Squirro 2.0.0 - Release Notes

Owned by Patrice Neff
Mar 12, 2015
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Released in phases between January 20, 2014 and May 20, 2014.

May 20, 2014

New features:

  • Tag Cloud is now configurable as a widget by endusers.

Bugfixes:

  • Dashboards now use their query reliably.
  • Multiple dashboards can be created without reloading.
  • Result list loads more items automatically when scrolled.
  • Custom time selector is in front of the overlay again.

May 18, 2014

New features:

  • Editing widgets is now possible.
  • Editing dashboards is now possible.
  • Search can make use of a comparison operator.

Improvements:

  • Add widget dialog is a nice widget instead of an overlay.
  • Nicer resizing of dashboard widgets.

Bugfixes:

  • Stabilized related items detection
  • Related items work again in iframe.

April 22, 2014

New features:

  • Alerting by object properties are now possible
  • Command-line tool to load Exchange-Mailboxes
  • New project set-up screen

Improvements:

  • Direct links to items reveal the item

Bugfixes:

  • Number of results returned by combined SmartFilters is now correct
  • When deleting a source, items with more than one source don't get deleted anymore
  • 'Add sources' isn't hidden anymore when a project has more than one object
  • Changing passwords works again

March 21, 2014

New features:

  • New data provider: youtube
    This new data providers can be configured in the "Add sources" screen.

Improvements:

  • Access user settings from the user dropdown again
  • Saved Searches belong to a project (and no longer to a user)
  • Performance improvements of item processing
  • Several improvements for older IE versions and tablets

Bug fixes:

  • Saved Search editing: removing the query now works
  • Alerts with a language restriction are fixed
  • A bug in item comments deduplication is fixed

March 11, 2014

Improvements:

  • Improved support for Internet Explorer version 9 and 8

March 7, 2014

New features:

  • New data providers: Reddit and Instagram
    These two data providers can be configured in the "Add sources" screen. They are monitored for new mentions of a given keyword (Reddit) or a given tag (Instagram).
  • Support for item comments
    A initial version of this feature is used to display the original tweets for items provided by twitter. (click on the speech balloon in the top right corner of the item detail view)

Improvements:

  • Unify saved searches and alerts. Enable editing and management of searches.
  • Improved smart filter editing and management.
  • Redesigned settings section.
  • Improve the output of the Excel export.

February 20, 2014

New features:

  • Type-ahead in search field.
    When typing in the search field, Squirro proposes possible searches based on the fields from the current project. 
  • Combine similar stories.
    Stories from different publications that are very similar to each-other are combined in the stream. 
  • New item view.
    A different view for items is available which provides separate panes for the list and the detail view of the items.
  • Save as Excel.
    Any result list can be saved as an Excel file. 
  • Updated QlikView tools.
    The QlikView tools have been updated to make use of the latest features. The update is available in the /wiki/spaces/DOWN/overview section.

Improvements:

  • The timeline chart can be resized.
  • Redesigned screen for managing the Data Sources of a project.
  • Keyword list is sorted by name.

February 3, 2014

New features:

  • iFrame wizard.
    In the "Save" dropdown there is a new option "Embed iFrame" that gives the user an iFrame to embed in any external system.
  • Save search as RSS.
    In the "Save" dropdown there is a new option "Feed" that gives the user a feed address. This can be used to consume the feed in a variety of feed clients and to integrate Squirro with other systems. 
  • Object faceting and associate action for filtering service.
    Right now this is mostly a system-internal feature that gives us another dimension for the user's data. This will gradually be exposed in the user interface to enable grouping of sources.

Improvements:

  • Cleaned up query language.
    The $ and # prefixes in the query field got removed.
  • Bulk importer extended to support indexing of arbitrary keywords.
  • Button to reset the query.
    In the search field there is a button which will clean out the whole query: both the search term as well as the time range. 

January 24, 2014

New features:

  • Chart view in result list

Improvements:

  • Context menu in the body works a lot better now
  • Reduce false positive rate of Twitter searches
  • Refactored indexing code to simplify the code and prepare for per-project indexes

January 20, 2014

New features:

  • Pasting text into the search box now creates a smart filter (if you paste more than 5 words). So longer text is now searched fuzzily using our smart filter technology. Before if you pasted text a document would have to contain every single one of those terms to match.

Bug fixes:

  • Noise level slider now looks pretty again.
  • Opening the detail view of an item won't reload the page anymore.

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