2024

November 22, 2024
1 min read

New recommendations layout with focus on Evidences
Recommendation messages in new window
Multiple asset views can now be saved

Kelvin API

Allow the creation of recommendations with attached evidence.

Kelvin SDK

Added Evidences attribute to Recommendations

Whats New in our Documentation ?

New documentation for evidences for Recommendations with examples
- Bar Charts
- Line Charts
- Dynacards
- Any type of HighCharts
- Images
- Markdown
- IFrames
Updated overview description Recommendation with evidences
Updated documentation for Operations Tools
- Recommendation UI updated
- Recommendation process updated
- Recommendation messages display updated
Updated documentation screenshots for side bar menus showing new Assets dashboard
Dockers Apps docs updated that it can not add recommendations with evidence
Produce How To
- Updated and improved Developer Tools Control Change How to
- Updated and improved Developer Tools Recommendation How to
- Updated and improved Developer Tools Asset Parameters How to
Relevant screenshots updated
Minor improvement to documentation

November 12, 2024
2 min read

Release 5.10

November 2024

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

Kelvin Core UI
- New Guardrails interface for managing setpoint guardrails.
- Ability to create Guardrails when creating new Connections.
- Data Tags are now visible when in multi-asset mode on Data Explorer.
- Overall improvements and bug fixes.
General Minor UI improvements
Bug fixes

Kelvin API

New Guardrails API and Worker service.
Allow the use of float values when setting the time-series fill key.
Added specific S3 config for pre-signed URLs to work with on-premises environments.
Refactor API Datastream to start using Event Sourcing.
Small improvements and bug fixes:
- Fix kelvin-provision show command.
- Fix asset bulk creation when 1 asset has a property regex error.
- Fix pagination errors.

Kelvin SDK

Applications now support Control Change Guardrails
Updated kelvin app test csv [OPTIONS]Removed --playback and --publish-rate
Added --publish-interval , --ignore-timestamps and --now-offsets

Whats New in our Documentation ?

Full set of Guardrails documentation
- Overview explanation of Guardrails
- Create a Guardrail
- Bulk Create Guardrails
- Update a Guardrail
- Delete a Guardrail
- Bulk Delete Guardrails
New Overview concept on guardrail
New Administration Dashboard page
New Events Call Back video Tutorial
Updated SmartApp Quick Start Guide
- Improved Introduction page
- New Your Workspace page
- More clarity of the steps
- Complete set of video tutorials as well as written tutorials
Old DataFrames conversion documentation replaced with new function
Export spotlight tip for DataFrames export updated
Development ⟹ Consume ⟹ Timeseries Data page improved
Development ⟹ Produce ⟹ Timeseries Data page improved
The return of the Best Practices documentation for developing Kelvin SmartApps™
Updated API Swagger file to latest version
All screenshots updated with latest look and feel for v5.10
Updated version references
General improvements

October 15, 2024
3 min read

Release 5.9

October 2024

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

Kelvin Core UI
- New Left Sidebar menu layout option
- New User Managment feature in Administration
  - Attributes Based Access Control
  - Groups Management
- New Roles and Permissions Management feature in Administration
  - Attributes Based Access Control
- Workload download image improvements
- CSV Publisher new validation on timestamps
- Data Explorer improvements on handling missing data in time streams for smooth rendering of line graphs
General Minor UI improvements
Bug fixes

Kelvin API

Bug Fixes:
- Search by display name not working for asset types
- Losing connection to K8S API causes edge-updater to try to update all services
New Features:
- Allow setting custom kubelet arguments when provisioning a new cluster
- Improve appregistry events and ingestion
- Add option to download workload image directly from S3
- Implement Authorization API (manage roles and groups).
- Apply ABAC validation in multiple services (assets, datastreams, parameters, etc.)
Improvements:
- Refactor API to new structure of code (API User)
Fixes:
- Fix deploy with multiple app version workloads on reuse_workloads (App Manager)
- Fix undeploy resource (App Manager)
- Create context for writable input datastreams (App Manager)
- Duplicate datastream validation added (App Manager)
Other:
- Improve planner rules cluster_sel_method: none on empty instance planner rules
- Add new rejected state to control change API (API Control Change)

Kelvin SDK

Kelvin App
- Added Support for Dynamic (Runtime) Configuration reload
- Added support to receive Control Changes
App Test (Publisher)
- Added support for custom (Data) Generators
Small Bug Fixes

Whats New in our Documentation ?

Restructuring of the documentation layout and content
- New Overview section replacing Kelvin
  - Concepts now moved here in Overview section
  - Security and Certification now moved here in Overview section
  - Versions now moved here in Overview section
- Developer Tools updated and refocused in content
  - Quick Start Guides updated and refreshed
  - How To Guides streamlined and reorganized into less menus
  - Use Cases updated and old use cases removed
- Developer Tools updated and refocused in content
  - Use Cases updated and old use cases removed
- Platform Administration updated and refocused in content
  - Quick Start Guides updated and refreshed
  - Use Cases moved to separate menu item
  - Use Cases updates and removed unrelated cases
  - User Management reorganized for clarity between RBAC and ABAC
Other notable changes in the documentation;
- Many changes and tests on the current SDK examples in the documentation in Developer Tools
- New User Management ⟹ Access Control section for Attributes Based Access Control (ABAC)
- New Documentation ⟹ User Management ⟹ Access Rights page for ABAC
- New Spotlight tips sections in Developer Tools and Platform Administration sections
- New full documentation in How to Guides ⟹ Deployment ⟹ Guardrails section (feature coming in v5.9.1)
- Improved Documentation ⟹ User Management authentication workflow
- Updated Comparison and descriptions of the Enterprise and Professional editions of Kelvin
- Updated Planner Rules new keys available
New Video Tutorial on importing assets/data streams and use csv publisher to test in less than 6 minutes
New Video Tutorial on provisioning a new edge device in less than 3 minutes
New Video Tutorial on creating and testing new Kelvin SmartApp™ in less than 8 minutes
New Video Tutorial on deploying Kelvin SmartApp™ to new assets in less than 2 minutes
New documentation and video tutorial on the event callback feature of the Python SDK
New documentation and video tutorial on the test generator tool for Kelvin SmartApps™
Updated abbreviations for popup tooltips
Updated API Swagger file to latest version
All screenshots updated with latest look and feel for v5.9
Updated version references
General improvements

July 31, 2024
3 min read

Release 5.8

July 2024

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

Kelvin Core UI
- Core UI now has Enterprise and Professional editions offering a set of user functionality each to the end-user;
- Applications can now create evidences for recommendations, at the moment Dynacards are supported and shown inside each recommendation;
- User session now refreshes properly which removes the need for constant authentication;
- Users can now access the API Specification from the support menu;
- Significant improvements to Data Explorer;
- Overall improvements and bug fixing.
Kelvin Edge UI
- Web application running on each cluster allowing the user to access and fully manage the cluster's workloads.

Kelvin API

A new API, designed for every edge cluster, has been introduced. This API is protected by custom authentication and offers a range of features, including:
- Workload management:
  - Features;
    - Start.
    - Stop.
    - Delete.
    - Import.
    - View/Download logs.
    - Update workload configuration.
    - Update workload system.
    - View workload telemetry.
- Apply staged workload.
- Cluster information.
- Node listing.
- Service listing.
A new API specification has been added to each edge cluster, ensuring seamless integration with the existing services.
For the Professional edition, all APIs (server and edge) and cluster services have been adapted to:
- Restrict certain actions.
- Implement custom logic.
- Automatically initiate workload image generation upon deploying a new workload.
The Kelvin-provision tool has been updated to accommodate the changes in cluster services, featuring commands for:
- Listing workloads
- Deleting workloads (new command)
- Importing workloads
The workload-worker was refactored to generate workload images using a more efficient method, offering improved performance and reliability. This update also includes support for multi-architecture images.
Additionally, the time-series API has seen a significant 60% performance boost.
Overall, this update brings numerous improvements and bug fixes.

Kelvin SDK

Edge:
- Added DataTag Object to the SDK
  - Asynchronous Creation (basically works the same way as Parameters)

Whats New in our Documentation ?

Created full API Reference site for Edge API
Added new Gathering System Optimization video example in Use Cases
Added new section on the new Edge API including;
- Overview
- Authentication
- Pagination
- Reference
Added new Edge UI section including;
- Overview
- Installing Edge Services
- Managing User Credentials
- Login to Edge Services
- Edge UI Dashboard
- Deploy Workload
- Start / Stop Workload
- Delete Workload
Added new Main Menu item Kelvin including;
- Version Comparison
- Enterprise Overview
- Professional Overview
Added new Recommendation View and Actions page in Operations - Assets Menu
Added new Recommendation View and Actions page in Operations - SmartApps™ Menu
Added new Recommendation View and Actions page in Operations - Data Explorer Menu
Added new View Recommendations for Assets section in Operations Tools
Added new Action a Recommendation for Assets section in Operations Tools
Added new Video Tutorial on the Overview of the Edge UI and API
Updated page on Deploying Kelvin SmartApps™ in Developer Tools
Updated page on Update a Workload in Developer Tools
Updated page on Deploy Workload Offline in Developer Tools
Updated page on Start/Stop a Workload in Developer Tools
Updated page on Delete Workload in Developer Tools
Updated page on Last Recommendations in Operation Tools
Updated page Kelvin SmartApp™ -
Updated page Produce Recommendations with Dynacards for Kelvin SmartApps™ in developer Tools
Updated page Produce Recommendations with Dynacards for Docker App in developer Tools
Updated Kelvin API Overview page in Developer Tools
Updated Kelvin API Overview with the new menu item available
Updated new favicon
Updated abbreviations for popup tooltips
All screenshots updated with latest look and feel.
Replace v5.7 with v5.8 Kelvin API reference file
General improvements

June 14, 2024
2 min read

Release 5.7

June 2024

Whats New In Our Products ?

Kelvin UI

Deploy Workloads option to install standard or staged deployment
Support to Apply staged workloads remotely
New Data Streams filter for Assets Table
Create & Apply schedule parameter change options available in Assets page
New custom column option to see upcoming schedules in Asset table
Bug fixes

Kelvin API

Staged workload implementation:
- Deploy staged workloads.
- Pre-download staged workload data.
- Allow to apply multi-staged workloads at the same time.
- Allow doing actions in a running workload without affecting a staged workload.
- Allow doing actions in a staged workload without affecting a running workload.
- Allow to cancel/delete a staged workload without affecting a running workload.
- Implemented the staged workloads logic in the cluster/edge side (pre-download, apply action, status report, storage, etc.)
asset-insight API:
- Allow to filter assets by datastream values.
- Filter and sort improvements.
- Internal queries to ArangoDB are more protected using "BindVars" avoiding "SQL" injection.
Improvements in the asset parameter schedules.
Bump control-change-manager to version 2.0.6
Bug fixes and overall improvements.

Kelvin SDK

Edge:
- Added RollingWindow object implementation to the SDK
- OPCUA Bridge ARM support
- Bug fixes

Whats New in our Documentation ?

Added page on Asset Properties vs Parameters in Concepts
Added Create Scheduled Parameter change option in the configuration section of the Assets page in Kelvin UI
Added Apply / Revert Scheduled Parameter change option in Assets page in Kelvin UI
Added Delete Scheduled Parameter change option in Assets page in Kelvin UI
Added List Scheduled Parameter changes in Assets page in Kelvin UI
Added page on edge hardware requirements for Edge systems
Added page on Best Practices for developers when writing scalable programs
Added page on Staged Workload Monitoring
Added page in Developers section on Data Tag Names (create, update list and delete)
Added page in Developers section on Data Tags (create, update list and delete)
Added page on KRN fomrats in Concepts
Added page on Update Workload feature in the Orchstration section
Added Undeploy feature on Staged Workload Deploys
Added new feature Schedule custom column in Assets page in Kelvin UI
Added new Data Stream filter in the Assets page of the Kelvin UI
Added clarification message on load times when using the Asset filter feature
Updated page on Staged Workload Deploys, Activate and Undeploy for Kelvin API, Kelvin API Client (Python) and Kelvin UI
Updated Developer's schedule page to include all new Kelvin API Client (Python) script examples
Updated all connection pages with new features and structure
Updated and added Workload links to the Quick Start opening page in Developer Tools
Updated and added Scheduled Parameter Change links to the Quick Start opening page in Operations Tools
Tested and Updated all Kelvin APi and Kelvin API Client (Python) code in documentation
Removed all documentation on the Connection deploy option for Kelvin SDK.
All screenshots updated with latest look and feel.
Fix link issue with a single page shown in multiple locations
Fix missing left menu bug for some pages

Mini update for Documentation 26/06/2024

Updated the Metics Guardrail page
Replaced Application name with Kelvin SmartApps™
General improvements