Release notes - i2 Explore for iBase 1.3.0
This document provides an overview of the new features, system requirements, and known issues for i2 Explore for iBase 1.3.0.
Important notices
⚠️ Installation
i2 Explore requires that at least i2 iBase version 10.1.0 is installed and properly configured in accordance with your organization's specifications. For more information about installing and deploying i2 Explore, see the i2 Explore for iBase documentation.
Important: i2 Explore for iBase leverages i2 Analyze as its backend to provide users access to the Explore web application. By default, the installation scripts for i2 Analyze automatically download the latest supported versions of Java, Open Liberty, Solr, and Zookeeper to ensure proper installation. Users, however, have the option to override these default versions and specify particular versions as needed. For detailed instructions, refer to i2 Explore for iBase: Installing in an offline environment. In this version of i2 Explore for iBase (version 1.3), users are required to manually specify the version of Solr to be used (only Solr needs to be manually added). This is necessary due to the inclusion of a patched Solr version, created to address the deprecation of WMIC support on Windows. The patched version, file named solr.tgz, is included alongside the i2 Explore for iBase installer. While Solr is aware of the WMIC deprecation issue and aims to release version 9.10 later this year, it was not ready at the time of this release, necessitating the inclusion of the patch.
⚠️ Configuration
To use the text search functionality in i2 Explore for iBase, Search 360 must be enabled in the connected iBase database.
Features
Release highlights
The following new and updated features are available in this release:
| i2 Explore for iBase |
|---|
| Support for Single Sign-On |
Release highlight details
Support for Single Sign-On
i2 Explore for iBase now supports single sign-on (SSO) using EntraID or Active Directory integration. To enable SSO, the system administrator must configure the product to connect with the chosen identity provider. Refer to the user documentation for more information.
Version by Version comparison
The following table shows a comparison of features between recent versions of i2 Explore for iBase:
🆕 = New Feature ✅ = Existing Feature ❌ = Feature Removed/Obsolete
| FEATURES | i2 Explore for iBase 1.3.0 | i2 Explore for iBase 1.2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Support for Single Sign-On | 🆕 | - |
| Web Interface | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Search, Flag, and Find Path | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Secure access to data | ✅ | 🆕 |
| Highlight panels | ✅ | 🆕 |
Fixed and known issues
The issues that have been fixed in this release, and known issues:
Fixed issues
| Issue Number | Issue title |
|---|---|
| DT00535 | Icons not rendering in Explore for iBase if they have been translated |
Known issues
| Issue Number | Issue title |
|---|---|
| Limitation | i2 Explore for iBase requires that the iBase database, security database and tempdb database use the same SQLServer Collation |
Download information
Customers who have entitlement can request copies of i2 products.
For more information, see Where can I download the latest i2 products?
System requirements
The following tables show 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 required software.
🆕 = Newly supported ✅ = Supported ❌ = No longer supported
Operating systems
| OPERATING SYSTEMS | i2 Explore for iBase 1.3.0 | i2 Explore for iBase 1.2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise x64 (64-bit) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows 11 Pro x64 (64-bit) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (64-bit) | ✅1 | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 (64-bit) | ✅1 | ✅ |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 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 | ✅ | ✅ |
1 Microsoft Windows 10 support will be deprecated in a future Explore for iBase release.
Note: i2 products are supported on hardware virtualization environments that run any of the operating systems 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. Trial editions of i2 Analyst's Notebook cannot be run in virtualized environments.
Installed Software - i2 Analyze Server
| INSTALLED SOFTWARE | i2 Explore for iBase 1.3 | i2 Explore for iBase 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Open Liberty 25 (25.0.0.9) | ✅ | - |
| Open Liberty 25 (25.0.0.2) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Solr 9.9-i2-patch-wmic2 | ✅ | - |
| Solr 9.8.1 | ❌ | ✅ |
| Zookeeper 3.9.4 | ✅ | - |
| Zookeeper 3.9.3 | ❌ | ✅ |
2 A patched version of Solr, specifically 9.9-i2-patch-wmic, has been included with i2 Explore for iBase to address the impending deprecation of WMIC support on Windows. This custom version is provided to ensure continued compatibility and functionality. Note that the Solr community plans to release version 9.10 later in the year, which will also address the WMIC support issue. You can opt to update to 9.10 when it becomes available.
Note: Supplied and installed by the i2 Analyze toolkit.
Prerequisites
| SOFTWARE PREREQUISITES | i2 Explore for iBase 1.3.0 | i2 Explore for iBase 1.2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| i2 iBase 10.1.3 | ✅ | - |
| i2 iBase 10.1.2 | ✅ | - |
| i2 iBase 10.1.1 | ✅ | - |
| i2 iBase 10.1.0 | ✅ | ✅ |
| SUPPORTED DATABASES | i2 Explore for iBase 1.3.0 | i2 Explore for iBase 1.2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (includes Linux editions) | ✅ | ✅3 |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (includes Linux editions) | ✅ | ✅ |
3 i2 Explore for iBase does not support Active Directory nor Entra ID for connecting to SQL Server.
Hardware - i2 Explore for iBase
| Hardware Requirements | Minimum |
|---|---|
| Disk space | 4GB |
| Processor | 2 GHz x86-64 dual-core |
| Memory (Application server) | 2GB |
| Memory (JVM) | 8GB |
Note: The minimum hardware specifications specified in the table will allow customers to install and deploy i2 Analyze, which is shipped with i2 Explore for iBase on a single machine using the example deployment shipped with the on-prem toolkit. Hardware specs for an optimal i2 Analyze deployment are dependent on the expected amount of data to be loaded and user usage.
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 Explore for iBase |
|---|---|
| Arabic | ✅ |
| Brazilian Portuguese | ✅ |
| Bulgarian | ✅ |
| Czech | ✅ |
| English | ✅ |
| French | ✅ |
| German | ✅ |
| Hungarian | ✅ |
| Italian | ✅ |
| Japanese | ✅ |
| Korean | ✅ |
| Polish | ✅ |
| Russian | ✅ |
| Simplified Chinese | ✅ |
| Spanish | ✅ |
| Traditional Chinese | ✅ |
| Turkish | ✅ |
| Ukrainian | ✅ |