IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
8.3.0 release notes
edit8.3.0 release notes
editUpgrading to Enterprise Search 8.3.0? See Upgrading and migrating.
Breaking changes
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Operators can now filter on sites in SharePoint Online by using the indexing rule
path_template
. This change will break existingpath_template
rules. Operators must prefix all existingpath_template
rules with/sites/{site-name}
. See indexing rules.
New features
edit- Authenticate using JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Learn more in the App Search docs and Workplace Search docs. (beta)
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Use the web crawler to extract content from downloadable binary files, such as
PDF
andDOCX
files. Enterprise Search uses theent_search_crawler
Elasticsearch ingest pipeline to power the web crawler’s binary content extraction. Learn how to install the Ingest Attachment Processor plugin for your Elasticsearch cluster and how to enable binary content extraction. (technical preview) - Use the new Confluence Cloud connector package to deploy and run a Confluence Cloud connector on your own infrastructure. (technical preview)
- Use the new Custom connector package to deploy and run a custom connector on your own infrastructure. (technical preview)
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Workplace Search connectors now route all indexed documents through the Elasticsearch ingest pipeline named
ent_search_connectors
. Edit this ingest pipeline to customize how data is transformed before indexing.
Bug fixes
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The web crawler now uses
UTF-8
encoding by default for responses without a specified charset, instead ofISO-8859-1
. Adjust the newcrawler.http.default_encoding
configuration to override this behavior. -
Addressed a potential SSRF vulnerability for external connector packages by disallowing redirects away from the configured host.
Disallowed
localhost
external URLs for connector packages, unless explicitly configured. - GitHub sync failed when there was any empty repository. Solved so sync continues normally.
Known issues
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App Search users with
dev
andeditor
roles do not have access to the web crawler.