May 9, 2025

Features & Enhancements

  • Improvements to Webchat:
    • Now supports richer Markdown rendering
    • Webchat preview now has a sidebar with a list of recent conversations
    • You can now add an image to your Webchat’s Floating Action Button (FAB)
  • You can now filter your bot’s logs by userId or conversationId

Bug fixes

  • Updated React library version and documentation

Miscellaneous

  • Added a callout to Botpress Hub when the HITL plugin is required and hasn’t been installed yet
May 2, 2025

Features & Enhancements

  • The Slack integration now has a configuration option to reply as a thread:

  • HITL improvements:

    • The Webchat composer for the HITL integration now supports uploading files
    • The HITL inbox now displays when the last message in each conversation was sent:

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where variables with circular dependencies would cause bots to crash
  • Fixed an issue where moving a Workflow or a folder inside another folder caused the tables to disappear
  • Increased duration before timeout when indexing knowledge bases with a large number of vectors

Miscellaneous

  • Changed the default language setting for the WhatsApp Start Conversation Card to address a potential error
April 25, 2025

Features & Enhancements

  • Added new models from OpenAI:
    • o4-mini
    • o3
    • 4.1
  • Users with viewer permissions for a Workspace can now view logs for that Workspace’s bots
  • Users can now upload multiple files to a single message in Webchat
  • The payload for button/dropdown components now includes the value of the button

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue in Knowledge Bases where the similarity score was in the wrong order
  • Fixed the new keyboard shortcut (ctrl+ P) for search in Studio
  • Fixed an issue where there was a mismatch with imported data
  • Fixed an issue with the default Webchat theme
  • Various fixes and improvements for the Slack integration
  • Various fixes for the BigCommerce integration
April 11, 2025

Features & Enhancements

  • Revamped and improved Usage tab:
    • New section to track AI spend
    • Revised UI makes it clearer to understand usage between bots
  • You can now specify the storage location of Webchat user/conversation data in the Dashboard settings:
    • Session storage: Creates a new user/conversation every time the page is re-opened
    • Local storage: Keeps user/conversation data across page visits
  • Request headers for the Webhook integration are now passed into the event payload

Bug fixes

  • Solved an issue where a React apps running Botpress would not run under certain circumstances
  • Fixed a bug where Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) messages were displayed in the wrong order

Miscellaneous

  • Improvements to backend processing so deleting bots is now faster