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Aspire 5.4

Aspire 5.4

Released on February 27th, 2026

 

NoSQL DB providers supported by the Aspire 5.4 release:

  • New Elasticsearch/Kibana versions supported v. 9.x. Not fully tested.

  • OpenSearch/Dashboards v. 2.x.

 

Java version supported

  • OpenJDK 21.x.

 

Python Dependecies

  • Java Embedded Python (JEP) 4.3.1. Requires Visual Studio Build Tools on Windows.

 

New Features 

  •  Workflow

    • Applications

      • Tabular Writer. Extracts metadata from AspireObject and exports it to MS Excel or CSV formats using a predefined template.

      • Python Script. Enables users to execute custom logic and data processing using the Python interpreted language. Not available for other scripting‑enabled Aspire components.

    • Publishers

      • Stardog. Processes .TTL files and publishes to Stardog using defined schemas and prefixes.

 

Improvements

  • Aspire Framework

    • Framework/Connector/Publisher

      • Added support for API Key authentication for Elasticsearch Cloud.

      • Apache Rest Client (Aspire Rest Client) was upgraded to version 5.

  • Connectors

    • REST

      • Added support for AWS authentication.

  • Workflow 

    • Applications

      • AWS TExtract

        • Enhanced the component by adding support for Feature Types, enabling extraction of formatted tables, forms, and page layout.

      • Tesseract OCR

        • Component deprecated and removed.

    • Publishers

      • Kafka

        • Refactored to leverage the Aspire Publisher Framework to support the batch mechanism.

 

Bugs

  • Aspire Framework

    • Settings

      • Fixed typo for the secretsProvider section. This section will be disabled by default.

      • Fixed a typo in the aspire.bat file in an unused section. Known issue in Aspire v.5.3.

    • Authentication

      • Fixed an LDAP authentication issue affecting users without Administrator or Operator roles.

    • Security

      • Fixed an issue with the AWS KMS encryption provider when configured via settings file.

      • Fixed the NPE when configuring the Azure KeyVault Provider

    • API

      • Fixed an invalid JSON response from the API when updating items with special characters.

  • UI

    • Resolved an issue where the Seed page became unresponsive after typing in the workflow dropdown.

    • Fixed an issue where the option to add a workflow component disappeared after removing a local rule. Known issue in Aspire v.5.3.

  • Connectors

    • DBServer (PostgreSQL DB)

      • Resolved the issue when it failed to crawl the database and tables containing dashes or underscores.

    • SharePoint Online (Identity Crawl)

      • Fixed null error crawling users and groups.

    • REST

      • Resolved issue using AWS authentication.

  • Workflow

    • Applications

      • Binary Store

        • Fixed a minor issue related to the “Reader Options” section in the Binary Delete component.

      • Generative AI

        • Fixed issue loading external JARs.

      • Extract Text

        • Resolved an issue where text was not extracted from XLSX files.

    • Publishers

      • Azure Search

        • Resolved errors caused by invalid characters in URLs.

    • Summarizers

      • RDB Summarizer Executor (PostgreSQL DB)

        • Resolved exception processing a column name with a forward slash character.

 

Known Issues

  • Aspire Framework

    • Framework/Connector

      • Pending upgrade of the AWS S3 SDK for Java used by the Aspire REST Client and S3 Connector.

    • AWS/Azure Secrets Provider

      • Provider only appears on Workflow components after the credentials page invokes it.

    • Apache Rest Client

      • Due to the upgrade to Apache Rest Client, NTLM authentication could not be working.

  • Workflows

    • Applications

      • Binary Store Writer

        • Binary Writer component is required for delete actions.

      • Tabular File Writer

        • Resource file field missing required validation.

      • Extract Text

        • The Non-Text Document Filtering option has not been working since Aspire v. 5.2.3.

    • Publishers

      • Stardog

        • “Drop Database before full crawl” option is not being applied.

    • Summarization

      • RDB Summarizer Executor

        • Column names with forward slashes split into nested objects.

      • Saga Summarizer

        • Basic Authentication requests irrelevant fields and exposes password input.

 

Migrating from previous version to >= 5.2

For the identity cache index, follow the steps detailed in this guide: 5.2 - How to migrate Identity Cache

Update the aspire-mappings index to refresh mappings:

aspire-mappings

PUT aspire-audit/_mapping {   "properties": {     "audit.timestamp": {       "type": "date"     },     "audit.seedId": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.crawlId": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.type": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.worker": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.statistics.seedId": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.statistics.connectionId": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.statistics.connectorId": {       "type": "keyword"     },     "audit.statistics.id": {       "type": "keyword"     }   } }