Release Notes - PoolParty 2025 R2 (9.6.0)

14/05/2025

PoolParty Semantic Suite 2025 Release 2 (9.6.0) introduces key enhancements to improve functionality and productivity. This release introduces intuitive Product Tours for streamlined onboarding, enhanced document insights through ADF Search integration, and optimized bulk operations in taxonomy management. Technical improvements encompass accessibility enhancements, security fixes, and the retirement of legacy GraphSearch UI components, reinforcing our commitment to modern, user-friendly, and secure semantic solutions

Highlights

New Feature - Product Tours: Enhancing Onboarding & User Enablement

This release introduces Product Tours, an integrated guidance system that streamlines the learning process for PoolParty Semantic Suite functionality. The system features:

Interactive step-by-step walkthroughs of core taxonomic operations and workflows
Context-sensitive help triggers that highlight specific interface elements and their functions
Customized task-oriented guidance paths for taxonomy management and semantic operations
Self-paced exploration options for new and advanced features

The Product Tours framework seamlessly integrates with the application interface, providing just-in-time assistance while users perform actual tasks. This implementation supports efficient knowledge transfer and reduces time-to-proficiency for new team members and experienced users exploring advanced features.

New Feature - Enhanced Document Insights: Recommendations & Inferred Tags in ADF

This release extends ADF Search capabilities with two key enhancements that provide advanced document analysis directly in the document detail view:

Document Recommendations: The PoolParty Recommender automatically generates and displays contextually relevant document suggestions upon document access. This feature leverages semantic relationships to surface related content, enabling efficient content discovery and research expansion.

Inferred Tags: The system displays inferred tags alongside standard annotations for each document. These programmatically derived tags reveal implicit semantic relationships and conceptual connections beyond explicit annotations, providing deeper insight into document context and content relationships.

Configuration Options: Administrators can configure both features through the ADF configuration interface, where they can:

define multiple recommendation and inference rule sets
customize visibility settings for the search UI
configure labeling schemes
control integration parameters

Once configured, these enhancements automatically augment the document detail view with relevant recommendations and inferred concepts, creating a semantically enriched search experience.

Improvements

Improvements implemented in the current release include:

Enhanced Bulk Operations for Custom Classes

Expanded bulk operation capabilities now support simultaneous application and removal of custom classes across multiple concepts
Intelligent handling prevents duplicate class assignments and maintains taxonomy integrity
Streamlines large-scale taxonomy management through automated class propagation
Reduces manual intervention in concept classification while ensuring consistency

Keyboard Navigation Enhancements in the Linked Data Frontend

Implemented comprehensive keyboard navigation support in the Linked Data Frontend
Added alphabetical index navigation using Tab key traversal
Introduced direct letter key access for rapid concept location
Enhanced compliance with accessibility standards for keyboard-only users

Workbench Release 2.2.0

Resolved an issue that prevented PoolParty projects from loading with recent PoolParty versions
Added support for configuring additional CORS parameters via properties files including: "Allowed Headers", "Allowed Methods" and "Allowed Origins"

Feature changes

GraphSearch Search UI replaced by ADF
The GraphSearch user interface has been fully migrated to the Application Development Framework (ADF) interface. This transition includes:
- Complete removal of the legacy GraphSearch entry page and related UI components
- Retention of the GraphSearch API functionality (remains accessible without authentication)
- Continuation of authenticated access requirements for the Admin Dashboard
This architectural modernization aligns with our technology roadmap while preserving all core search capabilities through the robust ADF implementation.

Security Fixes

This release includes important security enhancements:

Apache Tika has been upgraded to version 3.1.0, ensuring continued security support and compliance as version 2.x reaches end-of-life
Security hardening implemented for the suggested concepts feature and autocomplete settings page to prevent potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

Bug Fixes

Implemented alphabetical sorting by preferred label in tabular exports (CSV/spreadsheet), ensuring alignment with taxonomy tree structure
Enhanced class inheritance mechanism for concepts imported via tabular data, properly propagating classes from broader concepts and concept schemes
Corrected RDF import functionality to maintain all linked data relationships present in source content
Optimized URI handling in the taxonomy editor to properly process encoded characters (e.g., "%20"), ensuring consistent functionality across all URI formats
Significantly improved user management performance, particularly in loading and rendering group section content
Resolved pagination issues in the taxonomy manager's history section, ensuring consistent event loading across all pages
Fixed the persistence of concept annotation in the Extractor for large documents, maintaining complete annotation sets irrespective of document size
Addressed Linked Data Frontend (LDF) rendering inconsistencies across server-browser combinations, eliminating need for manual page refreshes
Corrected multilingual search functionality in LDF to properly index and retrieve concepts across all configured project languages, rather than only the last defined language

Component Versions

Tomcat: 10.1.39
Keycloak: 25.0.6
rdf4j: 4.3.15
Spring Core: 6.2.1
Spring Security: 6.3.4
Tika: 3.1.0
Elasticsearch: 8.17.2

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