24.04 Release notes

Instabase 24.04 is a major release that introduces new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Subsequent patch releases typically contain bug fixes along with testing, optimizations, security fixes, and other internal changes.

Release 24.04.59

February 19, 2025

Release 24.04.58

February 14, 2025

This release contains no changes to user functionality.

Release 24.04.57

February 12, 2025

Release 24.04.56

February 5, 2025

  • Resolved [CVE-2024-47535] | Upgraded the netty-common package to version 4.1.115.

Release 24.04.55

January 29, 2025

Release 24.04.54

January 24, 2025

This release contains no changes to user functionality.

Release 24.04.53

January 23, 2025

This patch contains bug fixes, testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes.

Release 24.04.52

January 22, 2025

This patch contains bug fixes, testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes.

Release 24.04.51

Release 24.04.50

January 16, 2025

  • Resolved [CVE-2024-52804] | Updated the Python tornado package to version 6.4.2.

Release 24.04.49

January 9, 2025

Release 24.04.48

December 18, 2024

Release 24.04.47

Version 24.04.47 was not released.

Release 24.04.46

December 4, 2024

Release 24.04.45

November 28, 2024

  • If a username was in all uppercase letters, searching for the username did not return the user.

  • Batch requests to the model service experienced transient errors.

  • Resolved [CVE-2024-5569] | Updated the zipp package to 3.19.1.

  • Resolved [CVE-2022-30187] Updated azure-storage-blob package to version 12.13.0.

Release 24.04.44

November 20, 2024

Release 24.04.43

November 14, 2024

  • Tasks could be marked as failed when api-server pods were temporarily overloaded. If this occurs now, the task is retried.

  • An error sometimes occurred with core platform replicas.

  • Resolved [CVE-2024-5452] | Upgraded pytorch-lightning package to version 2.4.

  • Security | Upgraded /nats-server/v2 package to version 1.17.11.

Release 24.04.42

November 6, 2024

Release 24.04.41

October 31, 2024

  • Job count, which was previously removed from the Flow Review due to performance issues, has been reinstated, but you must enable it in Admin > Configuration

  • Resolved [CVE-2016-2510] | Removed libbsh-java and dependent libreoffice helper packages.

Release 24.04.40

October 31, 2024

Release 24.04.39

October 23, 2024

  • You can now use uppercase letters in your username, service account names, and space names.

Release 24.04.38

This version of Instabase platform was not released.

Release 24.04.37

October 9, 2024

  • Production performance was improved in cases where the Instabase clusters were affected by poor performance by the Redis deployment.

Release 24.04.36

October 9, 2024

  • Rarely, reading a 0-length file with the Text Editor failed.

Release 24.04.35

October 9, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes.

Release 24.04.34

October 9, 2024

Release 24.04.33

October 3, 2024

  • Empty list values were displayed incorrectly in human review.

Release 24.04.32

September 26, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.31

September 26, 2024

  • Execution of flows with Reduce UDF steps in parallel branches encountered flow execution errors.

Release 24.04.30

September 18, 2024

  • An issue in an third-party library caused breakages in an internal LLM.

Release 24.04.29

September 12, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.28

September 4, 2024

  • During human review, clicking on Mark document as reviewed did not move the focus to the next record.

  • Internal models that are no longer supported have been replaced by supported large language learning models (LLMs).

Release 24.04.27

August 22, 2024

  • Solution Builder projects with ampersand (&) characters in their names broke the ability to open model projects in ML Studio.

  • The site setting Restricted file upload extensions now also prevents downloading files with the specified extension name or renaming a file to that name.

Release 24.04.26

August 12, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.25

August 5, 2024

  • When running flows through the Solution Dashboard, you can configure step timeouts. To configure timeouts, adjust the Step timeout field in the Run a solution dialog. When set to default, the Instabase platform chooses an reasonable step timeout. Otherwise, select a timeout for your particular flow construction.

Release 24.04.24

August 5, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

  • When running a flow, the out folder in the selected output directory was not correctly cleaned up when the delete_out_dir was enabled.

Release 24.04.23

July 29, 2024

  • You can now make a Solution Builder project’s Resources directory accessible with custom code.

Release 24.04.22

July 25, 2024

  • Optimized the job service to improve flow execution speed when there is a burst load.

Release 24.04.21

July 24, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.20

July 23, 2024

  • Job count, which was previously removed from the Flow Dashboard due to performance issues, has been reinstated and appears by default. You can disable job count at Admin > Configuration if you notice performance impacts in large-scale deployments.

Release 24.04.19

July 18, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.18

July 16, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.17

July 9, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.16

July 8, 2024

  • Certain models published to the marketplace were causing errors in flows.

Release 24.04.15

June 28, 2024

  • Training jobs erroneously required two files instead of two records.

Release 24.04.14

June 28, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.13

June 27, 2024

  • If a reviewer opens a job assigned to a different reviewer, the flow review results now correctly show a warning banner for that job.

  • In flow review results, after you change the page of files, the first file and record in the new page are automatically selected.

  • Encoded information from email headers, such as from, to, subject, and date, is now correctly extracted.

Release 24.04.12

June 21, 2024

  • The size of .ibdoc could grow too large if you performed file splitting in ML Studio with barcode detection enabled.

Release 24.04.11

June 19, 2024

  • For new user accounts with SAML integration, usernames were not correctly converted to lowercase letters.

  • In some cases, model service pods got stuck retrying on an entity detection model, blocking the model service from taking new requests.

Release 24.04.10

June 14, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.09

June 7, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.08

May 29, 2024

Release 24.04.07

May 23, 2024

  • Processing of large XLSX or XLS files can now be improved with preprocessing them, which removes all empty rows and columns. Preprocessing simplifies XLSX files and improves performance; however, it also removes all special text formatting, such as color or bold text. If text styling or images are critical to your results, do not preprocess your files.

    To enable preprocessing, select Preprocess Excel files in your OCR configuration settings.

  • The Flow Review interface sometimes got stuck if a row was deleted from an empty list.

  • Object detection, such as for signatures, tables, and checkboxes, is more reliable during large batch runs.

Release 24.04.06

May 15, 2024

This patch contains testing, optimizations, security, and minor internal changes. User functionality is unchanged.

Release 24.04.05

May 7, 2024

This is the first generally available release of Instabase 24.04.

New features

Flow Review

  • Document-based review, introduced in public preview in 24.01, is now generally available. This release adds service-level agreements (SLAs) that specify how long reviews can take from the start of a flow job. SLAs must be configured from the Solution Dashboard by an Instabase admin or the owner of the deployed solution.

    To help review teams meet SLA targets, review time remaining for each document is shown on the Flow Review Documents tab. Queue managers and Instabase admins can modify time remaining for individual documents.

Enhancements

Platform

  • You can now run Instabase with Kubernetes 1.26 or later.

Flow

  • You can now include multiple apply classifier steps in flows. For example, you can use a first split classifier step to classify documents into general types, like identity documents and tax forms. Then, you can use a second split classifier step to subdivide these general types into more specific types, like passports and driver’s licenses.

  • You can now visualize the progress of your flows on a file-by-file basis. Click into a file in your flow, and you can see any long-running steps that delay flow completion.

  • You can now upload .ppt and .pptx files into ML Studio annotation sets so that you can use them for model training.

Bug fixes

ML Studio

  • In projects with only one class, annotation status changed to in progress when the class was auto-assigned, even if no other annotations were applied. With this release, annotation is considered in progress only after field annotations are applied.

  • Annotations were not carried over when importing an annotation set via files into Solution Builder, or exporting an ML Studio dataset in the same environment. The most up-to-date annotations are now carried over.

  • Dependencies used in ML Studio model training have been updated to address known vulnerabilities.

    With this update, ibformers 2.3.2 includes updated versions of the transformers, datasets, tokenizers, huggingface-hub, accelerate, and pyarrow libraries. All newly trained models use the updated package versions. The model service also supports running previously trained models.

Flow

  • In apply classifier steps, if the option to split multipage PDFs and TIFs was enabled but the flow included other file types, or single-page PDFs or TIFs, the flow failed.

  • When resuming a flow during human review, it erroneously retried step errors.

Validations

  • In UDF validations, the CLIENT object wasn’t retrieved correctly in some circumstances, causing validations to fail.

  • Cross-document validations weren’t configurable if any class had a space in its name.

Deprecations and removals

See the deprecations and removals page for the latest announcements, as well as previous deprecations and removals.

Deployment guide

  • Workload autoscaling was introduced as a public preview feature in release 23.07 and remains in public preview. As a public preview feature, workload autoscaling is disabled by default. Workload autoscaling has several infrastructure requirements. For instructions on enabling workload autoscaling during your upgrade, see the workload autoscaling feature documentation.