Release 6.5¶

February 2026¶

Whats New In Our Products ?¶

Kelvin UI¶

Overall¶

• Improved UI error handling and messaging.
• Better support for System and Configurations JSON schema arrays.
• Improved view behavior:
  • Users can now delete instance views.
  • Views are private by default.
• Improved user and instance settings:
  • Instance settings can now be set as temporary or permanent, with overrides.

Asset Insights Table¶

• Users can filter by and configure new Data Tags columns.
• Users can filter by recommendations.
• Users can filter by control changes.
• Added an inline preview for Manual Controls.Improved inline preview behavior and layout.Users can now collapse and hide the assets page header search bar.

App Manager¶

• Better support for data quality mappings.
• App settings now show missing section information with a grey icon to reduce confusion around missing IO mappings, parameters, or default cluster information.
• Added more flexibility and improved error messaging for IO deployment mappings.
• Improved asset selection for app deployment.

Deletion Handling¶

• Improved handling of deletions for Data Streams, Assets, and Data Quality Metrics: deletion is now blocked when they are in use by workloads.

Data Explorer¶

• More configurations are now saved as settings.
• The default visualization time range can now be defined per instance.
• Users can configure default aggregations per instance.
• Added the Highcharts Boost module for improved performance with large numbers of data points.
• Improved aggregation selection.

Other¶

• Additional improvements and bug fixes.

Kelvin API¶

What’s New¶

• New APIs & Capabilities
  • Tasks API:
    • Introduced a new Tasks API enabling programmatic task creation and management across Kelvin applications.
  • Events API:
    • Added a dedicated Events API with improved sorting and querying capabilities.
  • Asset Insights Enhancements:
    • New control change filters.
    • Recommendations filters.
    • New data tag filters.
• Kubernetes & Edge Improvements
  • Configurable Kubernetes Namespaces:
    • You can now define Kubernetes namespaces when creating new clusters (K3S and generic Kubernetes).
  • Improved Edge Provisioning:
    • kelvin-provision now consistently uses configured namespaces instead of defaults.
  • Enhanced Edge Observability:
    • Updated Fluent Bit with improved Kubernetes filtering and exclusion support.
• Workload & Platform Enhancements
  • Added feature flag to disable /apps/create app type check.
  • Expanded Workload Dependency Support. Added dependency awareness for:
    • Assets.
    • Datastreams.
    • Data Quality metrics.
  • Init Containers Support:
    • Docker-based clusters now support init containers similar to Kubernetes, allowing for pre-start setup tasks.

What’s Changed¶

• Platform Reliability & Stability:
  • Improved system stability across APIs through better validation, error handling, and safer defaults.
  • Reduced risk of stalled migrations and unexpected runtime failures in timeseries.
  • Services health checks are now more flexible, with support for tagging and selective disabling.
• Performance & Data Handling:
  • Improved ingestion and query reliability for ClickHouse-backed workers.
  • More robust handling of timestamps, null values, and special characters.
  • Optimized batching and retry behavior for timeseries ingestion.
• Application & Workload Management:
  • Application deployments now dynamically adapt to cluster namespace configuration.
  • Improved workload manifests and dependency resolution for more predictable runtime behavior.

What’s Removed¶

• No features were removed in this release.

Deprecations¶

• No features were deprecated in this release.

Kelvin SDK¶

What’s New¶

• Added SmartApps AI Agent
• Added App, CLI and API Client Reference Docs
• Added App Schema Validation
• Added kelvin app agent sync

What’s Changed¶

• Added IO Mapping to DataQuality Metrics
• CCM Tolerance:
  • Default updated to 0.001 from 0.00001
  • It's now configurable through KLVN_CCM_TOLERANCE env var
• Bug fixes

Whats New in our Documentation ?¶

What's New¶

• Developer Tools → How To → GitHub → AI Code Completion page
• Developer Tools → Documentation → Kelvin SDK → App → Reference{:target="_blank" rel="noopener"} page
• Developer Tools → Documentation → Kelvin SDK → API → Reference{:target="_blank" rel="noopener"} page
• Developer Tools → Documentation → Kelvin SDK → CLI → Reference{:target="_blank" rel="noopener"} page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop SmartApps → Produce → Data Quality Scores page
• Developer Tools → How To → Export → Download Data Quality Scores page

What's Updated¶

• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Docker Apps → Create Docker page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Docker Apps → Deploy Docker page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Docker Apps → Test Docker page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Files → Get Info File page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Files → List Files page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Files → Upload File page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Secrets → Create Secret page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Secrets → Delete Secret page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Secrets → List Secrets page
• Developer Tools → How To → Advanced → Secrets → Update Secret page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → App Configuration page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → Callback Functions page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → Create page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → Produce → Recommendation Messages page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → Spotlight Tips → Data Tags page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → Spotlight Tips → Schedule page
• Developer Tools → How To → Export → Download Control Changes page
• Developer Tools → How To → Export → Download Data Tags page
• Developer Tools → How To → Export → Download Recommendations page
• Developer Tools → How To → Export → Download Timeseries page
• Operations Tools → Assets Page → How To → Asset Details Tab Control Panel page
• Operations Tools → Assets Page → How To → Asset Details Tab Manual Controls page
• Operations Tools → Assets Page → How To → Customize Columns page
• Operations Tools → Assets Page → How To → Manage Recommendations → Asset Details Recommendation View page
• Operations Tools → Assets Page → How To → Manage Recommendations → Recommendation Action page
• Operations Tools → Assets Page → How To → Managing Assets page
• Operations Tools → Data Explorer Page → Data Explorer Overview page
• Operations Tools → Data Explorer Page → How To → Download Data page
• Operations Tools → Data Explorer Page → How To → Monitor an Assets Data page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → Create Asset page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → Create Assets Bulk page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → Delete Asset page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → Delete Assets Bulk page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → Display Asset in Maps page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → List Application Assets page
• Platform Administration → How To → Asset → Update Asset page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Clusters → Clusters Dashboard page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Clusters → Delete Cluster page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Clusters → Logs Telemetry Cluster page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Clusters → Set Default Cluster page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Clusters → Update Cluster page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Nodes → Add Node page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Nodes → Delete Node page
• Platform Administration → How To → Cluster → Manage Nodes → Nodes Dashboard page
• Platform Administration → How To → Data Quality → Data Quality Configuration page
• Platform Administration → How To → Data Quality → Data Quality Dashboard page
• Platform Administration → How To → Data Quality → Data Quality Metrics page
• Platform Administration → How To → Data Stream → Delete Data Stream page

What's Deleted¶

• Developer Tools → How To → Create App With Chatgpt page
• Developer Tools → How To → Develop → Spotlight Tips → Data to Dataframe page