Release 6.2
September 2025
Whats New In Our Products ?
Kelvin UI
What's New
Kelvin Core UI
Kelvin AI
- Control Changes prompt response updated
- Line plot prompt response updated with new Data Explorer Lite
- Prompt modal layering and UX improvements (minimized state)
Data Explorer
- New Data Explorer Lite with link generation and view ids
- Back button in top bar with proper browser-history fallback
- Support for group_by_selector and ignoring empty resources
- Custom line-chart tooltip and activity tooltip improvements
- Auto-toggle improvements when datastreams are selected
- Shareable view: option to include zoom range stack + pre-defined/preview views
Connections
- New deployment UI (phase 2) and IO Mapping Update wizard
- Validation for custom actions and datastreams usage
Data Streams
- Protected datastreams not editable or deletable
- Allow clearing semantic type and description
Recommendations
- New Data Explorer Lite as evidence
- Clickable sources/resources
Applications & Workloads
- Display default application parameters alongside asset parameters (App Parameters and Asset Details)
- Only show versions with assets on parameters tab
- Redirect to home screen when workload is deleted
Table / Map Views
- Views: shared views management, manage views action.
- Table: enable range selection; single-row selection; enhance checkbox click area
Clusters, Orchestration & Monitoring
- Clusters: add node capacity
- Orchestration: update "received" status icon/color mapping
- Grafana: routes refactor, kiosk updates, dashboards updates; removed audit logs
Guardrails
- Enable creation for object datastreams
- Remove min/max constraints for control disabled guardrails
What's Deleted
- Removed legacy audit logs dashboards (consolidation in Grafana)
- Filtered Data Quality datastreams from certain parts of the application
What's Changed
Feneral Changes
- Improved parameter handling and validation across Applications/App Manager
- Better loading states, error messages, and navigation consistency
- Streamlined deployment and connection workflows
Performance Improvements
- Improved query processing and chart rendering in Data Explorer
- Optimized polling and request cadence for workloads and controls
- Reduced UI re-renders in widgets management
Kelvin API
What's New
Data Quality
- Added new Data Quality API and injectors.
- Introduced a simulated data quality endpoint and bulk update.
- Enabled Data Explorer Evidence type in recommendations.
- Support run data quality algorithms on historical data.
- Applied update and delete data quality changes on the runtime builder.
- Added reserved data qualities validation.
Edge
- Workloads now inject
KELVIN_APP_NAME,KELVIN_APP_VERSION, andKELVIN_NODE_NAMEenvironment variables. - Added configuration section to
config.yamlfor Docker clusters. - MQTT address fix for Docker clusters.
ListAddressableResourcesresponse now returnskrn:wlappvinstead ofkrn:wl.
API
- Added simulate and bulk update endpoints for data quality.
- api-datastreams: Added support for created_by, updated_by, and nullable semantic_type, unit_name, and description.
- api-asset: Added created_by and updated_by in projections.
- api-properties: Added date and by columns to properties tables.
- api-timeseries: Added ClickHouse support, client, health-checker, and enhancements for range/download using yield/sink pattern.
Keycloak
- Manage (create, delete, update) realm requiredActions in bootstrap.
- Allow defining/removing default required actions via config.
Provision
- Added kelvin-provision report command to collect debug information.
ClickHouse
- Ingestion of timeseries data into ClickHouse.
- Introduced properties importer.
- Added actions migrations + health checker.
- Implemented a worker to copy data from the API DB to ClickHouse.
- Importers can now run sequentially in the first iteration, then in parallel goroutines.
App
- Added Grafana metrics dashboard name to config.
What's Changed
Workloads
- Removed all resource relations when no owned resources exist.
- Updated workload resources relation dynamically.
- Injector ensures only owned resources are added.
App / Workloads
- Prevent use of protected env vars in app/workload operations.
- Fixed secret injection when containing special characters or multiline values.
- Fixed manifest-to-yaml conversion.
- Reset data qualities in manifest when none defined.
API
- Improved bulk error messages.
- Improved Keycloak health checker.
- Fixed validation for data qualities and datastreams.
- Fixed migrations in assets and bulk create assets error handling.
- api-asset: Fixed orchestrator set partial condition + migration fixes.
- api-asset: Ensured a safe copy of system variables when creating workload builder.
- api-cc: Fixed inbox entries losing ts and traceID; improved clustering strategy.
- api-timeseries: Added type hints for array values, improved default precision for inserted_at.
ClickHouse Importer
- Refactored for better organization and to add views for all tables.
- Correctly infers property value variant types and handles deleted asset properties.
- Improved control changes type handling.
Performance
- Updated clustering strategy in api-recommendations and api-cc.
- Added DB index for
app_resource_context.resource_nested.data-quality. - Optimized control-change queries with a new index.
What's Deleted
- Old database tables cleanup.
What's Deprecated
- n/a
Whats New in our Documentation ?
What's New
- Overview → Overview → Concepts → Data Quality page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop Connections → KRN Reference page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop SmartApps → KRN Reference page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → Use Cases → Databricks Data Export page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Kelvin AI → How To → Data Explorer Light page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Applications → How To → Assets Tab → Remove Assets page
What's Updated
- Overview → Overview → Concepts Overview → Connection page
- Overview → Overview → Concepts Overview → Control Change page
- Overview → Overview → Concepts Overview → Guardrail page
- Overview → Overview → Concepts Overview → KRN page
- Overview → Overview → Security & Certifications → Cloud - Edge Communications page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → Application Quick Start → 5. Configure page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → Application Quick Start → 6. Deploy page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → Application Quick Start → 7. Monitor page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop SmartApps → Create a SmartApp page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop SmartApps → App Configuration page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop SmartApps → App Parameters page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop SmartApps → Produce → Recommendations page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop SmartApps → Spotlight Tips → Schedules page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop Connections → App Configuration page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop Connections → Create an Import page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop Connections → Create an Export page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Develop Connections → Upload a Connection page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Deploy SmartApps → Start/Stop Workload page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Deploy SmartApps → Delete a Workload page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Deploy SmartApps → Deploy Workload Offline page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Deploy SmartApps → Deploy Workload page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Deploy SmartApps → Update Workload Version page
- Developer Tools → Developer Tools → How To Guides → Advanced → Docker Apps → Create a Docker App page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Asset Maps → How To → Filtering Visible Assets page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Asset Maps → How To → Viewing Assets page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Assets → How To → Asset Details → Control Panel Tab page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Assets → How To → Asset Overview → Managing Assets page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Assets → How To → Manage Recommendations → View Recommendations page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Assets → How To → Manage Parameters → Create Scheduled Parameter page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Data Explorer → How To → View Control Changes page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Data Explorer → How To → Monitor an Asset's Data page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Applications → How To → Assets Tab → Add Assets page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Applications → How To → Assets Tab → Action Recommendations page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Applications → How To → Parameters Tab → Overview page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Applications → Overview page
- Operations Tools → Operations Tools → Overview page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → Quick Start → 1. Provision your Cluster page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → Quick Start → 2. Connect to your data page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Asset Management → Asset Type → Delete an Asset Type page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Cluster Management → Overview page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Connection Management → Connect to Data → CSV Publisher page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Connection Management → Connect to Data → Custom Connection page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Connection Management → Connect to Data → Connect to Modbus page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Connection Management → Connect to Data → Connect to OPC UA page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Connection Management → Connect to Data → Connect to ROC page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Connection Management → Update a Connection page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Data Stream Management → Delete a Data Stream page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Guardrails → Create a Guardrail page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Guardrails → Overview page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → User Management → Keycloak → Enable 2fa page
- Platform Administration → Platform Admin → How To Guides → Edge Services → Edge UI Dashboard page
What's Deprecated
- None
What's Deleted
- Developer Tools → How To Guides → Logs & Telemetry -> View Audit Logs page
What's Changed
- Updated all libraries
- Minor corrections and updates
- Screenshots updated to latest version look and feel
- API reference documentation updated