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August 2020 (version 4.6.0-preview6)

Welcome to the August 2020 release of the Bot Framework SDK. We are introducing some exciting new features with Updates and Enhancements. This milestone we focused on all-up quality and engineering debt, broken down across the following pillars:

  • Documentation Includes improvements to existing documentation and net new documentation centered on recurring issues and developer pain points.

  • Customer Supportability Improvements focused on developers seeking assistance using the Bot Framework, tools and SDKs.

  • Customer Ask Implemented enhancements and feature requests from the developer community and 3rd parties using the Bot Framework SDK and tools.

  • Code Quality Enforcement of code styling and format rules, increased testing code coverage, and functional tests.

  • 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#] [JS] [Python] [CLI] 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

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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.

  • Code comment documentation
  • Samples readme improvements
  • SDK repository readme and wiki updates
  • New documents addressing recurring bot developer issues

Customer Supportability

BF Supportability GitHub

Developers using the Microsoft Bot Framework have many avenues for getting help. See additional resources 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 GitHub repositories

Customer Ask

BF Customer Ask GitHub

  • Additional Teams channel lifecycle events
  • Coordination of labels across Git Hub repositories
  • Add Locale to ConversationUpdate
  • Update CardAction to support alt text for images on buttons
  • Various bug fixes and telemetry improvements

Code Quality

  • 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

Team Agility

BF Team Agility GitHub

Improvements have been made across SDK repositories towards decreased CI pipeline times, improved testing, including both functional integration and unit tests.

Other Updates and Enhancements

  • Microsoft Teams Continued improvements to Microsoft Teams API support
  • Composer Advancements in Skills support and Cognitive Services integration
  • Web Chat Many Accessibility improvements
  • Emulator Bug fixes and updates

Microsoft Teams

  • SDK supprot for lifecyle events: ChannelRestored, TeamArchived, TeamUnarchived,TeamRestored, TeamDeleted, and TeamHardDeleted
  • InstallationUpdate activity type support
  • LinkToMessage added to MessageActionsPayload

Composer

  • The Bot Framework SDK continues to support the Bot Framework Composer.

See Composer 1.1.1 Release Notes

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

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

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