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Weekly Changelog: Interactive Workflows, New Notification API, and Script Templates

This week's update introduces powerful interactive workflows, a multi-channel Notification API, reusable script templates, and major performance boosts. See what's new!

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✨ New Features

This week, we're thrilled to launch a suite of powerful new features designed to enhance automation, communication, and development efficiency.

  • Introducing Advanced Workflow Capabilities: Build more dynamic, interactive, and robust automations than ever before.

    • Interactive Forms: Create multi-step workflows that can pause to collect user input through dynamic forms, perfect for onboarding, approvals, and wizards.
    • Synchronous API Triggers: Turn your workflows into real-time, serverless API endpoints that accept a request and return an immediate response.
    • Advanced Authentication: Secure your new API-driven workflows with dedicated API Keys or custom JWT Authorizers for robust machine-to-machine communication.
    • Resume from Failure: You can now resume a failed workflow run from any previously successful step, saving time and preventing full restarts.
    • Liquid Templating: Leverage the powerful Liquid templating language within all workflow nodes for advanced conditional logic, filters, and loops.
    • Granular Error Handling: Configure workflows to gracefully handle expected errors (like a 404 response) while still failing on critical ones.
    • SOAP Integration: A new node has been added to seamlessly connect with legacy SOAP web services.

  • All-New Notification API: We've launched a flexible new API for sending multi-channel notifications.

    • Email & WhatsApp Support: Send alerts and messages directly to users via email or WhatsApp.
    • Advanced Targeting: Target users with precision by sending notifications to specific email addresses, phone numbers, or dynamic groups based on user tags.
    • Flexible Content: Send freeform emails with custom subjects and bodies, and now include file attachments with your email notifications.

  • Reusable Script Templates: Save time and standardize your operations with the new Script Templates feature.

    • Create, manage, and reuse your most common scripts.
    • Keep templates private to your organization or share them as public, read-only resources for the entire community.

  • Developer Utility: QR Code Generation: A new command-line tool (qr:generate) is now available for developers to easily generate QR codes with customizable content, size, and format (SVG, PNG, JPG).

🚀 Enhancements & Improvements

We've focused on boosting performance, reliability, and the overall developer experience across the platform.

  • Performance Boosts:

    • Faster Dashboards: Performance graphs for network interfaces now load significantly faster on long time ranges by displaying an aggregated view.
    • Optimized Statistics: Queries for device performance metrics (like CPU and memory) over long periods are now substantially faster.
    • Improved Event Processing: Backend event processing is now nearly instantaneous, allowing event-driven workflows to trigger much more quickly at scale.
    • Efficient Notifications: The system is now smarter about sending notifications, reducing unnecessary requests and speeding up delivery.

  • Increased Reliability:

    • Robust Automations: Scheduled workflows are now more resilient, with new safeguards to prevent a single job from accidentally running multiple times.
    • More Stable Connections: Services that manage port forwards and send webhook notifications will now automatically retry on temporary network issues, reducing failures.
    • Consistent Data: We've improved the reliability of network interface data collection, ensuring your statistics are always consistent and up-to-date.
    • Cleaner Deletions: The process for deleting sites has been hardened to ensure all related assets are consistently and correctly removed.

  • API & Developer Experience:

    • Find Templates Faster: You can now easily filter and search your Script Templates by type (public/private) or keywords.
    • More Detailed Scripts: The character limits for Script Template names, descriptions, and content have been significantly increased.
    • Clearer Error Messages: Failures within workflows are now easier to diagnose, with more detailed messages that pinpoint the exact source of the problem.
    • Consistent Timestamps: All API responses now use the standard ISO 8601 format for timestamps, making integration easier.

  • Security:

    • Enhanced API Security: Access to the AI chat API endpoint now requires a specific ai:chat permission scope, providing more granular control over API key access.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue that could cause incorrect timestamps to appear on aggregated performance graphs.
  • Fixed a bug where an internal polling service could incorrectly report a failed health status, improving the accuracy of system-wide health monitoring.