Releases and Release Notes

Version 1.11 (October 2025)

Added Zendesk connector Slack Connector
Added Azure Blob Storage connector
Added Azure File Storage connector
Added (deep) search federator
Added API for direct query pipeline access
Moved query side rate limiting into query pipeline
Improvements to SharePoint on-premises connector in case not the right permissions are granted.
Upgraded Confluence Cloud and Jira Cloud towards new REST APIs

Teams, Slack, Bot and Agent to Agent Integrations

Added Model Context Protocol Support MCP, Agents and Bot Integrations
Added Bot Integration for Azure Bot Service Azure Bot Configuration
Added Microsoft Teams App Integration Bot Integrations for Copilot and Teams
Added Slack (Bot) Integration Slack Bot Integration
Added support for Confluence Data Center Version 9 and 10, including personal access tokens for API access.

Added Microsoft Teams connector Microsoft Teams Connector
Added SQL databases as target system SQL Data Target - Indexing Configuration
Added hybrid search to Azure AI Search and Elasticsearch
Improved Query Pipeline Configuration Wizard Search Experience and Query Pipelines
Improvements to Squirro backend Squirro Insight Engine - Indexing Configuration
Fixed an issue during setup of query pipelines, when admin UI authentication is secured with BASIC auth.
Fixed an issue when running the Retrieval Suite under Linux or MacOS.
Fixed a rare race condition where two starting crawls might interfere with each other.
Added update check mechanism and a setting to disable the checks.
Improved RAG answering based on Ollama models.
Added an option to disable ACLs. This is not recommended, but needed for some customer scenarios.