kdb Insights Bloomberg BPIPE Accelerator Release Notes

This page details the release notes for the kdb Insights Bloomberg BPIPE Accelerator.

Version 1.3.3

Release date

2026-02-18

Enhancements

• Compatibility fixes for kdb Insights Enterprise version 1.17.1.

Version 1.3.2

Release date

2025-11-03

Enhancements

• Updated the feed configuration to use a text file to manage subscription lists

• bargenerationv2-pipeline-spec.q is now the default spec file for the bargeneration pipeline. This version supports environments with entitlements enabled

Version 1.3.1

Release date

2025-09-18

Enhancements

• Updated the accelerator to use rt-bpipeeid-pub version 1.0.4 by default

• Added EMRS-specific RT ensuring Entitlements data is not blocked by large volumes of Trade and Quote data

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where Entitlements data caused errors in the bbg-realtime-l1 stream processor

Breaking changes

• Quote schema update:

  • Changed the data type of the exchTime column from timestamp to timespan

Version 1.3.0

Release date

2025-08-11

Enhancements

• Enhanced support for the EMRS feed to handle user disables. This adds new column to schema

• Added support for PAIRED and MID type messages in the realtime ingest pipeline

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where the first bid or ask conditions returned empty mixed list () rather than null strings

Version 1.2.1

Release date

2025-07-08

Enhancements

• Added more templated configuration for the BPIPE feeds

Version 1.2.0

Release date

2025-05-13

Enhancements

• Added pipeline environment variable parameters to enable kxi CLI deploy without pipeline spec edits

• Switch RT sequencer logging on by default

Version 1.1.0

Release date

2025-04-08

Enhancements

• Updates for kdb Insights Enterprise version 1.13 compatibility

Version 1.0.0

Release date

2025-02-10

New features

• A pipeline for ingesting L1 equities data from the KX BPIPE feed handler: bbg-realtime-l1-pipeline

• A pipeline for ingesting entitlement updates from the KX EMRS feed handler: bbgentitlements-pipeline

• A pipeline for kdb Insights Enterprise to EMRS user mapping: bbgentpair-pipeline

• Schemas for Quote and Trade data for the above

• Schemas for EMRS updates, the latest entitlement snapshot, and user ID mapping

• Standard FSI Accelerator analytic and query APIs available through the FSI Library

• kdb Insights Enterprise entitlement filter functions to apply EMRS restrictions

• An Insights View that includes tick and statistic retrieval, and charting

• An example Jupyter notebook, demonstrating Python and REST API access

Artifacts

Type	Location
Accelerator Package	https://portal.dl.kx.com/assets/raw/kxi-accelerators/fsi/fsi-bbg-entl/

Version dependencies

To use the Bloomberg BPIPE Accelerator, you must have the following compatible versions of the underlying FSI Library, kdb Insights Enterprise, and the kxi CLI.