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Coldplay release

1: Coldplay release changelog

1.1: Aura system components version
1.2: Aura API clients changelog
1.3: Aura bridge changelog
1.4: Aura channels changelog
1.5: Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog
1.6: Aura Configuration API changelog
1.7: Aura Context changelog
1.8: Aura deployment changelog
1.9: Aura Gateway API changelog
1.10: Aura mocks server changelog
1.11: Aura NLP changelog
1.12: Aura documentation changelog

2: Coldplay Release Notes
3: Scheduled updates in Aura components

Coldplay release

This section includes key information regarding new features included in Aura Platform for Coldplay and main changes in comparison with previous releases

What’s new in Coldplay (8.10.0)?

Discover here the new features and modifications at a glance. You can find the technical details in the release changelog and the Release Notes.

Novelties	Description
Improved logs behavior in NLP, Context and CLF	✔️ Included correlation and domain in certain logs without these fields. Other logs errors have also been fixed.
Enhanced configuration capabilities in Aura NLP	✔️ More settings for Qdrant requests are now available.
New Aura NLP stage: CLU recognizer	✔️ Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) significantly enhances Aura NLP performance. Its integration into an NLP pipeline allows applying Machine Learning intelligence for the accurate recognition of intents.
Experiences providing access to external NLP services	✔️ aura-gateway-api component’s main objective is to make Aura capabilities available to different services and applications. ✔️ This component provides a capability: aura-gateway-api nlpaas (NLP as a service), that enables constructors to send a request to be resolved by an specific NLP pipeline and get an answer back without the need for a conversational bot
Experiences providing auto-generated responses through Azure OpenAI	✔️ aura-gateway-api component’s main objective is to make Aura capabilities available to different services and applications. ✔️ This component provides a capability: aura-gateway-api generative, that enables the generation of experiences in Aura that provide auto-generated responses to the users through Azure OpenAI GPT models. ✔️ aura-gateway-api now includes a layer of security that prevents prompt injection, that is, misuse by third-party services or their users that can create malicious prompts as inputs and cause the model to act in unintended ways
Improved Aura Mocks server functionalities	✔️ New plugins have been added to Aura Mocks server for the management of different tasks
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Improved hot swapping documentation ✔️ Improved Aura communication protocols documentation ✔️ Added config-watcher documentation ✔️ Updated tags and categories that facilitate a precise and coherent classification of documents ✔️ You can review and access Aura latest novelties directly from the homepage ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

1 - Coldplay release changelog

Coldplay release changelog

Discover the record of all notable changes made in Aura for this release, organized by component.

1.1 - Aura system components version

Aura system components versions

Updated versions of Aura system components for the current Aura Platform release

Components versions

All components in the table below run over AKS cluster version 1.27.

Name	Namespace	Image deployed
alertmanager	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/alertmanager:v0.26.0
elastic-operator	aura-system	docker.elastic.co/eck/eck-operator:2.7.0
elasticsearch-es-aura	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch:8.7.1
elasticsearch-exporter	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch_exporter:v1.5.0
fluent-bit-aggregator	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/fluent-bit:2.2.0
grafana	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/grafana:8.5.21
kibana-kb	aura-system	docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.7.1
prometheus	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/prom/prometheus:v2.48.0
mongodb-atlas-operator	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/mongodb-atlas-kubernetes-operator:1.9.0
redis-exporter	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/redis-exporter:1.6.1
redis	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/redis:6.0.19
thanos-store-gateway	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.32.5
atlas-logger	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/atlas-logger:2.0.0
azure-logger	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/azure-logger:1.4.0
pushgateway	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/pushgateway:v1.4.1
thanos-querier	aura-system	devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.32.5

Additional information

Information regarding Aura system components end-of-life (EOL) and next updates is included in the document Scheduled updates in Aura components. Find it in the Aura releases section of your corresponding release.

1.2 - Aura API clients changelog

Aura API clients changelog

Changelog of Aura API clients for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-03-04 - New API client for Azure OpenAI service

A new external API client has been integrated into Aura for the implementation of the OpenAI chat completion API.
Affected documents:
- API clients: Azure OpenAI Service API client

1.3 - Aura bridge changelog

Aura bridge changelog

Changelog of Aura bridge component for Coldplay Aura Platform release.

Changed

2024-03-15 - Modify aura-bridge-outbound’s definition

aura-bridge-outbound definition is moved to the index of aura-bridge documentation due to its nature: instead of being described as a component inside aura-bridge, it is a modification of the same component’s configuration to act differently.
Affected documents:
- aura-bridge-outbound

1.4 - Aura channels changelog

Aura channels changelog

Changelog of Aura channels for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-02-29 Management of corporate anonymous users

Guidelines for the activation and deactivation of corporate anonymous users check.
New environment variable in Aura channel model for the establishment of settings for anonymous users.
Affected documents:
- Aura channel model: anonymous settings
- Enable corporate anonymous users check

1.5 - Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog

Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog

Changelog of Aura Complex Logic Framework for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-02-22 - Include missing data in logs for traceability

Included domain in HTTP debugging logs

2024-02-22 - Include correlator in response headers

Included correlator in response headers to trace the request and response in the system.

2024-02-22 - Refactor plugins metrics

Metrics of plugins are changed to use more exact metrics.

1.6 - Aura Configuration API changelog

Aura Configuration API changelog

Changelog of Aura Configuration API for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-03-01 - Modifications in Aura Configuration API modules

Two aura-configuration-api modules include modifications to handle fields related to aura-gateway-api generative: admin-module and application-module.
Affected documents:
- aura-configuration-api admin-module
- aura-configuration-api application-module

2024-03-01 - Modifications in Aura Configuration API swagger

Modifications in aura-configuration-api API swagger to handle aura-gateway-api generative capability.
Affected documents:
- aura-configuration-api API swagger

1.7 - Aura Context changelog

Aura Context changelog

Changelog of Aura Context documentation for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-02-22 - Add correlator in synchronizer process data with spark to Kernel

Included correlator in spark add method to Kernel.

2024-02-22 - Remove duplicated log

Removed duplicated log when the transformation has an error.

1.8 - Aura deployment changelog

Aura deployment changelog

Changelog of Aura deployment documentation for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-01-18 - Configure CLU allowed networks

Added clu_allowed_ranges configuration variable to configure CLU allowed networks.
Affected documents:
- Installer aurak8s: Configuration

2024-01-18 - Configure OpenAI allowed networks

Added openai_allowed_ranges configuration variable to configure OpenAI allowed networks.
Affected documents:
- Installer aurak8s: Configuration

2024-03-11 Add config-watcher documentation

Added documentation related to the config-watcher, a cronjob responsible for executing tasks based on a predefined schedule.
Affected documents:
- config-watcher

1.9 - Aura Gateway API changelog

Aura Gateway API service changelog

Changelog of Aura Gateway API service for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-03-08 - New Aura Gateway API capability: NLP as a Service

aura-gateway-api includes a new capability, aura-gateway-api nlpaas, that enables constructors to access to external NLP services.
Affected documents:
- Description of aura-gateway-api nlpaas capability
- Guidelines for working with aura-gateway-api nlpaas

2024-03-07 - New components in Aura Gateway API server for managing NLP capabilities

New endpoint added to aura-gateway-api service to expose NLP capabilities.
New plugin that manages the communication with NLP and QNA APIs to return a recognizer response.
New environment variables specific for aura-gateway-api nlpaas.
Affected documents:

2024-03-07 - Aura Gateway API generative avoids prompt injection

The capability aura-gateway-api generative that enables constructors to build use cases that provide auto-generated answers through Azure OpenAI now includes a layer of security that prevents prompt injection.
Affected documents:

2024-03-07 - Sheet for the configuration of an application

A sheet for the configuration of an application for a channel or service to communicate with aura-gateway-api capabilities has been added.
Affected documents:
- Configure an application

2024-03-04 - New API in Aura Gateway API server

Definition of the complete API of aura-gateway-api server.
Affected documents:
- aura-gateway-api swagger

Changed

2024-03-04 - Updated components in Aura Gateway API server for managing current capabilities

Modifications in aura-gateway-core, aura-gateway-development, aura-gateway-generative and aura-gateway-session API swaggers.
New parameters in aura-generative-api plugin and aura-session-api plugin to manage sessions and validate tokens.
New environment variables specific for aura-generative-api plugin.
Affected documents:

1.10 - Aura mocks server changelog

Aura mocks server changelog

Changelog of Aura mocks server for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-03-01 New aura-storage-file-manager plugin in Aura mocks server

A new plugin, aura-storage-file-manager plugin, has been added to the aura-mocks-server responsible for providing access to the Storage File Manager library to upload and download files from an Azure Storage account.
Affected documents:
- aura-storage-file-manager plugin

2024-03-01 New dynamic-settings plugin in Aura mocks server

A new plugin, dynamic-settings plugin, has been added to the aura-mocks-server responsible for loading profile configurations from an Azure account or locally to be used afterwards.
Affected documents:
- dynamic-settings plugin

2024-03-01 New profiles plugin in Aura mocks server

A new plugin, profiles plugin, has been added to the aura-mocks-server responsible for providing the rest of the plugins a specific utility to employ profiles and perform different behaviors, depending on the information received in requests and the configuration by type.
Affected documents:
- profiles plugin

1.11 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Changelog of Aura NLP component for Coldplay Aura Platform release

Added

2024-03-18 - Guidelines for the migration of a use case from LUIS to CLU

Tutorial aimed at providing an example of how to migrate the NLP recognition model of an already developed use case using the recognition stage LUIS to the CLU stage.
Affected documents:
- Migrate a use case from LUIS to CLU

Changed

2024-02-22 - Add configuration exponential_sleep to Qdrant

Added the parameters exponential_sleep and max_exponential_sleep_time to Qdrant configuration.
Affected documents:
- aura-nlp OpenAI Embeddings configuration

2024-02-22 - Include missing data in logs for traceability

Included domain in HTTP debugging logs.
Included correlator in logs without this field.

2024-02-22 - Remove Qdrant client in NLP

Changed Qdrant client to use HTTP request. HTTP request allows a better handling of retries, timeouts, responses and errors.

2024-02-22 - Fix logs with mistake level

Changed level logs when an error raises in stages LUIS, OpenAI Embeddings, CLU and QnA.

2024-02-22 - Include correlator in response headers

Included correlator in response headers to trace the request and response in the system.

2024-02-14 - Definition of CLU stage in Aura NLP

Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) has been integrated into Aura NLP as a stage that can be included in the NLP pipeline for the recognition of intents in a user’s utterance.
The description, path, associated files and configuration are comprehensively described in the documentation.
Affected documents:
- CLU recognizer stage
- NLP internal configuration: CLU
- NLP development process: Set up configuration properties
- How to obtain Azure credentials for CLU
- Throughout the website documents: Added references to CLU stage, if applicable.

2024-03-20 - New version of Aura NLP Virtual Machine

An improved version of Aura NLP Virtual Machine has been generated.
Affected documents:
- Aura NLP Virtual Machine

1.12 - Aura documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Changelog of Aura Documentation for Coldplay Aura Platform release.

The current section:

✅ Includes changes that exclusively affect to the improvement of Aura documentation (writing style, structure, format, fixing typos, etc.)

⛔ Does not include technical corrections in documents or modifications derived from changes over a specific Aura component. These ones will be included in their corresponding section within the release changelog.

Changed

2024-03-18 - Improved hot swapping documentation

The documents related to hot swapping processes in Aura have been improved:
- Added a table including the available hot swapping processes and the impact of each of them over other Aura components, that makes necessary to either restart the affected component or carry out a particular action to mitigate any potential issue or conflict.
- Completed guidelines to carry out hot swapping including all the available processes, different execution procedures, etc.
Affected documents:
- Hot swapping in Aura

2024-03-15 - Updated sequence diagrams for Auraline and Direct Line

Auraline and Direct Line documentation has been completed with their corresponding sequence diagrams
Affected documents:
- Auraline communication protocol
- Direct Line communication protocol

2024-02-14 - Documents fixes and corrections

Throughout the website, different links, styles, weights and typos have been modified and/or corrected, for a continuous improvement of Aura Platform documentation.
The cards of the Technical Documentation website main sections have been optimized and updated to provide shortcuts to their sub-sections.
Updated list of Aura APIs.
The README.md document, that contains detailed instructions for documentation makers and collaborators, has been completed.
Tags and categories are reviewed in every release in order to maintain the adequate taxonomy for the classification of documents. Remember that guidelines for the integration of tags and categories are included in: Readme.md - Section “Tags y categorías”

2 - Coldplay Release Notes

Coldplay Release Notes

Access the document Aura Platform Release: Coldplay - Release Notes

3 - Scheduled updates in Aura components

Scheduled updates in Aura components

List of basic dependencies used by Aura components with their EOL information and the maximum frequency of update proposed by Aura Global team to avoid security issues. It also contains the next scheduled update, if it is already known.

Future updates

Aura Component	Dependency	Current Version	EOL	Max frequency	Next update	EOL Info
Aura System	aks/kubernetes	1.27	07/24 - LTS 07/25	Twice a year	2024Q3	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#kubernetes-versions
Aura System	elasticsearch	8.7.1	10/08/24	Once a year	2024Q3	https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System	grafana	8.5.21	N/A	Once a year	2024Q4	https://community.grafana.com/t/support-policy-for-previous-releases/53350
Aura System	kibana	8.7.1	10/08/24	Once a year	2024Q3	https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System	prometheus	2.48.0	N/A	Once a year	2024Q4	https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/
Aura Bot	mongodb	7.0	08/26	Once a year	2024Q4	https://www.mongodb.com/support-policy/lifecycles
Aura System, Aura Bot	node docker image	node:18.18.2-alpine3.17	11/24	Once a year	2024Q2	https://endoflife.date/alpine
Aura System, Aura Context	redis	6.X (azure)	08/24	Once a year	2024Q1	https://endoflife.date/redis
Aura Bot	nodejs	18.18.2	04/24	Once a year¹	2024Q2	https://endoflife.date/nodejs
Aura Bot	typescript	5.0.0	12/24	Once a year	2024Q2
Aura Bot	botbuilder	4.19.6	N/A	Once a year	2024Q2
Aura Bot	joi	17.6.0	N/A	Once a year	2024Q2
Aura Bot	superagent	8.0.5	N/A	Once a year	2024Q2
QA Tool	python	3.8/3.9	14/10/24 (3.8)	Once a year	2024Q3	https://endoflife.date/python
Aura Cognitive	python	3.9/3.11	05/10/25(3.9) 24/10/27(3.11)	Every 2 years	2024Q2	https://endoflife.date/python
Aura Cognitive	python packages dependencies	N/A	N/A	Every 2 years	2025Q2	(python - 1 year)
Aura Cognitive	ubuntu	22.04 LTS	01/04/27	Every 5 years	2026Q4	https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Aura Cognitive	local tool containers	N/A	N/A	Every 2 years	2024Q1
Aura Cognitive Abacus	react	17.0.2	🔴 29/03/22	Every 3 years	2024Q4	https://endoflife.date/react
Aura Cognitive Abacus	typescript	4.1	N/A	Every 3 years	2024Q4

Nodejs will be updated to a major version on a yearly basis, but within the same major version, it will be updated every time a security update is released. ↩︎