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Weekly Update: Powerful New Features, AI Advancements, and Core System Enhancements

This week brings powerful new APIs, intelligent AI network tools, advanced workflow automation, and critical system enhancements for a smoother, more efficient experience.

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What's New

  • Bulk Backup Retrieval API: Introduced a new API endpoint allowing you to efficiently retrieve the latest backup content for multiple sites in a single request, significantly reducing the number of API calls needed for verification.
  • Scheduled Script Email Notifications: Stay informed with new email notifications for your scheduled scripts, covering important status updates like when they start, require authorization, and complete their execution.
  • Flexible API Command Execution: Our synchronous API now supports array parameters, offering greater flexibility for sending complex command structures to target devices.
  • AI-Powered MAC Vendor Lookup: The AI can now identify network device manufacturers based on their MAC addresses. This new tool supports bulk lookups and is valuable for network discovery and security analysis.
  • Enhanced AI Product Knowledge: Our AI's knowledge base has been upgraded to provide comprehensive product information. It now supports retrieving hardware specifications for deployed devices and a new product catalog search mode.
  • AI Batch Backup Retrieval: The AI's backup retrieval tool now offers an efficient batch mode, allowing you to get the latest configuration backup content for multiple sites simultaneously, speeding up cross-site analysis.
  • Advanced Workflow Date Manipulation: New carbon_date and carbon_condition Liquid filters are now available in workflows. These enable robust date parsing, formatting, and a variety of conditional checks like is_today or within_7_days.
  • Clearer Scheduled Workflow Feedback: Scheduled workflows now include a human-readable phrase (e.g., "in 5 minutes", "tomorrow") indicating when the next run is scheduled, improving transparency.

Enhancements & Optimizations

  • Improved Backend Processing: Optimized internal systems for coupon generation and processing, enhancing reliability and efficiency, especially for large-scale background tasks.
  • Core System Stability & Performance: Updated core libraries and dependencies across various services to boost overall stability, security, and performance.
  • Better Site Management Experience:
    • Your list of recently accessed sites is now more accurate and efficiently managed, ensuring relevant sites are easily accessible.
    • Enhanced reliability and consistency for site status, last seen time, and uptime reporting.
    • More effective clearing of associated cached data when sites are deleted, leading to improved data consistency.
    • Underlying performance and stability updates, including automated data cleanup processes, ensure better overall resource management.
  • More Reliable Email Delivery: Implemented a retry mechanism for sending emails, which significantly improves the resilience and reliability of all email notifications.
  • Dual-Channel Script Notifications: All scheduled script notifications, including authorization requests, launch confirmations, and completion updates, are now sent via both email and the primary notification channel for greater reliability and prompt updates.
  • Strengthened API Security: Enhanced authentication and authorization mechanisms for all API routes, strengthening overall service security.
  • Increased API Operation Timeouts: Extended the maximum execution time for long-running service operations to reduce timeouts for complex requests and improve overall reliability.
  • Deeper AI Investigation: The AI is now configured to perform more steps in complex investigations, increasing its problem-solving and analysis capabilities, especially for multi-faceted queries.
  • Clearer AI Tool Usage Guidance: Improved descriptions and parameter handling for AI's API tools, providing explicit instructions and emphasizing read-only operations for better clarity and performance.
  • Refined AI Batch Operations: Adjustments to batch operations for AI's backup retrieval ensure more stable and predictable performance for large requests.
  • Flexible AI Authentication: Users can now include a new bearer token in their request to automatically clear any stale authentication, ensuring the AI always operates with the most current credentials.
  • Workflows - Robust Date Handling:
    • carbon_date and carbon_condition filters can now parse a wider range of date formats, making date-based operations more flexible.
    • More accurate calculation of next run times for scheduled workflows, basing calculations on previous runs to prevent time drift.
    • Improved "Test Node" feature support for scheduled trigger configurations, enhancing the debugging experience.
    • More accurate and reliable internal logic for determining workflow completion, especially for complex workflows with multiple branches.

Bug Fixes

  • Scheduled Script Authorization Link: Fixed an issue where authorization URLs in scheduled script emails were incomplete or incorrect, ensuring you now receive a functional link.
  • Email Template Discrepancies: Addressed internal discrepancies in email template naming for scheduled script authorization, ensuring these important notifications are processed and sent as intended.
  • Scheduled Script Email Delivery: Resolved an issue that could prevent email notifications for scheduled script authorization requests from being delivered successfully.
  • Accurate Workflow Duration: Corrected an issue where the duration of a workflow run might be reported incorrectly; it now consistently displays a positive and accurate time difference between start and completion.
  • Detailed Workflow API Action Errors: When an API action in a workflow fails, its error message now includes the full response body from the API, providing more comprehensive debugging information.
  • Reliable Workflow JSON Payload Resolution: Fixed an issue where special characters in string variables could lead to invalid JSON when injected into JSON payloads, making workflow nodes that construct JSON bodies more reliable.