With the R2 2018 we have taken steps to enable ASP.NET AJAX developers to add cognitive features to their applications by adding a brand new component: the Conversational UI control (aka RadChat). This new control is intended to be used with various chat bot services. Highlights of the features include:
As a part of our ongoing commitment to ensure that developers using our UI components deliver the most secure applications they can, we officially updated our internal version of jQuery from 1.11.x to 3.3.1!
General Fixes
Beyond the above items we've gone through a whole slew of bug fixes, which is to be expected from any release. These include fixes across all components and updating TypeScript definitions for developers working with TypeScript and our WebForms components.