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# August 2020 (version 4.10.0)
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Welcome to the August 2020 release of the Bot Framework SDK. We are introducing some exciting [Additional New Features](#Additional-New-SDK-Features) with [Updates and Enhancements](#Other-Updates-and-Enhancements) primarily focused in five key pillars:
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- [Documentation](#Documentation) Includes improvements to existing documentation and net new documentation centered on recurring issues and developer pain points.
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- [Customer Supportability](#Customer-Supportability) Improvements focused on developers seeking assistance using the Bot Framework, tools and SDKs.
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- [Customer Ask](#Customer-Ask) Implemented enhancements and feature requests from the developer community and 3rd parties using the Bot Framework SDK and tools.
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- [Code Quality](#Code-Quality) Enforcement of code styling and format rules, increased testing code coverage, and functional tests.
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- [Team Agility](#Team-Agility) Improved validation of SDK code and integration with supporting libraries and environments. Continuous integarion and build pipleline improvements.
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## Documentation
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[BF Docs GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Docs%22)
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Following feedback from customers and the Bot Framework Support Team, a number of net new documents have been written as well as updates to existing documentation. These are helpful towards providing answers and information relating to recurring issues from bot developers.
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- Code comment documentation
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- Samples readme improvements
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- SDK repository readme and wiki updates
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- New documents addressing recurring bot developer issues
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## Customer Supportability
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[BF Supportability GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Supportability%22)
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Developers using the Microsoft Bot Framework have many avenues for getting help. See [additional resources](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-resources-links-help) Internal tools have been improved to increase the responsiveness of the engineering team in areas of most interest to developers.
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- Creation of internal bots and improved tools for customer support
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- Improved analytics of trends in customer reported feature requests and issues
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- Coordination of labels across `Git Hub` repositories
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## Customer Ask
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[BF Customer Ask GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Customer+Ask%22)
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- Additional Teams channel lifecycle events
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- Improved `Applicaition Insights` integration
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- Add Locale to `ConversationUpdate`
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- Update `CardAction` to support alt text for images on buttons
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- Update `Skill Handler` to return `Resource Response`
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- Release of library using latest `Azure Blobs` storage
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- Enable custom fields for `Entity`
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- Fixes to OAuthPrompt timeout and addition of EndOnInvalidMessage
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- Various bug fixes and telemetry improvements
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## Code Quality
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- Analyzer rules in place and running (code style and format)
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- Unit test code coverage and quality
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- Increased profiling of the code base
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- Swagger file unified across SDK repositories and version # introduced
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- Specific SDKs asks and needs:
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- Settings object pattern for C# adapters
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- LG dependent files testing (C#)
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- Dependency policing (JS)
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- Integration tests with Direct Line JS and adaptive cards
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## Team Agility
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[BF Team Agility GitHub](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22BF+Agility%22)
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Improvements have been made across SDK repositories towards decreased CI pipeline times, improved testing, including both functional integration and unit tests.
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### Speed
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- Reduce time to build for SDKs (local and remote)
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- Reduce SDK unit test duration through refactoring and/or concurrent approaches
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- Refactor ADO pipelines into smaller, separate jobs or stages
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- Run as-applicable pipelines (e.g. no style-checks on .yaml files)
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### Reliability
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- Refine or replace current monorepo/”mono-solution” setups as necessary
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- Address nondeterministic build/test failures
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- Enable continuous integration for forked pull request submissions
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- Complete integration tests added with bots dynamically created
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## Other Updates and Enhancements
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* [Microsoft Teams](#Microsoft-Teams) Continued improvements to Microsoft Teams API support
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* [Bot Framework CLI Tools](#Bot-Framework-CLI-Tools) `Lg` added as core plugin, publish preview builds to npm, other improvements
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* [Bot Builder Samples](#Samples) Readme updates, CI improvements, new Teams `Typescript` samples
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* [Composer](#Composer) Advancements in Skills support and Cognitive Services integration
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* [Web Chat](#Web-Chat) Many Accessibility improvements
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* [Emulator](#Emulator) Bug fixes and updates
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## Microsoft Teams
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- SSO support
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- Increased `Adaptive Dialog` support for Teams events
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- SDK supprot for lifecyle events: `ChannelRestored`, `TeamArchived`, `TeamUnarchived`,`TeamRestored`, `TeamDeleted`, and `TeamHardDeleted`
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- `InstallationUpdate` activity type support
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## Bot Framework CLI Tools
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- `Lg` added as BF-CLI core plugin
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- Enhancements and fixes to `lu` parser
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- `QnaMaker` support extended
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- Publish daily builds and RCs of `botframework-cli` to npm
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## Samples
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- Readme updates and consolidation across language samples
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- Build pipelines for samples CI
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- Demonstreate using Locale in `ConversationUpdate` welcome message sample
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- Additional Teams samples in [Typescript](https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/typescript_nodejs)
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- Teams `TaskModule` samples now includes [HTML/JavaScript task modules](https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/platform/task-modules-and-cards/what-are-task-modules#task-module-css-for-htmljavascript-task-modules)
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## Composer
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- The Bot Framework SDK continues to support the `Bot Framework Composer`.
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See Composer [1.1.0 Release Notes](https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/blob/main/releases/1.1.0.md)
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## Web Chat
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- Many accessibility improvements and fixes
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- Group activity by timestamp and sender
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- Convert emoticon to Emoji
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- Added scrolling API: allow save/restore scroll position and scroll to specific activity
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## Emulator
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- Added an additional log panel entry on conversation start that displays the current bot's endpoint
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- Fixed a bug where trying to open the sign-in link on an OAuth card when ngrok was not configured would cause the Windows File Explorer to open
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- Improved CONTRIBUTING.md to more accurately reflect requisites to build the Emulator from source
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- Updates to Cosmos DB service editor dialog
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- Upgrded Web Chat to 4.10.0
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## Additional New SDK Features
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- [Orchestrator](https://aka.ms/bf-orchestrator): Transformer based solution that runs locally with your bot to dispatch across one or more [Bot Builder Skills](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-skills-overview) or [LUIS](https://www.luis.ai/) applications or [QnA Maker](https://www.qnamaker.ai/) Knowledgebase.
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- [Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Queues](Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Queues) (preview) Enables more easily interacting with [Azure Queues](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/queues/storage-queues-introduction) and `ContinueConversationLater` Dialog
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- [Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Blobs](Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Blobs) `BlobsStorage` and `BlobsTranscriptStore` implementations replacing `AzureBlobStorage` and `AzureBlobTranscriptStore`. This library uses [Azure.Storage.Blobs](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.Storage.Blobs) and is a replacement for the older [Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob/) used by [Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure/).
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**Insiders**: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build [[C#](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet/blob/master/UsingMyGet.md)] [[JS](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-js/blob/master/UsingMyGet.md)] [[Python](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-python/blob/master/UsingTestPyPI.md)] [[CLI](https://github.com/Microsoft/botframework-cli#nightly-builds)] and try the latest updates as soon as they are available. And for the latest Bot Framework news, updates, and content, follow us on Twitter @msbotframework!
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