# Release Notes

## Karini AI Platform - Release Notes

This comprehensive documentation covers all releases for the Karini AI platform. Releases are organized by month with the most recent updates appearing first.

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#### January 2026

**Release Date:** January 16, 2026\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.9.43\
**CoreML Version:** v1.9.97.1

### 👥 Admin & Permissions

* Mass UpVote/DownVote: Admin users can now bulk upvote/downvote items in Copilot history

### ⚙️ Configuration & Settings

* Organization Page Defaults: Added default model configuration for:
  * Dynamic Filtering
  * Query Rewriting
  * Evaluation Judge
  * Caching
  * Topic Classification

### 🔄 Workflow & Nodes

* Pass-through Node: New node type added to workflow system

### ⚡ Performance Optimizations

* Server-side Pagination: Implemented global server-side pagination with optimized key-based search for faster page loads and reduced memory usage
* Payload Serialization: Added compression to reduce payload size, improving bandwidth utilization and transfer speed

### 🎨 UI/UX Improvements

* Traces HTML Formatting: Enhanced rich text view for trace data

### 🔧 Tools & Integrations

* MCP Tool Type: Added new MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool type
* YouTube Connector: New connector supports fetching single videos or entire channel content

### 🤖 Copilot Enhancements

* File Upload Limit: Increased maximum file size from 30MB to 50MB (📤)
* Dataset Export: Added multi-select export functionality for:
* Fine-tuning datasets
* Node optimization data
* Node evaluation data from Copilot history

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### November 2025

**Release Date:** November 21, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.9.8.2\
**CoreML Version:** v1.9.89.7

#### 🎯 Agent Evaluation System

* **Comprehensive Evaluation Framework**: Test agents against datasets with automated metrics for performance validation, per-sample context, and custom prompts for fine-grained testing
* **Agent-Specific Metrics**: Tool Accuracy, Goal Achievement, and Execution Efficiency metrics tailored for agentic workflows
* **Agent Iteration Tracing**: Full iteration-level tracing for debugging agentic workflows and understanding agent behavior
* **Evaluation Runs Tracking**: Monitor evaluation progress and results across multiple runs with detailed dashboards
* **Prompt Playground Evaluation**: Interactive evaluation directly in playground environment for rapid testing
* **Origin Tracking**: Evaluation run tracking with origin field in chatbot requests for audit trails

#### 📊 Prompt Evaluation Enhancements

* **Results Analytics**: Detailed statistical analysis with mean, median, standard deviation, and score distributions
* **Evaluation Dashboard**: Enhanced UI for viewing and managing evaluation runs with filtering and sorting

#### 🔌 MCP Server Management

* **Trusted Agents Catalog**: Pre-configured MCP servers ready for one-click deployment
* **MCP Testing Tools**: Test functionality for MCP tools directly in the playground environment
* **Configuration Validation**: Automatic validation of MCP server configurations on upload to prevent errors
* **Server Lifecycle Management**: Enable, disable, test, edit, and remove MCP servers through intuitive UI

#### 🔍 Vector Search & Retrieval

* **Hybrid Search Dataset API**: RESTful API for hybrid search across vector datasets with programmatic access
* **Search Configuration UI**: Interactive search panel for testing and configuring search settings in real-time

#### 🔗 Data Connectors & Enterprise Integrations

* **Email Connector**: Integration for email data ingestion and processing workflows with document reader agent tools
* **URL Connector Optimization**: String metadata handling with improved performance
* **Sharepoint Enhancements**: Enhanced document extraction for knowledge base nodes
* **Sitecore Connector**: Optimized CMS integration for content management

#### ⚡ Semantic Caching Enhancements

* **Cache Setup Logging**: Detailed logs for semantic cache initialization and debugging

#### 📄 Document Processing & Preprocessing

* **Filename Context**: Document preprocessor includes filename in processed-data context
* **Audio File Ingestion**: Fixed audio file chunking in copilot interactions
* **Archive Processing**: Improved handling of ZIP, RAR, 7Z files with better extraction

#### 🤖 Model Support

* **Amazon Nova Act**: Browser automation integration with configurable timeout settings
* **Embeddings Optimization**: Batch embedding inference via AWS Bedrock for improved throughput

#### ⚙️ Performance & Infrastructure

* **Dependency Updates**: Updated core dependencies for security and performance improvements

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### October 2025

**Release Date:** October 30-31, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.8.97\
**CoreML Version:** v1.9.88

#### 📊 Observability & Analytics

* **Grafana Integration**: Enterprise-grade observability with customizable Grafana dashboards
* **Agent Requests Table**: Detailed table view of all agent executions with advanced filtering
* **Performance Trends**: Line charts showing latency, success rates over time for trend analysis
* **Token Metrics**: Comprehensive token tracking across agents and time periods with bar graph visualizations
* **Tool Analytics**: Tool usage frequency, duration trends, execution counts, and performance metrics
* **Custom Queries**: Build custom visualizations and reports with SQL query support

#### 🤖 Model Support & Capabilities

* **Meta Llama 4 Series**: Support for Llama 4 70B and 8B variants for diverse use cases
* **Claude Sonnet 4.5**: Latest Anthropic models with extended context windows
* **Amazon Nova Multi-modal Embeddings**: Configurable dimensions (3072, 1024, 384, 256) for flexibility

#### 🔄 Agentic Workflows Framework

* **Code Interpreter**: Integrated code execution capabilities for dynamic programming tasks

#### 🔍 Vector Search & Retrieval

* **Reranker Integration**: Reranker node for improved search relevance with cross-encoder reranking and Cohere and AWS Bedrock reranker support for relevance optimization
* **Hybrid Search**: Combined keyword and semantic search capabilities for best results
* **Batch Embedding**: Optimized batch inference for embeddings to improve throughput

#### 📦 Batch Processing & Distribution

* **Bedrock Batch Inference**: AWS Bedrock batch job management with status tracking
* **Error Handling**: Graceful failure handling with file skip logic for resilience

#### 🔌 MCP (Model Context Protocol)

* **MCP Selector Component**: Dedicated component for selecting and managing MCP servers
* **Configuration Encryption**: Encrypted credential storage for sensitive MCP server environment variables
* **Server Management**: Enhanced enable/disable functionality for MCP servers
* **Tool Discovery**: Endpoint for discovering available MCP tools

#### 📅 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **Recipe Scheduling**: Schedule automated recipe executions with cron expression support
* **Recipe Versioning**: Version control for recipes with rollback capabilities and version comparison
* **Execution History**: Track all recipe runs with detailed logs and outputs
* **CRON Scheduling**: Job scheduling with cron expressions and timezone support
* **Recurring Tasks**: Automated recipe execution with schedule definitions

#### 📈 Evaluation Enhancements

* **Online Evaluation Matrix**: Dashboard for online evaluation metrics with filtering capabilities
* **Topics Classification**: Topic trends analysis for copilot interactions

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### September 2025

**Release Date:** September 30, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.8.82\
**CoreML Version:** v1.9.7

#### 🏢 Enterprise Integrations

* **SAP ODATA Integration**: Native SAP ODATA connector support
* **Zendesk Integration**: Integrate with Zendesk for customer support ticket management with full API support

#### 🌐 Browser Automation Tools

* **Browser Use Integration**: Playwright-based web automation framework
* **Interactive Browser Control**: Chat interface for browser operations
* **Web Scraping**: Dynamic content extraction with anti-scraping bypass capabilities
* **Chromium Support**: Headless browser automation with full Chrome DevTools Protocol
* **Browser Use Tool**: Nova Act integration for browser automation tasks

#### 🎵 Audio & Video Processing

* **Speech-to-Text**: Audio transcription with intelligent chunking support
* **Video Processing**: Video file upload and processing with transcript generation

#### 📦 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **Recipe Import/Export**: Three import options with clone prompts functionality
* **Rollback Feature**: Quickly revert to previous recipe versions on failures
* **Recipe Auto Layout**: Automatic node arrangement for better visualization

#### 🤖 Agent Runtime & Orchestration

* **Agent 2.0 Recipe Enhancements**: Code interpreter tool and hybrid search in knowledgebase nodes
* **Recipe Versioning Improvements**: Version display in copilot history with published\_by tracking

#### ⚡ Performance & Operations

* **Scheduling Enhancements**: End date filters and validation improvements for scheduled tasks
* **Tracing UI Improvements**: Expanded view with collapse/expand all functionality
* **Token Rollup Optimization**: Increased window to 24 hours with frequency of 1 hour for better performance

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### August 2025

**Release Date:** August 25, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.8.64\
**CoreML Version:** v1.9.2

#### 🏢 Enterprise Integrations

* **Sitecore Connector**: Integration with Sitecore CMS for content management
* **Box Integration**: Secure file storage and collaboration through Box

#### 🤖 Model Provider Expansion

* **Google Vertex Gemini**: Full Gemini model family support across all versions
* **Azure OpenAI**: Complete Azure OpenAI integration with latest GPT models
* **Context Length Updates**: Extended context windows for supported models

#### 🔍 Large File Context Management

* **Split & Merge Strategy**: Advanced document chunking strategies for optimal retrieval
* **Metadata Extraction**: Entity validation for metadata extraction

#### 🤖 Agent Runtime & Orchestration

* **Semantic Cache**: Initialize semantic cache button for Agent 2.0 for improved response times

#### ⚡ Performance & Infrastructure

* **Token Management**: Improved token rollup with chunking for large arrays
* **Token Optimization**: Automatic token counting and optimization suggestions
* **AgentCore Runtime**: Agentcore Runtime Support with ARM Containers

#### 🔌 MCP & Tools

* **MCP Organization Support**: Organization-level MCP server management
* **Recipe Tool Forms**: Enhanced forms for Box connector and presigned URL connector

#### 🔒 Security & Compliance

* **Okta Authentication**: Enhanced logging and debugging for SSO issues

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### July 2025

**Release Date:** July 24, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.8.58\
**CoreML Version:** v1.8.98

#### 🤝 Collaboration Features

* **Draft Mode**: Collaborative editing mode for prompts and agents with real-time updates
* **Rich Text Editing**: Editor with table of contents, custom tables, image upload, hyperlinks, and font styling
* **Visual Context**: Citation visibility controls and image panel in draft mode
* **Share & Collaborate**: Share drafts with team members for review and feedback

#### 🎨 User Experience & Interface

* **Chat Widget Enhancements**: Seed questions, follow-up questions, and close button improvements
* **Visual Capabilities**: Process and analyze images, diagrams, and visual content with enhanced image panel

#### 💻 Developer Experience

* **WebSocket Support**: Real-time bidirectional communication for interactive applications
* **API Documentation**: Comprehensive API documentation with code examples
* **SDK Support**: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript SDKs
* **Webhook Support**: Outbound webhooks for event notifications
* **Batch APIs**: Asynchronous batch processing endpoints

#### 🔒 Security & Access Control

* **API Key Management**: Organization-level API key validation and secure access control

#### ⚡ EventBridge Integration

* **AWS EventBridge**: Agent 2.0 scheduling with AWS EventBridge

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### June 2025

**Release Date:** June 27, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.8.24

#### 📊 Observability & Analytics

* **MCP Server Count**: Dashboard statistics for MCP server usage and monitoring

#### 🔒 Security & Operations

* **Recipe Import Security**: Organization-level checks to prevent cross-org imports
* **Security Scanning**: Integrated security scanning in CI/CD pipeline for vulnerability detection

#### 🎨 User Experience & Interface

* **Full Screen Mode**: Enhanced UI for focused editing experience
* **File Upload Improvements**: Presigned URL support and HTML file upload option

#### 📦 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **JSONPath Validation**: Enhanced regex for jsonpath field validation
* **Scheduled Recipe Fixes**: Improved reliability for scheduled executions

#### 🏪 Catalog & Discovery

* **Agent Marketplace**: API changes for agent discovery and deployment

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### May 2025

**Release Date:** May 28, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.8.8\
**CoreML Version:** v1.8.86

#### 🤖 Model Support & Capabilities

* **Thinking Mode Support**: Extended reasoning capabilities for compatible models
* **Reasoning Transparency**: Expose model reasoning process for better debugging and understanding
* **Model Versioning**: Pin to specific model versions for reproducibility
* **Amazon Nova Premier v1**: Latest Amazon Nova flagship model with advanced capabilities
* **Meta Llama 4**: Support for Llama 4 70B and 8B models
* **GPT 4.1 Series**: GPT 4.1, 4.1 Mini, 4.1 Nano with enhanced performance
* **OpenAI O-Series**: O4 Mini and O3 reasoning models for complex tasks
* **GPT 4.5 Preview**: Early access to GPT 4.5

#### 📄 Document Format Support

* **PowerPoint Processing**: PPTX file parsing and extraction
* **Excel Support**: XLSX spreadsheet processing with formulas
* **Legacy Word**: DOC file format support for older documents
* **File Type Detection**: Enhanced MIME type detection for accuracy

#### 🔗 Connector Enhancements

* **SharePoint Connector**: Enterprise SharePoint integration
* **Box Token Fixes**: Resolved authentication issues for stability
* **UTF-8 Handling**: Improved character encoding support for international content

#### 📦 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **Deployment Confirmation**: Enhanced modals for recipe deployment with clear confirmation flows
* **Recipe Tool Forms**: Improved tool configuration interfaces

#### 📈 Performance & Monitoring

* **Performance Monitoring**: Enhanced latency tracking (p50, p95, p99) and error rate monitoring
* **Latency Tracking**: Monitor latencies across all endpoints

#### 🎨 User Experience

* **Loading States**: Improved loading indicators and progress feedback

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### April 2025

**Release Date:** April 24, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.6.223\
**CoreML Version:** v1.8.85

#### 🔄 Agentic Workflows

* **Tool Orchestration**: Multi-step tool execution and chaining
* **Agent State Management**: Persistent state across interactions
* **JSON Placeholder**: Template variable resolution in workflows

#### 🌐 Web Content Extraction

* **Web Scraping**: Enhanced content extraction capabilities
* **URL Processing**: Improved URL connector with metadata handling

#### 📦 Recipe Orchestration

* **Conditional Logic**: Add conditional steps and branching in recipes

#### 🤖 Model Support

* **Extended Model Library**: Support for latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, and Google
* **Model Fallbacks**: Configure fallback models for improved reliability
* **Function Calling**: Native support for tool use and function calling across models

#### ⚙️ Infrastructure

* **Horizontal Scaling**: Auto-scaling infrastructure for handling load spikes
* **Load Balancing**: Intelligent request routing for optimal performance

#### 🧪 Testing & Debugging

* **Debug Mode**: Detailed execution traces and intermediate results
* **Performance Profiling**: Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities

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### March 2025

**Release Date:** March 28, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.6.204\
**CoreML Version:** v1.8.70

#### 🛡️ Guardrails & Safety

* **Guardrails Integration**: Comprehensive guardrail system to ensure AI safety and compliance
* **Policy Enforcement**: Configure and enforce content policies, PII detection, and safety constraints
* **Real-time Monitoring**: Track guardrail violations and policy adherence in production

#### 🕸️ Neptune Graph Database

* **Amazon Neptune**: Production-grade graph database integration
* **Graph Data Processing**: Entity and relationship extraction

#### 🔍 Vector Search & Retrieval

* **Dynamic Metadata Filtering**: LLM-powered filter generation from natural language queries
* **ACL Prefiltering**: User and group-level access control for search results

#### 🏪 Catalog & Discovery

* **Catalog Export**: Export functionality for agent catalog

#### 📦 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **Preprocessing Enhancements**: Improved data preprocessing capabilities
* **Webhook Recipe Fixes**: Stability improvements for webhook-based recipes

#### 🔧 System Operations

* **Health Check Endpoint**: System status monitoring
* **Error Reporting**: Enhanced tracing and debugging capabilities
* **Database Optimization**: Query optimization and indexing

#### 🔒 Security & Encryption

* **Document Encryption**: Secure document storage capabilities
* **Credential Management**: Enhanced secret management
* **Access Control**: Authentication and authorization improvements

#### ⚙️ Infrastructure

* **Helm Chart Updates**: Enhanced Kubernetes deployment configurations

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### February 2025

**Release Date:** February 26, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.6.183\
**CoreML Version:** v1.8.20

#### 🗄️ Data & Storage

* **PostgreSQL Connector**: Table name support in credentials for improved database connectivity

#### 🗄️ Data Management

* **PostgreSQL**: Knowledge base query integration
* **Filtering**: Sensitive information detection and filtering
* **Usage Reporting**: Enhanced metrics and reporting

#### 💻 Developer Experience

* **Presigned Upload URL**: Enhanced API for secure file uploads

#### ⚡ Performance & Infrastructure

* **Database Optimization**: Query optimization and indexing improvements
* **Ray Dockerfile**: Distributed computing optimization
* **Package Updates**: Security and performance updates

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### January 2025

**Release Date:** January 29, 2025\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.6.152\
**CoreML Version:** v1.8.5

#### 👁️ Visual Language Model (VLM) Support

* **Image Processing**: Process and analyze images, diagrams, and visual content
* **Image Input**: Upload images directly in playground for multimodal interactions
* **Visual Context**: Provide visual context to agents for enhanced understanding
* **Multimodal Dataset**: Support for image and video understanding

#### 🔒 Security & Access Control

* **ACL Implementation**: User and group-level access control for search results

#### 📦 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **Recipe Action Improvements**: Enhanced recipe run execution

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### December 2024

**Release Date:** December 26, 2024\
**Sentinel Version:** v1.6.103\
**CoreML Version:** v1.7.8

#### 🔍 Vector Search & Retrieval

* **Advanced RAG Techniques**: Query rewrite and multi-query generation for better retrieval
* **Top-K Configuration**: Flexible result count settings with prompt context options
* **Dataset Management UI**: Interactive search panel for testing and configuring search settings
* **Performance Monitoring**: Search latency tracking, relevance scores, and usage metrics

#### 🏗️ Platform Foundation

* **Document Ingestion**: Basic document processing pipeline

#### 🕸️ Knowledge Graph Features

* **Neptune Integration**: AWS Neptune graph database with Gremlin query support
* **Graph Ingestion**: Standard and Ray-distributed graph building for scalability

#### 🎨 User Experience & Interface

* **Copilot Thread Management**: Logical delete for copilot threads
* **Prompt Template Improvements**: Enhanced variable handling in prompt templates

#### 📦 Recipe & Workflow Management

* **Recipe Scheduling Foundation**: Initial scheduling capabilities for automated execution

#### 🛡️ Guardrails & Safety

* **PII Detection**: Sensitive data identification and filtering for compliance
* **Toxicity Checking**: Content safety validation to prevent harmful outputs
* **Custom Guardrails**: User-defined safety rules with output filtering
* **Guardrail Tracing**: Complete visibility into safety filter execution

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**Last Updated**: November 23, 2025
