Flex Backend Release Notes

• New Flex accounts created will have Enforce Logout enabled by default with an Offline Threshold of 30 seconds. This feature automatically logs out users who are not reachable from within the Flex UI after 30 seconds. These settings are configurable in Flex Settings.

These changes only apply if you're using FlexUI 1.8.0+.

• All plugin URLs are now available from https://flex.twilio.com/plugins/plugin-test.js?v=123, instead of your Twilio Runtime domain. You can always find your plugins and their URLs at https://flex.twilio.com/plugins.
• Internally routed plugins provides enhanced performance & caching semantics.

• Support for creating Private Plugins that are only accessible with your valid Flex JWE Token.

• Enforce Logout allows you to automatically logout users if they are no longer reachable from within Flex. For example, if a user closes their browser tab or turns off their computer, that user can be automatically transitioned to a TaskRouter activity that makes them unavailable for tasks and which will not be charged by Active User Hour Pricing.

• Active User Hour Pricing no longer relies on TaskRouter Activities named "Offline". Instead, a configurable Logout Activity defines when user activity will not be billed. More details are available in our Help Center article, "How Does Twilio Flex Pricing Work?".

• The admin and supervisor chat deployment roles are provisioned within the Flex Chat Service of existing projects.

• Two deployment chat roles are included in the Flex Chat Service on account creation. The admin and supervisor roles are provisioned to support chat monitoring in a future release.

• Default agent activities are now Offline, Unavailable, Available, and Break. These are configurable via the TaskRouter Activities API.
• The custom1, custom2, custom3, custom4, and custom5 Task Channels are no longer created by default. New channels used for routing can be created using the TaskRouter TaskChannels API.