What's new and changed in Watson Discovery

Installing or upgrading Watson Discovery

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.3

A new version of Watson Discovery was released in October 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.3.

Operand version: 4.5.3

This release includes the following changes:

New features

There are no new features in this release.

Several security patches were applied

• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Go
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Commons Configuration
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Xalan
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in PostgreSQL
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Hadoop
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Java

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.1

A new version of Watson Discovery was released in July 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.1.

Operand version: 4.5.1

This release includes the following changes:

New features

There are no new features in this release.

Customer-reported issues that are fixed in this release

• DT133453: Duplicate model instances in Watson Discovery when importing Watson Knowledge Studio learning model from browser

Several security patches were applied

• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Nginx
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Java
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in PyJWT
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js
• Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Tika

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.0

A new version of Watson Discovery was released in June 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.0.

Operand version: 4.5.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

Version 4.5.0 of the Watson Discovery service includes the following features and updates:

New home page

A new home page is displayed when you start Watson Discovery. The home page gives you quick access to a product overview video and tours. You can collapse the home page welcome banner to see more projects. The home page also includes a Helpful links tab that has quick links to documentation, a community site, and other resources.

The JSON view is improved to show numbers of elements in objects

The updated JSON view numbers the occurrences of elements in each JSON object, which makes it easier to keep track of information and to read totals at a glance. You can also use your keyboard to tab through elements in the view.

Change to the default deployment type

The default deployment type is now Production instead of Starter (formerly Development).