Florence release changelog

• 1: Aura system components version
• 2: Aura Authentication API changelog
• 3: Aura Bot changelog
• 4: Aura channels changelog
• 5: Aura Configuration API changelog
• 6: Aura deployment changelog
• 7: Aura Gateway API changelog
• 8: Aura groot changelog
• 9: Aura Mocks Server changelog
• 10: Aura monitoring changelog
• 11: Aura NLP changelog
• 12: Aura utilities changelog
• 13: Aura documentation changelog

1 - Aura system components version

Aura system components versions

Components versions

All components in the table below run over AKS cluster version 1.29

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:10.3.3
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:2.1.0
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.

2 - Aura Authentication API changelog

Aura Authentication API changelog

Added

2024-04-23 - Parameter to control authentication expiration in aura-authentication-api

• A new parameter expiresAt is included in aura-authentication-api database to set the time when the user authentication should be discarded.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-authentication-api database collections

2024-04-23 - Parameter to control authentication expiration in aura-authentication-api API swagger

• The value of expiresAt indicates the time when the user authentication should be discarded. This value is returned by aura-authentication-api API swagger when the authentication data is requested. It can be used by clients to expire their user caches in time.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-authentication-api API swagger

3 - Aura Bot changelog

Aura Bot changelog

Added

2024-06-14 - Add grateful shutdown recommendation

• When testing a developed use case, a recommendation is added regarding the response time for the use case, that should be less than the time configured in the AURA_SHUTDOWN_GRACEFUL_TTL variable to avoid data losing.
• Affected documents:
  • Max response times due to graceful shutdown policy

Changed

2024-05-29 - Archived telco global use cases

• The Aura global use cases belonging to the telco domain are not longer used by OBs. Consequently, these global experiences will be stored and no longer maintained in Aura:
  • Balance check
  • Bill check
  • Billing unusual (Why did you charge me more this month?)
  • Service Usage (Check Data Usage)
  • Bundle Browse
  • Bundle List
  • Data allowance
  • Balance Top up

2024-05-29 - Change in the handover-genesys library

• The handover-genesys library is not longer a global library and it is moved to the factotum library that integrates test dialogs related to Aura core functionalities.
• Affected documents:
  • handover-genesys library

2024-05-29 - Deleted global libraries

• Several aura-bot global libraries have been deleted from the aura-bot-libraries repository
  • bill library
  • cognitive library
  • services library

2024-05-29 - Add channelData V3 small talk use cases

• Add small talk use cases to be compatible with the normalized request-response model channelData V3:
  • greetings use case
  • goodbyes use case
  • swearwords use case
  • help use case
• Add configuration to use small talk V3 use cases for the channel set-top-box (STB) in Brazil OB.

2024-06-19 - Update Aura minibot documentation

• The Aura minibot user guide has been updated, through a comprehensive review of the document to ensure that the processes are accurately documented: upgrading the docker-compose files, both remote and local ones; adjusting images, etc.
• Affected document:
  • Aura minibot user guide

4 - Aura channels changelog

Aura channels changelog

Added

2024-04-23 - Management of the expiration for users’ authentication

• The expiration of users’ authentication in a channel can be configured if, for security purposes, it is required to set an expiration time before the authorizationId expires in Kernel.
• Affected documents:
  • Configure users expiration

2024-04-23 - New parameter in Aura channel model

• The authorizationIdExpiration parameter is included to set the expiration time of a user’s authentication in seconds.
• Affected documents:
  • Channels model: authorizationIdExpiration

5 - Aura Configuration API changelog

Aura Configuration API changelog

Added

2024-04-23 - Parameter to control authentication expiration in aura-configuration-api API swagger

• Add a new parameter is included in aura-configuration-api API swagger to set the time in seconds that the authorization id will be valid.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-configuration-api API swagger

6 - Aura deployment changelog

Aura deployment changelog

Deleted

2024-29-05 - Aura Platform releases will not be deployed in UK

• The strategy regarding Aura in the UK is not aligned with its current Aura Platform configuration, focused on telco use cases for the Novum channel.
• Due to this fact, Aura Global Team will stop generating a release for UK, its configuration will be deleted and no validations will be carried out for this OB.

Added

2024-06-11 - Metric for users connected to Aura

• An existing Kibana dashboard has been extended to show the number of users connected to Aura during a specific period. This is calculated using logs stored in Elasticsearch.

Changed

2024-06-11 - Domain removal

• The domain rlogs-XXXX.auracognitive.com has been removed. It was used as a raw access to Elasticsearch, but currently it is not used anymore as other alternatives are applied.

2024-06-11 - Update certificates

• The auracognitive.com certificates have been updated.

7 - Aura Gateway API changelog

Aura Gateway API service changelog

Changed

2024-06-04 - Refactor of aura-gateway-api plugins

• New plugins have been created for the management of generative and NLP as a Service capabilities within aura-gateway-api refactor.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-gateway-api plugins

2024-06-04 - New environment variables in aura-gateway-api

• New environment variables have been included in aura-gateway-api, within aura-gateway-api refactor.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-gateway-api environment variables

2024-05-27 - aura-gateway-api API client

• Added documentation related to aura-gateway-api API client.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-gateway-api API client

2024-05-27 - aura-gateway-api Postman collection

• Added aura-gateway-api Postman collection.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-gateway-api Postman collection

8 - Aura groot changelog

Aura Groot changelog

Added

2024-06-14 - Migrate Aura Groot context database

• Guidelines for the migration of aura-groot database context schema from releases previous to Dire Straits to Dorian release onwards.
• Affected documents:
  • Migrate Aura Groot context

9 - Aura Mocks Server changelog

Aura Mocks Server changelog

Changed

2024-01-09 - Improved aura-mocks-server documentation

• For a better understanding of documentation, the aura-mocks-server related documents have been restructured and completed.
• Affected documents:
  • Aura Mocks Server

10 - Aura monitoring changelog

Aura monitoring changelog

Changed

2024-06-19 - Correction of wrong origin values in Prometheus metrics

• Wrong origin values were detected in Prometheus metrics for aura-bridge, aura-groot and aura-gateway-api pods. To resolve it, metrics have been modified, so they provide the proper origin value. If origin is missing, the content of the path label will be added.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-bridge metrics
  • aura-groot metrics
  • aura-gateway-api metrics

2024-06-14 - aura-bridge metrics filtered by channel

• aura-bridge metric incoming_message_duration_seconds cannot be filtered in Grafana by channel name. This has been resolved for a request of “auraline” type: the channelId field is obtained from the Direct Line message, so it is added to the metric afterwards.
  However, Auraline requests to obtain the conversationId will not include the channel in the metric.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-bridge metrics

11 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Added

2024-04-30 - Definition of EDC stage in Aura NLP

• Embeddings Domain Classifier (EDC) has been integrated into Aura NLP as a stage that can be included in the NLP pipeline for the classification of the domain in a user’s utterance through OpenAI embeddings.
• The description, path, associated files and configuration are comprehensively described in the documentation.
• Affected documents:
  • Embeddings Domain Classifier stage
  • NLP internal configuration: Embeddings Domain Classifier
  • Throughout the website documents: Added references to EDC stage, if applicable.

Fixed

2024-06-21 - Improved parallelization in training CLU apps

• When a channel had N CLU domains trainings sets, this produced N different CLU aplications and training processes.
• This behavior has been fixed, and now all the apps of the same channel can launch the CLU training process at the same time, thus reducing the total training time.

12 - Aura utilities changelog

Aura utilities changelog

Changed

2024-06-12 - Organization of Aura utilities

• Aura utilities are now enclosed in the so-named aura-common-utilities and organized in different packages: aura-bot-utilities, aura-utilities, aura-develop-utilities and aura-clients in the Github repository.
• The aura-common-utilities documentation has been restructured accordingly.
• Affected documents:
  • Aura Common utilities

13 - Aura documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Added

2024-06-14 - New guidelines available

• New guidelines for aura-bot and aura-groot components.
• Check the new documents in the changelog of the corresponding component.

Changed

2024-06-14 - Improved documentation

• Improved documentation for aura-utilities and aura-mocks-server.
• Check the modified documents in the changelog of the corresponding component.

2024-04-10 - 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.
• Tags and categories are reviewed in every release in order to maintain the adequate taxonomy for the classification of documents.