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Zaz release

Zaz release

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

What’s new in Zaz (8.6.0)?

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
Improvements and bugfixing NLP ✔️ Aura NLP Team has resolved some already-existing bugs in aura-nlp and has improved the performance of certain NLP stages
Completed aura-mock-server documentation ✔️ The aura-mock-server documentation has been updated to include comprehensive information regarding the different plugins that provide functionalities to this component
Improved Aura Platform documentation ✔️ Icons in the website main sections have been replaced by other ones compatible with the latest Docysy version
✔️ The formats and styles across the entire website are progressively adapted to the rules established in the readme.md file
✔️ Documents are continuously updated, reviewed and corrected in order to achieve, release after release, a better quality in Aura Platform documentation

1 - Zaz release changelog

Zaz 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 1.26.

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:8.5.21
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 Mock Server changelog

Aura Mock Server changelog

Changelog of Aura Mock server for Zaz Aura Platform release

Changed

2023-12-18 - Documented aura-mock-server plugins

  • The aura-mock-server documentation has been updated to include comprehensive information regarding the different plugins that provide functionalities to this component:
  • A catalog of all the plugins integrated into the aura-mock-server is included, together with links to their respective GitHub repositories.
  • Two key plugins are fully described in the website, providing users with a detailed understanding of their capabilities and contributions to the aura-mock-server.
  • In forthcoming releases, the rest of the plugins will be progresively included in the documentation.
  • Affected documents:

1.3 - Aura NLP changelog

Aura NLP changelog

Changelog of Aura NLP component for Zaz Aura Platform release

Changed

2023-11-22 - Improved Luis stage and QNA recognizer stage with empty phrases

  • Fix in the internal behavior of the Luis stage and QNA recognizer stage to solve potential problems in the recognition with an empty phrase. Now, if the phrase is empty, the recognizer will return an empty result, instead of an error 400.
  • Affected documents:

2023-11-22 - Improved OpenAI embeddings recognizer stage performance

  • Fix in the internal behavior of the OpenAI embeddings recognizer stage to improve the performance of the recognition process. Now, the recognizer does not log the embedding in the KPI logs and the request to Qdrant database is made using a HTTP client instead of a Qdrant client.
  • Affected documents:

1.4 - Aura documentation changelog

Aura documentation changelog

Changelog of Aura Documentation for Zaz Aura Platform release.

The current section:

✅ Includes changes that exclusively affect to the improvement of Aura documentation (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.

Changed

2023-12-18 - Update icons

  • The icons used in the top menu sections and other documents are updated to the ones in https://fontawesome.com/icons/ for them to be compatible with the updated Docsy version.

2023-12-18 - Update formats and styles

  • Gradually, across the entire website, adjustments have been made to align formats and styles with the predefined rules outlined in the readme.md file. This comprehensive adaptation ensures consistency and adherence to the established guidelines throughout the platform.

2023-12-21 - Documents fixes and corrections

  • Throughout the website, different links, styles and typos have been corrected, for a continuous improvement of Aura Platform documentation. Moreover, the README.md document, that contains detailed instructions for documentation makers and collaborators, has been completed.

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 1.26 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 8.5.21 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:18.18.2-alpine3.17 11/24 Once a year 2024Q2 https://endoflife.date/alpine
Aura System, Aura Context redis 6.X (azure) 08/24 Once a year 2024Q1 https://endoflife.date/redis
Aura Bot nodejs 18.18.2 04/24 Once a year1 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
Aura Cognitive python 3.9/3.11 05/10/25(3.9) 24/10/27(3.11) Every 2 years 2024Q2 https://endoflife.date/python
Aura Cognitive python packages dependencies N/A N/A Every 2 years 2025Q2 (python - 1 year)
Aura Cognitive ubuntu 22.04 LTS 01/04/27 Every 5 years 2026Q4 https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Aura Cognitive local tool containers N/A N/A Every 2 years 2024Q1
Aura Cognitive Abacus react 17.0.2 🔴 29/03/22 Every 3 years 2024Q4 https://endoflife.date/react
Aura Cognitive Abacus typescript 4.1 N/A Every 3 years 2024Q4

  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 - Zaz Release Notes

Zaz Release Notes

Access the document Aura Platform Release: Zaz - Release Notes