Locator 2.11 (2.11.550)
- Jeremy Sommer (Deactivated)
- Maciej Chochla (Deactivated)
- Steinar Skjerven
- Roar Hansen (Deactivated)
Build number
Official build number: 2.11.550
Release Date
July 5th, 2019
License compatibility
If you are upgrading from a previous ViaWorks/Locator 2.x release, your ViaWorks/Locator 2.x license will continue to work. If you are installing Locator 2.11 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_2.11.550.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.
Authority Service Locator 2.11 is featuring new authentication service. This expands the range of ports used by Locator. Please refer to Ports used by Locator for more information.
New Features & Improvements
Locator 2.11.550 is a new product release containing the following new features, bug fixes, and improvements
Supervisor Compatibility
Supervisor versions 2.1 and older do not support Locator 2.11. Customers should not upgrade to Locator 2.11 until they've upgraded to Supervisor 2.2.
As Supervisor version 2.3 requires the new Authority Service (that comes with Locator 2.11) users upgrading to Supervisor 2.3 should first upgrade to Locator 2.11.
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. - All connectors need to be upgraded using the Management Console Connector Feed
New Features
Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Authentication | The ayfie Authority Service is now deployed with Locator. |
Improvements
Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Authentication | Added UPN support for TrustedAuthentication in WindowsAuthenticationPlugin |
| Converter Utility | Added support for using converter names |
| IndexBuilder | Improving logging in IndexBuilder on multi-value field errors |
| Installer | All connectors are removed from the installer |
| Installer | Renamed ViaWorks MSI packages to Locator |
| OCR | Default converter set to Omnipage rather than Tesseract |
| Preview | Added .eml as a supported preview file type |
| REST Documentation | Rebranded the REST documentation to reflect the new Locator product name |
| REST Documentation | Updated the QuickStart Example C# project to use version 6 of the API |
| Rule Engine | Made the repository_settings field available in Index Rules |
| Solr | Added more Dynamic Fields that can be used for refiners |
| Solr | Increased the solr upload limit |
Bug Fixes
Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Converter | Fixed an issue with an .xlsx file being converted |
| Converter Utility | Fixed an issue with the UPGRADE command not setting correct language values for the converters |
| Installer | Fixed an issue where web.config files not being updated on upgrades |
| Installer | Fixed an issue with post-install failing because of duplicate users |
| Installer | Fixed an issue where upgrade can leave zombie connector entries |
| Management Console | Fixed an issue where connector upgrades required a reboot |
| Management Console | Fixed an issue where a license could not be deleted |
| Normalization | Fixed an issue with the database upgrade script that fails when it encounters a duplicate domain username |
| Normalization | Fixed an error when stopping the Index Builder during the normalization phase |
| Preview | Fixed an issue where connectors with both upload and preview functionality not showing previews |
| Search | Fixed an issue were term highlighting resulted in a truncated summary |
| Tools | Fixed an issue with the Converter Utility using a static list of converters |
| Translation | Fixed an incorrect translation of Zookeeper in German |
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