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Release Summary

This release introduces significant enhancements across the system, focusing on improved performance, expanded Microsoft 365 assessment and policy automation capabilities, and broad migration of build pipelines to ARM-based environments. Numerous services received feature updates, bug fixes, and workflow optimizations, with a particular emphasis on automation, security, and data export functionalities.

Below is a detailed breakdown of changes by service.

helmChart​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Disabled assessment services in values.yaml and added postAssessmentPolicyRemoteId to environment variables in scaledjob.yaml for enhanced configuration.
  • Added serviceAccountName to scaledjob.yaml for assessment services to improve security and access control.

✨ New Features​

  • Integrated additional required environment variables for flow automation.
  • Added Bedrock service account to assessment scaledJob.

python-algo​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated all image build pipelines to run on a dedicated ARM64 baseline image.

✨ New Features​

  • Integrated the trigger_assess_services algorithm into algorithm mapping and updated callback logic to include it.

aws-scaler​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated build pipelines to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM runners across multiple workflow files.
  • Updated actions/checkout from v3 to v5.
  • Upgraded azure/docker-login from v1 to v2.
  • Updated docker/build-push-action from v5 to v6 and adjusted platforms to linux/arm64.

aws-scanner​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions.
  • Adjusted build platforms to target linux/arm64 only.
  • Enhanced logging in various parsers to use logger.debug for improved traceability.

chronom-backend​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM runners.
  • Upgraded actions/checkout from v3 to v5.
  • Updated azure/docker-login from v1 to v2.
  • Upgraded docker/build-push-action from v5 to v6.
  • Adjusted image build platforms to linux/arm64.

chronom-client​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated image build pipelines to a dedicated ARM64 baseline image.

✨ New Features​

  • Enhanced the ActiveServices component with sorting functionality and a dropdown menu for sorting options.
  • Updated the ActiveServices component to display error and warning alert counts separately and modified the alert structure.

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated the M365LicenseTable to display the total reclaimable breakdown count and renamed "Zero Usage" to "Downgrade Candidates" for clarity.

✨ New Features​

  • Implemented CSV export functionality for M365 license data, supporting tenant and price filters.
  • Enabled the export button on the M365 page.
  • Displayed zero usage users in the M365 license reclaimable breakdown tooltip.

k8s-scanner​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions.
  • Adjusted release-push workflow platforms to linux/arm64.

policy-service​

✨ New Features​

  • Implemented PostM365AssessmentMessageInterface and enhanced RabbitMQ message handling to support post-M365 assessment processing, including validation, policy data retrieval, and execution based on assessment results.
  • Added Microsoft 365 Assessment support for policy execution, enabling access to license optimization and compliance assessment data.
  • Enhanced M365 data retrieval and optimized selective data fetching for improved performance.
  • Introduced early exit optimization to skip unnecessary policy execution.
  • Updated policy function signatures for backward compatibility.

🔧 Improvements​

  • Refactored policy and trigger controllers to combine graph nodes with policy-specific resources for improved processResults lookup.
  • Improved resourceOwnerId handling for better null safety and consistency.
  • Enhanced assessment validation logic by aggregating oldest user node timestamps and filtering policy results for improved data accuracy.
  • Improved caching logic to prevent storage of empty data and allow re-fetching until valid data is available.

scanner-cronjob​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated image build pipelines to run on a dedicated ARM64 baseline image.

cloudfront-invalidator​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated ACR workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM, upgraded action versions, and removed unnecessary QEMU setup.

typesense-mongodb-sync​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions.
  • Removed unnecessary QEMU setup from workflows.

🐛 Bug Fixes​

  • Refactored policy result deletion logic to handle multiple accounts and log total deletions.
  • Updated dependencies.

azure-scaler​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Added pod affinity configuration for tenant scanners to ensure pods with the same chronom-app label are scheduled on the same node.
  • Set custom CPU and memory requests and limits for tenant scanners in YAML configuration for improved performance.

azure-scanner​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Refactored triggerTenantScan to use the tenant Object ID as scanId for improved tracking and logging.
  • Reduced errors from scanners.

reports-service​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated image build pipelines to run on a dedicated ARM64 baseline image.

usage-reporting-service​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated ACR workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions.

dedicated-scanner​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and latest action versions.

be-ms-cost​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Migrated image build pipelines to run on a dedicated ARM64 baseline image.

✨ New Features​

  • Added a cost spread endpoint to retrieve account costs for the current month-to-date.
  • Updated service summary to include error and warning counts in alerts.

anomaly-detection​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions for improved performance and compatibility.

be-ms-graph​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM, upgraded actions/checkout to v5, and azure/docker-login to v2.

policy-result-enrichment​

📣 Other Changes​

  • Updated documentation.

be-ms-alert​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and latest action versions.
  • Adjusted Docker build platforms to target linux/arm64.

reports-generator​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions.

✨ New Features​

  • Added usage analysis for Microsoft 365 assessments.

be-ms-inventory​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions.

✨ New Features​

  • Added export capability to M365 Timeline, allowing CSV exports.

reports-automation​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Ubuntu 24.04 ARM and upgraded action versions for improved compatibility and performance.

assessment-services​

🔧 Improvements​

  • Implemented usage report assembly from tenantusagereports time-series collection in data_utils.py.
  • Enhanced usage_synthesizer_agent to return a timeline of inactive users alongside cached responses for improved data retrieval and analysis.

✨ New Features​

  • Automated post-assessment policy execution, triggering specific policies after assessment completion.
  • Separated the M365 Assessment into a new repository and added a trigger via RabbitMQ.

🐛 Bug Fixes​

  • Replaced corrupted poetry.lock file.
  • Fixed the max output parameter in the Gemini API and added architecture to use Bedrock for the usage_researcher_bucket.

📣 Breaking Changes​

  • Refactored Microsoft 365 assessment logic to preload usage data buckets, enhancing performance and parallel processing. Removed the usage_data_prep node and adjusted graph construction for explicit bucket nodes, improving data handling efficiency.

Additional Improvements​

  • All services received regular merges from development branches, ensuring up-to-date integration and stability.

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2026-Feb-01T16:58:14