What's new
This page tracks every meaningful change to Hilal Chatbot. Items marked In PR are merged or in active review on a feature branch — you can preview them on staging and they will land on production shortly. Items marked Beta are available to all users but still iterating.
In flight (currently in PR)
Knowledge base
- Sync Notion — Connect a Notion workspace and ingest pages and databases as a knowledge source. (PR #758) → Sync Notion
- Auto-retraining pipeline — Schedule periodic re-training of dynamic sources, with a status UI showing the last and next run. (PR #759) → Auto-retraining
Deployment & widget
- JWT user identification — Pass an HMAC-signed JWT to the embedded widget so the chatbot recognizes signed-in users. (PR #729) → JWT user identification
- Developer embed JS API — Programmatic
open(),close(), event listeners,initialMessages, and runtime config on the embedded widget. (PR #738) → Developer embed JS API
Integrations
- Cal.com — Open-source scheduling integration alongside Calendly. (PR #761) → Cal.com
- Salesforce CRM — OAuth, lead push, and contact sync. (PR #760) → Salesforce
- Zendesk — OAuth integration with chat-routed actions. (PR #728) → Zendesk
AI Actions
- AI Actions framework — Tool-calling, confirmation gates, and audit log. The substrate behind every “do something” capability. (PR #732) → AI actions overview
- Stripe action presets — Pre-built actions for invoices, payments, and refunds. (PR #736) → Stripe presets
- Shopify write-back actions — Get/cancel/note orders and update inventory from chat. (PR #735) → Shopify write-backs
Webhooks & data sync
- Real-time data sync dashboard — Webhook receivers and a status dashboard for keeping external data fresh. (PR #737) → Real-time data sync
- Zapier and Make connectors — Endpoints, event emission, and a delivery log. (PR #733) → Zapier · Make
Beta
- Unified Agentic Chatbot — Wave 1 (Frontend) (PR #681) — A reworked reasoning and orchestration layer that lets a chatbot plan and execute multi-step actions more reliably. Available on a per-bot opt-in. → Unified Agentic Chatbot
Recently shipped (Stable)
The following capabilities are GA today. They appear here so this page is also a complete index of what the product can do; full details live in the Guide.
- Web embed v3 widget — Shadow-DOM-isolated React widget with lazy loading and inlined CSS. → Embed on a custom website
- Shopify deployment — App Store install, App Bridge embed. → Deploy on Shopify
- Email inbox channel — IMAP/SMTP-based email-to-chat routing with templated replies. → Email inbox
- Multi-organization support — One account, many orgs, switchable from the nav. → Switch organizations
- Permissions framework — Per-feature, per-action, per-chatbot. → Roles & permissions
- Analytics dashboards — Overview, performance, usage, and a custom-report builder. → Analytics
- Playground compare mode — Test the same prompt on two models side-by-side. → Compare models
How to read this page
- In PR: code is on a feature branch, will go live soon.
- Beta: live for all users; behavior may evolve.
- Stable: GA, default for everyone.
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