Locator 2.11 SR9 (2.11.914)

Owned by Zbigniew Marszolik (Deactivated)
Last updated: May 24, 2022 by Steinar Skjerven
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Build Number

Official build number: 2.11.914

Release Date

May 17th, 2022

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 SR9 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_2.11.914.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

It’s recommended to upgrade to this service release, if running earlier version.

If you are upgrading from a version earlier than Locator 2.11 SR8, see also Locator 2.11 SR8 (2.11.903).

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.

 Notes if upgrading from prior installation with Supervisor also installed

Supervisor version 2.1 and older do not support Locator 2.11 SR9. If upgrading to Locator 2.11 SR9 with Supervisor 2.1 and older installed, upgrading to at least Supervisor 2.4 SR3 is also required.

As Supervisor 2.4 SR3 requires the new Authority Service that was introduced with Locator 2.11 SR1, if upgrading from a prior version than Locator 2.11 SR1, you will need to configure the Active Directory authentication system during Locator upgrade.

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 SR9 will install .NET Framework version 4.7.2.

New Features & Improvements

Locator 2.11 SR9 is a new service release containing the following new features and improvements:

Component

Description

Component

Description

Documentation

Updated Document Handler documentation on how to prevent opening confirmation pop-up on every document.
Document Handler White Paper

SQL Server

Performance tuning of database triggers.

Bug Fixes

Locator 2.11 SR9 is a new service release containing the following bug fixes:

Component

Description

Component

Description

Data Access Layer

Document workflow related operations are now transactional.

Document Handler

Removed ping to server in FileServer Document Handler Plugin.

Documentation

Security article created.
Ayfie Locator affected by Apache Log4J CVE-2021-44228

Index Builder

Microsoft SQL Server queries now take DateTime2 type values as query parameters instead of DateTime.

Platform SDK

Added externalID field to document. Connectors can assign value to externalID that’ll be used when updating documents. Documents and embedded documents with ExternalID are updated without deleting them.

Search Scopes

The Locator backend now handles excluded values in search scopes. A fix to add excluded values to search scopes from the Locator UI will not be done in 2.x and only be fixed in latest major release.

Solr

Fixed an issue with Solr not logging UTF-8 encoded characters to log file.

 

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