global.cfg. In environments where SEARCH_SERVICE was set to BUREAU, bureau_mode_enabled should be set to true.

  • The change in default filtering frameworks noted above results in much improved filtering performance, however please be aware that:

    • Cached copies of Microsoft office documents will no longer reflect the original document formatting.

    • Microsoft Word 95 and Microsoft Word 6 documents are no longer supported.

Selected improvements and bugfixes

  • Feature renaming as follows :

    • Fluster becomes Contextual Navigation.

    • Query Spike Detection becomes Pattern Analyser.

    • Featured Pages becomes Best Bets.

    • Query Expansion becomes Synonyms.

  • Ability to specify both inclusive and exclusive date constraints.

  • Activation of faceted and contextual navigation by default on filecopy collections.

  • Relocation of Jetty working directory to avoid conflict with tmpwatcher and similar.

  • Assorted improvements to document title fixing to reduce undesirable title changes.

  • Improved query reports performance on 64bit windows platforms.

  • Form tag reordering to allow s:cgi access from within form plugins.

  • Security plugin mechanism for padre, allowing custom early binding document level security.

  • Case insensitivity option for best bets and synonyms.

  • Better query handling of German umlauts and Maori macrons.

  • Improved result summaries for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

  • Fixed leaking of file-handles when updating large pattern analyser data sets.

  • Improved support for HTML base href elements within forms.

  • Support for HP TRIM license numbers.

  • Improved reporting PDF layout.

  • Fixed handling of facets containing parentheses.

  • Fixed handling of BASE HREFs in indexed documents.

  • Fixed issue with stemming when processing document at a time queries.

  • Improved customization options for contextual navigation.

  • Corrected handling of collections with missing metamap.cfg and xml.cfg.

  • Better error reporting where primary and secondary indexes differ in format.

  • Indexing performance and scalability improvements.

  • Dynamic resizing and increased scalability of indexer memory structures.

  • Support for complex queries in spelling suggestions and contextual navigation.

  • Improved stemming algorithm catching more cases where stemming should apply.

  • Corrected reporting counts for geolocated data and queries using include or exclude scopes.