4.23.0

October 27, 2022

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Added support for Stream's Image CDN v2 #2339
• Expose EntityChange.item #2351

🐞 Fixed

• Fix CurrentChatUserController+Combine initialValue hard coded to .noUnread instead of using the initial value from the current user data model #2334
• Allow Message Search pagination when using sort parameters #2347
• Fix TokenProvider sometimes being invoked two times when token is expired #2337

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Uses Stream's Image CDN v2 to reduce the memory footprint #2339
• Make ChatMessageListVC.tableView(heightForRowAt:) open #2342

🐞 Fixed

• Fix message text not dynamically scalable with content size category changes #2328

🚨 Minor Breaking Changes

Although we don't usually ship breaking changes in minor releases, in some cases where they are minimal and important, we have to do them to keep improving the SDK long-term. Either way, these changes are for advanced customizations which won't affect most of the customers.

• The ImageCDN protocol has some minor breaking changes that were needed to support the new Stream CDN v2 and to make it more scalable in the future.
  • urlRequest(forImage:) -> urlRequest(forImageUrl:resize:).
  • cachingKey(forImage:) -> cachingKey(forImageUrl:).
  • Removed thumbnail(originalURL:preferreSize:). This is now handled by urlRequest(forImageUrl:resize:) as well. If your CDN does not support resizing, you can ignore the resize parameter.

4.22.0

September 26, 2022

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Added timeoutIntervalForRequest to ChatClientConfig to control URLSession's timeout #2311
• Added channel.ownCapabilities #2317

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed pagination in message list not working when synchronize does not succeed #2241
• Do not mark channels as read when the controller is not on screen #2288
• Do not show old messages not belonging to the history when paginating #2298). Caveat: Explained here
• Fix logic to determine errors related to connectivity #2311
• Stop logging false positive errors for 'channel.created' events #2314
• Properly handle Global Ban events #2312

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Highlighted user mentions support #2253
• New ChatMessageListRouter.showUser() to easily provide a custom profile view when user clicks on an avatar or user mention #2253

🐞 Fixed

• User mentions suggestions would not show when typing in a new line #2253
• User mentions suggestions would stop showing when typing a space #2253
• Fix Thread not loading more replies #2297
• Fix Channel and Thread pagination not working when initialized offline #2297

4.21.2

September 19, 2022

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Fix Message List cell not updating when an existing reaction of the same type was updated from the current user #2304
• Fix Message List cell not updating when the number of reactions of the same type changed #2304

4.21.1

September 06, 2022

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Fix message list crash when inserting message in empty list on iOS <15 #2269

4.21.0

September 01, 2022

🚨 Known Issue: There is a crash on iOS <15 when inserting messages in an empty list, please update to 4.21.1

StreamChat

🔄 Changed

• From now on, if you want to logout the user from the app, especially when switching users, you should call the client.logout() method instead of client.disconnect(). Read more here #2241

🐞 Fixed

• Fix hidden channels showing past history #2216
• Fix token not being refreshed because of parsing error #2248
• Fix deadlock caused by ListDatabaseObserver.startObserving() changes #2252
• Fix parsing member field in notification.removed_from_channel event #2259
• Fix broken pagination when quoting or pinning old messages #2258

StreamChatUI

🔄 Changed

• New Message List Diffing Implementation #2226
• _messageListDiffingEnabled flag has been removed #2226

🐞 Fixed

• Fix jumps in Message List #2226
• Fix image flickers when adding image attachment to a message #2226
• Fix message list scrolling when popping from navigation stack #2239
• Fix message timestamp not appearing after hard deleting the last message in the group #2226

4.20.0

August 02, 2022

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Support for message moderation (NNBB) #2103

🐞 Fixed

• Fix crash in ListDatabaseObserver.startObserving() #2177
• Make BaseOperation thread safe #2198
• Fix build issues in Xcode 14 beta #2202
• Improve consistency when retrieving Message after Push Notification #2200
• Make sure ChannelDTO is still valid when accessing Lazy blocks #2204

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Add channel list states; empty, error and loading views #2187
• Support for message moderation (NNBB) #2103

4.19.0

July 21, 2022

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add hide history option when adding a new member #2155
• Add Extra Data Usage Improvements #2174
  • For more details please read the documentation here.

🐞 Fixed

• Avoid triggering CoreData updates in willSave() #2156
• Sync active channels when no channel list #2163

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Fix Channel missing messages from NSE push updates #2166

4.18.0

July 05, 2022

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Added missing ChannelListFilterScope and MemberListFilterScope filter keys #2119

🔄 Changed

• Improved performance when saving big payloads (by 50% in some edge cases)#2113
• Chat SDK now leverages chat.stream-io-api.com endpoint by default #2125
• JSON decoding performance is futher increased, parsing time reduced by another %50 #2128
• Better errors in case JSON decoding fails #2126
• File upload size limit is increased to 100MB #2136

🐞 Fixed

• Allow sending giphy messages programmatically #2124
• JSON decoding is now more robust, single incomplete/broken object won't disable whole channel list #2126

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Allow scroll automatically to the bottom when sending a giphy from the middle of the message list #2130

4.17.0

June 22, 2022

StreamChat

✅ Added

• parentMessageId parameter for typing events #2080
• Adds support for multi bundle push notifications #2101

🐞 Fixed

• Fix hidden channels not appearing on relaunch #2056
• Fix channel.hidden event failing to decode on launch/reconnection #2056
• Fix messages in hidden channels with clearHistory re-appearing #2056
• Fix last message of hidden channel with clearHistory visible in channel list #2056
• Message action title now supports displaying 2 lines of text instead of 1 #2082
• Fix Logger persisting config after usage, preventing changing parameters (such as LogLevel) #2081
• Fix crash in ChannelVC when it's initialized using a ChannelController created with createDirectMessageChannelWith factory #2097
• Fix ChannelListSortingKey.unreadCount causing database crash #2094

🔄 Changed

• JSON decoding performance is increased 3 times, parsing time reduced by %70 #2081
• EventPayload decoding errors are now more verbose #2099

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Show typing users within a thread #2080
• Add support for Markdown syntax #2067

🐞 Fixed

• Fix Logger persisting config after usage, preventing changing parameters (such as LogLevel) #2081

4.16.0

June 10, 2022

StreamChat

💥 Removed

• The tokenProvider property was removed from ChatClient #2031

✅ Added

• Make it possible to call ChatClient.connect with a tokenProvider #2031

🐞 Fixed

• Saving payloads to local database is now 50% faster. Initial launch and displaying channel list should be noticeably faster #1973
• Fix not waiting for last batch of events to be processed when connecting as another user #2016
• Fix Date._unconditionallyBridgeFromObjectiveC(NSDate?) crash #2027
• Fix NSHashTable count underflow crash #2032
• Fix crash when participant hard deletes a message 2075
• Fix possible deadlock in CurrentUserController functions being called from background threads #2074
• Fix using incorrect index path for updates #2044

🔄 Changed

• Changing the decoding of role to channel_role as role is now deprecated on the backend. This allows for custom roles defined within your V2 permissions #2028

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Add Support for Slow Mode #1953
• Present channel screen modally when channel list in not embedded by navigation controller #2011
• Show channel screen as right detail when channel list is embedded by split view controller #2011

🐞 Fixed

• Fix DM Channel with multiple members displaying only 1 user avatar #2019
• Improve stability of Message List with Diffing disabled #2006 #2076
• Fix quoted message extra spacing jump UI glitch #2050
• Fix edge case where cell would be hidden after reacting to it #2053