XPFv3.5.0 Release Notes

Author: Jacob Rasmussen, Created: 2024-10-30

Release Date: 30 Oct 2024

Release Overview

• Trading Economics integration

  • New integration with Trading Economics API for generating features from macroeconomic trends such as gas prices by country, inflation rates by country, etc.

• XAT improvements

  • Add more detail to access denial messages.
  • Add basic permission checks before inserting a job. This prevents jobs from forever hanging in a queued state if the user does not have permissions needed to run the job.
  • Provide descriptions for each job during creation of the Job Type permission.
  • Permissions with a set value of “Unlimited” now reflect correct value in the detail pane: “Environment Limit”.

• Page reordering for feature data load job

  • Re-work page layout in Data and Configure stages of model build:
    • Data now only loads target data source
    • Configure pages: Forecast → Locations → Source Features → Library → Assign → Model
      • Source Features page includes data source connection, attribute editing, and process data sources button which triggers the new feature data load job.
      • The attributes for a feature data sources include setting the following on each individual feature within the data source:
        • Allow Feature Selection, Allow Feature Engineering, Scenario Modeling Feature, Known in Advance, Known in Advance Time Range (Days), Aggregation Method, Data Cleansing Method, Frequency Override and ML Type.
      • Feature data sources can be added, changed, committed, and removed, from the Source Features page but all changes MUST be processed by clicking “Process Data Sources” before pipeline can be ran for a project.

• Scale Improvements

  • Offload several tables from sql server storage to azure to minimize database pressure and size.

• New Routines

  • Prediction Sim, KalmanV2, Linear Regression using PyCaret, and K-Means using PyCaret.

• Other Miscellaneous Scale and Routine Improvements

Dependencies

Requires OneStream 8.4 to be installed prior to use.

Known Issues

None