Release notes - i2 Analyze 4.4.5
A high level overview of the release, listing new features, the system requirements, and any known issues.
Important notices
Features
Release highlights
The following new and updated features are available in this release:
| Web client |
|---|
| Chart item importer |
| General Chart Improvements |
| i2 Analyze server |
|---|
| Export group membership from admin UI |
Release highlight details - web client
Chart item importer
- Support for importing .xlsx file types has been included to enhance compatibility with Excel spreadsheets.
General Chart Improvements
Support for summarizing multiple links between two entities on a web chart with a single link, including the ability for users to modify its label
Support for printing maps directly from the Analyst's Notebook web client
Support for downloading web chart contents in Microsoft Excel format
Support for custom item and property types to the web client
Options for changing the appearance of charts in the web client
Improves the user experience around editing Visual Queries and import specifications
Release highlight details - i2 Analyze
Export group membership from admin UI
Group membership configuration can be exported from the admin UI so that it can be used to configure a new i2 Analyze deployment.
Integrated product versions
| Product included | Version |
|---|---|
| i2 Analyze | 4.4.5 |
| Connector Designer 1 | 1.1.0 |
| Open Liberty 25 | 25.0.0.2 |
| Eclipse Temurin JDK 17 | 17.0.14 |
1 The Connector Designer and deployment guidance are available at https://docs.i2group.com/as/as-connector-designer.html.
Upgrading
To ensure compatibility, i2 recommends that the i2 Analyst's Notebook desktop client and i2 Analyze server are upgraded to the latest versions at the same time.
i2 do not support mixed version deployments, but to assist with larger deployment upgrades it is possible to use the i2 Analyst's Notebook desktop client or an i2 Analyze server from a previous version with the corresponding latest versions in this release, however some functionality might not be available in these configurations. Mixed version deployments should be aligned as quickly as possible to ensure product support.
Contact i2 Support to understand which versions can be used together in the short term for an unsupported mixed version deployment.
Fixed and known issues
The issues that have been fixed in this release, and remaining known issues.
Fixed issues
| Issue number | Component | Issue title |
|---|---|---|
| DT00372 | Analyze | When i2 Analyze is configured to use OIDC authentication, it is not compatible with Analyst's Notebook clients earlier than version 10.0.2 |
Known issues in this release
| Issue number | Component | Issue title |
|---|---|---|
| DT00222 | i2 Analyze | InfoStore parameter queries treat trailing spaces differently depending on DB server |
Download information
Customers who have entitlement can request copies of i2 products.
For more information, see Where can I download the latest i2 products?
Operating systems - i2 Analyze Server
The following tables shows the system requirements for this release, and previous releases. These system requirements should be used to ensure that the setup you are running is fully supported. Ensure that existing deployments are upgraded to currently supported versions of all the software required.
| OPERATING SYSTEMS | i2 Analyze 4.4.5 | i2 Analyze 4.4.4 | i2 Analyze 4.4.3 | i2 Analyze 4.4.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Essentials Edition | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Essentials Edition | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition | ✅2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition | ✅2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition | ✅2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Linux Red Hat Enterprise V9 and fix packs3 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Linux Red Hat Enterprise V8 and fix packs3 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
2 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 support will be deprecated in a future i2 Analyze release.
3 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server on POWER Systems is restricted to IBM Db2 and SOLR as part of a distributed deployment.
Note: i2 products are supported on hardware virtualization environments that run any of the operating systems that are listed in the detailed system requirements. When you run in a virtual environment, any issues that can be replicated by i2 in a supported operating system are addressed by using the standard support policy.
Installation of Connector Designer requires x64 Linux, Docker Engine and an internet connection. See https://docs.i2group.com/as/as-connector-designer.html for full details.
Installed Software - i2 Analyze Server
| INSTALLED SOFTWARE | i2 Analyze 4.4.5 | i2 Analyze 4.4.4 | i2 Analyze 4.4.3 | i2 Analyze 4.4.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Liberty 25 (25.0.0.2) | 🆕 | - | - | - |
| Open Liberty 24 (24.0.0.4) | ❌ | 🆕 | - | - |
| Open Liberty 23 (23.0.0.9) | ❌ | ❌ | 🆕 | - |
| Open Liberty 23 (23.0.0.5) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🆕 |
Note: Supplied and installed by the i2 Analyze toolkit.
Supported software - i2 Analyze Server
| SOFTWARE PREREQUISITES | i2 Analyze 4.4.5 | i2 Analyze 4.4.4 | i2 Analyze 4.4.3 | i2 Analyze 4.4.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL 16 - on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 | - |
| PostgreSQL 16 | ✅ | 🆕 | - | - |
| PostgreSQL 15 - on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 |
| PostgreSQL 15 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| IBM DB2 Standard Edition 11.5 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| IBM DB2 Advanced Edition 11.5 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| IBM DB2 11.1 Workgroup, Enterprise, Advanced Workgroup, Advanced Enterprise | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2022 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2019 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2017 | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Hardware - i2 Analyze Server
| Hardware Requirements | Minimum |
|---|---|
| Disk space | 4GB |
| Processor | 2 GHz x86-64 dual-core |
| Memory (Application server) | 16GB |
| Memory (JVM) | 8GB |
Note: The minimum hardware specifications specified in the table will allow customers to install and deploy i2 Analyze on a single machine using the example deployment shipped with the on-prem toolkit. Hardware specs for an optimal i2 Analyze deployment are dependant on the expected amount of data to be loaded and user usage.
Supported Browsers - Web client and Investigate client
| Supported Web Browsers |
|---|
| Google Chrome (latest version) |
| Microsoft Edge (latest version) |
| Mozilla Firefox (latest version) |
| Mozilla Firefox ESR (latest version) |
Language support
i2 products are tested on a number of various regional variations of operating systems. In addition they are translated into a number of different languages.
Operating system language support
i2 supports this product on the following regional versions of the supported operating systems:
| Language Group/Language | Language Collection | Support Status |
|---|---|---|
| Western Europe and USA | Basic | ✅ |
| Central Europe | Basic | ✅ |
| Baltic | Basic | ✅ |
| Cyrillic | Basic | ✅ |
| Turkic | Basic | ✅ |
| Arabic | Complex Script | ✅ |
| Japanese | East Asian | ✅ |
| Korean | East Asian | ✅ |
| Traditional Chinese | East Asian | ✅ |
| Simplified Chinese | East Asian | ✅ |
| Thai | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Vietnamese | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Greek | Basic | ❌ |
| Hebrew | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Indic | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Georgian | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Armenian | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Dhivehi | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Galician | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Gujarati | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Kannada | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Kyrgyz | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Mongolian (Cyrillic) | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Punjabi | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Syriac | Complex Script | ❌ |
| Telugu | Complex Script | ❌ |
Data support
i2 products support unicode data.
Translations
The following languages are supported:
| Translations | i2 Analyze 4.4.5 |
|---|---|
| Arabic | ✅ |
| Brazilian Portuguese | ✅ |
| Bulgarian 4 | ✅ |
| Czech | ✅ |
| English | ✅ |
| French | ✅ |
| German | ✅ |
| Hungarian 5 | ✅ |
| Italian | ✅ |
| Japanese | ✅ |
| Korean | ✅ |
| Polish | ✅ |
| Russian 4 | ✅ |
| Simplified Chinese | ✅ |
| Slovak 5 | ✅ |
| Spanish | ✅ |
| Traditional Chinese | ✅ |
| Turkish | ✅ |
| Ukrainian 4 | ✅ |
4 Help available in English only.
5 The Information Store and External Searches capabilities are not translated for these languages.