Releases and Release Notes

Version 1.12 (November 2025)

Added a new Drupal connector
- See Drupal CMS Connector and RheinInsights Drupal CMS Enterprise Search und RAG Connector.
Confluence Connector
- Improved error handling for occasional glitches in Confluence Version 9 and 10
- Extended the Confluence on-premises connector to support page rendering in case contents from dynamic macros are needed
Content Processing Pipelines
- Added new text extraction stage which allows for extracting contents from complex HTML elements, such as aura-card macros in Confluence
Query Pipelines
- Added new configuration experience for query pipelines
- Added deep research mechanisms into query pipelines
- Added multiple new query processing stages / steps to handle complex reasoning within query pipelines
- Improved Elasticsearch, Solr and Opensearch query behaviors
Query APIs
- New query APIs for third party integrations with RheinInsights Retrieval Suite
Microsoft Search and Copilot Connectors
- Error handling towards missing user identities in Entra Ids for our Copilot Connectors
Squirro
- Improved metadata handling for our Squirro connectors

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