Release Notes

Release Notes #

Release history of the solution with information on new features as they are added.

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Documentation version - 1.84.0

Releases #

1.84.0 - May 9th, 2023 #

Dashboard

Features

Introducing the new Dashboard feature, available with different features depending on Supervisor roles.

  • New supervisor roles
    • New 'Analytics' & 'Contact Center' supervisor roles
    • 'Real-Time' supervisor renamed 'Live Analytics' supervisor
  • New grid tiles
    • Unreturned Abandoned Calls - Displays details of pending lost calls to be contacted
    • Users - Displays user information and provides call control and presence control features
    • Agents - Displays agent call & status and provides agent state control and silent monitor features
    • Queues - Detailed queue state and call information
  • New tile types
    • Stats over time graphs
    • Multi-stat list tiles
  • New Data
    • Call Tag fields can now be added to tiles

Wallboard

Features

  • Call Tag fields can now be added to tiles

Reporting

Features

  • Device name added to the Call Session View's connection grid.
  • Excel report download type
  • Time of Day filter options for reports
  • New Reports/Fields
    • 'Call Rate' fields
    • 'Idle Time' fields for user reports
    • Queue estimated wait times
    • Agent Away reasons now supported
    • Calls by Day of Week report templates

Fixes

  • Report row limits were not always enforced
  • Rejected calls treated as refused for User/agent summary reports

Connect Desktop

Features

  • New configuration option to disable call waiting tones
  • Agent away state reasons now selectable

Fixes

  • Update to prevent softphone audio gain level being set too high
  • Default NAT settings changed to 'None' for new installs
  • Fix for user/presence icon missing on first launch

Connect Mobile

Features

  • Presence changes are now immediately applied when a new one is selected

Fixes

  • Fix for inbound external ringing call shows 'Return to Call' Banner
  • Fix for call history not taking into account timezone in all scenarios
  • Fix for audio missing/corruption when dialing voicemail

1.83.0 - Jan 31st, 2023 #

Reporting

Features

  • New 'Call Cost' reports. Provide a simple way to rate calls and view system wide, or on a user basis
  • New 'Unanswered Call' and associated aggregated columns, now available all applicable reports
  • New 'Calls by Service Number' report. Provides call data summarized by 'Service Number' (combined DID/Outgoing Caller ID field)

Fixes

  • % Total Incoming answered was labeled incorrectly
  • % Fields with 0% weren't showing a value

Reseller Portal

Features

  • Connect Desktop role renamed to Connect UC
  • allow searching using a tenant Id on the Customers grid

Fixes

  • Reseller users can now subscribe to status updates for notifications on service affecting issues and maintenance
  • User group navigation option incorrectly shown when a user does not have the required 'Customer Settings' role
  • Changing a user's email address intermittently gets reverted

Connect Desktop

Fixes

  • Preferred audio device warning is not removed when switching to deskphone mode
  • Call control button on transfer showed 'Retrieve' instead of 'Cancel'
  • Welcome email now shows support for Windows 11

1.82.0 - Jan 9th, 2023 #

Call Modeling

Fixes

  • Fixed modeling issue with 'Bow-out' scenarios (Ticket #50011)

Connect Clients (Desktop/Mobile/CRM)

Features

  • Group/queue and route path information now visible in the call history

Fixes

  • Announced transfer calls can cause stuck calls on the transferred to user

Connect Desktop

Features

  • New Custom URL screen pop feature
  • Headset support added for Plantronics/Jabra/Yealink
  • New 'Pull Call' feature, allows users to be pull calls in progress on their different devices
  • Audio codec update, G.722 support added
  • Change upgrade check frequency to every 3 hours

Fixes

  • Announced transfer call flow does not always show call control buttons
  • Call details not shown when in CTI mode
  • Prevent sleep and display going inactive whilst on a call
  • Hide contact fields that have no values

Connect CRM

Features

  • Full WebRTC softphone support
  • Centralized CRM configuration. This will allow support for customer/reseller specific configurations in future releases
  • Allow Salesforce screen pop in a new tab
  • Options to open contacts/tasks in a new tab

1.81.0 - Nov 8th, 2022 #

Reporting

Features

  • Allow ring duration interval to be configured for 'Calls By Ring Time' report

Fixes

  • Call tagging reports failed to run within a schedule (Ticket #49817)

Connect Clients (Desktop/Mobile/CRM)

Features

  • Group calls will no longer show as missed if answered at another location

Fixes

  • Fixed issue with clients being intermittently logged out (Ticket #49724)

Connect Desktop

Features

  • Feature codes can be dialed
  • New 'Keyboard Shortcuts' feature for common operations (Answer, Clear, Highlight & Dial etc)

Fixes

  • Crash when microphone permission request is denied (Ticket #49729)
  • Crash when dialing into voicemail (Ticket #49974)
  • Reset mute status when a call ends

Connect Mobile

Fixes

  • Race condition can cause the app to logout the user (Ticket #49803)
  • Zero shown on dial pad after end a call (Ticket #49749)
  • iOS 16 does not display missed call and voicemail notification blobs

Connect CRM

Features

  • New user interface to maximize available client width
  • CRM contact matches are tagged against historical call records
  • CRM records can be loaded from the call history
  • Browser notifications on incoming softphone calls

1.80.0 - Oct 4th, 2022 #

Infrastructure

  • Support for DNS SRV records when connecting to PBX (Crossbar & Blackhole)

Reporting

Features

  • Allow call recordings to be retrieved from external storage directly when not available through the PBX anymore (AwsS3 & AzureBlob support only). Please speak to your sales representative about enabling this feature.
  • Summary rows now visible on call list reports
  • Media Server & Record ID properties now available on call list reports
  • Interaction tags are now visible within the Call Session view

Fixes

  • 'Call User' field renamed 'Calling User Number'

Wallboard

Fixes

  • Fix for Wallboard stats not matching reports when reporting default settings were changed

Connect Desktop

Features

  • Dialpad can be used for DTMF tones when in focus (Softphone only)
  • Dial plan update

Fixes

  • Prevent multiple upload of logs and feed back to the user on progress when uploading log files
  • Archive logs now included in log uploads

Connect CRM

Features

  • (Preview) Embedded WebRTC client for use with all CRM integration plugins

Fixes

  • Task wasn't auto popping on Multi-record match

1.79.0 - Aug 31st, 2022 #

Reporting

Fixes

  • Answered Call filter not taken into account in 'Unreturned Abandoned Call' report
  • Outbound caller id name & number missing from 'Call List Segmented' reports (Ticket #49549)

Onboarding

Features

  • 'New User' activation and password reset emails now expire after 72 hours instead of 24 hours

Connect Desktop

Features

  • Presence Profile call routing max ring times have been increased from 60 to 120 seconds
  • Other users' extension numbers are now visible on the Contacts View
  • External contacts' phone numbers are now visible on the Contacts View
  • Allow users to hide presence profiles which they do not use
  • Improved headset support, Plantronics device support now added

Fixes

  • Fix for large call histories causing slows downs on refresh
  • Connect logs into portal on a password reset flow
  • Only showing 'End Call' when in softphone mode in certain scenarios (Ticket #49533)
  • ACD Queue state getting out of sync (Ticket #49529)

Connect Mobile

Features

  • Don't show presence profiles which a user has hidden

Fixes

  • Handle SIP call failures causing 'Failed to execute command' errors been shown
  • Handle IPv6 connection errors when using mobile data
  • Notifications not working after an upgrade

Connect CRM

Features

  • New CRM integration for Zoho CRM now available

Fixes

  • Fixed issue with login failing on Safari / Firefox
  • Fixed issue with plugin alignment when using certain browser apps

1.78.0 - June 21st, 2022 #

Provisioning

Features

  • Login tenant selector now has grouping and search capability
  • Allow PBX email address changes to propagate when User has portal access
  • Updated error message when a User is not a PBX user and attempts to enable Connect

Reporting

Features

  • New reporting fields for LastAnsweredUser/Device/Agent

Fixes

  • Prevent odd behavior when resizing columns (Ticket #49153)
  • Call tagging not working with transferred calls (Ticket #49140)

Connect Desktop

Fixes

  • Client crashing when handling multiple calls
  • Presence profile selection does not always apply Do-Not-Disturb/Forward changes
  • Allow quick calls when User does not have a presence id (Ticket #49101)

Connect Mobile

Fixes

  • Missed call badge not always clearing (Ticket #49069)
  • Real-time connection may not be re-established when offline for more than 10 minutes (Ticket #49071)

1.77.0 - May 24th, 2022 #

Connect Mobile

Features

  • Improved notification support for Android

Reporting

Features

  • New historical report template for 'Unreturned Abandoned Calls' which only applies filters to the abandoned call element of the report.

Fixes

  • Transferred ACD Queue Call - Agent segment recording not showing

1.76.0 - Apr 27th, 2022 #

Provisioning

Features

  • Rename of call recording access type 'All Groups' to 'Member Groups' to better reflect behavior

Reporting

Features

  • CSV attachments now supported on scheduled reports
  • Call Tags are now visible on the Call Session View
  • New Link Record tag type for Call Tags
  • Presence ids can now be used in tagging URIs
  • New Unreturned Abandoned Calls statistics for real-time tiles
  • Real-time Filtering and tile support for Call Tags

Fixes

  • Incorrect modeling of a call parked when recall refused (Ticket #48790)
  • Tile alarms playing continuously when set to 1 (Ticket #48793)
  • Negative talk time for parked call being rejected (Ticket #48790)
  • Tag Value filter showing as not applicable on 'Call Tag Summary template (Ticket #48813)

1.75.0 - Mar 29th, 2022 #

Connect Desktop

Features

  • New Accept group calls feature of Presence Profiles
  • Call Banner Updates - Pre-pend Name & Queue Name (if applicable) now visible on Windows notifications and call screen.

Reporting

Features

  • New Call Tagging feature, to provide custom call data updates and reports (account codes, call categories, dispositions)

Fixes

  • Handle single quote character in pre-pends (Ticket #48609)
  • If a call is presented to an external device that has 'requires_keypress' and the User answers but does not press 1, treat the call as not answered (Ticket #48621)
  • Add Outbound Caller Id field as filter field to all relevant templates (Ticket #48634)
  • Closing a Wallboard stops tiles updating if the same User has the same wallboard open elsewhere
  • Quick filters not working on FireTV (Ticket #48543)

1.74.0 - Feb 28th, 2022 #

Connect Desktop

Features

  • Connect Presence Profiles - Control DND, Forwarding & Find-Me-Follow-Me
  • Minor UI Updates
  • Copy Outside Number to Clipboard

Fixes

  • Call history refresh issue when timezone is not UTC (Ticket #48403)

Connect Mobile

Features

  • Connect Presence Profiles - Control DND, Forwarding & Personal Call Routing
  • Contact click-through
  • Minor UI Updates

Reporting

Features

  • New reports on outgoing caller ID/name presentation
  • Handle overflow changes to ACD queues
  • Allows Workspace observers to be able to only change date time filters

Fixes

  • Default workspace on a new customer has duplicate entries for the reports
  • Calls not modeled correctly when using the 'Move' feature code
  • Handle transfers from Mitel(Aastra) devices correctly
  • Handle group pickup scenarios

1.73.0 - Jan 20th, 2022 #

~.UcClient.~ Desktop

Features

  • Call recording playback from ~.UcClient.~. Playback calls from the call history area
  • Directory Improvements:
    • Removal of E.164 format search restriction
    • Company name add to contact search results

Fixes

  • Refresh of history after midnight to ensure date grouping is correct
  • E.164 formatting of local numbers removed in call history
  • Fixed issue with call banner showing no information when eaves dropping
  • Fixed issue with blank call history items when using the conference bridge
  • Improved dialing of local numbers

~.UcClient.~ Mobile

Features

  • Contacts screen added with User Groups & Favorites
  • Search facility added
  • Native cell phone contacts are now accessible

Reporting

Features

  • First/Lang Rang/Ans filter fields added to Route Path reports

Fixes

  • Don't allow a user with the 'Observer' permission to remove filters from a report (Ticket #48303)
  • Multiple filters with 'Not' conditions not working as expected (Ticket ##48230)

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