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v2.3.0a - 2019.09.08

The most striking changes in this release are probably the new messenger features! The users can now create new chat channels from inside the client, add other users directly or invite them via SEPIA universal link. Additionally channels with new messages are marked after login or whenever a message arrives while the user is online. By default the greatly improved chat-server will store the last 25 messages of every private group-chat channel.
Other noticeable features are: answer-text output in Always-On (AO) mode, the option to change the login password from inside the client, language switching via voice, background tasks and follow-up messages for services, language independent sharing of requests via URL, more tools for admins, improved support for small screens (useful for DIY RPi4 projects etc.) and much more!

If you need a detailed installation guide check THIS blog article, for the latest news and tips follow SEPIA on Twitter and be sure to stop by the official Google Play Store site if you are looking for the Android app (available in many countries).

Release notes

Updated client to v0.19.0:

  • Partially reworked and greatly improved messenger features and UI to support channel create, join, invite (via URL), missed messages, history and more
  • Added option to change login password from settings menu (via old password)
  • Improved messaging between devices with same login but different device-ID
  • Improved handling of SEPIA universal links when posted inside SEPIA chat channels
  • Improved UX and security when interacting with SEPIA in group chats (public SEPIA messages will not automatically execute actions or play music anymore)
  • Keep keyboard open in mobile apps when 'send'-button is pressed
  • Forget last command after 60s (to prevent 'I just told you' kind of SEPIA comments after long idle time)
  • Automatically select user-preferred color scheme (read from OS) and set light or dark skin when no skin was selected before
  • Optimized 'switch-language' action
  • Renamed 'saythis' button to 'broadcast'
  • New 'updateData' message-event handler to support arbitrary data exchange with chat-server via WebSocket connection
  • Fixed a rare crash due to outdated splash-screen plugin in Android
  • Improved data store/load script to reduce number of writes
  • Added onChatOutputHandler for views like AO-Mode (e.g. see SEPIA answer as text in AO)
  • Added pause/resume client control for audio players and tweaked YouTube music to properly pause audio when STT is activated
  • Added support for new input command 'i18n:XY' to dynamically set input language (e.g. 'i18n:de Guten Tag' will trigger the German 'Hello' even when app language is english)
  • New share-menu activated by a long-press on the sender name in a chat message
  • Made BLE Beacon remote URL more flexible
  • Improved auto-scaling below 300px window width and tweaked tiny-mode
  • New launcher.html page to configure launch-options and automatically redirect (handy for app in browser kiosk-mode)
  • Reactivated 'application/ld+json' tag in index.html
  • Set Android target SDK to 28 (Android 9.0) and improved support including new 'network security config'
  • Minor UI, bug and style fixes

Updated Control-HUB (admin-tools) to v1.2.1:

  • Core-settings page now allows to write assist-server settings (key-value pairs) directly to config file and reload server remotely. This e.g. allows to quickly add API keys etc.
  • Smart-home page now allows to load smart-home HUB info data from server (via improved server-config endpoint)
  • Added 'delete user' function and button to user-management page
  • Fixed channel create function to support new chat-server version
  • Get channel history statistics and force database clean-up from chat-settings page
  • Style tweaks and more info texts
  • Added correct version number to help-page

Updated Assist-server to v2.3.0:

  • Introduced new SmartHomeHub interface and config settings to make integration of hubs like ioBroker, FHEM and HomeAssistant easier
  • Adjusted openHAB integration to use new SmartHomeHub interface
  • Updated radio-stations and news-outlets lists
  • Fixed OpenLigaWorker and service to support new season of German Bundesliga
  • Added background tasks and task-manager support (schedule, check, cancel, etc.) to services (via 'ServiceBuilder.runOnceInBackground') and improved data-storage for services (e.g. via 'ServiceBuilder.readServiceDataForUser')
  • Improved and enabled (previously dormant) NLU-parameter 'Language' and tweaked dictionary service
  • Added 'LanguageSwitcher' service to support commands like "switch language to German"
  • Improved smart home device intent (NLU) to recognize devices more generally (e.g. "status of my XY 1" -> device=XY 1)
  • Improved 'no_result' answer when using 'sentence_connect' command (e.g. via Teach-UI) and tweaked internal service redirect
  • Tweaked 'reminders' NLU ("remind me to/remember ...")
  • Added inputModifiers to InterpretatonChain and implemented new i18n-modifier to be able to switch input language on-the-fly (e.g to share SEPIA links independent of user language)
  • Added meta data to OPEN_LINK command to better handle 'linkshare' (note: 'linkshare' is a special chat input cmd, e.g. type: "linkshare https://twitter.com/sepia_fw")
  • Improved 'AuthEndpoint' to support password change via old password (or superuser) and tweaked 'delete' user procedure
  • Improved 'ConfigServer' endpoint to support editing server settings file (assist.xy.properties) directly, e.g. via SEPIA Control-HUB
  • Implemented server restart method and added endpoint option to 'ConfigServer' (it will try to shutdown client and workers as clean as possible and reload settings)
  • Fixed code in GeoCoding and Weather API to make them more stable
  • Adjustments in SEPIA WebSocket client to support chat-server update (including device-ID message routing)
  • Updated and added new Elasticsearch database mappings for chat (channels, users, messages) and added test-method to server start that will add missing ES indices automatically

Updated WebSocket Chat-Server to v1.2.0:

  • Re-organized and improved code, e.g. to get better access to all the message handlers (create channel, join, auth, etc.)
  • New and improved methods/handlers/endpoints for channel create, join, delete
  • New database interfaces and implementations (Elasticsearch) for channel-data (store/load created channels), channel-users (store/load missed events) and channel messages (store/load channel history)
  • New settings in config file for database modules (in-memory and Elasticsearch) and options like 'store_messages_per_channel' or 'max_channels_per_user' etc.
  • Automatic clean-up in background of old messages (e.g. when 'store_messages_per_channel' threshold is reached), see config option 'channel_clean_up_schedule_delay'
  • Broadcast 'missed message' event to online users when in different channel and store events for offline users to inform them later on login
  • Improved message routing by including sender and receiver device-IDs (especially useful when multiple devices run on same account, e.g. smart-speaker in living-room and kitchen etc.)
  • Improved handling of channel-ID in combination with channel-name
  • New 'updateData' message-event handler to support arbitrary data exchange with clients via WebSocket connection
  • Added server-ID to each socket-message (in case we expand the cluster later)
  • New endpoints 'getAvailableChannels', 'getChannelHistoryStatistic' and 'removeOutdatedChannelMessages'

Updated Core-tools to v2.2.2:

  • Added run-single-task and schedule-task methods to 'ThreadManager'
  • Added range-match to 'EsQueryBuilder' (e.g. to find all entries older than xy-timestamp)
  • Created 'LruCache' class (last-recently-used cache)
  • Updated javaspark up to v2.9.1
  • Updated fasterxml.jackson.core to 2.9.9.2

All servers:

  • 'localName' of server is now also used as server-ID and device-ID if one is required (e.g. for load-balancing of cluster or broadcasting info to chat channels)

Other tools:

  • Added code for Microbit BLE Beacon remote
  • Updated Teach-Server to v2.0.3 to include new core-tools v2.2.2 and thus javaspark v2.9.1 (no other code changes)
  • Updated SDK to support new SEPIA-Home release and added 'WorkoutHelperDemo' service to demonstrate pro-active background messages and database access
  • Updated reverse-proxy to v0.3.2 to include security fix for undertow-core v2.0.23
  • Updated Mesh-Node to v0.9.10 to include new core-tools v2.2.2 and thus javaspark v2.9.1
  • Updated browser extension to v0.6.2 to exclude localhost, local domains and SEPIA path from showing navbar
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