New

Fix

• We migrated our internal git infrastructure to GitHub. More info
• Fixed an issue in our data retention service.
• Fixed an account permissions issue when deleting apps.

Improvement

Fix

• We improved the Front integration's retry logic. This will provide improved reliability under heavy user traffic. More info
• We improved our internal app database connection handling. This will improve app reliability under heavy app load.

New

• We upgraded to Python 3.10, check the docs for more detail on migrating your element code.
• All pushes to production and staging apps, as well as build image on dev app are now asynchronous. More detail here.
• Improved console user experience for app pushes.
• Improved app memory performance.
• Improved app infrastructure reliability.

New

• We improved the Console file browser speed for apps with large change histories.
• You can now view change history of a file in the Console file browser.

• We made a number of internal improvements & optimizations to the Console logs query engine.
• We've also added a number of new indexed searches to GridQL. See the GridQL docs for more detail.

Improvement

Fix

• Orb Web & Mobile now support defining headers and menus in BFML flows.

• Orb Web & Mobile headers also support a number of advanced features such as progress bars and milestone progress indicators.
• 🌐 We've made some improvements to the app runtime infrastructure across dev, staging and production apps.
• 🔧 Other fixes and minor improvements.

Launch

Fix

• 🏷 Apps now are classified by type and can be one of dev, staging or production.
• 🏷 The Console now shows the app state: stopped, running or error.
• 💲 You can now increase or decrease your dev, staging or production app quotas directly in the Console.
• 🌐 Orb Web SDK and Orb Mobile SDK now support rendering advanced form elements in full screen pages. Note, this feature is still in preview and should not be used for production bots.
• 🔧 Fix for some disconnect issues we've seen.
• 🔧 Other fixes and minor improvements.

Fix

• 🌐 We fixed a bug that resulted in occasional DB entry write errors during autoscaling.
• 🌐 Apps will now return the correct HTTP response codes for custom integrations.
• 🗓 We updated the Calendly component to use their new v2 API, and fixed the client side widget.

Improvement

Fix

1. 🌐 The Meya Gateway will now respond with 503 and a retry-after header instead of a 504.
2. 🌐 The Meya Gateway will also respond with 404 for incorrect integration IDs in webhook URLs.
3. 🌐 The Meya Gateway will respond with 500 if an error is raised in integration code. This includes built-in and custom integrations.
4. 🛡 You can now customize the TTL settings in the Sensitive Data integration.
5. 📱 Fixed a bug in Orb Mobile SDK where custom user/thread IDs were not being observed correctly.

Fix

✨ What's new

1. 📥 Improved Front automatic retries (now configurable)
2. 📥 Changed Front components to return an error result instead of failing on error
3. 📥 Added new Front components for better control and error handling during "create conversation"
4. 🧑‍💼 Fixed Salesforce Live Agent typing indicators
5. 🧑‍💼 Fixed Salesforce Live Agent bot transcript (no longer includes CSP events)
6. 📱 Fixed WhatsApp/Twilio invalid primary user ID issue
7. 📲 Fixed Orb Mobile compatibility with iOS simulator (using debug build)
8. 🌐 Added Orb Web (and Orb Mobile) option to disable image and/or file uploads

Launch

✨ What's new

1. 💬 New Facebook Messenger integration
2. 📲 Upgraded Orb Mobile SDK to Flutter sound null safety
3. 📥 Increased max Front attachment size
4. 📱 Added send file support to WhatsApp