Funnelback 13.2.0

Release notes for Funnelback 13.2.0

Released : 11 April 2014

13.2.0 - New Features

• Funnelback is now able to perform website accessibility checking against version 2 of the W3C's web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0). See Accessibility_Auditor for further details.

13.2.0 - Selected improvements and bugfixes

• Additional sources of information (e.g. "related clicks" and "related results") are now used in the Recommendations system, improving the quality of suggestions.
• Improved crawl consistency when restarting from crawler checkpoints.
• Ability to clear caches for scaled images (See Presenting Images).
• Ability to calculate upper and lower bounds for numeric metadata.
• Improvements to result summaries (removing duplicate sentences and noscript content).
• Separate configuration of Funnelback webserver ports and link-generation ports to better support load balancer configurations.
• Inclusion of a high-performance XML splitting tool.
• Improved performance of user account editing.
• Fixed memory and file handle leaks in libi4u that could cause issues when using recommendations or search session and history.

13.2.0 - Upgrade Issues

• Users will need to have 'wcag' role to access the WCAG Compliance Auditor (previously was report_viewer). Grant access in Admin UI under Manage Users.
• WCAG databases from earlier un-bundled accessibility checker versions must be upgraded by running the following

    # Linux
    $SEARCH_HOME/linbin/java/bin/java -cp "$SEARCH_HOME/lib/java/all/*" com.funnelback.wcag.database.AccessibilityDatabaseUpgrade collection_name
    # Windows
    %SEARCH_HOME%\wbin\java\bin\java -cp %SEARCH_HOME%\lib\java\all\^*" com.funnelback.wcag.database.AccessibilityDatabaseUpgrade collection_name

• Custom collections no longer preserve data between crawls by default. Collections which need to preserve data will need to implement that behavior the custom_gather.groovy file.
• The convertRelative parameter on the <@fb.IncludeUrl> tag now supports both syntax: convertrelative and convertRelative