botman v2.0.0 Release Notes

  • โž• Added

    • โž• Added ability to originate inline conversations.
    • ๐Ÿšš Moved each driver into their own repository.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Facebook - Added support to send file and audio attachments.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Telegram - Added support to send file, audio and location attachments.
    • โž• Added Kik driver.
    • โž• Added custom Attachment classes.
    • โž• Added support to listen for message service events.
    • ๐Ÿ”„ Changed the way middleware works in BotMan.
    • โž• Added support for Slack interactive menu messages.
    • โž• Added Facebook Referral driver.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allow replying to an existing thread for Slack drivers (#327).
    • โž• Added loadDriver method to BotMan.
    • โž• Added ability to use BotMan with a local socket.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • Switched from plain text to JSON responses for Slack slash commands, to allow richer message formatting.
    • ๐Ÿšš Moved message matching into a separate Matcher class.

    โœ‚ Removed

    • โœ‚ Removed FacebookPostbackDriver, FacebookOptinDriver and FacebookReferralDriver in favor of the new event API.