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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:

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). This milestone we focused on all-up quality and engineering debt, broken down across the following pillars:

- [Documentation](#Documentation) Includes improvements to existing documentation and net new documentation centered on recurring issues and developer pain points.

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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.

**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!

## Documentation
[BF Docs GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Docs%22)
[BF Docs GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Docs%22+label%3AR10)

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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- New documents addressing recurring bot developer issues

## Customer Supportability
[BF Supportability GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Supportability%22)

[BF Supportability GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Supportability%22+label%3AR10)

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.

- 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
- Coordination of labels across `GitHub` repositories

## Customer Ask
[BF Customer Ask GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Customer+Ask%22)
[BF Customer Ask GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Customer+Ask%22+label%3AR10)

- Additional Teams channel lifecycle events
- Improved `Applicaition Insights` integration
- Improved `Application Insights` integration
- Coordination of labels across `Git Hub` repositories
- Add Locale to `ConversationUpdate`
- Update `CardAction` to support alt text for images on buttons
- Update `Skill Handler` to return `Resource Response`
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- Integration tests with Direct Line JS and adaptive cards

## Team Agility
[BF Team Agility GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Agility%22)

[BF Team Agility GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Agility%22+label%3AR10)

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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## Microsoft Teams

- SSO support
- SDK and `OAuthPrompt` now support Teams SSO
- Increased `Adaptive Dialog` support for Teams events
- SDK supprot for lifecyle events: `ChannelRestored`, `TeamArchived`, `TeamUnarchived`,`TeamRestored`, `TeamDeleted`, and `TeamHardDeleted`
- `InstallationUpdate` activity type support
- `LinkToMessage` added to `MessageActionsPayload`

## Bot Framework CLI Tools
- `Lg` added as BF-CLI core plugin
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- 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

## 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.

- [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

- [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/).

**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!

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