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Jota Quest release

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

1 - Jota Quest release changelog

Jota Quest release changelog

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

1.1 - Aura system components version

Aura system components versions

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

Components versions

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

Name Namespace Image deployed
alertmanager aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/alertmanager:v0.26.0
elastic-operator aura-system docker.elastic.co/eck/eck-operator:2.7.0
elasticsearch-es-aura aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch:8.7.1
elasticsearch-exporter aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch_exporter:v1.5.0
fluent-bit-aggregator aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/fluent-bit:2.2.0
grafana aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/grafana:10.3.3
kibana-kb aura-system docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.7.1
prometheus aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/prom/prometheus:v2.48.0
mongodb-atlas-operator aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/mongodb-atlas-kubernetes-operator:2.1.0
redis-exporter aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/redis-exporter:1.6.1
redis aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/redis:6.0.19
thanos-store-gateway aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.32.5
atlas-logger aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/atlas-logger:2.0.0
azure-logger aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/azure-logger:1.4.0
pushgateway aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/pushgateway:v1.4.1
thanos-querier aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.32.5

Additional information

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

1.2 - Atria Model Gateway changelog

Atria Model Gateway changelog

Changelog of Atria Model Gateway for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-11-19 - Improved error codes in responses

2024-11-19 - Modifications in atria-model-gateway-swagger

2024-11-14 - Moved atria-model-gateway descriptive documentation

  • The descriptive documents related to atria-model-gateway have been moved to the ATRIA section, in order to separate ATRIA components from Aura Virtual Assistant ones.
  • Additionally, these documents have been improved for a better understanding.
  • Affected documents:

2024-11-14 - Improved guidelines for atria-model-gateway configuration

1.3 - Atria RAG generate DB changelog

Atria RAG generate DB changelog

Changelog of Atria RAG generate DB for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-11-19 - Removal of orphaned Qdrant collections

  • The performance of atria-rag-generate-db has been improved with the removal of orphaned Qdrant collections during the generate-db process.

2024-11-14 - Moved atria-rag-generate-db descriptive documentation

  • The descriptive documents related to atria-rag-generate-db have been moved to the ATRIA section, in order to separate ATRIA components from Aura Virtual Assistant ones.
  • Additionally, these documents have been improved for a better understanding.
  • Affected documents:

1.4 - Atria RAG Server changelog

Atria RAG Server changelog

Changelog of Atria RAG Server for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-11-19 - Generation of names in Qdrant collections

  • As an internal improvement, the naming convention for Qdrant collections has been modified to optimize their cleaning up. Now, when a name is created, a tag is added specifying whether it is of the RAG type or not.
  • Removed orphaned collections during the generate-db process.

2024-11-19 - Configuration of project retrievers

  • Project retrievers are responsible for storing the final information that has been generated from the documents. Now, retrievers configuration includes a parameter to modify the number of documents to be extracted by each retriever.
  • Affected documents:

2024-11-14 - Moved atria-rag-server descriptive documentation

  • The descriptive documents related to atria-rag-server have been moved to the ATRIA section, in order to separate ATRIA components from Aura Virtual Assistant ones.
  • Additionally, these documents have been improved for a better understanding.
  • Affected documents:

2024-11-14 - Improved guidelines for atria-rag-server configuration

  • Included a more detailed definition of the configuration parameters.
  • Added recommendations for data curation, before importing new documents to the system.
  • Clarified steps for documents uploading.
  • Affected documents:

1.5 - Aura Billing Module changelog

Aura Billing Module changelog

Changelog of Aura Billing Module for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-11-14 - New tool Aura Billing module

  • Aura Billing module is available for the generation of Liceo invoices, that allows charging each customer for the services that she has used.
  • Affected documents:

1.6 - Aura Bot changelog

Aura Bot changelog

Changelog of Aura Bot component for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-11-07 - Changed WiFi use cases APIs

  • aura-bot use case WiFi get access changed the API used to retrieve the WiFi password. Now, HaaC API is used instead of Smart WiFi API

Fixed

2024-11-21 - Variable type date stored as string in Mongo

Resolved bug with variable type date stored as string in Mongo that caused problems in channel authentication.

1.7 - Aura bridge changelog

Aura channels changelog

Changelog of Aura bridge for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-10-29 - New Aura bridge plugin

  • New plugin directline-rcs-processor to manage the RCS channel in Aura. This plugin receives requests from aura-groot and sends them to the RCS callback.
  • Affected documents:

Deleted

2024-10-29 - Removed response messages synchronization mongoDB

  • The process for the synchronization of users’ messages executed by aura-bridge using MongoDB has been deprecated.

1.8 - Aura channels changelog

Aura channels changelog

Changelog of Aura channels for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-10-29 - RCS channel in Aura

1.9 - Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog

Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog

Changelog of Aura Complex Logic Framework for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Deleted

2024-11-06 - Removed legacy code

  • Removed legacy code related to model API handler support.

Fixed

2024-11-06 - Aura Complex Logic Framework parameters loading

  • Fixed an error causing Aura Complex Logic Framework plugins to fail restarting correctly after loading the http_max_attempts and http_max_sleep parameters.

1.10 - Aura configuration API changelog

Aura configuration API changelog

Changelog of Aura configuration API for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-11-14 - Updated available brands

  • The list of available Telefónica brands defined in Kernel within the D_Gbl_Brand global dimension entity and managed by aura-configuration-api has been updated:
    • Added NettoKom - DE brand
    • Added Aldi Talk - DE brand
  • Affected documents:

1.11 - Aura Databricks Jobs changelog

Aura Databricks Jobs changelog

Changelog of Aura Databricks Jobs component for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-10-28 - Updated aura-databricks-jobs component

Fixed

2024-11-21 - Error in Avro entities uploading to Kernel

When uploading certain dimensional entities in AVRO format to Kernel, the process failed as some stages were not executed due to lack of memory and the cluster configuration. This behavior has been solved to allow entities to be uploaded correctly.

1.12 - Aura deployment changelog

Aura deployment changelog

Changelog of Aura deployment for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-10-29 - Enabling of RCS channel in Aura installer

Fixed

2024-11-14 - Fixed Aura Operator commands

  • The Kubernetes commands to display what is deployed in a specific environment have been fixed:
    • Command to list NlpTraining packages
    • Command to list ResolutionResources
  • Affected documents:

1.13 - Aura Gateway API changelog

Aura Gateway API changelog

Changelog of Aura Gateway API component for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-11-19 - Change KPIs writing environment variables

  • Certain environment variables related to KPIs writing in aura-gateway-api have been updated in order to increase performance.
    AURA_KPIS_BLOB_STORE_INTERVAL: 3600000
    AURA_KPIS_BLOB_STORE_MAX_BLOCK_BYTES: 2500000
    AURA_KPIS_LOG_API_REQUEST_BODY: 'false'
    AURA_KPIS_LOG_API_RESPONSE_BODY: 'false'

2024-11-14 - Moved aura-gateway-api descriptive documentation

  • The descriptive documents related to aura-gateway-api have been moved to the ATRIA section, in order to separate ATRIA components from Aura Virtual Assistant ones.
  • Additionally, these documents have been improved for a better understanding.
  • Affected documents:

1.14 - Aura KPIs entities changelog

Aura KPIs entities changelog

Changelog of Aura KPIs entities for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Fixed

2024-11-14 - Corrected entity types

  • The table of fields for Aura_Gateway_Message entity has been corrected, as CORR_ID and AURA_NLP_IND included wrong types.
  • Affected documents:

1.15 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Changelog of Aura NLP component for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-11-06 - Added configuration options for CLU concurrency

  • Implemented new configuration options to limit concurrency in CLU training, reducing the number of errors related to exceeding the API rate limit when too many CLU domains are trained simultaneously.

2024-11-06 - Added configuration options for CLU pooling times

  • Implemented three new configuration options to control how often the status of a running CLU job is checked.

Changed

2024-11-06 - Updated aiohttp version

  • The external Python library aiohttp has been upgraded from 3.8.1 to 3.10.10 version.

Fixed

2024-11-06 - Fixed error in CLU domain training

  • Previously, if parallel processes were training domains at the same time and one of the processes could not copy the project, a race condition led CLU to train a new domain instead of using the existing one, causing waste of money and time.
  • This behavior has been modified and now, if the process fails, it checks if the project already exists in the target location. If so, it will be used instead of importing/creating a new one.

1.16 - Aura operations changelog

Aura Aura operations changelog

Changelog of Aura operations for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Added

2024-11-07 - Changed how Aura handles channels, applications, skills configuration per environment

  • From Jota Quest onwards a change in environment configuration provision regarding channels, applications and skills has been made. All the configuration have been moved to a GitHub repository which is going to be accessible for all the operations teams. This repository will feed Aura installer, so the ground truth for the configuration will be in the repository. Currently, no more changes are needed.
  • Affected repositories:

2024-11-07 - Guidelines to update Imagine Dragons configuration

2024-11-07 - Add missing scopes to Kernel datasets configuration guidelines

  • The guidelines for the configuration of Kernel datasets have been updated, by including three scopes: admin:datasets:read, data:read, data:write, both for the aura-bot and aura-billing Kernel apps.
  • Affected documents:

1.17 - Aura Documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Changelog of Aura documentation for Jota Quest Aura Platform release

Changed

2024-11-20 - New section for Aura Virtual Assistant documentation

  • A new top-level section has been included in the Technical Documentation website for Aura Virtual Assistant documentation.
  • The objective of this new section is to provide contents suitable for both business and product profiles and specialized technical profiles regarding our digital assistant.
  • In this framework, the information is designed in a pyramidal structure:
    • At the top, basic information about Aura Virtual Assistant is provided, understandable for all types of profiles.
    • As we move down, we encounter increasingly technical content, with the description of Aura Virtual Assistant functional overview and an introduction to its main components: channels, aura-root and skills.
    • The base of the pyramid includes high-level technical documents, which will serve as guides for specialized technical profiles.
  • Affected documentation:

2024-11-20 - Completed and improved ATRIA documentation

  • A new version of the top-level section ATRIA has been included in the Technical Documentation website, with the objective of providing and continuously improving the contents, suitable for both business and product profiles and specialized technical profiles.
  • The current release includes key modifications and improvements:
    • Introduction to ATRIA: fundamentals and benefits of ATRIA
      • Enhanced clarity through optimized messaging and visual content to understand what ATRIA is
    • ATRIA capabilities: description of ATRIA AI-driven functionalities
      • Enhanced clarity through optimized messaging and visual content to understand ATRIA AI-driven functionalities
    • ATRIA functional description: overview of the functional processes executed by ATRIA
      • Adjustments and standardization of functional flowcharts
      • Numbered steps have been added to both flowchart and explanatory text for an easier tracking of the process
      • Added links to components involved in the processes
    • Building e2e experiences: Schematic overview of the end-to-end workflows for use cases development using ATRIA capabilities
      • Generative and RAG journeys have been refined, including an iterative step for the modification of certain configuration parameters and the testing of results with these adjustments.
    • Technical components: Descriptive documents for ATRIA components
      • New section that includes documents with a detailed technical description of ATRIA components.
      • These documents have been migrated from the general section /docs/components/, to separate the components belonging to ATRIA and Aura Virtual Assistant
    • Technical guidelines: Comprehensive instructions for particular processes intended for highly-skilled technical teams.

2024-11-20 - Section for Aura Virtual Assistant technical components

  • The top section “Technical components” has been renamed to “Aura Virtual Assistant technical components”, as ATRIA components documentation has been moved to /atria/technical components/
  • Documents have also been reordered in this section.
  • Affected documents:

2024-11-18 - Cleaning up of deprecated Aura releases

  • Deprecated Aura Platform releases have been removed from Aura Technical Documentation website
  • Affected documents:
  • References to deprecated releases throughout Aura Technical Documentation website documents are deleted
  • Documents including guidelines referred to deprecated releases have been concealed

2024-11-15 - Documents fixes and corrections

  • Throughout the website, different links, styles, weights and typos have been modified and/or corrected, for a continuous improvement of Aura Platform documentation.
  • Tags and categories are reviewed in every release in order to maintain the adequate taxonomy for the classification of documents.

2 - Jota Quest Release Notes

Jota Quest Release Notes

3 - Scheduled updates in Aura components

Scheduled updates in Aura components

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

Future updates

Aura Component Dependency Current Version EOL Max frequency Next update EOL Info
Aura System aks/kubernetes 1.29.2 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 8.7.1 10/08/24 Once a year 2024Q3 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 8.7.1 10/08/24 Once a year 2024Q3 https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System prometheus 2.48.0 N/A Once a year 2024Q4 https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/
Aura Bot mongodb 7.0 08/26 Once a year 2024Q4 https://www.mongodb.com/support-policy/lifecycles
Aura System, Aura Bot 1 node docker image node:20.17.0-alpine3.20 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 20.17.0 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

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

  2. During 2024, Qdrant will keep backward compatibility for, at least, one minor version back. ↩︎