Feature/v6.0.0

[estepamo-amazon]

[6.0.0] - 2024-06-07

Added

• Integration with Amazon Bedrock
• Integration with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base
• Enabled Fine Grain Access Control in Amazon OpenSearch Service by default. A new OpenSearchFineGrainAccessControl CloudFormation parameter has been added
• Content Designer UI improvements (grouped fields)
• Anonymized operational metrics
• Enabled Kendra based authentication utilizing QnABot idToken. A new AltSearchKendraIndexAuth CloudFormation parameter has been added (PR #513) - contributed by (@JasonHammett)

Updated

• Migrated AWS JavaScript SDK from v2 to v3 for Amazon Lex Web UI Integration
• Upgraded Amazon OpenSearch Service domain from 1.3 to 2.11 unlocking features such as snapshot management via OpenSearch Dashboards (for more information see Amazon OpenSearch release history)
• Renamed Elasticsearch to Opensearch and Kibana to OpenSearch Dashboards
• Migrated from ElasticSearch client to OpenSearch client
• Changed SageMaker LLM model from Falcon-40b to Llama-2-13b-chat and Sagemaker embedding model intfloat/e5-large-v2 now uses the Jumpstart version of the model
• Removed the cloudformation parameter Encryption to prevent disabling of Amazon OpenSearch Service domain and Amazon S3 encryptions
• Updated Amazon OpenSearch Service domain minimum TLS policy to 1.2
• Rewrote and migrate S3 object deletion custom resources from JavaScript to Python to address 3rd party security vulnerability
• Updated CloudFormation template parameter groupings
• Kendra index configuration has been moved from Content Designer settings to CloudFormation parameters to restrict IAM permissions. The CloudFormation parameter DefaultKendraIndex has been replaced with three separate parameters: KendraWebPageIndexId, KendraFaqIndexId, and AltSearchKendraIndexes.
• Updated question validation when importing or creating questions in Content Designer
• Kendra Webcrawler will now create data source in the native language if supported by Kendra. Kendra can now query in different languages. (issue #713)
• Standardized folder structure
• Made logging enhancements for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Data Firehose
• Added case conversion handlebars helpers(PRs #719) - contributed by (@amendlik)
• Consolidated common AWS SDK dependencies to reduce overall solution artifact size and lambdas deployment package size
• Patched security vulnerabilities and and integrated with CloudFormation Guard evaluation tool
• Added ability to TestAll in a selected locale, the locales to be tested should be defined in the template parameter LexV2BotLocaleIds
• Improved security for LLM inputs and outputs

Fixed

• Forgot password functionality for Content Designer login
• Chat client will now prompt the user after credentials are expired
• Specialty bot routing fixes, Lex Intent state fixes, handlebar processing of SSML injects "\n" into response (PRs #726) - contributed by (@bobpskier)
• Secured Cognito roles (PR #670) - contributed by (@amendlik)
• Improved error messages for embeddings (issue #665)
• AWS environment variable for region is wrongly set (issue #714)
• Fixed testall lambda timing out during status "Lex" when testing against large set of Q&As - contributed by (@jeve7)
• Fix Austrian German neural voice name (PR #729) - contributed by (@malte-aws)
• Fix npm update command (PR #681) - contributed by (@zherink)
• Fix build exits with code 1, if a CF template is invalid (PR #733) - contributed by (@richhaase)