List of the Genesys Cloud release notes that include Deprecations and announcements updates.
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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May 13, 2020

Contact center

  • New columns in agent views
  • New filters in agent views
  • Fax enhancements

Deprecations

  • TLS 1.1 protocol deprecation

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May 6, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing improved workforce management features for all regions
  • New inbound media columns and filters in Performance views

Deprecations

  • WFM forecasting After Call Work and Average Talk Time deprecation removal for all regions
  • Screen recording, evaluations, and surveys permissions change

Platform

  • Genesys Cloud training moves to Genesys Beyond

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April 29, 2020

Platform

  • New AWS region deployments
  • Refresh tokens for secure authentication

Communicate

  • Genesys Cloud Voice availability for new AWS region
  • BYOC Cloud availability for new AWS regions

Contact center

  • Introducing improved workforce management features for selected regions
  • Improved ACD messaging for Facebook Messenger
  • Inbound MMS support for SMS messages
  • Interrupt a Google Dialogflow agent in an Architect flow

Integrations

  • SMTP server integration for outbound emails

Deprecations

  • WFM forecasting After Call Work and Average Talk Time deprecation removal for selected regions
  • Contact center dashboard in Performance Overview menu deprecation removal

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April 22, 2020

Contact center

  • Protect recordings from deletion for legal hold directive

Platform

  • AppFoundry enhancement for resellers

Deprecations

  • WFM forecasting After Call Work and Average Talk Time deprecation postponement

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April 8, 2020

Contact center

  • Introducing Architect workflows and Architect flow actions for Predictive Engagement
  • Salesforce lead creation and campaign association with Predictive Engagement
  • Add digital channels to subscriptions
  • Reset an agent’s routing score after presence changes
  • Scheduled Callbacks view permissions change

Deprecations

  • ACD routing permissions change

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April 1, 2020

Contact center

  • Log an agent out of Genesys Cloud from agent views
  • Disassociate an agent from a station
  • Web chat widget support for accessibility
  • Use * and # as terminating characters in Architect call flows
  • New fonts and font sizes in ACD email

Platform

  • Disable Collaborate chat
  • Premium application purchase enhancements

Deprecations

  • TLS 1.0 protocol deprecation removal
  • ACD routing permissions change postponement

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March 25, 2020

Contact center

  • Amazon Lex integration in Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region

Platform

  • Go SDK

Deprecations

  • ACD routing permissions change postponement
  • WFM forecasting After Call Work and Average Talk Time deprecation postponement

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March 11, 2020

Deprecations

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

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March 4, 2020

Contact center

  • Performance dashboards improvements
  • Performance dashboards public option
  • Filter for users by group in agents summary views
  • Export view selected columns and order
  • Configure utilization settings per agent or by organization

Deprecations

  • Contact center view in Performance menu deprecation

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February 19, 2020

Contact center

  • Short code support for SMS messages

Platform

  • New monitoring metric in Analytics API

Deprecations

  • ACD routing permissions change
  • WFM forecasting After Call Work and Average Talk Time deprecation
  • TLS 1.0 protocol for data actions deprecation
  • iOS Supervisor chat deprecation removal

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January 8, 2020

Contact center

  • Answering machine beep detection improvements for call analysis

Deprecations

  • Classic Queues views deprecation removal

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December 18, 2019

Contact center

  • Predictive Engagement webhooks
  • Export view group data metrics enhancement
  • Improved evaluation scoring results

Platform

  • OAuth scopes for applications
  • Agent Details enhancement in Analytics API

Deprecations

  • iOS Supervisor chat deprecation
  • WebRTC signaling deprecation update

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December 11, 2019

Contact center

  • Predictive Engagement content offers
  • Email message threads

Deprecations

  • Bridge integrations deprecation postponement

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