3.14.1 Release Notes

3.14.1 Release Notes#

Squirro 3.14.1 was released on September 18, 2025.

Learn more about the Squirro Release Process.

Notes for administrators

  • This release introduces important changes that may require adjustments to your existing setup. Learn more

What’s New#

  • Squirro Chat Prompt Library: Added ability for users to create prompts for Squirro Chat on a user or project level. These prompts can be selected and used in the chat dashboard, enhancing customization and user experience.

  • Enhanced PDF OCR: The PDF OCR pipeline step now includes a new configuration option ocr_language for non-English documents, with added support for Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Arabic.

Improvements#

AI#

  • Squirro Classifier: Added support for Squirro Classifier labels and categories to have URLs pointing to respective Synaptica concepts and schemes, enabling linking between Squirro and Synaptica web apps.

Platform#

  • Dynamic Email Templates: Updated email templates to use current year dynamically instead of static dates.

Bug Fixes#

  • Data Source Statistics: Fixed data source job statistics leading to increasing memory and log storage use for IDs.

  • Project Translations: Resolved issue where project translations were not being loaded with slow network conditions.

  • Workspace Admins: Added workspace admins for project member listings when the workspaces feature is enabled.

  • Vertical Tabs Widget: Removed extra spacing for vertical tabs widget when card mode is disabled.

  • PDF Search Highlighting: Fixed paragraph highlighting in PDF viewer to only render actual paragraph content and correctly select corresponding pages.

  • Search Icons: Fixed search icons overflow in search input inside item detail PDF search.

  • Bookmark Flag: Fixed bookmark flag functionality.

  • Facets Table: Fixed facets table expanding indefinitely in auto expand layers when there are no items.

  • Search Plugins: Fixed issue where some search plugins that modify returned items would break the frontend.

  • ILM Policy: Fixed issue in ILM policy which caused indexes not to roll over.

  • Community 360 Dashboard: Fixed issue where community 360 dashboard was empty after exiting edit view or toggling edit mode.

  • MetricWidget: Prevented sending undefined facet fields in MetricWidget.

  • Widget Borders: Removed extra border from widget wrapper of some widgets.

  • Data Source Titles: Fixed data source title override after uploading document.

  • Search Profile Arguments: Fixed handling of outer double quotes around profile argument values, resolving issues with components like DateDetector.

  • Item Broken Images: Hide broken images from the content view of item detail.

  • Transformers Service: Ensured downloaded models are properly baked into transformer service images.

  • Dataloader Plugins: Fixed error for dataloader plugins uploaded to specific workspace with squirro_asset upload --workspace command.

  • Project Members: Allow Workspace Admins to manage Project Members.

  • GenAI Logs: Fixed GenAI logs to show up properly in the logs plugin.

Miscellaneous#

  • Language Support: Extended PDF OCR to support Arabic (ara), Chinese Simplified (chi_sim), Chinese Traditional (chi_tra), German (deu), English (eng), Finnish (fin), French (fra), Portuguese (por), Russian (rus), and Spanish (spa) languages out of the box.

Known Issues#

  • In specific scenarios, cross-lingual information retrieval for semantic search may deliver lower-than-expected quality (SQ-28171).

  • When closing the Project Configuration dialog in the chat dashboard, a “Discard changes” modal may appear even when no changes were made (SQ-29386).

Breaking Changes#

  • Trend Detection Removal: Removed all Trend Detection-related methods from SquirroClient, following the removal of the trends service.

  • Smart Filters Removal: Removed all Smart Filters-related methods from SquirroClient, following the removal of the fingerprint service and all Smart Filters functionality from the platform.

Warning

These changes may affect existing integrations that rely on trend detection or smart filters functionality. Review your code and update any references to these removed methods.

Installation and Upgrade#

For new installations, find step-by-step instructions on the Install and Manage Squirro with Ansible page (recommended) and Installing Squirro on Linux pages.

To upgrade an existing installation, see the Upgrading Squirro page.


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