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Release 2.17.3 - November 2022

This release contains only bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

Release 2.17.2 - October 2022

FeatureDescription
Support for WhatsApp templates in Follow ups notifications

Luma Virtual agent now supports Whatsapp template for Follow up notifications. You can now configure your follow-ups to use Whatsapp templates such as HSA template to send notification on Infobip Whatsapp channel. You may also create custom templates that can be used to send follow up notifications.

New Tenant Configurations You can now override the SageMaker configurations for your tenant. This enables the administrator to have more flexibility to choose the instance types or timeouts per tenant.

This release contains only bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

Release 2.17.1 - September 2022

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Release 2.17 - August 2022

FeatureDescription
Automation Workflows in Skill Builder

You can now trigger the Legacy and Automation Designer workflows as part of your Luma skills. For a Luma tenant with integration to Serviceaide Automation, the Legacy workflows and the workflow configured in Automation Designer can be added as conversation steps in the skill. This is managed at the tenant level.

Note: For new tenants or first-time Automation configurations, only Designer workflows are enabled. The Legacy workflows can be enabled on-demand from the backend.

Improvements on Dashboard

Following are the new updates available on Luma Dashboard:

  1. Skill Adoption Report on Usage Dashboard now includes execution count for branched skills.

  2. You can now exclude specific skills from the Skill Adoption report. Use the new filters to select the skills to be excluded. The Dashboard data and the exported report honor the selection and remove the excluded skills.
  3. The default Date Range filter on the KPI, Usage, and Support Agent Dashboard is now updated to "Last 24 Hours".
  4. The Survey Report on Usage Dashboard now includes User Role, User Group, User Status, and Channel.
  5. The Survey Report should display the actual skill that triggered the survey instead of the parent skill

New Transformation function

Support for the new transformation function Custom Date format - Using Epoch Seconds Time to convert Epoch time in seconds to date time in the specified timezone and format. For more information, refer to Using Transformation functions

Other Improvements

Following are the other improvements that are part of the release:

  1. Performance improvements in the Dashboard report download in an excel sheet.

  2. You can now view the Conversation start and end time in the conversation history timeline.
  3. Luma now supports Media files (audio, video, document, sticker) as attachments.
  4. You can now see the Chat in progress indicator in your Luma-supported channels. The indicator is displayed whenever Luma is processing a user request and preparing a response. 
  5. Command prefix, used to initiate a skill or system command, is now optional.

Note: This release includes updates to the Web widget. For changes to take effect, download the latest package (JS and CSS files) and update the Web widget.

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Release 2.16.4 - July 2022

FeatureDescription
Improvement in Conversation History

Integration Execution logs in the Conversation History page now display the execution start and end time. You can view the information based on when the integration is invoked from the action server and the operation is executed in the target system.

Technical improvements

Following technical improvements are part of this release:

  1. The maximum waiting time for the end user when connecting to the Support analyst is now updated to 60 minutes.
  2. Improved Bot performance. During dialog training, unwanted objects such as bot response messages are not exported to the Domain YAML file. This reduces Bot load and reduces the Bot reload time.

This release also contains bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

Release 2.16.1 - May 2022

FeatureDescription
Technical Improvements

Following technical improvements are part of this release:

  1. Actuctor APIs that expose Health check metrics (“/gateway/actuator”) are now restricted and cannot be accessed from outside. This ensures that sensitive information is not exposed.

  2. Nginx is upgraded to the latest stable version (1.20.2) across all Luma components.

  3. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 is disabled across all Luma load balancers

This release also contains bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

Release 2.16 - May 2022

FeatureDescription
VSA performance optimizationTechnical updates to improve the performance of the Bot. The change optimize the Virtual Agent's response time during conversations.
Web Widget update

Luma Web widget bot icon is updated to new Luma Agent icon. Note: For the change to take effect, update to the Web Widget configuration files.

This release contains only bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

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Release 2.15 - March 2022

FeatureDescription
Improved KPI calculations 

Luma Virtual Agent now enables you to conditionally set your KPIs during Skill execution. You can now calculate Luma KPIs as part of parent as well as sub-skills. New Conversation Item 'Set KPIs' allows the Skill developers to calculate or update KPIs as required during a conversation. Additionally, KPIs can also be updated as part of Rule conditions.

For more information, refer to Create Skill

NoteFor your existing skills, the KPIs metrics configured at the skill level are migrated as the last step in the conversation flow. You might see a difference in KPI calculations for the existing skills as the KPIs will now be calculated on the last branched skill instead of the parent skill. In case the skill branches to a sub-skill, KPIs will not be calculated until reconfigured. This is because prior to the 2.15 release, Sub skills did not support KPIs.

It is recommended that you review the existing skills and update the KPI configurations appropriately.

Export KPI Dashboard

Download your KPI Dashboard information into an excel file. You can now generate a single report with the information on all the KPI metric measurements available on the Luma KPI Dashboard. You may filter the information on various columns such as KPI Metric Type, dates, Session ID, Channels and view the reports as required. 

For more details, refer to KPI Dashboard

Download User Adoption and Training Opportunities Metrics

You can now download and view detailed information on the 'User Adoption' and 'Training Opportunity' for your Bot. Luma VA now allows you to download the following metrics available on the Luma Usage Dashboard. 

  • Unique Registered Users
  • New Registered Users
  • Average Registered Users Chat Time
  • Unmatched Phrases
  • Average NLP confidence score
  • Ambiguity Occurrences

For more details, refer to Usage Dashboard

Whatsapp via Infobip updates

Following are the updates on Whatsapp via Infobip chat channel:

  1. Skill Developers can now add descriptions for each Interactive List item displayed to the users. When the skill is executed via Infobip Chat Channel, the descriptions are displayed to the end-user. For the other channel, the description text is ignored.
  2. You now provide a specific title to the Interactive Lists or quick replies list. This is apart from the prompt text message. For other channels, the title is ignored.

For more details, refer to Create Skills.

New views for Custom Reports

You can now create custom reports on LUMA usage information. The following database views are now available to expose the customer information which can be used to create reports:

  • vsa_channel_accounts_view contains the users and channel account details of users in Luma VA
  • vsa_skills_view contains the details of skills available in the bot 
  • vsa_conversations_view with details on the conversations initiated in the bot
  • vsa_kpi_measurements_view with details on the various KPI measurements on Luma Dashboard.

New Conversation context variables 

You can now use the End user conversation while creating ticket via Luma Virtual Agent. The new Conversation context variables 'Transcript Json' and 'Transcript Text' are used to capture the complete transcript of the user conversation which can be used as additional information when creating a support ticket or any other skill creation.

For more information, refer to Use Variables in Skills

Other Enhancements

Following are the other enhancements that are part of the release:

  • Text changes across the Bot builder UI to support White Labelling.
  • All Luma Reports are now generated in Excel format instead of CSV. This ensures that the reports show up correctly and in the required format.
  • New events for KPI Calculations in Conversation History. For more information, refer to Conversation History

This release also contains bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

Release 2.14 - January 2022

FeatureDescription
New Luma API 'Get Channel Account Records'New Luma API 'Get Channel Account Records' is available. The API enables the skill developers to retrieve the list of channel accounts for users available in Luma VA. You can also filter the user list based on details such as contact ID, username

For more details, refer to Luma APIs for User Registration → GetChannelAccountsRecords
Improvement in Luma Knowledge and Luma Virtual Agent IntegrationLuma Knowledge - Luma Virtual Agent integration is updated as part of the release. Luma VA does not send Small talk and System skill phrases to Luma Knowledge. This avoids the inaccurate knowledge gaps in Luma Knowledge.
Improvement to Web WidgetYou can now configure your bot to initiate a custom skill every time the web widget is reopened. By default, the Welcome skill is triggered when the web widget is opened after the initial conversation.
Other Improvements

Following are the other enhancements that are part of this release:

  • Log4j vulnerability in Luma VA is now fixed.
  • During the user registration process, when a user clicks on the validation link, Luma now shows a user-friendly message instead of the current JSON message.
  • In case, the identified skill is inactive or the user does not have access to execute the skill, the user is now be redirected to the fallback. Instead of the current skill permission message, fallback skills are presented to the user.
  • You can now configure quick replies in the notification message.

Release 2.13.2 - December 2021

FeatureDescription

Presenting Knowledge through Luma Virtual Agent

Luma now avoids duplicate Knowledge Articles that are related to more than one topic. In a Article list view, a Knowledge article with multiple relevant topics is displayed under the topic with the most matching topic (highest posterior probability).

New KM context variables

You can now use KM context variables to refer to below Knowledge and Article information:

  • Topics: @{vsaDecision.knowledgeArticle.topics}
  • Pagination: @{vsaDecision.knowledgeArticle.pagination}

This release also contains bug fixes documented on the Published Fixes page.

Release 2.13.1 - December 2021

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The following updates are included in this release:


FeatureDescription
Feedback Survey

Feedback Surveys are now available in Luma Virtual Agent. You can now send a Satisfaction Survey and Feedback request to end-users after skill execution and completion of the User-Support Agent conversation. The survey response can be used to calculate Customer Satisfaction Ratings for your bot. The Survey can also be triggered as part of specific skills. You can use the OOTB Survey or create a customized survey specific to your Bot or skill.

For more information, refer to  Customer Feedback and Satisfaction Survey.

Customer Satisfaction Metrics on Usage Dashboard

View your Customer Satisfaction ratings on Usage Dashboard. A new section 'Satisfaction Survey' is now available on the dashboard that provides cumulative information on the Surveys triggered to end-user by the Luma Virtual Agent. The metrics include the conversations from all Chat channels configured for your tenant (except the Test Widget).

For more information, refer to Usage Dashboard.

Email integration

Luma Virtual Agent now supports Email integration that enables the system to send emails to end-users. As an Administrator, you can configure the email server for your tenant. Email integrations can be added to a Skill as a conversation item. You can also create multiple email templates and use the same in Skills on a need basis. This reduces the redundant and manual effort of writing and Email configuration every time an email needs to be sent. 

For more information, refer to Email Integrations.

Improvements in Export and Import

You can now export Feedback Survey Configurations and Email Integrations from one bot to another. The configurations can be exported and imported into a target environment. When exported, all relevant entities such as Email Server instances, Templates are also exported.

For more information, refer to Bot Export and Import.

Other Improvements

Following are other improvements that are part of this release.

  • Luma VA now supports sending follow-ups to a list of Users. You can now use List Datatype in the User reconciliation field and send follow-ups to a list of Users. Note: Use the LIST type attribute to map the User list in a JSON list.
  • New events for Feedback Survey and Email Integrations in Conversation History. For more information, refer to Conversation History


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