BotFramework-Composer/releases/1.2.0.md

1.2.0

In this release:

Notable features

• Integration with Power Virtual Agents enabling the ability to authoring and publish Composer built dialogs, language understanding, and language generation to PVA created bots.
• Usability improvements to the property pane components, enabling easier type selection & intellisense
• Additions to QnA Authoring: multi-turn knowledgebase authoring support and improved URL import functionality
• New notification panel expressing various system & publishing events
• New project navigation tree
• Runtime support for Direct Line App Service Extensions
• Various bugfixes & performance improvements

Added

• feat: Implement pull from publish target (#4768) (@tonyanziano)
• feat: Allow importing bot content from an external source (#4751) (@tonyanziano)
• feat: Added languages to dropdown in settings (#4738) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• feat: update sdk package to 4.11.0 (#4741) (@luhan2017)
• feat: Integrate OneAuth library (#4677) (@tonyanziano)
• feature: Supporting core+package templates stored on NuGet (#4588) pavolum
• feat: update sdk package to 4.11.0-rc2 (#4625) (@luhan2017)
• feat: taking control recognizer generation enhancements (#4549) (@lei9444)
• feature: show multi-skill project with correct link behavior (#4466) (@beyackle)
• feat: Selector to get all lg and lu files imported by a form dialog (#4515) Soroush
• feat: allow extensions to read/write data (#4499) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• feat: bf-orchestrator lib integration (#4384) taicchoumsft
• feat: Change docker base image to Ubuntu-20.04 (#4516) Christiano Donke
• feat: Add notification panel (#4484) (@tdurnford)
• feat: Adding feature flag infrastructure (#4428) pavolum
• feat: Add PVA Publish Extension (#4446) (@tonyanziano)
• feat: Added trigger grouping for form dialogs (#4475) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• feat: add global styling and Fabric for extension UIs (#4467) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• feat: Bot Project Schema Update (#4431) (@srinaath)
• feature: implement new ProjectTree design with popout menus (#4361) (@beyackle)
• feat: New adaptive forms (#4389) (@leugene-microsoft)
• feat: Update LG library (#4368) (@Danieladu)
• feat: Added trigger grouping methods to indexers (#4413) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• feat: support app schema (#4419) (@yeze322)
• feat: Taking control of recognizer dialog generation and crosstrain config (#4351) (@lei9444)
• feat: Added jsonSchema and trigger content (#4353) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• feat: QnA import url (#3919) (@zhixzhan)
• feat: add useProjectApi for extensions (#4358) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• feat: Form dialogs within Composer UX (#4362) Soroush
• feat: zoom in out (#4217) (@alanlong9278)
• feat: Added support for nested fieldsets (#4364) (@tdurnford)
• feature: Adding VA template custom creation UI (#4176) pavolum
• feature: Adding VA template behind feature flag in Composer (#4140) pavolum
• feat: BotProject File Schema (#3744) (@srinaath)
• feat: lu features setting (#4318) (@zhixzhan)
• feat: Bot Project Operations (#4316) (@srinaath)
• feat: Allow undo/redo in form dialog schema builder (#4328) Soroush
• feat: form dialog extension (#4296) Soroush
• feat: $designer.id based URL (#4242) (@yeze322)
• feat: Adds UI pivotFieldsets to UI Options (#4265) (@tdurnford)
• feat: add extensions page in settings (#4264) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• feat: Adds support for additional fields in UIOptions (#4240) (@tdurnford)
• feat: Feature authorization middleware (#4086) Christian Glessner
• feat: Update Composer logic to leverage the uiSchema when initializing the IntellisenseField. (#4263) (@leugene-microsoft)
• feat: use uischema to define Flow Actions (#3858) (@yeze322)
• feat: add notification center for composer (QnA url import) (#4080) (@lei9444)
• feat: UI Schema - Recognizer (#4135) (@yeze322)
• feat: install remote extensions from npm (#4224) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• feat: Added fieldSets to UIOptions (#4231) (@tdurnford)
• feat: State management support for loading mutiple projects (#4117) (@srinaath)
• feat: Add endpoint dropdown to the add skill modal (#4163) (@tdurnford)
• feat: electron app localization (#4161) Soroush
• feat: add directline extensions support by default, for webapp runtime only (#3980) (@zidaneymar)
• feat: electron splash screen (#4119) Soroush
• feat: Add QnA files to dispatch model in skill manifest (#3985) (@tdurnford)
• feature: localization framework and pseudolocalization (#3913) (@beyackle)
• feat: Refer to settings.skill inside dialog files (#4065) (@srinaath)
• feat: Added form dialog generation controller (#4037) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• feat: Allows to define a custom port with custom runtime (#4043) Christian Glessner
• feat: add extension management apis (#3978) (@tonyanziano)

Fixed

• fix: Await until delete action finishes (#4792) (@srinaath)
• fix: update debounced update handlers (#4790) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: zip file can not be deleted (#4760) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: Allowed 404 to fall through axios during import flow (#4770) (@tonyanziano)
• fix: account for undefined $designer in breadcrumb (#4752) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: do not stub __dirname for node extensions (#4749) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: Delete & Undo on actions with LG templates doesn't bring back the LG content (#4740) (@lei9444)
• fix: Give a header to the enum fields (#4732) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: Adding text when no visible feature flags are present (#4733) pavolum
• fix: update incompatible Trigger redirect url & icon size (#4719) (@yeze322)
• fix: azure publish failed (#4725) (@lei9444)
• fix: add skillConfiguration settings for old bot (#4724) (@lei9444)
• fix: undo/redo can't navigate to the correct position (#4722) (@lei9444)
• fix: remodel ProjectTree for greater clarity (#4714) (@beyackle)
• fix: the generated recognizer files is messy when the dialog name has the same prefix (#4708) (@lei9444)
• fix: Update disabled property to booleanExpression across all the kinds + two uischema update (#4682) (@luhan2017)
• fix: Notification deep link (#4700) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: undo/redo (#4688) (@lei9444)
• fix: Sorting OneOfField options / better default type (#4673) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: breadcrumb display for ProjectTree (#4604) (@beyackle)
• fix: router cache bug (#4687) (@liweitian)
• fix: misordered using directives in runtime (#4684) zxyanliu
• fix: Form dialog hidden fixed feature flags (#4675) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Visual canvas mess up when add new actions in a zoom in/out mode (#4672) (@alanlong9278)
• fix: update 'Disable/Enable' buttons state in realtime (#4664) (@yeze322)
• fix: azure publish fail (#4660) (@lei9444)
• fix: Test/Start buttons unable to click. (#4666) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: dialog resources recognizer/qna incorrect creation (#4612) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: Add ability to switch to expression when editing an "OpenObjectField" (object with additionalProperties) & only show OpenObjectField when additionalProperties is an object (#4600) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: preserve the root files when creating a PVA bot (#4611) (@lei9444)
• fix: Adds validation for form dialogs propery name (#4574) Soroush
• fix: update archive version in extensions/vacore (#4571) (@beyackle)
• fix: e2e test (#4581) (@liweitian)
• fix: security analysis failure due to bl package version (#4580) Fei Chen
• fix: Can not add properties in "SetProperties" action (#4572) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: handle the case when selection is not empty (#4561) (@yeze322)
• fix: missing qna recognizers when publishing (#4559) (@lei9444)
• fix: Improving the ui for when "additionalProperties": true (#4536) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: Provide proper index to trigger links (#4550) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Action title not displayed (#4524) (@yeze322)
• fix: avoid creating duplicate QNA match trigger (#4518) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: Filter property names, not trigger (#4540) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Add form-wide and better trigger grouping (#4537) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Expressions not starting with "=" can resolve to a regular TextField (#4507) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: error message in QnA KB creation (#4497) zxyanliu
• fix: Optimization of dialog validation (#4485) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: Check the name without a number at the beginning when creating a new dialog (#4493) (@lei9444)
• fix: Missing the import qna file when generating the recognizer dialog (#4473) (@lei9444)
• fix: unable to start bot in electron (#4482) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: correctly read project paths on Windows (#4483) (@beyackle)
• fix: check package.json existence in script compileExtensions.js (#4470) (@yeze322)
• fix: unify create qna from url/scratch window height (#4432) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: fix docker build (#4461) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: consume sdk.schema in Flow Action title (#4455) (@yeze322)
• fix: Retrogression of lu and qna import resolver (#4454) (@lei9444)
• fix: create from QnA maker (#4450) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: Excluded settings and scripts globs (#4444) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: update l10n files and fix typo in en-US.json (#4430) (@beyackle)
• fix: allow extension to register multiple publish targets (#4424) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: update l10n files and fix a couple typos (#4408) (@beyackle)
• fix: Move bf-generate-lib templates to asar.unpacked (#4411) Soroush
• fix: Updates regular expressions formatting and naming convention (#4398) Steven Kanberg
• fix: Fetch form dialog templates behind the flag (#4388) Soroush
• fix: Guard selectors against partially loaded project (#4367) (@srinaath)
• fix: share 'LuIntentEditor' widget across recognizers (#4350) (@yeze322)
• fix: Added the designer id to the root property id in the Adaptive Form (#4342) (@tdurnford)
• fix: restore localization JSON file (#4347) (@beyackle)
• fix: only show enabled extension pages (#4321) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: Fixed useArrayItems and useObjectItems (#4323) (@tdurnford)
• fix: Move skill settings into settings.skillConfiguration (#4312) (@srinaath)
• fix: minor UX fixes for installing extensions (#4308) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: Action flyout menu only shows defined $kinds in sdk.schema (#4284) (@yeze322)
• fix: Typing too fast in composer results in dropped characters (#4298) (@lei9444)
• fix: Upgrade to recoil to version 0.0.13 (#4270) (@lei9444)
• fix: Fix resizing problems by replacing resizable with splitter controls (#4278) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: resync locale strings (#4288) (@beyackle)
• fix: Monaco editor links opened in blank window in electron (#4269) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: Object examples not properly displayed as placeholders (#4126) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: allows spaces in bot project path (#4260) (@liweitian)
• fix: update l10n file (#4247) (@beyackle)
• fix: fix loading of extensions by removing sample-ui-plugin (#4251) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: split qna resource to another template (#4212) (@zidaneymar)
• fix: Change http to https for petstore.swagger.io calls (#4238) Eric Dahlvang
• fix: refactored select skill ui-plugin (#4207) (@tdurnford)
• fix: New LG template not sync to other locale files (#4230) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: language err for build luis in azure deploy (#4155) (@alanlong9278)
• fix: Unify skill and skill setting dispatchers (#4173) (@tdurnford)
• fix: qna migration bug (#4169) (@liweitian)
• fix: Removing browser autocomplete on Intellisense fields (#4129) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: add more missing formatMessage calls (#4144) (@beyackle)
• fix: check whether operation is under current project folder (#4078) (@liweitian)
• fix: defense invocation of value.match() (#4110) (@yeze322)
• fix: checkReturnType in ExpressionValidation throws unexpected error (#4112) (@lei9444)
• fix: security: downgrade node-forge to 0.9.0 (#4133) (@boydc2014)
• fix: check whether it is a bot project folder while opening (#4071) (@liweitian)
• fix: Fixes various issue in the web app deployment script (#4050) Christian Glessner
• fix: merge qna settings from generated files in js runtime (#3981) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: update bl for security reasons (#4033) (@beyackle)
• fix: UI text in 'new bot' should start upper case (#4013) (@srinaath)
• fix: Made the default width for the property editor wider (#4788) (@tonyanziano)
• fix: pass csrf token to plugin hosts (#4787) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: Remove enforce auto end dialog for skill bots (#4440) Christian Glessner
• fix: Several PVA integration improvements / bug fixes (#4776) (@tonyanziano)
• fix: Updated strings from building (#4762) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: increase unit tests timeout to 30 min (#4764) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix: Localized resource files from OneLocBuild (#4730) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: force node extensions to only require commonjs (#4755) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• fix onResize handler props (#4720) (@yeze322)
• fix: Always enable allowClarmsValidator (#4717) (@luhan2017)
• fix: make name text field disable in edit (#4699) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: add useMemo to improve performance (#4701) (@liweitian)
• fix: replace deprecated azure blob interface (#4702) (@zidaneymar)
• fix: move luBuildResolver to shared lib, apply in azurePublish (#4709) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: redirect to dialog root (#4698) (@yeze322)
• fix: Update projectTemplates.ts (#4697) (@beyackle)
• fix: when changes on common.lg, reparse all lgFiles (#4669) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: Updated locale from building (#4694) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Fix variable name (#4661) Péter Bozsó
• fix: read recognizer intent from dialog content (#4683) (@yeze322)
• fix: change Microsoft.UpdateActivity title from "Send an activity" to "Update an activity" (#4686) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: add region parameter to luis build call options (#4685) Fei Chen
• fix: don't install package during eject js runtime, install and build when publish (#4668) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: promisify the 'saveData()' api and fix #4616 (#4667) (@yeze322)
• fix: use throttle 200 instead of debounce 1000 (#4670) (@yeze322)
• fix: does not allow to delete root bot (#4671) (@liweitian)
• fix: always show "create from scratch" button in "from url modal" (#4662) (@zhixzhan)
• fix: larger warning icon (#4665) (@yeze322)
• fix: Delete the default appsettings that ships with qna (#4650) (@srinaath)
• fix: Update ProjectTree.tsx (#4614) (@beyackle)
• fix: Disabled PR validation for static analysis, and changed scheduled time to midnight PST instead of UTC. (#4596) (@tonyanziano)
• fix: fix qna multiturn regression (#4610) (@zhixzhan)
• Functions runtime: Revert to netcore3.0 for functions and make code more robust to functions variations (#4570) (@srinaath)
• fix: fix (#4591) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: publish ut timeout (#4578) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: delete fd (#4556) Soroush
• fix: fix delete dialog bug (#4558) (@liweitian)
• fix: Add delete form dialog to Composer server API (#4553) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: update bf-generate-library (#4552) Soroush
• fix: Update MultiplyDialog.schema (#4510) zxyanliu
• fix: Fixed pva publish base url bug (#4538) (@tonyanziano)
• fix: exclude no template definition warning in LG (#4525) (@cosmicshuai)
• fix: Edit schema menu item (#4506) Soroush
• fix: Added custom iframe styling for pva publish (#4509) (@tonyanziano)
• fix: Adding this and settings scopes (#4500) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: handle designer path in mixed format (#4489) (@yeze322)
• fix: Localized resource files from OneLocBuild (#4487) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: change Trigger icon to 'LightningBolt' (#4490) (@yeze322)
• fix: Missing $ in format string (#4486) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: add runtime identifier configuration (#4391) (@zidaneymar)
• fix: change the name for localPublish plugin (#4452) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: Update UI from SDK (#4445) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Making sure placeholder works for ArrayFields (#4412) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: azure publish (#4423) (@lei9444)
• fix: runtime template path (#4422) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: new uiSchema (#4401) (@leugene-microsoft)
• fix: platform specific location expection (#4375) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Update runtime package to 4.10.5 (#4343) (@luhan2017)
• fix: Updating to latest version of generate library (#4341) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: Update en-US.json (#4322) (@beyackle)
• fix: Bump @actions/core in /.github/actions/conventional-pr (#4307) dependabot[bot]
• fix: Adding missing tslib reference to server packages (#4310) Christiano Donke
• fix: Included en-US schemas for localization (#4292) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: do not create duplicated qna matcher trigger (#4082) (@liweitian)
• fix: Fixes 4099 (#4164) Soroush
• fix: update localization and add missing "example" string (#4138) (@beyackle)
• fix: Handle endpoint empty (#4076) (@luhan2017)
• fix: see log enable (#4056) (@VanyLaw)
• fix: Updated to remove 52 high sev issues (#4074) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• fix: auto fill botId with MicrosoftAppId (#4052) (@zhixzhan

Changed

• refactor: add @bfc/types package (#4336) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• refactor: change method of installing extensions (#4315) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• refactor: remove lib folder under client extensions (#4113) (@VanyLaw)
• refactor: rename plugins to extensions (#4075) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)

Other

• chore: bundle extensions (#4745) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• ci: Disable CI validation (#4646) (@tonyanziano)
• chore: remove orchestrator (#4602) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• chore: Set up Nightly static analysis pipeline in ADO (#4589) (@tonyanziano)
• doc: guidelines/help-contents (#4354) zxyanliu
• perf: avoid redraw when Project Tree selected item not changed (#4564) (@yeze322)
• ci: remove code scanning workflow (#4569) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• revert: bf-orchestrator lib integration (#4568) taicchoumsft
• perf: early return when focused element not changed (#4545) (@yeze322)
• chore: update server api to prevent overwrite the root dialog (#4520) (@lei9444)
• chore: update l10n, 2020-10-26 edition (#4533) (@beyackle)
• ci: disable docker cache and remove buildx (#4523) (@boydc2014)
• perf: use local ref to save flow editor focus state (#4474) (@yeze322)
• docs: added MIT licience badge in README.md (#4421) Harsh Moradiya
• chore: move plugins folder outside of Composer (#4399) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• chore: enable easier electron builds by hosting some packages (#4383) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• chore: clear CI yarn cache (#4365) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)
• chore: remove the ci yarn cache [TEST] (#4369) (@lei9444)
• chore: extract build logic from components page (#4153) (@alanlong9278)
• chore: add selfsigned to resolutions (#4158) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• build: fix docker builds in ACR (#3986) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• chore: update archiver to fix security warning (#4116) (@a-b-r-o-w-n)
• chore: Adding missing variable in array of dependency in React hook (#4130) (@leugene-microsoft)
• doc: update title of "new bot" dialog (#4063) (@zxyanliu)
• chore: Updated owners for PRs (#4083) (@GeoffCoxMSFT)