7 months 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

8 months 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

9 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.

10 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.

10 months ago

Jan26, 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	Server-side implementation – We updated configurations for Command Center to enable HMAC.
2	Enhanced	US Field US dev	Metering Service	Added following enhancements in the metering service: Metering calculation changes for Single and Batch Datapoints Reading multiple CSV files Ignoring duplicate CSV files
3	Enhanced	US Field US dev	ICC Service	Enhanced ICC Service to trigger email notifications in the following scenarios: When any device fails in the critical stage(s) When a device is stuck in the DOWNLOADED state for more than threshold time (60 minutes) When a stage reaches to the “success” criteria.
4	Enhanced	US Field US dev	ICC Service	Added Kill Switch feature. This feature allows the users to stop a running One-Time job in case of an unexpected issue and thereby avoid any further processing of the devices.
5	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field	API Gateway(Edge Service)	We updated the API Gateway (Edge Service) to use AWS Roles/Tokens instead of AWS Access And Secret Keys.
6	Fixed	Shark Owlet	Datapoint Service	Fixed an error wherein device search with property value as -1 was returning wrong records. Added additional Info logs in Datapoint Service.
7	Fixed	US-Field	Device Service	We fixed the issues causing SMS trigger creation errors. Fixed an issue wherein the Device Type property of a device was not matching with the Template Type. Fixed an error wherein device search with property value as -1 was returning wrong records.
8	Fixed	US-Field EU-Field	User Service	Fixed an issue wherein linking skills to Alexa failed. After the fix, users can link the skills to Alexa as expected.
9	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field	User Service	Enable HMAC support for internal calls from ICC Service to User Service.

10 months ago

Jan20, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform and Edge Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Enhanced	Shark	ICC Search OTA Service	Performed enhancements to User Consent Jobs to eliminate latency. We added OEM Model validation during ICC job creation. This restricts job creation using a filter that is associated with a different OEM Model.
2	New Feature	Shark	ICC Service	Added Kill Switch feature. This feature allows the users to stop a running One-Time job in case of an unexpected issue and thereby avoid any further processing of the devices.
3	Fixed	Shark	ICC Service Datapoint Service	Fixed an error wherein device search with property value as -1 was not returning expected records.
4	Fixed	EU-Field	Ayla Device Service	We fixed the issues causing SMS trigger creation errors. Fixed an issue wherein the Device Type property of a device was not matching with the Template Type.

Edge Platform

Ayla Device Agent 3.1.3

Ayla Device Agent 3.1.3 for Espressif ESP-IDF 4.4.6 is now available.

This release includes Matter support. It is recommended for customers who want to build Matter-compliant devices that also connect to the Ayla platform, based on Espressif modules.

Below table provides the major changes included in this release:

	Release type	Feature	Summary
1	Fixed	LAN Mode	Fixed an issue wherein quickly switching the app between foreground and background made LAN mode unresponsive.
2	Fixed	Matter LAN	Fixed the issue wherein Aura app did not establish the matter local control connection.
3	Fixed	Device Control	Fixed an issue wherein enabling setup mode via dashboard was failing due to unerased Wi-Fi profiles.
4	Fixed	Matter Certificate	Upgraded ESP-IDF to v4.4.6 for CHIP 1.0.0.2. Fixed general app issues.
5	New Feature	Application Interface	Added the feature to drag/swipe on the color palette for the strip.
6	New Feature	Ayla Matter Demo	Disabled HTTP server for ayla_matter_demo.
7	New Feature	ADA	Added the feature to flash LED when commissioning window opens and to stop flashing LED when commissioning window closes.
8	New Feature	ADA	In this version, we did not patch Nimble for matter devices.
9	New Feature	ADA	Added CLI to store rotating unique ID.

Ayla Device Agent 3.0.4

Ayla Device Agent 3.0.4 for Espressif ESP-IDF 4.4.2 is now available.

This release includes critical bug fixes for the Ayla MQTT agent. All customers using ada-3.0 or later should upgrade to this agent.

Below table provides the major changes included in this release:

	Release type	Feature	Summary
1	Fixed	MQTT	Fixed an issue wherein MQTT did not refresh time when authentication failed due to bad time.
2	Fixed	Device Control	Fixed an issue wherein enabling setup mode via dashboard was failing due to unerased Wi-Fi profiles.

10 months ago

Jan12, 2024

This week we added release notes for Cloud Platform.

Cloud Platform

	Release type	Environment	Feature	Summary
1	Fixed	Shark	ICC Service	We modified Device Search Error Handling mechanism. Going forward, any failure with respect to device search filter will result in an error and partial search won't be considered.
2	Enhanced	US-Field EU-Field	ICC Service OTA Service	Performed enhancements to User Consent Jobs to eliminate latency.
3	Enhanced	Owlet-Field	ICC Service	We added OEM Model validation during ICC job creation. This restricts job creation using a filter that is associated with a different OEM Model.
4	Fixed	US-Field EU-Field US-Dev	ICC Search Datapoint Service	Fixed an error wherein device search with property value as -1 was returning wrong records.