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title: "October 23, 2024"
description: "Middleware release notes for October 23, 2024: Natural Language Search in APM, RUM Pipeline."
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# October 23, 2024

## Features

### Natural Language Search in APM

Now users can search anything in natural language for apm.

### RUM Pipeline

Now users can create rules to drop sessions and those rules can be disabled/enabled anytime from pipeline listing.

![Middleware release October 23, 2024: RUM Pipeline](/images/release/rum-pipeline.png)

![Middleware release October 23, 2024: RUM Pipeline](/images/release/rum-pipeline-create.png)

## Changes

- Better onboarding experience with a welcome tour.
  When users login for the first time, they will get a welcome tour which explains how and what to use in the product.

  ![Middleware release October 23, 2024: Onboarding Experience](/images/release/onboarding-experience.png)
- Fixed the issue of log filters not working in Live mode.
- Added metrics collection for AWS Kafka (AWS MSK).
- Added support for on-prem synthetic tests. With this option, users can select the host from which they want to ping for synthetic check.
- Default dashboards : when user edit default dashboard , there will be option to save it as a new copy so existing default dashboard won’t get modified.
- Vercel Integration : Added support to control Vercel log-drains. Users can now select which logs to collect by choosing sources and environments, this will help  to reduce costs.

  ![Middleware release October 23, 2024: Vercel Integration](/images/release/vercel-integration.png)

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