What's new and changed in Watson OpenScale

Watson™ OpenScale updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates 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 OpenScale

Ready to install or upgrade Watson OpenScale? See:
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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.3

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

Operand version: 4.5.3

This release includes the following changes:
Security fixes
This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
  • CVE-2022-25857
  • CVE-2022-25168
  • CVE-2022-30630
  • CVE-2022-30633
  • CVE-2022-32189
  • CVE-2022-30632
  • CVE-2022-30631
  • CVE-2022-30580
  • CVE-2022-32148
  • CVE-2022-28131
  • CVE-2022-30635
  • PRISMA-2021-0092
  • GHSA-56x4-j7p9-fcf9
  • GHSA-v78c-4p63-2j6c

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.2

A new version of Watson OpenScale was released in August 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.2.

Operand version: 4.5.2

This release includes the following changes:
Security fixes
This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
  • CVE-2022-22476
  • CVE-2022-31159
  • CVE-2022-2191
  • CVE-2022-2047
  • CVE-2022-25896
  • CVE-2022-31129

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.1

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

Operand version: 4.5.1

This release includes the following changes:

Security fixes
This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
  • CVE-2022-21496
  • CVE-2022-21434
  • CVE-2022-21443
  • CVE-2022-22475
  • CVE-2019-9923
  • CVE-2022-23648
  • CVE-2022-31030
  • CVE-2015-3627
  • CVE-2021-37404
  • CVE-2022-24823
  • PRISMA-2021-0182
  • GHSA-5j5w-g665-5m35
  • GHSA-77vh-xpmg-72qh

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.0

A new version of Watson OpenScale 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

The 4.5.0 release of Watson OpenScale includes the following features and updates:

Simplified batch deployment configuration
You can use Watson OpenScale to create your model input data tables when you configure batch model deployments. For details, see Configuring the batch processor in Watson OpenScale.
Support for running jobs against a Kerberized Hive
You can run Watson OpenScale Spark jobs with IBM Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark against a Kerberized Hive store.
Support for custom monitors
You can configure custom monitors within Watson OpenScale and set up schedules for the monitors. The Watson OpenScale evaluation report includes metrics for the custom monitors. For details, see Creating custom evaluations and metrics.
Integration with AI Factsheets
You can publish Watson OpenScale metrics to AI Factsheets to help track and validate your entire model development lifecycle.
Support for headless online subscriptions
To increase security, you can configure batch model evaluations in Watson OpenScale without providing a model endpoint.
Evaluate text and image models
You can now also evaluate text and image models using the model risk management feature in Watson OpenScale.
IBM Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark scheduling improvements.
When you submit Watson OpenScale Spark jobs to IBM Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark, you can optionally schedule the jobs to run later. For example, you might want to run the jobs when you have more resources available.
Display all evaluations during a specific time period
You can now see all of the monitor evaluations that occur during a time period that you specify.
Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
Security fixes
This release includes fixes for the following security issues:
  • CVE-2020-15250
  • CVE-2019-19919
  • CVE-2021-23369
  • CVE-2021-23383
  • CVE-2019-20920
  • CVE-2019-20922
  • CVE-2021-21309
  • CVE-2020-14147
  • CVE-2021-32761
  • CVE-2021-3470
  • CVE-2022-21699
  • CVE-2019-20916
  • CVE-2021-3572
  • CVE-2020-10663
  • CVE-2022-21803
  • CVE-2020-9493
  • CVE-2022-23307
  • CVE-2022-24675
  • CVE-2022-28327
  • CVE-2022-24921
  • CVE-2022-23806
  • CVE-2022-23773
  • CVE-2022-23772
  • CVE-2021-43138
  • CVE-2021-37322
  • CVE-2018-1000876
  • CVE-2021-3487
  • CVE-2020-35494
  • CVE-2020-35493
  • CVE-2020-35495
  • CVE-2020-35496
  • CVE-2020-35507
  • CVE-2016-4971
  • CVE-2018-20483
  • CVE-2018-0494