Release Notes - What's new in Kyvos 2026.4.x

Release Notes - What's new in Kyvos 2026.4.x

Features and Enhancements for 2026.4.1

This release includes the following enhancements.

  • Git integration for versioning and backup of Kyvos entities
    Enables versioning and backup of Kyvos entities with push/pull support, milestone tracking, historical restoration, and improved reliability and collaboration.

  • Grouping data members into user-defined groups
    Group dimension attribute members into user-defined categories, enabling users to organize related data members into meaningful business categories for simplified analysis and reporting.

  • Common Table Expression (CTE) support for Kyvos Datasets
    Support for Common Table Expressions (CTEs) in Kyvos datasets, enabling source-specific optimized SQL query generation for improved query flexibility, performance, compatibility, and correctness across heterogeneous data sources. This feature is supported for Snowflake and PostgreSQL sources.

Features and Enhancements for 2026.4

Kyvos Dialogs Enhancements

This release includes the following enhancements to Kyvos Dialogs:

  • Dialogs Bot Enhancements:
    This release introduces the following enhancements in Dialogs Bot:

    • Add Dialogs Bot as a Service
      Configure and manage Dialogs Bot as a service directly from Kyvos Manager for unified service management.

    • Sample questions
      View contextual sample questions for selected AI Spaces or semantic models to guide interactions.

    • Data space Search
      Search and access data space (AI Spaces and semantic models) with ease if the required data space is not displayed.

    • Optimized results View
      View large result sets in a separate HTML page for better readability.

    • Configurable conversational analytics
      Control semantic model querying with ENABLE_SEMANTIC_MODEL_QUERYING (Yes to enable; default No for AI Spaces only) for flexible querying control.

  • Kyvos Dialogs

    • Enhanced value–column mapping
      Define value–column mappings in querying instructions to automatically resolve ambiguous values, reducing the need for repeated user feedback when multiple matching columns exist.

    • User interface enhancements

      • Source Visibility: Displays the semantic model name below the query title.

      • Dedicated Guidelines Pane: Provides usage guidelines in a right-side pane for better accessibility.

    • Azure GPT 5.4 LLM Model
      Adds support for the Azure GPT 5.4 LLM model to enhance conversational intelligence.

Kyvos Modern Architecture (No-Spark Ingestion) Enhancements

This release includes the following no-Spark enhancement:

  • Apache Impala as a data source
    Enables using Apache Impala as a data source, enabling direct processing of semantic models.

  • Relational Online Analytical Processing: Many-to-Many relationship support
    Extends support for many-to-many (M2M) relationships in semantic models, allowing queries to be executed directly on the underlying source systems.

  • Kyvos Lakehouse with Parquet File for On-Premises
    Enables Kyvos to read Parquet files from HDFS and convert them into Kyvos-compliant files for semantic model processing.

  • Writeback enhancements
    Supports writeback for Parent-Child Hierarchies (PCH) and dimensions with applied sort fields.

Additional Features and Enhancements

  • Ownership management utility for Kyvos entities
    Admins can view and reassign ownership across Kyvos entities, with audit logs ensuring better governance and traceability.

  • Logical OR Conditions support in Row-Level Security (RLS)
    Adds support for logical OR conditions in Row-Level Security for flexible access control.

  • Kyvos MCP Server enhancements
    Introduces streamable HTTP support for stateless communication via /mcp endpoint.

  • Upgraded Apache Tomcat version
    Kyvos and Kyvos Manager have been upgraded to Apache Tomcat 10.1.54.

Cloud Support Enhancements

  • Managing cluster.properties from Kyvos Manager
    View and update cluster.properties directly from Kyvos Manager to eliminate the need to access the cloud console or terminal.

  • Flexible Virtual Machine configuration for Query Engine
    Change the Virtual Machine family and generation when updating the Query Engine maximum capacity from Kyvos Manager to provide greater flexibility in selecting compute resources.

Azure Enhancements

  • Disaster recovery with dedicated compute and existing Kubernetes
    Configure disaster recovery with dedicated compute and existing Kubernetes to enable more flexible, scalable Disaster Recovery deployments.

  • Centralized Kyvos Managed Storage for Logs
    Upload logs and dump files from Kyvos Manager to secure Kyvos-managed storage to speed diagnostics, simplify diagnostic data collection, and enable faster access for troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA).

GCP Enhancements

  • Databricks SQL Warehouse as a Data Source
    Use Databricks SQL Warehouse as a data source on GCP to enable Kyvos to connect and query data from Databricks environments.

Semantic Model Enhancements

  • Quick Data Modeling Support for without Data Pre-processing Semantic Models
    Supports Quick Data Modeling for tabular semantic models processing using the ‘Process without Data’ job.

Usability Enhancements

  • Enhanced User Experience for AI Settings and Refine Models Pages in Kyvos
    Enhances AI Settings and Refine Model pages for a more intuitive and streamlined User Interface.

  • Collaborative Editing for Datasets and Relationships
    Enables concurrent editing for datasets and relationships with conflict detection, compare/merge options, and flexible save actions.

New Properties

This release comes with the following new property:

  • showFolderPath: Determines whether the workbook path is displayed when a dashboard is exported as a PDF or image.

Behavior Changes

  • Change in Dashboard Export Settings
    By default, filter cards are unselected, while the options 'Include Dashboard Title' (PDF/Image) and 'Include Cover Slide' (PPT) are selected.

API Enhancements

This release comes with the following REST APIs enhancements:

API Name

Description

API Name

Description

Deep Delete Semantic Model API

Deletes a semantic model along with all associated source entities, including shared references.

Save Dynamic Group Fields API

Saves dynamic group fields for a workbook or by field ID.

Fetch Dynamic Group Fields API

Retrieves dynamic group fields for a workbook or by field ID.

Change Entities Owner in Kyvos

Changes ownership of folders and entities in Kyvos.

For further details, see Kyvos Rest API documentation.

This document covers generic release notes for all Kyvos editions. Depending upon your deployment type, some of these may not be relevant to your environment.

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