Babel Street Match for OpenSearch
Release Notes
Release 2.19.0.1
June 2025
Includes Match 7.50.0.c78.0
New
Includes Match 7.50.0.c78.0. Refer to the Match release notes for a full description of 7.50.0.c78.0 features.
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.19.0.0
March 2025
Includes Match 7.49.0.c77.0
New
Includes Match 7.49.0.c77.0. Refer to the Match release notes for a full description of new features.
Supports OpenSearch 2.19.0
Endpoint change: The
/{index-name}/rni_plugin/_get_settings
and/{index-name}/rni_plugin/_get_version
endpoints have been replaced with/rni_plugin/_get_settings
and/rni_plugin/_get_version
, respectively. The old endpoints have been deprecated and will be removed March 2026. (RLPNC-7911)New parameter: We've added a parameter,
maxExpansions
to control the number of phonetically similar terms considered during the first-pass fuzzy matching. Increasing this parameter can improve first-pass results, ensuring that the correct name will be sent to the second pass, but may impact performance. (RLPNC-7967)
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.17.0.1
December 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.48.0.c76.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.48.0.v76.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
New endpoint: We added a new endpoint, /rni_plugin/_record_match, to provide pairwise record matching functionality. See the RNI-ES User Guide for more information. (RLPNC-7805)
New name: The plugin has been renamed to Babel Street Match for OpenSearch. The new file structure will now be
/plugins/babel-street-match/bt_root
. (RLPNC-78668)
Bug Fixes
We fixed a bug where a date matching request immediately upon plugin startup could cause a crash (RLPNC-7875)
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.17.0.0
October 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
Supports OpenSearch 2.17.0
Bug fixes
Katakana-Latin name matching with the
enableSeq2SeqTokenScorer
parameter enabled has been restored.
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.15.0.1
December 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.48.0.c76.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.48.0.v76.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
New name: The plugin has been renamed to Babel Street Match for OpenSearch. The new file structure will now be
/plugins/babel-street-match/bt_root
. (RLPNC-78668)
Bug Fixes
We fixed a bug where a date matching request immediately upon plugin startup could cause a crash (RLPNC-7875)
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.15.0.0
October 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
Supports OpenSearch 2.15.0
Bug fixes
Katakana-Latin name matching with the
enableSeq2SeqTokenScorer
parameter enabled has been restored.
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.11.1.3
September 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
Bug fixes
Katakana-Latin name matching with the
enableSeq2SeqTokenScorer
parameter enabled has been restored.
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.11.1.2
June 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.46.0.c74.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.46.0.c74.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
Added gender as a name property: You can now specify an explicit
gender
value when indexing, searching, or querying a name. Valid values are female, male, and nonbinary, (RLPNC-7445)Change to licensing when an overlay directory is specified: The license must be in the
BT_ROOT
directory, even if an overlay root is set. (RLPNC-7599).
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.11.1.1
April 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.45.0.c73.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.45.0.c73.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
An overlay root directory path can now be specified as a relative path to the RNI plugin installation directory. To do so, use the new
bt.overlay.relative.root system
property when starting Opensearch. (RLPNC-7377)
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where stop word and override queries had inconsistent behavior. Now, for both stop words and overrides, queries with an entity type will return entries with that entity type and with no entity type; queries without an entity type will only return entries with no entity type. (RLPNC-7407)
Fixed a bug where the pairwise match endpoint returns an empty response when the score is 0. Now the score is returned. (RLPNC-7213)
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.11.1.0
December 2023
Includes RNI-RNT 7.44.0.c72.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.44.0.c72.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
Supports OpenSearch 2.11.1
Overlay directory: Added support for specifying an overlay root directory location. This allows you to store the data components (models, parameters, config files, etc.) in a location other than the root directory within the plugin itself. To utilize this feature, specify the overlay location with the
bt.overlay.root
system property when starting the plugin. (RLPNC-7240)Control response format: The pairwise match endpoint now supports a new URL parameter,
responseFormat
, to control the format of the match response. If the parameter is unset or set to its default value,explainInfo
, the response format of releases containing the RNI-RNT 7.43.0.c71.0 SDK will be used. This version has improved explanations for pairwise matches. If the parameter is set tolegacyExplainInfo
, the older response format is used. (RLPNC-7153, RLPNC-7255)Dynamic configuration improvements: The
type
field can now be specified when adding token overrides using the dynamic configuration endpoints. (RLPNC-7256)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where the
score
field could not be omitted from dynamic token override requests. (RLPNC-7256)
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
Release 2.11.0.0
October 2024
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0
New
Includes RNI-RNT 7.47.0.c75.0. Refer to the RNI-RNT release notes for a full description of new features.
Supports OpenSearch 2.11.0
Bug fixes
Katakana-Latin name matching with the
enableSeq2SeqTokenScorer
parameter enabled has been restored.
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.
When using the parameter
filter_out_scores_below
, the filter will always return at least one document, even if the highest scoring document is below the filter threshold value.
Release 2.7.0.0
June 2023
Includes RNI-RNT 7.41.0.c69.0
New
Initial release of RNI-OS providing support for OpenSearch.
Supports OpenSearch 2.7.0.
Known Issues
The doc_score, name_score and date_score functions are not currently supported in percolator queries.