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List of the Genesys Cloud release notes that include Genesys Cloud updates.
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 (early preview)

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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December 6, 2023

Account management

  • Change password set/reset workflow
  • Password policy minimum requirements

Customer engagement

  • Increased support for non-E.164 format phone numbers in Single Customer View
  • In-queue and scheduled callback automation
  • Perform a benefit assessment before predictive routing free trial activation

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Topic miner French language support
  • Mine for new trending topics in email interactions
  • Sentiment Analytics data in Agent/Queue/Flow Topic views
  • Agent empathy API and customer sentiment language support for Dutch, Italian, German and Japanese

Workforce engagement

  • Screen recording available in Genesys Cloud CX 1 license

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November 29, 2023

Customer engagement

  • Messenger support for Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian
  • External contact management user interface refresh

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Improved voice transcription accuracy for Portuguese (pt-PT and pt-BR)
  • Agent, Queue, and Flow topics summary view enhancements

Employee productivity

  • Improved Collaborate for iOS search experience
  • Real-time monitoring for web messaging channels

Self service and automation

  • Sort and filter intents and utterances in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows

Workforce engagement

  • Bulk archive recordings through recording bulk action API

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Native LINE third-party messaging channel

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November 15, 2023

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Filter data by multiple topics in Topic Trend Summary and Agent, Queue, and Flow topic summary views
  • Content search enhancements

Open platform

  • Genesys Cloud Voice in Brazil

Self service and automation

  • Category and subcategory navigation in the knowledge portal
  • Header background and category icon images in the knowledge portal

Workforce engagement

  • Routing > Schedules is now Routing > Operating Schedules
  • Agent connected duration, maximum evaluations per agent, and customized sampling criteria in agent evaluations

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Canned reports

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November 8, 2023

Customer engagement

  • Improved Messenger UI color contrast patterns

Self service and automation

  • Mute suggestions and hide intent health for Architect bot flows and digital bot flows

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November 1, 2023

Employee productivity

  • Genesys Agent Assist on the CX platform for voice

Self service and automation

  • Category and subcategory navigation in the knowledge portal

Deprecations and announcements

  • CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
  • Native LINE third-party messaging channel deprecation
  • Mandatory SMS Registration Deadline: Toll Free Numbers

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October 25, 2023

Customer engagement

  • Add media to an Outbound SMS campaign
  • Architect voice flow access to inbound headers on BYOC Cloud calls

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Evaluator value update based on submission
  • Create in-app toast notification alert rule
  • Analytics Performance views accessibility improvements

Workforce engagement

  • Quality evaluation revision enablement for rescores
  • Quality management evaluations assignment
  • View time-off balances from an external HR system on Genesys Tempo
  • Dispute completed quality management evaluations

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October 18, 2023

Account management

  • Division-aware configuration objects default to all divisions
  • Assign divisions to secondary statuses
  • User settings page displays the last login date and time

Customer engagement

  • GCV outbound fraud protection

Data, analytics and reporting

  • New speech and text analytics permissions
  • Agent empathy analysis API for English transcripts
  • New analytics dashboard metrics
  • Messenger co-browse toolbar improvements
  • Remove agents who deselect their phone from the queue

Employee productivity

  • Agent target selection interface and workflow improvements

Workforce engagement

  • Assign division specific secondary status codes for agents

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October 4, 2023

Data, analytics and reporting

  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for specific French dialects
  • Improved native voice transcription accuracy for specific Spanish dialects

Open platform

  • Ringtone selection for call alerts

Self service and automation

  • Centralized import and export for knowledge workbench V2
  • Preview knowledge workbench V2 articles
  • Advanced filtering and customizable columns for knowledge bases

Deprecations and announcements

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

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September 27, 2023

Customer engagement

  • Improved call analysis response performance
  • Bring Your Own (BYO) SMS in Genesys Cloud

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) process updates
  • Manually add words to the dictionary backend

Self service and automation

  • Knowledge optimizer unanswered queries improvements

Deprecations and announcements

  • Legacy alerting system deprecation postponement

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September 20, 2023

Customer engagement

  • Search domain names and email addresses
  • Inbound call handling site for BYOC Cloud trunks
  • Supported file attachments update in third-party messaging

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Configure rules for any user in a work team

Self service and automation

  • Cards and carousels for digital bot conversations
  • Expanded knowledge portal availability

Workforce engagement

  • WEM activity widget for Genesys Cloud for Embedded Framework
  • Architect workflow automated notifications

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Active Screen Recordings UI

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September 13, 2023

Customer engagement

  • Open messaging typing indicators

Data, analytics, and reporting

  • Introducing the Genesys Cloud Analytics Add-on (A3S)

Open platform

  • Architect workflow trigger automation
  • Introducing Genesys Cloud CX Accelerators

Self service and automation

  • Support center name change
  • Architect Transfer to ACD action in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
  • Introducing the Architect Optimizations dashboard
  • Architect flow outcomes and milestones user interface updates

Workforce engagement

  • Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) activity view in external web environments

Deprecations and announcements

  • Deprecation: Canned reports
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    September 6, 2023

    Customer engagement

    • Additional EMEA numbers for Genesys Cloud Voice in US, Canada, and Europe
    • Additional APAC numbers for Genesys Cloud Voice in US, Canada, and Europe
    • Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Japanese language support

    Data, analytics, and reporting

    • WebRTC Media Helper in Analytics

    Self service and automation

    • Architect zoom enhancement and legacy user interface toggle removal

    Workforce engagement

    • WEM activity views in Genesys Cloud for Salesforce embedded client
    • Telephony administrator user interface updates

    Deprecations and announcements

    • Search Audits APIs deprecation postponement

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    August 30, 2023

    Customer engagement

    • Conditional group routing as the timeout routing method for preferred agent routing
    • Require the WebRTC Media Helper
    • Custom music for agent-initiated hold duration
    • End interactions automatically when agents logoff
    • Improved media handling for outbound message attachments

    Data, analytics, and reporting

    • Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Norwegian, and Swedish programs, topics, and phrases support
    • Introducing the Genesys Cloud Analytics Add-on (A3S)
    • Campaign Interactions Detail view and Dialer Campaign Detailed Attempt History Report for outbound campaigns

    Open platform

    • Genesys Cloud for Chrome extension update
    • Calling party ID in p-asserted identity SIP header
    • Yealink headsets support

    Self service and automation

    • Additional formatting for knowledge workbench v2 articles
    • Test digital bot flows in real time
    • Intent health in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows

    Workforce engagement

    • Quality evaluation scores now available as a gamification metric

    Deprecations and announcements

    • US/CA 10DLC (10-Digit Long Code) SMS numbers purchase requirement
    • Arrow Electronics partnership and end of preconfigured edge appliances program
    • Deprecation: CX digital agent workspace (digital desktop only)
    • Japanese translation of “idle” inconsistency

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    August 23, 2023

    Data, analytics, and reporting

    • Extended voice transcription services support for Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese
    • Real-time agent filtering and agent updates

    Self service and automation

    • Nuance Mix integration support in Canada
    • JSON variables and states in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows

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    August 16, 2023

    Contact center

    • Additional voice transcription accuracy improvements for Japanese
    • Sensitive Data Masking for voice interactions
    • Additional CX 1 Digital Add-On II capabilities
    • Co-browse for web messaging read-only fields and buttons
    • Dashboards summary page enhancements
    • Dashboard management for administrators
    • Knowledge follow-up tasks in bot flows and digital bot flows

    Integrations

    • Amazon LexV2 integration available in the FedRAMP region

    Deprecations and announcements

    • Search Audits view deprecation
    • BYOC Cloud TLS X.509 certificate renewal
    • Certificate Authority change for Microsoft Teams integration
    • Release Notes category improvements

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    August 9, 2023

    Contact center

    • Force stop button in digital campaign management

    Integrations

    • Limitation for JSON objects depth in data action service

    Platform

    • Trigger inclusion in Genesys Cloud CX 1 license

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    August 02, 2023

    Contact center

    • Updated WhatsApp pricing structure
    • Copy and share interaction transcripts
    • Web messaging inbound custom attribute size limit requests
    • SMS short code number in France
    • Improved workload balancing in predictive routing

    Integrations

    • Two score-setting options for ranking waiting interactions

    Platform

    • PCI DSS recertification
    • Genesys Cloud WhatsApp Embedded signup self-service onboarding
    • Subscribe to events from the Operational Console

    Deprecations and announcements

    • Deprecation: Outbound Search Audits view
    • Mandatory SMS US and Canada registration

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    July 26, 2023

    Contact center

    • Agent evaluation details export generation for multiple agent
    • Workforce management business unit and service goal template impact override settings
    • Increased limits for workforce management dimensions
    • Topic miner Spanish language support

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    July 19, 2023

    Communicate

    • Polycom Zero Touch Provisioning
    • Specify a Canadian address as a remote emergency address

    Contact center

    • Collaborate chat quick access for recent chat messages
    • Real-time Interactions data export

    Integrations

    • Sentiment analysis in Google Cloud Dialogflow CX integrations

    Platform

    • Suppress call recordings during IVR flow and in-queue segments

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    July 12, 2023

    Contact center

    • Architect user interface refresh
    • Configure new conditional group routing method
    • Touchpoint variations for knowledge workbench articles

    Platform

    • Genesys Cloud CX is FedRAMP Authorized at the Moderate Impact Level

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