Is Snowplow-hosted regexes-latest.yaml for ua-parser up-to-date?

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Hi guys. It looks like the regexes files are identical since 2020-06.

$ aws s3 ls s3://snowplow-hosted-assets/third-party/ua-parser/

2020-04-25 00:00:08     187288 regexes-2020-04.yaml
2020-05-25 00:00:09     187288 regexes-2020-05.yaml
2020-06-25 00:00:10     190883 regexes-2020-06.yaml

...
2023-08-25 00:00:05     190883 regexes-2023-08.yaml
2023-09-25 00:00:05     190883 regexes-2023-09.yaml
2023-10-01 00:00:04     190883 regexes-latest.yaml

I’ve taken https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/blob/master/regexes.yaml and compared it to your regexes-latest.yaml, and it looks like the vendor’s file is newer. Can you please clarify on that?

Also, we would like that asset to be auto-updated through the assets auto-update feature you introduced in enricher v.3.

Thank you.

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ua-parser doesn’t really get updated particularly often so we now recommend in our documentation to use YAUAA as an alternative which sees more frequent updates and is overall more robust.

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How often YAUAA is updated? And is it auto-updated in the running enricher instances, or requires enrichers upgrade/restart?

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Hi @Arthur_Khakimov ,

You’re right! We are updating our workflow to fetch this file automatically.

YAUAA works with in-memory maps that are hard coded in the library that we import, there is no external config file like regexes-latest-yaml. We usually update it a few times per year.