Release Notes for Mindbreeze InSpire

Version 24.2

Innovations and new features

Entity Recognition Rules for Interactive Exploded Views

With the Mindbreeze InSpire 24.2 release, users can access detailed information in documents with just one click. The Interactive Exploded View expands documents with additional information and thus supports users in their research. Additional details do not require any further search queries, which means that all relevant information can be found more quickly.

For example, a list of materials can contain links to the individual components or an organization chart can display the email addresses of the relevant people. This detailed information is also available in the 360-degree view.

The recognition of a product or person is made possible by Entity Recognition. This automatically recognizes entities such as products, locations and email addresses, and creates a metadata and a suitable link. Administrators can configure entity recognition by selecting a regex pattern.

Link to the documentation

Easier Installation of the Outlook Add-In and Browser Plugin Through Client Notifications

Mindbreeze customers have the option of extending Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome with Mindbreeze InSpire. The Outlook add-in integrates the powerful search function of Mindbreeze InSpire into the Microsoft Outlook search. The browser plug-in enables users to obtain additional information when searching in the Internet.

With the Mindbreeze InSpire 24.2 release, notifications about these extensions are enabled by default. Users are informed about the Outlook add-in and browser plug-in with the help of these notifications and can start the installation with one click. These extensions are installed via the browser.

Link to the documentation

More Precise Search Results Through Optimized Similarity Search

With the Mindbreeze InSpire 24.2 release, customers now receive more precise search results for their search queries. Thanks to an optimized Similarity Search, Mindbreeze InSpire displays the five answers with the highest relevance and matching access rights more clearly, providing users with easier access to relevant information. The "Transform Terms to Similarity" setting has also been optimized to further increase the quality of the search results.

Link to the documentation for the setting "Transform Terms to Similarity"

Technical improvements

Recording of Security-Relevant Situations with Auditd

The Mindbreeze InSpire 24.2 release provides administrators with an additional tool to ensure a high level of security. Auditd records security-relevant situations, such as the login of a user or the change of access rights. This gives administrators more precise insights into potentially critical situations so that they can better understand and evaluate them.

Auditd adds these events to a log, which is also available in app.telemetry. This allows administrators to filter for these events in order to obtain a complete overview.

Security relevant changes

24.2.2.457

• Fix for: Microsoft Resolve Local Group Members Configuration in Microsoft File Connector.

24.2.1.450

• Fix for: Inclusion of External Script via URL Parameter in the Insight App Designer and in Insight Apps. The Loader Application “options.sourcesURL” and “options.sources” features were removed.
• Fix for: Vulnerability of the Login page redirection.

24.2.0.441

• Updated: jQuery from version 1.12.1 to version 3.7.1 .
• Updated: Chromium Security (CVE-2024-1938, CVE-2024-2173, CVE-2024-2174, CVE-2024-2176).
• Updated: CoreOS Security (CVE-2023-42465, CVE-2024-1086, CVE-2024-23851, CVE-2024-26585, CVE-2024-26582, CVE-2024-26584, CVE-2024-26583, CVE-2024-26603, CVE-2024-26604, CVE-2024-26606).
• Updated: Dell Firmware and BIOS (CVE-2024-0172, CVE-2024-0154, CVE-2024-0173, CVE-2023-22655, CVE-2024-0161, CVE-2024-0162,  CVE-2024-0163, CVE-2022-21233, CVE-2021-33060).

Additional changes

24.2.0.441

• Updated: Tomcat to Version 9.
• Added: Support for additional prompt template variables in RAG Pipelines.
• Added: New text segmentation profile "Multi Sentence Break Overlong".
• Added: The possibility to extract links from recognized entities.
• Added: Simplifying a Sentence Transformer configuration by removing the option "Vector Index Default Vector Size".
• Added: Text Segmenter Profile "Single Sentence, 1 Overlap, BreakOL NL" and Similarity Search Strategy "Optimized".
• Added: The servlet “/processitems” is available with Alma 8.
• Added: Deleting removed documents from the index and updating changes in the ACLs in incremental traversal mode.
• Added: The Box Connector allows to configure multiple crawling users in the same crawler.
• Added: Constraints for retrieval search in RAG generate API are supported.
• Fix for: In the Box Connector, the cache update might fail while processing inactive users.
• Fix for: The built-in language detector does not recognize the correct language due to short text samples.
• Fix for: Answers are sometimes not shown in an index with ACLs.
• Fix for: Optional Similarity Search retrieves documents that do not contain mandatory terms.
• Fix for: Synchronization of the RAG configuration to Consumers.
• Fix for: Collected results would also use the application option “linkOpenTarget”, if set.
• Fix for: Warning in Python TarFile Module.
• Fix for: LDAP Servers that only allow starttls connections did not work.
• Fix for: Vmtouch is missing.
• Fix for: Soft ulimit is set to 1024 for some services.
• Fix for: Creation of Azure OpenAI LLMs and use of InSpire SaaS Client Services with external URLs.
• Fix for: SharePoint Online Lookup Columns.
• Fix for: Egnyte Connector crawl run fails with java.lang.NumberFormatException: null.
• Fix for: Outlook-Add-In renders outside of panel one DPI change.
• Fix for: Keycloak login fails (HTTP 413) for large SAML Responses.
• Fix for: ConcurrentModificationException in QueryService I18N component on the first search after startup.
• Fix for: Automatic Keycloak Backups.
• Improved: Microsoft Dynamics Connector now supports REST API alongside the deprecated SOAP API.
• Improved: Simplification and robustification of the sentence transformer model selection.
• Improved: Reliability of the number of answers in Similarity Search.
• Improved: Detection of relevant Insight App URLs.
• Improved: Robustness of Outlook Add-In Startup Logic.
• Improved: Alma8 now uses the installed system library for OpenSSL.
• Improved: Re-authentication error handling when browser pop-ups are blocked.
• Changed: NER does not need to be configured in order to activate NLQA (Sentence Transformers).
• Changed: Outlook Add-In is enabled by default for new installations.
• Changed: Downgrades to 22.2 are no longer supported. Upgrades from 22.2 to 24.2 are no longer supported.
• Changed: Patched jQuery context to the jQuery element ($el.context) as it has been removed in jQuery version 3.
• Changed: Keycloak database migration on downgrades will be prevented.
• Removed: MindbreezeOutlookAddin-BundledInstaller
• Removed: Obsolete SSH ciphers and algorithms.