What's New in Altair AI Studio 2025.1.0?
Released: May 15, 2025
The following sections describe what's new in Altair AI Studio 2025.1.0
New Features
- An all-new way of creating extensions for the AI Suite (Studio, Hub, RTSA, …) has been added! Now you can create operators very quickly and efficient by writing completely normal Python code, with only minimal tweaks to have them automatically be converted to operators and usable in processes right next to any existing operators! And better yet, as a user you don’t even need to worry about installing Python or setting up environments - it’s all done automatically for you! For more information on Python extensions, click here!
- Added mechanism to Install mandatory, managed extensions automatically, if an installed Studio version is started for the first time.
- Currently, this includes only the Python Extension Loader (PEL) extension, enabling all the magic for the Python extensions, and the Multi Language Pack, for an easier wy to update translations between releases.
- AI Studio for macOS is now available as a native app for Apple Silicon. On modern Apple systems this version of AI Studio will perform significantly better than the release for Intel based Macs. However, some 3rd party extensions might be incompatible with the Apple Silicon release.
Enhancements
- Added I18N support for turbo prep and auto model in the Model Simulator extension.
- Renderers are not registered in spark pushdown execution mode
- The embedded Chromium can now log debug information when the “Debug node” setting in the “General” preferences of AI Studio has been selected. Additionally, if the logging level system property for JxBrowser is set, that is used instead of always logging at “INFO” level.
- Boxplots in the visualizations now support 100 distinct values when using “Group-by”, up from the previous 20.
Bugfixes
- Fixed formatting of error messages below the turbo prep generate formula edit panel
- Fixed subprocess port translations (as related to outer ports of operators)
- Popup dialogs now use the translated parameter descriptions
- Fixed an issue with jdbc drivers that were using native libraries bundled in a jdbc connection
- This affected mostly the MSSQL driver when using AD authentication
Development
- Added an OperatorColorRegistry to handle operator colors. Added OperatorColorRegistryUtils for easier access.
- Added a CategoryManager to support operator categorization. In Core, added a CategoryManagerUtil to simplify working with the manager.
Known Issues
- The Intel macOS release no longer works on Apple Silicon Macs. Use the Apple Silicon macOS release instead.
- Extensions that are known to not work with the Apple Silicon macOS release are:
- Tableau (10.0.0); an update is expected soon
- XGBoost (0.1.3)