8 days ago

May 03, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Fixed	US-Field	Groups and Scenes	Fixed an issue wherein the experiences (scenes) were not displayed on the user apps. After the fix, scenes are displayed as expected.
2	Enhancement	EU-Field	Datapoint Service	We fixed an issue causing erratic behaviours in the applications due to to-device property batch updates. With this fix, we added support for property updates with echo in batched datapoints.
3	Fixed	US-field EU-field US-dev	ICC Staged Run	In ICC staged run, we fixed an issue that was hampering the job progress to next stages.
4	Fixed	Owlet	Device Search	We fixed an issue wherein the result of device search by MAC address was sometimes getting timed out error.
5	Enhanced	Owlet	Ayla Customer Dashboard	In the App Details tab of the OEM App dialog box, we have added an option to upload a FCM PEM File. FCM PEM files are used to send the FCM notifications.
6	Enhanced	US-Field	Metering	We have added capability in Metering to run backfill jobs for past dates. The following are the major features for which this enhancement is implemented: DataPoints, SMS, Rule evaluations, Rule Execution, DataStreams, File or image I/O.

16 days ago

April 26, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Fixed	US-Field EU-Field US-Dev	User Service	Fixed the default logo display error in the authorization (Oauth) flow wherein logos of certain dimensions were getting stretched and losing their aspect ratio.
2	Enhanced	US-Field	Metering DataSearch	In metering service, we upgraded to Open Search from Elastic Search engine.
3	Enhanced	US-Field	Groups and Scenes	We activated the “end_time_each_day” parameter to set end time for a schedule each day. This enhancement improves schedule time management.
4	Fixed	US-Field	Groups and Scenes	Fixed an issue wherein schedule timings were set wrongly when creating experiences (scenes).
5	Enhanced	US-Field	Groups and Scenes	With this enhancement, the shared users with “write” permissions are now allowed to perform all the CRUD operations on the shared collections.

21 days ago

April 19, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud and Mobile platforms.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	Shark	Command Center	With this enhancement, the email notifications sent to inform about the devices stuck in Downloaded state will contain all Job identify the jobs easilyIDs to .
2	Enhanced	Shark	Command Center OTA Service	In the kill-Switch feature, this enhancement improves job monitoring by marking an ICC job as “Stopped” once OTA is finished processing all devices for the job (One Time Job).
3	Fixed	US-Field	Application Service	We fixed the SMS trigger creation error.

Mobile Platform

Following are the v7.0.00 release for Android:

Ayla SDK v7.0.00:

	Feature	Release type	Summary
1	API update	Enhanced	We added app version, build number, and other details in user-agent header of the API requests to facilitate more information for troubleshooting in case of any issues.
2	Device registration	Enhanced	We increased device registration retry limit and time interval between each retry attempt to increase the success rate.
3	Local Device (PAAG)	New feature	Enabled support for Local device (PAAG) auto sync from cloud via cloud polling.
4	ICC job	Enhanced	This enhancement allows to expose firmware version details to the applications. (AylaICCDeviceJob supports _fw_version as property.)
5	Session Management	Fixed	Fixed an issue that was causing 401 error on refresh token. With this fix, SDK is made to handle session management to eliminate errors.
6	Device Onboarding Setup	Fixed	Fixed an issue wherein Exit Setup API was not returning success/error in some cases.
7	BLE local control	Fixed	Fixed an issue causing error while parsing meta_data of command.
8	Property input	Fixed	Fixed crashing of app while invalid values are input to binary properties.

Ayla Aura v7.0.00:

	Feature	Release type	Summary
1	BLE onboarding	Fixed	Fixed crashing of app during BLE onboarding.
2	Local Caching	OTA user interface	Improved OTA UI and functionalities.
3			Built using Android_AylaSDK_Public v7.0.0

Following are the v7.0.00 release for iOS:

Ayla SDK v7.0.00:

	Feature	Release type	Summary
1	SDK initialization	Enhanced	SDK initialization method is changed. Please refer Ayla SDK to know more.
2	Device onboarding	Enhanced	We now support infield provisioning.
3	PaaG	Enhanced	This enhancement allows auto PaaG reconnection when device is turned off/on.
4	ICC job	Enhanced	This enhancement allows to expose firmware version details to the applications. (AylaICCDeviceJob supports _fw_version as property.)
5	Session management	Fixed	Fixed an issue that was causing 401 error on refresh token. With this fix, SDK is made to handle session management to eliminate errors.
6	LAN Access	Enhanced	To allow apps to access local network, this enhancement detects and notifies Apple local network privacy access during LAN control establishment.
7			We have temporarily disabled AylaUncaughtExceptionHandler and Metrics manager.
8	User experience	Enhanced	With this enhancement, LAN fetch property percentage is passed on to client app. This helps in optimizing tasks handling and provide better user experience.
9	Copilot initialization	Enhanced	We modified Copilot initialization to allow app to override settings.
10	API update	Enhanced	We added app version, build number, and other details in user-agent header of the API requests to facilitate more information for troubleshooting in case of any issues.
11	LAN connectivity	Fixed	Fixed the issue causing duplicate LAN session creation. Fixed an issue wherein LAN timeout was not getting called when the connection was switched.
12	LAN connectivity	Enhanced	Reduced default LAN task timeout from 20sec to 5 sec to enhance user experience by reducing waiting period.
13	mDSS (Mobile DataStream Service)	Fixed	Fixed an issue causing a crash when an event(mDSS) is received but the device is unregistered.
14	Copilot	Fixed	We resolved the Copilot SSO auto login error.
15	Application	Fixed	We fixed app crashing issues faced during the following situations: - Onboarding - Registration - Property update - Device changes Please refer Ayla SDK to know more about the changes made to fix the issues.
16			Built using Xcode 15.3 on macOS 14.4.1.

Ayla Aura v7.0.00:

	Feature	Release type	Summary
1	SDK initialization	Enhanced	SDK initialization method is changed. Please refer Ayla SDK to know more.
2	Application	Fixed	We fixed app crashing issues faced during the following situations: - Onboarding - Registration - Property update - Device changes Please refer Ayla SDK to know more about the changes made to fix the issues.
3	Session Management	Fixed	Fixed an issue that was causing 401 error on refresh token. With this fix, SDK is made to handle session management to eliminate errors.
4			Built using Xcode 15.3 on macOS 14.4.1
5			Built using Xcode 15.3 on macOS 14.4.1

29 days ago

April 12, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	New feature	EU-Field	Application Service	We added support to accept private key file (PEM file) in JSON format to send the FCM notifications.
2	Enhanced	US-Field	Command Center	With this enhancement, the email notifications sent to inform about the devices stuck in Downloaded state will contain all Job IDs to identify the jobs easily

about 1 month ago

April 05, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	CN-Field	Platform Upgrade	We are upgrading all services in China Platform, ensuring they are brought up to the latest version.
2	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Ayla Customer Dashboard	In Command Center Filters, we now support filtering with "contain".
3	New feature	US-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Command Center (ICC) – Job Report	We added “Waiting for user content” as a new "state" in User Consent OTA jobs. This will help to know how many devices are waiting for consent from the users for the User Consent jobs in ICC.
4	Fixed	US-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Ayla Customer Dashboard – Device Search	We fixed an issue wherein the result of device search by MAC address was sometimes getting timed out.
5	New feature	US-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Ayla Customer Dashboard Device Service	To enhance the performance of Device search, like and not like searches on Software Version are replaced with starts with.
6	New feature	US-Field EU-Field US-Dev	Message Service Application Service	We have migrated from FCM legacy APIs to the HTTP v1 APIs, which uses FCM PEM files to send the FCM notifications. We recommend all customers to upload their FCM PEM files in Ayla Dashboard at the earliest.
7	New feature	US-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Ayla Customer Dashboard	In the App Details tab of the OEM App dialog box, we have added an option to upload a FCM PEM File. FCM PEM files are used to send the FCM notifications.
8	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Data Export Service	We optimised the post data processing tasks to avoid data accumulation issues.
9	Enhanced	S-Field EU-Field Shark US-Dev	Rule Service - Logs	We improved logging for the Rule Service for better tracking of events/actions.
10	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field US-Dev	User Service	Added loggers for user account deletion, role assignment, role revocation, and for the number of failed login attempts.
11	Fixed	Shark	Rule Service	Fixed an issue wherein rule expressions containing str_contains function was throwing invalid or malformed errors. Added validation check to avoid rule creation when wrong oem_model is passed.
13	Enhanced	Shark	Rule Service	Updated Rule Service configurations to validate OEM quota and Rule Based Notification (RBN) Limits.
14	Enhanced	EU-Field US-Dev	Command Center OTA Service	In the kill-Switch feature, this enhancement will mark an ICC job as Stopped once OTA is finished processing all devices for the job (One Time Job).
15	Enhanced	EU-Field US-Dev	Command Center	With this enhancement, the notifications sent to inform about the devices stuck in Downloaded state will contain Job Ids and a suitable note to improve customer experience.
16	Fixed	EU-Field Shark	Command Center Rule Service	We fixed an issue wherein rule expressions with whitespace characters were not getting evaluated as expected. With this fix, in rule expressions, any values with whitespaces are considered for evaluation. Added support to evaluate contain and not contain expressions as part of Rules with ICC Continuous flow.
17	DB upgrade	Shark	DB upgrade	Upgraded PostgreSQL version to support DB actions.
18	Enhanced	EU-Field	Data Search Service	With this enhancement we upgraded the open search (Elasticsearch) infrastructure.
19	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field US-Dev	Metering	We improved the metering calculations of rule evaluation transactions.

about 2 months ago

March 22, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	CN-Field	User Service	We have enhanced the security of PEM files and passwords by using new algorithms.
2	DB Upgrade	US-Field	DataStream Service Migration Service	We upgraded the MySQL library version.
3	Enhanced	US-Dev US-Field EU-Field	Rule Service	Updated Rule Service configurations to validate OEM quota and Rule Based Notification (RBN) Limits.
4	Fixed	US-Dev US-Field EU-Field	Rule Service	Added validation check to avoid rule creation when wrong oem_model is passed. Fixed an issue wherein rule expressions containing str_contains function was throwing invalid or malformed errors.
5	New feature	US-Dev US-Field EU-Field	Command Center Rule Service	Added support to evaluate contain and not contain expressions as part of Rules with ICC Continuous flow.
6	DB Upgrade	US-Dev US-Field EU-Field	Command Center	Upgraded PostgreSQL version to support DB actions.

about 2 months ago

March 15, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	CN-Field	Platform Upgrade	In this release, we redeployed all services to China Platform, bringing them up to the latest version.

2 months ago

March 08, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	US-Dev US-Field EU-Field	User Service	We added new loggers to enhance monitoring and tracking in the following scenarios: User account deletion Role assignment and revocation Failed login attempts We enhanced AWS authentication by choosing token-based credentials instead of access/secret key.
2	Fixed	US-Field Eu-Field Shark US-Dev	Dashboard - Command Center	We fixed an issue wherein customers were not able to edit the job filters in the Ayla Customer Dashboard.
3	Enhanced	US-Field	Device Service	We added support for OEM::Admin role to create Remote Virtual Devices.
4	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field	Metering	This enhancement includes metering configuration changes to enhance/stabilize metering calculations.

2 months ago

March 01, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	US-Field	User Service	We have enhanced the security of PEM files and passwords by using new algorithms.
2	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field	Feed Service	With this enhancement, we configured AWS role and access token for Feed Service to strengthen the access permission management.
3	Enhanced	US-Field Shark	Database Upgrade	This enhancement was carried out to upgrade database specification for the Rule Service.
4	Enhanced	US-Field	Metering	With this enhancement we upgraded the open search (Elasticsearch) infrastructure.
5	Enhanced	EU-Field	DataStream Service Migration Service	We upgraded the MySQL library version.
6	Fixed	US-Field	Metering	We resolved metering invalid index issues.
7	Enhanced	US-Field	Metering	With this enhancement, SMSs are metered, and SMS transactions are made visible in Insights.
8	Enhanced	US-Field	DataSearch	Added validation to metering count for SMS data to ensure metering quality.
9	Fixed	EU-Field Owlet-Field	User Service	Fixed the default logo display error in the authorization (Oauth) flow.
10	Enhanced	EU-Field US-Dev	Device Service	We added support for OEM::Admin role to create Remote Virtual Devices.
11	Fixed	US-Field Eu-Field Shark US-Dev	Command Center	In the kill-switch feature, we resolved the issue wherein unacknowledged OTA commands were getting processed in unexpected way. With this fix, unacknowledged OTA Commands are deleted on stopping the Job. Fixed the issue wherein the get device job API was returning wrong job_status and stopped_at values.
12	Enhanced	US-Field Eu-Field Shark US-Dev	Command Center	In Command Center, for stage run, the success_threshold value is modified. For more information on Stage Run, click here.

3 months ago

Feb02, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	EU-Field US-Dev	ICC Search User Service	Enabled ICC Service to consume User Service internal APIs.
2	Enhanced	EU-Field US Dev	Datapoint Service	Added additional validations to ensure that the datapoint requests are processed only if they contain all mandatory fields/parameters.
3	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field US Dev	Ayla Customer Dashboard	Enhanced ICC Service to trigger email notifications when a stage reaches to the “success” criteria. This enables the users to promote stage run to the next stage.
4	User Interface Update	US-Field EU-Field US Dev	Ayla Customer Dashboard	In Ayla Customer Dashboard, for the Property Value filter category, we have disabled the contain and does_not_contain operators as the Rule Service does not support these operators as of now.