What's new in IBM® watsonx Orchestrate®
As new features and capabilities are added toIBM watsonx Orchestrate for October 2023, you can read about them here. Refer to Previous releases to learn more about changes that happened in the previous months.
30 October 2023
The following sections describe new features, enhancements, and changes that happened on the release of 30 October 2023.
Auto-generated phrases (experimental)
Now IBM AI Granite Models can help while you're creating new skills. By clicking Auto-generated phrases (experimental) when enhancing skills, you can generate phrases to enhance the skill and later use it from the chat interface using natural language. Note: This feature is in experimental mode.
Access to more apps
This release is bringing new apps to connect with watsonx Orchestrate:
Also, look at the new skills additions for the other apps: Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Salesforce, Slack and Trello.
Skill design content guidelines
The UI content best practices was retitled Skill design content guidelines and updated with new guidance. These guidelines indicate the language to use for every aspect of skill designing, including the Do and Don't examples. Look at Skill design content guidelines to learn more.
Retaining records of past chat conversations
Records of your chat conversations are now retained. You can pick and select chats from your conversation history, which is kept for 30 days before being deleted.
Other enhancements and changes
Read about the enhancements and bug fixes related to the 30 October release.
| Enhancements | Description |
|---|---|
| Passing inputs to an OpenAPI spec | On watsonx Orchestrate, passing inputs to an OpenAPI spec through a header is now supported. |
13 October 2023
The following sections describe new features, enhancements, and changes that happened on the release of 13 October 2023.
New apps to connect
This release is bringing new apps to connect with watsonx Orchestrate:
Check also the new skills for the Salesforce application.
Other enhancements and changes
Read about the enhancements and bug fixes related to the 13 October release.
| Enhancements | Description |
|---|---|
| Support for bearer authentication | Now, the bearer authentication is supported by watsonx Orchestrate. Builders are able to import APIs with authentication type BASIC_BEARER or BearerAuth with scheme Bearer.
So, when you are creating a skill, you are able to specify a security schema that matches what your API requires. For more information, see Configuring the API security scheme. |
02 October 2023
The following sections describe new features, enhancements, and changes that happened on the release of 02 October 2023.
Build automations within watsonx Orchestrate
The new automation builder helps you automate business decisions to reduce manual effort, provide consistent outcomes, and assure compliance with business policies. After you publish automations, they become usable as a skill to help you drive productivity.
Do you want to know more? See the Building automations documentation.