4.66.0

November 05, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add support for system messages not updating channel.lastMessageAt #3476
• Add support for sending system messages client-side
  #3477

🐞 Fixed

• Fix watching channels when performing channel search #3472

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Open shouldMarkThreadRead and shouldMarkChannelRead #3468

🐞 Fixed

• Fix channel list state views not updating when the view is not visible #3479

4.65.0

October 18, 2024

StreamChat

🐞 Fixed

• Fix a rare crash caused by missing uniqueness constraints in polls #3454
• Fix rare crash in WebSocketPingController.connectionStateDidChange #3451
• Improve reliability and performance of resetting ephemeral values #3439
• Reduce channel list updates when updating the local state #3450

🔄 Changed

• Reverts "Fix old channel updates not being added to the channel list automatically" #3465
  • This was causing some issues on the SwiftUI SDK, so we are temporarily reverting this.

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Unread messages divider did not appear in the message list when marking messages as unread #3444
• Fix UI glitch in thread parent message when sending a message and scrolling #3446

⚡ Performance

• Improve performance of presenting ChatChannelVC #3448

4.64.0

October 02, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add ChannelMemberListSortingKey.userId for sorting channel members by id #3423
• Add helper functions to Poll that extracts common domain logic #3374

🐞 Fixed

• Fix old channel updates not being added to the channel list automatically #3430
• Keep consistent order in channel and member lists when sorting by key with many equal values #3423
  • Recommendation: Always add at least one unique key to the query's sort
• Avoid rare optimistic locking failure by refreshing the object before saving to the persistent store #3432
• Fix PollOption.latestVotes sorting #3374
• Fix Poll.latestAnswers sorting #3374
• Fix Poll updates not triggering message updates in ChannelController #3374
• Fix Poll.latestAnswers being reset on events, causing "Add a comment" button to not update in the UI SDKs #3398
• Fix PollVoteListController resetting the first page when loading a new page #3398
• Fix PollVoteListController default sorting being from oldest to newest from the server response #3398
• Fix PollVoteListQuery.pollId not limiting the votes query to the given poll id #3398

🔄 Changed

• Deprecates PollVoteListQuery(pollId:optionId:pagination:filter:) initializer in favor of (pollId:filter:pagination:) #3381

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• ✨ Introducing ViewContainerBuilder, a new, easier way to customize views #3374 (Learn more by reading the docs here)
• Add PollAttachmentView component to render polls in the message list #3374
• Add PollResultsVC component to show the results of a poll #3381
• Add PollCommentListVC component to show the comments of a poll #3398
• Add PollCreationVC component to create a poll in a channel #3433
• Add PollAllOptionsListVC component to show all the options of a poll #3435
• Add ChatUserAvatarView.shouldShowOnlineIndicator to disable the online indicator easily #3374

🐞 Fixed

• Fix a crash with thematic breaks in markdown #3437
• Fix Message Actions Alert view not scrollable when the view has the exact same height as the screen #3435

🎭 New Localizations

Multiple localizations were added to Polls, for more details please check the strings file.

• polls.subtitle.*
• polls.button.*
• polls.*
• alert.poll.*
• message.preview.poll-*

4.63.0

September 12, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Local attachment downloads (docs) #3393
  • Add downloadAttachment(_:) and deleteLocalAttachmentDownload(for:) to Chat and MessageController
  • Add deleteAllLocalAttachmentDownloads() to ConnectedUser and CurrentUserController
• Add unset argument to CurrentChatUserController.updateUserData and ConnectedUser.update for clearing user data fields #3404
• Add reason and extraData arguments to ChatUserController.flag(reason:extraData:completion:) and ConnectedUser.flag(_:reason:extraData:) #3417
• Add extraData argument to ChatMessageController.flag(reason:extraData:completion:) and Chat.flagMessage(_:reason:extraData:) #3417

🐞 Fixed

• Fix Logger printing the incorrect thread name #3382
• Channel watching did not resume on web-socket reconnection #3409

🔄 Changed

• Discard offline state changes when saving database changes fails #3399
• Deprecate Filter.notEqual and Filter.notIn #3414

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Downloading and sharing file attachments in the message list #3393
  • Feature toggle for download and share buttons: Components.default.isDownloadFileAttachmentsEnabled (default is false)

4.62.0

August 15, 2024

StreamChat

⚡ Performance

• Use background database observers for CurrentUserController.currentUser, ChatChannelMemberListController.members, and ChatMessageController.message which reduces CPU usage on the main thread #3357
• CurrentChatUserController was often recreated when sending typing events #3372
• Reduce latency of the BackgroundDatabaseObserver by reducing thread switching when handling changes #3373

🐞 Fixed

• Fix an issue where pending messages (moderation feature) were not visible after returning to the channel #3378
• Fix rare crashes when deleting local database content on logout #3355
• Fix rare crashes in MulticastDelegate when accessing it concurrently #3361
• Fix reading the local database state just after the initial write #3373
• Fix a timing issue where accessing channels in controllerWillChangeChannels returned already changed channels #3373

🔄 Changed

• Made loadBlockedUsers in ConnectedUser public #3352
• Removed Agora and 100ms related code, the recommended way to support calls is to use StreamVideo #3364
• Run offline state sync in the background instead of pausing other API requests while it runs #3367

4.61.0

July 30, 2024

StreamChat

⚡ Performance

• Improve performance of ChatChannel database model conversions more than 7 times #3325
• Improve performance of ChatChannel and ChatMessage equality checks #3335

✅ Added

• Expose MissingConnectionId + InvalidURL + InvalidJSON Errors #3332
• Add support for .hasUnread filter key to ChannelListQuery #3340

🐞 Fixed

• Fix a rare issue with incorrect message order when sending multiple messages while offline #3316
• Fix sorting channel list by unread count #3340

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Fix message search not showing results for new search terms #3345

4.60.0

July 18, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add an option to configure a reconnection timeout #3303

🐞 Fixed

• Improve the stability of the reconnection process #3303
• Fix invalid token errors considered as recoverable errors #3303
• Fix crashes in LazyCachedMapCollection when logging out an user 3299

🔄 Changed

• Dropped iOS 12 support #3285
• Increase QoS for Throttler and Debouncer to utility #3297
• Improve reliability of accessing data in controllers' completion handlers #3305

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Add support for enabling message list view animations #3314

🐞 Fixed

• Fix Channel List not hiding error state view when data is available #3303

4.59.0

July 10, 2024

⚠️ Important

• This is the last SDK version that will support iOS 12 as the minimum deployment target.
• Our next release will have iOS 13 as the minimum deployment target.

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add support for user blocking #3223
• [Threads v2] Add support for Threads v2 #3229
  • Add ChatThreadListController to fetch current user threads
  • Add ChatMessageController.markThreadRead()
  • Add ChatMessageController.markThreadUnread()
  • Add ChatMessageController.updateThread()
  • Add ChatMessageController.loadThread()
  • Add ChatCurrentUserController.loadAllUnreads()
  • Add CurrentChatUser.unreadCount.threads

🐞 Fixed

• Fix user not able to connect when the user name contains a semicolon #3275

🔄 Changed

• Add additional fields to the Equatable conformance in ChatChannel and ChatMessage #3277

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• [Threads v2] Add ChatThreadListVC UI Component #3229
  • Marks a thread read when reaching the bottom of the replies in ChatThreadVC
  • Marking the parent message of a thread as unread in ChatThreadVC will mark the thread as unread

🔄 Changed

• ChatChannelUnreadCountView now shares a common view (badgeView) with ChatThreadUnreadCountView #3229

🎭 New Localizations

• message.item.deleted
• threadListItem.replied-to
• threadList.empty.description
• threadList.error.message
• threadList.new-threads

4.58.0

June 26, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add role argument to partial user updates #3253

🐞 Fixed

• Fix channel.pinnedMessages with missing messages #3244
• Fix notifications muted state for the current user in channel members #3239
• Reset channel members and watchers state when fetching the initial state of the channel #3245
• Fix inconsistent message text when extremely quickly updating it #3242
• Fix message attachments returning nil sometimes in push notification extensions #3263
• Significantly improve performance of database observers #3260

🔄 Changed

• Enable background mapping by default, which improves performance overall #3250

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Fix an issue with markdown ordered list processing #3234

4.57.0

June 06, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Low-level client support for Polls - creating different types of polls, adding and removing votes, comments, and more #3220