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Released on July 29th, 2016.

New Features

  • Help widgets and tools for building your own dashboards
    • The "Reset Dashboard" widget can be placed anywhere on a dashboard and allows you to reset any search filters
    • Struggling to test your dashboard with different web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 10 in Compatibility mode? The "Browser Detection" custom widget will make your life easier...
    • Catch clicks on timeline and word-cloud widgets and handle them with your own custom code
    • Ability to switch query for widget on the fly
    • Expose widget property pages in the API
  • Greater performance when loading data - split the search index to allow separate indices for reading and writing.

Improvements

  • UI
    • Reintroduce modifier key handling for Facet Table
    • Implement v2 of type ahead design
    • Typeahead return more data
  • Search
    • Allow Indexing Performance Tuning by explicitly allowing fields to be analysed
    • Limit Elasticsearch query time
    • Cannot create Project with custom index is ES cluster state is yellow
    • Adjust elasticsearch pkg to use the default elasticsearch user
  • Backend
    • Add missing _internal/status resource to cluster service
    • Report Status of SQL and Redis Followers
    • Improve resilience of mysql migration scripts
    • Add monitoring and self-repair for broken mysql replication
    • Autodetection and self-healing for duplicate mysqld instances

Bug Fixes

  • Sort gets reversed when editing bookmarks, after query #13, on IE11
  • IE11/IE10 Compat: Focus is not released from search bar
  • Custom Facet Table headers lose sorting indicators

 

Fresh Installation Instructions

Please follow the regular installation steps.

Upgrade Instructions

Warning

To upgrade to version 2.4.3 of Squirro, please ensure that your current version is at least version 2.3.2 or higher. This is because this version contains a new major version of ElasticSearch. If you are on a version older than 2.3.2, please contact support.

Note

Additionally if you are using Squirro in a Box, additional steps are involved. In this case we also ask you to contact support.

From versions 2.4.x, 2.3.2 or 2.3.3

1. Upgrade Storage Nodes and Cluster Nodes collocated on the same machine/VM

Code Block
languagebash
[squirro@singlenode ~] sudo yum update squirro-storage-node-users
[squirro@singlenode ~] sudo yum update squirro-cluster-node-users
[squirro@singlenode ~] sudo service elasticsearch stop
[squirro@singlenode ~] sudo yum downgrade elasticsearch
[squirro@singlenode ~] sudo yum update squirro-storage-node
[squirro@singlenode ~] sudo yum update

2. Upgrade Storage Nodes (separate from Cluster Nodes)

Upgrade all storage nodes one at a time by running:

Code Block
languagebash
[squirro@storagenode01 ~] sudo yum update squirro-storage-node-users
[squirro@storagenode01 ~] sudo service elasticsearch stop
[squirro@storagenode01 ~] sudo yum downgrade elasticsearch
[squirro@storagenode01 ~] sudo yum update

3. Upgrade Cluster Nodes (separate from Storage Nodes)

Code Block
languagebash
[squirro@clusternode01 ~] sudo yum update squirro-cluster-node-users
[squirro@clusternode01 ~] sudo yum update