05/04/2020

Significant update to Alexa adapter

This release sees a significant update to the Alexa adapter. This update takes a dependency on the Alexa.NET library, making development of Bot Framework powered Alexa skills even easier, including the ability to take advantage of many 3rd party NuGet packages for interacting with the Alexa API.

As part of the update the adapter has seen the followign key improvements;

• Smart concatenation of outgoing activities (meaning multiple activities can be send and will be combined into a single response for Alexa, including attachments and SSML markup).
• Markdown parsing - the adapter will convert common markdown, such as lists, headings, links and paragraphs, into speakable sentences.
• Updated mappings between Alexa requests and Bot Framework activities, including SessionEndedRequest -> EndOfConversationActivities and LaunchRequest -> ConversationUpdateActivities.

Huge thanks to @NickEricson for the collaboration on this work!

Also huge update to Alexa docs -> https://github.com/BotBuilderCommunity/botbuilder-community-dotnet/blob/develop/libraries/Bot.Builder.Community.Adapters.Alexa

New Zoom adapter

A brand new adapter to allow for the development of Zoom apps (including Zoom chatbot apps) with Bot Framework SDK v4. The new adapter supports automated transformation of chatbot specific Zoom requests into Bot Framework activities, including interactive message requests, and support for Zoom message templates (dropdown, message with link, editable fields, attachment and actions).

https://github.com/BotBuilderCommunity/botbuilder-community-dotnet/blob/develop/libraries/Bot.Builder.Community.Adapters.Zoom

Other updates

• Elastic Search Storage Provider update to v7 (thanks to @logalex96)
• Sample updates (thanks to @arafattehsin)

04/03/2020

New Adapter for RingCentral Engage

https://github.com/BotBuilderCommunity/botbuilder-community-dotnet/blob/develop/libraries/Bot.Builder.Community.Adapters.RingCentral

The RingCentral Engage adapter allows you to add an additional endpoint to your bot for RingCentral Engage Digital Platform integration. The RingCentral endpoint can be used in conjunction with other channels meaning, for example, you can have a bot exposed on out of the box channels such as Facebook and Teams, but also integrated as an RingCentral Engage Digital Source SDK into RingCentral.

Huge thanks to the following contributors!

• João Almeida
• Remi Bauby
• Michael Brunner
• Jamie Dalton
• Sven Frei
• Cyrille Gourdin
• Artur Laksberg
• Luis Alves Martins
• Shobhit Mishra
• Egor Nikitin
• Vishesh Oberoi
• Martin Oss
• Martin Schray
• Autumn Wyborny

You can find the change log for older releases at https://github.com/BotBuilderCommunity/botbuilder-community-dotnet/releases

03/20/2020

NuGet Packages v4.8.1 - https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=botbuildercommunity

Bug Fixes

• Google Adapter: Google Content Type not set to UTF-8
• DevOps: Azure DevOps Pipelines GitVersion issue

Enhancements / Features

• Alexa Adapter: Add person to alexasystem to support Alexa voiceprint to know the ID of the speaker (#198) - Thanks @jamesemann
• TwitterAdapter: Added unit tests (#197) - Thanks @matiasroldan6 @santgr11
• Dependencies: Update to Bot Framework SDK 4.8

02/07/2020

NuGet Packages v4.6.5 - https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=botbuildercommunity

New features

• Added AdaptiveCardPrompt (#193) - Thanks to @mdrichardson!

Bug fixes

• Update Google Content Type - Fixes #123

Other updates

• Fixed some NuGet settings in project files