Squirro 2.1.3 - Release Notes

Released on February 18, 2015.

New Features

  • Allow the default sort order to be set on a project level

  • Support for restricted users. A restricted user is a user that has no right to edit his or her profile, i.e. email address, password or generate access tokens. They also have no rights to create new projects.

  • Support for facet grouping, labelling and hiding. Additionally we introduced an initial way to support additional facet types (e.g. number or date facets).

     

  • New Bookmarks dashboard widget. This widget allows you to configure predefined queries for easy drill-down/sub-selection within the dashboard.

Improvements

Dashboard

  • A warning is shown when leaving an unsaved dashboard that gives you the option to save or discard your changes
  • Pie chart widget:
    • Let the user select the amount of pie slices and show a warning if not all possible slices are shown
    • Show a warning for multi value facets
  • Significant terms widget: 
    • Allow to select a different colour for the selected term
  • Colour-picker now allows to set/edit the colour in hex format
  • Streamlined widget naming
  • Added previous and next document navigation buttons in item detail overlay
  • The last used pdf zoom level is now persisted
  • Simplified the editing process for locked smart filters. If permissions allow, a locked smart filter can now be directly edited without unlocking it first.

Unified Data

  • Streamlined the Excel/CSV uploader
  • Cleanup after duplicate detection
  • Improved classification performance for boiler plate removal
  • Improved design of the follow topic button
  • Streamlined provider naming

Settings

  • Streamlined design of settings screens

 

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent smart filter naming collisions in case of a huge amount of smart filters
  • Do not calculate scores for temporary smart filters while doing a bulk score export
  • Handle unicode characters in filenames correctly
  • Clean up and removal of legacy code
  • Delete source fingerprint when moving it
  • Don't send emails with nearduplicates
  • Make sure that multiple pipelets work with yield
  • Collect costs statistics per provider and source
  • Added initial end-to-end tests for the frontend

Breaking API changes

  • Tags for fingerprints are now arrays in every API, no longer a comma-separated string.
  • histogram_fields is no longer supported by the get_items call.

Deprecated functions/features

  • The get_items method of the SquirroClient should no longer be used. Please use the query function.
  • Query expansion on a project level using query_string will be removed in the next release. 
  • The blog search provider is now disabled by default.
  • The SHAB and Newsmix provider are now deprecated.