# Change Log ## 0.4 Add support for Botkit Studio APIs. [More Info](readme-studio.md) Substantially expanded the documentation regarding Botkit's [conversation thread system](readme.md#conversation-threads). Add support for Microsoft Bot Framework. The [Microsoft Bot Framework](https://botframework.com) makes it easy to create a single bot that can run across a variety of messaging channels including [Skype](https://skype.com), [Group.me](https://groupme.com), [Facebook Messenger](https://messenger.com), [Slack](https://slack.com), [Telegram](https://telegram.org/), [Kik](https://www.kik.com/), [SMS](https://www.twilio.com/), and [email](https://microsoft.office.com). [More Info](readme-botframework.md) Updates to Facebook Messenger connector to support features like message echoes, read receipts, and quick replies. Merged numerous pull requests from the community: [PR #358](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/358) [PR #361](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/361) [PR #353](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/353) [PR #363](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/363) [PR #320](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/320) [PR #319](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/319) [PR #317](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/317) [PR #299](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/299) [PR #298](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/298) [PR #293](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/293) [PR #256](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/256) [PR #403](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/403) [PR #392](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/392) In order to learn about and better serve our user community, Botkit now sends anonymous usage stats to stats.botkit.ai. To learn about opting out of stats collection, [read here](readme.md#opt-out-of-stats). ## 0.2.2 Add support for Slack Interactive Messages. Add example of Slack button application that provides a bot that uses interactive messages. New functionality in Slack bot: Botkit will track spawned Slack bots and route incoming webhooks to pre-existing RTM bots. This enables RTM bots to reply to interactive messages and slash commands. ## 0.2.1 Improves Slack RTM reconnects thanks to @selfcontained [PR #274](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/274) ## 0.2 Adds support for Twilio IP Messenging bots Add example bot: twilio_ipm_bot.js ## 0.1.2 *Slack changes:* Adds authentication of incoming Slack webhooks if token specified. [More info](readme_slack.md#securing-outgoing-webhooks-and-slash-commands) [Thanks to [@sgud](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/167)] Improves support for direct_mentions of bots in Slack (Merged [PR #189](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/189)) Make the oauth identity available to the user of the OAuth endpoint via `req.identity` (Merged [PR #174](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/174)) Fix issue where single team apps had a hard time receiving slash command events without funky workaround. (closes [Issue #108](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/issues/108)) Add [team_slashcommand.js](/examples/team_slashcommand.js) and [team_outgoingwebhook.js](/examples/team_outgoingwebhook.js) to the examples folder. *Facebook changes:* The `attachment` field may now be used by Facebook bots within a conversation for both convo.say and convo.ask. In addition, postback messages can now be received as the answer to a convo.ask in addition to triggering their own facebook_postback event. [Thanks to [@crummy](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/220) and [@tkornblit](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/208)] Include attachments field in incoming Facebook messages (Merged [PR #231](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/231)) Adds built-in support for opening a localtunnel.me tunnel to expose Facebook webhook endpoint while developing locally. (Merged [PR #234](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/234)) ## 0.1.1 Fix issue with over-zealous try/catch in Slack_web_api.js ## 0.1.0 Adds support for Facebook Messenger bots. Rename example bot: bot.js became slack_bot.js Add example bot: facebook_bot.js ## 0.0.15 Changes conversation.ask to use the same pattern matching function as is used in `hears()` Adds `controller.changeEars()` Developers can now globally change the way Botkit matches patterns. ## 0.0.14 Add new middleware hooks. Developers can now change affect a message as it is received or sent, and can also change the way Botkit matches patterns in the `hears()` handler. ## 0.0.~ Next time I promise to start a change log at v0.0.0