A new set of appliance updates is available: texisScripts-27.0.0, texis-8.01.1696628157-2, applianceman-27.0.0. Overview:
Note: All of these updates are currently only available for Gen3 (2013+) and later appliances, pending a future thunderstonePatch update for older appliances.
Updates can be found via the System -> System Setup -> Update Software menu item.
- Additional Login Form Flows
Multi step login forms are now supported by our Primer URL settings where there may be several steps required to login to the site, and the forms on intermediate pages may have dynamic or session specific information. - Improved Test Fetch Information
Test Fetch now provides additional information about the Primer URLs used, and response received to assist with setting up complicated login flows. - Metasearch Sorting
Meta search profiles now support sorting on two fields, which is commonly used by Parametric searches. - Other fixes
Miscellaneous other bug fixes and enhancements to the crawl and search interfaces.
- Fixed configured Max Load Average printing bad numeric date fmt error
- Fixed DBWalker Oracle EULA Agreement dialog
- DBWalker server issues are now presented more clearly
- Fixed metasearch List/Edit URLs links to the backend profile interfaces
- Editing a DBWalker configuration created with a custom JDBC connection string now defaults to managing that connection string
- Fixed CSRF error when editing DBWalker stylesheets
- DBWalker now properly prevents editing the default.xsl DBWalker stylesheet
- Fixed admin SOAP API getTasks() not returning finished, system-wide tasks without unnecessarily specifying db=!NONE
- Added Remake Task Tables under Repair Tools
- Fixed walks with Attach Query Log=Y rotating the query log with an empty End of Walk Email
- Fixed dispatch infinitely looping when encountering an email address improperly linked to as if it was a website
- Test Fetch now provides detailed, collapsible information on Primers and Unprimers used
- Multiple-field (separated by commas) order parameter order-by now supported for metasearch frontends (up to 2 fields); was silently sorting by rank. More error reporting for unknown metasearch frontend order-by fields.
- Added new walk Primer token, !PREVIOUS_RESPONSE_FORM, to allow submitting forms generated by the previous primer
- Added dbcp connection pooling to DBWalker
- Small (several hundred byte) fetch memleaks fixed
- Walks/fetches now use OpenSSL 3.1.3, which fixes CVE-2023-3817, CVE-2023-3446, CVE-2023-2975, CVE-2023-4807 since the last Texis product update (OpenSSL 3.1.1). These CVEs are not known to affect Appliance walks. This update does not affect the OpenSSL version used by Appliance <em>server</em> processes, only walks/fetches.
- Walks/fetches update to use OpenSSL 3.1.1, which fixes CVE-2022-4304 which has a very low probability of crawl connections being decrypted. Also fixes CVE-2023-0401, CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2023-0217, CVE-2023-0216, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2022-4203, CVE-2022-3996, CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2023-2650, CVE-2023-1255, CVE-2023-0466, CVE-2023-0465, CVE-2023-0464 for crawls, which do not affect crawls/fetches. This update does not affect the OpenSSL version used by Appliance server processes, only walks/fetches.
Note: All of these updates are currently only available for Gen3 (2013+) and later appliances, pending a future thunderstonePatch update for older appliances.
Updates can be found via the System -> System Setup -> Update Software menu item.