Release Notes v0.8.3

What’s changed?

We are excited to announce the release of version 0.8.3, which includes significant new features such as the ability to upload a file from your OneDrive account, image generation with DALL-E 3, and response streaming, which are also available in the mobile experience. Additionally, this release includes accessibility improvements, bug fixes and enhancements designed to improve the overall user experience. 

New Features 

• Clarity now gives users the ability to access, browse, and upload a file from their Yale affiliated Microsoft OneDrive for Work or School account to their chats in Clarity AI chatbot. Currently, the file upload is limited to one file at a time. Once the issue with multiple file uploads is resolved, you will be able to select and upload multiple files from your OneDrive account. 
• Clarity now allows you to generate images right within the Clarity AI chatbot using the DALL-E 3 AI model and download the generated images. When you submit a request that includes “Create an image of….”, an image will be generated in the response and available for download. DALL-E 3 images expire after 24 hours so users will need to save their images if they want to keep them. This functionality is an additional feature that complements the existing “GPT-4o” agent, so you don’t need to select another agent in the dropdown menu. 
• Clarity now supports simulated response streaming, enabling a seamless experience when it comes to long running responses without requiring further action by the user.

Accessibility Improvements 

• Chat Input element aria-label has been updated to “What would you like to ask?”  
• Aria-described by attribute has been added to the Chat Input element that points to hidden text saying “The agent can make mistakes. Check important info.”   
• Fonts are now referenced and stored locally and references to Google’s CDN have been removed.   
• Sidebar, Navbar and ChatThread components have been updated to use semantic HTML that clearly describes their meaning in a human- and machine-readable way.   
• Aria-label of “New chat name” has been added to Rename Chat element.  
• Aria-labels have been added to Info Icon and Remove File elements.  
• Aria-activedescendant has been added to Agent Dropdown Selection element.  
• Chat Input element is now keyboard focusable and navigable; when a user opens a dialog, the keyboard focus is automatically on the Chat Input element. Dialog in the Chat Input element can be submitted by pressing Enter when in focus.  
• Button colors have been updated to have a higher contrast ratio of 3 to 1.   
• The alt text of the logo has been updated to match the logo text set in FoundationaLLM:Branding:LogoText branding configuration.   
• An element has been added for “Loading” Icon elements that wrap them with the role “status.”  
• The ability to close all Tooltips with the Escape Button has been added.  
• All Tooltip triggers are now focusable by keyboard.  

Bug Fixes and Improvements 

• Until a multi-file upload can process without issue, file uploads will be limited to 1 file per prompt but users will be able to upload multiple files within a conversation.
• Navigation issue with tabindex that was causing Tab navigation to behave inconsistently has been fixed.   
• Tooltip behavior has been fixed so that users can now select text within the Tooltip without it disappearing.  
• File reference storage has been moved to Cosmos DB to enable better tracking of files through the upload, vectorization, and response process.