🚀 Platform Updates: November 1, 2024

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🚀 Platform Update: Expanded AI, Enhanced Frontend, and Comprehensive Backend Improvements – November 1, 2024

Our latest platform updates have brought some exciting changes to enhance the performance, reliability, and usability of our systems. Here’s a detailed look at the newest improvements:

AI & Mentor App Enhancements

• Gemini Multimodal Audio Integration: AI Mentor is now more dynamic with support for Gemini audio calls, eliminating the need for intermediate speech-to-text processing. Enhanced logging and websocket stability ensure seamless voice interactions.
• Anonymous Chat & Moderation: Improved handling of anonymous chat scenarios and moderation logging; tests now cover these cases extensively to improve debugging and tracking.
• Enhanced Session Tracking: Expanded token and session usage tracking now provides more accurate analytics on user engagement across tenant-specific sessions.

Frontend Updates

• New Features & Embedding: The mentor app now features optimized embed paths, context awareness, and improved handling of setup messages, enhancing the authentication guard functionality. Auth updates also support anonymous mentor sessions within iframes.
• UI Optimization & Performance: Updates across skills and analytics SPAs address functionality improvements, particularly in error handling, iframe reloading, and re-render prevention, providing users with a smoother and faster platform experience.

Backend & Core Functionality

• Course Catalog Customization: New criteria for catalog visibility allow tenants to exclude outdated or inactive courses, creating cleaner, more relevant course listings.
• User & Platform Linking: Automatic platform linking for provider users is now streamlined with admin interface support and logging, ensuring an efficient onboarding process for users across different platforms.
• Scoped Search for Tenant Admins: Platform-specific scoping allows tenant admins to search users solely within their platform, supporting robust access control and secure data handling.

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Integration Testing Automation: Our CLI now supports Playwright tests across all SPAs with environment validation and automatic cleanup for hassle-free testing.
• Apple SSO & Social Auth: Apple SSO flows and social auth configurations have been enhanced to provide smoother cross-device login experiences, complete with detailed logging and error-handling improvements.
• Automatic Platform Linking & Monitoring: A configurable MONITORED_PROVIDERS setting, management commands for user-platform linking, and automatic notifications for backup failures bolster platform reliability and streamline maintenance.