2.21.0

This release includes the following changes:

• Adds support for BillingAgreementType and SubscriptionAmount. This change is mandatory for skills in EU, and optional for NA and JP. With this upgrade, skill developers in EU can enjoy full benefits of the Amazon Pay solution that supports PSD2.
• Adds support for Custom interfaces. This feature enables Alexa Skill Developers to implement interactions between skills and gadgets using developer-defined directives and events.
• Add request interceptor method for returning modified request #219

2.20.2

This release includes the following changes:

• Add abstraction layer over servlet interface when calling Verifiers (#215)
• Update to Jackson-databind 2.9.9.1

2.20.1

This release fixes a bug affecting APL commands that contain expression properties with default values which prevented those commands from being instantiated.

2.20.0

This release adds support for Skill Connections. With the Skill Connections feature, you can enable an Alexa skill to fulfill a customer request that it can't otherwise handle by forwarding the request to another skill for fulfillment.

2.18.0

This release contains the follow changes:

• Add support for the HUB_LANDSCAPE_SMALL viewport (#207)
• Upgrades the dependency on all Jackson libraries to version 2.9.9 to address CVE-2019-12086
• Add support for the SetValue APL command

2.17.2

This release contains the following changes:

• Added video codecs information in the APL Viewport Characteristic Video property.

2.17.1

This release fixes a bug where the AWS Lambda context was not being passed to customer request handlers #199

2.17.0

This release adds support for constructing responses from templating.

2.16.0

This release contains the following changes :

• The Skill Messaging API is now supported. Use the Skill Messaging API to send a message request to a skill for a specified user. Read here for more details.
• Adds support for additional APL Standard Commands. For reference, check here.

2.15.0

This release contains the following changes :

• Dynamic Entities for customized interactions. The new dynamic entities capability allows you upload new slot values at any point within a skill session so you can personalize your skill, providing new context and responses as the conversation progresses. Alexa can also use these newly-loaded slot values to boost speech recognition, natural language understanding, and entity resolution accuracy. The dynamic entities feature is available in all locales. read more about it here
• Add additional entitlementReason field in In-Skill products