3.13.0 (latest)

3.13.0 (latest)#

Squirro 3.13.0 was released on March 20, 2025.

Learn more about the Squirro Release Process.

Note for administrators

  • This release introduces important changes that may require adjustments to your existing setup. Learn more

What’s New#

  • Allow to define a custom toolkit for an agent

  • Add configurable white/black (allowed/denied) lists of sites/subsites for Enterprise MS SharePoint data loader

  • Add API endpoint to query available tools for agents

  • Add AWS S3 bucket data loader

  • Added exist endpoint which gives item ids, efficiently checks if the ids are in the index and returns a dictionary in format { "item_id": bool } (True if present, False if not)

Improvements#

AI#

  • Expose more configuration on how the retriever should search for relevant information (keyword search, hybrid search, semantic search), how context should be built, and how user instruction should be parsed

  • Best paragraph expansion retriever returns explicit message on empty resultset

  • Improved support of agents filter-query for follow-up chat instructions with document selection

  • Added project settings to customize internal squirro-retriever behavior

  • Added possibility to provide API keys for all LLM providers via environment variables

  • Added squirro_query_syntax_filter to the retriever settings

  • Added retriever_tool_description to the retriever settings

  • Tool Calling Stabilization to ensure the Agent provides required input arguments for the retriever

Platform#

  • Enhanced cleanup of temporary directories and improved clarity on component creation

  • Now explicitly exits Phase 2 when questionnaire is empty and proceeds to Phase 3

  • Rate limit exceptions are propagated to the service caller via SSE stream

  • Allow specifying SSL-related variables via environment

  • Upgrade Elasticsearch server and python client to the 8.17.1 version

Bug Fixes#

  • Allow for user selection on Microsoft side before authentication to SharePoint plugin

  • Handle empty responses from Redis when no queued items are found

  • Fix issue with the ItemIndexReader.read_item method when project_id is empty

  • Fix being redirected to log in after logging out from cloud instances

  • Fix project_id being None when attempting to call function requiring project_id

  • Fixed reranker deleting certain results when it should be a no-op

  • Add missing current date to the system prompt

  • Fix genai SQL user database not getting created when installing genai service

  • Fix custom widgets parent rendered multiple times, preventing clicks

  • Ensure genai_reader user is added to workspace before project

  • Ensure using a refresh token in query parameters doesn’t fetch all EMBED chat conversations

  • Remove the Sales Insight template from existing deployments

  • Extracted request logic to function for authentication with Flask request context

  • Fixes current date injection in RAW tool

  • Fixed chat with document not retrieving the overall item context

  • Fixed an issue where chat with document was not having all the tools available

Known issue#

Labels with technical names containing spaces cause backend issues and errors (SQ-26080).

Breaking Changes#

  • Environment variable names of genai service Docker image have been changed to unify syntax:

    • SQUIRRO_CLUSTER → SQ_CLUSTER

    • SQ_GENAI_DB → SQ_DATABASE_URL

    • SQ_GENAI_DB_SSL_CA → SQ_DATABASE_SSL_CA

  • Drop support for Python 3.8 in the Squirro SDK

  • Drop support for Python 3.8 in the Squirro Client

  • Removed squirro.common.tracing.elasticsearch_tracing module, as Elasticsearch tracing is now handled by the Elasticsearch Python client. Tools that rely on this module should be updated to not use this module anymore.

Installation and Upgrade#

For new installations, find step-by-step instructions on the Install and Manage Squirro with Ansible page (recommended) and Installing Squirro on Linux pages.

To upgrade an existing installation, see the Upgrading Squirro page.


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