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

4.56.1

May 23, 2024

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Do not re-display suggestion view on each character change #3215
• Fix command suggestions not appearing #3215
• Reduce suggestion view height updates while scrolling #3215

🔄 Changed

• Replace updateCommandSuggestions() and updateMentionSuggestions() with updateSuggestions() in ChatSuggestionVC #3215

4.56.0

May 20, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add a new state layer with async-await and observable state objects (learn more) #3177

4.55.0

May 13, 2024

StreamChat

🐞 Fixed

• Fix triggering user query calls whenever a new user was added in UserListController #3184
• Fix duplicated watching channel calls when reconnecting #3187
• Fix /sync call failing because of surpassing the 255 channels limit #3188
• Improve channel list performance by enabling reconfigure cells #3186

🔄 Changed

• Do not retry rate-limited requests #3182
• UserListController won't update automatically when a new user is added #3184

StreamChatUI

🐞 Fixed

• Fix marking channel read after leaving channel view #3193