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botpress - v12.2.1

Published by EFF almost 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

NLU: Cancel current training
Admin: Alert on new release available
Studio: Display timeout flow in flow editor

Bug Fixes

Studio: brought back training progress
Studio: Fix backspace on edit node in flow editor
Admin: bigger timeout for archive export

botpress - v12.2.0

Published by allardy almost 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

NLU: New editor for intents (copy/paste multiple lines at a time)
NLU: New engine for faster training & predictions
NLU: Better list entity extraction
NLU: Training on single node / model loading is broadcasted across cluster
HITL: Added support for more message types (eg: single choice), and custom user attributes
Login: When multiple auth strategy are defined, a menu is displayed to choose one.
Admin: New layout for the Admin UI
Admin: Added a page to view latest releases from the UI
Admin: Added filter for bots and collaborators
Admin: Enable some features directly from the admin ui
Admin: Added a checklist of recommended configuration changes to run Botpress in production
Flow Editor: Filter flows by name
Flow Editor: Added context menu when right clicking an empty space on the flow to easily add new nodes
Flow Editor: Properties panel no longer opens in a popup window
Flow Editor: Use CTRL+F on the flow editor to search (highlight) nodes
Flow Editor: Added dialog with better instructions when choosing the name of a flow
New hoook & action to change the user's language
Added Prettier to auto-format files when saving on the code editor
Webchat: Added i18n translations for ar, ru, uk languages

Bug Fixes

Added environment variable to configure database pool settings
Added option to disable markdown on text content elements
Fix issue with channel-web with some versions of Postgres (table web_messages)
Postback messages displayed an empty bubble when debugger was opened
Clear message when user lacks authorization to inspect messages with debugger
NLU: Fixed issue where it was not possible to tag a slot by clicking it
NLU: Fix training issue with multiple concurrent trainings
NLU: Models now use a single file per language (includes all contexts)
Missing modules will no longer prevent Botpress from starting
Fix last logon date for users with a different auth strategy
Multiple different auth strategy can be used concurrently
Fix wrong URL when using a custom path and updating the BP configuration from code editor
Flags displayed on the studio also match those on the admin UI
Fix issue where menu was closing when choosing a hook on the code editor
Backspace when deleting a node caused the browser to go back on firefox
Timeout events were missing temp and user attributes

Other

Added documentation to use third-party NLU providers
Refactor of HITL (added typings, features and bug fixes)

Developer

Watching studio will always create a symlink
Added webpack plugin to speed up admin/studio builds
Added new methods to the sdk for distributed jobs

botpress - v12.1.6

Published by slvnperron about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

Fix issue with Skill-email which wasn't parsing variables of content elements
Now ignoring global config when module requires bot-scoped configurations
Fix issue with HITL on some versions of postgres
Fix issue "isLoaded of undefined" on module NLU
Added missing character in NLU charset
When deleting a QNA item, bot would not mount before the intent was manually deleted
When trying to create a content element in the QNA dialog, field was not selectable
The button to restart Botpress was no longer displayed when configuration was changed

botpress - v12.1.5

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

Added E-mail skill to send messages to users
(Config) Max message length of Converse can be configured
(Config) Added option to configure the database pool

Bug Fixes

Fix random issue with webchat where the emulator wouldn't open
Some messages were not displayed correctly in the webchat transcript
Fix UI issue when permission was missing (it was displayed but empty)
Fix issue with initial container size on channel-web
Better handling of spelling errors in intent classification and slot extraction
Multiple different authentication strategies can be used
Fix issue where debug logs were not saved to the file system
Added missing await to bp.events.sendEvent
Added check to safeguard against infinite loop

Others

Added example of pipeline approval hook (with multiple approvers)

botpress - v12.1.4

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

QNA module can now send content elements instead of only text. Content elements are also exported with questions (they can be re-imported later)
Support for oauth2 authentication added to access Botpress
Added visual indicator on the studio when the botpress configuration is outdated and a server reboot is suggested (it's also a one-button click to restart it)
Added CLI command "pullfile" and "pushfile" to access file from/to the database from a local installation (the DATABASE_URL env var must be set). use --list to list files
Botpress now automatically restarts if it happen to crash. Set BP_DISABLE_AUTO_RESTART to true to prevent that behavior
Added an "examples" module with a demo weather bot (more to come)
Added field to configure the number of turns before expiry for slots skill (previously had to be done in code)
Added action to reset session
A webchat user can now specify its preferred language in the bot info page

Bug Fixes

Fix issue where configuration was loaded before the BPFS was initialized
Fix issue with bot migration when there was no existing builtin_text content elements
Fix issue where bot was unresponsive while training was in progress
Fix issue with locked bots (it was impossible to do anything - even unlock)
Fix TLS usage with Redis
Fix issue with NLU and unsupported languages

Others

Refactor of the Slot extraction and added a bunch of tests
Updated UI of QNA module & Login/Register
Cleanup of the debugger interface & added languages
Added configuration in channel-web to unescape html
QNA will also source contexts from the NLU (instead of its configuration file)
Replaced api methods put/delete for get/post
Added buttons in the debugger (in raw json event) to copy the path of that property

Developers

Simplified migration development by adding 3 environment variables to override the server state (refer to services/migration/index.ts)
Added botpress/utils package (helper components will be there for all modules)

botpress - v12.1.3

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

Error information in the debugger when there is a flow error
Added a default flow to handle errors and customize message
Added GUI to pull/push data from the server

Bug Fixes

Locked bots are effectively locked (no upsert possible)
Fixed flow builder UI when in read-only mode
Removed "ghost" bots on the bot switcher
Fix issue with bp push using the binary
Full name was missing in collaborators tab

Others

Replaced bot id with bot name on the bot switcher
Added version on admin ui
Better label for main flow and error handling flow
Removed gravatar from admin ui
Added config to choose socket transport priority/support (polling vs websocket)

botpress - v12.1.2

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

Fetch user info when using slack channel

Bug Fixes

Fixed some issues with bot import
Fix issue with custom path and sockets
Various improvements to NLU
Fix scoping of KVS keys with bot Ids

botpress - v12.1.1

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

Import bot supports zip and nested archives

Bug Fixes

Fix saving bot.config.json files using the code editor
Clearing cache after successfully completing a migration
A link on the debugger was wrongly resolving as a intent
More work on the BPFS for easier versioning (pull/push)
Various fixes on NLU
Using undo/redo on the flow editor will restore deleted nodes

Others

UI Tweaks for bot creation and import
Bigger handles for drag&drop on the flow editor

botpress - v12.1.0

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

[Flow editor] Modifications are automatically saved
[Flow editor] Realtime collaboration prevents other users from editing the same flow
[Flow editor] Better UX: Drag&drop nodes instead of clicking and digging through menus
[Flow editor] Common actions are now accessible using a right click
Added new channel: Slack (beta)
Added new channel: Microsoft Teams (beta)
Language server can now be started in offline mode
New option to display timestamp for each message on Channel Web
UI improvements for HITL module
Ability to change the base URL of Botpress
Code editor offers a lot more customization for access control

Bug Fixes

Slot tagging is a lot more effective
Issue when using Redis where too many listeners caused a freeze
Converse API timeout had no default value when upgrading
More resilience for the language server (ensures metadata is valid before replacing)
Bots are now correctly migrated when imported from a previous version
Clearing actions & hooks require cache when using the database to sync files
When a node is missing a connection on the flow editor, it ends the discussion instead of throwing an error
Removed recurrent warnings
Ghost auto-sync was causing some issues and was replaced with a manual pull/push

botpress - v12.0.7

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug fixes and improvements

Fix issue with Redis (invalidation wasn't propagating effectively)

botpress - v12.0.6

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug fixes and improvements

Fix LDAP authentication
Dialog engine now ends flow when no node is configured (instead of getting stuck)

botpress - v12.0.5

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug fixes and improvements

Fix case sensitivity in SVM

botpress - v12.0.4

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug fixes and improvements

Fix infinite loop while training slots
Fix an issue with choice skills repeat
Fix issue where "say something" would trigger intents
Fix the "last login" and "joined on" dates in the admin collaborators view
Fix intents overflowing in the side-panel
Add more audit logs
Add external auth token to http headers

botpress - v12.0.3

Published by allardy about 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

Handle object as messages
Refresh language server health when visiting studio
Add empty job check function on memory queue
Add confusion to contexts
Cleanup QNA intents that are not mapped to any QNA items
Fix occurrences of undefined when creating entities
Add configurable converse API timeout

Docs

How to run on docker
How to enable a cluster
Updated licensing section
Fix .env file location instructions

botpress - v12.0.2

Published by allardy over 5 years ago

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

Fix incorrect event state signature in SDK
Fix Choice Skill retries not working
Allow admin role to read/write languages
Local lookup of languages metadata when running lang sever
Increase the timeout for bot import
Fix intents list hiding entities when the list is long
Fix redirect validation on QNA form not accepting empty flow
General lang-server improvements

botpress - v12.0.1

Published by allardy over 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

The webchat triggers events which can be handled by the website
Added NLU recommendations in QNA

Bug Fixes

Users no longer hit directly the language server when on the admin ui
Various improvements with the NLU
Subflows were not working proprely
Missing create bot button when starting in pipeline mode
Password reset for basic auth strategy

Others

Replaced readOnly for an adminToken on the language server

botpress - v12.0.0

Published by rndlaine over 5 years ago

Release Notes

Features

Revamped NLU with a much better understanding of languages
Import and export bots from the UI
Debugger makes it easier to inspect messages on the webchat (replacing the emulator)
Various enhancements to the code editor
Event collector now stores all events so they can be analyzed later
Auto-complete suggestions in all app inputs (+ crawler to find your custom variables)
History module makes it easy to view conversations
View the logs in real time in the studio while speaking with your bot
Added more keyboard shortcuts to navigate on the studio
Added the Debug page on the admin UI to change debug scopes