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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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GSA cannot convert some documents that contain embedded docs.

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Some internal indexing processes are not properly terminated.

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Stalled connections are not properly detected in replication setup.

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System logs are not properly rotated which can fill disks.

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

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

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

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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.

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The Crawl Queue URLs in 6.2 are shown as encoded.

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

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

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

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RK parameter is not working properly.

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

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.

For models GB-1001 and GB-7007, there has been a software patch release. Current Google customers under support can go to:

https://support.google.com/enterprise/doc/gsa/00/update_index_page.html

Customers under current support contracts with MC+A will be contacted by MC+A Support.

Google Enterprise has released a maintenance release of the software. Some minor fixes have been included. You can download the update at:

https://support.google.com/enterprise/

with the login credentials provided in your welcome email. If you are under a maintenance contract, MC+A Support will be contacting you to schedule your update. If you need assistance with the release, contact MC+A support or Google support.

An update was released last week for the Google Search Appliance. Version 5.2 has been updated and released for the GB-1001. It also contains some bug fixes from the previous version as well.

Below are a list of version 5.2 includes the following features (Copied from here).  A detail of the fixes in the release can be found here.

The latest Google Search Appliance gives users secure access to more content sources, with enhanced search quality and new user interface options.

End User Features

Personalized Search Experience
Allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function.

Alerts
Employees can subscribe to email alerts for topics and documents of interest, choosing an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule.

Spellchecker in Six New Languages
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

Enterprise Content

Languages
Restrict search results to any of 27 auto-detected languages including administrative functions in five new languages (Czech, English-UK, Portuguese-Portugal, Turkish, Vietnamese); contextual spell checking for all end users in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.

Security and Access Control

Kerberos Support
Provide native support for Kerberos, enabling a silent authentication experience for end-users.

Metadata Biasing
Administrators can bias results based on metadata (in addition to biasing based on source, URL or date).

Advanced Reporting
View and export daily and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature usage, and more. Report for every query, including reports on which queries receive no clicks by a user and how often users are clicking on sponsored links in comparison to organic search results or OneBox modules.

Administration and Customization

Localized Administration
Administer your Google Search Appliance around the globe in 27 different languages. Full administration is now supported in Basque, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), English (UK), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.