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| # August 2020 (version 4.10.0) | ||
| Welcome to the August 2020 release of the Bot Framework SDK. We are introducing some exciting [Additional New Features](#Additional-New-SDK-Features) with [Updates and Enhancements](#Other-Updates-and-Enhancements) primarily focused in five key pillars: | ||
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| - [Documentation](#Documentation) Includes improvements to existing documentation and net new documentation centered on recurring issues and developer pain points. | ||
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| - [Customer Supportability](#Customer-Supportability) Improvements focused on developers seeking assistance using the Bot Framework, tools and SDKs. | ||
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| - [Customer Ask](#Customer-Ask) Implemented enhancements and feature requests from the developer community and 3rd parties using the Bot Framework SDK and tools. | ||
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| - [Code Quality](#Code-Quality) Enforcement of code styling and format rules, increased testing code coverage, and functional tests. | ||
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| - [Team Agility](#Team-Agility) Improved validation of SDK code and integration with supporting libraries and environments. Continuous integarion and build pipleline improvements. | ||
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| ## Documentation | ||
| [BF Docs GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Docs%22) | ||
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| Following feedback from customers and the Bot Framework Support Team, a number of net new documents have been written as well as updates to existing documentation. These are helpful towards providing answers and information relating to recurring issues from bot developers. | ||
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| - Code comment documentation | ||
| - Samples readme improvements | ||
| - SDK repository readme and wiki updates | ||
| - New documents addressing recurring bot developer issues | ||
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| ## Customer Supportability | ||
| [BF Supportability GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Supportability%22) | ||
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| Developers using the Microsoft Bot Framework have many avenues for getting help. See [additional resources](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-resources-links-help) Internal tools have been improved to increase the responsiveness of the engineering team in areas of most interest to developers. | ||
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| - Creation of internal bots and improved tools for customer support | ||
| - Improved analytics of trends in customer reported feature requests and issues | ||
| - Coordination of labels across `Git Hub` repositories | ||
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| ## Customer Ask | ||
| [BF Customer Ask GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Customer+Ask%22) | ||
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| - Additional Teams channel lifecycle events | ||
| - Improved `Applicaition Insights` integration | ||
| - Add Locale to `ConversationUpdate` | ||
| - Update `CardAction` to support alt text for images on buttons | ||
| - Update `Skill Handler` to return `Resource Response` | ||
| - Release of library using latest `Azure Blobs` storage | ||
| - Enable custom fields for `Entity` | ||
| - Fixes to OAuthPrompt timeout and addition of EndOnInvalidMessage | ||
| - Various bug fixes and telemetry improvements | ||
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| ## Code Quality | ||
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| - Analyzer rules in place and running (code style and format) | ||
| - Unit test code coverage and quality | ||
| - Increased profiling of the code base | ||
| - Swagger file unified across SDK repositories and version # introduced | ||
| - Specific SDKs asks and needs: | ||
| - Settings object pattern for C# adapters | ||
| - LG dependent files testing (C#) | ||
| - Dependency policing (JS) | ||
| - Integration tests with Direct Line JS and adaptive cards | ||
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| ## Team Agility | ||
| [BF Team Agility GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Agility%22) | ||
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| Improvements have been made across SDK repositories towards decreased CI pipeline times, improved testing, including both functional integration and unit tests. | ||
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| ### Speed | ||
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| - Reduce time to build for SDKs (local and remote) | ||
| - Reduce SDK unit test duration through refactoring and/or concurrent approaches | ||
| - Refactor ADO pipelines into smaller, separate jobs or stages | ||
| - Run as-applicable pipelines (e.g. no style-checks on .yaml files) | ||
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| ### Reliability | ||
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| - Refine or replace current monorepo/”mono-solution” setups as necessary | ||
| - Address nondeterministic build/test failures | ||
| - Enable continuous integration for forked pull request submissions | ||
| - Complete integration tests added with bots dynamically created | ||
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| ## Other Updates and Enhancements | ||
| * [Microsoft Teams](#Microsoft-Teams) Continued improvements to Microsoft Teams API support | ||
| * [Bot Framework CLI Tools](#Bot-Framework-CLI-Tools) `Lg` added as core plugin, publish preview builds to npm, other improvements | ||
| * [Bot Builder Samples](#Samples) Readme updates, CI improvements, new Teams `Typescript` samples | ||
| * [Composer](#Composer) Advancements in Skills support and Cognitive Services integration | ||
| * [Web Chat](#Web-Chat) Many Accessibility improvements | ||
| * [Emulator](#Emulator) Bug fixes and updates | ||
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| ## Microsoft Teams | ||
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| - SSO support | ||
| - Increased `Adaptive Dialog` support for Teams events | ||
| - SDK supprot for lifecyle events: `ChannelRestored`, `TeamArchived`, `TeamUnarchived`,`TeamRestored`, `TeamDeleted`, and `TeamHardDeleted` | ||
| - `InstallationUpdate` activity type support | ||
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| ## Bot Framework CLI Tools | ||
| - `Lg` added as BF-CLI core plugin | ||
| - Enhancements and fixes to `lu` parser | ||
| - `QnaMaker` support extended | ||
| - Publish daily builds and RCs of `botframework-cli` to npm | ||
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| ## Samples | ||
| - Readme updates and consolidation across language samples | ||
| - Build pipelines for samples CI | ||
| - Demonstreate using Locale in `ConversationUpdate` welcome message sample | ||
| - Additional Teams samples in [Typescript](https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/typescript_nodejs) | ||
| - Teams `TaskModule` samples now includes [HTML/JavaScript task modules](https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/platform/task-modules-and-cards/what-are-task-modules#task-module-css-for-htmljavascript-task-modules) | ||
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| ## Composer | ||
| - The Bot Framework SDK continues to support the `Bot Framework Composer`. | ||
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| See Composer [1.1.0 Release Notes](https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/blob/main/releases/1.1.0.md) | ||
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| ## Web Chat | ||
| - Many accessibility improvements and fixes | ||
| - Group activity by timestamp and sender | ||
| - Convert emoticon to Emoji | ||
| - Added scrolling API: allow save/restore scroll position and scroll to specific activity | ||
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| ## Emulator | ||
| - Added an additional log panel entry on conversation start that displays the current bot's endpoint | ||
| - Fixed a bug where trying to open the sign-in link on an OAuth card when ngrok was not configured would cause the Windows File Explorer to open | ||
| - Improved CONTRIBUTING.md to more accurately reflect requisites to build the Emulator from source | ||
| - Updates to Cosmos DB service editor dialog | ||
| - Upgrded Web Chat to 4.10.0 | ||
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| ## Additional New SDK Features | ||
| - [Orchestrator](https://aka.ms/bf-orchestrator): Transformer based solution that runs locally with your bot to dispatch across one or more [Bot Builder Skills](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-skills-overview) or [LUIS](https://www.luis.ai/) applications or [QnA Maker](https://www.qnamaker.ai/) Knowledgebase. | ||
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| - [Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Queues](Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Queues) (preview) Enables more easily interacting with [Azure Queues](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/queues/storage-queues-introduction) and `ContinueConversationLater` Dialog | ||
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| - [Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Blobs](Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Blobs) `BlobsStorage` and `BlobsTranscriptStore` implementations replacing `AzureBlobStorage` and `AzureBlobTranscriptStore`. This library uses [Azure.Storage.Blobs](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.Storage.Blobs) and is a replacement for the older [Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob/) used by [Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure/). | ||
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| **Insiders**: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build [[C#](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet/blob/master/UsingMyGet.md)] [[JS](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-js/blob/master/UsingMyGet.md)] [[Python](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-python/blob/master/UsingTestPyPI.md)] [[CLI](https://github.com/Microsoft/botframework-cli#nightly-builds)] and try the latest updates as soon as they are available. And for the latest Bot Framework news, updates, and content, follow us on Twitter @msbotframework! |