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Shakira release

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.

1 - Shakira release changelog

Shakira 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 1.32

Name Namespace Image deployed
alertmanager aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/alertmanager:v0.28.1
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
elasticsearch-es-aura aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch:8.18.2
elasticsearch-exporter aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch_exporter:v1.5.0
elastic-operator aura-system docker.elastic.co/eck/eck-operator:2.7.0
fluent-bit-aggregator aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/fluent-bit:3.2.2
grafana aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/grafana:11.6.3
keda aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/keda:2.17.2
kibana-kb aura-system docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.18.2
mongodb-atlas-operator aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/mongodb-atlas-kubernetes-operator:2.1.0
prometheus aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/prom/prometheus:v3.5.0
pushgateway aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/pushgateway:v1.11.1
redis aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/redis:6.0.19
redis-exporter aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/redis-exporter:1.6.1
thanos-querier aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.38.0
thanos-store-gateway aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.38.0

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 - Agents server changelog

Agents server changelog

Changelog of the Agents server for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-08-08 - DAPR pubsub support

  • agents-server now supports DAPR pubsub, allowing agents to subscribe to DAPR topics and receive messages in real time.
  • Related documents:

2025-08-03 - Technical guidelines for agents developers

Changed

2025-08-08 - Refactor of environment variables

2025-07-08 - Improved Agents server API swagger

  • Updated agents-server API swagger to add a rate limit error that sets the time in seconds that the client must wait before making a new request.
  • Related documents:

1.3 - Atria Model Gateway changelog

Atria Model Gateway changelog

Changelog of Atria Model Gateway for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-08-18 - Perplexity Model Integration

2025-08-08 - DAPR pubsub support

  • atria-model-gateway now supports DAPR pubsub, allowing this component to subscribe to DAPR topics and receive messages in real time.
  • Related documents:

Changed

2025-08-08 - Refactor of environment variables

Fixed

2025-07-09 - Refresh config injectionMaxLength

  • The atria-model-gateway component has been updated to refresh the injectionMaxLength configuration parameter. As this field was not updated when refreshing the config.

1.4 - ATRIA Models Manager changelog

ATRIA Models Manager changelog

Changelog of ATRIA Models Manager for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-08-18 - New Library Atria Models Manager

1.5 - Atria RAG generate DB changelog

Atria RAG generate DB changelog

Changelog of Atria RAG generate DB for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-08-11 - Instructions to launch atria-rag-generate-db

Changed

2025-06-24 - Restructuring of component documentation

2025-06-24 - Improved process logs

The atria-rag-generate-db job uploaded some logs with wrong formatting to Elastic, where certain mandatory fields were missing. This behavior has been improved, and logs are now generated with the expected fields in correct format.

1.6 - Atria Rag Server changelog

Atria Rag Server changelog

Changelog of Atria Rag Server for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-08-08 - DAPR pubsub support

  • atria-rag-server now supports DAPR pubsub, allowing this component to subscribe to DAPR topics and receive messages in real time.
  • Related documents:

Changed

2025-06-24 - Improved ATRIA injection process

  • The ingestion process for uploading and processing new documents in an ATRIA experience has been optimized through:
    • Apification of the process
    • Modifications for a more efficient and agile process
    • Detailed status updates and progress tracking
    • Improved error management

2025-06-24 - RAG does not support files with whitespaces

  • A disclaimer has been added to documentation to explicitly state that the RAG does not support files with whitespaces, in order to prevent potential issues during document importation.
  • Related documents:

2025-06-14 - Improved process logs

  • The atria-rag-server uploaded some logs with wrong formatting to Elastic, where certain mandatory fields were missing. This behavior has been improved, and logs are now generated with the expected fields in correct format.

2025-06-14 - Improved process for presets availability

  • When a new preset is created, it is necessary to launch the database generation process by executing the atria-rag-generate-db component. This process may take several minutes to complete. Meanwhile, a message is sent to the user, informing that the preset is not available yet.
  • Related documents:

2025-05-18 - Preprocessing user’s requests to detect language

  • atria-rag-server now also preprocesses the user’s requests when it is configured to detect the language of the input text and special characters that may cause recognition errors are removed. This preprocessing is only used during the language identification process, the sentence remains the same for the rest of the stages.
  • Added new parameter chars_to_clean to the default configuration of the atria-rag-server. By default, it is set to ['\n']. This parameter is not modifiable by use cases constructors.

  • Related documents:

2025-08-08 - Refactor of environment variables

1.7 - Aura Agents Manager changelog

Aura Agents Manager changelog

Changelog of Aura Agents Manager for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-07-07 - New plugin Dapr PubSub Services

  • Import new plugin dapr-pubsub-services from auraserver-common to manage Dapr events.
  • Related documents:

1.8 - Aura Authentication API changelog

Aura Authentication API changelog

Changelog of Aura Authentication API component for Shakira Aura Platform release

Removed

2025-09-17 - Removed auth-process endpoints

1.9 - Aura bot changelog

Aura Bot changelog

Changelog of Aura Bot component for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-06-19 - TV Display dialog configuration for channels MP and MH

  • Configuration has been added for channels movistar-plus and movistar-home to enable TV Display use case, now supporting intent.tv.display, which allows tuning in to the requested TV channel.
  • Related documents:

Changed

2025-08-04 - Update monkey-patcher data processing

  • Changed monkey-patcher data processing, removing the heavy parts that caused poor performance in certain situations.

Removed

2025-09-17 - Removed dialogs

  • Removed alfred and conversational dialogs.

2025-09-17 - Removed loa3 login

  • Removed loa3 login dialogs

1.10 - Aura bridge changelog

Aura bridge changelog

Changelog of Aura bridge for Shakira Aura Platform release

Fixed

2025-09-16 - Used new uuid for every RCS response

  • To avoid errors with android RCS clients, every response message now have a unique id instead of using the same id as the request.

1.11 - Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog

Aura Complex Logic Framework changelog

Changelog of Aura Complex Logic Framework for Shakira Aura Platform release

Changed

2025-06-23 - Plugin sound exclusion configuration

  • Added configuration support to specify, for each plugin, which channels should not trigger sound responses.
  • This allows finer control over the auditory feedback provided by each plugin, enabling the exclusion of certain channels from positive or negative sound actions.
  • Related documentation:

2025-06-13 - Updated display plugin response

  • Enhanced user experience by implementing sound responses in video plugins.
  • Responses now include a MAKE_SOUND action that plays a positive sound when the operation is successful or a negative sound when errors occur.
  • This functionality provides immediate auditory feedback to users about the result of their interactions.
  • Implementation examples:
    • Positive sound: when requested content is found
    • Negative sound: when no results are available or an error occurs
  • Related documentation:

2025-06-01 - Updated TV display plugin

  • The normalized TV display experience now allows searching not only by channel but also by content (title, genre, subgenre, actor or director).
  • Consequently, the Complex Logic Framework plugin for this use case has been modified to support the new features.
  • Related documents:

1.12 - Aura config provision changelog

Aura config provision changelog

Changelog of Aura config provision for Shakira Aura Platform release

Deleted

2025-09-01 - Delete metaverse channel

  • Remove the channel used by metaverse applications with name metaverse and the associated skill, application and preset.

2025-09-01 - Delete novum-backend channel

  • Remove the channel used by novum-backend applications with name novum-backend and the associated application.

2025-09-01 - Delete copilot preset and applicacion

  • Remove copilot application and preset.

2025-09-01 - Delete col-conversational preset and application

  • Remove col-conversational preset and application

2025-09-17 - Delete AIWI channel

  • Remove AIWI channel

2025-09-17 - Delete X4ALL channel

  • Remove X4ALL channel

2025-09-17 - Delete AWC channel

  • Remove AWC channel

1.13 - Aura Configuration API changelog

Aura Configuration API changelog

Changelog of Aura Configuration API for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-07-07 - New environment variables

2025-07-07 - Aura Configuration API Agent base swagger

Changed

2025-07-07 - Change agent plugins definition

Removed

2025-09-17 - Removed channels

  • Removed AIWI, AWC and X4ALL channels configuration.

2025-09-17 - Removed changes endpoints

  • Removed /changes/{document} endpoints for presets, applications, skills, channels, livingApps, tv-sections and suggestion.
  • Related documents:

1.14 - Aura File Manager changelog

Aura File Manager changelog

Changelog of Aura File Manager for Shakira Aura Platform release

Fixed

2025-08-10 - Fixed streaming connection from WhatsApp media API

  • Suddenly WhatsApp changed their media API and the streaming connection was broken. This is now fixed, by adding a different way to connect to the media server to upload the files to the configured Azure Blob Storage.

1.15 - Aura Gateway API changelog

Aura Gateway API changelog

Changelog of Aura Gateway API for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-07-10 - Add new API swagger: Aura Operations API

  • Included a new API swagger in aura-gateway-api: Aura Operations API, responsible for managing operations over Aura.
  • Related documents:

2025-07-10 - Add new plugin: aura-operations-api

  • The new aura-operations-api plugin manages the endpoints for operations related to Aura.
  • Related documents:

2025-07-07 - New plugin Dapr PubSub Services

  • Import new plugin dapr-pubsub-services from auraserver-common to manage Dapr events.
  • Related documents:

Changed

2025-07-10 - Update environment variables

1.16 - Aura manager base changelog

Aura manager base changelog

Changelog Aura manager base for Shakira Aura Platform release

Changed

2025-08-11 - Aura manager base component

1.17 - Aura microfrontend base changelog

Aura microfrontend base changelog

Changelog Aura microfrontend base for Shakira Aura Platform release

Changed

2025-07-15 - Aura microfrontend base component

  • Implementation of first requirements of agnostic web interface, as a new component in aura-microfrontend-base, using Mistica framework. On further development, the component could be externalized to ist own package.

1.18 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Changelog of Aura NLP component for Shakira Aura Platform release

Changed

2025-06-01 - Updated TV display use case in Spain

Fixed

2025-07-10 - Improved the performance of GazetteerNer stage

  • Fixed the GazetteerNer stage to avoid service degradation when processing certain input phrases containing many entities.
  • Related documents:

1.19 - Aura QA changelog

Aura Aura QA changelog

Changelog of Aura QA for Shakira Aura Platform release

Changed

2025-09-16 - Upgraded Python version for the QA Tool

  • Aura QA Tool now supports both Python 3.10 and 3.11
  • Related documents:

1.21 - Aura Documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Changelog of Aura documentation for Shakira Aura Platform release

Added

2025-08-11 - Added SQL RAG pipeline to documentation

  • The SQL RAG pipeline, integrated into ATRIA for the conversion of a request from natural language to an SQL query, has been added to Aura Technical documentation website including a comprehensive description of its stages.
  • Related document:

Changed

2025-08-13 - Deleted deprecated releases

  • Documentation from deprecated Aura releases has been removed from the Aura Technical documentation website, together with the shortcuts to these versions.

2025-08-12 - Review and update of Aura components versions

2025-08-12 - Review of tags and categories

  • Review of tags and categories in documents in order to adapt them to the new features and components in Aura and to maintain the adequate taxonomy for the classification of documents.

2025-08-12 - Documents review 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.

Fixed

2 - 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 1.32 03/26 Twice a year 2025Q4 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#kubernetes-versions
Aura System elasticsearch 8.18.2 07/27 Once a year 2026Q3 https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System grafana 11.6.3 06/26 Once a year 2026Q3 https://endoflife.date/grafana
Aura System kibana 8.18.2 07/27 Once a year 2026Q3 https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System prometheus 3.5.0 End of Support: 07/26 Once a year 2026Q3 https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/
Aura System fluent-bit 3.2.2 3 months after version 3.3 is released Once a year 2026Q1 https://endoflife.date/fluent-bit/
Aura Bot mongodb 7.0 08/26 Once a year 2025Q4 https://www.mongodb.com/support-policy/lifecycles
Aura System, Aura Bot 1 node docker image node:22.14.0-alpine3.21 04/27 Once a year 2026Q2 https://endoflife.date/alpine
Aura Bot nodejs 22.14.0 04/27 Once a year1 2026Q2 https://endoflife.date/nodejs
Aura Bot typescript 5.8.2 N/A Once a year 2026Q4
Aura Bot botbuilder 4.23.2 N/A Once a year 2026Q2
Aura Bot joi 17.13.3 N/A Once a year 2026Q2
Aura Bot superagent 10.2.0 N/A Once a year 2026Q2
Databricks Jobs (uploading) python 3.9 10/25 Once a year 2025Q4 https://endoflife.date/python
Databricks Jobs (uploading) databricks 12.2 LTS spark: 3.3.2 03/26 Once a year 2025Q4
QA Tool python 3.10 / 3.11 10/26 (3.10)
10/27 (3.11)
Once a year 2026Q4 https://endoflife.date/python
Aura Cognitive python 3.13 10/29 Every 2 years 2027Q2 https://endoflife.date/python
Aura Cognitive python packages dependencies N/A N/A Every 2 years 2027Q2 (python - 1 year)
Aura Cognitive ubuntu 22.04 LTS 04/27 Every 5 years 2026Q4 https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Aura Cognitive local tool containers N/A N/A Every 2 years 2027Q2
Aura Cognitive Abacus typescript 4.1 N/A Every 3 years 2026Q2

  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. ↩︎ ↩︎

3 - Shakira Release Notes

Shakira Release Notes