Today we're announcing general availability of SWIRL Enterprise 4.1.
If 4.0 was about getting the experiences right, 4.1 is about making them reliable, traceable, and enterprise-ready for the environments where those properties matter most.
Citations you can trust
One of the most important things about AI-generated answers in enterprise environments is being able to verify them. "The AI said so" is not sufficient for legal, compliance, or regulated workflows. You need to know what source the AI used and which specific content contributed to the response.
SWIRL 4.1 delivers enhanced citation handling in the AI Assistant - refactored with a new SWIRL Search syntax that makes it easy to trace exactly which document fragment contributed to each part of an AI-generated answer. This isn't just transparency for its own sake; it's the foundation of defensible AI use in high-stakes contexts.
AI Provider Fallback
Enterprise AI operations can't depend on a single LLM provider being available at all times. 4.1 introduces automatic failover across AI Providers configured for the same role. If the primary provider is unavailable, throttled, or returns an error, SWIRL routes the request to the next configured provider without any manual intervention.
This keeps AI Search and AI Assistant operational during provider outages - a meaningful reliability improvement for organizations that have made SWIRL central to their knowledge workflows.
SearchProvider JSON Config Block
Advanced source integrations often require complex configuration - custom headers, non-standard authentication flows, specific query parameters. Previously, these required custom code. 4.1 adds a config JSON block to SearchProvider definitions that accepts arbitrary JSON for advanced configuration, without code changes.
Improved SQL and formatted-query support
SQL query generation by the AI Assistant has been improved, with better handling of complex joins, subqueries, and dialect differences across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery. Formatted-query support has been extended across Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and MongoDB.
Full release notes and upgrade instructions: SWIRL Enterprise 4.1 Release Notes.