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

4.54.0

May 06, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add reason parameter to flagMessage() #3173

🐞 Fixed

• Reset managed object contexts before removing all the data on logout #3170
• Rare crash when @Cached property triggered fetching a new value with computeValue closure #3174

🔄 Changed

• Replace message update request to partial update on message pinning #3166

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Make ChatMessageContentView.prepareForReuse() open #3176

4.53.0

April 30, 2024

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add user privacy settings to control user events #3142
• Add privacySettings parameter to connectUser() and CurrentUserController.updateUserData() #3142
• Expose ChatCurrentUser.privacySettings #3142
• Adds reactionGroups to ChatMessage so that reactions can be sorted by date in the message list #3158

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Adds firstReactionAt and lastReactionAt to ChatMessageReactionData to be able to sort by dates in Components.reactionsSorting #3158
• Add ChatReactionListController to query and filter reactions from a message #3167
• Add ChatClient.reactionListController() to create an instance of ChatReactionListController #3167