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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Main-Migrate-Nexus-32135 release

This section includes key information regarding new features included in Aura Platform for Main-Migrate-Nexus-32135 and main changes in comparison with previous releases

What’s new in Main-Migrate-Nexus-32135 (1.0.0)?

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
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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ub40 release

This section includes key information regarding new features included in Aura Platform for Ub40 and main changes in comparison with previous releases

What’s new in Ub40 (10.8.0)?

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
Update Aura Databricks Jobs	✔️ Update Python version 3.10.
Removed Movistar Home Channel	✔️ Movistar Home channel is no longer supported in the Aura Platform.
Removed Living Apps	✔️ Living Apps are no longer supported in the Aura Platform.
Removed Entities	✔️ Api, User and suggestion entities are not longer writen in the Aura Platform.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Titas release

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

What’s new in Titas (10.7.0)?

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
Implementation of filters to control the use of LLMS	✔️ New plugins have been added for filter configuration and execution.
New global TV LLM Conversational None UC implemented in Spain and Brazil	✔️ New conversational Use Case that helps users understand the available actions on the platform and how to invoke them correctly so they can be properly understood and processed by the system.
Added new services status metrics in components	✔️ Added new metrics in bot components to check services availability. Also added a new grafana dashboard.
Config provision now manages changes configuration files	✔️ Responsibility for handling `changes-bot-response.json` and `changes-locale-xx.json` configuration files has been moved to config-provision.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Suede release

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

What’s new in Suede (10.6.0)?

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
Update monkey-patcher data processing	✔️ Changed monkey-patcher data processing to solve poor performance in certain situations
Add footer field in interactive lists on WhatsApp	✔️ Added support for a footer field in interactive WhatsApp messages
New AI model gpt-4.1-nano	✔️ A new AI-driven model has been integrated into ATRIA, gpt-4.1-nano, which is a faster and most cost-effective solution
New global TV LLM Triage UC implemented in Spain and Brazil	✔️ Use case designed to improve the rate of responses that include relevant TV results for users
New global TV LLM Search UC implemented in Spain and Brazil	✔️ Use case designed to improve the rate of responses that include relevant TV results for users
New global TV LLM Conversational Search UC implemented in Spain and Brazil	✔️ New conversational use case that helps users narrow down their search to match content according to the available thematic categories
Fixed aggregated path in Prometheus metrics	✔️ Fixed aggregated path issues in Prometheus metrics for aura-gateway-api, aura-bot, aura-configuration-api, aura-bridge, aura-file-manager, and aura-groot
Fixed TV custom recommendation dialog	✔️ Deleted extra response message returned by dialog TV custom recommendation
Updated TV custom recommendation preset	✔️ Updated prompt, window, timeout and promptInjectionMaxLength of the TV custom recommendation preset

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shakira release

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

What’s new in Shakira (10.5.0)?

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
Modified performance of Aura NLP GazetteerNer stage	✔️ Fixed GazetteerNer stage to avoid service degradation when processing certain input phrases containing many entities
Optimization of ATRIA ingestion process	✔️ The ingestion process for uploading and processing new documents in an ATRIA experience has been significantly enhanced: The workflow has been apified, enabling a more streamlined and user-friendly approach to document processing and database integration. The system now supports faster, more agile uploads with detailed status updates and progress tracking. Additionally, error handling has been improved, offering clearer diagnostics and more robust failure management
Enhanced multi-language ATRIA feature	✔️ When automated language detection is activated in an ATRIA experience, preprocessing is now applied to the user’s request at this stage to avoid recognition errors and improve the accuracy of the language recognition
Presets availability	✔️ Newly created presets take several minutes to become available. This process has been optimized, and users now receive real-time notifications informing them of the preset’s status as it becomes ready for use
Improved ATRIA logs behavior	✔️ ATRIA logs are generated with all the necessary fields and adhered to the expected format, enabling successful and consistent uploads into Elastic
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ Added to documentation the process for launching the atria-rag-generate-db component ✔️ Restructuring of ATRIA components descriptive documents, enhancing clarity and accessibility ✔️ Added SQL RAG pipeline to documentation ✔️ Review and update of Aura components versions ✔️ Deleted deprecated releases from Aura Technical Documentation website ✔️ Corrected links in the “Guidelines for ATRIA use cases constructors” ✔️ Review of tags and categories ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation
Support Perplexity Sonar model	✔️ The atria-model-gw supports the Sonar model.
Update monkey-patcher data processing	✔️ Changed monkey-patcher data processing to solve poor performance in certain situations
Remove deprecated channels configuration	✔️ Delete AIWI, AWC and X4ALL channels configuration and their specific features
Remove unused dialogs	✔️ Delete alfred and AIWI conversational dialogs configuration
Deleted changes endpoints from aura-configuration-api	✔️ Removed changes endpoints from aura-configuration-api, because the platform components are now using events to get the configuration changes.
Removed LoA3 login feature	✔️ Deleted LoA3 authentication type from Aura. Both aura-bot dialogs supporting this feature and the `auth-process` endpoint in authentication-api are removed.
Removed channel-connections-manager component	✔️ Remove channel-connections-manager component, because authenticated Aura Web Clients are not available anymore.
Fixed RCS response IDs	✔️ Fixed RCS client in aura-bridge to use a unique uuid for every response
Fixed WhatsApp media API connection	✔️ Fixed streaming connection from WhatsApp media API in aura-file-manager to be able to upload files to the configured Azure Blob Storage.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Radiohead release

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

What’s new in Radiohead (10.4.0)?

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
Suggestion management in Aura Configuration API	✔️ New suggestion management is enabled to display previously configured suggestions to Telefónica customers
Fixed aggregated path in Prometheus metrics	✔️ Fixed aggregated paths in Prometheus metrics for aura-gateway-api, aura-bot and aura-configuration-api
channelData v3.2.0	✔️ Added new version of channelData with allowedCatalogTypes property for devices
Improve MongoDB server connection settings	✔️ All available settings of MongoDB connection are now configurable through environment variables in every Aura component accessing this database
Aura components upgrade	✔️ As part of the scheduled updates of components in Aura platform infrastructure, the current release includes the upgrade of key components versions
Modifications in config-watcher behavior	✔️ config-watcher is now a deployment, continuously running in a persistent execution
DAPR integration for Aura microservices	✔️ DAPR (Distributed Application Runtime) framework has been integrated into Aura to simplify the development of microservices-based applications and enhance Aura’s operational efficiency. Currently, it is disabled by default as event manager
Aura bugfixing	✔️ Resolved error to correctly handling post-timeout interactions through an improved session management logic ✔️ Fixed certain Aura NLP and Complex Logic Framework logs that did not contain the mandatory correlator field ✔️ Adjusted Azure security filter for LLMs to prevent blocking valid LLM requests
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ New ATRIA guidelines for use cases constructors ✔️ Improved ATRIA documentation ✔️ Homogenization of ATRIA descriptive documents structure ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Qotsa release

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

What’s new in Qotsa (10.3.0)?

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

Aura Platform

Novelties	Description
Use of Kernel WhatsApp API v2	✔️ Kernel WhatsApp API v2 is now supported by aura-bridge. This version provides full integration with the on-cloud version of WhatsApp API and allows new WhatsApp functionalities
Aura Configuration API version update	✔️ aura-configuration-api APIs have been updated from version v1 to v2 due to a major change in the presets schema
Use of WhatsApp templates	✔️ Simplified use of WhatsApp templates, as `namespace` field is now optional and does not require validation
DevOps improvements	✔️ New MongoDB user specifically created for ATRIA components ✔️ Adjustments in Fluentbit filtering for improving logs routing to Elasticsearch indexes ✔️ New configuration option in aurak8s to set a maintenance schedule window for Atlas
Complete Aura request-response models documentation	✔️ Added channelData v1 and v2 JSON schemas to documentation
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ Updated and improved Aura Technical Documentation Readme file ✔️ Stored in Sharepoint L-CDO historical documentation related to global use cases ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

ATRIA

Novelties	Description
Enhancements for ATRIA presets configuration	✔️ Modifications in aura-configuration-api preset API swagger for a better flexibility, readability and improved schema compatibility
Mandatory retrieval stage in presets	✔️ The retrieval stage (`RetrievalStg`) that defines in a preset the process for obtaining relevant documents that best match the input query, is now mandatory in preset definition
ATRIA configuration update through Redis events	✔️ ATRIA components are subscribed to Redis channels for managing modifications in configuration
New endpoint to proxy OpenAI	✔️ New endpoint that enables better integration and management of OpenAI model interactions
Best practices for prompts generation	✔️ New document with best practices for the creation of prompts by ATRIA use case constructors
Adding metadata information	✔️ Improved guidelines for adding metadata information in ATRIA configuration
ATRIA bugfixing	✔️ Unavailability of RAG preset without references

Video use cases

Novelties	Description
Updated Weather Forecast use case	✔️ Improved NLP understanding for the Weather Forecast use case
Bugfixing Qotsa 10.3.1.: Updated configuration of Weather Forecast use case in STB	✔️ Set the configuration of the global video experience Weather Forecast so that the STB channel acts with the expected behavior supporting the use case and providing the appropriate response
Bugfixing Qotsa 10.3.2: Fixed TV custom recommendation dialog	✔️ Deleted extra response message returned by dialog TV custom recommendation
Bugfixing Qotsa 10.3.2: Updated TV custom recommendation preset	✔️ Updated prompt, window, timeout and promptInjectionMaxLength of the TV custom recommendation preset

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Punsetes release

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

What’s new in Punsetes (10.2.0)?

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
TV VOD EPG information use case	✔️ Updated the intent configuration by deleting calls to resolution, as the required information from Complex Logic is already available on the device. This enhancement reduces latency and improves response times

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Prodigy release

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

What’s new in Prodigy (10.1.0)?

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
Conversational experience using Generative AI in Brazil	✔️ A new global use case, TV custom recommendation, has been developed to leverage the ATRIA AI-driven conversational capabilities powered by LLMs in Brazil for the STB channel. This approach enables a deeper understanding of the user intent and delivers more accurate, relevant and personalized response
WhatsApp experience using Generative AI in Spain	✔️ A new global use case, conversational-dialog, has been developed to leverage the ATRIA AI-driven conversational capabilities powered by LLMs in WhatsApp experiences. This use case allows users to interact with an LLM with a predefined prompt
ATRIA model in Aura channel model	✔️ Aura channel model includes a new ATRIA model for the configuration of applications and presets by channel
Bugfixing for Grafana dashboards	✔️ Aura HTTP inbound/outbound dashboards per channel and Living App

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Priscila release

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

What’s new in Priscila (10.0.1)?

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
RCS channel supports redirect commands	✔️ The RCS channel has been included, together with WhatsApp and Aiwi, in the group of channels supporting redirect commands

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Prince release

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

What’s new in Prince (10.0.0)?

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
Enabled TV search use case	✔️ The TV search use case is now available for channels MH and MP, allowing access to basic TV search content
Data persistence in ATRIA knowledge bases across releases	✔️ This new feature ensures that all existing data remains fully available and accessible for every ATRIA experience independently of the deployed version
Metadata in ATRIA uploaded documents	✔️ Added guidelines to optionally add a metadata file to include relevant information about each document and simplify future source URL updates
ATRIA error management	✔️ New document defining frequent errors in ATRIA components and effective solutions
Updated Nodejs-related dependencies	✔️ Updated Nodejs to version 22 and upgraded npm packages versions in different Aura components
Migration of Python repositories	✔️ Update to Python 3.13 in Aura productive Python repositories in different Aura components
Update of aura-kpis-uploader metrics	✔️ Metrics have been refined to better support the needs of Operations teams
Bugfixing Ozzy 9.12.1: Correct response format for the TV custom recommendation use case on STB	✔️ The response sent back by aura-bot for the use case TV custom recommendation on the STB channel in channelData V1 missed some fields that are mandatory for the channel
Certified Payments feature	✔️ The WhatsApp’s Payment feature has been validated for compliance with Brazil’s PIX instant payment system
Enhancements in Aura NLP	✔️ New Aura NLP Virtual Machine ✔️ Remaining references to LUIS removed from Aura
Aura deployment improvements	✔️ Added new Databricks metrics and alert ✔️ Changed Microsoft app registration password behavior
Aura Platform bugfixing	✔️ aura-configuration-api is updated properly when a new preset is created ✔️ Resolved aura-bridge error when a user sends a file in WhatsApp ✔️ Fixed issue executing aura-kpis-uploader job that led to not processed KPIs files Details about the above-mentioned high-severity issues, along with other resolved bugs can be found in the changelog of the corresponding component
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ Improved ATRIA configuration guidelines, including more complete definitions and examples for presets and prompts ✔️ New section “Technologies used” that summarizes the core technologies that support Aura Virtual Assistant and ATRIA functionalities and services ✔️ Review of tags and categories in documents ✔️ Improved information in indexes and added target users for documents

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ozzy release

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

What’s new in Ozzy (9.12.0)?

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

Aura Platform

Common improvements and changes for both Aura Virtual Assistant and ATRIA

Novelties	Description
Monitoring Aura Redis MongoDB Synchronizer	✔️ Key metrics and Grafana dashboards are available for this component
Improvements in Aura Deployment	✔️ Disabled public IP of clusters in Databricks workspaces ✔️ Enabled data loss prevention for OpenAI resources ✔️ Check Hugging Face embedding models downloading guidelines
New component Aura Microfrontend base	✔️ Foundational component that provides a common structure for the development of user interfaces in Aura ecosystem
Improved synchronization by events process	✔️ This process, handled by the aura-configuration-api, is updated to improve real-time expiration of elements, even under heavy Redis load
Aura NLP enhancements	✔️ Microsoft LUIS is disabled in Brazil ✔️ Added new normalization pipeline called Noro
Aura Platform Bug fixing	✔️ Newly created applications and skills are now available without the need for aura-gateway-api or aura-groot restart ✔️ aura-nlp: Fixed error in pipelines with Stop words & Word replacer normalizers

ATRIA

Novelties	Description
ATRIA RAG multi-language feature	✔️ ATRIA RAG now includes a multi-language feature, enabling users to make a request in a specific language and receive the response in the same language through its automated detection
ATRIA configuration	✔️ Best practices for ATRIA configuration: New document aimed at helping constructors with the ATRIA configuration process, where the most commonly used configuration parameters are selected and grouped by their purpose when developing a use case ✔️ ATRIA configuration documentation completed and improved ✔️ Added structure, fields and examples of default prompts in ATRIA ✔️ Updated tutorial for the creation of a Copilot preset
ATRIA Bug fixing	✔️ Resolved internal error calling aura-gateway-api feedback API with empty app id or app name

Video

Novelties	Description
New Move Forwards use case	✔️ New changes in normalized global use case that allows Telefónica customers to move the content forwards on the TV recognizing more time entities for Brazil STB.
New Move Backwards use case	✔️ New normalized global use case that allows Telefónica customers to move the content backwards on the TV recognizing more time entities for Brazil STB.
Returned default actions by channel for errors	✔️ In TV use cases, aura-configuration-api allows returning certain default actions by channels in case of error
Subtitles remove use case documentation	✔️ This global video experience that allows Telefónica customers to remove the subtitles from a content being displayed on TV was deployed in Nodoubt 9.11.0. Now, its documentation is available
Change language use case documentation	✔️ This global video experience that allows Telefónica customers users to change the language of a content being displayed on TV was deployed in Nodoubt 9.11.0. Now, its documentation is available
Bugfixing Ozzy 9.12.1: Correct response format for the TV custom recommendation use case on STB	✔️ The response sent back by aura-bot for the use case TV custom recommendation on the STB channel in channelData V1 missed some fields that are mandatory for the channel

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nodoubt release

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

What’s new in Nodoubt (9.11.0)?

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

Aura Platform

Common improvements and changes for both Aura Virtual Assistant and ATRIA

Novelties	Description
Requisite for Nodoubt: Manual removal of files	✔️ Manual removal of files in Microsoft Storage account for the aura-databricks-jobs component
Updated Nginx configuration	✔️ This update contributes to cache control and, consequently, improves the system performance and security
Improved Aura Redis Mongo Synchronizer (ARMS)	✔️ Modifications to improve the operation of this component ✔️ New environment variable to define the increment interval to check unprocessed contexts
aura-server-common utility	✔️ Improved documentation for a better understanding of this utility
Add Cache-control header and remove eTag header	✔️ Updated Nginx configuration in the virtualservers of the publicly accessible servers to handle cache header correctly.
Mechanism provided to change the encryption key of an environment	✔️ It allows changing the APIKeys of an environment without service loss, because the servers are able to manage a list of valid encryption keys. This affects to different Aura components
New synchronization by events service	✔️ New service in aura-configuration-api for the real-time configuration update in components
Scopes in Kernel applications	✔️ Easier definition of scopes in Kernel applications without version dependencies
Add certification test for context database schema	✔️ A new functional test has been included to certify that the schema of aura-bot and aura-groot conversational context database both in Redis and MongoDB are equal and do not change from release to release.
Automated process for tokens refreshing	✔️ Cronjob to automatically refresh the accessToken in channels
New at Aura NLP	✔️ A new version of Aura NLP Virtual Machine has been published, suitable for NoDoubt release onwards ✔️ Instructions to generate a new SSH key to operate the Virtual Machine
DevOps improvements	✔️ New event-watcher component for the update of the Keyvault Atlas key ✔️ Updated Microsoft Storage account replication type for cost optimization ✔️ Updated VM family for AKS and databricks clusters ✔️ AKS version upgraded to 1.31 ✔️ Added namespace to Elasticsearch aurak8s-service index name
Update CLU API version for releases previous to Nodoubt 9.11.0	✔️ Guidelines for the requirement to update the CLU API in releases previous to Nodoubt
Dependencies update in Prince 10.0.0 release	✔️ Description of updates in components that will be required for the upcoming release Prince 10.0.0 and the consequent migration or adaptation tasks that should be carried out by Aura Global Team and the OBs Teams
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ New content in the section Aura Ecosystem with a brief introduction to our platforms ✔️ Removal of deprecated Aura Virtual Assistant and ATRIA releases ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

ATRIA

Novelties	Description
ATRIA supports new AI-driven model	✔️ New Azure OpenAI model o3-mini is integrated by default into ATRIA
Refactor of ATRIA operational logs	✔️ The available ATRIA logs have been refactored to simplify management and troubleshooting
SQL Copilot RAG capability	✔️ Description of the sql-copilot-rag chain, in charge of the resolution of queries coming from the aura-copilot-cbd agent
Optimized process for ATRIA components pods starting	✔️ The system now launches an exception if the config load fails when starting atria-model-gateway and atria-rag-server pods
ATRIA Bugfixing: Separate context windows	✔️ In order to avoid wrong responses, the context window of the request from atria-rag-server to atria-model-gateway will not be the one defined in the preset

Video use cases

Novelties	Description
New Audiovisual App Opening use case	✔️ New normalized global use case that allows Telefónica customers to open different apps: Third-party apps and Living Apps
Section Show use case	✔️ New normalized global use case that allows Telefónica customers to open different TV sections
Updating Unmute use case	✔️ New change in action configuration of TV Unmute use case
Language Change and Remove Subtitles use cases	✔️ New normalized global use cases that allow Telefónica customers to change Language and remove subtitles
Bugfixing for TV use cases	✔️ Sound is returned in several use cases for Brazil STB ✔️ Removed validation to check the playing content in STB use cases
Bugfixing Nodoubt 9.11.1: Correct response format for the TV custom recommendation use case on STB	✔️ The response sent back by aura-bot for the use case TV custom recommendation on the STB channel in channelData V1 missed some fields that are mandatory for the channel

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nancysrubias release

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

What’s new in Nancysrubias (9.10.0)?

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
Handled WhatsApp referral	✔️ Aura-bridge now propagates referral info using `channelData.payload` property
New global use case: TV custom recommendation	✔️ This dialog allows users to launch a TV custom recommendation based on LLMs, using ATRIA
Add bypass model in dialogs configuration	✔️ New setting added to configure bypass mode for each specific dialog
Bypass with recognizing resolution	✔️ Aura-bot is now able to count on a dialog with bypass that executes recognizers resolution and stores it in the dialog context, so it can be comsumed by the dialog in bypass
New TV VOD EPG information use case	✔️ New normalized video use case for TV VOD EPG information, that provides information about the TV content broadcasted in the specific moment when the request is made ✔️ Currently, this use case is activated in Brazil
Activated TV content get info use case	✔️ This use case is activated in Brazil

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Metallica release

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

What’s new in Metallica (9.9.0)?

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

For environments that can be suspended and set up again, it is required to carry out a previous task: Workaround for Metallica release

Novelties	Description
Aura multibrand	✔️ Both Aura Virtual Assistant and ATRIA are now designed as multibrand, capable of providing services to all the brands through which an OB commercializes its services. This feature is based on a multitenant architecture.
Refactor and apification of ATRIA configuration	✔️ The configuration of ATRIA components has been redesigned through a new, more generalizable architecture. Changes include the refactor of configuration parameters and the apification of the configuration parameters managed by ATRIA use cases constructors
Aura Analytics 2.0.0 is launched	✔️ New version of the monitoring tool designed and managed by Aura Global Team that allows active listening in Aura, with the ultimate goal of improving its quality ✔️ In this version, our tool has been refactored to enhance efficiency and support future extensions
WhatsApp experiences support channelData v3	✔️ Aura Platform has been adapted for WhatsApp use cases to support the normalized request-response model channelData v3
Avoid call loops in WhatsApp	✔️ New mechanism to stop call loops in numbers with autoreply activated
New at Aura NLP	✔️ New stage Intent Entity Mapper stage can be used to replace a recognized intent and its entities with another ones defined in configuration ✔️ Complete removal of QNA and replacement by OpenAI Embeddings stage ✔️ A new version of Aura NLP Virtual Machine has been published, suitable for Metallica release onwards
Enhancements in Aura deployment & operation	✔️ Qdrant vector similarity search engine and vector database is upgraded to 1.12.6 version ✔️ Updated fluent-bit version to 3.2.2 ✔️ Guidelines for the migration of aura-bot and aura-groot context database to Linkin Park ✔️ Added information to configure and deploy in Next environment
Modifications in aura-configuration-api derived from ATRIA config apification	✔️ New plugin and settings, so the entire ATRIA configuration can be managed using aura-configuration-api
Modifications in aura-gateway-api derived from ATRIA config apification	✔️ Make aura-gateway-api more flexible to allow sending any type of parameters to models ✔️ Plugin refactor ✔️ Published new version of aura-aiservices in Kernel
Updated ATRIA documentation	✔️ Reorganization of ATRIA configuration documents to adapt them to the new refactor and apification ✔️ Improved ATRIA documentation, with the introduction of newer operational flows for all the AI-driven capabilities ✔️ Added recommendations for including in the request to the Generative API the required output format for the model
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation
Bugfixing Metallica 9.9.1: Maintain compatibility in requests to ATRIA	✔️ Allow send preset identifier or name in aura-gateway-api request

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Linkin Park release

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

What’s new in Linkin Park (9.8.0)?

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
Add new normalized Video use cases	✔️ New Normalized Video for TV commands use cases for STB channel in Brazil OB are now available
Improved management of RCS channel	✔️ New parameters to configure RCS in Aura channel model ✔️ New guidelines for RCS development troubleshooting
Upgraded Python version in QA Tool	✔️ Aura QA Tool now supports Python version 3.10, in addition to 3.9
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ New documentation blocks have been added to Aura Technical Documentation website, designed to organize content effectively for both business and product-focused profiles, as well as advanced technical audiences ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kiss release

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

What’s new in Kiss (9.7.0)?

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
Write calls to OpenAI and consumed tokens in logs	✔️ As a first step to improve ATRIA monitoring, the use of the same application received from atria-model-gateway in RAG allows including all the calls to OpenAI and consumed tokens in logs
Deactivate authentication flows for Aiwi channel in ES	✔️ Aiwi channel becomes an anonymous channel, after deactivating all its login flows
Aura components versions upgrade	✔️ Aura components versions have been upgraded, improving performance and ensuring compatibility with the latest features and security standards
Available disambiguation score for channels and applications	✔️ Added flag to return the score of the different disambiguation options, so that channels and applications can process it
Modifying ATRIA configuration	✔️ The guidelines for the modification of ATRIA configuration and documents uploading have been completed, including all the feasible processes
Improved ATRIA applications documentation	✔️ The ATRIA applications descriptive document has been updated and completed with advanced details: applications types, applications model, etc.
Added example cases for ATRIA capabilities	✔️ Practical example cases for ATRIA Generative and RAG, in order to ease the understanding of these capabilities
More efficient ATRIA RAG Generate DB documents processing	✔️ Added a record of the documents current state, allowing only the processing of updates or additions
URM Global script Kernel configuration	✔️ New guidelines for the configuration of the URM Global script in Kernel
Improved Aura documentation	✔️ New documentation blocks in Aura Technical Documentation website ✔️ Corrections in CSV entities documentation ✔️ New tags and categories and review of existing ones ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation
UserID in anonymous users	✔️ Due to Kernel requirements, now anonymous users have `userId` and `auraGlobalId`, as these values are needed for the generation of KPIs.
Avoid corrupted files in KPIs	✔️ Changed default value of variables for managing KPIs blobs in different Aura components to avoid duplicate headers and, consequently, prevent corrupted files
Improvements in Aura monitoring	✔️ Added aura-file-manager metrics ✔️ Included labels to identify the channel and Living App of the request in certain metrics. This will help measure traffic impact in case of issue ✔️ Aura HTTP inbound/outbound dashboards are now generated by channel
Aura Databricks Jobs operation	✔️ Improved operation of the component in charge of importing Avro datasets into Kernel
General guidelines for Kernel configuration	✔️ New guidelines outlining the orderly steps for Kernel configuration, applicable to all Aura features and tools
Improved aura-configuration-api logs handling	✔️ Added `correlator` information to logs in the aura-configuration-api to improve traceability and debugging
Improvements in aura-file-manager	✔️ Added aura-file-manager metrics ✔️ Redis used by default for storage ✔️ Updates in aura-file-manager documentation
Modifications in aura-kpis-uploader	✔️ Add version control for Avro Adapter models ✔️ Added new environment variables for an improved management of CSV and Avro files and entities ✔️ Improved documentation, with comprehensive details of processes
Deactivation of Aura API request dataset uploading	✔️ This CSV-based entity is no longer uploaded to Kernel, as it is deprecated. Its information will be registered in a new URM Avro entity

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jota Quest release

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

What’s new in Jota Quest (9.6.0)?

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

Aura Virtual Assistant (Aura Root)

Novelties	Description
Improved Aura configuration provision	✔️ Changed how Aura handles channels, applications, skills configuration per environment
Changed WiFi UC APIs	✔️ Modified APIs used in WiFi use cases
RCS channel in Aura	✔️ The Rich Communication Services (RCS) channel is available in Aura, designed to enhance traditional SMS and MMS messaging incorporating richer content ✔️ Aura Technical Documentation website now includes detailed descriptive documentation RCS, as well as guidelines for developing use cases in this channel
Internal improvements in Aura NLP	✔️ Enhancements and fixing of CLU-related processes ✔️ Upgrade of Python libraries
Internal improvements in Aura Complex Logic Framework	✔️ Fixed CLF restarting behavior ✔️ Removed legacy code
Updated available Telefónica brands	✔️ The list of available Telefónica brands defined in Kernel has been updated
Completed Aura Databricks Jobs documentation	✔️ Added aura-databricks-jobs execution flowcharts ✔️ Completed troubleshooting
Guidelines to update Imagine Dragons configuration	✔️ Instructions to update Imagine Dragons release configuration ✔️ These guidelines have been applied to Germany, where Imagine Dragons has already been deployed
Completed scopes in Kernel datasets configuration	✔️ The guidelines for the configuration of Kernel datasets have been updated, including missing scopes
New section for Aura Virtual Assistant (Aura Root) documentation	✔️ Created a new top-level section that includes key documentation tailored for different Aura profiles
Improvements in Aura Virtual Assistant documents	✔️ Limit and adapt /docs/components section to Aura Virtual assistant components ✔️ Adapt technical component index and tag documents as components belonging to Aura Virtual assistant or cross to our assistant and ATRIA ✔️ Remove deprecated documents
Bugfixing in Jota Quest	✔️ Resolved problem with variable type `date` stored as `string` in Mongo ✔️ Resolved bug for certain dimensional entities in AVRO format that could not be uploaded to Kernel

ATRIA

Novelties	Description
Improved KPIs writing for aura-gateway-api	✔️ Update of environment variables related to KPIs writing to increase performance
Moved ATRIA components descriptive documentation	✔️ The descriptive documents for ATRIA components have been reorganized into the ATRIA section, to clearly distinguish them from Aura Virtual Assistant components
Modifications in atria-model-gateway swagger	✔️ The swagger has been modified to adapt to the latest ATRIA functionalities
Enhanced Qdrant handling	✔️ Removal of orphaned Qdrant collections ✔️ Improved generation of names in Qdrant collections with tags
Improvements in ATRIA configuration	✔️ New parameters for the configuration of atria-rag-server project retrievers ✔️ Improved atria-model-gateway error codes in responses ✔️ Included a more detailed definition of ATRIA components configuration parameters ✔️ Added recommendations for data curation, before importing new documents to the system ✔️ Clarified steps for documents uploading
Aura Billing Module	✔️ New tool for the generation of Liceo invoices, that allows charging each customer for the services that she has used
Improved ATRIA documentation	✔️ Enhanced clarity through optimized messaging and visual content ✔️ Adjustments, standardization and improvements of ATRIA functional flowcharts ✔️ Refinement of journeys for building end-to-end experiences in ATRIA ✔️ New section for ATRIA technical components
Ported bugfixing Imagine Dragons 9.5.1: Improved ATRIA RAG behavior	✔️ Prompts in the ATRIA RAG chain have been refined to optimize the accuracy of the responses obtained in the specific scenarios where these responses were not satisfactory

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine Dragons release

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

What’s new in Imagine Dragons (9.5.0)?

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

Aura Root (Aura Assistant)

Novelties	Description
Improved aura-bridge operation	✔️ Modifications in aura-bridge metrics to store as origin only x-real-ip header instead of x-forwarded-for to avoid multiplying metrics size due to an increasing number of different orgins. x-real-ip contains Kernel IP only.
Security update of Nodejs image	✔️ Update Node.js to 20.17.0 version and the used images to node:20.17.0-alpine3.20
Aura monitoring	✔️ Replaced parameter in metric for storing information related to incoming HTTP requests. This affects metrics from both Aura Root and ATRIA components
Aura entities in Avro format	✔️ To support the monitoring of every interaction with Aura, new entities are now generated in Avro format. This affects entities from both Aura Root and ATRIA components ✔️ Certain entities have been migrated to Avro although, in the current release, entities in Avro and CSV formats will coexist ✔️ To support both CSV and Avro entities, Aura channel model includes new parameters
Updated Aura KPIs uploader	✔️ The aura-kpis-uploader component is updated to manage both CSV and Avro entities.
New component: Aura Databricks job	✔️ A new component has been developed in Aura: aura-databricks-job, currently used to upload Avro-formatted files into Kernel’s datasets. ✔️ Guidelines for Databricks enabling are included in the Aura installer documentation
New set of endpoints to handle Aura components in Aura configuration API	✔️ A new module has been added to the aura-configuration-api to manage the list of all components deployed in each Aura instance
List of available brands and contact channels	✔️ Added the list of available Telefónica brands and contact channels for Aura channels and applications, that are defined in Kernel global entities
Change in Azure Storage where KPI files are stored	✔️ To avoid data files migrations between Aura releases, KPI files are now stored in a common storage that is not release dependant.
Default value of days to upload changed to 30 days	✔️ Due to changes in how KPI entity files are handled, the value of this variable `fourth_platform.conversations.days_to_find` must be removed from OB deployments, because it will be configured by the installer.
Guidelines to enable/disable KPIs uploading	✔️ New operational document with guidelines to enable or disable KPIs uploading in non-production environments, for cost saving.
Integration of WAF rules in Aura Platform	✔️ Added WAF rules recommended by Global CISO to guarantee Aura Platform security in Germany
New global script for NLP dictionaries	✔️ A new global script is available for the generation of dictionaries that makes use of the URM content datasets uploaded to the Kernel
Updated Postman collection for the video contents Kernel API	✔️ Modified Postman collection for requests made from the complex-logic-framework component
Improved Aura Root documentation	✔️ Documents generated, updated and reviewed to cover all the features outlined above ✔️ Enhanced document for the publication of an API in Kernel ✔️ Completed documentation regarding APIKeys generation

ATRIA

Novelties	Description
Enhanced ATRIA features	✔️ Redefined prompt for GPT-4o mini model to ensure proper responses and limited to the use case scope ✔️ Input request language is detected and response is provided in the same language to the user.
New feature for ATRIA web interface: References	✔️ aura-manager now shows the information sources used to generate the response
Evolution of ATRIA components	✔️ aura-gateway-api: Updated metrics, modifications in Generative API swagger, modifications in request to Aura Generative API ✔️ atria-model-gateway: Updated metrics, modifications in API swagger ✔️ atria-rag-server: Updated metrics, optimized errors management ✔️ atria-rag-generate-db: New descriptive document
Publication of Generative API v1.1 in Kernel	✔️ Version 1.1 of the aura-gateway-api Generative API swagger has been published in Kernel.
KPIs generation in aura-gateway-api	✔️ A new module has been included in aura-gateway-api for writing KPIs and monitor interactions with ATRIA
Bugfixing Imagine Dragons 9.5.1: Improved ATRIA RAG behavior	✔️ Prompts in the ATRIA RAG chain have been refined to optimize the accuracy of the responses obtained in the specific scenarios where these responses were not satisfactory

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hannah Montana release

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

What’s new in Hannah Montana (9.4.0)?

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

Aura Root (Aura Assistant)

Novelties	Description
Improvements and modifications in Aura installer	✔️ New stop/start Aura environment command ✔️ Atlas APIKey ACLs handling in Aura installer ✔️ Added permissions to assign roles to AKS managed identities in service principal ✔️ LUIS legacy configuration
Updated Redis tier size	✔️ Updated the default Redis tier size to optimize resources
Updated Kibana and Elasticsearch versions	✔️ Kibana and Elasticsearch updated to 8.15.0 version
New component aura-redis-mongo-synchronizer	✔️ New component to manage the use of Redis and MongoDB
JSON schemas review	✔️ JSON schemas for Aura request and Aura response v3 models in documentation are automatically updated when there are changes in their Github repository
Change CORS for channel-connection-manager	✔️ Added hosts in CORS to allow websocket requests in channel-connection-manager
Improved errors control in WhatsApp login	✔️ Added new errors texts in the WhatsApp login process
Mimetypes for WhatsApp files	✔️ Added mimetypes for the identification of format for certain files
Filter swagger validator errors	✔️ Deleted duplicated errors from openapi-backend swagger validations
Update monkey-patcher drt	✔️ Changed monkey-patcher drt from seconds to milliseconds
Added retries for aura-authentication-api calls	✔️ Added internal retries from aura-bot to authentication-api calls
Included Redis + MongoDB databases	✔️ Redis + MongoDB databases are now used by aura-bot and aura-groot within a two-level cache strategy
Port bugfixing from Gwen Stefani 9.3.1	✔️ Correct Accept Header in Auraline channel callback request
Improved Aura Root documentation	✔️ Documents generated, updated and reviewed to cover all the features outlined above

ATRIA

Novelties	Description
Optimized ATRIA performance and bugfixing	✔️ The operation of aura-model-gateway and atria-rag-server components have been improved and certain bugs have been resolved
Changes in ATRIA components configuration	✔️ The configuration of atria-model-gateway and atria-rag-server now includes new and modified parameters for a better performance of ATRIA AI-driven capabilities
Updated ATRIA components API swaggers	✔️ atria-model-gateway API definition has been updated to support modifications in this component
Updates in aura-manager	✔️ Microphone updates to improve recognition and handling for better audio input management ✔️ Error messages added to documentation
New metrics for ATRIA components	✔️ New metrics are generated for aura-model-gateway and atria-rag-server components
Improved ATRIA documentation	✔️ Restructuring of ATRIA documentation and organization from less to more technical complexity: ✔️ New section including schematic end-to-end workflows for use cases development using ATRIA capabilities ✔️ Migration of technical documents to ATRIA section

OBs customization

Novelties	Description
Activated STB use cases in Spain	Added the configuration to use smalltalk, tv.none and none use cases for the STB channel in Spain OB
Deactivation of Facebook in Brazil	✔️ Facebook channel is not longer active in Brazil configuration

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gwen Stefani release

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

What’s new in Gwen Stefani (9.3.0)?

Discover here the new features and modifications at a glance. You can find the technical details in the [release changelog](/docs/aura-releases/gwen stefani/changelog/) and the [Release Notes](/docs/aura-releases/gwen stefani/release-notes/).

Novelties	Description
Optimized CLU deployment and communications	✔️ Created a CLU shared resource to reduce time and cost of apps generation and training ✔️ `429` errors can now be communicated, leading to a faster error handling
Normalized TV None use case	✔️ The global use case TV None is available, adapted to Aura request-response model v3, to provide a response to the user when Aura does not recognize the request.
New ATRIA section in Aura Technical Documentation website	✔️ Created a new top-level ATRIA section that includes key documentation tailored for different Aura profiles
New ATRIA components	✔️ atria-model-gateway and atria-rag-server are developed to enable Generative AI and RAG capabilities ✔️ These components can modify their configuration to make a custom-made use of Generative AI and RAG in ATRIA ✔️ New ATRIA web interface (aura-manager) to test how ATRIA Generative and RAG capabilities work
Modifications in aura-gateway-api to be adapted to ATRIA capabilities	✔️ aura-gateway-api is published in Kernel ✔️ New or modified plugins, API swagger, API clients, environment variables and way of working
Modifications in aura-configuration-api to be adapted to ATRIA capabilities	✔️ New or modified modules ✔️ Modified API swagger
Update of Applications configuration sheet	✔️ The Applications configuration sheet has been modified to adapt to the current ATRIA capabilities
New/modified API clients	✔️ New API client to access to aura-gateway-api APIs in Kernel ✔️ Modified aura-gateway-api API client
New features in Aura installer	✔️ Aura installer provides functionality for enabling ATRIA components ✔️ Allowed network ranges for aura-gateway-api and aura-manager included in the installer
Ported bugfixing Dorian 8.12.3: Media messages ninth digit	✔️ Fixed ninth digit error with media messages.
Ported bugfixing 8.12.3: Push messages ninth digit	✔️ Fixed ninth digit error with aura-push to directline messages.
Ported bugfixing 8.12.3: Rate limit error recoverable	✔️ Added whatsapp code 131056 as recoverable.
Returned HTTP status code 429 error	✔️ HTTP status code 429 error is now returned specifically in the `channelData` of aura-bot responses
Port bugfixing from Gwen Stefani 9.3.1: Correct Accept Header in Auraline channel callback request	✔️ Use `Accept: application/json` instead of `Accept: json` in the request.

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gunsnroses release

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

What’s new in Gunsnroses (9.2.0)?

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
New features for WhatsApp experiences	✔️ Use cases can now use emoticons to enhance communication and engagement with the users ✔️ Use cases can now include section titles if the message has more than one section, thus improving the user’s experience
Modifications in User Helper - M+ Resolution	✔️ Updated versions of components ✔️ Fixed TV use cases logs level ✔️ Fixed entities time parser to show the correct timestamp
NGINX Plus integration in Aura Platform	✔️ Aura Platform now includes NGINX Plus features, for improving the system security ✔️ The NGINX Plus service has only been enabled in Germany by the Global DevOps Team
Completed aura-mocks-server documentation	✔️ Updated plugins documentation for this component

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Florence release

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

What’s new in Florence (9.1.0)?

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
New Aura NLP stage: Embeddings Domain Classifier	✔️ Embeddings Domain Classifier (EDC) classifies requests into specific domains using OpenAI embeddings technology, thus significantly enhancing Aura NLP performance.
Archived telco global use cases	✔️ The global experiences in the Telco domain have been stored, as they are not longer used by OBs
Aura Gateway API refactor	✔️ aura-gateway-api has been refactored in order to restructure the component for the current available capabilities, Generative and NLP as a Service, and prepare it for the upcoming RAG capability
Small talk use cases normalization	✔️ Aura small talk use cases are adapted to the normalized request-response model channelData v3
Security in channels authentication	✔️ For security purposes, the system can set the duration of a user’s authentication session within a channel. If the session exceeds a configurable time value, the user is prompted to authenticate again
DevOps improvements	✔️ Measure of users connected during a specific period ✔️ Operative enhancements: removal of misused domain, certificates update
Aura Bot improvements	✔️ Added recommended practices for testing a use case to avoid data losing ✔️ Updated Aura minibot documentation ✔️ Changes in aura-bot global libraries
Enhanced CLU performance	✔️ Improved parallelization in training CLU apps
Optimized Aura metrics	✔️ Corrected wrong `origin` values in Prometheus metrics ✔️ aura-bridge metrics are filtered by channel
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ New guidelines for the migration of aura-groot database context schema ✔️ Improved aura-mocks-server documentation ✔️ Organization of aura-common-utilities documentation ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Evanescence release

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

What’s new in Evanescence (9.0.0)?

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
Updated Qdrant version	✔️ Qdrant vector similarity search engine and vector database is upgraded to 1.8.4 version
Aura Bot improvements	✔️ Update Node.js to 20.12.2 version ✔️ Update Bot Framework to 4.22.1 version ✔️ aura-bot libraries are aggregated to improve and streamline processes ✔️ Only the latest version of Aura channel model is available, which unifies all the required parameters ✔️ New tool for handling swagger specifications in certain aura-bot components: openapi-backend
DevOps improvements	✔️ AKS/Kubernetes is updated to 1.29.2 version ✔️ New procedure for creating next domains ✔️ Deactivation of Aura Context in Spain
Cognitive improvements	✔️ Qdrant is updated to version 1.8.4
Deactivation of Microsoft QnA maker	✔️ As QnA maker is going to be deprecated in June 2024, use cases using this recognition stage are migrated to the OpenAI embeddings technology
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Adapt documentation to updates and deactivation of technologies ✔️ Review and update of tags and categories ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dorian release

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

What’s new in Dorian (8.12.0)?

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
Catalogs in WhatsApp use cases	✔️ The Meta feature “Share products with customers” is enabled, allowing the generation of a products and services catalog in WhatsApp experiences
Bugfixing Dorian 8.12.1: UserData recovering	✔️ `userData` context is now kept for dialogs with prompts.
Bugfixing Dorian 8.12.2: Proactive messages ninth digit	✔️ `userData` failure in proactive messages with ninth digit solved.
Bugfixing Dorian 8.12.2: Anonymous cache	✔️ `userData` anonymous cache with ninth digit errors fixed.
Bugfixing Dorian 8.12.3: Media messages ninth digit	✔️ Fixed ninth digit error with media messages.
Bugfixing Dorian 8.12.3: Push messages ninth digit	✔️ Fixed ninth digit error with aura-push to Directline messages.
Bugfixing Dorian 8.12.3: Rate limit error recoverable	✔️ Added WhatsApp code 131056 as recoverable.

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dire Straits release

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

What’s new in Dire Straits (8.11.0)?

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
Aura KPIs uploader generates processing report	✔️ aura-kpis-uploader can be configured to generate a report with the result of the KPIs entities files processing.
Extended Aura NLP Grammars configuration	✔️ Now, Grammars configuration allows a more flexible way of defining the intent prefix.
Update Nodejs version to 18.19.1	✔️ All docker images for every Aura component based on nodejs have been updated to the latest nodejs18 image: 18.19.1 following security recommendations
Update Prometheus metrics	✔️ Registered Prometheus metrics with `@telefonica/aura-server-common` library
Improved management of anonymous users	✔️ Added new properties to `AuraUser` class to store if anonymous users are corporate or not
Modifications in retries control	✔️ Updated retries for callback calls to different Aura components when errors are received in order to avoid blockages
Improved Aura Root behavior	✔️ Fixed Aura Groot channel conversation context storage to achieve a more efficient management of conversations between aura-groot and channels and between aura-groot and skills, which are now managed jointly ✔️ Fixed the `activityId` and `replyToId` in aura-groot to avoid errors in channel conversation context
Updated locales in aura-bot	✔️ All aura-bot locales have been updated to the latest version in PoEditor Aura-Bot project
Avoid loss of datasets in aura-kpi-handler	✔️ aura-kpi-handler behavior is modified to avoid the loss of aura-bot KPIs files during deployment
Improvements in DevOps processes	✔️ Active Listening deployment is included in the installer ✔️ Aura platform supports Azure Virtual Machine for Confidential Computing use ✔️ Improved MongoDB Atlas configuration ✔️ Optimized Aura installation process: common deployment step ✔️ Upgraded versions of system components and other additional components ✔️ Automatic removal of databases from outdated releases
Optimized Kibana’s performance	✔️ New component Prometheus-es-exporter that converts ElasticSearch queries into metrics
Fixed errors during the deployment of local use cases	✔️ The management of `DialogEvents.versionChanged` events by the main dialog prevents this error from occurring
Improved Aura Mocks server functionalities	✔️ New plugins have been added to Aura Mocks server for the management of different tasks
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Added documentation regarding the hot swapping of applications configuration ✔️ Added entity types for CLU in Aura NLP documentation ✔️ Improved and completed guidelines to use Aura Operator ✔️ The README.md document is now available in english and improved with new guidelines ✔️ Updated and corrected aura-groot environment variables documentation ✔️ The applications configuration sheet is progressively improved with instructions to ease the configuration process ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

Docs:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beatles release

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

What’s new in Beatles (8.9.0)?

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
Cognitive improvements	✔️ Updated CLF API: `subscription_type` and `phone_type` are not required and can be nullable. ✔️ Improved logs in NLP, Context and CLF: `drt` and `status` fields are shown only when they have value and the level `WARNING` is changed to `WARN`. ✔️ Updated QDRANT method: Improved method `add` in QDRANT using chunk policy ✔️ Added correlator in Kernel ingest with spark for Aura Context
Experiences providing auto-generated responses through OpenAI	✔️ aura-gateway-api is a new Aura component whose goal is to make Aura capabilities available to different services and applications. In the current release, this component has been enhanced with new developments and functionalities ✔️ The first Aura capability to be published in this service will be OpenAI. This feature enables Aura to create experiences and provide auto-generated responses to the users through OpenAI capabilities.
Configuration of applications in Aura	✔️ Aura is now able to manage the configuration of applications through the aura-configuration-api component and a new utility to load this configuration
Optimized experience for Aura users authenticating with LoA2	✔️ Modification of the LoA2 authentication flow for WhatsApp channel in order to ease the process for our customers
Aura technical improvements	✔️ Several tasks have been executed to enhance Aura performance and address existing bugs, impacting different components such as aura-groot, aura-bot, aura-authentication-api, aura-bridge, Aura request-response model, aura-bot-common and api-clients.
Performance improvement in KPI entities writing	✔️ aura-kpis utility has been reviewed to write all the entities of a component separately, so the server uploads the file one by one, in different cycles and flows, to avoid being blocked during the uploading of all the files generated.
Resolved bug `ZZTop-BR-Aura stops responding to the user`	✔️ aura-groot The expiration date of the conversation reference context between the bot and the skill is updated on each user iteration.
Modification of indexes	✔️ In order to improve performance, aura-bot-platform and aura-authentication-api indexes have been optimized
Giza Lite 2.0.0, the latest version of Aura’s models architecture, is available	✔️ Giza Lite 2.0.0 provides a platform for the consumption of three global Advanced Analytics Models (AAMs). This will empower OBs with valuable insights and efficiency, leading to an improved decision-making and enhanced customers’ satisfaction. ✔️ As a novelty, Giza Lite 2.0.0 not only allows the consumption of global models by an Aura use case but also by external modules. This is possible thanks to the performed models securitization.
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Available Aura Context descriptive documentation in the website ✔️ Aura NLP documentation is updated to include the current conversational process ✔️ The website’s content architecture now includes tags and categories that facilitate a precise and coherent classification of documents ✔️ You can review and access Aura latest novelties directly from the homepage ✔️ The formats and styles across the entire website are progressively adapted to the rules established in the README.md file ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Acdc release

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

What’s new in Acdc (8.8.0)?

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
Implementation of Auraline communication protocol	✔️ Aura integrates a new communication protocol: Auraline. This is a proprietary protocol, developed and exclusively owned by Aura Platform Team for facilitating communication between channels and Aura. ✔️ Auraline is based on Microsoft Direct Line and can be considered as a local implementation of the Microsoft protocol, eliminating dependencies on Microsoft Azure Bot Service.
Completed and improved Aura components documentation	✔️ aura-file-manager documentation is adapted to Aura’s distributed architecture ✔️ Different plugins are added to aura-mocks-server documentation ✔️ The document that describes aura-logging is completed for a better understanding of this utility
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ The website’s content architecture now includes tags and categories that facilitate a precise and coherent classification of documents ✔️ You can review and access Aura latest novelties directly from the homepage ✔️ The formats and styles across the entire website are progressively adapted to the rules established in the readme.md file ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zztop release

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

What’s new in Zztop (8.7.0)?

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
Updated versions of key Aura system components	✔️ In order to optimize the performance and efficiency of Aura system, different components have been upgraded with the latest available versions.
Update to MongoDB v7	✔️ From Zztop release onwards, MongoDB on premise is not supported anymore, only MongoDB Atlas is endorsed ✔️ MongoDB server is upgraded to version v7 ✔️ Consequently, different Aura components have updated their MongoDB access and have been adapted to support the new version ✔️ Certain improvements are developed in order to optimize the behavior of MongoDB Atlas in Aura.
Improved bypass mode	✔️ Fixed some bugs in bypass mode, in very fast sequential messages
Improved Aura bridge queues behavior	✔️ Change time base of messages queue to avoid overlaps
Reviewed WhatsApp request model definition in Aura bridge swagger	✔️ Fixed error handling new WhatsApp recipient_id location

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zaz release

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

What’s new in Zaz (8.6.0)?

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
Improvements and bugfixing NLP	✔️ Aura NLP Team has resolved some already-existing bugs in aura-nlp and has improved the performance of certain NLP stages
Completed aura-mock-server documentation	✔️ The aura-mock-server documentation has been updated to include comprehensive information regarding the different plugins that provide functionalities to this component
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Icons in the website main sections have been replaced by other ones compatible with the latest Docysy version ✔️ The formats and styles across the entire website are progressively adapted to the rules established in the readme.md file ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Youngblood release

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

What’s new in Youngblood (8.5.0)?

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
New normalization stages available in Aura NLP	✔️ Aura NLP now includes two new normalization stages that allow a personalized definition of stop words and the replacement of words in a user’s utterance. They are integrated into two new normalization pipelines.
aura-gateway-api service	✔️ A new component has been made available in Aura: aura-gateway-api service. This component main objective is to make Aura capabilities available to services and applications that are willing to use these features but do not need a conversational bot. In YoungBlood the implementation is mocked, it is intended only for basic integration purposes. The first Aura capability to be published in this service will be OpenAI for the autogeneration of answers.
Update nodejs version	✔️ All docker images for every Aura component based on nodejs have been updated to the latest nodejs18 image: 18.18.2 following security recommendations.
Improvements and bugfixing	✔️ Aura Platform Team has resolved some already-existing bugs across key Aura components such as aura-bot, aura-bridge, aura-groot, etc.
Ported bugfixing in Tequila 8.0.1 version	✔️ Modified the execution of aura-bridge queues to avoid duplicating output messages
Unify the conversationId regardless of the phone number format in BR	✔️ aura-bridge now unifies the conversationId in aurapush-incoming-processor and whatsapp-incoming-processor regardless of the phone number format in BR
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Version update of Hugo, the website framework upon which Aura technical documentation website is built, and Docsy, the prefigured Hugo’s theme used as template for Aura documentation ✔️ Improved usability of Aura Technical Documentation website: corporate image and styles, enabled an optimized drop-down documents menu and corrected behavior of the print feature ✔️ Completed Aura channel model documentation ✔️ Improved and completed Aura distributed architecture documentation for Phase 1 ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Xoel release

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

What’s new in Xoel (8.4.0)?

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 performance	✔️ Reduced logs overhead in Aura NLP, Aura Context and Complex Logic Framerwork in order to improve performance
Basic implementation for supporting AuraLine protocol	✔️ First steps for the implementation of AuraLine protocol in Aura through the generation of a new plugin and API swagger in the aura-bridge component
New aura-bridge service for message feedback	✔️ aura-bridge now includes a new mechanism that allows Aura push to receive the correct status of message delivery to the final users. The possibility of adding a new plugin to handle the errors and ACK as needed is a global feature, but the implementation over Aura push is only available in Brazil, because it is a dedicated plugin for this OB.
Parallel Aura releases deployment	✔️ aura-bridge Redis database is now prefixed with a reference to the environment and version to allow parallel deployments of Aura versions.
Useful information regarding `channelData` versions	✔️ Find out whether or not aura-bot/aura-groot return the `channelData` version in the response
Remove MongoDB dependency	✔️ aura-bridge now uses Redis for all the information that needs to be temporarily persisted, completely eliminating its dependency on MongoDB
Completed documentation regarding Giza Lite v1 and global models	✔️ Giza Lite v1 documentation is completed with guidelines for the consumption of global models through an aura-bot use case and for models local testing
New payload fields in Aura request-response model	✔️ Aura request-response model v3 includes new `payload` fields for the enrichment of both request and response between channels, aura-groot and skills
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Key documents have been migrated from old repositories into Aura Technical Documentation website ✔️ Publication of an updated version of the README document for contributors to Aura documentation ✔️ Aura components documents are adapted to Aura distributed architecture documentation (Phase 1) ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected release after release. Moreover, certain ones have been relocated to ease their management

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wilco release

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

What’s new in Wilco (8.3.0)?

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
Semantic search boosts Aura recognition capabilities	✔️ Aura now incorporates Artificial Intelligence for the recognition of users’s requests, thanks to the integration of semantic search technology based on OpenAI capabilities ✔️ When using this technology to develop generic questions experiences, there is no longer a need to train the understanding model, resulting in reduced time and complexity of the process
Giza Lite v1, the first version of Aura’s models architecture, is available	✔️ Giza Lite v1 provides a platform for the consumption of three global Advanced Analytics Models (AAMs), integrating them into Aura in an efficient and easy way
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Detailed guidelines for the development of a generic questions use case using semantic search technology and the new OpenAI embeddings recognition stage ✔️ Improved and completed Aura distributed architecture documentation for Phase 1 ✔️ Optimization of information regarding Aura system components versions and EOL ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Vortex release

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

What’s new in Vortex?

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
Use of Redis as a service in aura-bridge cache	✔️ MongoDB has been replaced by Redis for the management of messages that need to use the Queue.
New event service in aura-bridge	✔️ aura-bridge integrates a new service to emit and listen to events through a centralized service.
Add new metrics in aura-groot	✔️ add new metrics
Add new metrics in aura-bridge	✔️ add `incoming_message_duration_seconds` for incoming request
Bugfixing in Vortex 8.2.1. version	✔️ Optimization of aura-groot memory handling. ✔️ Fixed how anonymous users information is refreshed in aura-bot caches. ✔️ Modified aura-groot behavior to reduce data retrieval calls for KPIs writing.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

U2 release

This section includes key information regarding new features included in Aura Platform for U2 and main changes in comparison with previous releases

What’s new in U2 (8.1.0)?

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
Review STB and MP Use Cases	✔️ Remove `intent.tv.on` configuration from `set-top-box` channel. ✔️ Remove `communications` domain from `set-top-box` and `movistar-plus` channels.
New sentences for the opening of Menu section	✔️ New training sentences added in `set-top-box` training for the opening of Menu section.
Deterministic FAQ answers	✔️ Obtain deterministic FAQ answers based on dialog configuration
TV content get info use case	✔️ The TV content get info use case is integrated into channelData v3 and, for the current release, includes basic features for asking Aura for information regarding a specific TV channel using a vocal interface
TV content get info CLF plugin	✔️ Added the Complex Logic Framework plugin for TV content get info use case
Added IP origin in public servers	✔️ The field “origin” has been included in the incoming request log for all servers with public access
Added Content-Type field in FileData object	✔️ The `Content-Type` field is sent from aura-bot to the file-manager, so files can be always stored with a proper extension.
Nginx version 1.25.1.	✔️ Nginx version is upgraded to 1.25.1, in order to rely on a supported version.
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Aura Technical documentation website is progressively adapted to an improved architecture and structure. ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation.
Skill Configuration API	✔️ Added new endpoints in aura-configuration-api to manage skills configuration
Aura distributed architecture documentation	✔️ Delivery of comprehensive documentation to understand Aura’s new architecture
New component: Aura Groot	✔️ Aura Groot is the main component to handle the distributed architecture of Aura. It is responsible for handling the communication between each channel and its corresponding skill, keeping track of all the communication, but introducing a minimal interference in their communication.
Aura Bot is now a skill	✔️ Aura Bot is no longer a single bot, but a skill, so it depends on aura-groot to provide a full Aura’s request and response handling.
Prometheus HTTP request metrics aggregation	✔️ Added a mechanism based on an environment variable to be able to aggregate path metrics in Prometheus.
CLF KPI entity files are generated	✔️ aura-clf API now generates its own API request KPI files and they are processed and uploaded to Kernel by aura-kpis-uploader.
Aura Mini Groot	✔️ aura-mini-bot development component has been extended with aura-mini-groot so the local tests are kept the same.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tequila release

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

What’s new in Tequila (8.0.0)?

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
Upgrade Bot Framework and node versions	✔️ Versions of Bot Framework, node and key aura-bot dependencies are updated to be compatible with the upcoming skills architecture and in order to avoid unmaintained versions.
Replace tslint by eslint	✔️ Change from tslint to eslint as linter in all nodejs projects.
Replace mocha with jest	✔️ Change test framework from mocha to jest.
Port of bugfixing in Pink Floyd 7.9.3 version	✔️ Make aura-bot, aura-bridge and nginx configured to use keepalive HTTP connections. ✔️ aura-bot and aura-bridge increase their amount of heap memory to 8 GB. ✔️ aura-bot and aura-bridge increase the size of the body of incoming HTTP requests. ✔️ Fixed a memory leak in aura-bridge while handling the messages stats. ✔️ Disabled aura-nlp KPI entities writing. ✔️ Improved performance in aura-nlp logs. ✔️ Improved performance in how aura-authentication-api queries users to the database. ✔️ Changed aura-bridge local message-queue implementation to a priority queue, that works in batches. ✔️ aura-bot is no longer calling aura-nlp API if it is disabled in the channel configuration. ✔️ Assured order of outgoing messages is now configurable in aura-bridge. ✔️ aura-bot sends the synchronous response to the incoming activities just after validating their format and their authorization. ✔️ aura-bridge deployment splits into two, one to handle incoming requests to Aura and the other one to send the messages back to WhatsApp or Aiwi users. ✔️ aura-bot stores users’ data compressed instead of encoded in order to improve performance.
Modifications in Aura deployment	✔️ New common storage account and resource group, new configuration values, new process for logs migration, that includes an updated script.
New component in aura-bridge	✔️ aura-bridge integrates a component for the translation of Directline formatted responses into the corresponding format for each channel.
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Aura Technical documentation website is progressively adapted to an improved architecture and structure. ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sabina release

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

What’s new in Sabina (7.12.0)?

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
Use eslint in all nodejs projects	✔️ Change from tslint to eslint as linter in all nodejs projects.
Mini Bot: Fix NPM credentials handling	✔️ Allow using install-dialogs script in aura-minibot with Azure npm registry.
Aura Bot: Fix asynchronous code	✔️ Fix several errors in all nodejs projects related to asynchronous code wrongly handled.
Upgrades in Aura system components versions	✔️ AKS, Elasticsearch and Kibana versions are upgraded
Added relevant information in TV use cases	✔️ Information regarding NLP configuration by OB for TV search and TV display use cases
Context synchronizer update	✔️ Updated version of SDK Kernel in order to synchronize context data
Updated operational processes	✔️ Updated and improved guidelines for locales management and hot swapping in Aura
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Aura Technical documentation website is progressively adapted to an improved architecture and structure ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rolling Stones release

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

What’s new in Rolling Stones (7.11.0)?

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
Ported bugfixing in Pink Floyd 7.9.1 version	✔️ Different bugs have been resolved in the Pink Floyd 7.9.1. version related to a wrong execution of Aura minibot, aura-bot blocking in a specific scenario with non-DirectLine channels and a modification of APIs for a Movistar Home use case.
Ported bugfixing in Pink Floyd 7.9.2 version	✔️ Improvements in http-monkey-patcher library: a new environment variable has been added to enable/disable logging of HTTP requests using got library, and fixed a continuous overwrite issue in `socket._write` that provokes a `MAXIMUM CALL STACK SIZE EXCEEDED` error.
Ported bugfixing in Queen 7.10.1 version: Convert Aura entity files to Azure Block Blob	✔️ To keep Aura entity files compatible with Aura DataSet Importer, running on Kernel, Blobs must be of type Block. Now, Aura KPIs Uploader converts them from Append to Block before uploading them to Kernel Azure Storage. Thus, Aura DataSet Importer is able to convert them to Avro.
Deleted support for Google Assistant (GOA)	✔️ Aura has suppressed the support for Google Assistant channel. As a result, GOA training, GOA locales, dialogs config, dialog wakeup have been removed. Additionally, Google bridge (aog-bridge, which was used for connections from actions on Google) has been deprecated.
TV display use case	✔️ The TV display global use case is integrated into channelData v3 and, for the current release, includes basic features for displaying a channel requested by a user
TV display CLF plugin	✔️ Added the Complex Logic Framework plugin for TV display use case
Update canons, aliases and new commands for STB sections	✔️ New catalogs, and training for `intent.navigation.section_show`.
Review STB navigation.section_show configuration	✔️ Now it uses the new channel setting, `settings.swapEntityCanonValue`, that allows selecting the field of the entity to be returned as value in the response of Aura Bot. By default, `value` field is returned. However, if the entity is configured, then the `canon` field is returned instead.
Aura NLP bugfixing: changed Grafana dashboard units	✔️ The Grafana dashboard `Aura HTTP inbound` previously displayed `nlp` metrics in milliseconds, causing latency errors metrics in Aura NLP. However, this issue has been resolved, and the current results are displayed in seconds.
Improved Aura Platform documentation	✔️ Aura Technical documentation website is progressively adapted to an improved architecture and structure ✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation.