diff --git a/fern/changelog/2026-03-31.mdx b/fern/changelog/2026-03-31.mdx new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8a94351de --- /dev/null +++ b/fern/changelog/2026-03-31.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +# What's New: October 2025 – March 2026 + +Here's a summary of major items shipped from October 2025 through March 2026. + +--- + +## Platform + +1. **Squads v2**: Visual builder to simplify sophisticated multi-assistant orchestration with seamless handoffs between specialized agents. + +2. **Composer (Alpha)**: Intelligent assistant inside the dashboard that allows you to describe what you need through plain text prompts to help build, adjust, and debug voice agents. + +3. **Simulations (Alpha)**: Voice agent testing feature to build confidence through enabling systematic, AI-powered testing in specific scenarios with evaluation of outcomes. + +4. **Monitoring & Issues**: Automated call quality monitoring with trigger-based issue detection, alerting, and resolution suggestions. + +5. **HIPAA with Data Retention**: New compliance mode with private storage and in-dashboard toggle/purchase flow — available for additional cost. + +6. **Zero Data Retention**: Compliance mode that keeps context data during call as needed to execute tasks and retains no data afterwards. + +7. **Consolidated Logs**: Unified log viewing into a single page. + +8. **Vapi Voices**: 12 new ultra-realistic voices released, optimized for latency and cost with adjustable speed controls exposed. 8 legacy voices deprecated. + +--- + +## New Models & Provider Support + +### Transcriber Models (Speech-to-Text) + +1. **Deepgram Nova-3 Languages**: Added Hebrew, Urdu, Tagalog, and Arabic bilingual support. + +2. **Cartesia Transcriber**: ink-whisper. + +3. **Soniox**: stt-rt-v4. + +### Intelligence Models (LLM) + +1. **GPT-5 Family**: OpenAI's latest intelligence models, including GPT-5, 5-Mini, 5-Nano, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.4-Mini, 5.4-Nano. + +2. **Claude 4.5–4.6**: Anthropic's latest intelligence models Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6. + +3. **Gemini 3 Flash**: Google's latest intelligence models. + +4. **Grok 4 Fast**: Reasoning and non-reasoning variants. + +5. **GPT Realtime Mini**: OpenAI's lightweight realtime model. + +### Voice Models (Text-to-Speech) + +1. **Cartesia**: sonic-3, sonic-3-2026-01-12, sonic-3-2025-10-27. + +2. **WellSaid**: Caruso (new), legacy. + +3. **Inworld**: inworld-tts-1 (REST, original), inworld-tts-1.5-max (WebSocket, \$10/M chars), inworld-tts-1.5-mini (WebSocket, \$5/M chars). + +4. **ElevenLabs Scribe v2**: Latest version of ElevenLabs speech-to-text. + +--- + +## Developer Tools & API + +1. **Structured Outputs Improvements**: Updates to our AI-powered analysis and data extraction tool, including transient structured outputs, audio-based extraction, and regex extraction. + +2. **SIP Request Tool + DTMF over SIP INFO**: Send SIP requests and DTMF tones via SIP INFO messages during calls. + +3. **Variable Passing Between Tool Calls**: Pass output variables from one tool call as input to subsequent tool calls. + +4. **Encrypted Tool Arguments**: Encrypt sensitive tool arguments to protect data in transit. + +5. **Low Confidence Speech Hook**: Hook that triggers when the transcriber returns low-confidence speech results. + +6. **Time Elapsed Hook**: Hook that triggers at specified time intervals during a call. + +7. **assistant.speechStarted Event**: New event fired when the assistant begins speaking. + +8. **MCP Improvements**: Bearer auth, $ref dereferencing, child tool messages/discovery. + +9. **Warm Transfer Improvements**: SIP support, caller ID, context engineering, variable filling. diff --git a/fern/changelog/overview.mdx b/fern/changelog/overview.mdx index 6beee95dd..aedfd063f 100644 --- a/fern/changelog/overview.mdx +++ b/fern/changelog/overview.mdx @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ --- -slug: changelog +slug: whats-new --- document.querySelector('input[type="email"]').focus()}>Get the (almost) daily changelog} + title={
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