Weekly Release 2026.08.31

New Features

• You can now send a one-off Broadcast message to every participant of a chatbot from the chatbot home page, choosing which of its channels to send on. Broadcasting requires permission to invite participants, and only reaches participants who have already messaged the bot on the selected channel.

Improvements

• v0.12.0 of the Chat Widget is released, adding OAuth credential mode, tab-scoped session persistence, a version readout on the element, a "Start new chat" button in kiosk mode, and participant timezone reporting. See the widget changelog for details.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed broadcasts to WhatsApp participants outside the 24-hour service window failing to send. Meta rejects a message template containing line breaks, so multi-paragraph messages never arrived. Such messages now have their line breaks and repeated spaces collapsed into single spaces, arriving as a single paragraph, and the broadcast dialog tells you so before you send. See Out-of-service-window template messages.