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kdb Insights Enterprise - Release Notes

This page details the release notes for the latest kdb Insights Enterprise release. To find the release notes for an older release, refer to the previous releases page.

1.15.0

Release Date 2025-09-04

kdb Insights Enterprise 1.15 delivers greater interoperability, performance improvements, and enhancements to APIs and developer workflows. Read on to find out more!

New Features

Natively work with Avro data feeds

The Stream Processor now supports the ingestion of data feeds in Avro message format using a new Avro encoder/decoder. This feature also includes support for Avro-encoded messages with the Kafka Schema Registry.

This functionality is available with:

Improvements

This release includes a variety of improvements across the entirety of kdb Insights Enterprise.

Database

  • You can now load a UDA without restarting core components like Data Access Processes (DAPs) and Aggregators (AGGs). This feature provides users with a faster, improved workflow for testing and deploying changes. Refer to Load a Package.
  • The performance of loading table counts have been improved through more efficient caching.
  • You can now configure the Service Gateway to connect to multiple Resource Coordinators, enhancing query resilience. To enable this, set the KXI_SG_RC_ADDR environment variable on the Service Gateway to a comma-separated list of Resource Coordinator addresses. For example, KXI_SG_RC_ADDR=sgrc:5050,sgrcalt:5050. See Query Resilience.
  • Distinguished parameter scope now takes dap as a key to allow a user to target a specific DAP in a query. Note this parameter is supported only if scope.assembly is specified, and it cannot be used with scope.tier. Refer to Scope for more details.
  • The getMeta API has been improved to give users better visibility of their system's processes. The dap key of getMeta now gives detail on individual DAPs when the new parameter advanced is set to true. Previously, getMeta would expose information only on tiers, but not individual processes. Refer to Get-meta.

Packaging

  • When deleting a package, the user can now choose whether to delete all data related to the package. This includes database contents, pipeline checkpoints, and user states.

Fixes

This release includes numerous bug, stability and security fixes.

Database

  • Resolved an issue that prevented using peaching over arguments with .kxi.selectTable. For example: .kxi.selectTable peach 4#enlisttablestartTSendTSfilter!(table;startTS;endTS;enlist(in;sym;enlnada))
  • .kxi.sql queries that use EXCEPT ALL have been corrected to align with postgreSQL behavior, in which duplicates would be included in query results.

Packaging

  • Resolved an issue where the Package Manager was unable to unpack a package that contained a user-defined function.
  • Packages now allow column names to end with _.

Web Interface

  • The Performance Tuning Wizard previously allowed users to attempt re-sorting data already on-disk - an unsupported operation that caused failures. To prevent this, the Performance Tuning Wizard will no longer be available once data has been ingested into the database.

Security

  • Various CVEs were remediated as part of this release.

Third-party Dependencies

kdb Insights Enterprise 1.15.0 standalone install supports the following versions of third-party dependencies:

These versions are used in the 1.15.0 release of the standalone infrastructure installation scripts.

Please consult these pages for important information on supported versions:

Artifacts

Type Nexus location Downloads Portal location
Enterprise insights-1.15.0.tgz insights-1.15.0.tgz
Operator kxi-operator-1.15.0.tgz kxi-operator-1.15.0.tgz
CLI kxicli-1.15.0-py3-none-any.whl kxicli-1.15.0-py3-none-any.whl
RT q interface rt.1.14.0.qpk rt.1.14.0.qpk
RT C interface kxi-c-sdk 1.14.0 kxi-c-sdk 1.14.0
RT Python interface kxi-rtpy-1.14.0 kxi-rtpy-1.14.0
RT Java interface kxi-java-sdk 1.15.0 kxi-java-sdk 1.15.0
RT C# interface kxi-csharp-sdk 1.14.0 kxi-csharp-sdk 1.14.0
Infrastructure kxi-terraform-1.14.0.tgz kxi-terraform-1.14.0.tgz
kxi-management-service kxi-management-service-1.0.0.tgz kxi-management-service-1.0.0.tgz
insights-on-k8s insights-on-k8s-0.4.28.tgz insights-on-k8s-0.4.28.tgz

Summary

We hope you find some useful features that optimize your kdb Insights Enterprise experience. Try them out and email our Support Team if you need any help.

We look forward to bringing you even bigger features in kdb Insights Enterprise 1.16 coming soon!