# SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.8?

# Merge Request #14 - September

## Features

- qicli now supports `--prettyprint` to not escape special characters in its output (making it non-json-compliant, but easier to read)
- qitype: add support for conversion from struct to map
- qi: add function to create a Path from strings in native encoding
- qimessaging: add PAM authenticator

## Bugfixes

- Fix compatibility issue where an old client without authentication support would be rejected from the gateway
- Fix unicode support in qi::os::dlopen, qi::os::spawn and access to some sdk files
- Fix memory leak in MessageDispatcher

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