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Err v4.1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-05-09 // about 8 years ago

  • v4.1 features

    
- Conversation flows: Errbot can now keep track of conversations with its users and
  automate part of the interactions in a state machine manageable from chat.
  see `the flows documentation <http://errbot.io/en/master/user_guide/flow_development/index.html>`_
  for more information.

- Cards API: Various backends have a "canned" type of formatted response.
  We now support that for a better native integration with Slack and Hipchat.

- 🏗 Dynamic Plugins API: Errbot has now an official API to build plugins at runtime (on the fly).
  see `the dynamic plugins doc <http://errbot.io/en/master/user_guide/plugin_development/dynaplugs.html>`_

- 💻 Storage command line interface: It is now possible to provision any persistent setting from the command line.
  It is helpful if you want to automate end to end the deployment of your chatbot.
  see `provisioning doc <http://errbot.io/en/master/user_guide/provisioning.html>`_

v4.1 Miscellaneous changes
    • Now if no [python] section is set in the .plug file, we assume Python 3 instead of Python 2.
    • Slack: identifier.person now gives its username instead of slack id
    • 🛠 IRC: Topic change callback fixed. Thx Ezequiel Brizuela.
    • ✅ Text/Test: Makes the identifier behave more like a real backend.
    • Text: new TEXT_DEMO_MODE that removes the logs once the chat is started: it is made for presentations / demos.
    • 🏗 XMPP: build_identifier can now resolve a Room (it will eventually be available on other backends)
    • Graphic Test backend: renders way better the chat, TEXT_DEMO_MODE makes it full screen for your presentations.
    • ACLs: We now allow a simple string as an entry with only one element.
    • ✅ Unit Tests are now all pure py.test instead of a mix of (py.test, nose and unittest)

    🛠 v4.1 fixed

    
- 👍 Better resillience on concurrent modifications of the commands structures.
- 👍 Allow multiline table cells. Thx Ilya Figotin.
- 🔌 Plugin template was incorrectly showing how to check config. Thx Christian Weiske.
- Slack: DIVERT_TO_PRIVATE fix.
- 🔌 Plugin Activate was not reporting correctly some errors.
- 📦 tar.gz packaged plugins are working again.