# \[ANNOUNCEMENT\] - Elasticsearch File System Crawler 2.4 released

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-elasticsearch-file-system-crawler-2-4-released/96801>\
**Category:** Community Ecosystem\
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-elasticsearch-file-system-crawler-2-4-released/96801 "2017-08-11T16:14:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-elasticsearch-file-system-crawler-2-4-released/96801/1 "2017-08-11T16:14:20Z")

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The Elasticsearch File System Crawler team is pleased to announce the fscrawler-2.4 release!

FS Crawler offers a simple way to index local files into elasticsearch.

Changes in this version include:

New features:

- Add support for more metadata OOTB Issue: 423. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Add support for language setting for tesseract Issue: 414. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Documentation about user mappings is wrong Issue: 408. Thanks to ploncker.
- No \_settings\_doc.json Issue: 405. Thanks to madergaser.
- Make logger externally configurable Issue: 394. Thanks to dadoonet.

Fixed Bugs:

- Fix warning messages when extracting rating field Issue: 425. Thanks to dadoonet.
- filename is Garbled when index a file which name contains Chinese characters Issue: 420. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Set Tika RESOURCE\_NAME\_KEY before extraction Issue: 413. Thanks to dadoonet.
- pdf\_ocr should disable OCR entirely Issue: 410. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Can FSCrawler support Text file encoding non UTF-8 (Shift-JIS)? Issue: 400. Thanks to 710255930500.

Changes:

- Increase the limit of fields to 2000 instead of 1000 Issue: 421. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Update to elasticsearch High Level REST Client 6.0.0-beta1 Issue: 417. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Update to elasticsearch 5.6.0 Issue: 416. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Explosion in number of fields Issue: 415. Thanks to Ramon-zaro.
- Update to Tika 1.16 Issue: 412. Thanks to dadoonet.
- Update to elasticsearch High Level REST Client 5.6.0 Issue: 402. Thanks to dadoonet.

For a manual installation, you can download the fscrawler-2.4 here:  
[https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler/2.4/](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler/2.4/)

Have fun!  
-Elasticsearch File System Crawler team

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-elasticsearch-file-system-crawler-2-4-released/96801/2 "2020-06-23T06:03:51Z")

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