Release 5.3.0
Highlights
AI Agent voice chat. The runtime can now host voice-based AI agents end to end — a new voice chat template/component, application and agent-hub support for voice agents, and per-conversation mode selection.
Modern, password-less outbound email (SMTP over OAuth). Outbound mail can now authenticate with OAuth instead of static SMTP credentials, aligning WEM with the wider industry move away from basic auth for email providers like Microsoft 365 and Google.
Security and stability improvements. A number of under-the-hood improvements to strengthen platform security and reliability.
New features & enhancements
AI Agents — Voice
Voice agents are now supported end to end:
A new template component lets authors add a voice conversation surface to an application.
The application service and Agent Hub now support voice-type agents alongside text agents.
Agents can declare and operate in different conversation modes (e.g. text vs. voice/realtime), and are rebuilt automatically when their conversation mode changes so switches take effect correctly.
AI Agents — Observability & cost
New expression functions let modelers read input and output token usage for an agent interaction, useful for cost tracking, quotas, and displaying usage in the UI.
Agent usage data is now stored in a more structured format for improved reliability.
Expression language / Standard Library
New and extended text functions:
Reverse(string)— reverses a string.Left(string, num_chars)— returns the leftmost N characters of a string.Right(string, num_chars)— returns the rightmost N characters of a string.ToRichText(text, encode_html)— new overload that controls whether the input is HTML-encoded.
Modeler / data model / authoring
Settings folder — a dedicated folder type for organizing settings and configuration concepts in the data model.
Required field context messages — required form fields can now show an extra explanatory message to end users.
Force file downloads — a new option to serve files as downloads instead of rendering them inline, which also helps protect against inline rendering of untrusted uploads.
Extra database owners — application database provisioning can now create additional database-owner principals.
Bug fixes
JSON import now correctly accepts DateTime values with a negative timezone offset (e.g. -05:00).
Fixed incorrect value resolution when reading dossier item values in expressions.
Committing database changes no longer throws a cast exception for an invalid value.
Fixed an issue where a ConceptSet could contain null values, preventing downstream null-handling errors.
Fixed AI agent function input reading incorrectly parsing a ConceptSet.
Fixed errors thrown by the autocompletion feature, including on an empty search value.
Empty tooltips are no longer rendered as an empty element.
The configured height is now correctly applied to the (ProseMirror) rich text editor.
Infrastructure & upgrade notes
Helm chart and container image versions updated for 5.3.
Base images and OS packages refreshed.
The Helm chart now supports a
noproxysetting, useful for air-gapped or proxied deployment environments.Improved Let's Encrypt certificate handling.
The operational health check now distinguishes between vital and non-vital components, a non-vital failure now returns a "degraded" status instead of a hard failure. If you have monitoring or alerting configured against this endpoint, please review how it interprets a degraded response.
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