🚀 Platform Updates: October 11, 2024

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform-Wide Updates: October, 11 2024

Our latest release includes substantial updates across AI, frontend, backend, and DevOps, enhancing functionality, scalability, and user experience.

🧠 AI Enhancements

Expanded Mentor Capabilities

• Integrated OpenAI O1 models and vector search capabilities, enabling more robust data retrieval.
• Added YouTube and Wikipedia integration within retriever logic, improving accuracy and accessibility of mentor resources.
• Introduced support for Google Drive, Dropbox, and zip file loaders, expanding document processing options within mentors.
• Improved error handling and refined tool visibility controls in mentor settings, enhancing customization.

Enhanced Data Handling:

• Implemented YouTube loaders for cases when API fails, ensuring reliable transcript access.
• Added robust metadata validation with tracking fields, enabling effective filtering by content type, likes, and archived status.
• Structured document pathways for Google Drive and Dropbox, reducing errors in document retraining and handling.

🌐 Frontend Enhancements

User Interface and Accessibility

• Added multi-language support for English, Spanish, French, Chinese (Simplified), and Arabic, increasing global accessibility.
• Improved mentor embedding options with anonymous and authenticated modes, enhancing user flexibility.
• Enhanced pagination and session management for mentor chat histories, streamlining access to extensive datasets.

Improved Profile and Search Features

• Enhanced profile components with direct CRUD capabilities for education, experience, and media uploads.
• Launched a personalized catalog search endpoint, enabling user-focused content discovery.
• Introduced content filtering by courses, programs, pathways, and resources, providing more targeted search functionality.

API and Performance Optimizations

• Added React-PDF support for improved document rendering.
• Resolved CSS hierarchy issues for smoother navigation in embedded elements.
• Enhanced UI with better error messaging and form validation for a polished user experience.

🛠️ Backend Enhancements

Scalability and Checkout Optimizations

• Enabled autoscaling for Celery workers, dynamically adjusting to meet system demand.
• Upgraded Stripe-based checkout, allowing multiple product purchases, syncing with coupons, and improved subscription management.
• Enhanced Stripe product sync, ensuring consistent updates across purchases, renewals, and user data.

Stability and Data Management

• Implemented heartbeat health checks for Celery workers, improving reliability.
• Upgraded document retraining to support large datasets, including chunking for smoother processing and metadata management.

🔧 DevOps Updates

Resource Management and Customization

• Introduced configurations for proxying custom LMS CSS and JS, enhancing flexibility in appearance and functionality.
• Updated CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions for streamlined build automation and deployment.
• Rolled out multi-node deployment support, enabling better scalability for high-demand environments.

Configuration and Security Enhancements

• Released OAuth SSO configurations for streamlined user authentication.
• Enhanced Docker Compose setup and environment variables for optimized resource management.
• Improved CORS and SSO handling for secure user sessions across distributed environments.

📈 Ongoing Features and New Releases

• Added multi-file resume upload in the career app, enhancing user profile capabilities.
• Expanded search functionality with trigram-based optimizations, offering more refined, relevant results.