Google announces end of life schedule for Google Search Appliance software

Michael — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:44:00 +0000

Google announced on Tuesday the end of life schedule for software versions 5.2, 6.0 and 6.2. The 5.2 software version is scheduled to be deprecated on April 30, 2011. Once deprecated, a software version is no longer supported by Google. This means we may require you to update to a supported version, should you require technical support.

The schedule for 6.0 and 6.2 end of life is as follows:

6.0: August 30, 2011
6.2: March 31, 2012

The latest release of the GSA software is 6.8.

G44-P10 patch released for Google Search Appliance GB-1001, GB-7007 and GB-9009

Michael — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:12:24 +0000

Google has released a patch update to the 6.2 software version. The following list contains a list of the fixes. Compare this list to any issues you having outstanding.

2399366

Sometimes documents with the same date are not sorted by relevance when sorting by date.

2386544

Sometimes sort by date does not sort documents that are chronologically close in the correct order.

2371696

Documents with dates that are in the future are not sorted properly when sorting by ascending dates.

1894928

Error on GSA when configuring Google Apps: “Cannot enable Google Apps Integration.”

2311340

GSA Admin API fails to authenticate requests if timezone is not set to US/Pacific.

1837591

Some Word documents can not be converted resulting in a crawling error.

2300088

GSA cannot convert some documents that contain embedded docs.

2327144

Some internal indexing processes are not properly terminated.

2435021

Stalled connections are not properly detected in replication setup.

2551148

System logs are not properly rotated which can fill disks.

1971858

Search Latency graph is broken under ‘Status and Reports>Serving Status’.

1408031

Encoded non-ascii filenames become garbled if saved with Internet Explorer.

2287126

SupportCall via proxy server fails with Error establishing TCP connection to supportcall.google.com:443: (111, ‘Connection refused’).

2534465

Permanent Redirect URLs with extensions that require Conversion(.doc, .pdf, .xls, etc) are not followed if at redirect time the content-length response is different than 0.

2517840

The Crawl Queue URLs in 6.2 are shown as encoded.

2633250

In federation the primary node tries to authorize urls that have already been authorized by secondary nodes.

2335370

Results with same snippet and title do not get filtered in the search results when using the ‘filter=p’ search parameter.

2487684

The lang_zh-tw language filter fails to show search results beyond the first page.

2358978

RK parameter is not working properly.

2728200

In 6.2.0.G.44-P6 Admin Console is only available in English.

Google Search Appliance (GSA) Software Release 6.2.0.G36

Michael — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:12:17 +0000

Google has released a new software update for version 6.2. The most notable fix in this release is for the GSA mirroring feature. Additionally, there are about 14 documented updates.

Our support customers will be contacted by MC+A support to schedule a time to perform the upgrade. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

MC+A » 6.2