Release Notes for Ultraseek 5.7

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Additional product information is available at http://www.ultraseek.com/



Security Notice

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Because of security concerns, new installations of Ultraseek are more

restrictive about what documents can be highlighted. Only documents

that match a collection's filters can be highlighted. The behavior for

upgrading users will not automatically change, but if unrestricted

highlighting concerns you, you can get the new behavior by deleting

all the entries from the In-document highlighting filter list on the

Server > Parameters > Advanced tab.



New Features

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Administrative User Roles

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There are now additional roles that can be assigned to administrative

users under the Server > Users tab.  The new roles are "styles,"

"quicklinks," and "reports."



The administrative interface will now only display areas that a user

has permission to access.  Restricted areas will not be shown.  For

example, a user that only has the "reports" role will not see the

Collections tab in the administrative interface.



After upgrading to Ultraseek 5.7, any user that had the "server",

"collections", and "topics" roles will automatically be granted all of

the new roles.



The following changes have been applied to the old roles:

 * The "server" role no longer grants access to the Quick Links, XML

   Mappings, Reports and Interface tabs.  XML Mappings belongs to the

   "collections" role, Quick Links belongs to the "quicklinks" role,

   Reports belongs to the "reports" role, and Interface belongs to the

   "styles" role.

 * Users who have privileges for one or more collections, but do not

   have the "collections" role, can no longer create or delete

   collections.



Any user can always change his own password, even if he is not

assigned to any administrative roles.



KeyView 10

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The filter for binary document types has been upgraded to version

10.0, adding Macromedia Flash (.swf) and Microsoft Access (.mdb) files

to the list of supported file types.



Also, KeyView is now the default filter for Adobe PDF documents.  The

"Adobe Acrobat (Key View)" parse type under Server > Doctypes has been

renamed to "Adobe Acrobat," while the "Adobe Acrobat" parse type

(which uses the Adobe PDF SDK) has been renamed to "Adobe Acrobat

(native)."



On upgrade to Ultraseek 5.7, the filter for Adobe PDF files will

automatically switch to KeyView.  If you would like to continue using

the Adobe PDF SDK, you will need to manually change the "Parse As"

drop-down under Server > Doctypes.



Parsing PDF documents with the Adobe PDF SDK is now deprecated, and

will not be available in the next major release of Ultraseek.



New Installer

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Ultraseek 5.7 now has a common installer across all three supported

platforms. Also, all related Ultraseek modules are now shipped in a

single binary.  This single binary contains base Ultraseek, the SSL

module, and all of the language modules, including administrative

localizations.



Linux and Solaris installers will automatically configure the

"ultraseek" script to start the new installation, avoiding any need

for editing the script manually.



Chinese Administrative Interface

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The administrative interface has now been localized into Chinese.  To

activate the Chinese interface, choose the "Chinese" locale from the

installer drop-down when installing from a machine with the Chinese

locale enabled.



Implementation Changes

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The Japanese administrative interface now ships in the base installer.

To activate the Japanese interface, choose the "Japanese" locale from

the installer drop-down when installing from a machine with the

Japanese locale enabled.



Ultraseek 5.7 now uses an advanced tokenizer to segment Chinese

characters when indexing Chinese content. This will require a reindex

of any documents that contain Chinese characters.



The maximum number of tags parsed from an HTML document has increased

from 10,000 to 100,000.



The "Otherwise Allowed Sites" and "Always Disallowed Sites" boxes have

been removed from the Collections/Filters interface.  The filter

processing has been optimized, making them unnecessary.  Any entries

contained in those boxes prior to upgrading to 5.7 will be

automatically migrated to the standard filter fields.  Any "Otherwise

Allowed Site" should be added to the last filter field, and any

"Always Disallowed Site" should be added to the first filter field.

The correct format for the filter fields is "http://sitename/*".



Supported Platforms

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* Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP Professional (Intel

  compatible)

* Solaris 9, Solaris 10 (SPARC)

* Suse Linux 9.0 (Intel compatible)

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (Intel

  compatible)



Bugfixes

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[0732] Reports are cropped on the right side in Internet Explorer.

[1436] Disappearing documents when merging a collection with modified

       documents

[1443] The default filters for document highlighting are now more

       restrictive, automatically limited to either the current

       domain, or the collection URL filters.

[1446] Rules in topics do not seem to detect the language of French

       documents.

[1449] Form URL generates an error if  the webserver did not send a

       "content-type" header.

[1454] "Simple" style cannot be deleted in Admin UI.

[1459] The revisit_mode is not set when a call is sent to

       /help/revisitsitego.html.

[1461] Top Requested Documents, Make a Quick Link not correctly

       encoding the terms.

[1464] Warning titles were not translated in the Japanese and Chinese

       administrative interface.

[1467] Mirroring collections over SSL failed with "mirror.error: Bad

       size."

[1478] Clearing a scanner or database collection after making changes

       to the filters caused exceptions.NameError.



Known Issues

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When the Japanese locale is selected for the Unix installer, the

default data directory is incorrectly specified as a non-ASCII

Japanese word. The data directory cannot have a non-ASCII name.  The

work-around is to change the default data directory to an ASCII string

when prompted by the installer. The recommended default data directory

is /var/UltraseekData.



Release Notes Archive

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To see cumulative changes since an earlier release of Ultraseek,

visit the release notes archive on the Ultraseek web site:

<http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/release_notes/>.



Patchnotes for 5.7

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Initial release: November 2006



Patchnotes for 5.7.1

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Released: March 2007



Enhancements

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 Spelling suggestion relevance has been improved. In particular, the

 rate of false positive suggestions (suggestions given when the query

 was spelled correctly) has been drastically decreased.



 It is now possible to extract more than 80,000 terms from 

 large documents. To enable this feature, you can either 

 (a) set the variable config.parse_bigdocs to 1 in patches.py, or

 (b) while Ultraseek is shutdown, edit the saved configuration file 

     and change the value of parse_bigdocs to 1.



 A lock now prevents multiple large documents (larger than 500kB) from

 being indexed simultaneously, to avoid running out of

 memory. Processing large documents may be slower.



 To help expedite server licensing, visiting /util/hostinfo.html will

 return useful host information for the instance of Ultraseek.



 Obtain records from a database in Unicode encoding if possible.



Bugs Fixed:

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 [BZ0119] The CCE Home Topic name was not dynamically translated in

	  the search inteface.

 [BZ0394] Some CCE topic names in the topic breadcrumb on the search

	  interface were accidentally translated.

 [BZ0565] Interaction between the query operators and no hits

	  suggestions was poor.

 [BZ0719] Parse and load errors that occurred during Quick Links

	  reload were not visible in the administrative interface.

 [BZ0723] Styles configuration files could conflict with CCE topics

	  configuration files.

 [BZ1122] Illegal characters in qt caused ASCII decoding error.

 [BZ1468] Indexing very large documents may cause memory errors.

 [BZ1480] Creating a merge collection that contained a mirror

	  collection failed with an AttributeError.

 [BZ1487] Changing the name or blurb of the CCE Home topic would

	  corrupt the topics.xml file.

 [BZ1488] Changing the supertopic of a CCE topic caused an error

	  "missing required parameter: la"

 [BZ1490] File util/exception.html was throwing errors because of

	  missing util/header.html and util/footer.html files.

 [BZ1493] Testing URL filters caused error "exceptions.TypeError: not

	  enough arguments for format string."

 [BZ1494] Trying to edit a form auth configuration caused error

	  "Missing required parameter: url."

 [BZ1499] Web services missing tdidf option in relevanceAlgorithm.

 [BZ1502] Indexing very large documents may cause memory errors.

 [BZ1504] Fix possible security issue in docs/help files.

 [BZ1507] Certain Python scripted HTML pages took several seconds to

	  serve due to an error in the Ultraseek HTML compiler.

 [BZ1508] High query load can cause segmentation fault.

 [BZ1510] Clicking "Show more rule and URL entries" on Edit Topic page

	  resulted in error "Missing required parameter."



Patchnotes for 5.7.2

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Released: April 2007



Enhancements

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  An option to suspend a collection if authentication fails.



Bugs Fixed:

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 [BZ1436] See the release notes for 5.7. This bug was fixed in 5.7,

          but the note was omitted.

 [BZ1520] Highlight page generates malformed link URL

 [BZ1522] Collection suspended because of IOError (adddoc) on indexer

          collection when index and merge ran at the same time



Patchnotes for 5.7.5

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Released: August 2007





Enhancements

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Removed deprecated Adobe PDF SDK used for parsing PDF documents.  Keyview  

remains as the default filter for PDF files.



Bugs Fixed:

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 [BZ1524] "page cannot be displayed" issue on search page when "Acquire user 

 credentials via NTLM" setting is used.



Patchnotes for 5.7.6

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Released: September 07





Enhancements

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Replaced deprecated Spyrus SSL  libraries with openssl libraries for

more robust and full-featured support of SSL.





Patchnotes for 5.7.7

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Released: November 07 





Enhancements

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Bugs Fixed:

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 [BZ1578]   Add check for DB existence before indexing

 [BZ1590]   Error when searching for some misspelled words

 [BZ1607]   The limit of the number of words inside one IDX section is hardcoded to be 500 so it's impossible to have larger sections.

 [BZ1611]   Ultraseek 5.7.6. SSL form based not working as older versions

 [BZ1612]   Rules for additional names and field length

 [BZ106647] Have proper DREDBNAME in IDX generated by Ultraspider

 [BZ108910] https server inside ultraseek does not work with py/openssl on Solaris

 [BZ108911] keyfm and keyfmd utilities have to be replaced with similar from openssl

 [BZ108951] UltraSpider Should Batch indexing requests to IDOL



Patchnotes for 5.7.8

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Released: February 08 





Notes:

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 PLEASE READ BEFORE INSTALLING IF YOU INSTALL ON UNIX PLATFORM!

 Install this version into new location or back up your existing

 version before proceeding.

 Ultraseek no longer ships ODBC drivers for databases on linux and solaris.

 Customers with previous installations of ultraseek can use previously

 installed ODBC drivers by removing all files from ultraseek/database in the

 new install and replacing them with files from ultraseek/dadatabase from 

 previous ultraseek installation. 





Bugs Fixed:

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 [BZ1617] Control character in log file causing log digest to fail

 [BZ1626] mirror.error: 503 tsocket.timeout errors when doing simple mirroring with 5.7.7

 [BZ1630] Japanese searches against saquery.xml cause Ultraseek to restart

 [BZ1632] Admin Console hangs while trying to Edit Quicklinks

 [BZ1636] Field names are stored as lowercase only