Changelog
The latest updates and improvements to Botpress.
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
orconversationId
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:
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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