We’re proud to announce the release of Hume version 2.27.
GraphAware Hume is an intelligence analysis solution. It represents your world as a network of interconnected entities, builds a single view of your siloed intelligence holdings, and brings powerful, user-friendly, machine-assisted link analysis capabilities to end users.
This release delivers a powerful combination of features that work together to take analyst productivity to the next level.
Hume 2.27 introduces:
Python 3 Support
Hume 2.27 introduces Python 3 support, with two new components that allow you to run native Python code in message transformers and filters.
In addition, it is possible to manage third-party Python libraries directly from the global settings UI, giving admins full control over which packages are available to data engineers and ensuring flexibility without compromising security. Hume Python 3 support also ensures greater control over security in general by leveraging Python auditing events.
This unlocks modern Python syntax and access to the rich Python 3 ecosystem, enabling developers and data engineers to build more powerful and maintainable workflows with the tools they already know and trust.
Better Maps with the New Map Engine
Hume’s new map engine introduces many improvements to Geospatial Analysis.
The split view allows analysts to view the map and graph at the same time. Map and graph view are synced, ensuring that selections made in one view are available in the other.
In addition, the map is easier to use. Some of the many new improvements include:
- Native proximity clustering ensures it is more performant than ever.
- The directions of relationships are visible no matter the zoom level of the map.
- The maximum number of same location nodes you can expand has now been increased from 32 to 100.
- Clusters now display the number of selected nodes within them.
The new map engine ensures geospatial analysis can be improved further in the next Hume versions.
Upload Forms and Folder Sharing Capabilities
Upload Configurations allow developers to create custom upload forms where they can define allowed file types and upload metadata.
Analysts can use specific upload forms for their files allowing them to categorise the files for their intended usage. Metadata and file details can now be viewed in the new File Details side panel.
In addition, sharing capabilities have been expanded and now include sharing of root level folders. Folders have three access levels, view, manage and contribute, which ensures granular control over uploaded data.
Actions have also been improved to enhance the analyst experience when interacting with uploaded content. The new media object input parameter allows developers to configure a file picker parameter when running an action. Analysts can now choose files and folders from the picker and search for their file or folder by name rather than having to find the reference ID.
Finally, Azure Blob Storage support has been added for the Hume Media service, allowing organisations already using Azure infrastructure to seamlessly integrate Hume file upload and management capabilities with their existing scalable storage.
Export Knowledge Graphs with Hume Config CLI (Beta)
Migrating Hume knowledge graph configurations between environments is now streamlined with the first iteration of the Hume Config CLI export mode. Configurations are exported in the same structure required for import, minimising and speeding up developer work.
The Hume Config CLI remains in beta and this feature will be improved in later versions.
Ask-The-Docs in Hume Maestro (Beta)
Maestro, Hume’s AI, can now leverage the documentation user guide to help analysts when using the Hume application.
End users can now ask natural language questions about the Hume application. Answers are generated using an extended GraphRAG approach on Hume documentation.
This release focuses on the Hume user guide and analyst functionality, but will be expanded to include the operations manual in later versions.
Better Exporting Capabilities for Analysts
This release improves analyst reporting functionalities with numerous new features, including:
- the possibility to copy widgets and action result content to a word processor of your choice, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Table formatting is preserved and can be copied directly into a word processor or spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
- table widget export from Action Boards in CSV or Excel format.
- chart exports as images from Actions and Action Boards.
- computed attribute values are now visible in graph widgets.
- Vega and Vega Lite support for charts has been extended to the full specifications, giving greater flexibility to their appearance.
This feature set is aimed at allowing analysts to create reports with Hume data with greater ease.
Smarter Group Captioning for Entity Resolution
2.27 introduces captioning strategies for groups. Choose one of three strategies for group captions depending on the use case.
This change allows entity resolution groups to have meaningful names based on the most frequent labels of the resolved entities.
Other Improvements
- Workflows that split and re-combine data are now easier to build and more reliable, leveraging built-in correlation and completion headers. Even when the number of messages or correlation keys is not known upfront, this reduces complexity and avoids fragile workarounds.
- XML Streaming has been improved in Orchestra. Now it is possible to ingest different types of phone extracts generated by different tools for digital forensics.
