Xoel release

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

What’s new in Xoel (8.4.0)?

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
Improved logs performance ✔️ Reduced logs overhead in Aura NLP, Aura Context and Complex Logic Framerwork in order to improve performance
Basic implementation for supporting AuraLine protocol ✔️ First steps for the implementation of AuraLine protocol in Aura through the generation of a new plugin and API swagger in the aura-bridge component
New aura-bridge service for message feedback ✔️ aura-bridge now includes a new mechanism that allows Aura push to receive the correct status of message delivery to the final users. The possibility of adding a new plugin to handle the errors and ACK as needed is a global feature, but the implementation over Aura push is only available in Brazil, because it is a dedicated plugin for this OB.
Parallel Aura releases deployment ✔️ aura-bridge Redis database is now prefixed with a reference to the environment and version to allow parallel deployments of Aura versions.
Useful information regarding channelData versions ✔️ Find out whether or not aura-bot/aura-groot return the channelData version in the response
Remove MongoDB dependency ✔️ aura-bridge now uses Redis for all the information that needs to be temporarily persisted, completely eliminating its dependency on MongoDB
Completed documentation regarding Giza Lite v1 and global models ✔️ Giza Lite v1 documentation is completed with guidelines for the consumption of global models through an aura-bot use case and for models local testing
New payload fields in Aura request-response model ✔️ Aura request-response model v3 includes new payload fields for the enrichment of both request and response between channels, aura-groot and skills
Improved Aura Platform documentation ✔️ Key documents have been migrated from old repositories into Aura Technical Documentation website
✔️ Publication of an updated version of the README document for contributors to Aura documentation
✔️ Aura components documents are adapted to Aura distributed architecture documentation (Phase 1)
✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected release after release. Moreover, certain ones have been relocated to ease their management