Product

Fusion 5.10

    Fusion 5.9.0Release Notes

    Release date: June 29, 2023

    Component versions:

    Component Version

    Solr

    fusion-solr 5.9.0
    (based on Solr 9.1.1)

    ZooKeeper

    3.7.1

    Spark

    3.2.2

    Kubernetes

    GKE, AKS, EKS 1.25 and 1.26

    Rancher (RKE) and OpenShift 4 compatible with Kubernetes 1.25 and 1.26

    OpenStack and customized Kubernetes installs not supported.

    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 topic for details.
    Upgrades from Fusion 5.8.0

    Fusion 5.8.1 fixed an issue with the Fusion 5.8.0 Helm chart that prevented horizontal pod autoscaling.

    If you are upgrading from Fusion 5.8.0 to any later version and use horizontal pod autoscaling, you must complete the procedure detailed in the Fusion 5.8.1 release notes.

    New Features

    • The new Consumption Dashboard tracks your request and document usage against the allotted consumption in your Fusion license. To access the dashboard, log into Fusion and go to Analytics > Consumption.

    Improvements

    Fusion

    • Fusion now supports Kubernetes 1.25 and 1.26. This applies to GKE, AKS, and EKS. It also applies to Rancher (RKE) and OpenShift 4 versions that are compatible with Kubernetes 1.25 and 1.26. Refer to Kubernetes documentation for versions 1.25 and 1.26 to decide which version to use for your deployment.

    • Added a new Admin button to the Rules Editor screen. Click on it to log out of Fusion.

    • Improved Spark Solr’s performance to ingest and transport data, as well as setting the most efficient sort for data export.

    Fusion Connectors

    • Updated the connectors-sdk library version to Java 11.

    • Updated Fusion to prevent automatically updating V2 connector plug-ins. Intentional updates allow you to verify related functions and operations.

    • Updated Fusion to specify pod resources for connector plug-in type to ensure optimal capability and performance.

    Other changes

    Fusion Connectors

    Bug Fixes

    Fusion

    • Fixed an issue where the parsing endpoint in the indexing service did not parse a DOC file or other Microsoft Word documents. The Apache POI was updated with the log4j API.

    Fusion Connectors

    • Fixed an issue where clearing the crawldb for the Access Control List (ACL) datasource also deletes the ACLs.

    • Fixed an issue where the Box.com V2 connector did not start successfully when a Fusion branch was deployed.