2025 Search & Navigation release notes

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March 18, 2025

EPiServer.Find 13.6.1 

Bug fixes

  • FIND-13135 – Fixed an issue where the best bet constant_score query failed to guarantee the best bets to get the highest score.

March 11, 2025

EPiServer.Find.CMS 16.4.1

Bug fixes

  • FIND-13649 – Fixed an issue where the statistics cache had to be cleared more frequently than needed.
  • FIND-13671 – Fixed an issue where the query generation was incorrect for the fallback language.
  • FIND-12914 – Fixed an issue that significantly improved performance and fixed inconsistencies in cache key generation for certain culture codes.
  • FIND-13512 – Fixed an issue where the CMS site cannot start because of Search and Navigation endpoint failure.
  • FIND-13551 – Fixed an issue where sending a request to /find_v2/ on a configured application returns an HTTP 500 error.
  • FIND-13663 – Fixed an issue where an indexing job runs for an extended period.
  • FIND-13678 – Fixed a null reference exception error when migrating from EPiserver.Find.Cms from 16.2.0 to 16.4.0.

January 14, 2025

EPiServer.Find.CMS 16.4.0

Enhancement

  • Added a slider and a decimal input field on the Boosting dashboard for specific and precise tuning adjustments.

Bug fixes

  • FIND-13291 – Fixed an issue that would delete content of other sites when ReindexMySitesOnly was enabled. An empty SiteDefinition should be processed first in the indexing job.
  • FIND-13135 – Fixed an issue where the best bet constant_score query failed to guarantee the best bets to get the highest score.
  • FIND-13313 – Fixed an issue with selecting the best bets target content with nn language code and its relevant localization.
  • FIND-13413 – Fixed an issue with determining the correct language for indexing and analyzer for search, in Norwegian Bokmål, Norweigan Nynorsk, Czech, Korean, and Japanese.