# 3.8.1 - Release Notes Squirro 3.8.1 was released June 22 2023. ## What’s New - Configuration settings can now be edited using intuitive forms, instead of plain JSON text. This currently works for `topic.typeahead.content.configuration`. [](https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.squirro.net/docs/technical/getting/json-form.png) - Added _Scoring Profiles: Boost_, allowing you to boost documents that belong to the user’s subscribed communities. The plugin is usable within the query syntax via `profile:{plugin:subscribed_communities}`. Boosting was previously known as `rank_by`. - A new Scoring Profile Plugin was created to recommend items based on users’ past searches. Use the profile within a query like profile:`{ plugin:recommend_on_searches $last_searches:5 }`; This will return concept search results on the last five unique user queries. Related matching terms used for the recommendations are marked in bold and red. - Added additional logic to accommodate query-based bulk labeling. - Added feedback to the Communities List widget. - Included [XlsxWriter](https://pypi.org/project/XlsxWriter/) as an optional package on our mirror. - Global Search and Community 360 dashboards are no longer loaded on top of other dashboards. - There is a new integration endpoint for query-based bulk labeling. - Added GlobalSearch query to EntitiesListWidget query. - Now users can use `searchbar.empty` and `searchbar.value` in dashboard query templates. - Implemented document-level Bulk Labeling. - The Items Table widget was migrated to React. ## Improvements - Updated default colors and themes based on the latest Cognitive Search design. - Upgraded Elasticsearch to version 8.8.1. - Now Squirro supports quotes in queries/candidate sets in AI Studio. - Improved the collaboration between the Items widget and the Explore screen resulting in a smoother user experience. - Added an integration test for the synchronous batch processing feature. - Enriched session with query-context metadata like user terms and filters, detected query language, noun chunks, and named entities. - Activity Insights now has higher scheduling frequency and separate backoff time for long-lived sessions with 15min (dashboard & browsing session) and short-lived query session (3 minutes). - Added validation to the configuration service. Now, dictionary settings defined in the configuration service may include a schema definition that is then used for validation, e.g. provided text instead of number, value not within specified range etc. - Upgraded Filebeat to version 8.8.1. - Improved the reliability of PDF conversions when multiple conversions take place in parallel. - The default pipeline workflows for Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive connectors now include the pdf-conversion and webshot steps. This means that MS Office documents found in these services will be converted to PDFs and a thumbnail will be created for them. - Updated the Squirro logo used by a few plugins to be consistent in size with the icons of the other plugins. - Simplified usage of scoring profiles. Plugins can now be more easily used and configured directly by their name as `profile:{ last_read count:10 }` (This example boosts the last 10 read items). - Limited the number of `max_features` used on SKLearn transformer to avoid too much memory consumption when a dataset is too large. - Returned scoring profile items are now tagged with associated/relevant scoring-profiles (= profiles that matched on the item and boosted its relevancy score). See `item.matched_profiles`. - Added template types. ## Bug Fixes - The For You dashboard will no longer be loaded in the background when opening Community 360 dashboard directly with URL, improving performance. - Fixed lengthy restart times for the pdfconversion service on instances with a large number of PDFs in the `pdf_conversion` bucket and/or using slow storage systems. - Fixed User Preferences widget typeahead suggestions. - Fixed an issue with the Metric widget infinite loading on monitoring projects. - Fixed an issue with clearing global search navigating the user away from the search result page. - Fixed an issue with the _Delete_ button showing in the Notes dialog when creating a note. - Fixed an issue with the _Reference_ button not working inside of the Community Items widget. - Fixed synchronous batch processing issues that were created in the previous release. - SELinux policy for Redis is now available for all the supported distributions (Rocky Linux support was missing, now it is available on RHEL/CentOS 7 and RHEL/Rocky 8). - Fixed matching of provided steps with existing workflows. A delay observed when creating a new 1-click connector data source should not occur anymore. - General fixes and improvements to the Table Extraction pdf feature. - Fixed item detail scroll not working when a user clicks on the query that is active already. - Fixed an issue with a statement in machinelearning service migration where `ground_truth_version` was being set to `None` instead of `null` and didn’t let the service start. - Fixed an issue with Community Banner not updating after the user navigates to another community dashboard. - Fixed search highlights sometimes showing in italic font. - Fixed an issue where navigating to a Community 360 page won’t show the Explore dashboard for a brief time. - Fixed an issue with newly-created projects not forming well without a hard page reload. ## Breaking Changes There are no known breaking changes with Squirro 3.8.1. ## Installation and Upgrade You will have to resolve at least the following config files when upgrading from Squirro 3.3.0: - `/etc/nginx/conf.d/ssl.inc` - `/etc/squirro/common.ini` For new installations, please follow the [Installing Squirro on Linux](../../../install/linux.md#install-linux) instructions. To upgrade an existing installation, please consult [Upgrading Squirro](../../../install/upgrade.md#install-upgrade).