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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 |
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
- atria-model-gateway error messages have been optimized, by improving the HTTP error code in responses.
- Affected documents:
2024-11-19 - Modifications in atria-model-gateway-swagger
- The atria-model-gateway API swagger has been modified to adapt to the latest ATRIA functionalities.
- Affected documents:
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
- Included a more detailed definition of the configuration parameters.
- Affected documents:
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
- 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
- A new channel Rich Communication Services (RCS) is available in Aura.
- It is designed to enhance traditional SMS and MMS messaging and enables users to incorporate richer content through chat features like video, images, and other interactive elements.
- Aura allows RCS channels to communicate with the users through an application installed by default in their phones, with lower costs than WhatsApp.
- Affected documents:
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
- The admin-module of aura-configuration-api includes in its channels collection new parameters for storing information regarding the RCS channel.
- Affected documents:
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
- Add the execution flowchart of avro-to-dataset-job-cli.
- Add more cases in aura-databricks-jobs troubleshooting.
- Affected documents:
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
- A new command has been added in Aura installer to enable/disable the RCS channel
- Affected documents:
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
- Requirements and instructions to update Imagine Dragons release configuration.
- These guidelines have been applied to Germany, where Imagine Dragons has already been deployed.
- Affected documents:
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