Release notes

3.6.9

Released: September 8th, 2021

Improvements

Improved interface for Intent Trainer by sorting options alphabetically

3.6.8

Released: May 17th, 2021

Improvements

Make error-logging more verbose when sending emails would not work
Added the ability to specify regex-modifiers for regex-based validations in Process questions

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where Intent confirmation does not work after export/import to a different environment in our Intent Trainer
Fixed a bug where inputs containing a $-sign could not be stored in conversation analytics
Fixed a bug where the Cognigy.AI LiveChat UI would not update without manually reloading the page
Fixed a bug where the Intent Trainer UI could crash
Fixed a bug where agents can not reply after the Webchat reconnect
Fixed a bug where the "NLU Connector Transformers" could not be activated

3.6.7

Released: January 29th, 2021

Improvements

Update our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.25.1 which brings in multiple improvements. Please consult the changelog in the WebchatWidget GitHub repository

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the inject/notify APIs would no longer work when clients would re-connect after they lost the socket connection
Fixed a memory leak in our service-analytics-odata microservice and fixed an issue where the ODATA service could crash while streaming data
Fixed a bug where multiple reply-to emails would break our sendEmail-node
Fixed a bug where images in the say-node preview and within the interaction panel would have a different aspect ratio
Fixed a bug where opening a link to a different project would cause errors
Fixed a bug that our password-reset functionality would not work in newer versions of Chrome

3.6.6

Released: October 27th, 2020

Improvements

Do not set the intent to "NotHandled" for Dashbot reporting when an Intent was not found
Improve sanitization of error messages

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug related to Playbook asserts
Fixed a bug related to cloning a Flow with a Once Node
Fixed a bug where slots were not stored in analytics
Fixed a bug in saving Default Replies that contained Microsoft Bot Framework content
Fixed a bug where the Dialogflow Testing Console could not be used
Fixed a bug related to triggering Rule Intents on DataOnly messages

3.6.5

Released: September 15th, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.19.4 which brings in multiple fixes and improvements. Please consult the changelog in the WebchatWidget GitHub repository.
Update our dependencies in order to close several potential security vulnerabilities. Please consult our documentation (installation manual) and/or the Kubernetes repositories changelog in order to understand how you can update your system(s).

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug related to SAML 2.0 and Azure on-prem SSO

3.6.4

Released: August 7th, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.19.1 which brings in multiple fixes and improvements. Please consult the changelog in the WebchatWidget GitHub repository.
Released a new version of our management-ui which renders timestamps in a more human-readable format
Add /CreateConversation suffix to all AudioCodes endpoint URLs
Activate a new conversation-counter which replaces the old-message counter in our software

Bugfixes

Fix bug in our generic language where dashes ("-") in long numbers would lead to errors during execution
Fix issue where contact profiles in the contact profiles viewer would sometimes not load if the data-set is large
Fix issue where certain intent properties (score, mapper-results) would get reported incorrectly if executeFlow is being used

3.6.3

Released: June 15th, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.18.3 which brings in multiple fixes and improvements. Please consult the changelog in the WebchatWidget GitHub repository.
Added new monitoring-related metrics to our product
Added the ability to use the task.assigned webhook for our RingCentralEngange handover integration
Remove cookie-based socket.io handshake which removes the io cookie
Add more configuration options (through environment variables) for our intent-training pipeline
Add the ability to configure allowed CORS origins for our endpoint service. Please consult our dev-ops manual in order to understand how this can get configured.

Bugfixes

Fix bug, where the accessToken field for RingCentralEngange endpoints could not get updated as our validation on the field, was too strict
Fix community role so users within this role can also update/add/remove schema fields from contact profiles
Fix bug where paginated contact profiles query would time-out in large product installations

3.6.2

Released: May 15th, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.18.1 which brings in multiple fixes and improvements. Please consult the changelog in the WebchatWidget GitHub repository.
Improved naming on the Webchat tab within the Say-Node (from 'use Facebook channel' to 'use Facebook Messenger channel')
Added "Getting started" cards to the project-creation wizard and our project overview page
Added multiline capabilities to text input fields in the Facebook Messenger Say-Node tab
Added the ability to collapse learning sentences in the Intent Editor

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug within the "handleExecutionFinished" transformer for REST endpoints
Fixed a bug where keyphrase-data (data within Lexicons) would sometimes get masked in the Cognigy Input Object when the "mask analytics" setting would be used in the endpoint (or by using the blindMode-Node)
Fixed a bug where the executeFlow-Node would use the wrong language when entering a Flow using a different Language - this would lead to issues in system-slot detection
Fixed a bug where the text send to an external handover-tool like RingCentral Engage would be masked when the "mask analytics" functionality is used
Fixed a bug in service-nlp-ner where this service could not start in a Kubernetes-/Docker-Swarm cluster where privileged containers could not work
Fixed a bug where the Intent CSV export would crash our user interface in certain situations
Fixed compatibility issues with older versions of Microsoft Edge for our user interface
Fixed a bug in the login form where the email field was not case-insensitive
Fixed various layout problems in the Facebook Messenger Say-Node tab
Fixed a problem in Cognigy Script parsing where an expression like "$1" would not properly parse
Fixed a user interface crash when using the BasicCard template
Fixed a bug related to our inject/notify API

3.6.1

Released: April 22nd, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.17.0
Update Traefik to v1.7.24 in order to fix the "same-site" cookie issue. Traefik is the load balancer we ship with our product. Please make sure that you re-deploy Traefik and ensure that you are using the updated version (v1.7.24) for the "same-site" cookie-fix to work properly.
Upgraded our Facebook Graph-API we are using for our Facebook endpoint to v3.3 as the old API which was used is now deprecated

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug related to NLU cutting-edge not being able to score models which were trained previously of Cognigy.AI 3.6.0
Fixed a bug related to the "Get-Started Message Field" and our "Auto-send" message feature for our Webchat endpoint
Fixed an issue related to "Cognigy tokens" where the Flow-Editor would crash when opening an "if/switch"-Node
Fixed a bug where Twilio (voice) would hang-up the call when no user-input was detected

3.6.0

Released: April 2nd, 2020

Important:

Because of a queue-related bugfix (see bugfixes) in 3.6.0, you will have to adjust the update-mechanism. Please first manually stop ``service-parser``, visit the RabbitMQ management panel and delete the ``service-parser`` queue. You can then start the update to 3.6.0. If you don't follow these steps, our ``service-parser`` microservice will not be able to start. Please contact ``[email protected]`` if you have any additional questions.

Features

Finnish & Swedish NLU

We have introduced Finnish and Swedish as new officially supported languages in our product. Please consult our installation- & dev-ops manual in order to get all details on how this language can be enabled on an infrastructure level.

Connection-Strings for MongoDB database connectors

We have added the ability to switch between specifying individual fields or a full connection-string for a MongoDB database-connection. This will allow customers to connect to a replica-set hosted on e.g. Mongo Atlas.

Extend support for additional HTTP verbs in transformers

We added support for additional HTTP verbs (other than POST) for endpoint input-transformers for the following endpoint-types:

REST
Webhook

The input-transformers of those two endpoint-types will now also be executed if e.g. a GET-request arrives and hits the endpoint-url. You can utilize this functionality to e.g. implement a verification process most of external platforms use.

NLU transformers

With our 3.5.0 release we have introduced endpoint-transformers which give you more possibilities to create your own integrations with third-party platforms. With NLU-transformers, we extend the ability to inter-connect with external NLU platforms as well.

Configurable TTL for contact-profiles & session-information

Until now, contact-profiles and session-information could only get dropped upon request. We have now added the ability to configure a TTL (=time to live) for those objects. Once configured, our software will drop those objects automatically.

Custom questions

We have added the ability to ask custom questions within Processes. These allow you to ask a question and e.g. trigger a webchat plugin in order to give the user a nice possibility to answer your question - e.g. by using a multi-select.

Improvements

Moved Chinese NLU to our new and improved NLU system
Improved our analytics-reporter service and add support for extremely huge analytics-data-sets

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the service-parser queue could fill-up and get blocked over time.
Fixed a bug where answer tokens would no longer be available in Processes
Fixed a bug where realtime-analytics in our product UI would not refresh correctly

3.5.2

Released: March 16th, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.16.0
ensure that sessionStorage is being used instead of localStorage for the Webchat-Demo page in our product

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where NLU exact-matching could break in certain circumstances
Fixed several issues related to our CognigyScript Text-Field
Fixed a problem in the Playbook-execution which lead to Playbooks failing when they ran multiple times in a row
Fixed a problem related to the YN-Question Node
Fixed an issue where changes in a Think Node could not be saved when the user interface language was not set to English
Fixed a bug where certain settings on the Flow-Analytics page would not work
Fixed a bug where analytics-data was not kept when entering a Process
Fixed an inconsistency for ci.understood when the Execute-Flow Node is used
Fixed a Google-related issue when NO_INPUT intent gets triggered
Fixed an issue related to non-deterministic Intent-Training for huge Lexicons
Fixed an issue related to the Reject-Intent

3.5.1

Released: February 26th, 2020

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.14.0
Allow users utilizing certain browsers to close our user interface without an additional confirmation
Improved our export feature in a situation where Flows with attached Cognigy Flows (e.g. Smalltalk) or attached Cognigy Lexicons would take longer than usual
Added support for AU, GB & CA English within the Date Picker in Cognigy Processes
Added full support for data-redaction for our Alexa-Dashbot integration
Added the ability (opt-in) to configure an account-lock which will disable accounts after n consecutive login fails

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the meta-data shown for a Cognigy Secret would be incorrect after import
Fixed a bug where an Endpoint could not be renamed when it was not loaded into our frontend beforehand
Fixed a bug which occurred when an Intent-reconfirmation was negated - this lead to a AI Flow Promise Failed error in the logs
Fixed a bug where preview elements in the SayNode-Editor would have overflow-issues in certain browsers
Fixed a caching related bug with Cognigy Processes which occurred after import
Fixed a bug related to additional confirmation words for languages based on our new NLU pipeline
Fixed a bug where an empty text-input would trigger NLU_UNAVAILABLE
Fixed a bug where special characters in keyphrases would cause issues during Intent mapping
Fixed a bug where uploaded lexicons without synonyms would have empty synonym entries which could not be deleted
Fixed a bug where large packages could not get exported during a 2-minute timeout
Fixed a bug where default replies could not contain a $-sign within their data-object
Fixed a bug where Cognigy resources would only allow ASCII characters for their names
Fixed a bug where the password-reset functionalities email field was case sensitive
Fixed a bug where certain debug-information would be printed multiple times below each other in the Interaction Panel (and multiple times)
Fixed a bug where the wrong Action-Flow was executed after import
Closed a security vulnerability which was related to password hashes
Fixed a bug where certain queues within RabbitMQ would not have the correct auto-delete flag set and would forever remain in the message broker even if they were no longer used
Fixed a bug where date-slots were incorrectly cached in our new NLU pipeline and for new languages
Fixed a bug where the Intent-download (CSV & JSON) would not contain "learned sentences"
Fixed a bug where our Slack integration would not properly work as Slack has changed their data-format slightly - this would produce an endless-loop within new Slack-bots

3.5.0

Released: February 6th, 2020

Features

RingCentralEngange extended Handover

We have introduced the RingCentralEngange endpoint already some releases ago. With this release, we have added full support to use their platform if a user wants to talk to a real agent. Customers can now pick whether they want to use our Cognigy Livechat tool or RingCentralEngage for handover scenarios.

French NLU

We have introduced French as a new officially supported language in our product. Please consult our installation- & dev-ops manual in order to get all details on how this new language can be enable on an infrastructure level.

Endpoint transformers

We have added a new feature called endpoint transformers to all endpoints (a ka channel connectors) within our platforms. Endpoint transformer allow you to extend our system and make it compatible with new foreign systems. You can now, e.g. create a Webhook endpoint and add the necessary input/output transformers which will extract the necessary information from the request payload - this way, you can add support for a platform like KakakoTalk without relying on us to actually build an integration with them! Please consult our documentation for example implementations and further documentation.

Audiocodes enpdoint

We added support for the Audiocodes Voice Gateway which allows you to call your virtual agents you can build within our product.

Increased security

We added support for configurable password policies and will now give admins the ability to avoid the reuse of old passwords when developers need to change their passwords. The whole functionality is hightly customizable through our management ui interface.

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.13.0
Improvements to our Japanese NLU engine
Improvements to the platforms overall security by changing multiple security-relevant functionalities like the change password functionality
Added support to configure the password policy which is used for our product
Improve the NLU training performance by improving our multi-threading support
Improved our `Dashbot support for the two channels Alexa & Google
Added support for exporting default reply data within Intents
Improve the stability and throughput of our new NLU pipeline which is currently being used for Korean, Arabic & Japanese
Added support for the Amazon.StopIntent in Processes
Rename Smooch to Sunshine Conversations
Improved performance of our Import tool by avoiding unnecessary memory allocations
Improved our hot-key support within the Flow Editor

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the Webchat tab in our Say Node would disappear when you try to write text in certain browsers
Improve the security of our platform by further blocking excessive authentication attempts
Fixed a bug where Intents within Japanese Flows could not be trained in certain conditions
Fixed a bug where the License is invalid message would not be displayed correctly in our user interface
Fixed a bug where Japanese Intent reconfirmation sentences would not be send
Fixed a bug related to Keyphrase mapping and special characters
Fixed an overflow bug in our user interface for the Textfields in our Facebook tab within the Say Node
Fixed a bug where text redaction would not work properly for our Dashbot integration
Fixed a bug where default replies from the Facebook tab would not be displayed in FB messenger
Fixed an api-key related bug
Fixed a bug where livechat records would not show-up in our ODATA feed
Fixed a bug in the Playbook editor where a click on the drag handles for Playbook steps would reset the current scroll position
Fixed a bug where the URI to a custom RingCentralEngange platform could not be specified
Fixed a bug where the case sensitive Intent mapping flag would not display correctly in some browser and some NLU language combinations
Fixed a bug where our Export could break in some situations
Fixed a bug where Non ASCII resource names would break our Export tool within our product
Fixed a bug where certain messages within the Interaction Panel could not be displayed in the Firefox browser
Fixed a bug in the default replies editor
Fixed a bug where our ODATA interface returned data which would lead to multiple requests from tools like Microsoft PowerBI

3.4.4

Released: December 20th, 2019

Improvements

Updated our integrated WebchatWidget to version 2.11.0
Added a new API endpoint which can be used to drop raw analytics records using various search patterns
Added the ability so you can jump into Processes from within a runProcess Node
Added the ability to define a custom encryption key for import/export packages, please have refer to our installation- and configuration documentation
Added support for Facebook endpoint message validation, please refer to our updated documentation for Facebook endpoints
Added the ability to use input sanitization in our WebchatWidget, please refer to the WebchatWidget documentation
Added a proper error-object to the Context if an operation exceeded the current Context size limit
Added the ability to use CTLR+F to open the seachbox in the Flow Editor
Added the ability to define the FROM field within SMTP connections, this is an opt-in, please refer to our installation- and configuration documentation
Improved our Dashbot Webchat support by adding data-mapping for our own Webchat and its data format

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug in our keyphrase-matching algorithm for Japanese
Fixed a bug where keyphrase-matching with latin uppercase characters would fail for Japanese
Fixed a bug where keyphrase-based questions in Processes would not work properly when keyphrase span across multiple words
Fixed a bug where ci.currentTime was not set for Alexa
Fixed a problem where Chinese NLU would not properly start because if an improperly packaged NLU model
Fixed a bug where a person with developer role could not update Tokens within a project
Fixed a bug where customers could not use Custom-Modules together with a private NPm registry
Fixed a bug where the Contact Profile of certain Facebook users would not be filled correctly
Fixed a bug where keyphrases with numeric literals were not found as expected
Fixed a bug in the new analytics on the project-overview where the data could overflow
Fixed a bug in our httpRequest Node were caching was not working properly in some circumstances
Fixed a bug where ending a session for Google actions would not work on Dialogflow
Fixed a bug where user inputs within a Process would not show up in the ODATA analytics records
Fixed a bug where analytics records were not correctly stored when returning from a Process back into the Flow Editor
Fixed a bug where our Flow Editor could crash when used in Korean language

Deprecation warning

Facebook quick replies

Facebook removed the ability to send your location within quick replies. We adjusted our product and also removed the necessary user interface to create such quick replies. Please ensure that you are no longer using this feature in your Facebook Messenger based agents.

3.4.3

Released: December 3rd, 2019

Features

Korean

We added support for Korean as a new language within our system.

Arabic

We added support for Arabic as a new language within our system.

Advanced Dashbot integration

We enhanced our support for our Dashbot analytics integration. Our customers can now also use native Dashbot channels (like Facebook, Alexa, etc.) next to the universal connector.

Improvements

Updated our integrated Webchat to the 2.10.3 release
Improved performance of our user interface on the project-page
Added new analytics widgets on the projects page giving you feedback about flow-usage and their intents
Improved ODATA data caching so huge data-sets can be retrieved through the analytics interface
Improved the stability of our Intent Trainer
Improved the stability of the Google WYSIWYG editor

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where Alexa would crash in Cognigy Processes when a Keyphrase question was used
Fixed a bug where attached Flows could not be trained in certain conditions (data corruption)
Fixed a bug where the MongoDB connection of individual services could not be re-established when connected to a MongoDB replica-set in certain conditions
Fixed a bug where Keyphrase detection would fail in English on contractions
Fixed a bug where Synonym usage within example sentences of Intents would not work correctly for Japanese
Fixed a bug where the Intent Tester would not output the same intent scores compared with the Interaction Panel for Asian languages
Fixed a bug where text and quick replies would not be displayed correctly in our Livechat tool
Fixed a bug where the conversation history within our Livechat tool would load very slowly
Fixed a connectivity related problem in the Livechat tool which would lead to poor user experience
Fixed several problems in our Import/Export functionality within the product so it can also handle huge projects
Fixed a bug where saving Intents would not work while bots were updating example sentences
Fixed a problem where location permissions would not work in Dialogflow in certain conditions
Fixed a memory related problem within the message broker we are using
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel could crash when a project was still selected which no longer exists
Fixed a security related issue with projects
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel could crash on specific inputs
Fixed a bug where required questions within Cognigy Processes could be skipped
Fixed a bug where Cognigy Script would not work within Default replies
Fixed a bug where the Use Project Settings button would not properly update within the settings page of a Flow
Fixed a bug where the Cas Sensitivity Setting would not update correctly on the settings page
Fixed a bug where the Flow Editor could crash in a certain condintion within a switch Node

Documentation

Improved documentation for mask sensitive logging and mask sensitive analytics

3.4.2

Released: November 11th, 2019

Features

RingCentral Engage

We now have an official RingCentral Engage endpoint which allows connecting Cognigy.AI with RingCentral's platform for agent-handover.

Improvements

Added the ability to use our User Interface in Korean language
Updated to Node12 for our JavaScript-based microservices, this improves the overall performance of our platform
Update our integrated Webchat to the 2.10.0 release
Added the ability to see the project name within a conversation

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug in our NLU services where those could crash
Fixed a bug where our service-parser could crash in some situations
Fixed a bug where the default replies within an Intent would always be random
Fixed a bug where our NLU services would experience higher load because sentences got scored multiple times for a single message
Fixed a bug in the Intent Trainer where a menu could grow outside of the browsers viewport
Fixed a bug where the case sensitivity-flag would not get displayed correctly when not defined
Fixed a bug where our tag replaced and synonym replaced example sentences within Intents would not correctly use the case sensitivity flag
Fixed a bug where SSO users would get a strange error when they tried to use the password reset functionality on our login screen

Notes

Fixed a problem in our api-documentation for projects and the color property

3.4.1

Released: October 18th, 2019

Improvements

Added the ability to use our slot parsing when the cIntent feature is used to inject an intent
Added the ability to use capital letters for answer-ids within Processes
Update to newer MongoDB driver in order to fix an issue with replica-sets and re-connection when a new master node gets elected within a replica-set
Added a way how an admin can retrieve all projects via our REST API, not only the assigned projects
Removed potential sensitive information from a JWT payload
Improved performance for our logging service
Add support for message_referrals event-type for our Facebook Endpoint
Improved Chinese NLU
Improved overall system performance by reducing the number of queues within RabbitMQ
Removed the ability to allow clients to request the type of supported http methods
We added a new field to the input object - endpointType. This field is more reliable than channel to determine which type of endpoint is used to talk to a Flow
Slightly adjusted the rule editor / condition editor functionality to better visualize what will be evaluated during runtime
Improved our any slot feature
Improved Webchat compatibility when the Webchat demo page is used e.g. behind a API-gateway
Updated bundled Webchat version to 2.9.1, see our GitHub release

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the query field within our SQL nodes was not multiline
Fixed a bug where the CTL+B hotkey would sometimes not work properly in the Interaction Panel
Fixed a bug where the Webchat demo page would not render the background image correctly in different browsers
Fixed a bug where SQL connections would break when an error occurred on the connection (e.g. error in query)
Fixed a bug where multiple custom nodes could not have a function with the same name
Fixed a bug where special characters where not handled correctly for Twilio
Fixed a bug where slot assertions would not properly work in Playbooks
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel would crash when Playbooks steps would get deleted while Interaction Panel is executing the Playbook
Fixed a bug where Google Actions cards would not always show up when multiple Say nodes are used
Fixed a bug where multiple recipients would not properly work for the sendEmail node
Fixed a bug with multiline fields within the Process Editor
Fixed a bug where empty Synonyms could be created within the Lexicon Editor
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel could break when no projects are assigned to a user
Fixed an api-key management related problem for certain users
Fixed a bug where a switch node could not get deleted in some circumstances
Fixed a bug where reparse slots for Alexa would not work within Processes
Fixed a bug where the Intent Trainer ui would not work properly
Fixed a bug where an old http request node could not be re-saved
Fixed a bug related to default replies in executed Flows
Fixed a bug related to no NLU and execute flow
Fixed a bug where a switch node could not be deleted when it has no child-nodes anymore
Fixed a bug where our inject/notify APIs would not work for facebook & webhook endpoints in some situations

Notes

We introduced a limit on project-names - names are now limited to 60 characters
We adjusted the resource constraints for service-logs (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
We adjusted the nlu ZH resource constraints for service-nlp-score-ZH and service-nlp-train-ZH

3.4.0

Released: September 18th, 2019

Features

Project templates

We added a new wizard that supports you when creating a new project within our product. The product can now get bootstrapped from one of our English / German project-templates which help you to get started even faster.

Twilio Autopilot

We now officially have a new endpoint for Twilio Autopilot! This endpoint allows you to connect autopilot to Cognigy.AI and use autopilots NLU capabilities. In addition, this endpoint also has a new built-in NLU connector that helps you to translate the NLU outputs of autopilot into the Cognigy.AI format.

Microsoft Bot Framework

We now have a Microsoft Bot Framework endpoint. This allows you to use adaptive cards in e.g. channels like Microsoft teams. Fields within those cards which have an id and a prefix of cognigy_ will trigger our NLU engine.

Userlike

We now have an official Userlike endpoint within our product.

Intent injection

We added the ability to directly trigger an intent by sending an arbitrary text-input pre-fixed with cIntent:. Customers can use this within their e.g. rich-media payloads to directly trigger an intent if a user e.g. clicked a certain button.

Intent trainer records import & export

We added the ability to import/export intent trainer records. Customers can use this feature to export intent trainer records from e.g. their production environment, import them into their dev environment and refine their bots, there.

Overwrite analytics-data

We added the ability to overwrite certain analytics properties within Code nodes. This allows customers to implement their own logic to e.g. set the understood or intent field, right before we store them.

Inject & Notify API for more endpoints

We made our inject and notify APIs compatible with a wider variety of endpoints. Customers can use these APIs in projects where long running processes get started by a bot and where the process will come-back to the bot after a longer period of time.

Any-slot

We added a new concept to the example sentences of ML-intents - the so-called any slot. Any-slots will be highlighted within example sentences and have a syntax of <<slot>>.

Rich-media editor for default replies

We added the ability to use the very same editor you are already using in say nodes for our default replies. This allows customers to send back rich-media (e.g. a gallery) when a default reply was triggered.

Intent tagging & searching

We added the ability so intents can be tagged. Developers can then search through their intent-list by name and by tag.

Organization level quotas & limits

We introduced the ability to set organization specific quotas and limits. This is especially interesting for our customers who are using our product in multi-tenant mode.

Typescript & Code-Nodes

We have slightly re-styled our Code-Node editor and added full support for Typescript! This allows customers to use the power of Typescript and e.g. define Interfaces and use them within their Code-Nodes. The feature is meant for developers and power-users who have large Code-Nodes in place. Simply write Typescript into your Code-Nodes - we will transpile it to modern JavaScript and execute it.

Improvements

Removed an internal error message that would get displayed in the UI even though everything is fine
Changed the way how the webchat demo page isolates the endpoint token from the URL. This helps to support API gateways that might sit in front of a Cognigy.AI installation.
We slightly improved our NLU for German and added the word sofort to be handled correctly (similar to jetzt)
Improve our Japanese NLU
Improve security on users page by not exposing the email within the browsers URL. We are now utilizing the underlying user id
Improved security on our livechat where agents could see chat-requests with bots in projects they had no access to
Expose http response headers within the context when a httpRequest node is used to send requests
Adjusted location for tooltips displayed on select fields within the toolbar of our application. The old tooltip location would often interfere with the mouse-cursor and would make some select fields not editable
Introduce a new menu to delete custom modules more easily
Improve the editing experience for lexicon tags and lexicon keyphrases
We added the ability to jump into a flow if you open a executeFlow or switchFlow node. This helps developers to navigate through their interconnected flows during editing
update our geo ip database so it contains the latest ip ranges for analytics purposes
Improve the information of errors when thrown e.g. in Code nodes. This allows to developers to jump into the flow which produced the error
We added a case sensitivity flag to our NLU settings. Customers can now decided, whether casing should have an impact on e.g. their intent mapping
We added the ability to use a hotkey to save changes within Code nodes
We added a new return value for the intent field when no NLU model was trained. The input object will then contain an intent field with an appropriate information that intents need to be trained
We added the ability to use system slots for intent mapping within your example sentences
We added the ability to delete, rename and copy a project resource within the project overview
A Flow's language can now be changed after the flow was created
We added the ability to add a label to flow nodes
We added the ability to sort intent trainer records by count and timestamp
We added the ability to render Microsoft adaptive cards in the Interaction Panel
We render information in the Interaction Panel when a switchFlow event occured. Users can also click on the name of the Flow to directly jump into it.
We now offer separate containers for NLU services of different language. This greatly improves the scalability of installations with multiple languages and higher load.
We improved our ODATA interface which can now be used to e.g. retrieve conversation data
We added alphabetical sorting for custom modules in the overview page and within the Flow Editor

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the whole http response was checked for its size, instead of the response body
Fixed a bug where the request was not anwered directly after a webhook endpoints payload was validated
Fixed a bug where the project settings would not get applied after a switch flow or execute flow node, this would result in an NLU timeout in certain conditions
Fixed a bug where typing on/off indicators would also be emitted for socket endpoints even if pure data outputs are used
Fixed a bug where Google actions would not properly work when keep session open was set to false
Fixed a bug where the alexa verification could not use a configured proxy
Fixed a bug where certain endpoint settings would not be updateable
Fixed a bug where reported analytics data would not be visible after an execute-switch flow chain
Fixed a bug where the reconfirmation question would not appear, if an intent has a default reply
Fixed a bug where events from the server would not correctly be delivered to our frontend application. This resulted in some long-running processes to not report correct data (e.g. notifications)
Reset the NLP connector to Cognigy when navigating into another project
Fix negation in our NLU pipeline
Fix a caching issue for our ODATA analytics endpoint
Fixed a bug where CognigyScript within confirmation sentences would not work properly
Fixed a bug where implicit exportable resources would show up multiple times within the export wizard (Import/Export feature)
Fixed a bug where the intents need training flag would never appear after a flow was imported
Fixed a bug where analytics would not get stored when a default reply was triggered
Fixed a bug where the attachedFlow view could sometimes crash and disappear
Remove the EnableFileUpload flag for the new webchat endpoint editor. The new webchat supports file-uploads through a custom file-upload plugin, which is not loaded by default
Fixed a bug with incorrect line breaks within a CognigyScript field
Fixed a bug where a system state license error could get displayed after login
Fixed a bug where the Facebook Messenger Endpoint settings would sometimes not work and behave properly
Fixed a bug related to Google CANCEL intent in Cognigy processes
Fixed a bug where the intent trained status would get reported the wrong way
Fixed a bug within SMTP connections were you could not reliable send emails from within our system
Fixed a bug where a project could not get created when a project with the same name was deleted beforehand
Fixed a bug where ci.data would get lost in the Alexa payload when a user answered a slot question

Deprecation Warning

Old CognigyScript syntax

With this release we are moving forward and dropping support for the very old CognigyScript syntax. We have introduced the new {{ }} syntax already with Cognigy.AI 3.0.0 and this should not impact most of our customers. Please still double-check your flows whether you are using any of the following:

<cs>some script</cs>, replace it with {{ some script }}
<cc>contextValue</cc>, replace it with {{ cc.contextValue }}
<ci>text</ci>, replace it with {{ci.text}}

You might also have some weird combos of the above statements, e.g.:

<cs>cc.value</cs>, replace it with {{cc.value}}.

The current syntax has a lot of benefits compared to the old one, is more readable and actually fixes security vulnerabilities.

3.3.3

Released: July 4th, 2019

Features

Smooch

We now officially have a new endpoint for Smooch! This endpoint allows you to support a new variety of channels Cognigy.AI was not compatible with, yet! You can now e.g. use WhatsApp and other phone-based messengers.

Values Input Object

We added two new fiels to the Input Object:

hashedIp: Contains the sha1 of the clients IP address
flowName: The name of the flow the Input Object was generated for

Source property

We added a new source property to the output of various endpoints. This allows customers to understand the origin of messages.

Configurable Get Help

We added the ability to configure the URL source of our Get Help button. Customers with on-premise deployments of Cognigy.AI can e.g. add a link to an internal support-channel / helpdesk.

Thai NLU support (Beta)

We added Thai as a new language to our product. This language needs to be specifically activated on the infrastructure-level. It is currently in beta - we are happy to get feedback from our customers!

Lazy connections

The Webchat will now only establish a connection to our infrastructure when the .open() API was used.

Improvements

Add support for CognigyScript within validation fields of Processes
Improve the data we send to Dashbot so customers have richer data points withi this analytics solution
Set the Not Handled intent for Dashbot
Add full proxy support for Custom Modules so NPM installs will go through a configured proxy
Improve security for code execution within CognigyScript and Code Nodes
Improve MongoDB replica set support for our services
Improved our NLU pipeline so messages would never get scored multiple times - performance improvement

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the Amazon.CancelIntent could not be used to end a process
Fixed a bug where certain queues could not be deleted from RabbitMQ resulting in errors
Fixed a bug where Intents in Processes where always used from the latest locked version
Fixed a bug where chaning the NLU settings in Flows with many intents could sometimes time-out
Fixed a bug where Intents of a deleted attached Flow would still get parsed during Flow execution
Fixed a bug where interactive messages could not be used for our Slack channel
Fixed a bug where the Flow Editor would crash when saving an empty start Node
Fixed a bug where the Datepicker within the Webchat would not output the correct locale format
Fixed a bug where a field within the Contact Profile could be updated that was not designed to be updatable
Fixed a bug that would crash one of our NLU services
Fixed a bug where the new Webchat could not properly connect within IE11 and Safari
Fixed a bug where December dates would be not correctly identified within our NLU pipeline
Fixed an issue where Google would no longer send a userId within their request payloads

Documentation

Improve our API documentation

3.3.2

Released: June 3rd, 2019

Features

Environment tags

We added the ability for customers to add labels to their on-prem installations. This can be achieved through setting the ENVIRONMENT_TAGS environment variable to a comma separated list of keywords. The keywords will be exposed in the Cognigy Input object during Flow runtime. The tags can e.g. be used for conditional branching based on e.g. your dev and prod environments for httpRequest nodes.

Contact Profiles creation API

We added the ability toc reate a new Contact Profile using our RESTful API. Contact Profiles get created automatically during Flow execution. The new API allows the creation of a profile in advance.

Clean RabbitMQ disconnect

All services will now properly shutdown when RabbitMQ gets unavailable during runtime. Cognigy services will no longer be in an undetermined state after a RabbitMQ restart.

Project wide search

We added the ability to search for project resources within the Project overview. This is especially handy if you deal with huge Cognigy.AI projects that contain a high number of resources such as Flows, Lexicons etc.

Intent editor role

We added a new user-role to our product that only allows read- and update-permissions for intents. This role is perfect for editors who will use the Intent Trainer to modify and update your Conversational AIs within Cognigy.AI.

Improvements

Add full support to use a system web proxy for outgoing connections to Amazon services
Allow the execution of Flows of a different language, please read our documentation https://docs.cognigy.com/docs/execute-flow
Auto-generate Process Input fields based on the given label
Improved the situation where the Successfully trained Intents notification would get displayed to often
Improved typings of sytem slots within Code nodes
Improved the preview of certain graphical components within the Say node (Cognigy Script parsing)
Improved the way how connection-details for the RabbitMQ API could be specified (connection string using secret)
Improved scrolling behaviour of the Interaction Panel - it will now preserve its scrolling position if you e.g. open the settings tab
Various Webchat improvements, see our Releases page on Github: https://github.com/Cognigy/WebchatWidget/releases
Improved the visualization of Custom nodes within the Flow editor by swapping the title and module name - this improves readability
Improved sorting within the speed dial when creating new Project resources
Added the ability to create Portugese (Brazil) flows
Improved Spanish and Japanese translations for our Cognigy UI
Improved the false-positive rates of our NLU 2.0 and NLU 2.1 systems

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where invalid characters could be stored in Contact Profile fields
Fixed a bug where an error message was displayed when visiting the project page after a new user was created
Fixed a bug where the new Webchat could not be used with the Cognigy Livechat
Fixed a bug where Yes and No answers to questions would not get stored in the Conversation history within Contact Profiles
Fixed a bug where the list view within the Schema Editor would not get displayed in a correct way
Fixed a bug where the Intent Editor would crash
Fixed a bug where exact Intent matches (score = 1) would not be always possible
Fixed a bug where a Custom module could not specify a vield version as one of its arguments
Fixed a bug where our parser service (used for CSV imports within the Lexicon Editor) could not properly connect to MongoDB replica-sets
Fixed a bug where Yes/no + switchFlow node combination could break our intent-mapping
Fixed a bug wwhere certain special characters could break the Regex mode within our slotQuestion node
Fixed a bug where the Webchat icon within the Say node would never get highlighted, even if it contained content
Fixed a bug where certain special characters could not be used within your Cognigy password
Fixed a bug where data only messages would not get discarded during intent mapping
Fixed a bug where YN Questions in processes would not be recognized for the Alexa channel
Fixed a bug where our NLU systems would not give you a 1.0 score in certain situations

Documentation

Improved documentation on system slots that get automatically detected when Cognigy NLU is used. You can find the improved documentation following this hyperlink: https://docs.cognigy.com/docs/lexicon
Improved documentation on Dialogflow V2 NLU connector documentation. You can find it here: https://docs.cognigy.com/docs/dialogflow-nlu-connector
We renamed our NLU system-version to Cutting Edge and Stable. The naming with numeric versions was to confusing for some customers.

3.3.1

Released: May 09, 2019

Features

MongoDB connection string

Add the ability to configure the connection string for MongoDB using a docker-swarm/kubernetes secret. This is a more secure procedure than setting connection related information using environment variables.

RabbitMQ connection string

Add the ability to configure the connection string which is used for RabbitMQ using a docker-swarm/kubernetes secret. This is a more secure way than relying on env variables to store those type of information.

Import/Export for secrets

We added the ability to import/export secrets. Secrets within our import/export packages are still fully encrypted in addition to the encryption of the package itself. This now allows you to be more flexible and e.g. migrate your important credentials and sensitive information from one to another installation.

Dialogflow NLU Connector V2

We added support for API version 2 for our Dialogflow NLU connector. This now finally allows customers to use the modern version of the Dialogflow NLU. We are still supporting the old V1 API.

Flow overview

Added flow parent id and flow version id to the flow overview page. These values are necessary for certain API requests and were not displayed until now.

Improvements

Removed conversationId field from dashbot payload. Dashbot had issues with this field being send
Added sessionId to output data for Webhook endpoint/channel
Sorted Intent names within a case-nodes alphabetically
Added CognigyScript support for executeFlow- & switchFlow-nodes version fields

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where CognigyScript could not be used in keyphrase tag within Keyphrase questions in Processes
Fixed a bug where the original request was not available in ci.data.request for our Slack endpoint/channel
Fixed a bug where the setting continueFlowAfterNegativeConfirmation could never be changed
Fixed a bug where the user interface session would time out if multiple tabs are open
Fixed a bug where the Endpoint version dropdown was sometimes not populated correctly
Fixed a bug where the url field within httpRequest nodes was not trimmed
Fixed a bug where a list item from a Facebook List (say-node) could not get deleted
Fixed a bug where cp.profileId was not always populated on the first message
Fixed a bug where a think-node within an executeFlow could cause issues.
Fixed a bug where Japanese lexicon entries were sometimes not recognized correctly in sentences
Fixed a bug where the Intent Trainer would display empty records

3.3.0

Released: April 12, 2019

Features

Chinese NLU

We added full support for Chinese NLU, meaning you can now build Flows in Chinese.

Spanish NLU Improvements

We improved our Spanish NLU, especially when handling accents in sentences.

NLU 2.1

We added a new NLU version that greatly improves intent detection and has better support for short utterances.

Single Sign-on

We added the ability to login into COGNIGY.AI and to create users via Single Sign-on (SAML 2.0).

Secure Login

We improved the seuciryt of our platfomr by blocking repeatingly failed login attempts.

Tokens

We introduced Tokens, which can be used in Flows and Processes as shortcuts for CognigyScript. Tokens can be defined from developers using the new Token Editor. Your business users can then re-use those Tokens wherever they could use CognigyScript in the past. If the required Tokens exist, coding is no longer required within the platform to generate dynamic content within e.g. Say-Nodes.

Rule Editor

The Rule Editor is a new way which can be used together with Tokens in order to define conditions for logic branching. The Rule Editor works within the Cognigy Flow Editor as well as the Process Editor. It greatly reduces the amount of Cognigy Script that needs to be composed in order to support conditionals within your business logic.

Process Action Inputs / Outputs

In order to improve the workflow with Action-Flows within the Process Editor, we implemented the concept of Action Inputs/Outputs. Developers building an Action Flow can now define that those special Flows need certain Inputs to work properly. The Process Editor will re-use these information and render input-fields within the Process Editor. Furthermore, Cognigy will generate Tokens for your Action Flows and make them available within the Process Editor.

Custom Modules for Everyone

We changed the way how we execute Custom Modules, so that the execution of unsafe code is no longer a problem for the whole platforms stability. Thus allowing any developer to upload and test their Custom Modules without going through our review pipeline.

New Webchat (2.0)

Our Webchat was completely rewritten. The first iteration of the Webchat was already used by a vast majority of our customers. The new iteration of the Webchat is written in modern React and has a fully documented plugin architecture, which allows you to extend it.

We also introduced a new Date-Picker which uses the new Webchats plugin architecture and comes in a completely refresh design. There is even a new Flow-Node which let's you ask for dates in a new way.

Translated UI

We now have a fully translated UI in English, German, Japanese and Spanish - more languages to come in the future.

Blind Mode

More and more customers implement Conversational AIs dealing with sensitive information from users. In order to support the processing of sensitive data through Cognigy we introduced a new Flow Node and functionality within our software: The so-called blind-mode. This mode can either be activated through a Flow Node or through a setting within your Endpoints. Once activated. COGNIGY.AI will no longer store sensitive information such as the users text within system logfiles and analytics-data.

Intent Dropdown in Case Nodes

One of the most requested small features for 3.3.0 was a simple one and it landed within this release: If you now create a Switch-Node and select Intent from the dropdown, you will now be able to create Case-Nodes which contain a dropdown of all available Intents! You can still have a Text-Field available.

Settings Tab for some Flow Nodes

In order to remove some confusion from some of our Flow Nodes, we extracted certain settings and created separate Tabs within those Flow Nodes. Once candidate e.g. was the YN-Question-Node. It had certain settings in the "Default" tab which were actually used for all channel-outputs.

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the Send Email Node couldn't send emails to multiple addresses
Fixed a bug where out-of-range dates were recognized (e.g. 31st of August)
Fixed a bug where yesterdays were not recognized as a date.
Fixed a bug where CognigyScript didn't work in default replies
Fixed a bug where the $push operator couldn't be used in the MongoDB Nodes
Fixed a bug where the Regex slot filler did not work properly
Fixed a bug where Lexicon synonyms where not trimmed on ipmort
Fixed a bug where Users in the Access Control list were not sorted
Fixed a bug where CognigyScript didn't work in Case Nodes
Fixed a bug where the Flow search crashed in rare scenarios
Fixed a bug where Custom Modules couldn't be executed in attached Flows
Fixed a bug where additional confirmation words couldn't be more than one word
Fixed a bug where the Intent training status would be incorrect

Deprecation warning

Flow Nodes

The following Flow Nodes are now officially depcreated and will be removed in our next major release (4.0.0):

setNextFlow (synonym for switchFlow)
copyKeyphrasesToContext (synonym for copySlotsToContext)
sayInterval (use a say Node behind a interval)
sayOnce (use a sayNode behind a once)
thinkOnce (use a think behind a once)
setContext
askYNQuestion (we have a newer implementation!)
askGenericQuestion (we have a askSlotQuestion)
retrieveMemoryWh
retrieveMemoryHow
getRequest (use httpRequest with method GET)
postRequest (use httpRequest with method POST)
putRequest (use httpRequest with method PUT)
deleteRequest (use httpRequest with method DELETE)

API

The following API-paths will be removed within Cognigy 4.0.0:
- /contact/:contactId

See our API reference guide for guidance on how to upgrade to a newer API.

3.2.5

Released: March 14th, 2019

Features

Welcome message for the demo environment

We added a welcome message that will be sent in the beginning of all conversations on our demo environment.
The welcome message will not be sent when testing in the Interaction Panel

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where Facebook list buttons would render incorrectly in the interaction panel.
Fixed a bug where Alexa skill simulation in the Interaction Panel didn't work.
Fixed a bug where custom module uploads would notify everyone in the organisation
Fixed a bug where intent training would take a long time in some scenarios
Fixed a bug where the date format in the news section were not locale specific
Fixed a bug where low access right users couldn't edit Flow Nodes they had access to
Fixed a bug where the license page was missing the background image
Fixed a bug where only the latest Flow version could be selected in Endpoints

3.2.4

Released: February 27th, 2019

Features

Timestamps for messages within Contact Profiles

We added timestamps on top of each message within the Contact Profile view. This helps to understand when individual messages got composed.

Healthchecks for NLU

We added Docker healthchecks and implemented the necessary changes for healthchecks to work. Orchestrators such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes can use these healthchecks to validate whether services are already fully initialized after starting - or still fully functional after running for a while. In case a healthcheck fails, the orchestrator will kill the container and create a new copy of it.

Train Intents

We changed the behaviour of the train intents button so the button can always be clicked. In case COGNIGY.AI is already training a model for a Flow, an appropriate error will get displayed.

Intent Trainer adjustments

We introduced the Intent Trainer months ago to help our customers to refine their bots during they are online. We realised though, that the combination between saving and training intents was quite bad and lead to bad performance related to longer training times.

We therefore separated the functionality to store modifications within the Intent Trainer and to train intents later on. This goes hand-in-hand with the Train Intents modification described above.

Facebook page subscriptions

When COGNIGY.AI is used together with the Facebook messenger platform, a page needs to get created with subscriptions. Facebook supports a wide variety of different subscriptions, such as message, message postback, message read and others.

The only relevant subscriptions for COGNIGY.AI are message and message postback subscriptions. We have documentation in place describing the process of how to create a messenger endpoint properly. In case users added more subscriptions than the ones mentioned above (e.g. message read subscription), you could easily create an endless-loop of events.

We therefore improved the checks in our endpoint, so we only allow the supported subscriptions and log appropriate errors in case other subscriptions are used.

Japanese NLU

We improved our Japanese NLU system. This also improves the way how we handle keyphrases.

Rights Management

We improved the rights management for our UI system on various locations within our product. The API did already use the correct roles to deny certain modifications - but the UI did still render some input methods / buttons etc. We improved the rights management to make it more streamlined compared to our API.

UI language

We improved support for the Japanese language within our UI and added Spanish as a new language for our UI! We are happy to retrieve feedback from native speakers.

Google certificate

Google changed their certificate which is used to sign requests used for google account linking. We implemented the new certificate to guarantee, that our support for Google Actions is still working properly.

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where a new tag within the Lexicon Editor would not give users the chance to directly use this new tag within example sentences using the [[-bracket notation. They had to reload the Flow Editor first.
Fixed a bug where our bleeding edge NLU (2.0) was not used for Attached Flows
Fixed a bug in the Webchat where quick replies with images had bad formatting
Fixed a bug where the AGE property in the input object was null (German)
Fixed a bug where single-character / single-word inputs would behave odd during execution
Fixed a bug where the Handover for Facebook would only work for the second message
Fixed a bug where an on-blur event on a Connection Password would re-set it
Fixed a bug where the Flow Editor would render an incorrect Flow after an Intent was updated
Fixed a bug where the name of a Custom Module would not be displayed in the Custom Node within the Flow Editor
Fixed a bug where the Intent Trainer would crash
Fixed an NLU-related bug where day after tomorrow / day before yesterday were not resolved properly
Fixed a bug where the Whitelisted Domains field within our Facebook Tools (Endpoint) was to narrow
Fixed a bug where Google Suggestions would not have an icon within the Interaction Panel
Fixed a bug where US date-recognition was incorrect

Documentation

Improved documentation for the export contact API
Improved documentation for our Facebook tools, so customers know that they need to whitelist the https://fbextensions.cognigy.com URL to use the calendar widget
Added documentation on how to configure CORS for the API service (on-prem)
Added documentation on how to configure SMTP so the product can send emails used for e.g. password-reset (on-prem)

3.2.3

Released: February 6th, 2019

Features

Add ability to make CORS configurable for our api service
Introduce multiple languages for our COGNIGY.UI - this feature is in beta currently
Add ability to toggle the searchbox and zoom components within the Flow Editor

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the CSV import within the Lexicon Editor would not generate ids for keyphrases
Fixed a bug where the handover functionality was not working for our socket Endpoint
Fixed a bug where the executeFlow Node would reload Flows from slower data-stores instead of taking the fast cache (performance)
Fixed a bug where the inherited Intents within Processes would not work properly
Fixed a bug where ci.slots was not fully typed and you got errors displayed within Code Nodes
Fixed a bug within the COGNIGY.AI installer related to Docker Volumes
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel would expand inf. in Mozilla Firefox

Documentation

Improved documentation for the import lexicon API
Improved documentation for how to use COGNIGY.AI behind a corporate proxy

3.2.2

Released: January 24th, 2019

Features

Added conditions to the Google Action Builder
Added built-in percentage slot
Added userId and sessionId to the response of REST Endpoints
Improved intent mapping for short sentences
Changed the way message delay works in the Webchat

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where http requests sent over https couldn't be sent through a proxy running on http://
Fixed a bug where the Google Action Builder didn't resolve context variables in the previews correctly
Fixed a bug where deleting a Flow wouldn't detach it from other Flows
Fixed a bug in Account Linking with Google Actions
Fixed a bug in intent mapping when using only Rule Intents
Fixed a bug in intent mapping for certain languages
Fixed a bug in analytics where the Flow execution time was displayed as higher than in reality
Fixed an issue in loading large Flows

3.2.1

Released: Januray 9th, 2019

Features

Improved Monitoring by measuring RPC calls
Added Typing Indicators and artificial delay to the Webchat
Improved Caching in the system

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where our nlp service would allocate to much memory in a certain condition
Fixed a bug within the CSV import within the Lexicon Editor
Fixed a bug in the Webchat where list button was missing styling
Fixed a bug where the Livechat link would be displayed even if an environment does not host the Livechat
Fixed a bug in the Livechat where the data would overflow (css)
Fixed a bug where the NLU model could not be trained and saved for a huge amount of intents
Fixed a bug in the Webchat where the top List element didn't display properly
Fixed a bug in executing Actions not written in en-US
Fixed a bug where the Context tab in the Interaction Panel in Firefox would expand infinitely
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel couldn't connect via Websockets in certain network topologies

3.2.0

Released: December 12th, 2018

Features

Add the new Cognigy Livechat product (Beta)
Added the ability to edit properties within Contact Profiles
Add a new graphical UI to manage custom modules
Add configuration option to select whether Flows should stop on negative Intent confirmation
Add a new resource-type called Secrets which can be used in conjuction with Custom Modules to store sensitive information (api-keys, tokens, etc.)
Added the ability to execute cognigy NLU within the Flow using a dedicated Flow Node
Added the ability to select No NLU within Endpoints to complete disable NLU
Added the ability to import / export intents within the intent editor
Added the ability to Upload an Icon for a Flow
Added the ability to tag flows and give them a description
Added the ability to exchange the Avatar within the Webchat
Added a new feature that allows users to explicitly mention Lexicon Tags within their example sentences
Make the Hybrid DNN NLU system the default one, new Flows will use this type of intent mapping
Added the ability to for our NLU to find forward dates only
Added the ability to prefill answers within a Form by injection
Added the ability to call Actions within a Form
Add graphical UI to install / update the Cognigy.AI license
Refined session-concept so users can now define a session expiration within their Endpoints. Conversations from the Facebook- and Google-Channels can now also have multiple sessions instead of only having one global session
Add the ability to make the infinite loop detection configurable using an ENV variable
Added a new way to specify the connection strings for Cognigy-internal services. This allows users to e.g. connect to a replica-set
Minimized data written by the logging servic. This helps to maintain a smaller memory footprit of Mongo
Added the ability to use CognigyScript for dynamic values within executeFlow and switchFlow

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug within the Intent Trainer where the no match toggle would not work propery
Fixed a bug within the Train Intents logic, where the button would not be clickable when e.g. a Flow was detached
Fixed a bug where the Train Intents logic would throw an error if a Flow only has Rule Intents
Fixed a bug where Statistical NLU results would get returned from attached Flows even though they are using Hybrid DNN NLU
Fixed a bug where ISO Dates would have a Z appended
Fixed a bug within the Webchat where button styles would overwrite styles within the embedding web-page
Fixed a sticky-session related bug for Internet Explorer in the Webchat
Fixed a bug where Keyphrases could not be deleted that contain a comma
Fixed a bug where the HTTP Request Node could not handle certain headers that contain an underscore
Fixed a bug where the Import / Export feature could timeout cause of intent training
Fixed a bug where Mongo credentials for our in-product Database Connection resources would not URI encoded username / password - no special characters could be used

Deprecation warning

The following Flow Nodes are now officially depcreated and will be removed in our next minor release (3.3.0):

setNextFlow (synonym for switchFlow)
copyKeyphrasesToContext (synonym for copySlotsToContext)
sayInterval (use a say Node behind a interval)
sayOnce (use a sayNode behind a once)
thinkOnce (use a think behind a once)
setContext
askYNQuestion (we have a newer implementation!)
askGenericQuestion (we have a askSlotQuestion)
retrieveMemoryWh
retrieveMemoryHow
getRequest (use httpRequest with method GET)
postRequest (use httpRequest with method POST)
putRequest (use httpRequest with method PUT)
deleteRequest (use httpRequest with method DELETE)

Documentation

Refined documentation for Connections. SMTP-Connections are now also mentioned.
Added full documentation for our Users API

3.1.9

Released: November 23rd, 2018

Features

Added the ability to render messages in the Webchat that get send using client.sendMessage
Added the Flow Name to all analytics-records

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where clicking a Facebook Gallery link would not open the link within a new tab/window
Fixed a bug where the adminconsole channel was not removed from analytics-records
Fixed a bug where the e hotkey would open the Flow Node Editor and would add the letter to the first text-field. The new hotkey now is SHIFT + ALT + E
Fixed a security issue where potential sensitive data within Endpoint configurations could be retrieved from the server
Fixed a bug where the Import / Export feature would throw Timeout-errors during exporting larger packages
Fixed a bug so the Webchat is compatible with IE11
Fixed a bug where the flowLogic settings where cached in a wrong way

3.1.8

Released: November 9th, 2018

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug in number parsing where 50.000 would be recognized as 50 in German
Fixed a bug where the Webchat in Safari couldn't reliably connect to COGNIGY.AI
Fixed a bug where Alexa couldn't display APL
Fixed a bug where conversations on Google Home would give new userIds throughout the conversation.
Fixed a bug in the Intent Tester where Statistical NLU scores where shown when Deep Learning NLU was selected
Fixed a bug where a user with limited Access Rights could edit and view certain resources
Fixed a bug where Hotkeys couldn't be used on newly created Flow Nodes

3.1.7

Released: November 2nd, 2018

Features

Added a natural and configurable message delay for the Intercom Endpoint

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the train intent button could not be clicked if the project settings were not opened first (if project settings were used)
Fixed a bug where Google Actions Endpoint was handling the message concatenation of multiple say-nodes differently than an Alexa Endpoint
Fixed a bug where the odata service would crash during caching large data
Fixed a bug where the digits for a Twilio Voice Endpoint would not get added to the input text
Fixed a bug where the Alexa Skill Verification would not work
Fixed a bug where the Smalltalk DE Flow would sometimes answer since the thresholds were wrong
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel would not render html preview for the Webchat
Fixed a bug where the understood sentences would still show up within the Intent Trainer

3.1.6

Released: October 26th, 2018

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the select type didn't work for custom nodes
Fixed a bug where some Intents in Flows couldn't be saved
Fixed a bug where the full Webchat configuration could be accessed
Fixed a bug where some Intents couldn't be trained
Fixed a bug where HTML didn't render properly for the Webchat Preview in the Interaction Panel
Fixed a bug where Intents couldn't train if the Project Settings weren't loaded

3.1.5

Released: October 18th, 2018

Features

Add new Microsoft Teams Endpoint.

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where Forms didn't work when executed from an executeFlow Node via a Rest Endpoint
Fixed a bug where a Form would crash during intent mapping in certain edge-case scenarios
Fixed a bug where Contact Profiles wouldn't be exported properly if they had several IDs
Fixed a bug where Search and Replace in the Flow Editor would stop if one node would be invalid after replacing
Fixed a bug where deleting a Lexicon wouldn't remove the attached Lexicon from Flows

3.1.4

Released: October 12th, 2018

Features

Add full hotkey support for Mac
Add new Intercom endpoint
Add typing indicator for the Facebook Endpoint
Add the ability to display an update notice within the product

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where Webchat always goes fullscreen on mobile devices
Fixed a bug where Forms would only output a max. number of five quick replies
Fixed a bug in the NLU-pipeline regarding number detection
Fixed a bug where Analytics would produce an error message in a project without a flow
Fixed a bug where Context could not be stored in case a . (dot) or a $ was contained (this also had an impact on database-requests and http-requests)
Added missing 'Twilio SMS' logo to the Twilio SMS Endpoint

3.1.3

Released: October 5th, 2018

Features

Add ability to copy an URL Token and Webchat URL in the Endpoint Editor if you click on it
Add new Twilio SMS endpoint
Add suport for receiving Digits via the Twilio (Voice) endpoint

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where simple resources could not be exported
Fixed a bug where async would not work for the Http Request node
Fixed a bug where the Facebook profile would not get filled after a user reactivated his contact profile in COGNIGY.AI

Documentation

Improved various aspects of the documentation

3.1.2

Released: September 28th, 2018

Features

Add the ability so the new Intent Mapper can be enabled project wide
Add the ability to export a specific version of a Flow

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where a or an was replaced by a number, this prevented hitting a Keyphrase during execution
Fixed a bug where the create resource functionality on the project page would not work in Mozilla Firefox
Fixed a bug where realtime analytics could not be fetched when users had a high number of Flows within the same project
Fixed a bug where HTTP APIs could not be used if they only return a basic value (string, number) instead of an object in the root level of the response

Documentation

Improve documentation on the format we expect your CSV files to be formatted for uploading them in the Lexicon Editor

3.1.1

Released: September 24th, 2018

Features

Bring back executeFlow and switchFlow on on-prem installations using an environment variable

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where executeForm would not work when an Intent was triggered in the flow that was calling the executeForm node
Fixed a bug where an executeForm within a sub-flows called using executeFlow would not work
Fixed various other problems in the Form System
Fixed a bug where huge Lexicons could not be processed
Fixed a bug where all AI instances would not recognize new keyphrases after a CSV file was imported within the Lexicon Editor
Fixed a bug where Custom Flow Modules (custom nodes) would not work in Sub-Flows (executeFlow)
Fixed a bug where the Intent Training Badge would not display within the Sidebar of the Flow Editor
Fixed a bug where certain messages could get stuck in the NLU pipeline

Documentation

Added documentation on how to setup COGNIGY.AI on Windows Servers

3.1.0

Released: September 14th, 2018

Features

Add search & replace to the Flow Editor
Add undo & redo to the Flow Editor
Add the ability to filter the Interaction Panel for a certain channel, e.g. Alexa
Improve the Facebook Endpoint so users can utilize tools to update whitelisted domains and the persistent menu
Add a new UI for the bleeding edge NLU system
Add new languages to the bleeding edge NLU system, these are Spanishand Japanese
Update the Unity3D integration so it is fully compatible with the 3.X product branch
Add new Dialogflow endpoint
Add new Twilio endpoint, with integration for the ``Say Node```
Add new Google Actions support for the Say Node
Add new Line Messenger endpoint, with integration for the Say Node
Add new Forms 2.0 system with a complete rewritten UI
Add the ability to logout from Amazon
Add the ability to use Custom Flow Nodes to extend the system
Add the Intent Trainer customers can use to improve their bots over time
Reduce the size of all docker images which reduces the footprint of a COGNIGY.AI installation

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug in the German date parser
Fixed a bug where the flow would not inherit the correct intents
Fixed a bug where a user could get stuck in the form flow when no form was loaded

Deprecation warning

The following actions where removed from Code Nodes for security reasons and can no longer be used.
Please use our appropriate nodes like Switch Flow if you need this functionality. We removed the following
actions from Code Nodes:

checkThink, deleteSystemContext, executeFlow, switchFlow, executeForm, getCache, getLastTopic, getSystemContext,
interval, once, resetFormBrain, setCache, setLastTopic and setSystemContext

Please ensure that your productive flows are not using these methods within Code Nodes.

3.0.8

Released: August 31rd, 2018

Features

Add japanese intent mapping to the product (beta)
Add japanese parser with yes/no phrases
Restructure the Endpoint Editor so users get more prominent feedback to select a traget flow for their endpoints

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where opening a webchat endpoint where no flow was selected would display a white page with console errors
Fixed a bug where the color for a project would not be displayed correctly in the top bar
Fixed a bug where a misleading error message got displayed when a user with a certain role would enter the Flow Editor
Fixed a bug where emails would not be detected correctly if they contained an uppercase letter

3.0.7

Released: August 23rd, 2018

Features

Add an API-side filter for parsed token trees for flows. This gives a huge performance increase when working with huge flows that have a high number of intents

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where forms could not be used in flows that have the generic language set
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel could not be used after contacts, access control and/or my profile page was refreshed
Fixed a bug where an non existent version within a flow could be selected if a former flow had this version
Fixed a bug where the timezone offset was not used properly
Fixed a bug where confirmation sentences would not work properly

3.0.6

Released: August 17th, 2018

Features

Migrated the webchat source into the service-webchat service so that the source is no longer served via amazon S3 but our own service. This also fixes the issue that on-prem customers with strict firewall rules could not use the webchat since the source was not reachable.

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where negative numbers could not be used in form fields
Fixed a bug where actions.addLexiconKeyphrase could not add data to a keyphrase
Fixed a bug where trailing execute form nodes wouldn't get executed when attached to another executeForm node
Fixed a bug where a german date form did not get inputs that were not formatted as date
Fixed a bug where flows were changing their order on the project page when new flows get created
Fixed several problems within the import / export feature - resource reference get now linked once again after an import
Fixed several smaller issues within the lexicon editor
Fixed an issue where the Cognigy.UI was creating too many socket/socket.io connections to the server infrastructure
Fixed a bug where the webchat would render null messages
Fixed a bug where Cognigy.AI would not continue main flow after executing an attached flow within a flow getting executed using an executeFlow node
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel would crash if you use actions.output(1) in a code-node
Fixed a bug where the Interaction Panel's manual chat could still be used even when a playbook got executed
Fixed minor Cognigy.UI issues when displaying country flags
Fixed rendering of once node in Cognigy.UI when the ...-button got clicked
Fixed a bug related to STT and the Interaction Panel

3.0.5

Released: August 9th, 2018

Features

Added tooltips to the sidebar of the Cognigy.UI's flow editor
Improved bleeding edge NLU System by automatically creating synthetic example sentences
Added https redirect by default for on prem installations that use TLS
Improved the way on how we write logs into the log database (batch write)
Add ttl for logs in the logging service

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the number 0 could not be used in a form field of type number (falsy value problem)
Fixed a bug where the interjections for Alexa where missing
Fixed a bug where instance keyphrases would not be persisted and not be available when the conversation gets switched to another ai instance
Fixed a bug where the currently loaded flow would switch when the session gets switched to another ai instance
Fixed a bug in the playbook player
Fixed a bug where the project color would disappear in the top bar when reloading the page
Fixed a bug where the confirmation sentence could not be removed within intents
Fixed a bug where the flow editor would crash when the user adds an {} (empty object) as an alexa custom directive
Fixed a bug where the projects icon/avatar and the top bar would have slightly different colors
Fixed a bug where there was no proper error checking in place for the json input in the google say-node tab
Fixed a bug where the mongo find one would throw an exception in the flow editor if no result was found
Fixed a bug where the contact profile (cp) would not properly update after executing a thing node
Fixed a bug where the slots.DATE property was not usable for Alexa
Fixed a bug where services would crash when the logCollector exchange was not defined
Fixed a bug where rabbit mq would crash when updating services to newer versions (updating COGNIGY.AI)

Documentation

Major restructuring of the whole documentation so it is more easy to search for individual topics

3.0.4

Released: August 2nd, 2018

Features

Improved NLU System that was introduced in 3.0.3 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 is optional
Improved the way how the endpoint is handling connections - websockets and fallback 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 in question nodes
Changed save buttons to have more consistent placing in Cognigy.UI

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where the system would not answer sometimes
Fixed a bug where we had no confirmation screen in the intent editor
Fixed a bug in the facebook preview where vertical images would not get displayed the correct way
Fixed a bug in the webchat where the persistent menu was broken
Fixed a race-condition within the endpoint that sometimes would result in an incorect 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 selected connection would be used for new connections
Fixed a bug where the state would not be shown in the Interaction Panel when displayed on the projects page
Fixed a bug that resulted in a blank page on an empty 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 an alexa card had a broken preview within the Cognigy.UI
Fixed a race-condition in the Flow Editor that resulted in a stack of errors if the page was reloaded in some circumstances
Fixed a bug where the bot would always have the name CognigyBot for the Slack channel

Documentation

Improved documentation on how to reach the api service in an on-prem installation
Improved documentation for facebook profile and update profile settings for endpoint(s)

3.0.3

Released: July 20th, 2018

Features

Introduce a new NLU System that you can use (still experimental!)
Improve the /inject and /notify API
Improve the performance of the Cognigy UI
Add the ability so HTML markup can be used within the WebChat
Add the ability to send data within a YN-/Slot-Question node
Add the reverse proxy / load balancer Traefik to the Cognigy stack to improve the scalability of the UI and API

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where US phone numbers were always invalid in a Form
Fixed a bug where firstName / lastName could not be updated using the UpdateProfile node
Fixed a bug where attaching a flow did not always load the latest version of the attached flow
Fixed a bug where the SwitchFlow node would not display the name of the target flow
Fixed a bug where SwitchFlow and ExecuteFlow would allow you to switch into the currently loaded flow
Fixed a bug where keyphrases within trailing ? caused an error on creating tags and synonyms
Fixed a bug where a lexicon could be deleted but it was not checked for its usage in flows
Fixed a bug in the lexicon editor regarding the search functionality
Fixed a bug where the settings editor could not be accessed through the proper URL in the browser
Fixed a bug where the name of an intent could not be changed
Fixed a bug where renaming a project resource allowed dublicat names
Fixed a bug where the service-logs would crash since the logCollector exchange was not created
Fixed a bug where the endpoint logs would not show-up on the logs page
Fixed a bug where an empty display template list for Alexa would crash the browser
Fixed a bug in the dublicate check of a lexicon name within a project
Fixed a bug where flow nodes with no content would still open the node editor
Fixed a bug within the Email node which did not check for required fields
Fixed a bug where Send test email would send the email, but would report a failed state
Fixed a bug within the playbook editor where switching the abort on error toggle would throw an error
Fixed a bug where the repeat playbook setting would not work
Fixed a bug where a contact profile could not be properly exported
Fixed a bug within the facebook list template where you could not see the subtitle since of bad contrast
Fixed a bug in the NLU system where the system got confused when an us style date was mentioned (month / day reversed)
Fixed a bug in the NLU system regarding the english question-word which
Fixed a bug with the analytics graphs in the UI
Fixed a bug where image attachments could not be used within the WebChat
Fixed a bug where the WebChat did not scroll to the bottom for Gallery elements
Fixed a bug where the Gallery elements would not scale automatically

Documentation

Improve documentation for /inject and /notify APIs API Reference

3.0.2

Released: July 2th, 2018

Features

Add ability so AI service can scale
Improve output of all flow ouputs for REST endpoint
Expose sendMessage functionality in Webchat
Update Unity Client so it works with COGNIGY.AI 3.X
Shorten ApiKeys so they are more usable
Improve error message for code nodes so line numbers are displayed

Bugfixes

Fixed bug where absorbing profiles does not work for the facebook messenger endpoint
Fixed bug where STT/TSS in Interaction Panel did not use current flows language
Fixed bug with weird scrolling behaviour in Interaction Panel
Fixed bug where delete project button was not visible
Fixed bug where log history could not be retrieved properly
Fixed bug in regex slot filler node
Fixed bug where users could not scroll in state view
Fixed bug that resulted in inconsistent analytics reports
Fixed bug in number parser
Fixed bug in execute form mechanic

Documentation

Add full documentation to /contacts API (API Reference)
Improve documentation for Google Home

3.0.1

Released: June 15th, 2018

Features unlocked

Ability to delete your own account
Ability to manage your profile
Ability to send emails and create SMTP connections

Bugfixes##

Fixed bug in addLexiconKeyphrase node
Fixed several problems within the Interaction Panel
Fixed several smaller problems within the UI
Fixed a problem with playbooks
Fixed a problem with states
Fixed a bug where attached flows could not be detached
Fixed a bug with the Cognigy Form Flow

3.0.0

Released: June 13th, 2018

This is our latest major release. We changed a lot, fixed a lot of issues and added many new features which make COGNIGY.AI the optimal solution to create, deploy and maintain your conversational AIs.