Twilio Changelog

Twilio releases end-user usability improvements on the Phone Number detail(configuration) page.
As an example, you can navigate to this page from Console UI -> Phone Numbers -> Active Phone Numbers -> Click on the phone number.

The Console UI improvement introduces two new sections/tabs for faster navigation.

1) Properties tab: Contains details about the phone number.
Such as: Friendly Name, Number type, Location, Capabilities. It allows you to edit the friendly name from here and also release the phone number from this tab.

2) Configure tab: Enables configurations related to: routing updates, configuration updates, integrations with messaging services, add/remove emergency address.

No previous functionality has been removed and no action is required.

Geographic permissions exist to help you protect your application from fraud and abuse, or simply avoid unexpectedly high costs for voice or messaging usage. Voice Geo Permissions control which countries and subsets of phone numbers you can dial out to from your Twilio project and can be managed in the Console via the Voice Geo Permissions page or using the API.

We have updated the country name for the code +672 from “Norfolk Island” to “Australian External Territories” to be more consistent with the definition by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU): 

• Australian External Territories (country code +672)  
• Norfolk Island (external territory of Australia) (country code +672 3)

This will not impact the number ranges that can be reached by your account as we have not updated the code. With the Australian External Territories country code (+672) enabled, you will be able to reach Norfolk Island destinations (+672 3).

For more information, please see our article International Voice Dialing Geographic Permissions (Geo Permissions) and How They Work and our docs.

Geographic permissions exist to help you protect your application from fraud and abuse, or simply avoid unexpectedly high costs for voice or messaging usage. Voice Geo Permissions control which countries and subsets of phone numbers you can dial out to from your Twilio project and can be managed in the Console via the Voice Geo Permissions page or using the API.

We have updated the country name for the code +672 from “Norfolk Island” to “Australian External Territories” to be more consistent with the definition by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU): 

• Australian External Territories (country code +672)  
• Norfolk Island (external territory of Australia) (country code +672 3)

Twilio PHP SDK major version 7.x is now available. 

Behind the scenes the PHP Helper is now auto-generated via OpenAPI with this release. This enables us to rapidly add new features and enhance consistency across versions and languages.

You can find the new version on Packagist.

To learn more about the PHP Helper Library, check out our docs.

Microvisor developers need a lightweight, scalable, and reliable way to send high volumes of sensor and other device data to their cloud platforms to perform analytics that can then drive business decisions. Microvisor therefore now supports MQTT, a lightweight network protocol for machine-to-machine messaging, predominantly used in low-power IoT architectures.

The general MQTT architecture looks as follows:

Microvisor provides a set of system calls which allow your application, acting as the MQTT client, to communicate with public and private MQTT brokers to subscribe to topics, post messages to those topics, and to be notified of inbound messages. 

Your application will ask Microvisor to perform MQTT tasks on its behalf, and Microvisor will respond immediately, either accepting the command or providing a reason why it is unable to do so. It will respond asynchronously with the outcome of accepted operations. Microvisor’s notification system is used to manage this asynchronicity.

For more information, visit How to Issue MQTT Requests Under Microvisor.

When users reply to a specific WhatsApp message, Twilio now passes additional context to the WhatsApp Sender’s webhook URL. The OriginalRepliedMessageSender and OriginalRepliedMessageSid parameters will include information about the previous message the user replied to. If you need the content of the original message, you can use this API to fetch the Message Resource.

Note that only message replies to messages sent within the last 7 days will contain this additional context. Incoming message replies to messages sent over 7 days ago will still be delivered, but will lack this additional information.

For more information about this and other inbound message parameters, please refer to this page.

Twilio is making changes to Geo-Permissions in the Twilio Console to better differentiate traffic being sent to both Israel and Palestine. Palestine, which previously was only +970 will now include Palestinian networks operating with +972 prefixes. If you enabled geo permissions for Israel and/or Palestine, then we have updated your selection based on the corrected prefixes.  Israel will no longer send traffic to +97256 and +97259 since these two prefixes are associated with Palestinian Jawwal and Wataniya cellular communication company.

If needed, you can enable or disable SMS Geo Permissions to any country at any time in Twilio Console by following the steps in this Support Article.

The default maximum size for queues has been increased from 100 to 1000; maximum size for existing queues remain unchanged, this change impacts newly created queues only. Maximum queue size can be adjusted using the /Queues API via the max_size parameter.

In an ongoing effort to raise awareness of the risk of SMS Traffic Pumping fraud, Twilio has added a popup asking customers to acknowledge the risk when opting to send SMS traffic to countries Twilio has identified a rise of SMS Traffic Pumping Fraud. Twilio will update this list from time to time.

What do I need to do?

We recommend review of the current geo-permissions on your account in Console.

(Support Article) Please take the following steps to protect your account from SMS Traffic Pumping Fraud:

1. Log in to your Twilio Account and verify the traffic history on your account is legitimate in Messaging Insights.
2. Take steps to protect your applications from abuse by following best practices in this SMS Traffic Pumping article, including turning off geo permissions for countries when not in use.

This release addresses issues around increased plugin loading time and list of agents not displaying correctly when the hidden filter property is configured.