What's new and changed in Watson Discovery

Watson Discovery updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates.

Refresh 9 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0

Operand version: 4.0.9

The 4.0.9 release of Watson™ Discovery includes the following features and updates:

API usage information is now available from the user interface
You can now get information about the analyze API usage from the API usage page (Data usage > API usage) in the Watson Discovery user interface. For details about the API, see Analyze API.
A new document status API is supported in Cloud Pak for Data instances
Use the new document status API to programmatically get a list of the documents in a collection and to get details about a single document.

The API is supported for collections that are created after 23 March 2022. If you want to get status information about a collection that was created earlier, you can trigger a process that runs the conversion step of ingestion on the documents. For example, from the Activity page for the collection, click Recrawl.

The API is not supported from the SDKs.

For more information about the new API, see the API reference documentation.

The following security patches were applied:

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.

Refresh 8 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0

Operand version: 4.0.8

The 4.0.8 release of Watson Discovery includes the following features and updates:

The Development deployment type was changed to Starter
When you install Watson Discovery, you can optionally specify the type of deployment by including the deploymentType parameter in your custom resource. The Development option is now called the Starter option.

The Development and Starter options are functionally the same, and both values are accepted by the service.

The following security patches were applied:

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.

Refresh 7 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0

Operand version: 4.0.7

The 4.0.7 release of Watson Discovery includes features and updates.
IBM Cloud Block Storage is now supported
When you install Watson Discovery, you can specify IBM Cloud Block Storage Gold tier (ibmc-block-gold) as your storage class.
The following security patches were applied:

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.

Refresh 6 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0

Operand version: 4.0.6

The 4.0.6 release of Watson Discovery includes the following features and updates:

Multitenancy is now supported

An administrator can now create up to 10 instances of the Discovery service per deployment, which means that more teams can work on discrete Discovery projects at the same time.

Simpler installation and management of custom connectors
The manage_custom_crawler.sh script was improved to make it easier for you to install and manage your custom connectors in a multitenant environment. For details, see Installing a custom Cloud Pak for Data connector.

For more information about changes in Watson Discovery, see the Watson Discovery release notes.

The following security patches were applied:

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.