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Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning starting with version 0.2.0.

[Unreleased 0.11.0.aX] - master

Note

This version is not yet released and is under active development.

Added

• more emoji support for PY2
• intent confidence support in RegexInterpreter

Changed

Removed

Fixed

[0.10.4] - 2018-08-08

Added

• more emoji support for PY2
• intent confidence support in RegexInterpreter

[0.10.3] - 2018-08-03

Changed

• updated to Rasa NLU 0.13
• improved documentation quickstart

Fixed

• server request argument handling on python 3
• creation of training data story graph - removes more nodes and speeds up the training

[0.10.2] - 2018-07-24

Added

• new RasaChatInput channel
• option to ignore entities for certain intents

Fixed

• loading of NLU model

[0.10.1] - 2018-07-18

Changed

• documentation changes

[0.10.0] - 2018-07-17

Warning

This is a major new release with backward incompatible changes. Old trained models can not be read with the new version - you need to retrain your model. View the Migration Guide for details.

Added

• allow bot responses to be managed externally (instead of putting them into the domain.yml)
• options to prevent slack from making re-deliver message upon meeting failure condition. the default is to ignore http_timeout.
• added ability to create domain from yaml string and export a domain to a yaml string
• added server endpoint to fetch domain as json or yaml
• new default action ActionDefaultFallback

Changed

• changed the logic inside AugmentedMemoizationPolicy to recall actions only if they are the same in training stories
• moved AugmentedMemoizationPolicy to memoization.py
• wrapped initialization of BackgroundScheduler in try/except to allow running on jupyterhub / binderhub/ colaboratory
• fixed order of events logged on a tracker: action executed is now always logged before bot utterances that action created

Removed

• removed support for topics

[0.9.6] - 2018-06-18

Fixed

• fixed fallback policy data generation

[0.9.5] - 2018-06-14

Fixed

• handling of max history configuration in policies
• fixed instantiation issues of fallback policy

[0.9.4] - 2018-06-07

Fixed

• fixed evaluation script
• fixed story file loading (previously some story files with checkpoints could create wrong training data)
• improved speed of data loading

[0.9.3] - 2018-05-30

Fixed

• added token auth to all endpoints of the core server

[0.9.2] - 2018-05-30

Fixed

• fix handling of max_history parameter in AugmentedMemoizationPolicy

[0.9.1] - 2018-05-29

Fixed

• persistence of training data collected during online learning if default file path is used
• the agent() method used in some rasa_core.server endpoints is re-run at every new call of the ensure_loaded_agent decorator
• fixed OR usage of intents

[0.9.0] - 2018-05-24

Warning

This is a major new release with backward incompatible changes. Old trained models can not be read with the new version - you need to retrain your model.

Added

• supported loading training data from a folder - loads all stories from all files in that directory
• parameter to specify NLU project when instantiating a RasaNLUInterpreter
• simple /respond endpoint to get bot response to a user message
• /conversations endpoint for listing sender ids of running conversations
• added a Mattermost channel that allows Rasa Core to communicate via a Mattermost app
• added a Twilio channel that allows Rasa Core to communicate via SMS
• FallbackPolicy for executing a default message if NLU or core model confidence is low.
• FormAction class to make it easier to collect multiple pieces of information with fewer stories.
• Dockerfile for rasa_core.server with a dialogue and Rasa NLU model

Changed

• moved server from klein to flask
• updated dependency fbmessenger from 4.3.1 to 5.0.0
• updated Rasa NLU to 0.12.x
• updated all the dependencies to the latest versions

Fixed

• List slot is now populated with a list
• Slack connector: slack_channel kwarg is used to send messages either back to the user or to a static channel
• properly log to a file when using the run script
• documentation fix on stories

[0.8.6] - 2018-04-18

Fixed

• pin rasa nlu version to 0.11.4 (0.12.x only works with master)

[0.8.5] - 2018-03-19

Fixed

• updated google analytics docs survey code

[0.8.4] - 2018-03-14

Fixed

• pin pykwalify<=1.6.0 as update to 1.6.1 breaks compatibility

[0.8.3] - 2018-02-28

Fixed

• pin fbmessenger version to avoid major update

[0.8.2] - 2018-02-13

Added

• script to reload a dumped trackers state and to continue the conversation at the end of the stored dialogue

Changed

• minor updates to dependencies

Fixed

• fixed datetime serialisation of reminder event

[0.8.1] - 2018-02-01

Fixed

• removed deque to support python 3.5
• Documentation improvements to tutorials
• serialisation of date time value for ReminderScheduled event

[0.8.0] - 2018-01-30

This is a major version change. Make sure to take a look at the Migration Guide in the documentation for advice on how to update existing projects.

Added

• --debug and --verbose flags to scripts (train.py, run.py, server.py) to set the log level
• support for story cycles when using checkpoints
• added a new machine learning policy SklearnPolicy that uses an sklearn classifier to predict actions (logistic regression by default)
• warn if action emits events when using a model that it did never emit in any of the stories the model was trained on
• support for event pushing and endpoints to retrieve the tracker state from the server
• Timestamp to every event
• added a Slack channel that allows Rasa Core to communicate via a Slack app
• added a Telegram channel that allows Rasa Core to communicate via a Telegram bot

Changed

• rewrite of the whole FB connector: replaced pymessenger library with fbmessenger
• story file utterance format changed from * _intent_greet[name=Rasa] to * intent_greet{"name": "Rasa"} (old format is still supported but deprecated)
• persist action names in domain during model persistence
• improved travis build speed by not using miniconda
• don’t fail with an exception but with a helpful error message if an utterance template contains a variable that can not be filled
• domain doesn’t fail on unknown actions but emits a warning instead. this is to support reading logs from older conversation if one recently removed an action from the domain

Fixed

• proper evaluation of stories with checkpoints
• proper visualisation of stories with checkpoints
• fixed float slot min max value handling
• fixed non integer feature decoding, e.g. used for memoization policy
• properly log to specified file when starting Rasa Core server
• properly calculate offset of last reset event after loading tracker from tracker store
• UserUtteranceReverted action incorrectly triggered actions to be replayed

[0.7.9] - 2017-11-29

Fixed

• visualisation using Networkx version 2.x
• add output about line of failing intent when parsing story files

[0.7.8] - 2017-11-27

Fixed

• Pypi readme rendering

[0.7.7] - 2017-11-24

Added

• log bot utterances to tracker

Fixed

• documentation improvements in README
• renamed interpreter argument to rasa core server

[0.7.6] - 2017-11-15

Fixed

• moodbot example train command in docs

[0.7.5] - 2017-11-14

Changed

• “sender_id” (and “DEFAULT_SENDER_ID”) keyword consistency issue #56

Fixed

• improved moodbot example - more nlu examples as well as better fitting of dialogue model

[0.7.4] - 2017-11-09

Changed

• added method to tracker to retrieve the latest entities #68

[0.7.3] - 2017-10-31

Added

• parameter to specify font size when rendering story visualization

Fixed

• fixed documentation of story visualization

[0.7.2] - 2017-10-30

Added

• added facebook bot example
• added support for conditional checkpoints. a checkpoint can be restricted to only allow one to use it if certain slots are set. see docs for details
• utterance templates in domain yaml support buttons and images
• validate domain yaml and raise exception on invalid file
• run script to load models and handle messages from an input channel

Changed

• small dropout in standard keras model to decrease reliance on exact intents
• a LOT of documentation improvements

Fixed

• fixed http error if action listen is not confirmed. #42

[0.7.1] - 2017-10-06

Fixed

• issues with restart events. They created wrong a messed up history leading to wrong predictions

[0.7.0] - 2017-10-04

Added

• support for Rasa Core usage as a server with remote action execution

Changed

• switched to max code line length 80
• removed action id - use action.name() instead. if an action implementation overrides the name, it should include the action_ prefix (as it is not automatically added anymore)
• renamed rasa_dm.util to rasa_dm.utils
• renamed the whole package to rasa_core (so rasa_dm is gone!)
• renamed Reminder attribute id to name
• a lot of documentation improvements. docs are now at https://core.rasa.com
• use hashing when writing memorized turns into persistence - requires retraining of all models that are trained with a version prior to this
• changed agent.handle_message(...) interface for easier usage

[0.6.0] - 2017-08-27

Added

• support for multiple policies (e.g. one memoization and a Keras policy at the same time)
• loading domains from yaml files instead of defining them with python code
• added an api layer (called Agent) for you to use for 95% of the things you want to do (training, persistence, loading models)
• support for reminders

Changed

• large refactoring of code base

[0.5.0] - 2017-06-18

Added

• ScoringPolicy added to policy implementations (less strict than standard default policy)
• RasaNLUInterpreter to run a nlu instance within dm (instead of using the http interface)
• more tests

Changed

• UserUtterance now holds the complete parse data from nlu (e.g. to access attributes other than entities or intent)
• Turn has a reference to a UserUtterance instead of directly storing intent & entities (allows access to other data)
• Simplified interface of output channels
• order of actions in the DefaultPolicy in possible_actions (ActionListen now always has index 0)

Fixed

• RedisTrackerStore checks if tracker is stored before accessing it (otherwise a None access exception is thrown)
• RegexInterpreter checks if the regex actually matches the message instead of assuming it always does
• str implementation for all events
• Controller can be started without an input channel (e.g. messages need to be fed into the queue manually)

[0.2.0] - 2017-05-18

First released version.