Locator 2.9 (2.9.338)

Build number

Official build number: 2.9.338

Release Date

October 12, 2018

License compatibility

If you are upgrading from a previous ViaWorks 2.x release, your ViaWorks 2.x license will continue to work. If you are installing Locator 2.9 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_2.9.338.exe. Use a valid License Code and follow instructions on the screen.

For hardware and software requirements, and for help on how to install Locator, please see the Locator Installation Guide.

Upgrading from a Prior Installation

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

You CANNOT upgrade to this release from ViaWorks 1.5.x or earlier.

New Features & Improvements

Locator 2.9.338 is a new product release containing the following new features, bug fixes, and improvements

Note: Supervisor / Insight versions 2.1 and older do not support Locator 2.9. Customers should not upgrade to Locator 2.9 until Supervisor 2.2 is available.

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 2.9 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.
ViaWorks 2.9 requires .NET framework v. 4.7.2 to be installed.

New Features

Component	Description
General	ViaWorks is now ayfie Locator! New branding and logos throughout the product
Search Service	Added new configurable field specific grouped search suggestions
Metrics	Added a new metrics and analytics tool. Disabled by default
OCR	Added OmniPage as an alternative to Tesseract for OCR. Note: requires a license

Improvements

Component	Description
Solr	Adjusted the default Solr commit policy to perform soft commits more frequently
Search Scopes	Added the ability for administrators to set a rank on system Search Scopes to change the display order in the Web Client
.NET	Upgraded to .NET 4.7.2
Index Builder	Increased the number of threads available to the index builder to improve indexing performance for some customers
Refiners	Reorganized and consolidated the File Types refiner facets

Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Document Handler	Fixed an issue with using the Document Handler and HTTPS/SSL
Security	Fixed a security issue when errors are logged
Installer	Fixed an install error when configuring a secondary server
Installer	Fixed an install error caused by the April 2018 Windows Feature Update
Installer	Fixed an issue starting services if a reboot is required during install
Connector Feed	Fixed an issue where the DBC Connectors were incorrectly showing as "Not Installed" and with the incorrect version number
Web Client	Fixed a timeout when some users labeled or favorited documents
Search	Fixed an issue where documents in languages not in the white-list were excluded from search results. Note: requires a reload of the Solr Collection after upgrading