Hannah Montana release

• 1: Hannah Montana release changelog
• 1.1: Aura system components version
• 1.2: Atria Model Gateway changelog
• 1.3: Atria RAG Server changelog
• 1.4: Aura Authentication API changelog
• 1.5: Aura bot changelog
• 1.6: Aura bridge changelog
• 1.7: Aura Channel Connection Manager changelog
• 1.8: Aura channels changelog
• 1.9: Aura common utilities changelog
• 1.10: Aura Configuration API changelog
• 1.11: Aura deployment changelog
• 1.12: Aura File Manager changelog
• 1.13: Aura Gateway API changelog
• 1.14: Aura groot changelog
• 1.15: Aura Manager changelog
• 1.16: Aura NLP changelog
• 1.17: Aura operations changelog
• 1.18: Aura Redis Mongo synchronizer changelog
• 1.19: Aura request-response model changelog
• 1.20: Aura documentation changelog
• 2: Hannah Montana Release Notes
• 3: Scheduled updates in Aura components

1 - Hannah Montana release changelog

Hannah Montana release changelog

1.1 - 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:8.15.0
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:8.15.0
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.

1.2 - Atria Model Gateway changelog

Atria Model Gateway changelog

Added

2024-08-17 - Optimized performance of ATRIA components

• ATRIA now includes an alarm system to control the atria-model-gateway status.

2024-09-13 - New metrics in atria-model-gateway

• New metrics are included in the atria-model-gateway to monitor the performance of the AI models.
• Affected documents:
  • atria-model-gateway: monitoring

Changed

2024-09-13 - Modifications in atria-model-gateway API swagger

• Updated atria-model-gateway API swagger.
• Affected documents:
  • atria-model-gateway API definition

2024-09-13 - Modifications in atria-model-gateway configuration

• The field group is now mandatory, to associate a preset to a specific group: simple_ai (Generative AI preset) y enriched_ai (RAG preset).
• A new parameter is included to associate base permission levels to the application: base_levels.
• New fields in Redis configuration: sleep_time, prefix and max_retries.
• Inserted params timeout in the configurations models.
• New default models in the configuration: gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini.
• New default presets in configuration: openai-preset-gpt-4o and openai-preset-gpt-4o-mini.
• New field in presets configuration: max_input_length, to detect injection by preset.
• New error message if the system detects an injection attempt.
• New method to configure logs through a configuration file.
• Affected documents:
  • atria-model-gateway default configuration: Redis
  • atria-model-gateway default configuration: models
  • atria-model-gateway default configuration: presets
  • atria-model-gateway default configuration: access
  • atria-model-gateway: default configuration: error messages
  • atria-model-gateway default configuration: Logging configuration

Fixed

2024-08-17 - Improved order of messages in the conversational flow

• When a user sends more than one message, the order in which the context is integrated into the conversational flow is not the expected one. This has been improved and now the messages follow a logical order, providing a clear experience for the user.

2024-09-13 - Correct sequence in response

• The sequence field in the answer was not returning a valid value. This behavior has been solved.

1.3 - Atria RAG Server changelog

Atria RAG Server changelog

Added

2024-08-17 - Optimized performance of ATRIA components

• ATRIA now includes an alarm system to control the atria-rag-server status.
• Improved process for uploading data content in the RAG capability, as now a default content is allowed.

2024-09-13 - New metrics in atria-rag-server

• New metrics are included in the atria-rag-server to monitor the performance of the AI models.
• Affected documents:
  • atria-rag-server: monitoring

Changed

2024-09-09 - Import documents data from URLs

• If constructors want to modify the configuration of the atria-rag-server by uploading new documents for lexical and semantic search, now the documentation explains how to import data from URLs.
• Affected documents:
  • Configuration: import new data to the environment

2024-09-13 - Modifications in atria-rag-server configuration

• New fields in the configuration of projects: solve_type, translate_query and qdrant.prefix.
• New field in the configuration of projects: prompts, to be used when Aura Copilot calls ATRIA, if the solver type is SQL.
• New method to configure logs through a configuration file.
• Affected documents:
  • atria-rag-server default configuration: projects
  • atria-rag-server default configuration: prompts
  • atria-rag-server default configuration: Logging configuration

Fixed

2024-09-13 - Improved process for filtrating relevant responses

• In the process for filtrating relevant responses, the tags ignorable and relevant were sometimes generated in different languages, so sometimes the final prompt did not take into account a relevant content as these tags were not understood.
• Now, this behavior has been fixed, and the system is able to understand these tags without losing any relevant response.

1.4 - Aura Authentication API changelog

Aura Authentication API changelog

Added

2024-09-09 - Added error texts for WhatsApp login

• Added new error texts for the WhatsApp login process in aura-authentication-api, for a better control of these errors.

Changed

2024-09-09 - Integrate open-api-backend

• Change to open-api-backend since oas-tools is no longer receiving updates.
• open-api-backend has native support for TypeScript and OpenAPI 3.1.

2024-09-09 - Update monkey-patcher drt to milliseconds

• Changed monkey-patcher drt from seconds to milliseconds for a better measurement of requests duration.

1.5 - Aura bot changelog

Aura Bot changelog

Added

2024-09-06 - Add smalltalk, none and tv.none v3 use cases for channel STB in Spain OB

• The normalized use cases smalltalk, tv.none and none use cases, adapted to Aura v3 request-respones model, have been activated for the channel set-top-box (STB) in Spain OB.

2024-09-04 - Included Redis + Mongo DB databases in aura-bot

• Redis + MongoDB databases are now used by aura-bot within a two-level cache strategy to store the context managed by Aura Redis Mongo Synchronizer.
• Affected documents:
  • Aura Bot databases: Redis + MongoDB

2024-09-09 - Added mimetypes for WhatsApp files

• Added mimetypes when uploading certain files with extensions .aac, .m4a, .amr and .opus to Azure Storage during the aura-bot make-up.

Changed

2024-09-09 - Update monkey-patcher drt to milliseconds

• Changed monkey-patcher drt from seconds to milliseconds for a better measurement of requests duration.

Fixed

2024-09-09 - Added retries for aura-authentication-api calls

• Added internal retries from aura-bot to aura-authentication-api calls in order to provide another attempt before sending an error.

1.6 - Aura bridge changelog

Aura bridge changelog

Changed

2024-09-09 - Update monkey-patcher drt to milliseconds

• Changed monkey-patcher drt from seconds to milliseconds for a better measurement of requests duration.

Fixed

2024-08-29 - Correct Accept Header in Auraline channel callback request 9.3.1

• aura-bridge now sets Accept: application/json instead of Accept: json in the request to the channel callback of Auraline. This change enables aura-groot to send responses back to the channel.

1.7 - Aura Channel Connection Manager changelog

Aura Channel Connection Manager changelog

Changed

2024-09-09 - Change CORS

• Added hosts in CORS to allow websocket requests in channel-connection-manager.

1.8 - Aura channels changelog

Aura channels changelog

Deleted

2024-09-11 - Facebook channel deactivation in Brazil

• Facebook channel is no longer active in Brazil configuration; however, Facebook integration has not been removed from aura-bot, so the channel can be added again when needed.

1.9 - Aura common utilities changelog

Aura common utilities changelog

Changed

2024-09-09 - Filter swagger validator errors

• Delete duplicated errors from openapi-backend swagger validations

1.10 - Aura Configuration API changelog

Aura Configuration API changelog

Changed

2024-09-09 - Update monkey-patcher drt to milliseconds

• Changed monkey-patcher drt from seconds to milliseconds for a better measurement of requests duration.

2024-09-09 - Modifications in aura-configuration-api for the configuration of ATRIA components

• Due to the modifications in the configuration of the ATRIA component atria-model-gateway, that now includes base permission levels to the application, the aura-configuration-api has been updated accordingly to include this field.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-configuration-api: admin module
  • aura-configuration-api: application module
  • aura-configuration-api: API swagger

1.11 - Aura deployment changelog

Aura deployment changelog

Added

2024-08-19 - Added stop/start Aura environment command

• New command in Aura installer to stop or start Aura environment.
• Affected documents:
  • Installer aurak8s - Stop and start Aura environment

2024-08-19 - Atlas APIKey ACLs handling in Aura installer

• Added information regarding how Aura installer handles Atlas Access Control Lists (ACLs).
• Affected documents:
  • Installer aurak8s - Atlas APIKeys

2024-08-19 - Added permissions to assign roles to AKS managed identities in service principal

• From Hannah Montana release onwards, the service principal must include permissions to be able to assign roles to the AKS managed identities.
• Affected documents:
  • Installer aurak8s - Create Service Principal

Changed

2024-08-19 - LUIS legacy configuration

• LUIS resource deployment is not handled by the installer anymore, as LUIS services are deprecated. From the current release onwards, the installer will not be able to deploy LUIS services anymore but the existing ones will still work.
• Affected documents:
  • Installer aurak8s - LUIS legacy configuration

2024-09-04 - Updated Redis tier size

• The Redis tier size has changed to P1 (6 GB) by default ir order to optimize resources and save costs, as this is a sufficient size due to other improvements made in Aura services.
• ⚠️ The modified resource belongs to a shared cluster used between different Aura releases. This update is done with no service outage during the core deployment process.

2024-09-13 - Updated Kibana and Elasticsearch versions

• Kibana and Elasticsearch has been updated to 8.15.0. version.
• Affected documents:
  • Aura system components versions
  • Scheduled updates in Aura components

1.12 - Aura File Manager changelog

Aura File Manager API changelog

Changed

2024-09-09 - Integrate open-api-backend

• Change to open-api-backend since oas-tools is no longer receiving updates.
• open-api-backend has native support for TypeScript and OpenAPI 3.1.

1.13 - Aura Gateway API changelog

Aura Gateway API changelog

Changed

2024-08-15 - Updated Postman collection

• The Postman collection for aura-gateway-api has been updated to adapt to the modifications in this component.
• Affected documents:
  • aura-gateway-api Postman collection

2024-09-13 - Moved Aura Gateway API guidelines

• The contents related to how to manage aura-gateway-api for using ATRIA capabilities has been moved to the ATRIA section.
• Now, the documentation for this component can be found here:
  • Descriptive technical documentation:
    • Aura Gateway API server: technical description, architecture, components, communication protocol, environment variables, API definition
      
      
  • Technical guidelines:
    • Building e2e experiences: Schematic overview of the end-to-end workflows for use cases development using ATRIA capabilities, including the management of aura-gateway-api.
    • Technical guidelines: Comprehensive instructions for particular processes where aura-gateway-api is integrated.

1.14 - Aura groot changelog

Aura groot changelog

Added

2024-09-04 - Included Redis + Mongo DB databases in aura-groot

• Redis + MongoDB databases are now used by aura-groot within a two-level cache strategy to store the context managed by aura-redis-mongo-synchronizer.
• Affected documents:
  • Aura groot databases: Redis + MongoDB

Changed

2024-09-09 - Update monkey-patcher drt to milliseconds

• Changed monkey-patcher drt from seconds to milliseconds for a better measurement of requests duration.

1.15 - Aura Manager changelog

Aura Manager changelog

Added

2024-09-11 Error messages in aura-manager

• The aura-manager documentation has been improved by adding information regarding the type of errors that can occur and how to behave in these scenarios.
• Affected documents:
  • Use ATRIA web interface (aura-manager)

2024-09-06 Microphone updates to SpeechRecognition

• SpeechRecognition is compatible with the latest React version.
• Disabled microphone icon for browsers that do not support the SpeechRecognition API.
• Enabled microphone for message entering for browsers that support the SpeechRecognition API.
• Affected documents:
  • Use ATRIA web interface (aura-manager)

1.16 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Added

2024-08-30 - Process for getting Azure credentials for OpenAI

• New guidelines on how to obtain Azure credentials for OpenAI.
• Affected documents:
  • Azure credentials for OpenAI

Changed

2024-08-30 - Updated process for getting Azure credentials for LUIS

• The guidelines on how to obtain Azure credentials for LUIS has been updated, providing more details and links to Microsoft Azure documentation.
• Affected documents:
  • Azure credentials for LUIS

1.17 - Aura operations changelog

Aura operations changelog

Added

2024-09-04 - Include basic authentication flows

• Include an specific section to explain Aura’s authentication flows
• Affected documents:
  • User authentication flows

2024-09-04 - Include basic Auraline flows

• Include an specific section to explain Auraline channels flows
• Affected documents:
  • Auraline flows

Updated

2024-09-04 - Review Aura operational flows

• Review Aura operational flows to include all the new components and flows, such as aura-groot or aura-bridge-outbound.
• Affected documents:
  • DirectLine basic flows
  • Webclient flows
  • Use case flows
  • Whatsapp flows

1.18 - Aura Redis Mongo synchronizer changelog

Aura Redis Mongo synchronizer changelog

Added

2024-09-04 - New component Aura Redis Mongo synchronizer

• A new component has been developed in Aura: aura-redis-mongo-synchronizer, in charge of managing the use of Redis and MongoDB to create a Bot Framework Context management as a two-level cache.
• Affected documents:
  • Aura Redis Mongo Synchronizer

1.19 - Aura request-response model changelog

Aura request-response model changelog

Added

2024-09-04 - JSON schemas review

• The JSON schemas for both Aura request and Aura response v3 models included in Aura Technical Documentation website are now automatically updated when there are changes in their Github repository, ensuring that the latest version is always available.
• Affected documents:
  • JSON schema for channelData v3 request model
  • JSON schema for channelData v3 response model

Changed

2024-09-04 - Improved status documentation

• The documentation regarding the status returned by Aura in channelData v3 has been improved and completed.
• Affected documents:
  • Status channelData v3

1.20 - Aura documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Changed

2024-09-18 Completed and improved ATRIA documentation

• A second version of the top-level section ATRIA has been included in the Technical Documentation website with the objective of providing accurate contents suitable for both business and product profiles as well as specialized technical profiles.
  • ATRIA documentation
    
    
• In this section, the documentation structure has been modified and designed in a pyramidal structure, from less to more technical complexity:
  • At the top, basic information about ATRIA is provided with low technical complexity, understandable for all types of profiles:
    • Introduction to ATRIA: fundamentals and benefits of ATRIA
    • ATRIA capabilities: description of ATRIA AI-driven functionalities
  • In a second level, the documents take a step further and show a higher level of technical detail:
    • ATRIA functional description: overview of the functional processes executed by ATRIA and its capabilities
  • In a third-level, high-level technical documents are included, which will serve as guides for specialized technical profiles.
    • Building e2e experiences: Schematic overview of the end-to-end workflows for use cases development using ATRIA capabilities, including all the orderly steps of the process.
    • Technical guidelines: Comprehensive instructions for particular processes intended for highly-skilled technical teams.
• Moreover, the documents related to ATRIA technical components and processes has been adjusted with the latest modifications and also completed and corrected. You can see these updates in the changelog of the corresponding technical component.

2 - Hannah Montana Release Notes

Hannah Montana Release Notes

3 - Scheduled updates in Aura components

Scheduled updates in Aura components

Future updates

Aura Component	Dependency	Current Version	EOL	Max frequency	Next update	EOL Info
Aura System	aks/kubernetes	1.29.2	End of support: 31/01/2025	Twice a year	2024Q4	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#kubernetes-versions
Aura System	elasticsearch	8.15.0	18 months after v9.0. launching	Once a year	2025Q3	https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System	grafana	10.3.3	N/A	Once a year	2025Q2	https://community.grafana.com/t/support-policy-for-previous-releases/53350
Aura System	kibana	8.15.0	18 months after v9.0. launching	Once a year	2025Q3	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 1	node docker image	node:20.12.2-alpine3.19	04/26	Once a year	2025Q2	https://endoflife.date/alpine
Aura System, Aura Gateway API	node docker image	node:20.12.2-bookworm-slim	04/26	Once a year	2025Q2	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	20.12.2	04/26	Once a year1	2025Q2	https://endoflife.date/nodejs
Aura Bot	typescript	5.0.0	12/24	Once a year	2024Q4
Aura Bot	botbuilder	4.22.1	N/A	Once a year	2025Q2
Aura Bot	joi	17.6.0	N/A	Once a year	2024Q2
Aura Bot	superagent	9.0.2	N/A	Once a year	2025Q2
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
Aura Cognitive	Qdrant	1.8.4	N/A 2	Once a year	2024Q2	https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/blob/master/docs/roadmap/README.md