Release Note Archive

Ultraseek

• Ultraseek 5.7.1 - 5.7.8
• Ultraseek 5.7
• Ultraseek 5.6.2
• Ultraseek 5.6.1
• Ultraseek 5.6
• Ultraseek 5.5
• Ultraseek 5.4
• Ultraseek 5.3
• Ultraseek 5.2
• Ultraseek 5.1
• Ultraseek 5.0
• Ultraseek 4.5
• Ultraseek 4.4
• Ultraseek 4.3
• Ultraseek 4.2
• Ultraseek 4.1
• Ultraseek 4.0
• Ultraseek 3.1

XPA

• XPA 2.2
• XPA 2.1
• XPA 2.0
• XPA 1.1

Version 5.5.0 - Details

1. NTLM filtering/Indexing Support
2. Performance Improvements
3. Implementation Changes
4. Interface Changes
5. Bug Fixes

Version 5.4.2 - Details

1. Bug Fixes
2. Keyview Filter upgraded to version 8.3.1.9

Version 5.4.1 - Details

1. Bug Fixes

Version 5.4 - Details

1. Bug Fixes
2. Metadata from Databases
3. Report Data in TSV Format
4. Automatic Check for Newer Version
5. Topics Export as Verity TAX file
6. Highlight/View PDF as HTML
7. Improved Wildcard Queries
8. Override robots.txt and robots meta tags
9. Implementation Changes
10. Interface Changes
11. Patches.py Changes
12. Updated Components

Version 5.3.4 - Details

1. Bug Fixes

Version 5.3.3 - Details

1. Bug Fixes
2. UK2 Beta
3. Upgraded to Python 2.2.3

Version 5.3.1 - Details

1. Implementation Changes
2. Interfaces Changes
3. Patches.py Changes
4. Bug Fixes

Version 5.3.0 - Details

1. Bug fixes
2. Page Expert
3. Hit Level Authentication
4. API Changes for Hit Level Authentication
5. Setting Document Quality
6. Proxy Server for In-document Highlighting
7. Import Ultraseek Collections
8. Weblog Ping
9. PDF Support

Version 5.2.2 - Details

1. Bug fixes.
   
2. To improve latency with large values of nh, the Python interface now flushes the HTTP socket every 30 query results.
   
3. Ultraseek will now guess the Content-Type of documents inserted via XPA if the XPA specified Content-Type is "", "application/octet-stream", ?or "application/x-unknown-content-type".
   
4. Powerpoint and Lotus Freelance file formats are now supported for indexing and document highlighting.
   
5. Add log level NOTICE when upgrading from an older Ultraseek version.
   

Version 5.2.1 - Details

1. Bug fixes.
   

Version 5.2.0 - Details

1. Term Highlighting in more doc types
   
2. Information Server Migration
   
3. Web Services
   
4. Follow JavaScript Links in HTML
   
5. Implementation Changes
   
6. Bug Fixes
   
7. Correction to Documentation

Version 5.1.2 - Details

1. Bug fixes.

Version 5.1.1 - Details

1. Bug fixes.
   
2. Implementation Changes.

Version 5.1.0 - Details

1. In-Document Term Highlighting
   
2. User Interface Styles and Style Editor
   
3. Reports
   
4. Group by Location
   
5. Automatic Title Replacement
   
6. StarOffice, OpenOffice, and Zip Documents
   
7. Additional Database Support
   
8. Upgrading Customizations
   
9. Japanese Language Support
   
10. XML Search Agent Interface
    
11. URL Session ID Stripping
    
12. Implementation Changes
    
13. Correction to Previous Release Notes

Version 5.0.6 - Details

1. Bug fixes.

Version 5.0.5 - Details

1. Updated to Keyview 7.3.
   
2. Updated to Spyrus TLS Platinum Toolkit 4.2 Native
   
3. Bug fixes.

Version 5.0.4 - Details

1. Updated Japanese administrative interface to reflect new features in Ultraseek 5.0.
   
2. Upgraded KeyView document filters to 7.2.
   
3. Bug fixes.

Version 5.0.3 - Details

1. Inktomi Enterprise Search has been rebranded due to the acquisition by Verity, Inc.

Version 5.0.2 - Details

1. The Outside In document filters have been replaced with the Keyview document filters.

Version 5.0.1 - Details

1. Bug fixes.

Version 5.0 - Details

1. Passage Based Summaries
   
2. Spell Checking
   
3. Smart "no hits" Page
   
4. Form based authentication
   
5. Password Security
   
6. New Administrative Interface
   
7. Long termlists
   
8. Implementation Changes
   
9. Bug Fixes
   

Version 4.5.1 - Details

1. Bug Fixes

Version 4.5 - Details

1. Wildcard Queries
   
2. Japanese Administrative Interface
   
3. JMA
   
4. Bug Fixes

Version 4.4 - Details

1. New language id module will identify more languages and encodings
   
2. Linguistic stemming can now be deactivated
   
3. The interface to add XML mappings has been dramatically improved
   
4. Fixed various minor memory leaks caused by certain error conditions
   
5. Fixed cookie handling
   
6. Modified error codes returned by the server
   
7. Fixed newlines in HTML files on Windows OS

Version 4.3.4 - Details

1. Content Assistant related changes
   
2. Null characters in input strings to xmlquote were not being skipped properly.
   
3. robots.txt files with lines broken by \r only were not being parsed properly.
   
4. Add field to new database table interface to allow selection of table owner.
   
5. Changed links in copyright.html to www.Verity.com.
   
6. Fixed bug which disabled word spam detection thresholds.
   
7. Fixed bug which disabled searching on custom properties in Microsoft Word documents.
   
8. Strip leading and trailing spaces of query terms to avoid odd behavior on the advanced search page.
   
9. Remove deprecated "thesaurus.txt" from the installation packages.

Version 4.3.3 - Details

1. 1. Added links and tags for 508 compliance.
   2. Fixed bug in tokenizer.
   3. Fixed document count sent to XPA API.
   4. Fixed bug in XML parser.

Version 4.3.2 - Details

1. Fixed news article bug.
   
2. Added "network" tab on Net News collections to allow NNTP authentication.
   
3. Added work-around for Internet Explorer bug.
   
4. Added LABEL tags to user interface for Section 508 compliance.
   
5. Updated JMA and KMA to version 3.4.
   
6. Updated Rosette to version 3.0.7.
   
7. Updated company names in ad server support.
   
8. Disable SSL admin interface if a non SSL license key is entered.
   
9. Fixed bug with highlighting summary terms that were mixed alphanumeric. (e.g. abc123)
   
10. Change URL parameter checking to accept empty values for "la" form variable.
    
11. Eliminate exception thrown from URL parameter checking.
    
12. Do not ask for character encoding when creating more than one table in a database collection.
    
13. Recognize XHTML format of http-equiv meta tag so charset is set correctly.
    
14. Do not send a bug e-mail when trying to index a non licensed language.
    
15. Do not generate an ssl error when the log file download is stopped prematurely.
    
16. Eliminate reference to undefined variable in addurl.
    
17. Convert all field text to unicode when inserted into an IndexerCollection with XPA API.
    
18. Allow very large numbers in http equiv refresh tags.
    
19. Fixed Linux portability problem in code tokenizer.

Version 4.3.1 - Details

1. Fixed pyqueryall.spy so it consistently returns every hit.
   
2. Allow spaces in column names when indexing a database.
   
3. Consistently display word scores for each hit when word scores is turned on.
   
4. URL status for exchange collection displays useful info.

Version 4.3.0 - Details

1. Quick Links
   
2. Database Indexing Changes
   
3. Content Assistant API
   
4. CCE Changes
   
5. New Document Types
   
6. Implementation Changes
   
7. Exchange Public Folders
   
8. JMA
   
9. KMA

Version 4.2 - Details

1. Secure spidering
   
2. HTTPS server
   
3. Relaxed hyphen matching
   
4. SQL Server for Linux and Solaris
   
5. New Japanese word processor formats
   
6. Implementation changes
   
7. Known Bugs

Version 4.1.2 - Details

1. Processing Korean queries
   
2. Upgrade Japanese and Korean linguistic support
   
3. Database driver encoding exceptions
   
4. Distributing dbrec.html
   
5. Spaces in Japanese text
   
6. Content-Language in HTTP header and HTTP-EQUIV meta tag
   
7. Decode ASCII-compatible encodings in URL parameters
   
8. Using ASCII In EUC-JP for code set 0
   
9. Japanese and Norwegian localizations
   
10. Term highlighting for Japanese and Korean
    
11. Stopwords in Japanese or Korean
    
12. Displaying find similar queries
    
13. Calculating CCE-related topics
    
14. Add more options for showing number of related topics and subtopics in CCE
    
15. Creating body text
    
16. OutsideIn 7.0 filters
    
17. Double-byte PDF 1.2 files
    
18. HTML updates for handicapped-accessibility
    
19. Accepting cookies
    
20. Handle incomplete URLs in CCE
    
21. Handling documents in the HZ character encoding
    
22. Update to Rosette 3.0.5
    
23. MS Word document summaries

Version 4.1.1 - Details

1. Added copyright notice
   
2. Configuring e-mail
   
3. Deleting collections
   
4. Shutting down 3.x before upgrading
   
5. Defining a hostname:port
   
6. Restarting pyseekd
   
7. Indexing database views
   
8. Implementing oracle_config
   
9. Printing oracle_config
   
10. Known bugs

Version 4.1 - Details

1. Database indexing
   
2. Korean
   
3. Thesaurus improvements
   
4. Import sitemap
   
5. XML Mappings for Attributes
   
6. Wireless Markup Language support
   
7. Upgrading customizations
   
8. Changes
   
9. Known bugs

Version 4.0.5

1. New directory listing format
   
2. Fix excessive delete previous bug when URLs have commas

Version 4.0.4

1. Make the message width in the URL list for a site be configurable by setting config.urllist_msg_len.
   
2. Include the actual license key in the message stating a key is bad.
   
3. Workaround for the bug in the PDF library that gives bad titles.
   
4. Reduce MemoryErrors by limiting the number of concurrent queries.
   
5. Ignore corrupt query log entries.
   
6. Add an additional directory listing command to os status so we can tell if ssl support is installed.
   
7. Remove windows codepage overrides for some ISO charsets.
   
8. Exit cleanly if the UNIX username is not a valid user.

Version 4.0.3

1. On NT, make sure we remove the VeritySearch4.0 registry key when the product is uninstalled.
   
2. Fix some corner cases in scheduled activity.
   
3. Add a warning if you attempt to schedule a oneshot activity in the past.
   
4. Clean up HTML in CCE topics status page.
   
5. Don't show document counts or highlight terms in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
   
6. Decoded special characters when turning URLs into file pathnames for scanner collection add URL.
   
7. Support Unicode 3.0.1.
   
8. Major update of linguistic support for Japanese (JMA 3.1).
   
9. Handle Lotus Domino ReadForm URLs like OpenView URLs.
   
10. Percent-encode ASCII quote in URLs (%22).
    
11. Strip trailing whitespace from URLs when parsing HTML files.

Version 4.0.2

1. Fix occasional NT crash at startup.
   
2. Raise minimum heapsize from 80Mb to 128Mb.
   
3. Fix language_display_names 3.1 docset compatibility problem.
   
4. Don't warn about 100% licensed sites if the number of license sites equals the number of licensed collections.
   
5. Fix the spider URL filter to correctly count the number of directories in URLs.
   
6. Eliminate extra colon on "Extra-" lines in saquery.spy.
   
7. Treat fullwidth space in thesaurus.txt just like ASCII space.
   
8. Fix spelling of avancerad in sv.xml.
   
9. Fix "exceptions.AttributeError: default_lang" in edittopicgo.html.
   
10. Fix xmlquote to discard control characters illegal in XML so that they never end up in topics.xml.
    
11. Fix "exceptions.TypeError: an integer is required" in edittopic.html when no parent is specified.
    
12. Fix "exceptions.UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)" when handling "URL contains illegal character" error.
    
13. Fix "exceptions.AttributeError: 'Collection' instance has no attribute 'now'" starting a scheduled reindex in a scanner collection.

Version 4.0.1

1. Include support for XPA search 1.0.3.
   
2. Fix thesaurus problem with synonyms that contain the original term as a substring.
   
3. Fix "exceptions.ValueError: invalid literal for int(): unlimited" in hpux.
   
4. Fix problem where the xlt user dictionary was ignored when stemming queries.
   
5. Fix problem extracting "alt" attributes from img HTML tags.
   
6. Fix problem parsing "asctime" dates.
   
7. Change allhits to return 0 hits on empty query instead of raising an error.
   
8. Be smarter at detecting document encodings for Chinese and Japanese documents by using rosette as well as teragram.
   
9. In the default "Document Type Specification" section under the "doc types" tab on the "server" admin screen, add an entry for .jsp, specifying text/html.
   
10. Save spider accept_cookies parameter in configuration file.
    
11. Add missing </tt> tags in help/refine.html.
    
12. Add "encoding:" header lines to header.html and footer.html.
    
13. Treat fullwidth space in queries just like ASCII space.
    
14. Treat segmentation points like spaces in unquoted Chinese and Japanese query text.
    
15. Fix thesaurus to work with Chinese and Japanese text.
    
16. Eliminate "504 suspended" indexer log messages when indexing is globally suspended for shutdowns, restarts, and topic updates.
    
17. Change default encoding for Japanese to shift_jis.
    
18. Highlight phrases.
    
19. Remove iso-8859-15 from the list of supported encodings.

Version 4.0 - Details

Version 3.1 - Details

1. CCE reload topics definition
   
2. Proxy authentication
   
3. View sites
   
4. NT Challenge / Response authentication
   
5. Term highlighting in search results page
   
6. Cascading Style Sheets
   
7. Customizable dictionaries for stemming
   
8. URL override
   
9. Update access
   
10. Microsoft Exchange Public Folders
    
11. Otherwise allowed and always disallowed sites
    
12. Query de-duping control
    
13. Provide option to search the Internet
    
14. Faster XML parser
    
15. Mirroring between big-endian and little-endian hardware
    
16. Deferred queuing in topic edits
    
17. Expires HTTP header line
    
18. Collection rules
    
19. CCE topics mirrors
    
20. CCE related topics and subtopics display
    
21. Spider black hole warning message
    
22. Refresh Meta tags
    
23. ht (Home Topics)
    
24. si (Search the Internet)
    
25. ex (Extra)

Version 3.0 - Details

1. License key
   
2. CCE (Content Classification Engine)
   
3. Remote Anchor Text
   
4. Query Form Replacement
   
5. Hiding Collections on Query Forms
   
6. Log Disallowed URLs
   
7. Reports
   
8. Changes to HTML in Search Pages
   
9. Indexer API Changes
   
10. Hop Count Propagated Through URL Feeds
    
11. Language Improvements
    
12. SSL Spidering

Version 2.1 - Details

1. New license key required if upgrading
   
2. Date range searches
   
3. New languages
   
4. PostScript
   
5. Cooperative spidering
   
6. Merge collections
   
7. XML support
   
8. SSL support
   
9. HTML "meta" tag names
   
10. Word spam detection thresholds
    
11. Disallow text or links from apparent directory listing documents
    
12. Document type parsing
    
13. Add URL collection determination
    
14. URL status
    
15. Revisit site
    
16. Site and URL listings
    
17. Handle double-byte Chinese characters
    
18. Filter Lotus Domino navigation links
    
19. Add URL speed of indexing
    
20. Use HTTP Keep-Alives

Version 2.0 - Details

1. New license key required if upgrading
   
2. Advanced query form
   
3. Find similar
   
4. New Usenet News collection type
   
5. New languages
   
6. New indexer scheduling option
   
7. Dublin Core META tags
   
8. Number of links
   
9. Log rotation
   
10. Improved "roots" and "filters" interface
    
11. Test URL filter
    
12. Always disallowed sites
    
13. Filter Lotus Domino navigation links
    
14. Memory-mapped title files
    
15. Log files
    
16. Connection timeouts
    
17. Per-collection data directories
    
18. Maximum number of concurrently polling mirror directories
    
19. Advanced query fields
    
20. Default query form complexity
    
21. Show search image
    
22. SMTP mail forwarding list
    
23. HTTP server threads display
    
24. Document qualities
    
25. Configuration parameters saved in configuration file
    
26. Scanner collections and deleted directories
    
27. Passwords encrypted
    
28. Indexer API changes
    
29. Spidering large number of sites faster
    
30. New Python version
    
31. New regular expression syntax
    
32. Location of patches.py file changed
    
33. View sites display changed
    
34. Manual index saves and merges in the background
    
35. Default parameters automatically generated
    
36. Maximum number of open search DBs increased
    
37. Automatic restart if wedged
    
38. Windows NT hostname lookup
    
39. Winsock2 library
    
40. Merge performance improved in Microsoft Windows NT

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