Rasa

Improvements
- [11997](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11997): Add capability to send compressed body in HTTP request to action server.
Use COMPRESS_ACTION_SERVER_REQUEST=True to turn the feature on.

Bugfixes
- [12052](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/12052): Fix the error which resulted during merging multiple domain files where at least one of them contains custom actions that explicitly need `send_domain` set as True in the domain.

Improvements
- [12001](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/12001): Add support for custom RulePolicy.
- [12013](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/12013): Add capability to select which custom actions should receive domain when they are invoked.

Bugfixes
- [11942](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11942): Fix calling the form validation action twice for the same user message triggering a form.
- [12033](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/12033): Fix conditional response does not check other conditions if first condition matches.

Improved Documentation
- [11976](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11976): Add section in tracker store docs to document the fallback tracker store mechanism.

Bugfixes
- [11926](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11926): Decision to publish docs should not consider next major and minor alpha release versions.
- [11968](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11968): Exit training/running Rasa model when SpaCy runtime version is not compatible with the specified SpaCy model version.
- [11971](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11971): The new custom logging feature was not working due to small syntax issue in the argparse level.

Previously, the file name passed using the argument --logging-config-file was never retrieved so it never creates the new custom config file with the desired formatting.

Miscellaneous internal changes
- [11924](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11924)

Bugfixes
- [11923](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11923): Changed categorical slot comparison to be case insensitive.
- [11929](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11929): Exit training when transformer_size is not divisible by the number_of_attention_heads parameter and update the transformer documentations.

Improved Documentation
- [11899](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11899): Update compatibility matrix between Rasa-plus and Rasa Pro services.

Features
- [11087](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11087): Add metadata to Websocket channel. Messages can now include a `metadata` object which will be included as metadata to Rasa. The metadata can be supplied on a user configurable key with the `metadata_key` setting in the `socketio` section of the `credentials.yml`.

Improvements
- [11517](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11517): Added `./docker/Dockerfile_pretrained_embeddings_spacy_it` to include Spacy's Italian pre-trained model `it_core_news_md`.
- [11765](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11765): Replace `kafka-python` dependency with `confluent-kafka` async Producer API.
- [11773](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11773): Add support for Python 3.10 version.
- [2546](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/2546): Added CLI option `--logging-config-file` to enable configuration of custom logs formatting.

Bugfixes
- [11869](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11869): Implements a new CLI option `--jwt-private-key` required to have complete support for asymmetric algorithms as specified
originally in the docs.

Improved Documentation
- [11766](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11766): Clarify in the documentation how to write testing stories if a user presses a button with payload.
- [11801](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11801): Clarify prioritisation of used slot asking option in forms in documentation.

Miscellaneous internal changes
- [11742](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11742), [#11800](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11800), [#11817](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11817), [#11877](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/11877)

Miscellaneous internal changes
- [12462](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/12462), [#12650](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/12650)