Release date: April 13, 2022
Component versions:
| Component | Version |
|---|
| Solr | 8.11.1 |
| ZooKeeper | 3.6.2 |
| Spark | 2.4.5 |
| Kubernetes | GKE, AKS, EKS 1.22 Rancher (RKE) and OpenShift 4 compatible with Kubernetes 1.22 OpenStack and customized Kubernetes installs not supported. See Kubernetes support for end of support dates. |
| Ingress Controllers | Nginx, Ambassador (Envoy), GKE Ingress Controller Istio not supported. |
More information about support dates can be found at Lucidworks Fusion Product Lifecycle.
Looking to upgrade?Check out the Fusion 5 Upgrades for details.
New features
- Merchandisers can now curate the metadata content of their pages with the Page Metadata feature in Predictive Merchandiser. See Page Metadata for more information.
Improvements
Fusion
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Added titles for Superset and Superset Proxy in the Fusion API Microservices dropdown menu.
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Improved logging from client-side retries, to make debugging
retry jobs easier.
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Streamlined the System to remove redundant entries.
Predictive Merchandiser
- A script has been created to address the
solrconfig.xml workaround listed in the Fusion 5.5.0 release notes, where users were directed to change their cache classes to solr.search.CaffeineCache. See the Fusion 5 Migration Guide for more information.
Bug Fixes
Fusion
- Fixed an issue that caused the Tika Parser to generate “out of memory” errors.
Predictive Merchandiser
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Fixed an issue that caused images to not display in Predictive Merchandiser results and product details.
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Fixed an issue that caused the interface of the Create a facet console to display incorrectly after adding a new facet field.
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Fixed several UI issues that caused the Publish Rules dropdown to display incorrectly.
Known issues
- New Kerberos security realms cannot be configured successfully in this version of Fusion.