{"id":26709,"date":"2021-02-11T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/v9-0\/?p=26709"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:10:42","slug":"8-1-x-release-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/v9-0\/docs\/bots\/whats-new\/8-1-x-release-details\/","title":{"rendered":"8.1.x Release Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>This page gives full details of the various platform releases and the corresponding features that were updated\/enhanced in version 8.1.x of the platform.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v8110_May_29th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.10 May 29th 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Release<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Following is a list of few updates.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bot Store<\/td>\n<td>Explore the prebuilt templates and solution accelerators at Kore.ai Store. Install the one that suits your business, and customize it to your needs. (<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"\/docs\/bots\/bot-store\/bot-store-2\/\">know more<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Natural Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Knowledge Graph<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reference Id<\/strong> can be defined for each of the FAQs present in the KG. This is particularly useful to cross-reference between external content management systems and the FAQs added to the KG.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Display Name<\/strong> can be used to present a different statement to the user in case of ambiguity resolution so that the users can have a better experience to resolve the ambiguity.<br \/>\n(<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"\/docs\/bots\/bot-builder-tool\/knowledge-task\/creating-a-knowledge-graph\/\">know more<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Language<\/td>\n<td>Catalan language has been introduced.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v819_May_15th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.9 May 15th 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Release<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Following is a list of few updates.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Natural Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Entity Processing<\/td>\n<td>A new entity rule, <strong>returnOnlyMonthYear<\/strong>, has been introduced to extract the month and year from user input and to ignore the date part, (<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"\/docs\/bots\/how-tos\/entity-rules\/#Date_type_entity\">know more<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v818_May_1st_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.8 May 1st 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Release<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v816_Apr_17th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.6 Apr 17th, 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Update<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v815_Apr_4th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.5 Apr 4th 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Release<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Following is a list of few updates.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Channel Support<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Webhook Channel<\/td>\n<td>Option to View the JWE token from the Webhook Channel configuration has been provided (<a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/channel-enablement\/adding-webhook-channel\/\">know more<\/a>).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Voice Channels<\/td>\n<td>Call Control Parameters has been introduced to support managing the call behavior for the IVR (referred to as VXML properties) and AudioCodes Channel (referred to as Session Parameters)(<a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/bot-builder-tool\/dialog-task\/voice-call-properties\/\">know more<\/a>).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v814_Mar_20th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.4 Mar 20th, 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Update<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v812_Mar_9th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.2 Mar 9th, 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Update<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Following is a list of few updates.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Natural Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Entity Processing<\/td>\n<td>A new entity rule, <strong>preferredDateFormat<\/strong>, has been introduced to automatically resolve date in case of ambiguity, for example 2-3-2021, or 12\/11\/2020, (<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"\/docs\/bots\/how-tos\/entity-rules\/#Date_type_entity\">know more<\/a><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v811_Mar_5th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.1 Mar 5th, 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minor Update<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"v8100_Feb_20th_2021\"><\/span>v8.1.00 Feb 20th 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Major Release<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following is a list of feature enhancements addressed in this release.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Bot Builder<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Universal Bot<\/td>\n<td>Universal Bot enhancements include the ability to define ML Threshold per linked bot, pass Eligible Linked Bots from Web\/Mobile SDKs (<a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/advanced-topics\/universal-bot\/training-a-universal-bot\/#Eligible_Bots\">know more<\/a>), define the event behavior by choosing the tasks from linked bots (<a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/advanced-topics\/universal-bot\/customizing-the-universal-bots-default-dialog-task\/#Sentiment_Management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">know more<\/a>).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Miscellaneous<\/td>\n<td>The message presented to the end-user for obtaining authorization to connect to external systems can be customized using the <strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">koreUtil.getCurrentOptions()<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0function.\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\" href=\"\/docs\/bots\/advanced-topics\/koreutil-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Natural Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Contextual NLU<\/td>\n<td>Enhanced Group Node functionality to enable scoping, training, and control the behavior of sub-intents. These features would ensure an improved user experience with follow-ups, digressions, and amending entity values. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/bot-builder-tool\/dialog-task\/grouping-nodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a><br \/>\nSupport for Multiple Intent Models within a virtual assistant to simplify the training of sub-intents without adding noise or impacting the training given for the primary intents of your bot. In this approach, all the primary intents of the bot being a part of the Bot Level Intent Model, and each of the Dialog tasks having its own ML Model consisting of all the sub-intents added to it. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/nlp\/user-utterances\/#Multiple_Intent_Model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<br \/>\nSupport for training sub-intents with entities using NER. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/nlp\/user-utterances\/#Adding_Machine_Learning_Utterances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Entity Processing<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Entity Rules<\/strong> can be defined to enable business rules for validating the input for an entity node. Earlier these rules had to be set using a script node, now you can define these rules from the Instance Property of the Entity Node. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/bot-builder-tool\/dialog-task\/working-with-the-entity-node\/#Configure_the_Instance_Properties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"nl-behavior\">NL Training<\/td>\n<td><strong>Bot training<\/strong> can be further refined by configuring the following additional settings for the NL engines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the ability to customize the <strong>Ranking and Resolver Engine<\/strong> configurations, you can now choose the elimination rules, normalization of scoring, and thus control the winning intent selection behavior. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/nlp\/nlp-detection\/#Thresholds_Configuration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Network Type<\/strong>, Transformer, has been introduced to support sentence encoder. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/nlp\/advanced-nlp-configurations\/#Network_Type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Export option for the <strong>K-fold cross-validation<\/strong> reports has been introduced. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/nlp\/ml-model\/#K-fold_Cross-Validation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trait support in <strong>Batch Testing<\/strong> has been enhanced. This includes the triggering of true positive when the traits are matched over and above the expected matches. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/test-your-bot\/batch-testing\/batch-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Support for <strong>understanding emojis<\/strong> present in the user utterance. <a href=\"\/docs\/bots\/nlp\/fundamental-meaning\/#Emoji_Support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Bot Analytics<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chat History<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to set a custom message (instead of the original message) in the Chat History from BotKit.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to view chat history against the entries in Debug logs.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to merge conversation sessions of an anonymous user (pre-login) and known user (post-login) from SDK Channel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Miscellaneous<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">API to modify the Thresholds and Configurations, and Advanced NLP Settings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">API to create, run and manage Batch Test Suites<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">API for enabling Web\/Mobile SDK, Webhook, Slack, and MS Teams channels<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"30%\">Feature<\/th>\n<th>Enhancement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Language Support Updates<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>New Languages<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Norwegian<\/li>\n<li>Hindi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Channel Updates<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>Mattermost configuration updates for Websocket based integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Enterprise Features<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support for Multi-region Deployment (For on-prem customers)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audit logs for capturing User Management changes triggered using Public APIs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ability to enforce the use of JTI Claims<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ability to enforce the use of JWE Encryption<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Ability to store multiple value sets for Environment Variables so that the appropriate variable set can be selected while promoting the bot definition to a different environment without manual intervention. (For on-prem customers). Know more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Security &amp; Performance<\/td>\n<td>Node.js have been upgraded.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page gives full details of the various platform releases and the corresponding features that were updated\/enhanced in version 8.1.x of the platform. v8.1.10 May 29th 2021 Minor Release This update was mainly aimed at addressing some minor bugs. Following is a list of few updates. 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