Genesys Cloud - Deprecations and announcements category

List of the Genesys Cloud release notes that include Deprecations and announcements updates.
April 7, 2021

Contact center

  • New location for quality management evaluations and surveys
  • Additional Spanish sentiment analysis support

Platform

  • Developer Center refresh

Deprecations

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media service change

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March 31, 2021

Communicate

  • Custom SIP response code for maximum call setting in trunk configurations

Contact center

  • New queue configuration tabs
  • Manually assign waiting interactions in a queue

Integrations

  • Okta for Genesys Cloud SCIM

Deprecations

  • Coaching permissions change
  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media service change

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March 24, 2021

Contact center

  • Acoustic analysis information in Transcript URL API

Deprecations

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media service change
  • Topics and programs audit events name change
  • Quality Management Audit API change

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March 10, 2021

Contact center

  • Increased maximum wait time in Architect email and message flows
  • Operational bot reporting API
  • External Contacts bulk API

Platform

  • Full support for Microsoft Edge Chromium
  • Genesys Cloud HTTP cookies

Deprecations

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services change

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February 24, 2021

Contact center

  • Introducing Architect Dialog Engine bot flows
  • Introducing performance management and gamification
  • Track agent attrition
  • View historical data within workforce management best method forecasts
  • Introducing historical data import for workforce management best method forecasting
  • New Adobe Experience Platform Launch extension for Predictive Engagement

Deprecations

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services change

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February 17, 2021

Communicate

  • Make and receive WebRTC calls on Android devices

Contact center

  • Search interactions for SIP signaling information for selected regions
  • Agent evaluation comment indicator
  • Call recording playback and transcription synchronization
  • Voice transcription support for BYOC Premises
  • Frequency capping on Predictive Engagement web action offers

Integrations

  • AWS Lambda data actions integration enhancement

Deprecations

  • Predictive Engagement webhooks deprecation
  • Journey history data retention period change

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February 10, 2021

Communicate

  • BYOC Cloud custom SIP headers for improved carrier interoperability
  • Extended maintenance window for cloud-based Edge updates

Contact center

  • Introducing programs, topics, and phrases for speech and text analytics
  • US English, UK English, Australian English, and US and Latin America Spanish programs, topics, and phrases support
  • Coaching appointment scheduling with workforce management
  • Receive agent workforce management schedule and time off request notifications on iOS and Android devices

Integrations

  • Introducing the Zoom Phone integration

Deprecations

  • Replace call with voice in Sentiment Aggregates API change

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February 3, 2021

Contact center

  • Spain Spanish, German, South African English, and Indian English voice transcription support

Deprecations

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services change
  • Create Site API call attribute requirement change

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January 13, 2021

Communicate

  • DID and toll-free number management enhancements

Contact center

  • Sentiment analysis for digital interactions
  • Voice transcription enhancement in speech and text analytics API
  • Undo or redo changes to a workforce management work plan
  • Genesys Predictive Engagement rebranding

Deprecations

  • Export Media Types and Role real-time columns data into .csv files deprecation
  • Limit journey and interaction history for external contacts and organizations to 365 days deprecation

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December 16, 2020

Contact center

  • Queues Activity Detail view usability improvement
  • Performance Dashboards enhancement
  • Voice transcription search improvements
  • Predictive Engagement integration with Adobe Analytics
  • Chat emoji enhancement
  • Canned responses editor improvement

Deprecations

  • Analytics User Detail Endpoint API query interval change
  • Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API query interval change
  • Limit journey and interaction history for external contacts and organizations to 365 days postponement

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December 9, 2020

Platform

  • Clone a user in an authorized organization enhancement

Communicate

  • Identify assigned phone numbers

Contact center

  • Enhancements to the workforce management rescheduling process
  • Improved estimated wait time calculation
  • Turn off evaluation form question group weights

Deprecations

  • Replace call with voice in Sentiment Aggregates API change
  • Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API maximum record per query change
  • Limit journey and interaction history for external contacts and organizations to 30 days deprecation postponement
  • Analytics User Detail Endpoint API query interval change postponement
  • Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API query interval change postponement

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November 4, 2020

Communicate

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services

Contact center

  • Genesys Virtual Agent Services available in the AppFoundry
  • Bot versioning in Genesys Dialog Engine

Platform

  • Genesys Cloud rebranding update

Deprecations

  • Screen recording policy changes for Genesys Cloud 2 users
  • Create Site API call attribute requirement change
  • Bridge server deprecation update
  • CIC data connector deprecation update

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October 28, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing workforce management work plan rotations
  • Add an interaction to an existing coaching appointment
  • Interaction’s detail page improvements
  • WEM add-on price reduction
  • Routing Used filter and column in Performance views
  • Provider filter in Performance views

Deprecations

  • Screen recording policy changes for Genesys Cloud 2 users postponement

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October 14, 2020

Communicate

  • Configure beep tones for line recording

Contact center

  • Email Performance view reports
  • Analytics Aggregates Endpoint API for sentiment analysis

Integrations

  • Introducing the Microsoft Teams integration

Platform

  • Disable Collaborate video

Deprecations

  • Limit interaction history for external contacts and organizations to 30 days deprecation
  • Default word confidence change in speech and text analytics settings

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October 7, 2020

Contact center

  • Workforce management planning group improvements
  • View agent development activities using APIs

Integrations

  • Interaction widgets for client application integrations

Deprecations

  • Screen recording policy changes for Genesys Cloud 2 users

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September 30, 2020

Communicate

  • Geo-Lookup TURN for WebRTC implementations

Contact center

  • Download individual non-voice interaction recordings
  • View agent workforce management schedules on iOS devices
  • Sync workforce management schedules to external calendars with QR codes
  • Pass data between Genesys Cloud and Google Dialogflow
  • Long code support for outbound SMS campaigns
  • Save and dial non-E.164 numbers for external contacts

Platform

  • Desktop applications have a new name

Deprecations

  • Genesys Cloud Ruby SDK deprecation

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September 23, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing sentiment analysis
  • Enhanced player on interaction detail page
  • Richer customer journey context for agents
  • Business hours scheduling for Predictive Engagement web chats
  • Change history log for Predictive Engagement
  • Configurable default prompts in Genesys Dialog Engine

Integrations

  • IP addresses for emails sent using the custom SMTP server integration

Deprecations

  • Export Media Types and Role real-time columns data into .csv files deprecation

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September 9, 2020

Communicate

  • Force TURN additional IP addresses

Contact center

  • Create Architect flows from YAML files
  • Build custom PDF reports from Performance views

Deprecations

  • Analytics User Detail Endpoint API query interval change
  • Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API query interval change
  • Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API maximum record per query change

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August 19, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing voice transcription
  • View workforce management schedule changes with the audit log viewer
  • Third-party text-to-speech (TTS) engines for bot integrations
  • Configure intent disambiguation in Genesys Dialog Engine
  • Agent toolbar usability improvement

Deprecations

  • Internet Explorer support for Genesys Cloud embedded client deprecation

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August 12, 2020

Platform

  • External Contacts Scanning API

Deprecations

  • Skype for Business integration deprecation

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July 29, 2020

Communicate

  • Port DID number management enhancement for Genesys Cloud Voice

Contact center

  • View agent workforce management schedules on Android devices
  • Google Dialogflow integration in Architect chat and messaging flows
  • Digital flow support for Flow Performance views
  • New filters for Flow Performance views
  • Performance Dashboards enhancement

Deprecations

  • TLS 1.1 protocol deprecation removal

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July 1, 2020

Communicate

  • TLS transport protocol for BYOC Cloud trunks
  • Force TURN for WebRTC implementations
  • Network capture for troubleshooting

Contact center

  • Google Dialogflow environments for an Architect flow
  • New Date Span options for Metric widgets in Performance Dashboards
  • Supervisor actions in Agent Status widget in Performance Dashboards
  • Contact verification and interaction history enhancements for additional selected regions

Deprecations

  • Long polling for Genesys Cloud clients and network configurations deprecation removal
  • Data sync connector deprecation update
  • Web services data dip connector deprecation update

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June 24, 2020

Contact center

  • Contact verification and interaction history enhancements for selected regions
  • Add Workforce Engagement Management to subscriptions
  • Template messages for agents using WhatsApp
  • Increased limit for Agent Performance views filters
  • Digital flow outcome functionality in Architect and Analytics API
  • Assign Google Dialogflow bot events for non-responsive callers
  • Barge-in functionality for Google Dialogflow enabled by default

Integrations

  • Introducing Adobe data actions integration
  • Introducing Adobe Experience Platform integration for profile lookup

Deprecations

  • Screen recording, evaluations, and surveys permissions change

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June 17, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing Nuance Text-to-Speech integration
  • Amazon Polly and Google Cloud Text-to-Speech integration support for secure call flows
  • Amazon Lex and Google Cloud Dialogflow bot integration support for secure call flows
  • Get Journey Sessions by Customer action and Get Journey Session action in Architect

Deprecations

  • Screen recording, evaluations, and surveys permissions change postponement

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May 20, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing outbound SMS campaigns

Platform

  • Limit organization access to users with specified IP addresses
  • Usage APIs for premium applications

Deprecations

  • Long polling for Genesys Cloud clients and network configurations deprecation update

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