Previous Release Notes : R2018x R2
 
R2018x R2
 
What's New
Upgrade notes
Enhancements
Major fixed issues
Support Lifecycle
What's New
CloudView R2018xR2 focuses mainly on robustness and performance. A lot of little enhancements and fixes have been performed for this purpose as described in the lists below.
Upgrade notes
CloudView R2018xR2 is fully compatible with R2018xGA and R2018xR1 in terms of configuration and data.
Upgrading CloudView is now much easier with a new refresh mechanism. For more information, see the Installation Guide > Upgrading CloudView > Install a refresh section.
If you want to migrate from a version prior to R2018x, refer to the Upgrade Notes section in the R2018xR1 Release notes.
Enhancements
Ticket
Title
Component
29024
JDB Connector: Better handling of warnings and ability to make them fatal
Connectors / Connector JDBC
28925
Add metas with email addresses
Connectors / Connector Microsoft Exchange
28508
Replay connector - optimized mode & document duplicate
Connectors / Connector Replay
28572
[Conso] Add a mami command to trigger aggregation with more parameters
Consolidation
28684
Improve compact of consobox
Consolidation
28789
New cvdebug command to analyze consolidation document store
Consolidation
28790
Add a warn log to identify large documents in transformation/aggregation steps
Consolidation
28796
Separate push time from real aggregation time in logs and always print machine readable times
Consolidation
28987
Be more permissive with word 95 files
Convert
29171
ngconvert tmp directory cleaning even in case of unexpected restarts
Convert
29172
Increase start timeout to handle slow starting minions like XCV
Convert
28821
Optimize ngram extraction during dictionary building
Dictionaries
28915
Use optimized substring also for dynamic properties dictionaries
Dictionaries
28664
Document default sort directions
Documentation
28984
Document {VAR_+X} in cvapps
Documentation
29104
Document Security in Suggest command doc
Documentation
28755
Ability to have stable hits order when no sort and no synthesis
Generic
28782
Reducing indexing memory footprint (especially for multi numerical)
Indexing
29114
Optimize doc.getMetaValues(name) as done for doc.getMetas(name)
Indexing
29264
Add a log for full compact start (only on end currently)
Indexing
28244
Allow windows service overwrite during install
Installer
28860
Have a message saying everything's ok in check-deps.sh
Installer
28857
Monitor the steal cpu time on VM
Monitoring Console
29032
Handle complex udev redirects for Disk I/Os probe
Monitoring Console
29161
Graph of nbdocs in consolidation
Monitoring Console
28843
BufferedPushAPI too verbose in debug
PAPI
28765
Performance robustness for innerjoin
Search
28842
Better performance for queries containing big NOT nodes
Search
28866
Improve substring search in FSM when prefix is very frequent
Search
28918
increase coverage of search timeoutability
Search
28919
Decrease allocation stress at query time on big queries / big QPS
Search
28955
Add the possibility to remove the context from the SearchAnswer (like already done for ellql)
Search
29072
Better perf for INNERJOIN containing big sub query
Search
29191
Performance enhancement at index level at high QPS
Search
28854
FUN078144 Find in context on instance Name
Search 3D
28861
Drawing does not display in tree after applying volume filter
Search 3D
28921
Log RAM taken by graphs in index
Search 3D
28936
Avoid unnecessary refresh of graph in #attrgraph queries
Search 3D
28940
Handle hard timeout for expand
Search 3D
28944
Better attrgraph perf for large output and large number of nodes defining the query.
Search 3D
28978
Progressive expand for 3DCockpit[1]
Search 3D
29102
Progressive expand for 3DCockpit[2]
Search 3D
29322
Mutualize memory footprint in multitenant exapnd context
Search 3D
27384
Improve spell check for Japanese
Semantic
29219
Increase SQI's window size limit
Semantic
29186
Adapt output of cvinit.sh wait-started to new timeout
Tools
Major fixed issues
 
Ticket
Title
Existing since
Component
28341
HTML Preview issue when specifying the keyword on the excel file with multiple sheets
V6R2016x.R5
360/Mashup UI & API
28764
NPE in AggregationBuilderTrigger with CategoryFacet as input when refining in exclude mode.
V6R2018x
360/Mashup UI & API
29143
Widget "Multiple chart" doesn't work when two or more charts of the same type are present
V6R2018x.R1
360/Mashup UI & API
28911
Incorrect Display of Searchable documents on Admin UI Home page when 1 slice is down
V6R2018x
Admin-ui
29025
Query prefix handler not generated when a numeric/date property is backed on a dynprop
V6R2018x.R1
Admin-ui
29204
Index roles added from the admin UI use a non-existing index runtime
V6R2018x.BETA2
Config system / APIs
28953
NPE when scanning a particular zip file when 'Item MIME Filter' and 'Item extensions' are empty
V6R2014x
Connectors / Connector File Systems
28986
File Connector purges documents on "access is denied" error while the keep on error option is set in the conenctor's configuration
V6R2016x
Connectors / Connector File Systems
29017
Stop scan of JDBC connector when an error happens during the lookup for deleted items
V6R2016x.R5
Connectors / Connector JDBC
28054
Counters of connectors are not up to date when deployed on replay server
V6R2018x
Connectors / Connector Replay
28947
Long lived managed connector susceptible to deadlock when "Restart on failure" is on.
V6R2015x.SP4
Connectors / Connectors Framework Java
28994
NPE when scanning replay connector
V6R2018x.R1
Connectors / Connectors Framework Java
28939
ConsolidationBox sends nbThreads triggerIndexingJob and 1 sync at each aggregation
V6R2018x
Consolidation
29213
Unstable filter in the consolidation server introspection
V6R2016x.R3
Consolidation
29111
NGconvert crash in OLE parsing for some word doc (windows only)
Prehistoric defect
Convert
29145
NGconvert crash for DOC containg OLE containing DOC containing OLE containing DOC
Prehistoric defect
Convert
29147
Leak in ngconvert server
Prehistoric defect
Convert
29029
Box3 HttpBoxEnumeration crashes the crawler server
V6R2018x
Crawler
29088
Crawler crash : GDS divide by zero
V6R2018x
Crawler
28804
infinite loop in indexingserver in extractNGrams of FSM dictionary builder
V6R2018x.R1
Dictionaries
28776
Supported platforms problems
V6R2016x.R3
Documentation
28851
Dependencies list : miss libpng12 for RedHat 7
V6R2016x
Documentation
19405
Admin UI fail to get process information
V6R2013x.SP3
Generic
27089
Cash indexingserver : presync aborted: cannot open temporary file /.../vdict_8278-8278-data.tmp.kyt6mukunwow for sync: Bad file descriptor
V6R2016x.R3
Generic
28836
Searchserver can fail to start when master is down
Prehistoric defect
Generic
28845
Wrong runtimeConfig set after adding a new index role in 2018x
V6R2018x
Generic
28937
Once a gen is locked every posterior gens are not destroyed before this one
V6R2016x
Generic
29193
Ability to set timeout to MAMIClient
Prehistoric defect
Generic
29334
Indexing server crash may create inconsistency between checkpoints and slices state in aggregated
V6R2018x
Indexing
28831
[APP-INSTALLER] Mashup Application not created if no custom 360-plugin in it...
V6R2018x
Installer
28862
Unable to uninstall hotfix from the datadir because manifest.xml is missing
V6R2015x.SP4
Installer
29239
cvapps install may fail on the restartHost due to race condition
V6R2018x.R1
Installer
28916
Migration failed from 18xGA to 18xR1 with large term (>1024 chars) in FSM.
V6R2018x.R1
Migration
28707
Monitoring console graph for Attributes 1 memory usage is always empty
V6R2016x
Monitoring Console
28869
Change of size of a dict struct in a compact taken into account in graph only after next indexing job
V6R2016x
Monitoring Console
28962
1 Reporting Thread leaked at each apply config in the SearchServer
V6R2013x
Reporting
27588
white text is transparent in html preview of pdf
V6R2016x.R3
Search
28657
SAPI param relevance=false does not disable grouping
V6R2018x
Search
28719
Preview: width and height of the background image is not correct for some landscapes pdf
V6R2016x.R3
Search
28795
SearchServer crash in the preview during load test
V6R2016x.R5
Search
28823
Time format operation does not handle some characters
V6R2016x.R5
Search
28833
Prevent double-byte slash from creating categories
V6R2016x.R5
Search
28847
use_logic_facets parameter should not be ordered
Prehistoric defect
Search
28871
Export streaming csv adds useless columns
V6R2014x
Search
28976
Query on 2 or 3 concatenated underscores fails
Prehistoric defect
Search
29002
TemplatePrefixHandler still buggy when set as default prefix handler
V6R2016x.R2
Search
29021
Meta names unprefixed too agressively in some cases
V6R2018x
Search
29026
Incorrect Aggregation Counts on virtual fields using string functions
V6R2018x.R1
Search
29046
[SAPI] Meta names are unprefixed for new search logic (not copied)
V6R2018x
Search
29074
DynDate not generating missing intervals
Prehistoric defect
Search
29182
IndexRunTimeConfig Mlock does not work for files aggregated in awormfsgen files
V6R2018x
Search
29195
bug in proximity handling when targeting several fields
V6R2016x.R5
Search
29214
Fix EnoviaSecureDynamicFieldSuggest
V6R2018x.R1
Search
29256
Possible deadlock in Searchserver with queries bigger than httpMaxFormPOSTQuerySize
V6R2015x.SP4
Search
29066
AssemblyShapeFilter inside #or filter leads to the crash
V6R2016x
Search 3D
29282
Having one invalid input root path in multi wrap avoid having results for valid others.
V6R2016x.R5
Search 3D
29289
Do not return non 3D occurrence in wrap.
V6R2016x.R5
Search 3D
28690
Spell-check issue when the query contains a refine on a disjunctive facet
V6R2016x.R5
Semantic
28763
noisy extractions from Basistech
V6R2016x.R5
Semantic
28887
Crash using BasisTech chinese analyzer on some garbage input
Prehistoric defect
Semantic
28928
Display issue with some UTF characters in related terms
V6R2016x.R5
Semantic
29042
Possible infinite loop and memory leak on MOT
V6R2014x
Semantic
29071
Regression in token offset computation in RLPConverter
V6R2016x
Semantic
29120
Annotation manager removes only one tag with ifOverlapWith
V6R2018x.R1
Semantic
29127
CJKProcessor doesn't compute annotations length correctly
Prehistoric defect
Semantic
29151
Bad substitution cost in deserialized trie approximative matching affecting Spell check
Prehistoric defect
Semantic
29202
annotationsToIgnore for stopwords doesn't work if stopwords is in first position
V6R2018x.R1
Semantic
29244
OntologyMatcher behavior regression on option combo ignoreSpaces and skipped separators
V6R2018x.R1
Semantic
29273
Crash/infinite loop during analysis with BasisTech on some invalid text blocks
V6R2016x.R5
Semantic
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