botkit - npm Package Versions

4.15.0

• Update dependencies to Bot Framework 4.15
• Update various dev dependencies and external libraries
• CHANGE: Correct from field to be user rather than bot with Slack button clicks. Thanks to @mdrichardson for the pull request.

4.10.0

• Update dependencies to Bot Framework 4.10.1

• Update some dev dependencies like lerna, eslint, etc.

• NEW: Additional support for Microsoft Teams! Read all about it or see these new methods in action

  • Bot workers spawned from the default adapter now feature bot.teams which is an instance to the TeamsInfo helper class.
  • Botkit now includes an optional middleware TeamsInvokeMiddleware for handling "invoke" responses from Teams including task modules.
  • Botkit now includes bot.replyWithTaskInfo() which can be used to respond to task module events. Read more about Task Modules

• FIX: Adjust mechanism for handling templates in channelData to avoid data loss. Thanks @ashitikov for the pull request

• FIX: Botkit will now spawn the appropriate botworker if a custom adapter is passed in. Thanks to @etiennellipse for reporting this issue!

4.9.0

• Update dependencies to Bot Framework 4.9

• Update some dev dependencies like lerna, mocha and nyc

• FIX: Allow size limits to be adjusted on the Express json and urlencoded parsers. Fixes #1941

• FIX: Allow bots to be spawned with null config. Thanks to @NxP4Code for this pull request

• FIX: Fix dynamic text field type definition. Thanks to @etienneellipse for this pull request

4.8.1

• FIX: Fixing a bug introduced in 4.8 pertaining to spawning proactive bots for Slack. #1937

4.8

In addition to fixing a bunch of bugs and adding some new features, this version brings Botkit up to date with Bot Framework's latest release - Change log here.

There are lots of interesting things happening in the Bot Framework world including a new GUI for dialog management called Bot Framework Composer, a new templating system called Language Generation, and more. Check out the main hub repo for more information.

NEW

• NEW: At long last, the convo.ask callbacks can receive the full incoming message payload in addition to the text content. This allows developers to use payload values inside quick replies, button clicks and other rich operations. Many thanks to @naikus for the effort and patience it took to get this in! PR #1801
• NEW: Multi-adapter support improved. Botkit will now spawn the appropriate type of Botworker when used in a multi-adapter scenario. See this example for a demonstration of using multiple adapters in a single bot app. Issue #1920
• NEW: Add support for Slack's v2 oauth. More details here. Thanks to @sfny for PR #1928
• NEW: Values in channelData will now be processed as Mustache templates inside BotkitConversations. Thanks @me-cedric for pr #1925
• NEW: New Dialog related features for determining if a bot is already in a conversation, including bot.hasActiveDialog(), bot.getActiveDialog(), and bot.isDialogActive()

FIXED

• FIX: Facebook Adapter will not attempt to set up web routes if webserver is not configured. #1916
• FIX: Exclude activity.conversation.properties field when generating state storage key. #1849
• FIX: Allow startConversationWithUser to work with Bot Framework Emulator. #1834
• FIX: Using beginDialog inside an ask() caused weird behaviors. Fixes for #1878 and #1932
• FIX: Webex - remove empty files key #1906
• FIX: Slack - authed_users added to message #1911
• Update: all dependencies to latest, including bot framework 4.7->4.8 and mustache 3.0 -> 4.0

4.6.1

Version 4.6.1 includes some security and bugfix updates along with bumping many dependencies to the latest versions. We recommend updating both Botkit core and your platform adapter to the latest version.

• Update Bot Framework dependencies to 4.7.1. Resolved #1882 and #1894.
• Remove hbs depencency from Botkit. Not used! Thanks @naktibaldi #1855
• Botkit feature modules can now be written in ES6 syntax. Thanks @cooperka!! #1854
• Allow attachmentLayout field in Botkit Conversations -- thanks @innorag #1865
• Update dependencies and some minor eslint syntax fixes across all the adapters and sub-packages.
• Fixes in botbuilder-adapter-slack
• Fixes in botbuilder-adapter-web

4.6

Version 4.6 includes security and bugfix updates to many dependencies, as well as fixes to some issues in Botkit core. We recommend updating both Botkit core and your platform adapter to the latest version.

New Features

• Add a new BotkitTestClient class that makes it possible to write unit tests for dialogs. See EXAMPLE UNIT TESTS HERE -- HUGE HUGE thanks to @qwertyuu for leading the effort on this!
• Support .ts (or parameterized) file extensions for loadModules Thanks to @mutmatt for the PR
• The text field in a BotkitConversations can now be a function, which can be used to generated internationalized strings. Thanks to @cooperka for the PR
• Add convo.stop() to allow conversation to be ended inside a handler.
• Update yeoman generator to make all environment variables UPPERCASE

Fixes

• Fix usePlugin parameter type declaration thanks to @etiennellipse
• Fix ask/addQuestion type signatures thanks to @etiennellipse
• Fix to how messages are constructed inside BotkitConversations. thanks to @adantoscano
• Fail with better error when thread not found Thanks to @cooperka
• correct mustache rendering from causing mutation of initial dialog script Thanks to @InnoraG
• Fix: allow BotkitPlugins to have additional fields Thanks to @roeintense
• Fix: resolve issues where calling cancelAllDialogs() would crash thanks to @etiennellipse
• Fix: resolve issue where calling cancelAllDialogs() could cause repeat thanks to @chahat-arora
• Fix: resolve issue where calling convo.repeat() would cause errors thanks to akshaykonjier and also to @etiennellipse

This update includes the following packages:

• Botkit v4.6.0
• generator-botkit v4.6.0
• botbuilder-adapter-web v1.0.5
• botbuilder-adapter-slack v1.0.6
• botbuilder-adapter-webex v1.0.4
• botbuilder-adapter-facebook v1.0.6
• botbuilder-adapter-hangouts v1.0.4
• botbuilder-adapter-twilio-sms v1.0.4
• botkit-plugin-cms v1.0.3

0.7.5

A maintenance release to the legacy branch was released as 0.7.5.

• Update out of date dependencies to address security issues
• Add support for Slack's new modals

4.5

We're skipping a few version numbers here to keep in sync with the rest of Microsoft Bot Framework. Welcome to Botkit 4.5! This release contains a host of improvements and bug fixes affecting Botkit's conversation system, as well the behavior of some of the platform adapters. We recommend that all developers currently using Botkit v4 upgrade to 4.5.

Specific Changes:

• NEW: It is now possible to create dynamic quick replies, and attachments within a BotkitConversation. See full docs.

• NEW: Previously, there was no way to bind middleware to the internally created Express webserver. It is now possible to do so using the webserver_middlewares parameter. Full docs

• NEW: Quick replies and suggestedActions are now procssed as mustache templates. Thanks to @InnoraG for the pull request.

• NEW: Slack block actions and other button clicks now are message type events and get included in dialogs. Thanks to @apemberton for the pull request.

• NEW: The key name passed in to convo.ask and convo.addQuestion can now be set to null in order to discard the answer. Thanks to @adantoscano for the pull request

• FIX: Botkit will no longer improperly prune platform specific fields like quick replies and attachments specified inside BotkitConversations. Fix for #1664, #1679, and #1699.

• FIX: The text field in BotkitConversations was expected to always be an array, causing some confusion. It is now possible to pass in a string OR an array. Passing an array will cause Botkit to choose a random entry in the array for the message text.

• FIX: Several updates have been made to the middleware pipeline so that it better matches expected behavior. The receive and send middlewares will now fire for every incoming message - previously, there were cases where these would not fire. Thanks to @adantoscano for this pull request and also this one.

• FIX: The method for passing in a URI for communicating with Botkit CMS has been made more reliable, thanks to @adantoscano. See #1675 and #1677.

• FIX: Webex adapter has been updated to better support file uploads. Thanks to @Teamop for the pull request

• FIX: Improve mapping of Bot Framework "Activity" fields. Thanks to @Naktibalda for the pull request.

• FIX: Expand typedefs for Slack dialogs. Thanks to @roger-king for the pull request

• UPDATE: Update to v4.5.2 of all Bot Framework packages

• UPDATE: ws websocket module updated to v7.1.1

This update includes the following packages:

• Botkit v4.5.0
• generator-botkit v4.5.0
• botbuilder-adapter-web v1.0.4
• botbuilder-adapter-slack v1.0.4
• botbuilder-adapter-webex v1.0.2
• botbuilder-adapter-facebook v1.0.4
• botbuilder-adapter-hangouts v1.0.3
• botbuilder-adapter-twilio-sms v1.0.2
• botkit-plugin-cms v1.0.2