Twilio Changelog

Twilio has completed validation of the integration between Flex and Veridas Voice Biometrics digital authentication solution. Veridas allows agents to validate the identity of end users with 3 seconds of their voice in any language and assists with fraud prevention, processing data under strict data privacy standards.

To learn more about Veridas capabilities and how to enable it for your application, visit our integration documentation.

The Preflight API (runPreflight) provides JavaScript developers a way to test end-user connectivity with Twilio’s servers. It can be used as part of a waiting room, to detect issues prior to an end-user joining a Twilio Video Room, or as part of a troubleshooting page. For more information, check out the documentation.

Voice Insights Call Summary events sent to Event Streams have been updated. The new changes from v1 bring parity with the parameters returned by the Call Summary REST API, including created_time, queue_time, edge_location, queue_time, application info (such as app.name, app.version), and the trust object which includes verified_caller and branded_call details. If you are currently subscribed to one of the Call Summary event types, you will need to re-subscribe to consume the new version and receive the new fields that were added to v2.

The Conference Summary and Participant Summary from Conference Insights is now available via API. Both summary records return useful metadata about the conference and its performance. The Participant Summary API is the first post-conference API to provide access to participant data; previously participant information was only retrievable via API while a conference was in-progress. For more information see our docs.

The Conference Insights Dashboard provides an account-level view of conference and participant behavior. Conference Insights Dashboard data is generated by analyzing and aggregating Conference Summary and Participant Summary records, and can be used to detect changes in application behavior and surface opportunities for optimization. For more information see our docs.

If you face errors in submission or brand verification when you submit your brand details for A2P registration, you will now see a simplified step in the A2P wizard in TrustHub. The multiple steps to edit your brand earlier have been simplified into a single step in the console. This will help you save time in registering your A2P brand and allow you to focus on the most important fields to review. The new design also provides transparency on the number of retries remaining.

You can read more about brand editing here.

If your concerns are not addressed through the instructions shown in the wizard or if you are an ISV API user, you can refer to the new comprehensive guide for troubleshooting your A2P brand here.

Verify Geographic(Geo) Permissions are now available in the Console to block/unblock desired destinations for SMS and Voice, helping you to prevent unexpected high messaging or voice costs caused by malicious actors creating unwanted verification requests.

Check them out on the Verify Geo permissions page:

https://www.twilio.com/docs/verify/preventing-toll-fraud/verify-geo-permissions

We have launched a new SSO management experience in public beta. This new SSO UI will be available in the admin center for customers who have purchased Administrative or Enterprise editions.

Customers can configure and manage their SSO for Twilio Console by themselves using this UI. Earlier, they were required to create support tickets and exchange the SSO configuration data over emails which would take a few days to configure correctly. Now SSO configuration can be setup and enabled for managed users in a few minutes.

Customers also don’t need to enable SSO for every user manually. With the new Domain based enforcement feature, all existing as well as new users will get SSO enforced automatically. So customers won’t have to track whether SSO is enabled for every new user invited to their Twilio Organization.

Learn more about this feature in Twilio Console SSO documentation.

We are excited to announce the JavaScript SDK release of Adaptive Simulcast, a new feature that improves client performance by dynamically switching off unused simulcast spatial layers.

When using adaptive simulcast, a publisher will only encode video layers up to the highest spatial layer being used by subscribers.

For example, a common presentation layout in video chat will have the active speaker’s video in a large format and the remaining participants as thumbnails. In this situation, adaptive simulcast will encode all spatial layers for the active speaker and only the smallest spatial layer for the thumbnail participants. As speakers change, the respective publishing participants will automatically have their spatial layers turned on / off based on what is being used by subscribers in the room.

Compared to standard simulcast, adaptive simulcast will provide significant CPU and bandwidth improvements for your publishing clients, and we recommend all users switch from standard simulcast to adaptive simulcast.

This feature is currently only available in the JavaScript SDK. Please read our simulcast documentation to learn how to use this new feature.

Usage Insights provides a convenient way to view your Super SIM usage over time as graphs and tables. This lets you monitor upward/downward trends in usage as well as anomalous spikes or dips in your Super SIM activity. You can specify different ways to slice-and-dice your data, You can filter by:

• a customizable date range
• SIM
• Fleet
• Network
• Country

Drill into an hour-by-hour view by clicking on the date hyperlinks in the bar chart.

Access Usage Insights in Console via Monitor > Insights > Super SIM.