🚀 Platform Updates: October 18, 2024

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform Updates: October 18, 2024

Our latest releases deliver a range of updates designed to improve AI capabilities, refine frontend user experiences, optimize backend processes, and boost DevOps efficiency. Here’s a breakdown of the most significant updates:

🧠 AI Updates

• Enhanced Document & Tool Training: Admin functionality allows for seamless document training directly in the Mentor app, improving retriever tools without the LLM assuming innate abilities.
• Optimized Content Processing: Playwright now reliably fetches YouTube transcripts, while ZIP file loaders and structured document pathways streamline content management.
• Refined EOS Feedback: End-of-sentence handling and graph updates offer clearer responses, with added error formatting to ensure consistent data flow during sessions.

🌐 Frontend Updates

ibl-web-react-skills-spa:

• Content Filtering & Course Integration: New filters allow for personalized browsing of courses, programs, and pathways. LMS integration provides smoother navigation with inner tabs.
• Bookmark Support: A new useIframeMessage hook allows in-app navigation using postmessages from the LMS iframe.

ibl-web-react-mentor-spa:

• Authentication & Tenant Management: Improved tenant switching and login authentication enhance user experience. Issues related to token management have been resolved, reducing redundant logins.
• Safety Integration: Real-time mentor prompts and LLM switching have been updated, along with new safety response handling embedded in the app.

ibl-web-react-analytics-spa:

• Skill Point & Credential Management: Features for editing, deleting, and unassigning skill points have been added. Course authoring pages now include pagination for faster navigation, and backward compatibility for course search endpoints.

ibl-web-react-components:

• Profile & Tenant Switching: Tenant management has been improved, ensuring smooth data handling in local storage. UI components like document click handlers have been refined for smoother profile interaction.

🛠️ Backend Enhancements

ibl-dm-catalog-app:

• Optimized Search: Trigram configurations improve search accuracy for catalog items like programs, skills, and courses. New query parameters enhance course searches by name.

ibl-dm-search-app:

• Expanded Catalog Search: Support for additional catalog items improves resource discovery.

ibl-dm-core-app:

• System Stability: The updated Healthcheck endpoint and refined Celery task handling ensure better task monitoring and system uptime.

ibl-dm-multi-services-app:

• AWS User Reporting: AWS renewal reporting now includes accurate user counts, making user sync easier in multi-tenant environments.

ibl-dm-pro:

• Mentor & Task Performance: EOS handling has been refined for better mentor responses, and new pip lock file rebuilds ensure proper package versioning. Wikipedia restrictions on retriever mentors improve retrieval accuracy and training.

🔧 DevOps Updates

Custom Proxy & SPA Styling:

• OAuth SSO support for edX and new configuration variables like BASE_DOMAIN for Langflow improve cross-environment deployment. Updated mfe.css enhances SPA styling for a more polished UI, with new fonts hosted on nginx.

Resource Management:

• ibl-cli-ops: New environment variables like SCANNER_URL improve resource management for DM environments, enabling faster deployment and secure configuration.
• ibl-edx-image-ops: The latest version of ibl-edx-ratings-xblock introduces new feedback and second-attempt display options for users.

📈 Ongoing Features

• Streamlined Navigation: Tenant management is now more consistent across SPA modules, reducing redundancy and enhancing profile continuity.
• Credentialing & Skill Points: Improvements to skill point and credential assignment offer better course authoring experiences.
• Search Optimization: Trigram search ensures more relevant, precise search results, enhancing the overall user experience.