DC With 5.6 comes with a new search engine , that is at least used utilizing Elastic search has been released this has an impact on the usage in Media Manager .

New freetext search character

DC now delegates the special search characters directly to Elastic Search, for which the following page documents the behavior: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.0/query-dsl-simple-query-string-query.html#simple-query-string-syntax and brings a larger feature set.

The impact on updates are the following

• Elastic search must be installed and/or configured locally or in the cloud - see documentation

• Filters for the MediaManager must be re-configured - see documentation

• Freetext search in MediaManager must be re-configured - see documentation

• Custom sort options on clients must be re-configured - see documentation

On top of that it also it also expands the feature set with the following features

• Excluding facets

• Recursive tree searches

• Improved free text searching capabilities - see Elastic search documentation

• Dependent filters based of dependent metadata setup

• Improved performance on indexing