🚀 Platform Updates | April 18, 2025

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform Updates | April 18, 2025

This week’s platform rollout introduces enhanced LLM observability, streamlined topic generation, expanded iframe capabilities, deeper department filtering, and more robust credential controls. Here’s the full breakdown 👇

🧠 AI + Mentor Improvements

• Improved podcast automation with timestamp-based scheduling and blog author/category slug support.
• Streamlined topic generation now prompts the LLM once per session for cleaner summaries.
• Tracked embeddings and LLM calls via Langfuse for improved cost and usage transparency.
• Extended support for department filtering in AI Mentor Chat History Reports.
• Added new endpoints for setting tools per session and preventing duplicate mentor email settings.
• Introduced safety controls for Langchain runner and enhanced Grok fetch reliability.

💻 Frontend Enhancements

Components & Shared Elements

• Refined the public profile credential search and Upload Media section in AI Skills.
• Improved language dropdown visibility across browsers.

Mentor SPA

• Integrated the LiveKitChat component for voice chat functionality.
• Expanded iframe support with recent-messages, explore, and prompt-gallery embeds.
• Improved mobile layout and header; optimized load behavior for embedded mentor components.

Skills SPA

• Updated API calls to LMS with proper auth headers.
• Enhanced Discover filters and improved toggled mentor display.
• Notifications for Team Managers now load cleanly on interaction.

Analytics SPA

• Introduced app=analytics param to auth flow.
• Improved credential search, pagination, and sidebar analytics performance.

🗂️ Backend & Data Updates

• Enhanced credential assignment logic to use the target user context.
• Updated credential endpoints to handle revoked certs and standardize result ordering.
• Added department-aware filtering to mentor search endpoints, now including created_by and null category groups.
• Updated catalog and milestones APIs with improved documentation and structure.
• Optimized AI Mentor topic cost aggregation and session filtering via ClickHouse.
• Enabled TypeScript client generation with full type declarations alongside JavaScript.

🔐 edX & Credentialing Enhancements

• Introduced custom LTI session cookie error messages.
• Updated edX SSO backend for enhanced session handling and Fernet token support.
• Expanded course credential rendering logic to account for revoked credentials.

🛠️ DevOps & CLI Updates

• Added Cloud-native improvements including MinIO service isolation and CSP rendering based on feature toggles.
• Updated langfuse environment handling and SSO auth backend flags.
• Improved magic link registration behavior with new override options.