UMD Virtual Agent Release Notes
Releases
2025-03-27 (v. 1.6.1)
New Features & Enhancements
- Improvements to capture properly accented characters
- Addition of example questions for departmental bots
Bug Fixes
- Continued improvements to hyperlink display
2025-03-13 (v. 1.6.0)
Bug Fixes
- A bug was fixed in the hyperlink processing to ensure all links are processed correctly.
- Bug fixes were addressed with the Ignore Folder and BOT_IGNORE functionality to ensure that items can be ingested and not ingested as necessary when items are moved or renamed in Google Drive.
- A bug was fixed to ensure that ServiceNow citations point to the correct articles.
- A bug was fixed in the router to ensure that direct links to the Admin Console direct the user to the correct page.
2025-03-06 (v. 1.5.9)
New Features & Enhancements
- Added tooltips to the Ingested Sources interface to enhance user comprehension.
- Added tooltips to the Sample Questions page in the Admin Console.
- Renamed Ingested Data to Ingested Sources and updated its display.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug preventing questions from displaying on the Admin Console for the last day of February.
- Updated fetching to align with EST rather than UTC.
- Fixed issue with HTML tags being appended to hyperlinks during post-processing.
2025-02-27 (v. 1.5.8)
New Features & Enhancements
- Added configuration for canned bot responses when no sources are returned from similarity search.
- Updated Virtual Agent Configuration page with a set connector order:
- WebScraper
- Google Drive
- ServiceNow
Bug Fixes
- Allowed PDFs to be ingested from sites with different base URLs from the Virtual Agent’s scrape URL.
- Fixed issues with Public/Private folder settings affecting citations.
2025-02-19 (v. 1.5.7)
New Features & Enhancements
- Improved accessibility of the Virtual Agent UI to meet Lighthouse & Wave standards.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed light/dark mode toggle functionality when the Virtual Agent is embedded on another site.
2025-02-18 (v. 1.5.6)
New Features & Enhancements
- Integrated ServiceNow for ingestion of knowledge base categories and attachments.
- Implemented fallback for embedding creation during OpenAI or Azure outages.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with .txt files not being identified correctly as Audio Transcripts.
2025-02-14 (v. 1.5.5)
New Features & Enhancements
- Added light/dark mode toggle to the Virtual Agent UI.
- Introduced a URL parameter to disable the expansion button when hosting a Virtual Agent.
- Added additional tooltips to the Ingested Data and Virtual Agent pages.
2025-01-30 (v. 1.5.2)
New Features & Enhancements
- Improved Collection Info Widget in the WebScraper connector.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with sample questions generated for new Virtual Agents.
- Resolved bug causing fallback schemas to be used incorrectly.
2025-01-25 (v. 1.5.0)
New Features & Enhancements
- Enabled a new ingestion system based on a message bus mechanism.
- Improved Google Drive functionality using a token-based file change detection mechanism.
- Enhanced web scraping capabilities, including:
- Scraping text, tables, images, Google spreadsheets, and PDFs.
- New widget for managing scraped websites.
- Faster ingestion through chunked website discovery.
2025-01-17 (v. 1.4.1)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed broken link on the Admin Console page in the weekly Departmental & Executive Summary report.