Botkit is updated to 0.5.9

Support for Slack ephemeral messages, Facebook’s new NLP tools, MMS Messages for Twilio SMS, New Typescript Declarations and fixes!

What’s new?

• Slack: Support for sending ephemeral messages with bot.whisper() and bot.sendEphemeral(). In addition, any message with message.ephemeral set to true will be sent with bot.sendEphemeral() automatically. Read documentation here. Thanks to @jonchurch
• Slack: Add support for bot.api.files.sharedPublicURL() method. Thanks to @GitTristan
• Facebook: Support for using message tags. Read documentation here. Thanks to @ouadie-lahdioui
• Facebook: Support for using Facebook’s new built-in NLP tools. Read documentation here. Thanks to @ouadie-lahdioui for this one too!!
• Twilio SMS: Add support for sending MMS messages (file attachments) via Twilio. Read documentation here. Thanks to @krismuniz!
• Cisco Spark: Emit a console warning when a bot receives messages from outside the allowed domain list. Thanks to @MathRobin!
• New: Typescript declarations! Thanks to @uny and @naktibalda for their work on this.

Botkit now has 🌮 143 contributors🌮!

What’s next? Check our Roadmap!

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