v6.0.1

[6.0.1] - 2024-06-26

Fixed

• Fixed bug that was restricting stack names to be below 26 characters. Issue #741
• Fixed a looping issue when using slots and chaining #721 (PR #721) - contributed by (@amendlik)
• Github links with incorrect paths.

Updated

• Security patches for braces, urllib3, and ws.
• Improved latency of IAM policy propagation when switching the Bedrock embedding model.

v6.0.0

[6.0.0] - 2024-06-07

Added

• Integration with Amazon Bedrock
• Integration with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base
• Enabled Fine Grain Access Control in Amazon OpenSearch Service by default. A new OpenSearchFineGrainAccessControl CloudFormation parameter has been added
• Content Designer UI improvements (grouped fields)
• Anonymized operational metrics
• Enabled Kendra based authentication utilizing QnABot idToken. A new AltSearchKendraIndexAuth CloudFormation parameter has been added
  (PR #513) - contributed by (@JasonHammett)

Updated

• Migrated AWS JavaScript SDK from v2 to v3 for Amazon Lex Web UI Integration
• Upgraded Amazon OpenSearch Service domain from 1.3 to 2.11 unlocking features such as snapshot management via OpenSearch Dashboards (for more information see Amazon OpenSearch release history)
• Renamed Elasticsearch to Opensearch and Kibana to OpenSearch Dashboards
• Migrated from ElasticSearch client to OpenSearch client
• Changed SageMaker LLM model from Falcon-40b to Llama-2-13b-chat and Sagemaker embedding model intfloat/e5-large-v2 now uses the Jumpstart version of the model
• Removed the cloudformation parameter Encryption to prevent disabling of Amazon OpenSearch Service domain and Amazon S3 encryptions
• Updated Amazon OpenSearch Service domain minimum TLS policy to 1.2
• Rewrote and migrate S3 object deletion custom resources from JavaScript to Python to address 3rd party security vulnerability
• Updated CloudFormation template parameter groupings
• Kendra index configuration has been moved from Content Designer settings to CloudFormation parameters to restrict IAM permissions. The CloudFormation parameter DefaultKendraIndex has been replaced with three separate parameters: KendraWebPageIndexId, KendraFaqIndexId, and AltSearchKendraIndexes.
• Updated question validation when importing or creating questions in Content Designer
• Kendra Webcrawler will now create data source in the native language if supported by Kendra. Kendra can now query in different languages. (issue #713)
• Standardized folder structure
• Made logging enhancements for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Data Firehose
• Added case conversion handlebars helpers(PRs #719) - contributed by (@amendlik)
• Consolidated common AWS SDK dependencies to reduce overall solution artifact size and lambdas deployment package size
• Patched security vulnerabilities and and integrated with CloudFormation Guard evaluation tool
• Added ability to TestAll in a selected locale, the locales to be tested should be defined in the template parameter LexV2BotLocaleIds
• Improved security for LLM inputs and outputs

Fixed

• Forgot password functionality for Content Designer login
• Chat client will now prompt the user after credentials are expired
• Specialty bot routing fixes, Lex Intent state fixes, handlebar processing of SSML injects "\n" into response (PRs #726) - contributed by (@bobpskier)
• Secured Cognito roles (PR #670) - contributed by (@amendlik)
• Improved error messages for embeddings (issue #665)
• AWS environment variable for region is wrongly set (issue #714)
• Fixed testall lambda timing out during status "Lex" when testing against large set of Q&As - contributed by (@jeve7)
• Fix Austrian German neural voice name (PR #729) - contributed by (@malte-aws)
• Fix npm update command (PR #681) - contributed by (@zherink)
• Fix build exits with code 1, if a CF template is invalid (PR #733) - contributed by (@richhaase)

v5.5.2

[5.5.2] - 2024-05-08

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket when the Content designer has no Q&As.

Updated

• Security patch for idna

v5.5.1

[5.5.1] - 2024-04-01

Caution

Do not use this version because of an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket when Content Designer has no Q&As.

Fixed

• Document chaining was not working when using Lambda functions for chaining. This has been resolved. (issue #687)
• ESWarmer lambda was generating a big amount of log data in CloudWatch. This is now fixed. (issue #692)

Updated

• QnaBot Client to now use code grant instead of implicit grant for Cognito Authorization
• Security patch for webpack-dev-middleware
• Template to ensure an embedding instance size of 1 is at least choosen since serverless is no longer available for the embedding model

v5.5.0

[5.5.0] - 2024-01-04

Caution

Do not use this version because of an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket when Content Designer has no Q&As.

Added

• Added Core-Language parameter to the QnABot deployment. This parameter allows the user to select during the deployment a core language which will be used by the OpenSearch language analyzers to look for question and answers. With this update, QnABot can now be deployed natively in 33 Languages with a more syntactical accuracy for matching questions and answers
• Bot routing enhancements including passing initial utterance to specialty bot and receive session attributes from specialty bot (issue #376) - contributed by (@bobpskier)
• Improved error handling. Added custom error handling question to QnaUtility and some errors are appended to chat client message when ENABLE_DEBUG_RESPONSES is set to 'true'
• Added 'PROTECTED_UTTERANCES' setting which allows the user to configure a comma-separated list of utterances that will be ignored by LLM query disambiguation and translation. This fixes a bug where feedback (thumbs up/thumbs down) and language selection would be disambiguated instead of triggering the respective workflow
• Added 'getQuestion' handlebar that returns the original matched question without hard-coding (issue #397)
• Added functional test collection for verifying deployed QnABots
• Added Service API Usage Tracking
• Added deployment parameter to enable selection of opensearch instance type (issue #599)

Updated

• Migrated out of Bluebird promises to native promises
• Migrated to AWS SDK for JavaScript v3
• Upgraded to Webpack 5
• Upgraded to Vue3
• Upgraded to Vuetify 3
• Upgraded to latest LLM Image
• Code Quality improvements based on SonarQube analysis
• Security patches for npm

Fixed

• Fixed chaining not working when combined with bot routing (issue #508) - contributed by (@bobpskier)
• Fixed issue with chaining causing QnABot to become unresponsive when chaining rule evaluation fails. Improved error reporting when debugging is enabled.
• Fixed issue preventing lambda hooks defined in the templates/extensions directory from being executed by the fulfillment lambda.
• Fixed issue where LLM errors return 'no_hits' response instead of error message.
• Fixed bug where positive feedback is not published to SNS.
• Fixed content designer settings using different casing standard for boolean values (issue #666)
• Fixed inclusion of OpenSearch QnA results in text passages (issue #669) - contributed by (@cristi-constantin)
• Fixed issue where session attributes become undefined when translate isn't enabled.
• Fixed issue where settings were being evaluated as strings instead of numbers. Settings that are saved as stings that represent positive, negative, whole, or decimal numbers will be parsed as numbers.
• Fixed issue where kendra redirect does not use redirect query when users locale matches kendra index locale

v5.4.5

[5.4.5] - 2023-11-1

Caution

Do not use this version because of an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket when Content Designer has no Q&As.

Updated

• Security patch for browserify-sign

v5.4.4

[5.4.4] - 2023-10-24

Caution

Do not use this version because of an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket when Content Designer has no Q&As.

Updated

• Security patch for urllib3

Fixed

• Fixed fulfillment throws an exception when a Preprocessing Lambda Hook is configured(issue #651)
• Improved error handling

v5.4.3

[5.4.3] - 2023-10-13

Caution

Do not use this version because of an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket.

Fixed

• Fixed issue where Alexa schema was not exporting the utterances list.
• Fixed babel/traverse vulnerability

v5.4.2

[5.4.2] - 2023-09-30

Caution

Do not use this version because of an issue with the testall functionality which may introduce a high number of versions stored in the testall S3 bucket.

Added

• Self-hosting web fonts. Font files used by QnABot UI are now served from QnABot server instead of using third party font provider.

Updated

• Security patches for npm and pip packages
• Lambda runtimes updated to NodeJS 18 for CFN Bootstrap Lambda
• SonarQube Quality Gates fix
• Bluebird Promise Migration (Partial)
  • Utilize native promises supported in JavaScript
  • Full migration planned for v5.5.0. Done as a prerequisite for JavaScript SDK v3 migration planned for v6.0.0
  • Remaining changes to be implemented in v5.5.0 include ./website, ./cfn, & ./templates

Fixed

• Fixed request signing issue when using Custom domain (issue #605)
• Fixed Sagemaker LLM deployment (issue #635)
• Fixed voice integration with LLM response
• Fixed unsupported SSML tags
• Fixed Kendra API retrieval bug

v5.4.1

Updated

• LLM README documentation