🚀 Platform Updates | January 5, 2025

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform Updates | January 5, 2025

Hey team! Here’s a look at this week’s exciting platform updates, focusing on performance improvements, new features, and streamlined experiences for users and developers. Let us know your thoughts or feedback! 🎉

🧠 AI Updates

• Improved Authentication for Bots: Slack, Discord, Webex, and WhatsApp bots now have dedicated credential handling logic. One-off authentication with phone numbers and platform identifiers has been introduced for enhanced security and usability.
• Total Grounding Support: Added grounding support for models by setting LLM temperature to 0.0 and including default grounding prompts. Integrated Deepseek as the default LLM provider for consistent and reliable responses.
• Microsoft Document Integration: Introduced a markdown converter for in-chat Microsoft documents, enabling seamless processing. Audio and image loaders are now supported for enhanced document indexing.
• Memory Enhancements: Updated the memory component to handle scenarios without catalog items. Added an endpoint for retrieving memory history, providing better traceability for user interactions.
• Enhanced YouTube Handling: Updated YouTube transcript loading by adding retries for longer videos, and introduced a splitter for better transcript segmentation.

🖥️ Frontend Updates

Mentor SPA:

• Mentor Exploration Updates: Mentors on the explore page are now filtered by creation date, with adjusted display card fields for clarity. Default query values are set to 90 days, and unnecessary graphs have been removed for a cleaner UI.
• Anonymous Advanced Embed: Enabled anonymous usage for advanced embeds, increasing flexibility in implementation.
• Improved File Handling: Limited file types selectable with the OneDrive picker and integrated document sources to streamline workflows.
• Error Tracking: Introduced console error logging with Sentry integration in the Error Component for faster debugging.

Skills SPA:

• Course Display Enhancements: Updated the inner courseware outline sections, improving course details views for logged-out users.
• Text Customization: Added optional configurations to replace Discover and Recommended tab texts with custom values.

Analytics SPA:

• Licensing Enhancements: Improved search functionality and introduced pagination for licensing tables, covering Users, Content, and Platform Licenses.

🛠️ Backend Updates

• Search Enhancements: Updated field definitions for filtering and facet naming in search apps. Added a visibility field for mentor filtering to streamline results.
• Catalog Auto Enrollment: Enhanced program remote auto-enrollment criteria to improve user onboarding experiences.
• Vector Store Enhancements: URLs in vector store results now include usernames and tenant information while excluding private, non-file documents for secure and precise indexing.

🔧 DevOps & Infrastructure

• Signal Relay Updates: Upgraded signal relay app integration for seamless operations.
• Improved Error Logging: Enhanced logging functionality across services, focusing on better debugging tools and traceability.
• General Improvements: Refined configurations across catalog apps and search apps to improve scalability and performance.