4.1.0
Released: December 23rd, 2020
Features
Cognigy Live Agent (lite)
Cognigy Live Agent (lite) is here! The Cognigy Live Agent replaces the old Cognigy Livechat in Cognigy.AI version 4. Live Agent comes as a more de-coupled product and will be extended in the future.
Quick NLU training
We have introduced a quicker way for you to train your Intents. If users do not utilize states and conditions in their Intents, they can now use the new quick training method in order to train their Intents way faster. Users can still decide whether they want to go with the slower training approach which will take states and conditions into consideration.
Indian languages
These release of Cognigy.AI introduces support for the following new languages:
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Tamil
We are always happy to extend the capabilities of our product and would love to get feedback on the quality of the language support for these new languages.
WebchatWidget WCAG 2.0 Level A Compliance
We added full support for WCAG 2.0 Level A Compliance to our WebchatWidget. Release 2.24.0 of our WebchatWidget offers accessibility features we did not support, yet. We have also added the ability to specify the necessary alternative text for all sorts of rich-media elements our users can compose in the 'default' and 'webchat' Channels within our Say-Node editor.
Please have a look at our release-page on GitHub:
https://github.com/Cognigy/WebchatWidget/releases/tag/v2.24.0
Additional Question Node Features
We have extended our Question-Nodes to make them more powerful. Cognigy.AI 4.1.0 adds features like extra validation
, optional re-prompt validation
, a configurable forget threshold
as well as a new type of question
for data inputs. We have also added the ability to specify an optional result location
for the result of your questions.
Improvements
- Add Intent- and Slot-parsing to our GoTo-Node
- Uploading intents in non-primary locales is now possible
- Improved Input-Transformers by allowing partial results
- Improve client-side validation on various fields (e.g. required, needs at least x characters, can't contain certain characters) in our user interface to improve user experience
- Improved performance while training Intents through composing data in batches
- Improved finding various slots when using NLU Connectors
- Adjust the scrollbar size when hovering scrollbars in order to improve the user experience
- Add a 'loading state' to our Lexicon Editor which will be displayed when loading larger Lexicons
- Allow users to hide the settings displayed on the Logs page
- Add an 'admin' indicator to project members who are global administrators
- Sort agents by their 'last changed' value
- Improvements in the first step of the creation wizard
- Improve the way how we display/render long Flow-Node names
- Improve the OpenAPI documentation for security-related REST API endpoints
- Removed unnecessary API calls when leaving resource list views
- Add product version number into the user menu so users don't need to logout to see the version number
- Adjust example regular expression displayed in Question-Nodes of type 'regex'
- Improve the position of our 'Help' button to make it more visible
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where the create-profile RESTful API would not work properly
- Fixed a bug where deleting and re-creating extensions would not invalidate a cache which would result in errors during Flow execution
- Fixed a problem where deleting a Snapshot or Locale could break the configuration of existing Endpoints which would reference these
- Fixed a layout-related problem for JSON and XML code editors
- Fixed a bug where the 'Login with Amazon' button on the Alexa-Endpoint would not work
- Fixed a permission-related problem with extensions
- Fixed a bug where Code-Nodes could not get copy/pasted within Flows
- Fixed Japanese translations in our user interface
- Fixed right-to-left selection in fields where customers can select CognigyScript
- Fixed a couple of small issues regarding our List view in the default Channel of our Say-Node
- Fixed a bug where URL-encoded properties could not be used in our Code-Node (e.g. %-sign)
- Fix spelling mistake in the Alexa channels editor
- Fixed a bug in our SSML-Editor related to an incorrect 'prosody' closing tag
- Fixed a bug where the callback URL configuration would be missing in our Webhook-Endpoint
- Fixed misleading error message when updating Lexicon Keyphrases in the Lexicon Editor
- Fixed a bug where comments would not be shown hon hexagonal Flow-Nodes (e.g. our If-Node)
- Fixed a bug that would crash the Logs page
- Fixed a bug where the voice property in our Twilio-Endpoint would not get properly persisted
- Fixed a memory leak in our ODATA interface which leads to performance and stability issues
- Fixed a performance issue in the Lexicon Editor
- Fixed a bug where the internal IDs would not get properly replaced with the names of users on the Lexicons list view
- Fixed a bug where the name of an Agent would not get properly displayed after creating a new Agent
- Fixed a bug where the 'speech output' field for Google Actions was not required
- Fixed a bug where the more explicit names 'input', 'context' and 'profile' (instead of 'ci', 'cc' and 'cp') could not be used in Rule-Intents
- Fixed a bug where the Facebook Messenger converter was not being used for our Workplace Endpoint
- Fixed a bug related to date-parsing
- Fixed a bug where audio and video icons would not be centered in Say-Node previews
- Fixed a bug regarding Intent- and Lexicon-Uploads
- Fixed a bug in our REST API regarding pagination. This would lead to multiple API endpoints not returning the correct data
- Fixed a bug where the Journey icon was not theme-able
4.0.3
Released: December 1st, 2020
Improvements
- Introduce a new List-type for our Say-Node
- Add an automatic number-lookup which will provide meta-data (country, etc.) for Voice Gateway Endpoints
- Add new Tokens for exposing information about the caller (Voice Gateway)
- Improve our Task Manager and add more details to it
- Improve performance of Snapshots and decrease their size
- Add documentation for how to apply a custom theme to our User Interface (dedicated only)
- Improve labels for Watson NLU Connector
- Increase the allowed number of characters a Readme file can have within an Extension
- Improve the usage of our search box when pasting content
- Add a graphical inspector for the Conversation Counter to the management UI
- Improve the Flow selection UX while creating an Endpoint/editing an Endpoint
- Implement Voice Gateway Endpoint verification
- Removed duplicate library which provides type information in Code-Nodes and in Typescript-based fields in Nodes. This greatly decreases the size of our User Interface and improves initial page-load speed
Bugfixes
- Fix a bug where conversion from our Default-Tab in Say-Nodes would not work for Google Actions
- Fix a bug where fields with a custom schema could not get updated in Contact Profiles
- Fix a bug where the set/reset Context functionality in the Interaction Panel would not work
- Fix a bug where deleting an Extension would lead to Flows being broken that would use a Node from this Extension
- Fix a bug where we would not display an image preview for quick replies
- Fix a bug where long Flow names in the attached Flows section would overlap
- Fix a bug where text asserts and partial data/context matching would not work properly in Playbooks
- Fix a bug where Tokens would not have previews in quick replies
- Fix a bug where Tokens would not have a proper preview for our If-Node
- Fix a bug where a potential Gravatar icon would not be used in the menu
- Fix a bug where default replies would not work if an Intent will be specified in an NLU Transformer
- Fix a bug where the list view was broken in the Say-Node editor for our Webchat
- Fix a bug where users with +-sign in their email address could not log in
- Fix a bug where deleting a Flow would lead to broken attachments in e.g. other Flows
- Fix a bug where Single Sign-On login would not work when emails contain uppercase characters
- Fix a bug where Input Transformers could break our Inject-API
- Fix a bug where resources from another agent would be shown when switching agents
4.0.2
Released: November 12th, 2020
Improvements
- Improve our management-ui and add the ability to be able to change passwords for users
- Improve intra-service caching which leads to a big performance improvement of the overall platform
- Improve positioning of "send message" button in our Interaction Panel in the Edge 18 browser
- Publish revision 2 of our "Installation- and Dev-Ops documentation"
- Improve Endpoint- and NLU-Connector select field
- Add missing translations keys and improve the translation of our User Interface
- Add conditions to Webchat- & Messenger button templates
- Add Flow selection dropdown to Flow Editor
- Improve feedback in our User Interface when customers upload Snapshots
- Improve styling of various select menus in our User Interface
- Add optional text/data for our GotTo-Node
- Add a localeSwitch-Node as well as an action that can be used in e.g. Code-Nodes
- Add the ability for users with the "admin" role to change passwords of other users in our User Interface
- Improve error handling when an NLU-service would crash while training Intents - the train tasks would now properly report an "error"
- Improve error messages in various edit/create dialogs - e.g. when creating a user, the User Interface will now display conflicts with the configured password policy
- Integrate Cognigy Voice Gateway Extension natively
Bugfixes
- Fix a bug which leads to inconsistencies in the task-managers list of running tasks
- Fix a bug where the "license has expired" notification on login would not get displayed
- Fix a bug which leads to our Flow-Nodes look weird while they got dragged in the Flow-Editor on Chrome
- Fix cc/cp autocomplete in Code-Node editor
- Fix condition for "get started text" field for the Webchat endpoint
- Fix problem where the Dialogflow console could no longer be used to talk to a Dialogflow Cognigy Endpoint
- Fix a bug where the Interaction Panel would not get properly reset when changing the selected Snapshot
- Fix a bug where the system message (e.g. used for maintenance purpose) would not get properly displayed
- Fix a bug where long sentences with line breaks would get cut-off when pasted into a Cognigy-Script field
- Fix a bug where customers could not create a button of type "Phone Number" in the Messenger channel
- Fix a bug where roles would not get properly mapped when Single Sign On (SSO) is used
- Fix a bug where our Question-Nodes would not work when the "type" is set to "regex" and "store detailed results" was disabled
- Fix a bug where the platform would send hidden content of e.g. Say-Nodes to end-users/the WebChat widget
- Fix a bug where users with the "projectManager" role could not properly create projects
- Fix a bug in our NLU system where exact matching would not take precedence over slot-replaced matches
- Fix a bug where "slots" would not appear in analytics data produced by the system
- Fix a bug where the OAuth2 token-refresh of the platform could fail after system hibernate/suspend
- Fix a bug where attached Flows could not longer get sorted properly in our User Interface
- Fix a bug where large Snapshots got invalid when getting compressed
- Fix a bug where the multiple functionalities would not properly work in our Interaction Panel (context reset, reset state)
4.0.1
Released: October 22nd, 2020
Improvements
- Improve styling of our create-button used within several places of our UI
- Improve styling for slots within example sentences in our FlowEditor
- Improve styling for our notifications in our UI
- Make sure "headers" are typed in Transformer code-boxes in the Endpoints
- Improve feedback when uploading an Extension
- Improve OpenAPI documentation for managing project members and remove non-exposed fields from documentation
- Increase FlowNode limit to 512 Nodes in a single Flow
Bugfixes
- Fix bug where deep object comparisons for playbook data- and context-asserts would not properly work
- Fix bug where the Intent feedback report would not be properly working when using attached Flows
- Fix compatibility issues with Microsoft Edge 18
- Fix issues where certain data would not get loaded in various places in our UI
- Fix year-limits for date parsing in our NLU sub-system
- Fix issue where CognigyScript parsing or Code-Node execution could break when legacy Node actions will be used
- Fix bug for SunshineConversation and RingCentralEngange Endpoints which was related to storing session information
4.0.0
Released: October 2nd, 2020
This is our latest
major release. We changed a lot, fixed a lot of issues, and added many new features that make COGNIGY.AI the most advanced conversational AI platform on the market. Please feel free to explore our new documentation and signup for your free product trial:
https://signup.cognigy.ai/
Released: August 2nd, 2018
Features
- Improved
NLU System
that was introduced in3.0.3
for german language - Improved
Cognigy.UIs
error handling so users do not reload the page if a component crashes - Improved
actions.output
so the second parameter isoptional
- Improved the way how the
endpoint
is handling connections -websockets
andfallback http polling
is possible now - Changed the default value of the
keep alexa session open
to true - Changed the default values for
stop after childFlow
inquestion nodes
- Changed
save buttons
to have more consistent placing inCognigy.UI
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where the
system would not answer
sometimes - Fixed a bug where we had no
confirmation screen
in theintent editor
- Fixed a bug in the
facebook preview
wherevertical images
would not get displayed the correct way - Fixed a bug in the
webchat
where thepersistent menu
was broken - Fixed a race-condition within the
endpoint
that sometimes would result in anincorect order of messages
- Fixed a bug in
realtime analytics
- Fixed a bug where the
flow service
would throw timeouts - Fixed a bug within the
connection editor
- the type of the previously selectedconnection
would be used for new connections - Fixed a bug where the
state
would not be shown in theInteraction Panel
when displayed on theprojects page
- Fixed a bug that resulted in a
blank page
on anempty gallery element
for facebook - Fixed a bug where the
UI element to create projects
was shown even if users with a certain role could not create projects - Fixed a bug where the
vertical image
within analexa card
had a broken preview within theCognigy.UI
- Fixed a race-condition in the
Flow Editor
that resulted in astack of errors
if the page was reloaded in some circumstances - Fixed a bug where the
bot
would always have the nameCognigyBot
for theSlack channel
Documentation
- Improved documentation on
how to reach the api service
in an on-prem installation - Improved documentation for
facebook profile
andupdate profile
settings for endpoint(s)
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