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Wilco release

Wilco release

This section includes key information regarding new features included in Aura Platform for Wilco and main changes in comparison with previous releases

What’s new in Wilco (8.3.0)?

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
Semantic search boosts Aura recognition capabilities ✔️ Aura now incorporates Artificial Intelligence for the recognition of users’s requests, thanks to the integration of semantic search technology based on OpenAI capabilities
✔️ When using this technology to develop generic questions experiences, there is no longer a need to train the understanding model, resulting in reduced time and complexity of the process
Giza Lite v1, the first version of Aura’s models architecture, is available ✔️ Giza Lite v1 provides a platform for the consumption of three global Advanced Analytics Models (AAMs), integrating them into Aura in an efficient and easy way
Improved Aura Platform documentation ✔️ Detailed guidelines for the development of a generic questions use case using semantic search technology and the new OpenAI embeddings recognition stage
✔️ Improved and completed Aura distributed architecture documentation for Phase 1
✔️ Optimization of information regarding Aura system components versions and EOL
✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

1 - Wilco release changelog

Wilco release changelog

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

Select the Aura component of your interest in the left menu.

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 1.26.

Name Namespace Image deployed
alertmanager aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/alertmanager:v0.23.0
elastic-operator aura-system docker.elastic.co/eck/eck-operator:2.7.0
elasticsearch-es-aura aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch:8.7.0
elasticsearch-exporter aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/elasticsearch_exporter:v1.5.0
fluent-bit-aggregator aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/fluent-bit:1.7.7
grafana aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/grafana:8.3.4
kibana-kb aura-system docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.7.0
prometheus aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/prom/prometheus:v2.32.1
mongodb aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/mongo:4.4.18
mongodb-atlas-operator aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/mongodb-atlas-kubernetes-operator:1.5.1
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:v0.24.0
atlas-logger aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/atlas-logger:1.0.0
azure-logger aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/azure-logger:1.3.1
pushgateway aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/pushgateway:v1.4.1
thanos-querier aura-system devopstf.azurecr.io/tools/thanos:v0.24.0

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 - Aura Platform changelog

Aura Platform changelog

Changelog of Aura Platform for Wilco release.

Deleted

2023-09-03 - Deleted AURA_CHANNELS_CONFIGURATION_ENDPOINT environment variable

1.3 - Aura Bridge changelog

Aura Bridge changelog

Changelog of Aura Bridge component for Wilco release.

Added

1.4 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Changelog of Aura NLP for Wilco Aura Platform release

Added

2023-07-28 - Added new OpenAI embeddings recognizer

2023-09-18 - New variables for OpenAI embeddings recognizer

Changed

2023-09-18 - New Aura NLP Virtual Machine

1.5 - Aura operations changelog

Aura Operations changelog

Updated

2023-09-17 - Review aura-apikey-generator tool

  • A new version of the docker image of the APIKey generator tool is available in the Aura docker registry.
  • Affected documents:

1.6 - Aura deployment changelog

Aura deployment changelog

Changelog of Aura deployment process for Wilco Aura Platform release

Added

2023-09-14 OpenAI activation and deployment

  • Aura installer allows enabling and deploying the OpenAI resource and Qdrant vector database.
  • Affected documents:

2023-09-14 Configure your own resource tags

2023-09-13 Giza Lite v1 activation and deployment

  • Aura installer allows enabling and deploying the Advanced Analytics Models (AAMs) that are included in Giza Lite V1.
  • Affected documents:

1.7 - Giza Lite v1 changelog

Giza Lite v1 changelog

Changelog of Giza Lite v1 for Wilco Aura Platform release

Added

2023-08-30 - Launching of Giza Lite v1

1.8 - Aura documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Changelog of Aura documentation for Wilco Aura Platform release

The current section:

✅ Includes changes that exclusively affect to the improvement of Aura documentation (generation of new documents, writing style, structure, format, fixing typos, etc.)

⛔ Does not include technical corrections in documents or modifications derived from changes over a specific Aura component. These ones will be included in their corresponding section within the release changelog.

Added

2023-15-09 Documentation for the development of a generic questions use case using OpenAI embeddings recognizer

  • The detailed process for the development of a experience based on generic questions that uses OpenAI embeddings as the recognition stage is included in Aura Technical Documentation website.
  • Affected documents:

2023-09-18 - Completed aura-groot environment variables documentation

Changed

2023-08-28 - Documents fixes and corrections

Throughout the website, different links, styles and typos have been corrected, for a continuous improvement of Aura Platform documentation.

2023-09-18 - Adaptation of contents to Aura distributed architecture

2023-09-18 - Optimization of information regarding components versions and EOL

2 - Wilco Release Notes

Wilco 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 1.26 03/24 Twice a year 2023Q4 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#kubernetes-versions
Aura System elasticsearch 8.7.0 10/08/24 Once a year 2023Q4 https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System grafana 8.3.4 N/A Once a year 2023Q4 https://community.grafana.com/t/support-policy-for-previous-releases/53350
Aura System kibana 8.7.0 10/08/24 Once a year 2023Q4 https://www.elastic.co/es/support/eol
Aura System prometheus 2.32.1 N/A Once a year 2023Q4 https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/
Aura System, Aura Bot mongodb 4.4 02/24 Once a year 2023Q4 https://www.mongodb.com/support-policy/lifecycles
Aura System, Aura Bot node docker image node:18.16.0-alpine3.17 11/24 Once a year 2024Q2 https://endoflife.date/alpine
Aura System, Aura Context redis 6.0 N/A Once a year 2024Q1 https://endoflife.date/redis
Aura Bot nodejs 18.16.0 04/24 Once a year 2024Q2 https://endoflife.date/nodejs
Aura Bot typescript 5.0.0 12/24 Once a year 2024Q2
Aura Bot botbuilder 4.19.6 N/A Once a year 2024Q2
Aura Bot joi 17.6.0 N/A Once a year 2024Q2
Aura Bot superagent 8.0.5 N/A Once a year 2024Q2
QA Tool python 3.8/3.9 14/10/24 (3.8) Once a year 2024Q3 https://endoflife.date/python