Genesys Cloud - Deprecations and announcements category

List of the Genesys Cloud release notes that include Deprecations and announcements updates.
December 9, 2024

Customer engagement

  • 2024 Genesys CIDR expansion and firewall requirements notification

Account management

  • Control scripts access based on division membership

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Native voice transcription support for Swiss German
  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Spanish

Employee productivity

  • Voicemail push notifications in Communicate mobile app

Open platform

  • CX Cloud from Genesys and Salesforce language support
  • Supporting links for operational event details

Self service and automation

  • Track and optimize flow size with enhanced insights

Workforce engagement

  • Improved workforce management schedule editor agent filter and sort
  • Workforce management weekly staffing requirements with ABM forecasts
  • Improved deferred workload prediction algorithm

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: Agent Assist AI Experience tokens provisioning

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November 4, 2024

Customer engagement

  • 2024 Genesys CIDR expansion and firewall requirements notification
  • Agent Copilot summarization model improvement
  • Introducing Architect workitem flows for enhanced work automation
  • Expanded customer identification with non-E.164 numbers

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Enhanced interaction visibility in agent status widget
  • Sentiment and agent empathy analysis for Swiss German language

Open platform

  • Additional conversation events for the Operational Console

Self Service & Automation

  • Agent Copilot extended support for Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish languages

Self service and automation

  • Architect toolbox search option

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: Nuance Recognizer as a Service, Nuance TTS, and Nuance Mix Dialog Bot

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October 28, 2024

Customer engagement

  • 2024 Genesys CIDR expansion and firewall requirements notification
  • Active callback columns for performance views

Account management

  • Simplified customer firewall requirements

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Notification API voice transcription number normalcy for Portuguese and Spanish languages

Employee productivity

  • Agent Copilot support for Dutch, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish languages
  • Multi contextual panels

Self service and automation

  • Introducing Genesys Cloud Virtual Agent
  • Drag and drop in Architect builders
  • Content based search for knowledge articles

Workforce engagement

  • Workforce management read-only continuous forecasting
  • Configurable time-to-live (TTL) for auto-generated recording URLs

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October 7, 2024

Customer engagement

  • 2024 Genesys CIDR expansion and firewall requirements notification
  • Metrics for improved workitem volume forecasting
  • IMAP integration for inbound email

Account management

  • Improved Genesys Cloud storage cost calculator

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Content Search lookback for words and phrases extended to 60 days
  • Flow insights overlay for flow performance analysis

Employee productivity

  • Disable WebRTC audio and alert notifications in the embedded client
  • Preferred device profiles
  • Improved summarization readability and efficiency for agents

Open platform

  • Guided setup experience for CX Cloud installation

Self service and automation

  • Architect Get Participant Data and Set Participant Data in voice and digital bot flows

Workforce engagement

  • Enhanced agent and supervisor activity overview screen
  • Workforce management notifications for process automation triggers
  • Workforce management Business Unit/Management Unit and Time Zone placement in views

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: Nuance Recognizer as a Service, Nuance TTS, and Nuance Mix Dialog Bot
  • Deprecation: Google Agent Assist for Genesys Cloud

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July 15, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Introducing the Queue routing performance view
  • Generic SIP station support in cloud media
  • Web tracking API public endpoint

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Arabic dialects

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: Supervisor for iPad app
  • Deprecation: Predictive Engagement support for ACD Web Chat 2.0

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June 24, 2024

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • View speech and text analytics data for a year at a time

Customer engagement

  • Granular control for clearing or signing out of web visit or journey sessions

Self service and automation

  • HELD (HTTP Enabled Location Delivery) for E911 Location Information

Workforce engagement

  • Interaction recording download tracking in audit trail

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: Open messaging inbound endpoint

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June 10, 2024

Account management

  • Simplified customer firewall requirements

Customer engagement

  • Enhanced message delivery status in messenger widget

Employee productivity

  • Knowledge workbench Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Polish, and Korean language support
  • Insights app for iOS
  • Direct voicemail non-ACD call transfer for enhanced call management

Open platform

  • Enhanced AudioHook Monitor configuration and migration process

Self service and automation

  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Basque (EU), and Swedish language support

Workforce engagement

  • SCORM 1.2 learning standard conformance
  • Learning module improvements

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: ACD Web Chat 2.0 (Rest API)
  • Deprecation: Using Internet Explorer 11 for Genesys Cloud authentication

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June 3, 2024

Account management

  • Enhanced ACD Skills and Languages menu

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Email notifications for expiring and expired scheduled exports
  • Introducing Architect Journey Flows for inbound and secure call flows

Open platform

  • Genesys Cloud Voice currencies and inbound list pricing regional availability
  • Poly VVX hostname format

Self service and automation

  • Enhanced AudioHook Monitor configuration and migration process

Self service and automation

  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Taiwanese language support

Deprecations

  • Deprecation postponement: Legacy alerting system

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May 20, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Auto-answer functionality for agents in preview campaigns
  • Dynamic edge resource utilization for automated outbound dialing

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Improved interval granularity for ad-hoc exports
  • Edit and rerun scheduled exports
  • Export panel enhancements

Employee productivity

  • Genesys Agent Assist summarization Spanish support (preview)
  • Genesys Tempo Chinese Simplified Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian language support

Self service and automation

  • Knowledge workbench Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish language support
  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows, Genesys Digital Bot Flows, knowledge workbench, and digital Genesys Agent Assist Chinese (Traditional/Cantonese) language support
  • BYOC Cloud TLS X.509 certificates
  • Architect data tables user interface updates

Workforce engagement

  • Insights visual charting for supervisors

Deprecations

  • Deprecation: BYOC Premises Edge Remote Survivability
  • Deprecation: Active screen recordings UI

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May 13, 2024

Customer engagement

  • View and edit imported data via the user interface in the Contact List editor
  • Dynamic outcome targeting in Predictive Engagement action maps

Self service and automation

  • Arabic language support for voice and digital bot flows, knowledge workbench, intent miner, and Agent Assist
  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Chinese (Simplified/Mandarin), Korean, and Polish language support

Deprecation

  • Deprecation: Adobe data actions integration removal

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April 29, 2024

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Enhanced toast, email, or SMS notification alerts
  • Enhanced alerts management
  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Korean dialect

Employee productivity

  • Genesys Agent Assist summarization moved to the ACW pane
  • Push notifications on Collaborate for Android regardless of presence or status

Self service and automation

  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Finnish language support
  • Control knowledge behavior from start to finish in Architect digital bot flows
  • Evaluate schedule groups in Architect bots and digital bots before ACD transfer

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation postponement: Legacy alerting system

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April 22, 2024

Account management

  • Web surveys in Genesys Cloud EX

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Analytics data masking options
  • Sentiment and agent empathy analysis for Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish languages
  • Improved sentiment analysis for French and Spanish languages
  • Speech analytics in Genesys Cloud EX
  • Agent empathy analysis

Employee productivity

  • Agent desktop email user interface enhancements
  • Headset call control buttons in embedded clients

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Legacy historical adherence query route
  • Deprecation: Native LINE third-party messaging channel

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April 8, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Outbound WhatsApp message on behalf of a queue
  • File attachments via supported content profile

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Edit and rerun scheduled exports
  • Export panel enhancements
  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Spanish dialects

Employee productivity

  • Push notifications on Collaborate for iOS regardless of presence or status

Self service and automation

  • Introducing the Nuance Recognizer as a Service integration
  • Improved flow size indicator in Architect
  • Introducing the Audio Connector integration

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Mobile Messenger SDK for React Native apps
  • Deprecation: Native X (formerly Twitter) third-party direct messaging channel

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April 1, 2024

Account management

  • Operational console to monitor and view operational events

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Portuguese dialects

Customer engagement

  • Enhanced search capability within skill expression groups

Workforce engagement

  • Leaderboard view disabled for organizations with disabled gamification
  • Change forecast associated with a schedule
  • Recording bulk action API improvement for aged recording management

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation postponement: Legacy alerting system

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March 25, 2024

Employee productivity

  • Conversation summarization with Genesys Agent Assist for Voice
  • Agent dashboard email component update

Open platform

  • Audit Viewer alternate search parameters support

Workforce engagement

  • Inbound and outbound filter for gamification metrics

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation postponement: Active screen recordings UI

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March 18, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Outbound digital campaigns event triggers for post-contact interactions
  • Enable and disable email threading

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Canned reports
  • Deprecation: Legacy alerting system

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March 11, 2024

Workforce engagement

  • Automated time-off approval for grouped agents

Self service and automation

  • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Catalan language support

Employee productivity

  • Genesys Agent Assist knowledge article feedback
  • Public APIs for Collaborate chat room management and chat messages
  • Remove users from Collaborate chat rooms

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Italian

Customer engagement

  • Skills-based dialing for Preview and Progressive campaigns
  • Configure labels to manage interactions
  • Genesys Cloud Voice in Italy
  • Refreshed Predictive Engagement user interface

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Outbound Search Audits view
  • Deprecation: Native X (formerly Twitter) third-party direct messaging channel

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February 28, 2024

Self service and automation

  • Improved utterance confusion resolution in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for German

Customer engagement

  • Specify queue in scheduled callbacks
  • Surface article variations by Predictive Engagement segments for the Messenger Knowledge App
  • ACD conferences
  • Predictive engagement new and replaced operators

Deprecations and announcements

  • Scheduled hybrid organization migrations

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February 14, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Enhanced pacing control in dialing campaigns
  • Co-browse for voice via Messenger
  • Deploy Messenger without web messaging
  • Messenger JavaScript SDK toaster plugin
  • Enhanced external contacts data access control for agents

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Spanish

Self service and automation

  • Customize knowledge touchpoints for Predictive Engagement customer and journey attributes

Workforce engagement

  • APIs to integrate external learning modules

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Adobe data actions integration removal
  • Deprecation: Pointillist Community

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February 7, 2024

Account management

  • API for platform limit event alert

Customer engagement

  • Message routing admin page user interface enhancements
  • Improved on-demand Messenger launcher visibility
  • Active Total Callback column in Performance views
  • WhatsApp monthly recurring charge removal

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Dutch
  • Topic miner queue selection increase

Resource center

  • Genesys Cloud release notes enhancements

Self service and automation

  • Export utterance history data from Architect bot flows and digital bot flows
  • Intent miner Portuguese language support

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Legacy historical adherence query route

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January 24, 2024

Data analytics and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for Japanese

Employee productivity

  • Enhancement of inactivity timeout in embedded clients

Open platform

  • Osaka, UAE, and Zurich region deployments

Workforce engagement

  • Suppress recording when a call is on hold

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Legacy ACD web chat
  • Deprecation: Google Agent Assist for Genesys Cloud
  • Deprecation: Legacy co-browse and screenshare

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January 17, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Advanced input file pre-processing
  • Additional file format support for contact lists

Open platform

  • Portuguese language support

Self service and automation

  • Historical execution data for Architect bot flows and digital bot flows

Workforce engagement

  • Workforce management navigation menu grouping
  • Staffing requirements and performance metrics in the Schedules screen

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Legacy alerting system

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January 10, 2024

Customer engagement

  • Improved digital agent-to-agent transfer
  • Increased number of outcomes limit

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Sensitive data masking French and Italian language support
  • View daily agent login and logout activity for multiple agents
  • Enable/disable evaluation and survey data in Interactions and My Interactions views
  • Analytics user interface enhancements
  • Introducing external contacts and external organizations filters and columns in performance views

Self service and automation

  • Architect data tables user interface updates
  • Triggers UI improvements

Workforce engagement

  • Change agent schedulable status from the Agents view
  • Change daily values and distribution forecast modification type

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Removal of consult transfer controls from the interaction window in Genesys Cloud embedded clients

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December 20, 2023

Data, Analytics & Reporting

  • Acoustic metrics added to transcript aggregates
  • Open interactions in a new Analytics workspace tab
  • English voice transcript sensitive data masking improvements

Employee productivity

  • Introducing metrics and reporting for Genesys Agent Assist

Open platform

  • Leveraging Digicert as the certificate authority in the mTLS process

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Pointillist Community

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December 13, 2023

Account management

  • Control wrap-up code access within divisions

Customer engagement

  • Outbound dialing contact list builder
  • Mobile customer journey tracking
  • Improved call analysis response performance
  • Mobile app event orchestration

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese programs, topics, and phrases support
  • Extended voice transcription services support for Afrikaans, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Malay, Russian, Slovak, Vietnamese, and Zulu

Open platform

  • CX Cloud from Genesys and Salesforce integration

Self service and automation

  • Knowledge workbench V2 Japanese language support

Workforce engagement

  • Improved Automatic Best Method (ABM) forecasting accuracy
  • Average Talk Time gamification metric
  • Learning modules with rich text format
  • Supervisor insights improvements

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Using Internet Explorer 11 for Genesys Cloud authentication
  • Deprecation: Genesys Cloud SSO certificate expiry

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