Semaphore 5.0.5

Semaphore 5.0.5 is a minor update to the software and an update to the Semaphore 5.0.3 release.

Installation Prerequisites

Prior to installing or upgrading to this version of Semaphore please be sure to review the Third-party software requirements (Linux) or Third-party software requirements (Windows) information as well as the general Plan your Semaphore Installation (Linux) or Plan your Semaphore Installation (Windows) information for installation server requirements.

Product Notes

This version of Semaphore consists of the following components:

Platform Independent Components

Windows Components

Linux Applications

Integrations

(*) Unchanged from previous release.

(**) Unchanged from previous release but version number updated.

Studio (5.0.5)

New Functionality

• 6327 - Support for OAuth based authentication.

Issues Resolved

• 3142 - Prevent bloating of KMM backup directory
• 6069 - Better handling of non-alphanumeric characters in SES and SES widgets
• 6398 - Prevent KMM returning “No licence found” error inappropriately
• 6448 - Prevent caching of model exports leading to incorrect downloads.
• 6503 - Better display of text units in Document Analyser where single words create multiple tokens.

FACTS (5.0.5)

New Functionality

• CS now allows for non-contiguous phrase ranges in tables with sparse and / or merged cells run together so that they can be grouped.
• SHACL constraints introduced for wildcard labels to prohibit multiple adjacent wildcards (e.g., “* *” or ”# #”).

Issues Resolved

• CS now allows for non-greedy backtracking from a post-anchor, to allow for the finding of the smallest phrase range before the anchor.

Classification Server (5.0.5)

Issues Resolved

• 6681 - Identification of XML file with extraneous spacing in the XML declarator
• 6693 - Correct handling of part of speech during rulebase evaluation where concept labels includes commas.

Semantic Enhancement Server (5.0.5)

Issues Resolved

• 6069 - Better support for non alphanumeric handling in Search-as-you-type functionality
• 6504 - Support for URIs being used as term identifiers
• 6538 - Prevent indexing error for models with very many languages

Known Issues (Semaphore 5.0.5)

Since the release of Semaphore 5.0.0 we have been made aware of the Ghostcat bug that affects Tomcat installations. Because we use Tomcat within the Semaphore 5.0.0 application, we recommend that the AJP connectivity be switched off after installation.

To do this edit the two files:

<Studio Installation>/studio/conf/server.xml

and

<Studio Installation>/kmm/conf/server.xml

Either comment out or remove completely the line

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />

(the KMM version will have different port numbers).

Then restart the services. This applies to both Linux and Windows installations.

Installation of Studio (Semaphore 5.0.5)

• When installing to Windows you may get a warning about a failure to determine the version of Java in selected JAVA_HOME. Please ignore this message.
• If you do not have Java 11 installed, when you install Semaphore Studio you will be warned that Semaphore Studio requires “Java version 11 or later.” In fact it requires Java 11. Refer to Install third-party software in the Install Semaphore on Windows for details on how to install it.

Classification Server (5.0.5)

• Because of changes to how text is parsed prior to analysis, some inline style changes in PDFs (e.g. emphasised or italic text) may be treated as separate sentences or paragraphs. This could affect evidence finding where that evidence is now spread over multiple zones.
• Because of tokenization issues, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Pashto and Vietnamese are temporarily being removed from the supported language set.
• We have updated our file type detection algorithm. This may change the determined file type for some documents which may affect how the document is parsed. If this is an issue, then remove the “external_parser” entry in the “classify_document” workflow in the file conf/config.xml to revert to the old style.

Stand-alone Linux Publisher (5.0.5)

Note: The following applies to the standalone publisher only, not the plugin.

• During the Linux installation you may see a spurious message about setting ACL permissions for the tomcat user. Please ignore these.

Knowledge Model Management (5.0.5)

• When downloading configuration or backup files, it is possible that the default Windows zip extractor will report the downloaded file as invalid. This is, however, likely to be due to long file paths in the zip file not being handled correctly by that extractor. An alternative (such as 7-Zip) should be able to correct extract these files.

Semaphore for SharePoint 2013/2016 Integration (4.0 r54942)

The following are known issues with this version of Semaphore for SharePoint 2013/2016:

• Use of custom hierarchical relationship types for synchronization of models may result in incorrect model information in the term store (“has narrower/has broader” hierarchical relationship synchronization works correctly)
• DE2394 - Classification Server version 4.2.0 won't work when adding in CS URL. An error “Version's parameters must be greater than or equal to zero. Parameter name: revision.” is being shown.