Upcoming changes, bootstrap and others...

Just wanted to let you know about few upcomming changes or in other words it's LHC milestone for this year

1. Migration to Bootstrap 3, if there will be new Bootstrap version we will migrate to it also
2. Package dependencies maintenence with Gulp, Webpack, Bower
3. Javascript core rewrite using React and drop AngularJS
4. Add more inline documentation to code itself.

If anyone is willing to help me with task 1, there is already branch in github where I make all migration https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/tree/bootstrap or if anyone just interested in bootstrap branch can monitor it's commits. This branch is not ready in any case for production, there is still a lot of parts which needs to be migrated to bootstrap. Migration is done to default bootstrap theme without any additional bootstrap overrides so users will be able to switch bootstrap default theme to any they want without any issues that they will break something.

So that's all for this time.

New version 2.22v a lot of small and not very changes

This time a little bit bigger release with a lot of smal and not very changes

1. All Javascript's are now compressed.
2. Option to set notes for online user. If you click first user icon in popup the last tab will be notes. https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/issues/613
3. Delete, Close icons will represents actual user permissions. https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/issues/614
4. Online users list will have less icons in last column.
5. New maxmind database for countries
6. Identifier variable for forms.
7. Option to force to use user e-mail as from address in e-mail templates. Use with caution because most cases Gmail could consider mails as spam. But usefull with integration with third party ticket systems.
8. Option to set how many times repeat autoresponder message. This can be set in proactive invitation and autoresponder itself also.
9. Map icon click will open full size Modal window instead of Marker popup.
10. Embed code generation window will check that domain would not contain protocol.

For update just follow standard update procedure For manual update it's update_100.sql

P.s There is option to support project by monthly paypal subscription.

New version 2.21v two small enhancements

This time two small enhancements

1. SMTP settings changed to Mail settings, and this section will have an option to set main system Sender E-mail. This mail will get all undelivered mails also. So if you are not receiving mails you can now test directly this on this page. Either it's system mails using mail command or SMTP.
2. Option to change frontpage tab order. Chat configuration -> Misc

For update just follow standard update procedure For manual update it's update_99.sql

New version 2.20v speech to text and various small enhancements

This time enhancements stuff

1. Speech to text support. Only google chrome at the moment has this hTML5 API. Tutorial here
2. Theme variable was not forwarded internally. (During read operator message action)
3. Relative position for iframe. Some sites are using nonsense iframe positions.
4. Operator typing issue was fixed. Operator typing message was shown and was not shown again even if operator was still typing
5. Text preview position was changed.
6. Various co-browsing improvements.

For update just follow standard update procedure For manual update it's update_98.sql

License change

Hi!

This time no code update, but License update. Since 2.19v Live Helper Chat will be distributed under "Apache License, Version 2.0". There is gone requirement to keep my copyright meta tag also. There is few things I expect from this change

• More popularity in internet in general
• People will understand that this decission will cut some part of project funding income and people will be willing to support project by donating
• More robust project adoption within commercial projects

Also I kept an option to buy commercial license if anyone wishes and do not want to use "Apache License, Version 2.0" for their Live Helper Chat distribution. What you can do under this License you can read there

https://tldrlegal.com/license/apache-license-2.0-(apache-2.0)

I really hope so all this will help Live Helper Chat to became more popular! Thank you for support!