2021

Version 3.21.1 – December 21, 2021

Patches

  • Addressed an issue with Alexa: Instance Switching not being executed.

  • Extended logging of the instance switch.

  • Re-enabled TwoLvl Cache and removed the settings from global configuration due to a different cache implementation of API and engine.

Version 3.21.0 – December 16, 2021

Improvements

  • Updated red lines every x seconds for bulk edit utterances.

  • Updated Sidebar Inconsistencies.

  • Fixed New Intent Type Selection Padding.

  • Fixed block tag font issues.

  • Added extra permissions for Production Releases.

  • Improved weak password policy for 'TÜV SÃŧd'.

  • Cached service responses.

  • Default upper value of back to 100% confidence in the training scene.

  • Added UI for Service caching.

Technical

  • Upgraded to Kubernetes 1.20.

  • Changed instance type.

  • Extended CallMetaInformation and the dialog hook endpoint by a production flag.

  • Implemented retry of TTS requests if the endpoint is unavailable/exception thrown.

  • Operator handles switching from gRPC to REST.

  • Deployed Elastic APM to our cluster.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with importing projects using Windows OS.

  • Resolved no reaction to user input + no re-prompt from the bot during conversation.

  • Addressed concurrent HTTP requests to NLU throwing an exception when calling timer.end.

  • Fixed not updating the pipeline if only the version in the instance changed.

  • Resolved Alexa publish-instance endpoint returning no instances.

  • Fixed TTS error not shown in the debugger.

  • Corrected 'heplify' not capturing packets.

  • Addressed welcome event starting listening to the caller before handling response.

  • Fixed break SSML not working as expected.

  • Resolved crashed UI when clicking on a certain "response by phoneV2" debug element.

Version 3.20.7 – December 12, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed deactivated pipeline issue.

  • Resolved UI fails to show the status of phone pipelines.

  • Set necessary resources for the peering pipeline.

Version 3.20.6 – December 9, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed the calculation of the service response cache key.

  • Included input variable names in the key calculation.

  • Ensured every cache key has the prefix service-response-.

Version 3.20.5 – December 8, 2021

Patches

  • Prevented type error during check deployment status.

Version 3.20.4 – December 3, 2021

Patches

  • Prevented non-relevant pipeline attribute changes from triggering a pipeline change.

Version 3.20.3 – December 1, 2021

Patches

  • Added missing cache dependency in the Kamailio manager.

  • Rolled back HTTP route changes that allowed reaching the engine health-checks from the outside world.

Version 3.20.2 – December 1, 2021

Patches

  • Restored accidentally removed alertmanager's azure-production overlay.

Version 3.20.1 – November 25, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed an issue with the gRPC connection.

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Version 3.20.0 – November 25, 2021

Improvements

  • Set default confidence in the training scene to 0 - 90%.

  • Activated search function of intent-dropdown in the training scene.

  • Saved pagination settings of the training scene.

  • Changed popover area and value of storage variables in the debugger.

  • When creating a new Phone2 release, values of platform settings are now saved during the creation process.

Bug Fixes

  • General UI fixes (typos, paddings, highlighting).

  • Fixed an issue when adding utterances via training scene, parentheses are filtered.

  • Fixed a bug where the autocomplete popover didn't open when hovering over a variable or tag.

Version 3.19.1 – November 17, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed an issue with the call control block sidebar.

Version 3.19.0 – November 15, 2021

Improvements

  • Merged the dialogs-edit permission and the projects-delete permission into a new projects-edit permission.

  • Changed the behavior of adding the fallback intent to the intent ranking.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that showed an old response in a new state block.

  • Fixed a bug where the reprompt of an Alexa response was overwritten by the prompt.

  • Fixed the clear button of the description inputs.

  • Fixed the analytics hook switch in the instance modals.

  • Fixed a bug in a continued listening block where the prompt was played instead of listening to the user.

  • Fixed an issue in the training scene where utterances were collected multiple times due to case sensitivity.

  • Fixed a bug where a release could not be edited after importing a new project.

Version 3.18.1 – November 1, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed an issue with the speech recognizer.

Version 3.18.0 – October 28, 2021

Improvements

  • Added call forwarding action for Phone 2.

  • Autocomplete in bulk edit only with "Tab".

  • Subdialog in the block can only be selected once.

  • TCP as default protocol for new pipelines.

  • Releases can now be marked as production.

  • Added missing Duckling slots to autocomplete.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with find block button.

  • Fixed misleading messages.

  • Fixed closing behavior of sidebars.

  • Smaller UI fixes.

  • Improved message for deactivated users.

  • Removed Drop Phone Calls Modal for platforms other than Phone2.

  • Fixed wrong password validation messages.

Version 3.17.0 – October 15, 2021

Improvements

  • Improved information on deployment failure.

  • Updated behavior of the end-to-end monitoring tool.

  • Updated empty templates.

  • Added possibility to add descriptions to entities.

Bug Fixes

  • Standardized utterances (bulk edit/list) to be case-sensitive.

  • Fixed a bug where the user got stuck in a continued listening block.

  • General fixes of permissions.

  • General UI/UX fixes.

Version 3.16.1 – October 7, 2021

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the registration of phone pipelines.

Version 3.16.0 – October 7, 2021

Improvements

  • UI Improvements.

  • Refined validation of utterances.

  • Added a button to jump to the start conversation node in the graph.

  • Updated DE + EN Empty Template.

Technical

  • Added another backup strategy.

  • Updated E2E Monitoring strategy.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several UI issues.

  • Fixed issue with disappearing SIP pipelines.

  • Fixed issues with autocomplete navigation.

  • Fixed issue with menu navigation.

  • Fixed crashing bulk edit modal.

Version 3.15.7 – October 1, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed missing resource requirements in NLU training jobs.

Version 3.15.6 – September 28, 2021

Patches

  • Changes in SIP registration process.

Version 3.15.5 – September 27, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed issue with instance creation.

  • Fixed issues with activation of instances.

Version 3.15.4 – September 22, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed issues with the training job.

Version 3.15.3 – September 22, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed release edit analytics hook issues.

Version 3.15.2 – September 21, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed overflowing note block.

  • Fixed broken speech model validation.

Version 3.15.1 – September 21, 2021

Patches

  • Fixed errors in the migration script.

Version 3.15.0 – September 21, 2021

Improvements

  • Added the possibility to create multiple pipelines of a release.

  • Intent confidence is no longer normalized. The change takes effect when the model is trained next.

  • Added possibility to download Phone 2 Rasa speech models.

  • Allowed choosing Belgium as a location for Dialogflow-based platform bots.

  • Split status of a deployment into its components (NLU/Phone-Gateway).

  • Automatic failover if STT service is down.

  • Preselected slot type can now be cleared.

  • Error in call control renamed to unsupported platform.

  • Various UX/UI Improvements.

Technical

  • Updated Kamailio DB on release creation and update.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issues with continue listening.

  • Fixed issues with STT hints.

  • Fixed a visual issue cutting labels of child nodes in the graph too early.

  • Fixed issues with regex slot value lists.

  • Fixed an issue with Automatic upload to DF when using an ML slot in the speech assets.

  • Fixed a UI bug with entrance and exit blocks in sub-dialogs.

  • Fixed a bug where the input of a continued listening block was used twice.

Version 3.14.7 – September 7, 2021

  • Increased JSON body limit to 4MB in Parloa API.

  • Added the environment variable JSON_BODY_LIMIT to override the default JSON body limit of 4MB.

Version 3.14.6 – August 31, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Enabled Prometheus alerts and notifications.

Version 3.14.5 – August 31, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed frontend default port being set to 80.

  • Applied fallback on all relevant intents separately.

  • Corrected names for relevant and all intents placeholders.

  • Ensured fallback does not remove all intents from ranking.

Version 3.14.4 – August 31, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed problem with import of large projects.

  • Added relevant intents and all intents ranking placeholders.

Version 3.14.3 – August 17, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed open connection in Redis.

  • Implemented Azure migration-related changes.

Version 3.14.1 – August 12, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed STT hints not being correctly set during a call.

  • Fixed NLU model loading issue with Rasa.

  • Addressed an error with Redis.

Version 3.14.0 – August 9, 2021

Improvements

  • Table UI improvements.

  • Only selected built-in intents will be considered by the NLU.

  • Updated entity creation flows and headers.

  • Several improvements to the dateTime built-in slot.

Bug Fixes

  • Large transactions will be truncated before saving.

  • Fixed errors not shown if Alexa invocation name validation fails.

Version 3.13.3 – August 6, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed bug in built-in slot selection.

Version 3.13.2 – August 3, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed issue where "Continue listening" does not capture input after continuing to listen (English).

  • Fixed the Phone Gateway not retrying speech synthesis with stripped SSML tags if the provided SSML was invalid.

Version 3.13.0 – July 27, 2021

Improvements

  • Added fields to pipeline settings.

  • Added user guidance to improve the speech model.

  • Added the possibility to enter a move-only mode in the graph when the user presses the space bar.

  • Added the possibility to deactivate a Phone 2 pipeline.

  • Improved the validation of Alexa invocation names.

  • Set default variable lifetime to session on creation.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug preventing a Dialogflow deployment when using an ML slot in the speech assets.

  • Fixed an issue where the pipeline is shown as offline even when it's online.

  • Fixed an issue in speech model generation if synonyms were used in a list slot.

  • Fixed an issue with the deletion of variables in a storage block.

  • Stopped excessive animations in the release scene.

Version 3.12.4 – July 23, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed audio speeding issues in Phone 2 releases.

Version 3.12.3 – July 22, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Rolled back to Mizu Version 8.6.21068.

Version 3.12.2 – July 21, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed looping pipeline reconciliation.

  • Converted audio to 16kHz before sending to Azure STT.

Version 3.12.1 – July 14, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Allowed setting endpointIds of Azure Speech Recognition models.

Version 3.12.0 – July 12, 2021

Improvements

  • Updated Duckling for better slot extraction.

  • Added a warning if a slot value is in multiple slots.

  • Shortened timeout for continue listening.

  • Set the default intent threshold to 30% instead of 0%.

UI/UX Improvements

  • Renamed "To Prev. State" to "To Previous State."

  • Changed "Save as Version" to a secondary CTA.

  • Fixed visibility of utterances in the training scene.

  • Updated Level-2 Navigation headers.

  • Updated SSML Attributes of Break Tag (either time or predefined value).

  • Unified behavior of modals.

  • Warning added when changes to the release might lead to dropped calls.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issues with the autocomplete input.

  • Fixed an issue causing a white screen of death (WSOD) when logging into Amazon in Alexa release after changing user.

Version 3.11.4 – July 6, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed an error where a user could not change their own password.

Version 3.11.1 – July 2, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Set re-prompt duration to 10 seconds.

  • Fixed Mizu None Bug.

Version 3.11.0 – June 29, 2021

Improvements

  • Added a fallback strategy if a TTS service fails.

  • Added the possibility to change the TTS voice of Phone 2 releases.

  • SSML errors will be handled gracefully in the engine.

Design Uplift

  • Updated some colors of headers.

  • Updated the stencil sidebar.

  • Added a border radius to the extended sidebars.

  • Reduced some paddings in the navigation.

  • Added a title in the deployment navigation header.

  • Updated the color usage.

UX Improvements

  • Changed wording in change e-mail form.

  • Added information why a conversation in training cannot be shown.

  • Added a warning if the session length is configured to be greater than 20 minutes.

  • Saved the routing level per project.

  • Provided better visual feedback if a slot type is not supported by a platform.

  • Added default attributes to SSML-Voice tags.

  • Changed the confidence level in training to a slider.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug which returned an Alexa production release twice.

  • Fixed issues where the menu does not expand back to default when there is enough space.

  • Fixed an issue that captured the user in a Monaco editor.

  • Fixed a bug leading to a crashing frontend when a choice of a service isn't a string.

  • Improved validation of customerIds in admin panel.

Dev-Ops Improvements

  • Fixed a problem where the database was OOM killed due to heavy queries.

Version 3.10.1 – June 24, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Set the re-prompt duration for all phone-v2 releases to 10 seconds.

  • Set the EndSilenceTimeoutMs for all phone-v2 releases to 0.

  • Fixed the issue that Alexa.Presentation.APL.UserEvent events weren't being responded with re/prompts and cards.

Version 3.10.0 – June 8, 2021

Improvements

  • Ensured retry of MongoDB read/write requests on failure.

  • Faster page load for large utterance lists.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue with "to continue listening" block resulting in wrong concatenated text after a NoMatch was returned.

  • DTMF Intent is hard-wired to DTMF Slot now; creating/deleting will create/delete the slot/intent as well.

  • Fixed issues with copying of nodes.

  • Fixed buggy telephone number input.

  • Fixed rendering issue in release creation modal.

Version 3.9.2 – May 27, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed issue in Phone 2 which made the bot hang up early at the end of a conversation.

Version 3.9.1 – May 26, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed issue when setting service branch names.

Version 3.9.0 – May 25, 2021

Changes

  • For Phone 1, the Dialogflow Service Key for Tenios now requires the permission actions.agent.get.

Improvements

  • Added possibility of grouping sessions from different instances.

  • Changed Rasa configuration to "balanced batch strategy."

  • Used the last intermediate result if a NoMatch is sent.

  • A NoMatch with an empty intermediate result will not reset the timer for the reprompt anymore.

  • Lengthened the time before the Reprompt is played by 3 seconds.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where analytics were sent to an old URL when using Alexa live releases.

  • Fixed issue with environment sidebar.

  • Fixed focusing issues with speech asset sidebar.

  • Removed DTMF slot from utterances autocomplete.

  • Fixed role selector in profile scene.

  • Fixed an issue causing neither further events nor a Reprompt to be triggered after a continued listening block.

Version 3.3.2 - February 25, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Updated transaction query to prevent a crashing API.

Version 3.3.1 - February 24, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed a falsy validation of slot names.

  • Fixed missing context object in session records.

  • Added API replicas.

Version 3.3.0 - February 23, 2021

Improvements

  • Reestablished the gRPC connection on termination.

  • Improved sorting of utterances in the training scene from newest to oldest.

  • Refined validation of speech asset names.

  • Added environment to all autocomplete fields.

  • Opened the sub-dialog selector by default if no sub-dialog is selected in a sub-dialog block.

  • Automatically removed unfinished autocomplete entries.

  • Made variables in debugger reducible and foldable.

  • Added duckling slot types to Parloa.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed unset pipeline resource limits.

  • Fixed missing slot names in JS IntelliSense.

  • Fixed glitches in PhoneV2.

  • Fixed saving issues in text snippets.

  • Fixed overflowing dialog names.

  • Fixed filters in the training scene.

  • Fixed a bug with the autocomplete input that prevented getting the focus.

  • Made filtered component in training scene wrap.

  • Fixed wrongly rendered warning message in the release scene.

  • Fixed a bug with unescaped transactions.

Tech - Enhancements

  • Integrated homer/helpify to debug SIP messages.

  • Created a backup of the cluster before deploying as part of deployment scripts.

Version 3.2.5 - February 22, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed crashing API.

Version 3.2.4 - February 18, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Addressed the issue of new pipelines not being created due to "Spaces inside the customerId."

Version 3.2.3 - February 16, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed the small dictionary sidebar.

  • Ensured Parloa does not unescape transactions in the transactions forwarder.

  • Fixed Dialogflow speech model containing slot name instead of role name.

Version 3.2.2 - February 11, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed sidebar widths.

  • Fixed deployment of new Parloa version scene.

Version 3.2.1 - February 10, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed setting container resource requirements.

  • Fixed non-scrolling sidebar.

Version 3.2.0 - February 10, 2021

Enhancements

  • Added the possibility to use dynamic entities via response merges for services.

  • PhoneV2 releases can now be edited.

  • Switched the phone (V1 - V2) platform icons.

  • Introduced surprises for the first release.

  • Moved slots to global.

  • Implemented new smart sidebars.

  • Aligned UI with guidelines.

  • Improved keyboard navigation in slot.

Tech - Enhancements

  • Made release updates forceable or scheduled.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect state in releases.

  • Addressed issue with overflowing text snippet labels.

  • Added missing support of intent threshold for phone v2.

  • Fixed broken undo of responses.

  • Fixed issues with unreachable releases in debugger.

Security

  • Addressed an issue with TLS.

Version 3.1.1 - January 26, 2021

Hotfixes

  • Fixed saving of SSML attributes.

  • Fixed the deployment screen.

Version 3.1.0 - January 26, 2021

Enhancements

  • Introduced specific responses for the phoneV2 platform.

  • Automated filling of example slot values in training.

  • Implemented a uniqueness check for service names.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where a re-prompt is fired while the user is speaking.

  • Addressed a wrong display message if the search for services does not deliver results.

  • Fixed issues with the call control block.

  • Removed unnecessary L2 - More menu item.

  • Fixed rendering of placeholders in SSML - audio tag URL field.

Security

  • Secured MongoDB access.

Version 3.0.0 - January 11, 2021

Enhancements

  • This major version introduces the new Parloa PhoneV2-Pipeline.

  • Added Phone V2 Releases.

  • Enabled the addition of example values to slots.

  • Standard releases are now used for phone debugging.

  • Templates are stored in the DB and can be added via UI.

  • Added new element (refer) to the Call Control Block.

  • Included timestamp to conversations in the training scene.

Bug Fixes

  • Removed icons from the submenu navigation.

  • Fixed the issue of removing intents.

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