Release 2024.44

Release Date: October 30, 2024

Customer Managed Tenant Changes

Clients hosting their own Unique now find detailed upgrade guides in 2024.44 - Infrastructure & Configuration Release Notes 📣

Announcements

• Improvements to the Developer Experience: Deploying Unique On Premise or in Customer Managed Tenant scenarios just became easier and more hassle-free, learn below in this link how and why.

• Improved Net Promoter Score (NPS) Functionality:

  • Active users will be prompted once per quarter to provide their NPS rating.
  • Users qualify as active if they have sent at least 30 messages in the current quarter and have sent messages at least once in the previous quarter.
  • New users won’t see the NPS prompt in their first quarter.
  • If the NPS prompt is closed or ignored, it will reappear after approximately 7 days.

Features

• Document Translator: Added a new AI module for in Document Translator.
• MS Document Intelligence: Added GA version of MS Document Intelligence deployable in Switzerland as PDF ingestion option. Ingestion Configuration: MS Document Intelligence GA Version
• Configurable Email Support: You can now configure or disable contact support via email.
• Knowledge Scope Rules: Space managers can define dynamic rules for document filtering within each space. More documentation here
• Space Manager Role: A new user group type that allows designated users to manage space configurations.
  • Space admins can assign this permission from the space management page.

Improvements

• Document Search V2: Added DATE_TIME reserved keyword to triggerPrompts to be able to expose the current date and time to the language model.
• Telemetry Data Collection: Now includes prompts per assistant.
• API version for the follow OpenAI models have been updated
  • AZURE_GPT_4o_2024_0806 → 2024-08-01-preview
  • AZURE_GPT_4o_MINI_2024_0718 → 2024-06-01
• When Websearch module is used, a functional hyperlink to the Microsoft Privacy Statement is shown.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where embedding HTTP requests would run indefinitely by adding a 2-minute timeout.
• Resolved the problem preventing the upload of .md files in the ‘Upload and Chat’ Space.
• Fixed an error that occurred when the refresh token expired while the computer was idle.
• Highlighting of the referenced file is enabled both for files from the KB and from the chat.
• Warning modal shows up when you navigate to a different page while files are being uploading to the Knowledge Base.

Open Source Helm Charts

It was never Uniques idea to hide its helm charts ( What is that?). Due to its scaling and growing nature and the clients demands for the more elaborate deployment models (Customer Managed and On Premise) it was time to move the charts out of Uniques mono repository code base and open source them like any state-of-the-art software does. Head over to https://github.com/Unique-AG/helm-charts to see the charts. Note that the charts themselves did neither change their content nor their version, they were just migrated into the new repository. You can also find them on Artifact Hub where they have some basic documentation Unique will improve on over the next quarters.

Key changes

• Clients no longer need to login to a registry in order to pull charts.
• Clients can inspect the charts easily to see values, documentation or implementation.
• The charts are available both as OCI and Helm3 artefacts.
• All chart versions can retrospectively be seen in ArtifactHub

Only helm charts were made publicly available, not the container images as these are the Enterprise Software under license.

Upgrade guide

These two pseudo pipelines show, how clients can adapt their infrastructure to leverage the new charts.

Before

docker login somecr.azurecr.io

Then in some files

chart: somecr.azurecr.io/helm/some-chart
version: 1.1.7

# or

chart: local/chart/path

# or
chart: uniquecr.azurecr.io/helm/some-chart
version: 1.1.7

After No login needed… simply:

chart: oci://ghcr.io/unique-ag/helm-charts/some-chart
version: 1.3.0

or

chart: https://unique-ag.github.io/helm-charts/some-chart
version: 1.3.0

Migrated charts

All charts used by Unique clients have been migrated:

• ai-service
• backend-service
• web-app

Check out Artifact Hub to see them all. The image-pull-secret chart that Unique provides with the release will only be published and supported for a limited time (currently planned support up until release 2024.46). Afterwards Unique advises clients to mirror the images into their own registry and configure access to that registry from their k8s cluster (e.g.: ACR → use Managed Identity).