What's new and changed in Watson Assistant

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Watson Assistant updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates.

For a complete list of what's new and changed, see the Watson Assistant release notes.

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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.5

A new version of Watson Assistant was released in April 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.5.

Operand version: 4.6.5

This release includes various security fixes.

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.3

A new version of Watson Assistant was released in February 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.3.

Operand version: 4.6.3

This release includes various security fixes.

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.2

A new version of Watson Assistant was released in January 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.2.

Operand version: 4.6.2

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 4.6.2 release of Watson Assistant includes the following features and updates:

New Watson Assistant v2 APIs
Watson Assistant provides new methods related to assistants, skills, environments, and releases. For details, see the Watson Assistant v2 API documentation.

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.0

A new version of Watson Assistant was released in November 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.0.

Operand version: 4.6.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 4.6.0 release of Watson Assistant includes the following features and updates:

Improved user experience
With the new Watson Assistant user interface, you can build, test, publish, and analyze your assistant from one simple and intuitive interface that focuses on using actions to build customer conversations.
Screen shot of the new Watson Assistant interface

To learn more about building your assistant with actions, see Welcome to the new Watson Assistant in the Watson Assistant documentation on IBM® Cloud.

New algorithm version setting
You can now choose one of three Watson Assistant algorithm version settings to apply to your future trainings:
  • Beta
  • Latest
  • Previous

The Algorithm Version setting replaces the Intent Detection setting in the dialog skill.

The Beta and Latest versions use more enhanced intent detection and support the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. For details, see Algorithm version.

Credential rotation
You can now rotate your credentials for added data store security. For details, see Managing security for your Watson Assistant data stores.
Autoscaling
Watson Assistant now provides the capability to enable or disable the Red Hat® OpenShift® Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. You can optionally enable autoscaling for Watson Assistant so that the service dynamically scales up and down to make efficient use of cluster resources. For details, see Automatically scaling resources for services.
Customer-reported issues that are fixed in this or earlier releases