3.9.3 Release Notes#

Squirro 3.9.3 was released on December 11, 2023.

Reference: Learn more about the Squirro Release Process.

What’s New#

Squirro now supports license keys for easier provisioning and updating of Squirro features and metrics.
Added a mechanism to the ingester service to restart the local Apache Tika service in case of internal server errors. This mechanism is controlled by the server config option ingester.tika.restart-on-error-*.
You can now change boolean operator chip values (AND, OR, NOT) by clicking on them and selecting from the dropdown.

In the Tabs widget, the communityPopulated property was replaced with a new “Control By Community” option in the UI.

Exporting a matrix chart in the AI studio model validation will now have the title Confusion Matrix.
Improved dashboard loading performance. Sections will now lazy load based on visibility.
Deleting or modifying a parent item now reflects changes in the corresponding paragraphs.
Removed the reset zoom button from the timeline chart.
Add an option to autoexpand and hide accordion layer controls.
Added paragraphs locator and index to existing projects, allowing the use of semantic search.
Now, custom empty status for widgets can be HTML-based.
Updated the design of the Facets widget.
Improved search bar chips hover and focus styling.
The text highlight color from project settings is now also used for entity highlighting.
Removed the avatar option for the Cards widget and improved sources fetching.

Reduced occurrences of Unable to convert content errors in item bodies resulting from internal server errors in Apache Tika.
Ensured pipeline navigation sits below the project selection navigation.
Fixed an issue with dashboards when there was nothing to serialize in the URL.
Fixed an issue with persisting column widths in the Items table edit mode.
Prevented a problem with reordering to negative indices in the pipeline workflow editor.
Fixed an issue with global search queries not clearing when navigating to the Setup space.
Fixed issues with the display of tabs in accordion mode in both React and Backbone.
Fixed an issue where global search query context was being applied to reference items in ItemDetail, creating incorrect results.
Fixed an issue with Community Item breaking on the next document from inside the Items details.
Users can now navigate to Global Search as the first dashboard as long as it’s visible.
Fixed the reset password workflow.

There are no known breaking changes in this release.

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

To upgrade an existing installation, see Upgrading Squirro.