🚀 SWIRL Enterprise 4.1 Release Announcement

Team SWIRL is announcing the general availability of SWIRL AI Search 4.1, Enterprise Edition.

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SWIRL 4.1 delivers upgraded LLM and Assistant interfaces - including better citation handling, a new SearchProvider config block that accepts JSON, stronger SQL & formatted-query support and AI Provider fallback for resilient AI operations.

We’ve also polished the Galaxy UI, added a quick DESELECT ALL → SELECT ALL toggle:

SWIRL Galaxy UI showing select all toggle

New features

  • RAG & Assistant Interfaces: Enhanced citation handling; refactored Assistant with new SWIRL Search syntax; improved SQL and other formatted-query language support
  • AI Provider Fallback: Automatic failover across AIProviders configured for the same role (e.g., “rag”)
  • SearchProvider Config Block: Supports arbitrary JSON for advanced source configuration
  • Crontab Persistence: All crontab settings now use database defaults and persist across Docker restarts
  • Manage SWIRL Setup Guide: Built-in onboarding guide for Enterprise deployments

Improvements

  • Galaxy UI
    • Numerous fixes and refinements
    • SWIRL version now appears in the User Profile menu
    • DESELECT ALL now toggles to SELECT ALL after click, enabling quick reset of selections
    • Full unit test suite implemented; unused components and services removed
  • RAG / Search
    • More robust citation handling during RAG
    • Expanded support for structured query inputs (including SQL)
    • arXiv SearchProvider now quotes the user’s search terms by default for more precise results
  • Technical Improvements
    • Validated on Python 3.12.9
    • Updated docker-compose.yaml to stream celery-worker logs to the Terminal output

Upgrading

⚠️ Version 4.1 does not require database migration.

Known issues

  • Clicking a Microsoft Teams result may show:
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    Ensure the Microsoft Teams app is open and you are authenticated before clicking Teams links.
  • Creating searches from a browser with q= can sometimes create two Search objects due to browser prefetch / predictive services. If this is undesirable, disable Chrome prediction se