Genesys Cloud – 2023
List of the Genesys Cloud release notes published in 2023.
Data, Analytics & Reporting
- Acoustic metrics added to transcript aggregates
- Open interactions in a new Analytics workspace tab
- English voice transcript sensitive data masking improvements
Employee productivity
- Introducing metrics and reporting for Genesys Agent Assist
Open platform
- Leveraging Digicert as the certificate authority in the mTLS process
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Pointillist Community
Account management
- Control wrap-up code access within divisions
Customer engagement
- Outbound dialing contact list builder
- Mobile customer journey tracking
- Improved call analysis response performance
- Mobile app event orchestration
Data, analytics and reporting
- Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese programs, topics, and phrases support
- Extended voice transcription services support for Afrikaans, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Malay, Russian, Slovak, Vietnamese, and Zulu
Open platform
- CX Cloud from Genesys and Salesforce integration
Self service and automation
- Knowledge workbench V2 Japanese language support
Workforce engagement
- Improved Automatic Best Method (ABM) forecasting accuracy
- Average Talk Time gamification metric
- Learning modules with rich text format
- Supervisor insights improvements
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Using Internet Explorer 11 for Genesys Cloud authentication
- Deprecation: Genesys Cloud SSO certificate expiry
Account management
- Change password set/reset workflow
- Password policy minimum requirements
Customer engagement
- Increased support for non-E.164 format phone numbers in Single Customer View
- In-queue and scheduled callback automation
- Perform a benefit assessment before predictive routing free trial activation
Data, analytics and reporting
- Topic miner French language support
- Mine for new trending topics in email interactions
- Sentiment Analytics data in Agent/Queue/Flow Topic views
- Agent empathy API and customer sentiment language support for Dutch, Italian, German and Japanese
Workforce engagement
- Screen recording available in Genesys Cloud CX 1 license
Customer engagement
- Messenger support for Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian
- External contact management user interface refresh
Data, analytics and reporting
- Improved voice transcription accuracy for Portuguese (pt-PT and pt-BR)
- Agent, Queue, and Flow topics summary view enhancements
Employee productivity
- Improved Collaborate for iOS search experience
- Real-time monitoring for web messaging channels
Self service and automation
- Sort and filter intents and utterances in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows
Workforce engagement
- Bulk archive recordings through recording bulk action API
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Native LINE third-party messaging channel
Data, analytics and reporting
- Filter data by multiple topics in Topic Trend Summary and Agent, Queue, and Flow topic summary views
- Content search enhancements
Open platform
- Genesys Cloud Voice in Brazil
Self service and automation
- Category and subcategory navigation in the knowledge portal
- Header background and category icon images in the knowledge portal
Workforce engagement
- Routing > Schedules is now Routing > Operating Schedules
- Agent connected duration, maximum evaluations per agent, and customized sampling criteria in agent evaluations
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Canned reports
Customer engagement
- Improved Messenger UI color contrast patterns
Self service and automation
- Mute suggestions and hide intent health for Architect bot flows and digital bot flows
Employee productivity
- Genesys Agent Assist on the CX platform for voice
Self service and automation
- Category and subcategory navigation in the knowledge portal
Deprecations and announcements
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
- Native LINE third-party messaging channel deprecation
- Mandatory SMS Registration Deadline: Toll Free Numbers
Customer engagement
- Add media to an Outbound SMS campaign
- Architect voice flow access to inbound headers on BYOC Cloud calls
Data, analytics and reporting
- Evaluator value update based on submission
- Create in-app toast notification alert rule
- Analytics Performance views accessibility improvements
Workforce engagement
- Quality evaluation revision enablement for rescores
- Quality management evaluations assignment
- View time-off balances from an external HR system on Genesys Tempo
- Dispute completed quality management evaluations
Account management
- Division-aware configuration objects default to all divisions
- Assign divisions to secondary statuses
- User settings page displays the last login date and time
Customer engagement
- GCV outbound fraud protection
Data, analytics and reporting
- New speech and text analytics permissions
- Agent empathy analysis API for English transcripts
- New analytics dashboard metrics
- Messenger co-browse toolbar improvements
- Remove agents who deselect their phone from the queue
Employee productivity
- Agent target selection interface and workflow improvements
Workforce engagement
- Assign division specific secondary status codes for agents
Data, analytics and reporting
- Improved native voice transcription accuracy for specific French dialects
- Improved native voice transcription accuracy for specific Spanish dialects
Open platform
- Ringtone selection for call alerts
Self service and automation
- Centralized import and export for knowledge workbench V2
- Preview knowledge workbench V2 articles
- Advanced filtering and customizable columns for knowledge bases
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Removal of consult transfer controls from the interaction window in Genesys Cloud embedded clients
Customer engagement
- Improved call analysis response performance
- Bring Your Own (BYO) SMS in Genesys Cloud
Data, analytics, and reporting
- Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) process updates
- Manually add words to the dictionary backend
Self service and automation
- Knowledge optimizer unanswered queries improvements
Deprecations and announcements
- Legacy alerting system deprecation postponement
Customer engagement
- Search domain names and email addresses
- Inbound call handling site for BYOC Cloud trunks
- Supported file attachments update in third-party messaging
Data, analytics, and reporting
- Configure rules for any user in a work team
Self service and automation
- Cards and carousels for digital bot conversations
- Expanded knowledge portal availability
Workforce engagement
- WEM activity widget for Genesys Cloud for Embedded Framework
- Architect workflow automated notifications
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Active Screen Recordings UI
Customer engagement
- Open messaging typing indicators
Data, analytics, and reporting
- Introducing the Genesys Cloud Analytics Add-on (A3S)
Open platform
- Architect workflow trigger automation
- Introducing Genesys Cloud CX Accelerators
Self service and automation
- Support center name change
- Architect Transfer to ACD action in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
- Introducing the Architect Optimizations dashboard
- Architect flow outcomes and milestones user interface updates
Workforce engagement
- Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) activity view in external web environments
Deprecations and announcements
Customer engagement
- Additional EMEA numbers for Genesys Cloud Voice in US, Canada, and Europe
- Additional APAC numbers for Genesys Cloud Voice in US, Canada, and Europe
- Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Japanese language support
Data, analytics, and reporting
- WebRTC Media Helper in Analytics
Self service and automation
- Architect zoom enhancement and legacy user interface toggle removal
Workforce engagement
- WEM activity views in Genesys Cloud for Salesforce embedded client
- Telephony administrator user interface updates
Deprecations and announcements
- Search Audits APIs deprecation postponement
Customer engagement
- Conditional group routing as the timeout routing method for preferred agent routing
- Require the WebRTC Media Helper
- Custom music for agent-initiated hold duration
- End interactions automatically when agents logoff
- Improved media handling for outbound message attachments
Data, analytics, and reporting
- Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Norwegian, and Swedish programs, topics, and phrases support
- Introducing the Genesys Cloud Analytics Add-on (A3S)
- Campaign Interactions Detail view and Dialer Campaign Detailed Attempt History Report for outbound campaigns
Open platform
- Genesys Cloud for Chrome extension update
- Calling party ID in p-asserted identity SIP header
- Yealink headsets support
Self service and automation
- Additional formatting for knowledge workbench v2 articles
- Test digital bot flows in real time
- Intent health in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows
Workforce engagement
- Quality evaluation scores now available as a gamification metric
Deprecations and announcements
- US/CA 10DLC (10-Digit Long Code) SMS numbers purchase requirement
- Arrow Electronics partnership and end of preconfigured edge appliances program
- Deprecation: CX digital agent workspace (digital desktop only)
- Japanese translation of “idle” inconsistency
Data, analytics, and reporting
- Extended voice transcription services support for Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese
- Real-time agent filtering and agent updates
Self service and automation
- Nuance Mix integration support in Canada
- JSON variables and states in Architect bot flows and digital bot flows
Contact center
- Additional voice transcription accuracy improvements for Japanese
- Sensitive Data Masking for voice interactions
- Additional CX 1 Digital Add-On II capabilities
- Co-browse for web messaging read-only fields and buttons
- Dashboards summary page enhancements
- Dashboard management for administrators
- Knowledge follow-up tasks in bot flows and digital bot flows
Integrations
- Amazon LexV2 integration available in the FedRAMP region
Deprecations and announcements
- Search Audits view deprecation
- BYOC Cloud TLS X.509 certificate renewal
- Certificate Authority change for Microsoft Teams integration
- Release Notes category improvements
Contact center
- Force stop button in digital campaign management
Integrations
- Limitation for JSON objects depth in data action service
Platform
- Trigger inclusion in Genesys Cloud CX 1 license
Contact center
- Updated WhatsApp pricing structure
- Copy and share interaction transcripts
- Web messaging inbound custom attribute size limit requests
- SMS short code number in France
- Improved workload balancing in predictive routing
Integrations
- Two score-setting options for ranking waiting interactions
Platform
- PCI DSS recertification
- Genesys Cloud WhatsApp Embedded signup self-service onboarding
- Subscribe to events from the Operational Console
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: Outbound Search Audits view
- Mandatory SMS US and Canada registration
Contact center
- Agent evaluation details export generation for multiple agent
- Workforce management business unit and service goal template impact override settings
- Increased limits for workforce management dimensions
- Topic miner Spanish language support
Communicate
- Polycom Zero Touch Provisioning
- Specify a Canadian address as a remote emergency address
Contact center
- Collaborate chat quick access for recent chat messages
- Real-time Interactions data export
Integrations
- Sentiment analysis in Google Cloud Dialogflow CX integrations
Platform
- Suppress call recordings during IVR flow and in-queue segments
Contact center
- Architect user interface refresh
- Configure new conditional group routing method
- Touchpoint variations for knowledge workbench articles
Platform
- Genesys Cloud CX is FedRAMP Authorized at the Moderate Impact Level
Contact center
- Extended voice transcription services support for additional English dialects and German Switzerland
- Improved native voice transcription accuracy for specific English dialects
- Trigger Process Automation from any Evaluation State Change
- Assign a permission to grant a role to a user by division
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation of legacy Dialog Engine postponement
Contact center
- Call recording and quality management support in Genesys Cloud EX
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation: CX digital agent workspace
Contact center
- Authenticated web messaging for verified users
- Auto answer for digital interactions on queues
Deprecations and announcements
- LiveNow permission change
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
Communicate
- BYOC Cloud TLS X.509 certificate renewal
Contact center
- Drill down to dashboard performance views
- Real time alerting based on agent’s after call work duration
- Improved dashboard create and edit options
- Show or hide top viewed articles in Support Center
- Multi-lingual Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flow and Genesys Digital Bot Flows
Platform
- Resource Center improvements
- Telephony Extensions now support Divisions
Deprecations and announcements
- Legacy alerting system deprecation
- External Contact directory pages external organization logo removal
Collaborate
- Support for MDM browser authentication for Collaborate for iOS
Contact center
- Workforce management time-off requests user interface improvements
- Improvements to playback screen recordings
- Workforce management and HR Integration System (HRIS) integration
- Modify the default whisper tone in Architect
- Real-time alerting for waiting interactions
- Introducing improved alerting
Integrations
- Client information in the embedded clients interaction window
Deprecations and announcements
- Journey customer service deprecation
Contact Center
- Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish language support
Deprecations and announcements
- Knowledge workbench V1 deprecation
- Genesys Dialog Engine deprecation postponement
- Mandatory US and Canada SMS/MMS registration
Communicate
- Additional ringtone options for Communicate for iOS and Android
Contact Center
Integrations
- 8×8 integration
Contact Center
- Historical adherence and shrinkage view updates for teams
- Route email to multiple destinations
- Improved analytics email data with CC/BCC details
Deprecations and announcements
- Search Audits view deprecation
- Search Audits APIs deprecation
Communicate
- Support for MDM browser authentication for Communicate for iOS
Contact Center
- Additional voice transcription accuracy for Arabic
- Microsoft Edge Chromium, Firefox and browser extension support for screen recording with Genesys Cloud Background Assistant
- Automatically reschedule time zone skipped contacts
Platform
- Identify unused roles and permissions in the Admin UI
- Display number of interactions routed via non-predictive routing method due to timeout
Deprecations and announcements
- BYOC Premises—Customer VM Solution deprecation
Contact Center
- Generative AI to summarize agent digital interactions
- New workforce management scheduling menu
- Automatic language detection for digital interactions
- Show or hide top searched articles in Support Center
- Bulk changes to knowledge base question and answer articles
- Copy an existing evaluation or web survey form
- Customer Journeys tab in the Interactions View
- Canned responses source code/HTML editor
- Access to Queue Agent Details View by division membership
Integrations
- Introduction of OAuth 2.0 for custom SMTP integration
Deprecations and announcements
- Customer journey tab replacement
Contact Center
- External contacts Profile tab updates
- Import question and answer FAQs from URLs
Platform
- Automatic inactivity timeout improvement
- Maximum voicemail recording length setting
Contact Center
- Introducing the Data Actions Performance views
- Introducing new Topic tab in agent, queue, and flow summary and detail views
- Extended voice transcription services support for Arabic and Hebrew right to left languages
- Topics and phrases support for Arabic right to left languages
- Limit for number of allowed evaluations per agent and per day expanded to include ad-hoc evaluations
- Data action in rule conditions for digital campaigns
- Notification message for conversation disconnect
Deprecations and announcements
- Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 support for the desktop app deprecation postponement
Communicate
- Built-in Genesys Cloud WebRTC diagnostics application improvements
Contact Center
- External contacts Profile tab updates
- Extended voice transcription services support for Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and additional English languages
- Archive and unarchive learning modules
Integrations
- Automatic regionalization of endpoints for existing Google Cloud TTS and STT integrations
- Custom voices support for the Google Cloud Text-to-Speech integration
Deprecations and announcements
- Static data actions for web service data actions integration removal
Communicate
- Transcription for Communicate voicemails
- Active speaker indicators
Contact Center
- Additional voice transcription accuracy improvements for Spanish
- Approve time-off requests based on agent hire date
- Evaluation source in evaluation cards
- Enhanced pagination control in analytics workspace views
- Queue Performance Summary chart view
- Metric values in views with duration statistics
- Transcription for Communicate voicemails
- Restricted access to details about predictive routing agents
- Delete a knowledge base
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation of select filters in Analytics API in Predictive Engagement
Contact Center
- Topic spotting improvement
- Extend after call work (ACW) timeout settings to digital channels
- Agent requested after call work (ACW) option
- After call work (ACW) analytics for callbacks improvement
- Genesys Cloud Dialog Engine Bot Flows and Genesys Digital Bot Flows Dutch support
- Genesys natural language understanding (NLU) improvements
Integrations
- Genesys AppFoundry improvements
Deprecations and announcements
- Static data actions for web service data actions integration
- Genesys Predictive Engagement on Genesys Engage hybrid solutions deprecation
Collaborate
- Set time to return to previous status after users disconnect and reconnect
Communicate
- US and Canada numbers available for Genesys Cloud Voice EMEA Regions
Contact center
- Introducing Genesys Cloud Background Assistant for screen recording with the web app
- Introducing regional storage for call recordings
- SSML support in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
- New Search endpoint
- New variables and improvements for scripts
- Improved do not contact (DNC) list functionality to support custom values
- Communicate call classification update
Contact center
- Introducing homescreen configuration for Messenger
- Knowledge articles in Messenger
- Agent Log-in Log-out report
- Status duration data for agents
- Analytics workspace improvements
- Delayed reaction triggers for process automation
Platform
- Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Paris satellite region deployment
Deprecations and announcements
- Mandatory US and Canada SMS/MMS registration
- Deprecation of select filters in Analytics API in Predictive Engagement postponement
- End of Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API query interval change allowlist
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
Communicate
- Require the WebRTC Media Helper
- WebHID technology for Jabra headsets re-enablement
Contact center
- Improved interval granularity for a specific time span during performance metrics exports
- Improved module scheduling
- Scorecard tab improvements in the agent activity view
Deprecations and announcements
- journeyCustomer cookie id from GDPR API subjects response deprecation
- Customer journey tab replacement
- Genesys legacy Dialog Engine deprecation
- Knowledge workbench V1 deprecation
Contact center
- Status metrics for multiple queues on Performance Dashboards
- Support for capitalization and punctuation in native voice transcription for English transcripts
- Improved sentiment analysis for English
- Knowledge workbench Dutch language support
Deprecations and announcements
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion postponement
- Canned reports deprecation date updates
Contact center
- Automatic knowledge surfacing with Genesys Agent Assist
- Cards and carousels in the CX digital agent workspace
- Images and email addresses as hyperlinks in knowledge base articles
- Jump to reusable tasks in Genesys Dialog Engine Bot Flows
- Encrypt and decrypt data in Architect flows
- Mine topics from messaging transcripts
- Intent miner German language support
Contact center
- Participant names and avatars in Genesys Messenger
- Sentiment data in Topic Trends views
Platform
- Email notifications for Genesys Cloud terms and conditions, privacy policies, and security policies updates
Deprecations and announcements
- Windows 8 and 8.1 support for the desktop app deprecation
- Identify Journey SDK method in Predictive Engagement deprecation
- API endpoint change for local key settings in recording service
Collaborate
- Control access to the /giphy chat command
Contact center
- Callback outcomes metrics
- Evaluation Assistance
- Evaluation, survey, and assessment form builder enhancements
- Additional voice transcription accuracy improvements for Spanish
Platform
- Solutions, subscription plans, licensing, and pricing from the Resource Center home page
Deprecations and announcements
- Deprecation of select filters in Analytics API in Predictive Engagement
Collaborate
- Video setting improvements
Contact center
- Introducing the Genesys Cloud EX license
- Online Agents count metric and Owned by Me filter for Performance Dashboards
- Multiple media type filter support in views and exports
Deprecations and announcements
- Identify Journey SDK method in Predictive Engagement deprecation
- OS Family attribute in Predictive Engagement
- CIDR IP address range for cloud media services expansion
Contact center
- Specify a default panel for agent interactions
- Conversation autostart for mobile platforms
- Extended voice transcription services text decoration support
- Extended voice transcription services support for Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian, and Swedish languages
- Improved voice transcription accuracy for Japanese
- Historical adherence bulk request
Deprecations and announcements
- End of Analytics Conversation Detail Endpoint API query interval change allowlist