2 New Features and Enhancements in this Release

  1. Installer
    • All port number being used for services are now configurable.
    • A new pre-installation utility is now available to validate install configurations like availability of ports, ftpshare/log folders, database connections, etc.
  2. Data Stores
    • Users can now upload new files (.csv and .txt) while registering File based Data Stores.
    • Ability to derive the schema information for the File based Data Stores.
  3. Data Studio Conda Environments
    • Users can now register custom/local Conda channels for package installation.
  4. Workspaces
    • Users can now provide database Hints at table-level and SQL Prescripts at schema level for data load performance improvement during Workspace Population.
    • Ability to do data repopulation for a subset of tables.
  5. Datasets
    • Introduction of Data Fairness functionality.
    • Support of Pyspark option for scaling dataset.
  6. Model Pipelines
    • Introduction of Interactive execution mode in Dashboard for users to pause and review results before providing next set of runtime parameters and continuing execution.
    • Support of markups in %python paragraphs to allow users to track outputs and update node type (training/scoring/experimentation) from python script itself.
    • New Deployment Overview screen to improved user experience around deployment workflow.
    • Addition widgets introduced for feature engineering and model training.
  7. Model Catalog
    • Additional metrics introduced to score/evaluate models built externally and those built from Pipeline/Notebook.
    • All models can now optionally be served as a webservice exposing its prediction endpoints.
  8. Data Studio
    • Data Studio upgraded to 23.4.7 version.
  9. Identity Management
    1. Option to fetch and provision user groups from OFSAA during user provisioning.
  10. Scheduler
    • Support of providing runtime parameters in ESIC.
  11. UI/UX Enhancements
    • Improved UI messages and logging.
    • UI/UX improvements in line with Redwood design.