[NEW] - Human-in-the-Loop Metadata Validation was Introduced an intelligent mechanism for human review of automatically generated metadata, combining AI efficiency with human oversight to ensure higher accuracy and quality.
[NEW] -Image-Inclusive Search now supports a wider range of collection types, including Dynamic Auto, File, SharePoint (Online & On-Prem), Google Drive, AEM, Amazon S3, Email, and Product Discovery.
[NEW] - Support for generating LLM-based metadata based on specific file types, giving admins greater control and ensuring metadata is only created where it’s needed.
[NEW] - Prompt management within the SearchAI Admin Console for ChatBot, PreText NLP, and Assist, enabling greater customization and control over AI-driven interactions.
[NEW] - Support for redirects in the main sitemap URL, ensuring smoother processing and better indexing of sitemap content.
[NEW] - SmartFAQs have been enhanced to provide LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot with a direct, reliable data source, ensuring the answers they generate reference your site instead of external sources. Integrating SmartFAQs into your website now further improves discoverability across leading AI-powered search models.
[NEW] -New configurable query exclusion system that automatically hides documents containing specified words or phrases when certain search terms are used, improving search accuracy and ensuring results align with business rules and user preferences.
[NEW] - Ability to generate SmartSuggest directly within the Admin Console as well as include terms from an external file.
[NEW] - SearchAI can now utilize external OpenAI APIs, enabling the use of its full range of models. SearchAI also supports OpenAI-compatible providers such as vLLM, allowing greater flexibility in choosing and deploying LLMs. SearchAI also supports Ollama and LlamaCPP.
[NEW] - Hybrid Search now supports Okta authentication, enabling secure, seamless access for Okta-integrated environments.
[NEW] - The new mode uses AI-generated context to carry on natural conversations, asking relevant follow-up questions without relying on traditional search result listings.
[NEW] - The Analytics dashboards for Search, SmartFAQs, and Chatbot have been completely redesigned with a fresh, modern interface. The new layout improves usability, enhances data visualization, and makes it easier to gain insights at a glance. Add analytics for SearchAI Recommend.
[NEW] - New Custom Analyzer (sb_analyzer_special_v2):
Introduced a new analyzer that tokenizes text on spaces or hyphens and removes punctuation, providing more flexibility in search indexing and matching configurations.

[NEW] - New Product Discovery collection with AI powered e-commerce search capabilities and real-time product recommedations.
[NEW] - New AI-driven recommendation system that delivers personalized search results based on user intent and behavior patterns.
[NEW] - Upgraded SmartFAQs to include semantic search powered by vector embeddings for accurate and context-aware Q&As.
[NEW] - Added a new Content Manager user role with full access to featured results and analytics, and limited access to collections.
[NEW] - SearchAI now supports searching images within documents (PDF, Word, PPT). Images are automatically extracted and processed with an LLM to generate captions, enabling users to discover relevant documents even when their query matches visual content rather than text.
[NEW] - Integrated SearchAI Assist offering document summarization, analysis, and comparison features directly within the platform. Users can also use custom prompts on multiple documents for analysis.
[NEW] -Upgraded Chat API with support for configurable vectorWeight, vectorThreshold, number of passages, and searchType parameters, all with intelligent defaults.
[NEW] - Ability to toggle AI-powered search features directly from the Hybrid Search settings for greater control and flexibility for administrators and users.
[ENHANCED] - Improved error handling and validation across all AI-powered features.
[ENHANCED] - Various performance optimizations and overall stability enhancements across the platform.
[FIXED] - Resolved security vulnerabilities.

[NEW] - Enhanced user experience and intuitiveness with a redesigned UI.
[NEW] - Java 21, Jetty 11 and various fundamental libraries were upgraded to ensure better stability, security, and performance.
[NEW] - Added the ability to test the chatbot directly from a RAG-enabled collection in the Manage Collections screen.
[NEW] - Introduced a new vector threshold parameter to fine-tune hybrid search behavior.
[NEW] - Introduced a new REST API to import SmartFAQs.
[NEW] - Added support to generate and add SmartFAQs using the SearchAI Private LLM.
[NEW] - Improved infrastructure for better uptime and reliability of the SearchAI Chatbot.
[NEW] - Added support for a new collection type for SharePoint Server.
[FIXED] - Fixed issues with the update metadata REST endpoint.
[FIXED] - Resolved issues with manual document updates.
[FIXED] - Fixed autocomplete functionality.
[FIXED] - Corrected server-side timezone calculation in the collection scheduler.
[FIXED] - Fixed context highlighting for text fragments.
[FIXED] - Addressed bugs in the featured results functionality.
[FIXED] - Various other bug fixes and enhancements.

[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