2.14.0

This release introduces support for customizing your skill’s experience for Echo Auto, which is now shipping to select customers via our invite program, and vehicles and other aftermarket devices that support Alexa Auto. The automotive experience introduces another way for customers to interact with skills, while they are on-the-go and their attention is on the road. Now you can adapt your skill experience to be succinct, location-aware, and adaptive to your customer’s needs while they’re outside the home.

2.13.0

This release introduces a RequestHelper utility class which makes it easier to retrieve common properties from an incoming request.

2.12.0

This release adds support for the following features:

• Support for the Proactive Events API and the ProactiveSubscriptionChanged skill event. The ProactiveEvents API enables Alexa Skill Developers to send events to Alexa, which represent factual data that may interest a customer. Upon receiving an event, Alexa proactively delivers the information to customers subscribed to receive these events. The service client provided by the SDK for Proactive Events can be used within the context of a skill or from another service.
• Expose raw request JSON through HandlerInput (#178)

2.11.3

This release includes the following improvements:

• Add ability to disable servlet request signature verification
• Add a constructor to support tolerance for various time units (#174)
• Allow PlayBehavior to be set on ResponseBuilder speech and reprompt helpers (#176)

2.11.2

This release updates the SDK's Jackson dependency to version 2.9.8 to address CVE-2018-19360.

2.11.1

This release adds support for the PlayBehavior property on OutputSpeech.

2.11.0

This release adds support for the Alexa Reminders API.

2.10.0

This release adds support for location services. Location services provide Alexa skills with the customer's current device location in geo-coordinate format, while protecting customer privacy.

2.9.2

This release includes the following changes:

• Ability to disable servlet request signature verification #163
• Introduction of typed request handler interfaces (for example, the IntentRequestHandler). These interfaces offer skill developers a simplified option for writing request handlers for a particular type of request without having to deal with type checking and casting. The base RequestHandler interface continues to be supported and should be used when a handler supporting multiple types of requests is desired.

2.9.1

This release add ability to attach pre-existing Card to ResponseBuilder, #148.