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SearchBlox Changelog

What's new in SearchBlox 10.6

Apr 26, 2024
  • [NEW] - JAVA 17 Upgrade
  • [NEW] - Opensearch 2.11.1 Upgrade
  • [NEW] - Clone Collection Settings
  • [NEW] - Follow sitemaps in Dynamic Auto Collection
  • [NEW] - Added ChatBot retrain scheduler
  • [NEW] - ChatBot Augmented Response
  • [NEW] - Added new Special metadata parser(Crawler) for web collections
  • [FIXED] - Updated settings on console for Dynamic Auto Collection (previously done by config.xml)
  • [FIXED] - Support for SSO – Microsoft Azure (Entra)
  • [FIXED] - Fix for High resource utilization on Cluster setup

New in SearchBlox 10.5 (Sep 8, 2023)

  • [NEW] - ChatBot
  • [NEW] - ChatBot Analytics
  • [NEW] - Google Drive Collection
  • [NEW] - Dynamic Security Binding for Search Results
  • [NEW] - Incremental Crawling for SharePoint Online Collection
  • [Fixed] - Bug Fixes for SharePoint Online Collection
  • [Fixed] - Bug Fixes for Auto Dynamic Crawler
  • [Fixed] - Security Fixes

New in SearchBlox 10.3 (May 10, 2023)

  • [New] - SearchAI SmartFAQs
  • [New] - API to check collection Index Status
  • [New] - Multi sorting functionality
  • [New] - API to add/update collection Synonyms
  • [Fixed] - Spelling Suggestions when Stemming is enabled
  • [Fixed] - Proxy Password Decryption
  • [Fixed] - Log Rotation
  • [Fixed] - Featured Results export

New in SearchBlox 10.2 (Jul 8, 2022)

  • New:
  • Introducing SearchAI SmartFAQs feature to enhance user’s search experience

New in SearchBlox 10.0.1 (Jan 12, 2022)

  • Improvements to PreText to add AI-based ML fields: ml_title, ml_description, ml_topic, ml_sentimentLabel, ml_sentimentScore, ml_entity_org, ml_entity_product, ml_entity_person, ml_entity_loc, ml_entity_gpe
  • Pretext UI to preview ML fields
  • Fixed: Log4J security vulnerability
  • Fixed: User Expiry Password Reset Issue
  • Fixed: Duplicate Key Issue with File Collection
  • Enhancement: Document Relevance ‘Score’ Display in the Search Response
  • Enhancement: Accessibility Improvements in Search Pages
  • Enhancement: Improvements to Connectors Framework

New in SearchBlox 10.0.0 (Nov 5, 2021)

  • What’s New & Improved:
  • Web Interface Enhancements & Crawling:
  • New Admin console & Search UI Interface which is simple and easy to understand.
  • New collection type to crawl Adobe Experience Manager content.
  • New Combined Collection to support merging 2 collections content and data fields.
  • Dynamic Form Authentication Support for the crawler
  • Ability to upload CSV file and preview the data through CSV Collection
  • Ability to add Custom Fields for a collection through the Admin console.
  • SearchBlox now supports crawling data from 326 data sources
  • Search & Integration:
  • Embed Search Code - Simpler UI makes search integration easier.
  • Embed Voice Search anywhere within your Search page to enable voice interactions.
  • Relevance Tuning preview which lets you adjust relevance using pre-made templates or new templates you can create.
  • Ability to pin specific results to a specific query at a specific position using MRank.
  • Popular queries shown directly in the search suggestion box
  • Advanced Features:
  • Integrated PreText automated processing (NLP) for intelligent titles and descriptions generation.
  • Integration for SearchAI features like SmartSuggest, Answers, Personalization and ChatBot.
  • Support for SaaS SmartSuggest integration using Search UI template and Plugin facet.js configuration
  • SearchBlox supports builtin OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, AWS OpenSearch Service and Elastic Cloud for backend integration.
  • Reporting:
  • Analytics & Insights to identify the queries that need to be tuned and URLs that need optimization.
  • Administration:
  • Ability to view the monitoring reports, Analytics status and Elasticsearch nodes Memory utilization from Admin console
  • Rollback Configuration, Snapshot and Restore configuration and Reset Configuration Features
  • Easy to setup Cluster mode through the Admin console.
  • Easy to setup SSO (Single Sign-On) configuration for Admin console.
  • Software upgrades:
  • Enhanced security with software upgrades - ElasticSearch Opendistro upgraded to 7.10.2 and Jetty Server version upgraded to 10.0.6
  • Enhancements:
  • Ability to create SearchBlox user in email format
  • Ability to create public collection using SearchBlox REST API

New in SearchBlox 9.2.3 (Mar 25, 2021)

  • New:
  • Supports Manual Ranking functionality through API
  • Supports Encryption with Email Collection
  • Security Enhancements:
  • Updated Default SearchBlox startup port to secure port: 8443
  • Updated cubejs Analytics Server ports (SearchBlox Analytics default startup secure port is 8444 and non-secure port is 8090)
  • Updated API requests to work with SB-PKEY - Additional security Feature
  • Updated Core Plugins
  • Plugin Session Logout time is set to 30 minutes, by default
  • Added a configurable setting "debug" for JSON search response
  • Fixed:
  • Deprecated: servletSearch API Access
  • Deprecated: File Servlet Access
  • Vulnerability Fix: Security Issue with SearchBlox License Page
  • Vulnerability Fix: Security Issue Search API Search Parameters
  • Vulnerability Fix: Security Issue with ReportServlet Access
  • Fixed: Issue with Document Indexing using Collection Size setting
  • Fixed: Featured Result Import Date Time Zone Issue
  • Fixed: Duplicate Super Admin user can Change the Super Admin Password
  • API Messages Validation Fixes:
  • Status API - Message added for Invalid document uid
  • docdelete/docadd API - Updated Status Code with Invalid Collection Name
  • updatePath Collection API - Message added for Invalid Collection Name
  • updatePath Collection API - Message added for Invalid document URL
  • Collection action API - Message to be Updated for action stop and clear
  • Featured Result Create/update API - Message added for Invalid document URL
  • Coldel API - Message Updated

New in SearchBlox 9.0.0 (Jul 15, 2019)

  • Using Open Distro for Elasticsearch - an 100% open-source Apache 2.0-licensed distribution of Elasticsearch
  • Upgrade to Java 11
  • Ready to use Kibana installation
  • New Alerting feature to get notifications from changes in Elasticsearch index
  • SQL Access for Elasticsearch data
  • Automatic relevance boosting for popular documents/urls
  • Security enhancements for default data encryption for index at rest/in-transit
  • Compliance for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI and ISO
  • New Faceted Search UI that can be used out of the box or embedded in any website/application for search access
  • Performance Improvements for speed

New in SearchBlox 8.6.2 (Jul 21, 2017)

  • [new feature] – Ability to set up cluster mode from SearchBlox Admin Console
  • [new feature] – Ability to use SQL to perform search against the specific collection (http://localhost:9200/_sql?sql=select * from idx001)
  • [new feature] – Ability to export data using CSV (http://localhost:9200/_sql?format=csv&sql=select url, title from idx001)
  • [improvement] – Elasticsearch Upgrade to version 5.1.2
  • [improvement] – Kibana Upgrade to version 5.1.2
  • [bugfix] – SQL Server driver update
  • [bugfix] – UI bug fixes in faceted search
  • [bugfix] – Parameter changes for better performance of Elasticsearch
  • [bugfix] – Bug fix in Database Collection Settings
  • [bugfix] – Sentiment analysis fix for CSV and Database Collection
  • [bugfix] – Language issue while creating collection

New in SearchBlox 8.3 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • [new feature] – Visualization tool to create, share and embed text analysis
  • [new feature] – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to search text within images using Tesseract
  • [new feature] – Fast Web Collection and Fast File Collection for indexing large volumes of documents and websites
  • [new feature] – Support for EML, MSG and Microsoft Exchange Server
  • [new feature] – Support for searching compressed formats like zip and tar files
  • [change] – Upgrade to Elasticsearch 1.7
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with displaying Featured Results within console
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with indexing certain attachment types in PST files
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with filter parameter for fielded search
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with synonyms loading in cluster mode
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with deleted rows from database in Database collection
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with + operator in regular search
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue explicit mapping with synonyms
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with javascript errors in Advanced Search page
  • [bugfix] – Resolve blank page issue for search terms like “(” “+” and ” ” eg: (+cnn +news)

New in SearchBlox 8.2.1 (Jul 3, 2015)

  • [new feature] – Advanced Integration Module for indexing connect from Alfresco, CMIS Servers, Documentum, Dropbox, Email, FileNet, GridFS, Hadoop File System, Jira, Meridio, Sharepoint and Wiki
  • [new feature] – JSON Indexing API
  • [new feature] – Negative facet filtering for drill down of search results
  • [new feature] – Java 8 Support
  • [new feature] – Featured Results checkbox for Select All results
  • [bugfix] – Resolve Non-english indexing issue
  • [bugfix] – Resolve stemming issue
  • [bugfix] – Resolve Featured Results keyword url space issue
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with cname parameter in regular search
  • [bugfix] – Resolve non-english character display issue
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with Delete All collections button

New in SearchBlox 8.1 Build 1 (Oct 13, 2014)

  • [new feature] – Amazon S3 and Google Drive collection types
  • [new feature] – Bulk download of file system collection files after a search query
  • [new feature] – More Like This search query to find similar content
  • [new feature] – Support for Robots and Canonical Meta Tags on HTML page
  • [new feature] – Import/Export of SearchBlox configuration
  • [change] – Remove start and end date requirement for featured results
  • [bugfix] – Resolve proxy server and form authentication issue for http collection
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with search speed with faceted search plugin
  • [bugfix] – Resolve large document indexing issue for file system collection

New in SearchBlox 8.0 (Oct 13, 2014)

  • [new feature] – Twitter, CSV and MongoDB collection types
  • [new feature] – Business user access to the Admin console
  • [new feature] – Re-designed Admin interface for 1-click activity
  • [new feature] – Ability to implement security with Apache Shiro
  • [new feature] – Enhanced Analytics with Content Cloud
  • [new feature] – Boosting of Collections
  • [bugfix] – Resolve File System collection issue for accented characters
  • [bugfix] – Bug fixes for faceted search plugin
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue for indexing speed improvement
  • [bugfix] – Resolve mapping issue for multi-word facet values

New in SearchBlox 7.6 Build 3 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with alpha sorting for documents with blank space in title
  • [bugfix] – Resolve File system collection indexing and search issue for non-English languages
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with German umlaut in Featured results
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with repetition in autosuggest feature
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with start date and end date in custom filters

New in SearchBlox 7.6 Build 1 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with alpha sorting for documents with blank space in title
  • [bugfix] – Resolve File system collection indexing and search issue for non-English languages
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with German umlaut in Featured results
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with repetition in autosuggest feature
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with start date and end date in custom filters

New in SearchBlox 7.5 Build 1 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with deletion of default collection for Free Edition
  • [bugfix] – Highlighter servlet re-implemented
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with special characters like open quotes and open brackets in search terms
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with featured results content which were also considered as keywords by default
  • [securityfix] – Closed issue with unauthenticated active content uploads
  • [securityfix] – Closed issue with vulnerability to unauthenticated search collection database
  • password compromise
  • [securityfix] – Closed issue with vulnerability to unauthenticated file overwrite

New in SearchBlox 7.4 Build 1 (May 2, 2013)

  • [new feature] - Alert functionality
  • [new feature] - Tag cloud in faceted search
  • [new feature] - Top clicked documents in faceted search as well as dashboard in admin
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with & filter param
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with SQL query with mapping to content
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with title search not working
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with autosuggest servlet
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with document redirection issue in custom collection and featured results
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with resizing of image in featured results for regular search

New in SearchBlox 7.3 Build 1 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • [new feature] - Support for crawling Google sitemap in HTTP Collection
  • [new feature] - API support for Add and Delete of new Custom Collections
  • [new feature] - Synonym mapping file for each collection
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with fontbox.jar conflict for PDF indexing
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with activation of Featured Results
  • [bugfix] - Resolve issue with add/update/status for HTTP collection within the admin console

New in SearchBlox 7.2 Build 1 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • [new feature] – Support for indexing databases (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
  • [new feature] – Auto Suggest with support for phrases
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with refresh timestamp within admin console
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with file system to url mappings
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with context output from PDF files

New in SearchBlox 7.1 Build 1 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • [new feature] – Support for Audio, Images, Videos and many more formats
  • [new feature] – Email Viewer for Outlook email messages
  • [new feature] – Support for indexing GZIP content from web servers during http(s) crawling
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with serving File System collection based files through the search results plugin
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with duplicate files during indexing
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with indexing date fields from email messages

New in SearchBlox 7.0 Build 1 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Schema-less Faceted Search with ready to use UI plugin
  • Index sharding and replication
  • 3x indexing and search performance improvement

New in SearchBlox 6.4 Build 2 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with viewing of emails indexed from PST files

New in SearchBlox 6.4 Build 1 (Jun 23, 2011)

  • [new feature] – Autodetect and index text files without relying on file extension
  • [new feature] – Filename field in XML search results
  • [bugfix] – Resolve MS Office documents indexing in SearchBlox Server packages
  • [bugfix] – Resolve HTTPS indexing in SearchBlox Server packages
  • [bugfix] - Character encoding for foreign characters in the basic search form

New in SearchBlox 6.3 Build 1 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • [feature] – Index Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice documents
  • [change] – Display document filename when viewing documents indexed on local file system
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with search results sort direction
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with document indexing using Custom collections

New in SearchBlox 6.2 Build 1 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • [feature] – Index emails and attachments from Outlook PST files
  • [change] – Add support for https document links in default.xsl
  • [change] – Upgrade to lucene 3.0.3
  • [change] – Remove limits of number of collections that can be created
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with search results output with the parameter ’xsl=xml’
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with file descriptors when spell checking is enabled
  • [bugfix] – Resolve issue with display of featured results