Timezone can be defined for any date time transformation (#23128). A new parameter is available on the Search API to set a query timezone. This parameter can be used to adjust any date time value defined in CloudView to the required timezone.

Dedicated new functionalities are available for this purpose:

For more information, see "Specifying a Timezone for date time metas" in the Technical Reference Guide.

A setup with metadata compaction should always have a higher CPU consumption than a setup without. This was however not always the case in R2015x and prior versions.
To save network bandwidth, we recommend using infrastructure solution, like HTTP tunneling with compression.

This release also contains various enhancements, please read the Other Improvements section carefully.

The Consolidation Server Introspection UI has been enhanced to provide:

 

Some useful administration operations are available:

          For more information, see "To check if the Consolidation Storage Compact works properly" in the Consolidation Server Guide.

• When having multiple CloudView instances in a cluster, it is useful to be able to switch off the configuration replication on a slave instance without shutting the slave down (#25020). Use the following MAMI operation:

          For more information, see the "CloudView Installation & Administration Guide > Maintaining your Installation > Administration tools > Get started with command-line interfaces > cvinit > Advanced operations" section.

• Gateway is less verbose when a slave instance is stopped (#25360)

• The #has_category function accepts a string as path parameter and thus supports all characters accepted for a category path (#25513)
#has_category("Top/people/mail/marcel@proust", categories)

Old syntax is kept for compatibility reason but is limited to the following characters: [a-zA-Z0-9_]

• Administrator password is less vulnerable to brute force attack (#25081)

• The ranking level can be chosen in the property setting of the data model if "Searchable without prefix" option is selected (#25587).
It is no longer necessary to customize the mapping configuration if you want to have a better ranking in the default text field.
For more information, see the "Technical Reference Guide > Configuring CloudView with the Data Model > Using Properties to Configure Document Metas > Indexing options for index fields and facets" section.

• The Data Model UI has been reviewed to simplify the use of dynamic fields for class properties (#22747).
The UI now displays only the relevant option, depending on the technical fields used to store the property.
When adding a new property, you can chose to store it in a dedicated index field or in a shared dynamic field.
Using a shared dynamic field reduces file operations when indexing documents.

Some administration functions have been added to the Administration Console.

• Compaction of index structures has been improved. Unused terms in alphanumeric fields are cleaned (#25351), unused values in value fields also (#25370).

• When defining multiple sorts within a Search logic, if no sort options were specified at query time, all sorts were applied. If a large number of sorts were defined, this could have a bad impact on performance. Active sort(s) can now be specified on a search logic (#25401).

• Having multiple Template Prefix Handler defined in a search logic does not impact performance anymore (#25377).

• When testing a semantic resource in the Business Console, you can now display consistent annotations only, by hiding intermediate annotations. This unclutters the Annotations panel view (#22999).

• The roundingMode parameter has been added to the numberFormat MEL function. It selects a rounding mode depending on the locale by default. It is yet possible to specify a rounding mode if necessary. See Java rounding mode to know which rounding modes are supported. (#25634)
The numberFormat MEL function has the following parameters: ${number:format(value, minimumIntDigit, maximumIntDigit, minimumFractionDigit, maximumFractionDigit, isGroupingUsed, roundingMode)}
For example, you can specify ${number:format(0.25, 1, 4, 1, 1, true, "HALF_UP")}  to round up 0.25 to 0.3 (and not 0.2) .

• Usage statistics for the ItemStore component are available in cvconsole (#25385)

• MAMI operations targeting a slice can also target all slices in a single operation (#25385).

CloudView now officially supports Suse 12 (#24714) and RedHat 7.2.

The CloudView R2016x configuration is fully compatible with CloudView R2016x R1.