🚀 Platform Updates | March 21, 2025

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🚀 Platform Updates | March 21, 2025

This week’s updates feature major enhancements across our AI systems, frontend UX, backend capabilities, and DevOps tooling. Let’s dive in! 👇

🧠 AI Updates

Langflow + Langchain Compatibility Upgrades

• Langflow support extended across apps, including memory, document embeddings, and summary prompts.
• Fake AI Mentors now supported in Langchain, along with a refined runner factory to toggle between backends.
• Enhanced LLM behavior by refining guided prompt interactions, reducing context size, and introducing proactive response customization.

Proactive Interactions Overhauled

• The proactive_message field was restructured into proactive_response, introducing better control with a new greeting_method field.
• Langflow and Langchain consumers now support proactive response functionality.

LiveKit Call Integration

• Call support powered by LiveKit has been introduced to AI Mentors for real-time interactions.

💻 Frontend Updates

Mentor Platform Improvements

• New props for component/modal display and WebRTC STUN/TURN configs enhance mentor embedding capabilities.
• Explore page audiences were refined into categories with horizontal scrolling support.
• Improved LLM call efficiency on the welcome page for better performance.

Skills & Analytics Enhancements

• Skills Tour Tool Tips and custom course overview pages introduced for better onboarding and comprehension.
• Support for tenant custom domains across Skills and Analytics SPAs, with automatic redirection logic.
• A new WYSIWYG editor for notification previews, and credentials assignment for users and groups.

UI/UX Updates

• Carousel-style notification banners and ProgramBox/PathwayBox components added.
• Improved search and filtering behavior across courses, pathways, and programs.

🗃️ Backend Enhancements

Credential Assignment System

• Launched a comprehensive credential assignment engine with APIs, admin interface, Celery task processing, search, and status tracking.

Bulk Import Upgrades

• Now supports SCORM, video, enrollment, and program imports, with CSV templates, background processing, and validations.

Search & Metadata Improvements

• Search payloads now include program_key, audience-based mentor filtering, and better error handling for missing summaries.

Domain & Org Handling

• AWS domain configuration upgraded with automatic certificate provisioning, CloudFront setup, and SPA domain tracking.
• Custom domains are now automatically synced and validated, with real-time status APIs and logging enhancements.

Cross-Service Updates

• New CSRF middleware and dynamic whitelisting of domains added.
• Page content and greeting fields are now injected dynamically for better reliability across mentor interactions.

🛠️ DevOps & Infrastructure Updates

Langflow-First Infrastructure

• Environment toggles and variable support to dynamically switch between Langflow and Langchain runners.
• Upgraded Elasticsearch and removed deprecated components like NEO4J graph DB and CLI documentation dependencies.

Custom Domain Automation

• Step Functions now automate DNS updates, ACM certs, and CloudFront distributions for new domains.
• New tooling to track domain setup status and sync CNAME records.

Cleanup & Consolidation

• CLI cleanup to remove unused services, and new structure for standalone documentation hosting.

📦 EdX Ecosystem Updates

• Updated themes and LMS add-ons, font styling tweaks, and course SCORM handling improvements.