What's new in Blocks

Release Notes

This release strengthens Blocks Cloud with secure Magic Links, OIDC-based SSO via Blocks IDP, enhanced Selise AI agent integration, improved localization change detection, AWS S3–compatible storage support, and a redesigned environment and user management experience.

Together, these updates improve automation, governance, flexibility, and AI-driven workflows across the SELISE Blocks ecosystem.

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Utilities - Secure Redirects & Backend Action Triggers

Blocks Cloud now introduces Magic Links, enabling teams to generate secure, time-limited URLs for streamlined user flows and automated backend actions.

Magic Links are designed for flexibility and control, supporting configurable usage limits, expiration dates, authentication scopes, and environment-specific base URLs.

Two Types of Magic Links

Redirect Magic Links Generate shortened URLs that securely redirect users to a configured destination while maintaining authentication context. Ideal for passwordless login, invitations, and guided user journeys.

Action Magic Links Trigger predefined backend HTTP requests (GET or POST) when accessed. These links execute actions such as email verification, workflow triggers, or system events—without requiring user redirection.

Key Capabilities

• Configurable usage limits
• Optional automatic expiration
• Scoped access via client credentials
• Support for custom headers, payloads, and query parameters (Action type)
• Customizable short URL base configuration
• Centralized dashboard for viewing, filtering, and managing links

Magic Links provide a secure and extensible mechanism for handling authentication flows, event-driven automation, and controlled access patterns across environments.

Identity - OIDC

OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support for Blocks IDP

This release adds OpenID Connect (OIDC) support, enabling applications to use Blocks Identity Provider (IDP) as a standards-compliant Single Sign-On (SSO) solution.

Applications can now integrate with Blocks IDP using the Authorization Code flow, enabling secure, standards-compliant user authentication while delegating identity management to the Blocks platform. This allows any third-party application to use Blocks IDP as its SSO provider.

Blocks Construct also supports this capability—by enabling Bring Your Own SSO and implementing Blocks OIDC—allowing Construct-based deployments to participate in the same unified single sign-on experience across environments.

Key benefits include:

• Centralized authentication through Blocks IDP
• Secure, industry-standard OIDC authorization flow
• Seamless SSO availability across Blocks-based deployments
• Reduced need for custom authentication logic in applications

This enhancement strengthens identity integration within the SELISE Blocks ecosystem and provides a scalable foundation for SSO-enabled applications.

Localization

A new endpoint is now available to help determine whether localization content has changed, without requiring a full language file download. This allows applications to efficiently detect when an update is necessary by checking the publication history of language resources.

New endpoint: /Key/GetLanguageFileGenerationHistory Detailed specifications are available in the API documentation Swagger.

The endpoint returns versioned metadata for published language files, including creation time and project context, enabling lightweight change detection.

Newly Supported Languages

• Bengali (Sylheti)
• Bengali (Chittagonian)

This update improves localization efficiency while expanding language coverage for regional variants.

Selise AI – Blocks Cloud Agent Integration

Selise AI continues to evolve as a unified conversational interface.

Previously, users could interact with multiple large language models (LLMs) within a single GPT-style experience. With this release, Selise AI now supports direct interaction with agents configured on Blocks Cloud.

This enhancement allows users to connect to agents powered by the Blocks RAG architecture, leveraging:

• Dedicated knowledge bases
• Custom tunings and configurations
• Context-aware retrieval
• Enterprise-ready deployment controls

By integrating Blocks Cloud agents into Selise AI, organizations can move beyond general-purpose LLM conversations and interact with domain-specific, retrieval-augmented assistants tailored to their own data and business logic.

This update strengthens the bridge between conversational AI and the broader **SELISE Blocks ecosystem, enabling more intelligent, contextual, and controlled AI experiences.

UDS – AWS-Compatible Object Storage Support

UDS (formerly Data Gateway) now supports AWS S3–compatible object storage, enabling integration with alternatives such as MinIO.

This enhancement allows organizations to use self-hosted or third-party S3-compatible storage solutions while maintaining compatibility with existing AWS-style APIs. It provides greater flexibility in storage architecture, supports hybrid and on-prem deployments, and reduces dependency on a single cloud provider.

Blocks Cloud

A new dedicated section has been introduced for navigating Environments, Project Settings, and People Management, creating a more structured and intuitive user experience.

This update streamlines navigation across environments and improves visibility and control over user access. Teams can now:

• Invite users to multiple environments
• Clearly see who has access to each environment
• View and manage user profiles
• Manage project-level settings from a centralized location

Release Notes

v3.7.10 introduces smarter automation with enhanced workflow nodes, improved visibility into inbound and outbound email activity, and the launch of SELISE AI for building flexible, tool-enabled chat experiences. This release also adds a document management system to Storage and includes UI refinements to improve overall usability and operational clarity.

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Workflows – New and Enhanced Nodes

The Workflows service has been expanded with new capabilities to enable more flexible and event-driven automation.

New Nodes

• Email Trigger Node Automatically trigger workflows when an email is received, allowing teams to build email-driven automations and integrations.
• HTTP Node The existing HTTP node now supports full configuration of:
  • Request headers
  • Query parameters
  • Request body

This enhancement enables richer integrations with external APIs and greater control over HTTP-based workflows. These updates make workflows more powerful, extensible, and better suited for real-world automation scenarios.

Email Service – Inbound & Outbound Visibility

Blocks Cloud’s Email Service now supports visibility into both inbound and outbound emails, giving teams a complete view of email activity directly from the platform.

Inbound emails can be enabled by configuring an incoming mail server (IMAP). Once configured, Blocks Cloud will receive and display incoming messages associated with your service.

Benefits

• Unified email observability — monitor inbound and outbound emails from a single interface.
• Easier debugging — quickly verify whether emails were received or sent successfully.
• Improved reliability — detect misconfigurations or delivery issues early.
• Better operational insight — understand email traffic patterns and system behavior.

This enhancement makes email workflows more transparent and easier to manage in production environments.

SELISE AI

Blocks Cloud introduces SELISE AI, a secure and customizable chat-based AI experience—designed for teams and enterprises that want full control over how AI is built and used.

Key Highlights

• Chat-based AI assistant A conversational agent with a familiar ChatGPT-style interface.
• Built with Construct Developed using Blocks Cloud Construct, enabling seamless integration with platform services.
• User profile and preferences View your profile, change language settings, and personalize your experience.
• Chat history Access and continue previous conversations with full context.
• Tool integration Extend the assistant’s capabilities by adding tools from Blocks Cloud, allowing the AI to interact with APIs and services.
• Model flexibility Choose from a variety of available LLMs. You are not locked into a single model or vendor.
• Try it now Visit selise.ai to experience SELISE AI.

SELISE AI empowers teams to build, extend, and operate AI assistants that fit their workflows—without sacrificing flexibility, security, or control.

Deployment

If your domain is not verified then the message that was previously shown in the Overview page of your environment, will now be shown in the modal of the Configure button in the same page.

Storage — Now with a Document Management System (DMS)

Blocks Cloud Storage now includes a built-in Document Management System (DMS), providing a structured and centralized way to manage files across the platform.

• Service-based organization All files uploaded to Blocks Cloud are automatically organized into their respective service folders. For example:
  • Knowledge base files appear under the AI service.
  • Language files appear under the Localization service.
• Preconfigured service folders A dedicated folder is automatically created for each Blocks Cloud service to ensure consistent organization.
• Default view The default folder displays all files and folders for quick access and easy navigation.
• Storage providers
  • Azure is the default storage provider.
  • Additional providers can be configured as needed.
• File preview Preview supported file types directly within the platform.
• Bulk uploads Upload multiple files at once to save time and streamline workflows.

This update brings better structure, visibility, and usability to file management across Blocks Cloud services.

Release Notes

v3.7.9 continues to evolve Blocks Cloud into a modern, extensible platform for building, securing, and operating intelligent systems. This release introduces visual Workflows for automation, Roles and Permissions for fine-grained access control, and meaningful upgrades across AI, localization, and platform APIs.

Together, these enhancements bring greater control, transparency, and composability—allowing teams to automate processes, govern access across data and applications, and gain deeper insight into AI behavior, all while staying aligned with current industry standards for platform engineering and AI operations.

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Roles and Permissions

Blocks Cloud introduces Roles and Permissions to give teams fine-grained control over access across data, APIs, and user interfaces. This capability aligns with modern security and governance standards, ensuring the right users have the right access—no more, no less.

Access Control Areas

Roles and permissions can be applied across three key aspects of the platform:

1. Data Connect
   • Control access to data using row-level and schema level permissions.
   • Ensure sensitive data is visible only to authorized roles.
2. Endpoints
   • Define who can access and invoke specific API endpoints.
   • Enforce consistent authorization rules across services.
3. Front-End
   • Control access to front-end pages and resources.
   • Tailor UI visibility based on user roles.

Benefits

• Stronger security through least-privilege access control.
• Centralized governance across data, APIs, and UI.
• Cleaner separation of responsibilities for teams and collaborators.
• Scalable access management as applications and organizations grow.

Workflows

Blocks Cloud now introduces Workflows, enabling teams to orchestrate automation and integrations through a visual, node-based experience—similar to modern workflow tools used across the industry.

Nodes Available

Workflows are built by connecting reusable nodes that can be arranged in any configuration:

• HTTP — Send HTTP requests to external services or APIs.
• Webhook — Receive incoming HTTP calls with user-defined input and output schemas.
• Email — Send emails as part of automated flows.
• AI — Invoke any agent configured in Blocks Cloud directly within a workflow.

Key Capabilities

• Flexible, visual node-based composition for building automation flows.
• Support for custom input and output definitions, enabling predictable integrations.
• Combine AI, external APIs, and notifications in a single workflow.

Benefits

• Faster automation without writing glue code.
• Seamless AI integration—use agent as first-class workflow components.
• Greater flexibility to connect services, react to events, and automate processes.
• Extensible foundation for future workflow nodes and integrations.

AI

The assistant now provides live feedback after a prompt is submitted, indicating the current stage of processing so users know the request is actively being handled.

• The assistant now provides live feedback after a prompt is submitted, indicating the current stage of processing so users know the request is actively being handled.
• Ask AI in Tracing and Logs also has real-time responses
• Improvements in AI conversation history
  • See workflow steps
  • See duration in each step
  • See the tools that were used, if any, along with the input and output parameters
  • See the used retrieval calls, if any, along with the chunks
• The Tools sections input and output parameters has been improved and supports nested objects
• The output parameters can be reduced based on output parameter limits. This helps reduce token calls
• Tools dashboard tab is now active. See useful information like:
  • Total Requests
  • Success Rate
  • Success Requests
  • Failed Requests
• Configuration improvements

Microservices endpoint changes

Some microservice endpoints have been updated in this release. The previous endpoints will remain supported for a limited period to ensure backward compatibility.

We recommend updating your integrations to use the new endpoints as soon as possible, as the legacy endpoints will be deprecated and removed after the announced deprecation window.

Localization Service Webhook

Get notified every time the auto-translation is complete. Use the following endpoint to set up your webhooks.

curl --location 'https://api.seliseblocks.com/uilm/v1/Config/SaveWebHook' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "itemId": "<uuid>",
  "createDate": "<iso_8601_timestamp>",
  "lastUpdateDate": "<iso_8601_timestamp>",
  "url": "<webhook_url>",
  "contentType": "application/json",
  "blocksWebhookSecret": {
    "secret": "<webhook_secret>",
    "headerKey": "<signature_header_name>"
  },
  "isDisabled": false,
  "projectKey": "<project-key>"
}'

Bug Fixes

• Fixed key duplication when migrating language keys form one environment to another
• Fixed only keys are IDs were being exported when exporting to Excel format

This release includes major upgrades in identity management, user handling, security features, and email configuration. Below is a summary of what's new:

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Security Enhancements

• MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) configuration enabled for projects and users via IAM (login, profile).
• reCAPTCHA integrated for Signup, Forgot Password, and Activation pages (cloud frontend).

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User Management

• Advanced user filtering for quicker access.
• Enhanced user details view with:
  • Basic info display
  • Password reset
  • MFA enable/disable
  • Assign roles and permissions directly from the user profile
• Device-wise access log per user.
• User activity history for audit and tracking.

Roles & Permissions

• Add and manage roles.
• Assign permissions to roles.
• View role details and filter the permission list.

Email Management

• Add and list mail server configurations.
• Manage email templates: add, edit, filter, clone, and view.
• Send test emails.
• Simplified configuration management.

People Management

• Invite users to the platform.
• View and manage the list of invited users.