Upgrade the Content Component

To resolve issues from previous versions, you can update the Content component without needing to reindex or export your data.

To take advantage of new features, you might need to regenerate one or more subindexes, or in some cases you might need to reindex your data. The release notes for a particular feature provide information about when this is required.

For updates that change the major version number (for example 11.x to 12.x), there might be additional changes. See Upgrade your IDOL Index to version 12.x.

TIP: Micro Focus recommends that you back up your index and make a copy of any modified libraries and module files before you upgrade your Content component.

The following procedure describes the basic changes required to upgrade your Content component.

To upgrade the Content component

  1. Stop your Content component.

  2. In your Content installation directory, replace the existing content.exe with the new content.exe.

  3. Update the required libraries for your platform:

CAUTION: Do not modify or overwrite the following files:

Other Recommended Updates

When you upgrade the Content executable file, Micro Focus also recommends that you update some further supporting files as best practice.

These changes are not generally required, unless a particular feature requires it. The release notes for a particular feature provide information about when this is required.

Upgrade Language Files

IDOL Server releases sometimes include updates to language data files, such as the sentence breaking libraries and stop lists.

Most sentence breaking library updates do not require you to reindex your data. In this case, you can just copy the new library over the old one, and update the supporting files. However, in some cases where an update changes the tokenization or stemming rules, you might need to reindex. For more information, refer to the release notes.

In most cases, your customized stop list for a particular language is more suited to your business purposes than the updated default stop list. If you do want to use a new version of a stop list, you might need to reindex data, depending on the changes:

Service Scripts

On Windows, if you have installed Content as a service, you do not need to do anything to alter it. The existing service runs the new version.

On Linux, you typically do not need to update any service or init scripts that you already use with a newer version (the files do not generally change between versions).

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