Release date: 8 February 2022 Component versions:
Solr 7.7.3ZooKeeper 3.4.13Spark 2.3.2Jetty 9.4.35.v20201120Ignite 2.6.0Log4j 2.17.1
More information about support dates can be found at Lucidworks Fusion Product Lifecycle.

New features

  • Tika asynchronous parsing is now available as a parsing option.
  • The Classic Connector now supports chooosing which node a datasource job runs on.

Improvements

SharePoint Optimized and SharePoint Online Optimized connectors

  • The SharePoint Online Optimized connector now supports proxy configuration for oAuth authentication.
  • The SharePoint Online Optimized connector now adds List object identity to the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) when the UUID is not unique.
  • The Sharepoint Optimized connector now supports external Solr-based Access Control List collections.
  • The Sharepoint Optimized connector now supports configurable ZooKeeper timeout values.
  • The Sharepoint Optimized connector now supports Spengo authentication with Kerberos.
  • The Sharepoint Optimized connector now includes support for the “All Users” Windows group.
  • The Sharepoint Optimized connector now adds titles and descriptions to list items to help with aggregations at query time.
  • Various SharePoint Optimized connector improvements to site collection deletions from the index.
  • Various diagnostic logging improvements for the SharePoint Optimized connector.

Other connectors

  • The LDAP connector now supports sid and dn attributes for indexed documents.
  • The LDAP connector now adds a timestamp to the indexed documents when the corresponding LDAP records are changed.
  • The Web connector now supports wildcards in web fetcher’s authentication schemes.
  • The Web connector Javascript Smart Form evaluation now adds screenshots for diagnostic mode.
  • The Jive connector now supports circular redirects.
  • The S3 connector now supports proxy authentication.
  • The ServiceNow connector now supports field level filtering.
  • The Azure connector now includes API proxy support.

Bug fixes

SharePoint Optimized and SharePoint Online Optimized connectors

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Sharepoint Optimized connector from properly updating the index when moving list items during incremental crawls.
  • Fixed a bug in the Sharepoint Online Optimized connector to properly list site collections when using oAuth authentication.
  • Fixed a bug with the Sharepoint Online Optimized that prevented proper handling of quotes in private key passwords.
  • Fixed a bug with the Sharepoint Online Optimized connector that prevented the connector from using the specified proxy when performing STS authentication.
  • Fixed a regression in the Sharepoint Optimized connector to properly fetch Sharepoint 2010 groups.
  • Fixed a bug where the SharePoint Optimized connector ignored SSL validation.

LDAP connector

  • The LDAP connector now includes additional attributes during incremental crawls.
  • Fixed a bug in the LDAP connector that caused Active Directory global catalog crawls to fail when dynamically looking up the NetBIOS domain.
  • Fixed a bug in the LDAP connector that caused ranged LDAP queries to remove members during incremental crawls.
  • Fixed a bug where the LDAP connector incorrectly propagated errors to the Fusion job status.

Other connectors

  • Fixed an issue with the web connector not obeying the robots.txt’s follow directive.
  • Fixed a bug in the web connector to correctly clean up temporary Chromium files created during Javascript-enabled crawling.
  • Fixed an issue to correctly detect the character set when the obey character setting is false.
  • Fixed a formatting issue when indexing a file’s creation date with the SMB2 connector.
  • Various SMB2 connector incremental crawl bug fixes.

Other fixes

  • Fixed an error where the shaded plugins Log4j2Plugins.dat files were not properly shaded.
  • The datasource GET API request now returns the selected datasource without listing all available datasources.
  • Fixed a broken Windows Java Native Access (JNA) dependency for Windows Server 2016 and 2019 deployments.
  • Fixed a Confluence connector bug for API requests with pagination.
  • Fixed a bug with the proxy service when using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and Kerberos realms.