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

4.15.1

June 01, 2022

This release does not contain any code changes.

🔄 Changed

• Provides new SPI config.
• Adds swift docc plugin to package dependencies.