Funnelback 15.4.0
Release notes for Funnelback 15.4.0
Released : 14th April 2016
15.4.0 - Selected improvements and bug fixes
- Improved Modern UI logging: FreeMarker error are now logged to the Modern UI log rather than the Jetty log, and extra searches messages now contain the proper collection and profile information.
- The classic admin UI now uses the same login page and authentication system as the marketing dashboard.
- Funnelback now includes an output connector for ManifoldCF version 2.x, in place of including a full installation of ManifoldCF v1.x.
- Push collections use a better algorithm for choosing which generation to merge.
- Push multi server setups use significantly less bandwidth and less disk IO for replication.
- Push multi server setups can now ignore redirect files on the index.
- Push will now re-index large generations with mostly killed documents.
- Push multi server setups now support compression and no longer require the webdav service.
- Push supports parallel indexing.
15.4.0 - Upgrade Issues
- Deprecated binaries have been removed from
SEARCH_HOME/linbin/
(Linux) andSEARCH_HOME/wbin/
(Windows):info-zip
,libxslt
,modssl
,nginx
,openssl
,xsltproc
. These will need to be re-installed separately if needed. - Since Funnelback no longer includes an embedded Manifold CF installation, please ensure ManifoldCF is installed as described by connecting enterprise repositories if it is to be used.
- Funnelback's embedded Jetty web server no longer provides JSP support for web applications. This was only used by ManifoldCF which now needs to be installed separately.
15.4.0 Errata
-
An issue exists with the Admin UI's "Prepare Funnelback for upgrade" system menu option in 15.4.0. To work around this issue, please use the following Push API call directly
POST /v1/upgrade/prepare
An interface to access this call directly is available within Funnelback's UI (https://<host name>:<admin port>/search/admin/api-ui/ ) under the Push API tab in the push-api-collection section.