Product changelog and announcements

Email in Flex is now generally available as a native channel for your contact center. Once you set up the email channel, agents can send and receive email messages from your customers directly in Flex. 

By handling email in Flex alongside your other communications channels, you can centralize your agents’ workflows and improve efficiency. Your agents can also serve your customers better when they can see all of their communications in one place. 

To learn more and get started, see Email in Flex.

REMINDER: 1% of Elastic SIP Trunking, Flex, Programmable Voice, SIPREC, and Voice SDK traffic will use the new media IP address range and ports for 24 hours starting 12/5/2023

We are excited to announce that Flex UI 2.5.0 is now available. This release features the following additions and updates:

• Flex on Citrix VDI is now generally available. 

• On the Real-time Queues View, you can now filter summary metrics by channel and view additional metrics that are now available in public beta. 

This release also includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes. 

Additionally, several other significant features will be released soon on version 2.5.0. Watch this changelog and the Flex UI 2.5.0 release notes for updates when new features become available. 

For complete details, including a list of upcoming features, see the Flex UI Release Notes for 2.5.0.

This API allows you to retrieve the real-time statistics for up to 50 task queues with a single API call. The API has a rate limit of 5 requests per second.

For more information, see Bulk retrieval of TaskQueue RealTime Statistics.

The Warm Transfer feature is now generally available in Flex. 

With warm transfers, agents can:

• Call another agent or a queue for consultation about an ongoing customer call

• Start a conference call between another agent and a customer

• Transfer the customer to another agent

For more information, see: Warm Transfer - End User Guide.

Facebook Messenger and Google Business Messages channels are available for Flex Conversations in Public Beta. When configured, agents in your contact center can use these channels to send and receive messages from your customers. For information about how to enable these channels, see the documentation about using Flex with Facebook Messenger and Google Business Messages. 

To use Facebook Messenger and Google Business Messages channels, you must upgrade to Flex UI 2.4.0 or later. For more details about these features and other Flex UI 2.4.0 updates, see the Flex UI Release Notes for v2.x.x.

The Real-time Queues View now offers four new metrics to better manage your contact center: average speed of answer (ASA), average handle time (AHT), missed invitations, and average abandon time. 

These new metrics are available in Flex UI 2.4.0 and later. For more details about this feature and other Flex UI updates, see the Flex UI Release Notes for v2.x.x.

We are excited to announce that Flex UI 2.4.0 is now available with new filters in the Real-time Queues View. 

In the Real-time Queues View, you can now filter your view to just the queues and metrics that you want to monitor. 

This release also includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes. For complete details, see the Flex UI Release Notes for v2.x.x.

UPDATED MIGRATION SCHEDULE: On 23 January 2024 Twilio will be updating the media IPs and port ranges for SIP and Voice SDK calls in all regions to 168.86.128.0/18 and expanding the UDP port range to 10000-60000. Old IP and port ranges will no longer accept or send traffic after this date. Before this new migration date, we'll perform two days of testing with limited traffic, impacting Flex, SIP, and Voice SDK calls using the old IP and port ranges. Learn more.

Effective October 10, 2023, Twilio will permanently change the public media IPs and expand the port ranges for Elastic SIP Trunking calls, Programmable SIP calls, Voice SDK calls, Flex calls, and SIPREC sessions in all regions. 

If you’ve already updated your network infrastructure to allowlist the full IP and port ranges and made test calls for your Twilio applications, you can now enable your accounts for production traffic.