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. |
Last modified March 21, 2024: feat: Documentation improvement for Coldplay release #AURA-21069 [RTM] (49d6a4d9)