[NEW] - Added SearchAI Hybrid Search (Keyword Search + Vector Search)
[NEW] - Added native RAG Search
[NEW] - Added native support for SearchAI Agents.
[NEW] - SearchAI ChatBot is now built-in and instantly created for any data or documents.
[NEW] - Ability to create chatbots that seamlessly integrate and leverage both structured and unstructured data collections simultaneously.
[NEW] - SearchAI PrivateLLM is now part of the standard installation.
[NEW] - Built-in document enrichment with LLM-generated Titles, Descriptions and Topics.
[NEW] - New UI plugins to view LLM-generated fields for documents.
[NEW] - A new UI plugin will be available to compare hybrid search results with keyword search results.
[NEW] - A new UI layout for the search page includes AI answers along with search results and SmartFAQ.
[NEW] - Added collection sources used to create chatbots under the SearchAI ChatBot list page.
[NEW] - Upgrade to OpenSearch 2.18.0

[NEW] - Added SearchAI Agents
[NEW] - Added ChatBot Actions
[NEW] - High-Availability support for SearchAI ChatBot with SearchBlox Enterprise Search to ensure continuous, uninterrupted service.
[NEW] - Added new Schedule Management Calendar View for Crawler and Chatbot Training
[NEW] - Added the ability to Clone a Collection with/without data, simplifying the process of duplicating a collection.
[NEW] - UI changes for ChatBots section like Progress bar for training/retraining ChatBot with full search filter.
[NEW] - ChatBot clustering and fail-over with SearchBlox.
[NEW] - Added new section Schedules to view all existing Schedules and revamped collection and ChatBot schedulers.[NEW] - Cubejs Migration and UI enhancements for Analytics section.
[NEW] - Introduced new Analytics data points for ChatBot Actions, including display counts and click counts to track user interactions.
[NEW] - Manage Collections and Manage ChatBots screens now display the total counts.
[NEW] - Ability to mask sensitive information and profanity in SearchAI ChatBot.
[FIXED] - Bug fixes and security vulnerability fixes

[NEW] - JAVA 17 Upgrade
[NEW] - Opensearch 2.11.1 Upgrade
[NEW] - Clone Collection Settings
[NEW] - Follow sitemaps in Dynamic Auto Collection
[NEW] - Added ChatBot retrain scheduler
[NEW] - ChatBot Augmented Response
[NEW] - Added new Special metadata parser(Crawler) for web collections
[FIXED] - Updated settings on console for Dynamic Auto Collection (previously done by config.xml)
[FIXED] - Support for SSO – Microsoft Azure (Entra)
[FIXED] - Fix for High resource utilization on Cluster setup

Security Fixes:

[NEW] - ChatBot
[NEW] - ChatBot Analytics
[NEW] - Google Drive Collection
[NEW] - Dynamic Security Binding for Search Results
[NEW] - Incremental Crawling for SharePoint Online Collection
[Fixed] - Bug Fixes for SharePoint Online Collection
[Fixed] - Bug Fixes for Auto Dynamic Crawler
[Fixed] - Security Fixes

[New] - SharePoint Online Collection
[New] - Dynamic Auto Collection
[New] - Confluence Collection
[New] - Semantic Lens Integration
[Fixed] - “Did you mean” Suggestions
[Fixed] - Console user interface alignments
[Fixed] - Search sorting configuration changes
[Fixed] - Update metadata for PDF document type
[Fixed] - Retrieving special characters from description/content with sb_special_analyzer
[Fixed] - Enable GZIP compression

[New] - SearchAI SmartFAQs
[New] - API to check collection Index Status
[New] - Multi sorting functionality
[New] - API to add/update collection Synonyms
[Fixed] - Spelling Suggestions when Stemming is enabled
[Fixed] - Proxy Password Decryption
[Fixed] - Log Rotation
[Fixed] - Featured Results export

[New] - Introducing SearchAI SmartFAQs feature to enhance user’s search experience

What's New

• Improvements to PreText to add AI-based ML fields: ml_title, ml_description, ml_topic, ml_sentimentLabel, ml_sentimentScore, ml_entity_org, ml_entity_product, ml_entity_person, ml_entity_loc, ml_entity_gpe
• Pretext UI to preview ML fields
• Fixed: Log4J security vulnerability
• Fixed: User Expiry Password Reset Issue
• Fixed: Duplicate Key Issue with File Collection
• Enhancement: Document Relevance ‘Score’ Display in the Search Response
• Enhancement: Accessibility Improvements in Search Pages
• Enhancement: Improvements to Connectors Framework