4.29.0

March 17, 2023

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add support for loading messages around a given message id in a Channel #2464
• Add support for bidirectional scrolling in a Channel #2464

🐞 Fixed

• Fix ephemeral message disappearing after leaving channel #2464
• Fix ephemeral message appearing in channel preview #2464
• Fix issue when using in or notIn operators with auto-filtering enabled. #2531

StreamChatUI

🔄 Changed

• Deprecated setScrollToLatestMessageButton(visible:animated:) -> updateScrollToBottomButtonVisibility(animated:)
• Replaces messageContentViewDidTapOnQuotedMessage(_ indexPath: IndexPath?) -> messageContentViewDidTapOnQuotedMessage(_ quotedMessage: ChatMessage)
  • This one is a breaking change, but a required one. The previous API was not working as intended.

✅ Added

• Mark as unread: Now you can mark a message as unread when you are inside a channel #2519 #2526
• Now you can easily configure your own Decorations(headers and/or footers) around messages #2507
• There is a new ChatThreadRepliesCountDecorationView component that should be used to display the number of replies in a thread. Read here for more details.
• Add support for jumping to a quoted message #2464
• Add support for jumping to a message which is not in the message list (only channel view) #2464
• Add bidirectional scrolling in the Channel view #2464