Google Releases Google Search Appliance Software 6.4
June 11th, 2010
Google has just released 6.4 on the enterprise support site and has updated code.google.com’s documentation. We have yet to install and verify. But some of the big changes so far:
JavaScript Crawling
The search appliance now can detect links and content generated dynamically. I wonder if this will help the forms authentication wizard? 
Serve Time Authentication
You will no longer need to enable or disable security manager and legacy auth as in 6.2. The default behavior of the appliance is to now centralize authentication for:
- Cookies
- HTTP Basic and NTLM
- Kerberos
- SAML
- Connectors
Administrative Improvements
There are various administration improvements, most notably:
- LDAP Setup
New options to use LDAP during serve-time and looking up a user’s group during authentication. - Timeout for Auth Requests
New option allows specification wait time for GSA before processing batch authorizations. - Head Requestor Deny Rules
Allows you to identify URLs where content servers deny users access with codes other than HTTP code 401. (Non web standard pages)
The full documentation is here.
