Release Notes for Mindbreeze InSpire

Version 23.3

Innovations and new features

New component "Number of results" added to Insight App Designer

A new component for displaying the number of search results is now available in the Insight App Designer. The Hit Count component can be added to search results in the Insight App Designer simply by dragging and dropping. This makes it easy to track the number of search results and display them in the desired location within the Insight App.

It is also possible to use this component simultaneously inside and outside of search containers. For example, the following screenshot shows an Insight App where multiple searches are performed simultaneously to generate a 360-degree view of enterprise data. Here, the number of results is displayed individually for each search using the new component.

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Displaying named entities in the preview

With the "Named Entity Recognition" feature it is possible to recognize entities (e.g. people, places, etc.) from document content and metadata. Since the Mindbreeze InSpire 23.2 Release we support color highlighting of such entities in Mindbreeze Search (see Release Notes 23.2).

With this release, Mindbreeze also supports automatic color highlighting of the detected entities in the preview of the found documents.

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Easy creation of a query pipeline plugin

The Query Pipeline offers the functionality to extend or transform Mindbreeze search queries as desired. This makes it possible to automatically adapt users' search queries to their domain-specific requirements to ensure highly accurate search results. For example, technical terms or special characters with special meanings can be automatically transformed into complex search queries so that users can benefit from the advanced search options without having to understand them.

This functionality is available by creating a plugin with the Mindbreeze Software Development Toolkit (SDK). With Mindbreeze InSpire Release 23.3, the SDK has been extended so that a new query pipeline plugin for the Query Expression Transformer can be easily generated from the SDK. This plugin can then be adapted to your individual requirements.

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New and extended connectors

Extension of the supported ServiceNow authorization concepts

The ServiceNow connector now supports “Extended User Criteria” for determining user permissions. When creating User Criteria in ServiceNow, you can also define Extended User Criteria to further restrict access control lists (ACLs). This can be done by customizing the User Criteria with any of the User Reference fields. These security settings of the extended user criteria are now also applied in Mindbreeze Search to support extended permission settings.

Additionally, the access control lists (ACLs) in the ServiceNow connector have been modified to allow users with the "Knowledge Admin" role access to all ServiceNow Knowledge Bases and the articles they contain. Similarly, users with the roles "Owner" and "Manager" are now able to authorize themselves for all knowledge articles in their ServiceNow knowledge bases.

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Technical improvements

Keycloak Update

Keycloak is a central component for Mindbreeze and is used, for example, for the authentication of administrators.

In Mindbreeze Release 23.3, Keycloak has been updated to version 21.1.0 (Quarkus).

Security relevant changes

23.3.0.274

• Updated: Fedora CoreOS to 37.20230401.3.0 (CVE-2023-1829)
• Updated: Keycloak to version 21.1.0
• Updated: Chromium version in the Web Connector (CVE-2023-2133, CVE-2023-2134, ...)

Additional changes

23.3.0.274

• Added: A sample Query Expression Transformer can now be generated using the Mindbreeze SDK
• Added: Entities are highlighted in PDF preview
• Added: Estimate result count component in the Insight App Designer
• Added: Exact term match option for the Google chrome browser plugin.
• Added: Highlighting to search results when searching for non-whitespace separated terms
• Added: Jira Crawler setting to ignore Issue Level Security
• Added: ServiceNow - Grant Access to Knowledge Articles for Knowledge Admins/Managers/Owners
• Added: Sitecore Connector option to store managed metadata with reference-id in addition to the resolved value
• Added: Support for Extended User Criteria Conditions
• Added: Support for User Criteria relevant System Properties
• Added:  I18n-Itemtransfromer setting "Canonical Language" to be able to work around an issue with hierarchical metadata filter/facets with certain translations
• Fix for: ACL threads not woken up, 1s timeout slowing down the performance
• Fix for: app.telemetry TraceModel:undefined in documents servlet instrumentation
• Fix for: Application object property requestHeadersAsync is now working for PDF previews also.
• Fix for: Bad SearchInResolution Logging Performance due to unnecessary .toString()
• Fix for: CachingPrincipalResolutionService – “INTERNALERROR: Timeout occured does not have a thread dump”
• Fix for: Index Sync tasks cannot be executed simultaneously
• Fix for: Issue where users without roles could get permissions to a document via the Contribute permissions
• Fix for: Notification mail functionality broken after product update to 23.2
• Fix for: Performance Regression when resolving a lot of INCONCLUSIVE ACLs
• Fix for: ServiceNow - Column "Related UC Sys ID" and added Column "HR Criteria Conditions" in HR Criteria Dump
• Fix for: SharePoint Online and Coyo - “crawlRun was unsuccessful:  RuntimeException: Failed to get delta state from file” (corrupt DeltaState.txt)
• Fix for: The direction ascending/descending of the summarize by in the Insight app
• Improved: Robustness against connection problems and DFS resolution issues.
• Improved: Robustness against connection problems with filter service.
• Improved: The Zoho Connector now utilizes multiple threads for fetching documents.
• Improved: Usability of Insight App Designer
• Improved: Usability of the user input fields