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. |