We have updated botlibre.com to the Bot Libre 9 prerelease.

Bot Libre 9 includes many new features and enhancements including:

• Discord support
• Instagram support

The website was updated to Bot Libre 7.9.0 today.

The updated includes a preview of many 8.0 features including:

• NLP 4 - Bot Libre's NLP engine has been redesigned to make bots response's better, make training bots easier, and better support international languages
• User profile avatars and friends (add bot's as your friend using @bot-name)

Bot Libre 7 adds support for using Regular Expressions in patterns, templates, and scripts.

Regular Expressions, or Regex defines a pattern syntax for parsing text. Unlike AIML and Bot Libre patterns Regex patterns are character based, not word base, so can match specific types of words and word sequences such as numbers, dates, times, currency, and others.

For example, the following regex matches a number,

Bot Libre 6.5 added support for define isolated conversation flows through using the response "Next" elements.

The next is a follow-up question that the user might ask after the bot gives the response. For example, if you had a response to the question "help" as "Do you want help with web or mobile?", then if the user responded with "web", that would be a follow-up question.

• Deep Learning analytics as a service