What's new and changed in Watson Discovery
Watson Discovery updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Releases are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.
You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
Installing or upgrading Watson Discovery
Ready to install or upgrade Watson Discovery?
- To install Watson Discovery along with the other Cloud Pak for Data services, see Installing Cloud Pak for Data.
- To upgrade Watson Discovery along with the other Cloud Pak for Data services, see Upgrading Cloud Pak for Data.
- To install or upgrade Watson Discovery
independently, see Watson Discovery.Remember: All of the Cloud Pak for Data components associated with an instance of Cloud Pak for Data must be installed at the same version.
Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.0.3
A new version of Watson Discovery was released in September 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 5.0.3.
Operand version: 5.0.3
This release includes the following changes:
Version 5.0.3 of the Watson Discovery service includes various fixes.
- Issues fixed in this release
- The following issues were fixed in this release:
- RabbitMQ pod continues to run when Watson Discovery is shutdown
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- Issue: If you run the command to shut down the Watson Discovery service, the RabbitMQ pod continues to run.
- Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Security issues fixed in this release
- The following security issues were fixed in this release:
- SB0019750: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Certifi python-certifi
- SB0019772: Security Bulletin: BM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in pdfjs-dist
- SB0019773: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in setuptools
- SB0019619: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
- SB0019776: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Tensorflow
Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.0.1
A new version of Watson Discovery was released in July 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 5.0.1.
Operand version: 5.0.1
This release includes the following changes:
Version 5.0.1 of the Watson Discovery service includes various fixes.
- Issues fixed in this release
- The following issues were fixed in this release:
- During an upgrade, the Watson Discovery CR gets
stuck in the
InProgress
state -
- Issue:
When upgrading to 5.0.0, Watson Discovery status might remain in an
InProgress
state for an extended time period. - Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Issue:
When upgrading to 5.0.0, Watson Discovery status might remain in an
- RabbitMQ pods do not start after upgrade
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- Issue: RabbitMQ pods do not start after upgrading Watson Discovery.
- Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Enrichment results from an external enrichment might not be accurate when adding entity types to an array field with multiple values
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- Issue: You might notice discrepancies between the entities in the enriched field and the original field after adding entity annotations to an array field with multiple values.
- Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- During an upgrade, the Watson Discovery CR gets
stuck in the
- Security issues fixed in this release
- The following security issues were fixed in this release:
- SB0019114: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
- SB0019115: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
- SB0019123: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js braces
- SB0019124: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in micromatch
- SB0019126: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in tar-6.1.11.tgz
- SB0019502: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in OpenSSH
- SB0019505: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in OpenCV
- SB0019506: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in requirejs
- SB0019507: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in rexml-3.2.8
- SB0019509: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in werkzeug
- SB0019510: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Nginx
- SB0019511: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
- SB0019512: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
- SB0019522: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in guava-23.0.jar
- SB0019774: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in urllib3-1.26.18-py2.py3-none-any.whl
- SB0019775: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in es5-ext-0.10.53.tgz
Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.0.0
A new version of Watson Discovery was released in June 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 5.0.0.
Operand version: 5.0.0
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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This release of Watson Discovery includes the following features:
- Quickly understand the extracted data with the new Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) project type
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You can now use the new IDP project type to quickly understand what data is extracted from your documents in a rich document preview. If the extracted data does not meet your requirements, you can also apply enrichments to improve the data. For details, see Creating projects.
- You can now use an API endpoint to send a webhook event for documents ingested in Watson Discovery
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The Create collection and Update collection APIs can now send a webhook event to an external application when the status of ingested documents becomes available or failed. The webhook event allows you to take the next relevant action on your documents, without getting the document status first with the Get document details API. For details, see Document status webhook.
- You can now use an API endpoint to annotate documents with a model of your choice
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The Create an enrichment API can now connect to an external enrichment application by using a webhook. The new API allows you to use a model of your choice to annotate documents in Watson Discovery. Through a webhook interface, you can use custom models, advanced foundation models, or other third-party models to enrich your documents in a collection. For details, see External enrichment.
- Watson Discovery no longer requires increasing the process ID limit
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Starting in Cloud Pak for Data 5.0.0, you do not have to increase the process ID limit on your Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform environment for using Watson Discovery.
- Issues fixed in this release
- The following issues were fixed in this release:
- Installation or upgrade does not complete because certain pods fail
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- Issue: Watson Discovery installation or upgrade does not complete because certain pods fail.
- Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- The etcd operator script fails while upgrading
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- Issue:The etcd operator script fails while upgrading Watson Discovery.
- Resolution: This issue is now fixed.
- Security issues fixed in this release
- The following security issues were fixed in this release:
- SB0018250: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU
- SB0018425: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
- SB0018427: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in LibTIFF
- SB0018436: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in IBM WebSphere
- SB0019116: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in GO
- SB0019117: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
- SB0019121: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in express
- SB0019154: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
- SB0019504: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in google-protobuf-3.11.2.gem
- SB0019508: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in rexml-3.2.6
- SB0019514: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in LibTIFF
- SB0019515: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in LibTIFF
- SB0019516: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in LibTIFF
- SB0019523: Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar