🚀 Platform Updates | February 7, 2025

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform Updates | February 7, 2025

Another exciting week of updates across AI, frontend, backend, and DevOps! We’ve made significant performance improvements, enhanced integrations, and expanded customization options. Check out what’s new this week! 👇

🧠 AI Updates

• Integrated a new ClickHouse database router for improved analytics processing.
• Streamlined LangFuse tracking, optimizing performance by fetching data directly from ClickHouse instead of an API.
• Session tracking upgrades: Topic embeddings are now saved to reduce redundant API calls, and chat history now includes lti_username extracted from lti_email.
• Added custom instructions enhancements, enabling mentors to adjust responses based on student professions and traits.
• Introduced an additional mentor health check endpoint that operates without OpenAI dependencies.
• Expanded mentor flows with session-based tracking, improving insights for analytics.

🖥️ Frontend Updates

Mentor SPA Enhancements
Enhanced Markdown Handling: Now supports multiple $ symbols in Latex formatting.
Guided Prompt Customization: Users can now create, edit, and fetch AI-generated guided prompts for mentors.
Expanded Training Options: Supports ZIP file uploads and PowerPoint (PPTX/PPT) file uploads for training AI models.
Improved Embed UI: Redesigned chatroom layout and settings tab for a cleaner user experience.

Analytics & Skills

• Pathway & Program Visibility: Updated navigation logic to improve display consistency across programs.
• Skills Search Optimization: Search filters now provide faster, more relevant skill results.
• Content Licensing & Analytics: Streamlined course license tracking for better management.

React Components & Auth

• New Context Sharing Capabilities: Added support for defining permitted origins for shared context data.
• Studio Login Synchronization: Users are now automatically logged into Studio upon authentication.

⚙️ Backend Updates

Scalable Search & Content Filtering

• Optimized mentor category grouping and subcategory filtering for search.
• Enhanced search app functionality to refine recommendations based on user licenses.
• Improved content type organization, ensuring seamless integration across catalog items.

Stripe & Subscription Enhancements

• Added free trial expiration tracking and configurable trial settings.
• Introduced promotion code support in checkout sessions.
• Enhanced multi-tier pricing for subscription-based services.

Expanded Permissions & Security

• Introduced granular platform permissions, improving access control for user management.
• Enhanced domain whitelisting features, allowing finer control over permitted API interactions.
• Strengthened department linking for better group management.

🔧 DevOps & Infrastructure Updates

Advanced Security Controls

• Implemented domain restriction features using ModSecurity, allowing whitelisted IP access to specific domains.
• Introduced a new command to manage global proxy restrictions for enhanced security.

Performance & Monitoring Upgrades

• Improved health checks for more reliable system status updates.
• Memory monitoring enhancements: Notifications are now suppressed unless thresholds are exceeded, preventing unnecessary alerts.

Infrastructure & Storage Enhancements

• Integrated AWS S3 public bucket configurations into platform defaults.
• Added support for magic link authentication in Open edX, streamlining user access.