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Release 5.9

October 2024

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

  • Kelvin Core UI
    • New Left Sidebar menu layout option
    • New User Managment feature in Administration
      • Attributes Based Access Control
      • Groups Management
    • New Roles and Permissions Management feature in Administration
      • Attributes Based Access Control
    • Workload download image improvements
    • CSV Publisher new validation on timestamps
    • Data Explorer improvements on handling missing data in time streams for smooth rendering of line graphs
  • General Minor UI improvements
  • Bug fixes

Kelvin API

  • Bug Fixes:
    • Search by display name not working for asset types
    • Losing connection to K8S API causes edge-updater to try to update all services
  • New Features:
    • Allow setting custom kubelet arguments when provisioning a new cluster
    • Improve appregistry events and ingestion
    • Add option to download workload image directly from S3
    • Implement Authorization API (manage roles and groups).
    • Apply ABAC validation in multiple services (assets, datastreams, parameters, etc.)
  • Improvements:
    • Refactor API to new structure of code (API User)
  • Fixes:
    • Fix deploy with multiple app version workloads on reuse_workloads (App Manager)
    • Fix undeploy resource (App Manager)
    • Create context for writable input datastreams (App Manager)
    • Duplicate datastream validation added (App Manager)
  • Other:
    • Improve planner rules cluster_sel_method: none on empty instance planner rules
    • Add new rejected state to control change API (API Control Change)

Kelvin SDK

  • Kelvin App
    • Added Support for Dynamic (Runtime) Configuration reload
    • Added support to receive Control Changes
  • App Test (Publisher)
    • Added support for custom (Data) Generators
  • Small Bug Fixes

Whats New in our Documentation ?

  • Restructuring of the documentation layout and content
    • New Overview section replacing Kelvin
      • Concepts now moved here in Overview section
      • Security and Certification now moved here in Overview section
      • Versions now moved here in Overview section
    • Developer Tools updated and refocused in content
      • Quick Start Guides updated and refreshed
      • How To Guides streamlined and reorganized into less menus
      • Use Cases updated and old use cases removed
    • Developer Tools updated and refocused in content
      • Use Cases updated and old use cases removed
    • Platform Administration updated and refocused in content
      • Quick Start Guides updated and refreshed
      • Use Cases moved to separate menu item
      • Use Cases updates and removed unrelated cases
      • User Management reorganized for clarity between RBAC and ABAC
  • Other notable changes in the documentation;
    • Many changes and tests on the current SDK examples in the documentation in Developer Tools
    • New User Management ⟹ Access Control section for Attributes Based Access Control (ABAC)
    • New Documentation ⟹ User Management ⟹ Access Rights page for ABAC
    • New Spotlight tips sections in Developer Tools and Platform Administration sections
    • New full documentation in How to Guides ⟹ Deployment ⟹ Guardrails section (feature coming in v5.9.1)
    • Improved Documentation ⟹ User Management authentication workflow
    • Updated Comparison and descriptions of the Enterprise and Professional editions of Kelvin
    • Updated Planner Rules new keys available
  • New Video Tutorial on importing assets/data streams and use csv publisher to test in less than 6 minutes
  • New Video Tutorial on provisioning a new edge device in less than 3 minutes
  • New Video Tutorial on creating and testing new Kelvin SmartApp™ in less than 8 minutes
  • New Video Tutorial on deploying Kelvin SmartApp™ to new assets in less than 2 minutes
  • New documentation and video tutorial on the event callback feature of the Python SDK
  • New documentation and video tutorial on the test generator tool for Kelvin SmartApps™
  • Updated abbreviations for popup tooltips
  • Updated API Swagger file to latest version
  • All screenshots updated with latest look and feel for v5.9
  • Updated version references
  • General improvements