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Release 5.13

February 2025

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

  • New Application experience:
    • Ability to manage apps in a unified way.
    • Fully revamped deployment experience providing much more flexibility and customization.
    • Ability to create and manage your own Impact KPIs.
  • Major improvements on the Connections experience to support custom connectors and leverage the Application Manager revamp.
  • Asset Map revamp and overall improvements.
  • New Kelvin AI Assistant, able to provide real-time and historical information on a context-aware basis.
  • Overall improvements and bug fixing.

Kelvin API

  • Liveness Checks for Workloads**: Introduce liveness checks when deploying workloads, allowing you to define custom checks using HTTP, TCP, or Exec methods.
  • Staged Workloads for Docker Clusters**: Support staged workloads, enabling you to deploy and manage clusters of type Docker more efficiently.
  • Telemetry Data Collection for Docker Clusters**: Allows the collection of system and workload telemetry data specifically for clusters of type Docker.
  • Rebuilt App Manager API**: Develop a new API framework for managing workloads, deployments, and other key features.
    • Introduce new endpoints, structures, methods, and functions for improved scalability and flexibility.
    • Maintain compatibility with the existing API to ensure seamless transitions.
  • Properties API Enhancements:**
    • Introduce improvements and refinements to the properties API for better usage and customization.
  • Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes**

Kelvin SDK

  • Application Revamp
    • New app.yaml structure
    • New Application Types: app, importer, exporter and docker
    • New App Create Bootstraps for each App Type
    • Renamed AssetParameter(s) Messages to AppParameter(s)
    • Gateway Connection (KELVIN_GW_MODE) default value updated to use SOCKETS
  • CLI
    • Kelvin CLI Command updates according to the API changes
    • Replaced Kelvin CLI old API Client usage with the new kelvin-python-api-client
    • App Create command no longer deletes the target path’s content.
  • Bug fixes

Whats New in our Documentation ?

New Pages

Updated Pages

Deleted Pages

  • Developer Tools - Application - Consume - Control Changes page
  • Developer Tools - Docker App - Upload
  • Developer Tools - Docker App - Deploy
  • Developer Tools - Deploy - Set Planner Rules page
  • Developer Tools - Deploy - Advanced - Spotlight Tips - Rolling Window page
  • Operations Tools - Asset Maps - How To - Managing Assets
  • Operations Tools - Asset Maps - How To - Asset Table View
  • Operations Tools - Asset Maps - How To - Customize Asset Table View
  • Operations Tools - Asset Maps - How To - Customize Columns
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - SmartApp Management - SmartApp Monitoring
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - SmartApp Management - SmartApp Monitoring
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - SmartApp Management
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - SmartApp Assets
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - Compare Data Streams
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - SmartApp Recommendations
  • Operations Tools - SmartApps - How To - SmartApp Parameters

Other Actions

  • The term "Asset Parameter" has now been renamed "App Parameter".

  • Kelvin SmartApps™ term is now only a subset of Applications which is Kelvin SmartApp™. Docker Apps, Importers and Exporters

  • Code blocks are improved with line numbers and headers

  • Minor corrections and updates
  • All screenshots updated to latest version look and feel
  • API reference documentation updated to v5.13
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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