This is the release information for the Bots Platform v5.0 released on Sep 13, 2017.

• Debugging and Error Handling Enhancements – Enhancement to bot debug capability with detailed logging of all back-end (NLP & platform) and user actions for dialog tasks, action tasks and bot level functions like standard responses, hold and resume etc.
• Improved Formatting – Platform capability to request for List of values (Entity) and confirmation using channel specific display templates.
• Developer Cheat Commands – Developer commands (‘cheat developer on’ and ‘cheat developer off’) can be used to talk to the bot from any channel with a persona of the bot developer.
• Session Usage stats in Bot Admin Dashboard – Information about session usage is now displayed in Admin Console Dashboard
• Dialog Tasks – Option to delete upgrades of a Dialog Task is added.
• Confirmation Node – Transition options for a confirmation node now includes new option No. Bot can transition based on a negative (“No”) response from the user.
• Entities – List of Values – Support for exact matches.
• Botkit SDK – Enhancement to Botkit SDK to support integration with external NLP engines.
• Reports – Reports generated as bot responses can be downloaded as PDF files.
• Yammer – Yammer channel is added.
• End users can have parallel conversations with multiple bots built on Kore.ai Bots Platform.