Release Notes - What's new in Kyvos 2024.1.x
Kyvos 2024.1.x Releases
Here’s a list of Kyvos versions for the Kyvos 2024.1.x releases:
Features and enhancements for 2024.1.3
Kyvos 2024.1.3 release brings the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
Support of Measure ID through REST API: With this release, users can now use measure IDs to add or update calculated measures in a workbook using the REST API.
Support of semi-additive measures in Kyvos Analytical Store: In this release, Kyvos has added support for semi-additive measures in the Kyvos Analytical Store.
Upgraded JRE version: In this release, Kyvos has upgraded the JRE from version 8.372 to version 8.412.
The supported Corretto JRE version for Server is 8.412.08.1
The supported Corretto JRE version for Client is 17.0.6.10.1
The supported Corretto JRE version for Kyvos Manager is 17.0.6.10.1.
Upgraded Apache Tomcat version: In this release, Kyvos has upgraded the Apache Tomcat for:
Kyvos Manager: 10.1.24
Kyvos: 10.1.24
Features and enhancements for 2024.1.2
Kyvos 2024.1.2 release brings the following new features and enhancements.
Configure expiry date for secret keys in Azure via property: With this release, Kyvos sets the expiration date for secret keys in the Azure cloud environment. However, users can modify the expiry date for the secret keys by using the SECRET_EXPIRY_TIME under global.properties on the Kyvos Manager.
Support for displaying parameter filters in the 'Show Info’ dialog box: The Kyvos 2024.1.2 brings an enhancement that enables users to easily identify the parameters that are applied on a worksheet or dashboard. With this release, the parameter filter will be displayed in the 'Show Info' dialog box when it is applied to a sheet or dashboard. This will help users to view and manage the parameters more effectively.
Kyvos Excel Add-in enhancements:
The Kyvos 2024.1.2 release comes with the following enhancements to the Kyvos Excel Add-in:Support for member properties in grids for user-defined and system member properties: The Kyvos 2024.1.2 release has added support for member properties in grids for user-defined and system member properties.
Support for FreeForm Report: With the Kyvos 2024.1.2 release, users can now convert the existing grid to a Freeform reports.
Features and enhancements for 2024.1.1
Kyvos 2024.1.1 release brings the following new features and enhancements.
Kyvos Analytical Store Enhancements
The Kyvos 2024.1.1 release comes with the following enhancements to the Kyvos Analytical store:
Support for enabling Kyvos Analytical Store via property: The Kyvos 2024.1.1 comes with a new property under global.properties on the Kyvos Manager. This property allows users to enable the Kyvos Analytical Store. Additionally, when the value of this property is set to Yes, and the Query Engine JVM configuration is set to Auto, Kyvos automatically calculates the memory required for the Kyvos Analytical Store.
Enhanced automatic Query Engines' memory configuration: With this release, Kyvos brings enhancements to Query Engine JVM configuration for Auto mode. If the Auto mode is selected, Kyvos intelligently calculates the Query Engine’s Heap, Off Heap, and Kyvos Analytical Store memory based on the total memory of the Query Engine machine.
Support for additional Operating System: This release comes with support for additional Operating Systems for Kyvos Analytical Store. For further details, see the https://kyvosdocumentation.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=KD20242&title=Kyvos%202024.1%2C%202024.1.1%20and%202024.1.2%20-%20Supported%20environments%20and%20applications section.
Features and enhancements for 2024.1
Kyvos 2024.1 release brings the following new features and enhancements.
Kyvos Analytical Store Enhancements
The Kyvos 2024.1 release comes with the following enhancements to the Kyvos Analytical store:
Support for Decimal type measures: The Kyvos Analytical store efficiently stores, retrieves, and queries big decimal measures created via Kyvos.
Kyvos Analytical Store statistics: With this release, users can now see Kyvos Analytical Store statistics on the Activity Monitor. To view the Kyvos Analytical Store information, navigate to the Activity Monitor, then click the Query Engine. A detailed view dialog box is displayed. The dialog displays the total number of available Analytical Store connections and the number of connections currently being used. Users can also check the total amount of memory available and the percentage of memory used.
Support for Parent-Child Hierarchy (PCH): With this release, Kyvos supports processing and browsing the semantic models, having a parent-child hierarchy, alternate hierarchy, and custom rollups in the Kyvos Analytical Store.
Support for attribute level smart aggregates: This release supports attribute level smart aggregates in Kyvos Analytical Store.
Generative AI-driven Calculation Designer Enhancements
Kyvos has released an enhanced GenAI-driven service named Ask Kyvos Copilot. The copilot helps semantic model and report designers in generating MDX calculations based on natural language descriptions.
The Kyvos 2024.1 release comes with the following Ask Kyvos Copilot enhancements:
Auto-correcting an MDX expression: The Copilot can auto-correct the MDX expressions by validating the name and syntax of dimensions and measures against the semantic model.
Selecting category to create MDX expressions: Users can choose the type of category needed for calculations, such as General Calculations, Arithmetic Calculations, and Time-series Calculations.
Viewing history: Users can access the history of the last 30 days, which can be filtered by category or custom text. To create new expressions, users can reuse previous inputs and outputs automatically by clicking the 'Use me' option. Alternatively, they can manually fill in the input by clicking 'Copy to Clipboard' to regenerate it.
Configuring Kyvos Copilot connection: Users can now configure Kyvos Copilot connection through Kyvos Manager.
See the GenAI Configuration for more details.
Kyvos Excel Add-in Enhancements
With this release, Kyvos supports the replacement of the '0' value with the 'Null' feature in Kyvos Excel Add-in when fields are present in rows and columns.
Rebalance aggregates via Kyvos Web Portal
With the Kyvos 2024.1 release, users now have the option to rebalance aggregates directly from the Kyvos Web Portal. Unbalanced aggregates among the Query Engines can adversely affect query performance; hence, users should consider rebalancing the aggregates as and when needed.
Result Cache Mechanism Enhancement
In the Kyvos 2024.1 release, there is an enhancement to the result caching mechanism for MDX queries. This improvement involves the implementation of a queue-based mechanism to cache results, preventing the Kyvos application from becoming unresponsive.
Kyvos Manager Enhancements
Kyvos Manager High Availability: With the Kyvos 2024.1 release, users now have the option to enable Kyvos Manager high availability. This means that another service will be activated immediately to meet the requirements in the event of a service failure. To enable Kyvos Manager High Availability, set the value of the ‘ENABLE_KM_HA’ property to ‘yes’ from the Kyvos Manager Properties page.
SAML2-based external authentication for Kyvos Manager: This release supports SAML2 configuration between identity provider and service provider, particularly for security assertion, which is already supported in the Kyvos Web Portal for authentication.
Exporting Cluster Operations to CSV (Comma-Separated Values): With this release, users can now export the list of cluster operations to CSV format. This enhancement streamlines data management and analysis, providing users with a user-friendly way to save and share cluster operation data.
Performance Enhancements
Session Set Query Enhancements
The Kyvos 2024.1 release introduces the ability to facilitate the pushdown of MDX expressions, such as aggregate over set, where a scalar entity is not provided to Query Engines, enhancing query performance for session set queries. Currently, this support is extended to cases where measures from a single fact are present in query. Previously, when executing cohort cases using session set queries to evaluate aggregates over the session set, slow query performance was encountered due to row-wise execution for each row in the view.
Cloud Support Enhancements
Azure Enhancements
High Availability of Kyvos Services Instances and Storage Account: This release has added support for deploying the BI Server, Query Engine, and Web Services across multiple availability zones in Azure, as well as configuring a Zone-redundant Storage Account (ZRS) to ensure high availability of Kyvos Services.
BI Server nodes scaling in Azure Marketplace: Users can now increase or decrease BI Server nodes via scaling from Kyvos Manager on the ‘Node and Service Mapping’ page.
Fixed new recommendations by Azure Defender: This release has fixed the following recommendations provided by Azure Defender:
Included content type in the Key Vault Secret.
Added client certificate in the Azure Functions.
Disaster Recovery and backup on Azure: Kyvos now supports disaster recovery for its components in Azure. To enable disaster recovery in Azure, users can choose the recovery options available for respective services in Azure Cloud. However, users need to perform manual disaster recovery and backup steps on Azure. Additionally, ensure that disaster recovery in Azure is only supported when an external Postgres repository is used for Kyvos.
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