• January 28, 2025
• 3 min read

Release 5.12

January 2025

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

• Feature flag implementation allowing for a better user experience when interacting with platform functionality
• New Docker cluster type is now available
• New BETA Map view that allows the user to see their assets geographically
• Overall improvements and bug fixes.

Kelvin API

• Edge-lite:
  • Enable the use of Docker runtime containers to provision Kelvin clusters.
  • Create a script for generating Docker-based clusters. Modify edge-k8s and edge-updater
  • Add components to support running Docker containers.
  • APIs/Services:API Secrets Refactoring: Revamp the API secrets handling process for improved security and functionality.
  • Properties API: Introduce a new API for retrieving application properties.
• Performance Improvements:
  • Fix 500 errors in various endpoints.
  • Investigate and resolve performance issues with the api-properties service.
• Timeseries Updater Enhancements:
  • Request last timeseries values in a deduplicated batch.
  • Improve performance and efficiency.
• Authorization:
  • Migrate to v2 Authorization: Update existing authorization mechanisms to utilize version 2 protocols for enhanced security and functionality.
  • Jenkins:Adapt Jenkins Pipeline: Modify the pipeline to accommodate builds for Arm32/v7 architecture.
  • Feature Flags:Implement Custom Feature Flags: Introduce custom feature flags that allows to enable or disable specific features.
  • Grafana Integration:Create KPI-based Dashboards: Develop Grafana dashboards focused on key performance indicators (KPIs) by application.

Kelvin SDK

• Control Change Manager can now run on arm32
• Messages Dataflow Performance improvements
• Added support to build arm32 applications
  • Updated app build --multiarch argument to receive a list of supported architectures (amd64, arm64, arm32)
• Bug fixes

Whats New in our Documentation ?

New

• Advanced AI DocBot for giving coding advice from natural language questions
• Platform administration - How to display assets in Asset Maps page
• Platform administration - How to List all Assets in a SmartApp page
• Added Custom edition page options and the stamps next to logo
• Added new Docker Cluster option to the documentation
• Operation Tools - Asset Maps Overview page created
• Operation Tools - Managing Assets in Maps page created
• Operation Tools - Managing Asset Table View in Maps page created
• Operation Tools - Customize Asset Table View in Maps page created
• Operation Tools - Customize Columns in Maps page created

Updated

• Consume timeseries data messages page updated
• Consume Windowing page fully rewritten
• Produce Asset Parameter messages page updated
• Produce Data Tags page updated
• Produce Timeseries Data Messages page updated
• Developer quick start Create page updated with more Asset Parameter details
• Developer quick start Configure page updated to be Kelvin Cloud, not Kelvin Platform
• Developer quick start Test page updated with new CSV testing command line commands
• Installation of Environment in Windows - Python install guide page updated
• Installation of Environment in Windows - Requirements install guide page updated
• Improved graphics for Creating Kelvin SmartApp page
• Improved graphics for Timeseries data messages page
• Complete change of CLI testing commands for CSV file ingestion
• Info on Enterprise and Professional edition stamps next to logo updated
• Create K3S cluster page updated
• Create Kubernetes cluster page updated
• Create AKS cluster page updated
• Create EKS cluster page updated
• Edge API reference documentation
• Kelvin API reference documentation
• Evidences samples updated.
• Create Schedule Parameter page updated.
• Platform Administrator Quick Start Provision Cluster page updated.
• Platform Administrator Quick Start Connect Data page updated.
• Cluster Logs & Telemetry page updated.

Removed

• Consume documentation for Docker Apps now removed. Reference API documentation for options
• Produce documentation for Docker Apps now removed. Reference API documentation for options
• Google Chrome installation guide deleted

Others

• Updated the minimum supported Ubuntu version from 18.04 (no longer under security support) to 20.04.
• Minor corrections and updates
• Tab information borders made clearer for easier reading experience
• Force csv files to be downloaded, not opened in the browser
• All screenshots updated to latest version look and feel
• API reference documentation updated to v5.12