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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