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).
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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:Â
- 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
Search
- 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
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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 theget_items
 call.
Deprecated functions/features
- The
get_items
 method of theSquirroClient
 should no longer be used. Please use thequery
 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.
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