Locator 2.11 SR7 (2.11.901)

Owned by Steinar Skjerven
Last updated: Sept 29, 2021
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Build Number

Official build number: 2.11.901

Release Date

June 25th, 2021

License Compatibility

If you are upgrading from a previous ViaWorks/Locator 2.x release, your 2.x license will continue to work.  If you are installing Locator 2.11 SR7 for the first time, or if you are upgrading from ViaWorks 1.5.x, you will be required to obtain a new license key from Ayfie.  Contact your Ayfie sales representative to obtain your license key.

New Installations

Download the Locator Installation package, and run Locator_2.11.901.exe. 

For hardware and software requirements (including AV configuration information), and for help on how to install Locator, please see the Locator Installation Guide. 

Upgrading from a Prior Installation

This service release fixes multiple vulnerabilities reported in 3rd party components Solr, OpenJDK and Postgres. It’s recommended to upgrade to this service release, if running an earlier version.

You can upgrade to this release from a previous ViaWorks/Locator 2.x release.

You CANNOT upgrade to this release from ViaWorks 1.x or earlier.

If upgrading from a previous major version, it's recommended that you upgrade all installed connectors. If upgrading from 2.7 or below it's required that you upgrade all connectors.

 

Supervisor versions 2.1 and older do not support Locator 2.11 SR7. Customers should not upgrade to Locator 2.11 SR7 until they've upgraded to Supervisor 2.3. 
As Supervisor version 2.3 requires the new Authority Service, that comes with Locator 2.11 SR1 and above, users upgrading to Supervisor 2.3 should first upgrade to Locator 2.11 SR7.

Note: When you upgrade to Locator 2.11 SR7 you need to configure the Active Directory authentication system, as this is a requirement for Supervisor 2.3.

 

Notes if upgrading from ViaWorks 2.7 or Older:

  • The PostgreSQL database format will be upgraded. It is strongly recommended to create a backup of the database prior to running the 2.11 upgrade. Once the database has been upgraded, it is not possible to revert back to a previous version

  • The index will be rebuilt after the upgrade has finished. The index rebuild can potentially take a while, and users may not be able to search or have incomplete search results until the rebuild completes. Documents will not be re-fetched during this process

  • All customers will be moved from the "ViaWorksV2" Solr core to the “ViaWorksCloud” Solr collection during the upgrade process. The “ViaWorksV2” core from versions 2.7 SR5 and older is no longer supported

  • During the upgrade, the solrconfig_overrides.xml and schema_overrides.xml files will be reset. Before upgrading, make note of the customization added to these files so they can be re-applied after the upgrade is complete. Note: the Solr schema has changed and overrides will need to be updated to support the changes.

  • Locator 2.11 SR7 will install .NET Framework version 4.7.2.

New Features & Improvements

Locator 2.11 SR7 is a new service release containing the following new features and improvements:

Component

Description

Component

Description

Authentication

Introduced settings for configuring identification and identification system timeouts.

Authentication

Introduced a setting for denying specific AD users access.

MyWorks

Changed the default URL to http://localhost/.

OpenJDK

Upgraded to OpenJDK version 8u292. This fixes vulnerabilities reported in the previous OpenJDK version.

Postgres

Upgraded to Postgres version 9.6.22. This fixes vulnerabilities reported in the previous Postgres version.

Relevancy

Added Relevancy API for relevancy tuning support.

Solr

Upgraded to Solr version 6.6.6. This fixes vulnerabilities reported in previous Solr version.

Translation

Improved Finnish translations.

Bug Fixes

Locator 2.11 SR7 is a new service release containing the following bug fixes:

Component

Description

Component

Description

Authentication

Fixed an issue with user being re-authenticated multiple times.

Connector SDK

Fixed resuming crawler causes the ghost tracking to run.

Dashboard

Fixed an issue with YTD queries in analytics.

Duplicate Detection

Fixed an issue with the find duplicate query being slow on large databases.

Fetch Framework

Fixed an issue with the fetch checksum not being set on documents.

Installer

Fixed an issue where installation fails when the Windows Key Chain user contains an empty username or password.

Installer

Fixed an issue post-install tool loading wrong version of Microsoft.Web.Administration assembly.

OCR

Fixed an issue with attachments zipped files not being OCRed.

 

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