Release Notes

Sintelix 7.8

Release Date – 8 March 2024

Security Updates

New Features

Improvements

Bug Fixes

Sintelix 7.7

Release Date – 11th November 2023

Security Updates

• Updated Jetty (Windows), various dependent libraries and security upgrades.
• Updated Chromium and Chromium Driver for important security fixes.
• Updated Harvester Chrome extension for important security updates.

Improvements

• New Feature: Sintelix Agent
  • Harvesting the web feature has been removed from Sintelix Server and added as part of the Sintelix Agent.
  • Added the ability to harvest webpages locally for users instead of using Sintelix Server
  • Added the ability to install Sintelix Agent Locally detached from the Sintelix Server
  • Added the ability to disable Private agents of Users by Administrators.
  • Added the ability to use a Shared Sintelix Agent (configured by Administrators).
  • Improved harvesting speed and effectiveness (less IP blocking problems).
  • Added adblocker by default for harvester with ability to disable adblocker.
  • Improved harvester logging.
  • Sintelix Agent is supported on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
• New Feature: Question Answering (QA)
  • Added the ability to ask questions and get appropriate answers in Search using deep learning language model AI.
  • Added the ability to use CPU by default or install GPU Plugin for a better experience.
  • Added the ability for administrators to benchmark available devices (CPU/GPU) for QA.
• New Feature: ABBYY FineReader OCR
  • Added the ability to use ABBYY FineReader server for OCR capabilities.
  • Added the option to use Sintelix OCR or ABBYY FineReader Server.
• New Feature: Sintelix Dark Mode
  • Added the ability for a user to use Sintelix in Dark Mode.
• New Feature: ANB Plugin with Host file
  • Added the ability to export Host File from Sintelix which relevant user details.
  • Added the ability to import Host File in i2 Analyst NoteBook.
• New Feature: Apps
  • Added the ability to use Sintelix Apps (pre-configured solutions) with GlobalEye being the initially planned App to be released.
  • Apps are only available if included in the license.
• New Feature: URL Server Library Caching
  • Added the ability to cache files when URL ingestion is used in a server library.
  • Added the ability to display cached server libraries.
  • Added the ability to use safe extensions for cached files.
• Added: SSO auto email population
  • Added the ability to automatically add email addresses from SSO logins for a user (if available).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Ingestion of Email Files like PST outlook files.
• Fixed API Services for Search Nodes and Search Links to use ‘exclude’ filter Type properly.
• Fixed saving changing of colour in Ontology Editor.
• Fixed default for clustering config for new entity nodes, tag nodes and property nodes.
• Fixed display of User Dictionaries in synonyms search settings under network table filter.
• Fixed datepicker saving wrong values under node details when date is manually picked.
• Fixed display of create button when multiple networks are selected when creating new network.
• Fixed out-of-order display of document properties.
• Fixed user dictionary generation in Text Reference Refiner.
• Fixed and improved Harvester rule sets for Google (support scrolling of results), DDG and Reddit.

Sintelix 7.6

Patch Release - 10th July 2023

Bug Fixes

• Updated Chromium and Chromium Driver to resolve page crashes on certain Google Search pages.

• Updated email PST file parser to resolve issue extracting simple email address references.

 

Release Date – 26th April 2023

Security Updates

• Updated Jetty (Windows), various dependent libraries and security upgrades.

• Updated Chromium and Chromium Driver for important security fixes.

• Updated Harvester Chrome extension for important security updates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue when ingesting with Tika and having different time zones.

• Fixed an issue with re-log in after Session Timeout.

• Fixed an issue with suggestions when editing tags and categories of a document.

• Fixed an issue with command key on Apple MacOS.

Improvements

• New Feature: Document Audit Logs

  • Added the ability for admins to select a document and view read/edit audit logs for the document.

  • Added the ability to search document audit log when viewing the document.

  • Added the ability to configure document auditing under the Auditing tab in Admin screen.

• Added: Export Node Table service

  • New service to export a node table as a CSV (or other separated text format).

• New Feature: Status Summary Report Export

  • Added the ability to export a summary report from the Status Screen (Summary CSV button near middle top part of the screen).

• System Logs

  • Improved the existing UI of system logs to select and display the log files for admins under System Logs tab in Admin screen.

• Java 17

  • At minimum Java 17 is required for Sintelix 7.6 and onward.

• Harvester rule sets

  • Updated harvester rule sets.

Updates

• PDF Extractor has been disabled as this feature is receiving an update that will be released in a future version of Sintelix.

Sintelix 7.5.3

Release Date – 19th December 2022

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with indexing when ingesting high volume (> 10M) of documents.

• Fixed an issue with “keywords” in network view not displayed correctly.

• Fixed a typo in message for Harvest Rule Set Update in Admin Section.

• Fixed an issue with Base Entity Extraction executing when disabled if no language is detected.

• Fixed an issue when using ENTER key while activating accounts.

• Fixed an issue with OAuth2 admin groups if allUsers flag is set to true.

Sintelix 7.5.2

Release Date – 11th October 2022

Security Update

• Updated Windows Installer bundled JRE to 18.0.2. Sintelix supports JRE version 11 to 18.

• Updated Jetty and various dependency and security upgrades.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed clustering for networks with fields of type “longs”.

• Fixed an issue with text reference evaluators.

• Fixed a crash related to synonym search outside document search page.

• Fixed a layout issue in structured classifier evaluation pane.

• Updated the Duck Duck Go search engine ruleset.

Improvements

• Document Search

  Added an option to search within a paragraph rather than whole document when searching document text.

• Microsoft OAuth Authentication

  Added ability to log in to Sintelix with Microsoft accounts using OAuth authentication.

• What’s New

  • Added a new “What’s New in Sintelix” link from the Home page.

  • Added links on the "What's New" help page to new content in Sintelix Help.

• Concurrent Sessions

  Added ability to enable only one session per user.

• Networks

  • Added ability to reprocess documents in alternate networks.

Sintelix 7.5.1

Release Date – 25th August 2022

Security Update

• Updated Chromium and Chromium Driver for important security fixes.

• Updated Jetty and various dependency upgrades.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed harvester foreground and background task limits resetting to default values.

• Fixed ability to edit text references after using geo-coordinates in document search.

• Fixed reduced processing speed caused by logging during document de-duplication.

• Fixed re-log in pop-up not disappearing automatically in some cases.

Sintelix 7.5

Release Date – 29th July 2022

Security Update

Updated Apache Tika for important security fixes and dependency upgrades.

Bug Fixes

• Improved clustering performance and fixed issues with clustering link indexes.

• Fixed tooltip and added button to Black and Whitelist for Topic Detection Network Expansion.

• Fixed Cdata case sensitive filter issue and single-digit filtering issue.

• Fixed Network Graph save image button is present when Sintelix extension is not installed.

• Fixed image handling related issues when editing documents.

• Fixed exporting into Word documents from search results.

• Improved logging when harvester batch job is stopped while executing.

• Fixed search when using synonyms and multi-word terms.

• Fixed backup not including collections and networks in the backup.

Improvements

• Cdata (Data Source)

  • Added ability to add columns to be used as filters when editing table or query.

  • Added ability to filter data while importing documents into collection.

  • Added ability to import and filter data using Apps.

  • Added ability to select query/table to import from.

  • Removed the save and import from the Import Mappings configuration.

  • Improved Query editor to retain existing compatible definitions when changes are performed.

• Audit Log

• Custom Report

  • Added ability to hide sections in custom report which are empty.

  • Added ability to highlight a text snippet in the customer report.

• Taxonomy

  • Added ability to read taxonomy data in properties data accessible within App.

  • Added ability to export taxonomy into CSV and imported updated Taxonomies in CSV.

• Network Graph

• Improved UI responsiveness when using Network Graph.

Sintelix 7.4.3

Release Date – 31st May 2022

Security Update

• Updated Spring framework and dependent libraries for important security fixes.

• Updated recommended Java Runtime to version 17 and updated Windows Installer bundled JRE to 17.0.3. Updated Linux install instructions. Sintelix supports JRE version 11 to 17.

Bug Fixes

• Improved clustering performance and fixed issues with clustering link indexes.

• Fixed conditional formatting and transcript options when exporting a Custom Report.

• Improved recovery when a harvested web pages crashes the Chromium browser.

• Fixed Network Table sort for specific column types and handling of commas in table values.

• Fixed EES token match Token(n) not selecting the correct number of tokens.

• Improved document de-duplication detection, specifically for XML documents.

• Fixed error when using Generate from Document Properties in ingestion profile.

• Improved the display of licensed and installed Data Source Connectors on the Status page.

• Fixed Project Page displaying table borders, video and image links incorrectly.

Improvements

• Twitter API (External API)

  • Improved the handling of re-tweets, replies and quotes to include ingestion of the original tweet and document properties referencing the original tweet and tweet type.

  • Moved External API authentication configuration to Admin setting (Data Source Definitions) page.

  • Added ability to create External API saved queries in Configuration tab,

  • Updated Add Documents External API tab to either select a saved query or create a new query to import External API documents.

• Document Ingestion Schedules

• Improved control and options for Document Ingestion Schedules (from Server Libraries).

• Moved configuration to Projects, Manage Schedules tab.

Important note for C-data users: The latest (21.0.8137) version of the C-data drivers are required to work with Java 17. Updated C-data drivers are available for download from My Sintelix.

Support for earlier versions of Java (before version 17), will be removed before end of support for Java 11 in September 2023.

Sintelix 7.4.2

Release Date – 1st April 2022

Security Update, 7.4.2-151 patched version

Updated Spring Framework for vulnerability CVE-2022-22965. It is highly recommended to upgrade Sintelix instances using Tomcat on Linux.

Release Date – 25th February 2022

Security Update

Updated dependent libraries for important security fixes.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for scheduled harvester job failures (4th March 2022 - 7.4.2-130 updated release)

• Fix for large Network Table load using too much memory (9th March 2022 - 7.4.2-131 updated release)

• Fixed error when using Change Node Type menu option on Network Graph.

• Updated Twitter specific entity extractions for ingested Tweets.

• Fixed missing visual elements when using a Safari browser.

• Fixed incorrect speaker and timecode details being included in a document Word Export when the document did not contain a transcription.

• Updated parser for Tab Separated data to create tables that are consistent with CSV ingestion.

Improvements

• Document Collections and Search

• The default ingestion profile for a collection can now be changed when reprocessing documents as well as adding new documents to the collection.

• Added an option to remove similar documents when using the Copy Into Collection function. This option is only available when “Group similar search results” option has been selected.

• Classification and Tagging now learns from addition document features and Key Phrase extraction.

• Networks and Custom Reports

• Edit Table View configuration now supports variable and fixed width columns, variable and one line row heights, as well as a default table sort order.

• Custom Report Link Tables can be now ordered by link values as well as neighbour node values.

• Improved speed of Network creation and Clustering.

• Harvest Now

• Added ability to select a URL in Documents and Networks Nodes and use the Harvest Now option to harvest the page content from the URL.

• Data Source Connectors and External API

• Improved and optimised the configuration and operation of data source connectors.

• Added ability to Add All when editing a Data Source Connection and selecting data source fields to add to the documents.

• Added support for Oracle databases.

• External API configuration now supports Twitter API V2.

• Configuration

• Added ability to generate a Network Node from a Document Tag in Network Creation configuration.

• Added ability to match list entities when scoring in Clustering configuration.

• Updated JavaScript engine from Nashorn to Rhino

Document Processing scripts will require an update to work with the Rhino script engine. Please contact the Sintelix support team if you need any assistance with script updates.

Sintelix 7.4.1

Release Date – 20th December 2021

Security Update

• Updated for additional log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-45105)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed link label settings not visible in Graph view

Release Date – 13th December 2021

Security Update

• Updated libraries to resolve the Log4j Java vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228)

• 16th December 2021, updated to 7.4.0-5 for additional log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed windows installer setting incorrect Disable Wikipedia default option

• Fixed Harvester Ruleset configuration options for including the current URL and harvesting multiple URLs

• Fixed empty Network Creation when default node is disabled

• Fixed images not displaying in Network Tables

• Fixed issue with Project Page attachments not displaying properly

Improvements

• Ingestion Configuration, Media Processing Server, and Transcription

• Added support to select transcription speaker recognition mode

• Added vocabulary dictionaries to provide word definition and phonetics to the transcription server

• Enhanced quality and echo reduction when processing multi-channel audio files

• Support for Speechmatics 3.8 Enhanced transcription model

• Media encoding now supports audio playback in i2 ANB plugin (audio only playback is supported for video files)

• Ability to set Speaker Identity using an Entity Extraction Script (EES)

Harvester

• Updated harvester rulesets (Version 15) for social network sites

Document Viewer / Editor

• Added ability to pin a speaker name and highlight speaker text blocks in a transcribed documents

• Easier editing of text content and entity markup, especially when editing a transcribed documents with media playback

• Easier management of associated speaker identities for transcribed documents.

Project Pages

• Added linking between pages in the same Project.

• Added ability to open Project pages in a new tab (see Project Pages).

Taxonomy

• Added notes to taxonomy classes, can be used to populate dictionary wordlists

• Added Export to Dictionary action to crate structured dictionaries (wordlists) from the Taxonomy

Custom Reports

• Sub-component option allows fully customisable view of the neighbouring node, achieving a nested sub-report effect

• Change field/feature allows a user defined exclusion list in nested reports

• Tabbed panes feature added to allow multiple views

• Sections can be collapsed to improve views

• Text Snippets displays surrounding text in associated documents

• Export to Word supports conditional formatting options

• Static text styles available

• User palette reusable across project

• Added document links

Sintelix Chrome Extension update is required for Harvester rule set fixes. Click here to access the Chrome Web Store and update the Sintelix Extension to version 2.0.16.

The Media Processing Server must be updated to version 3.1 or higher to support audio/video file processing and transcription in Sintelix version 7.4 and later.

Sintelix 7.3.6

Release Date – 13th December 2021

Security Update

• Updated libraries to resolve the Log4j Java vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).

• 16th December 2021, updated to 7.3.5-2 for additional log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046)

• 20th December 2021, updated to 7.3.6 for additional log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-45105)

Previous versions of Sintelix (7.3.0 to 7.3.3) should be updated to version 7.3.6 (minimum). Previous Sintelix versions (7.2.3 and earlier) do not have this vulnerability, however these versions should be updated to resolve other security updates.

Filename: SintelixInstaller_lz_7.2.3-16.exe714.4 MBV 7.2.3-16

Sintelix 7.2.3

Release Date – 23rd April 2021

Bug Fixes

Fix document search showing incorrect count when similarity grouping is used

Security Improvements

Add protection to restrict access to private network via IPv6

Improvements

• New features:

• Conditional text formatting option for columns in table view and custom report

• Refresh buttons added to network graph and timeline

• Quick action to run Harvest from document network entities

• Internet proxy settings now configurable from the admin page

• Greatly improved search speeds when searching large collections and networks

• Ability to make a copy of a network added

• Improve speed of project copy

• When displaying remaining token quota on Status page, the exact time when new quota period starts is shown

• Improve harvester load-balancing

• Improve text snippet display in search results to focus on the matches

• Document count in search results can be extended on click

• Improve document reprocessing options to preserve manually created document tags

Other Changes

• Using URL library to ingest Twitter data by using @user or #tag syntax can no longer work due to changes on the Twitter website, and the capability has been replaced by Harvester.

• Note to i2 users: Please also update your Sintelix i2 ANB plugin to 3.1

Sintelix 7

It is recommended that all customers update to Sintelix 7.4.1 or 7.3.6 to resolve security vulnerabilities.