List of the Genesys Cloud release notes that include the Virtual assistant (bots and IVR) release notes' tag.
October 11, 2023
Account management
- The User Settings page displays the last login date and time
- Regional Genesys location as default directory location
- iRAP protected compliance assessment
Customer engagement
- Allow end-user participants to clear web messaging conversations
Data, analytics and reporting
- Trigger alerts based on the number of agents currently in queue
Self service and automation
- Architect knowledge configuration improvements
- Internal article references as hyperlinks in other knowledge articles
Deprecations and announcements
- Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 support for the desktop app deprecation postponement
- Search Audits APIs deprecation
- Deprecation: Removal of Utilize Load Based permission
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
July 5, 2023
Contact center
- Extended voice transcription services support for additional English dialects and German Switzerland
- Improved native voice transcription accuracy for specific English dialects
- Trigger Process Automation from any Evaluation State Change
- Assign a permission to grant a role to a user by division
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation of legacy Dialog Engine postponement
June 14, 2023
Communicate
- BYOC Cloud TLS X.509 certificate renewal
Contact center
- Drill down to dashboard performance views
- Real time alerting based on agent’s after call work duration
- Improved dashboard create and edit options
- Show or hide top viewed articles in Support Center
- Multi-lingual Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flow and Genesys Digital Bot Flows
Platform
- Resource Center improvements
- Telephony Extensions now support Divisions
Deprecations and announcements
- Legacy alerting system deprecation
- External Contact directory pages external organization logo removal
May 31, 2023
Contact Center
- Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish language support
Deprecations and announcements
- Knowledge workbench V1 deprecation
- Genesys Dialog Engine deprecation postponement
- Mandatory US and Canada SMS/MMS registration
April 26, 2023
Contact Center
- Generative AI to summarize agent digital interactions
- New workforce management scheduling menu
- Automatic language detection for digital interactions
- Show or hide top searched articles in Support Center
- Bulk changes to knowledge base question and answer articles
- Copy an existing evaluation or web survey form
- Customer Journeys tab in the Interactions View
- Canned responses source code/HTML editor
- Access to Queue Agent Details View by division membership
Integrations
- Introduction of OAuth 2.0 for custom SMTP integration
Deprecations and announcements
- Customer journey tab replacement
April 19, 2023
Platform
- Single sign-on configuration enhancement
Contact Center
- Campaign performance views for agents
- Progressive prompts in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows
- Add Max No Input task to Architect bot actions
- Performance insights view
- Filter by evaluation form name
Integrations
- Nuance Mix integration support in Australia
April 12, 2023
Contact Center
- External contacts Profile tab updates
- Import question and answer FAQs from URLs
March 29, 2023
Communicate
- Built-in Genesys Cloud WebRTC diagnostics application improvements
Contact Center
- External contacts Profile tab updates
- Extended voice transcription services support for Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and additional English languages
- Archive and unarchive learning modules
Integrations
- Automatic regionalization of endpoints for existing Google Cloud TTS and STT integrations
- Custom voices support for the Google Cloud Text-to-Speech integration
Deprecations and announcements
- Static data actions for web service data actions integration removal
March 22, 2023
Communicate
- Transcription for Communicate voicemails
- Active speaker indicators
Contact Center
- Additional voice transcription accuracy improvements for Spanish
- Approve time-off requests based on agent hire date
- Evaluation source in evaluation cards
- Enhanced pagination control in analytics workspace views
- Queue Performance Summary chart view
- Metric values in views with duration statistics
- Transcription for Communicate voicemails
- Restricted access to details about predictive routing agents
- Delete a knowledge base
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation of select filters in Analytics API in Predictive Engagement
March 15, 2023
Contact Center
- Topic spotting improvement
- Extend after call work (ACW) timeout settings to digital channels
- Agent requested after call work (ACW) option
- After call work (ACW) analytics for callbacks improvement
- Genesys Cloud Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Dutch support
- Genesys natural language understanding (NLU) improvements
Integrations
- Genesys AppFoundry improvements
Deprecations and announcements
- Static data actions for web service data actions integration
- Genesys Predictive Engagement on Genesys Engage hybrid solutions deprecation
March 8, 2023
Collaborate
- Set time to return to previous status after users disconnect and reconnect
Communicate
- US and Canada numbers available for Genesys Cloud Voice EMEA Regions
Contact center
- Introducing Genesys Cloud Background Assistant for screen recording with the web app
- Introducing regional storage for call recordings
- SSML support in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
- New Search endpoint
- New variables and improvements for scripts
- Improved do not contact (DNC) list functionality to support custom values
- Communicate call classification update
February 22, 2023
Communicate
- Require the WebRTC Media Helper
- WebHID technology for Jabra headsets re-enablement
Contact center
- Improved interval granularity for a specific time span during performance metrics exports
- Improved module scheduling
- Scorecard tab improvements in the agent activity view
Deprecations and announcements
- journeyCustomer cookie id from GDPR API subjects response deprecation
- Customer journey tab replacement
- Genesys legacy Dialog Engine deprecation
- Knowledge workbench V1 deprecation
February 8, 2023
Contact center
- Automatic knowledge surfacing with Genesys Agent Assist
- Cards and carousels in the CX digital agent workspace
- Images and email addresses as hyperlinks in knowledge base articles
- Jump to reusable tasks in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
- Encrypt and decrypt data in Architect flows
- Mine topics from messaging transcripts
- Intent miner German language support
December 21, 2022
Contact center
- Co-browse for web messaging
- Automatic email signatures in canned responses
- Enhanced canned responses editor options
- Rich media in knowledge base articles
- Genesys Cloud native text-to-speech (TTS) French and Spanish support
Integrations
- Introducing the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text (STT) integration
- Microsoft Teams integration enhancements
Platform
- Single sign-on configuration enhancements
Deprecations and announcements
- OS Family attribute in Predictive Engagement
- Windows 7 support for the desktop app deprecation
- Canned reports deprecation date updates
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion postponement
December 14, 2022
Communicate
- WebHID technology for Jabra headsets
- Telephony administrator user interface updates
Contact center
- Genesys Agent Assist available in Genesys Cloud Embedded Clients
- Import and export knowledge base articles in additional formats
- No input timeout settings in Genesys Digital Bot Flows
- Call digital bot flows from Architect in-queue message flows
- Sentiment data in Agent Queue Detail and Queue Agent Detail views
- Topic spotting improvement
- Japanese programs, topics, and phrases support
- Usability improvements to messaging and email in the Transcript tab
- Genesys Cloud forecasting user interface updates
Deprecations and announcements
- Genesys Cloud SSO certificate expiry
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
October 19, 2022
Contact center
- Analyze feedback from the knowledge workbench
- Hyperlinks in knowledge base articles
- Typing indicators available for Messenger Transport Mobile SDK
- Arabic voice transcription support
Deprecations
- Genesys Cloud SSO certificate expiry
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
October 12, 2022
Contact center
- Single customer view powered by identity resolution available in all regions
- Introducing Genesys Enhanced Text-to-Speech integration
- Shift trading on iOS and Android devices
- Secure bot flows in Architect
- Audit log viewer for action maps
- Agent Locale Scripter variable for agent’s chosen language
- Sentiment feedback, content search, and Interactions view icon updates