23.4.2 - Fredhopper Discovery Platform Release Notes

Introduction 

These release notes provide an overview of the resolved issues and improvements of the most recent release of the FAS 23.4 line.

FAS 23.4 supports Oracle Java 8 VMs. For detailed setup instructions, please refer to Install Java instructions.

Version: 23.4.2

Release Date: November 6, 2023

FAS 23.4.2 is a minor release that provides hot fixes and performance
improvements.

Improvements & Resolved Issues

Merchandising Studio & Preview Pages

[Fixed] Invalid global ranges for slider facets are now handled gracefully.

[Fixed] The calendar popup in date-time trigger panel is now rendered properly while scrolling.

[Fixed] The possibility to force facets triggering regardless of the triggering conditions (`fh_facets` parameter) is now fixed.

[Fixed] Save button under System defaults page is now disabled when system pages are in "waiting for publication" state.

[Fixed] Conflation is now working correctly when more than one sorting attribute is added to a campaign.

Search and Navigation

[Improved] Performance optimization for search queries for customers with large number of items in the catalogue.

Indexing

[Fixed] Added back missing icons for conflated attributes and pending state.

[Fixed] In some situations values of an "asset" attribute types are not cleared when operation "replace" is applied via incremental update.

Deployment and Integration

[Fixed] Query server now waits for any background tasks to finish before shutting down. Capture tool also now waits for any background tasks to finish before exporting a capture.

[Fixed] On rare occasions publications were not read properly on start up. The problem was fixed.