iOS IM SDK Release Notes

1.8.39​

Release date : 2026-01-27

• Feat: Retrieve the latest friend information from the server.

1.8.38​

Release date : 2026-01-26

• Feat: Add friend aliases.

1.8.37​

Release date : 2026-01-20

• Feat: Stop the video preview during video calls.

1.8.36​

Release date : 2026-01-20

• Feat: Add the senderDisplayName and senderPortrait properties to JMessage.
• Feat: Add the displayName and portrait properties to JConversationInfo.
• Fix: Add an index to the message table.

1.8.35​

Release date : 2026-01-14

• Feat: Permanently delete all local messages sent before a specified time to free local storage.
• Fix: Add an index to the conversation table.

1.8.34​

Release date : 2026-01-05

• Feat: Retrieve the latest group information from the server.

1.8.33​

Release date : 2026-01-05

• Feat: Retrieve the latest user information from the server.
• Feat: Retrieve user and group information in batches.

1.8.32​

Release date : 2026-01-04

• Fix: Add support for Xcode 26.
• Fix: Mark all messages with a sending status as failed when the connection succeeds.

1.8.31​

Release date : 2025-12-24

• Fix: Fix Official Account conversation retrieval failures.

1.8.30​

Release date : 2025-12-19

• Feat: Reorganize message-table indexes.
• Fix: Prevent message retrieval from invoking the callback twice in some cases.

1.8.29​

Release date : 2025-12-02

• Feat: Add a prefix to the bundled SocketRocket source code.
• Fix: Correct the Moments media type setting.

1.8.28​

Release date : 2025-11-28

• Feat: Add subchannel support to conversations and messages.
• Feat: Add Moments support.
• Feat: Change the heartbeat interval from 15 to 10 seconds.
• Feat: Change the signaling timeout from 5 to 8 seconds and reconnect after three timeouts.

1.8.27​

Release date : 2025-11-05

• Feat: Expand read-status information for group messages.
• Feat: Update the ZEGO version.
• Feat: Retrieve private-message read times.

1.8.25​

Release date : 2025-10-29

• Feat: Reorganize message-table indexes.
• Feat: Add Official Account support.
• Fix: Detect gaps before the first retrieved message by also retrieving messages in the reverse direction.

1.8.24​

Release date : 2025-09-26

• Feat: Add UnknownMessage.

1.8.23​

Release date : 2025-09-25

• Fix: Resolve Agora-related issues.
• Fix: Resolve duplicate image-message issues.

1.8.22​

Release date : 2025-09-11

• Feat: Add Agora support for audio/video calls.

1.8.21​

Release date : 2025-09-04

• Feat: Bind audio/video calls to conversations; each conversation supports only one active call.

1.8.20​

Release date : 2025-08-27

• Feat: Add a microphone mute callback.
• Feat: Add a noise reduction API.

1.8.19​

Release date : 2025-08-20

• Feat: Add transport encryption.

1.8.18​

Release date : 2025-08-19

• Feat: Add error codes.
• Fix: Update user information when retrieving favorite messages.

1.8.17​

Release date : 2025-08-14

• Feat: Add message favorites.
• Feat: Update user information only when updatedTime is newer than the cached value.

1.8.16​

Release date : 2025-08-05

• Feat: Pin messages.
• Feat: Allow extra information to be included when initiating a call.
• Feat: Add a callback for the first rendered video frame.
• Feat: Add automatic message deletion.
• Feat: Add burn-after-reading messages.
• Feat: Add a message preprocessing callback for custom encryption and decryption.

1.8.15​

Release date : 2025-07-11

• Feat: Add LiveKit support for audio/video calls.
• Feat: Add an in-call audio-level callback.

1.8.13​

Release date : 2025-06-26

• Feat: Support recalling chatroom messages.

1.8.12​

Release date : 2025-06-06

• Feat: Add user information caching.
• Fix: Do not send messages before the WebSocket is created.

1.8.11​

Release date : 2025-04-10

• Feat: Add ZEGO event callbacks.

1.8.10​

Release date : 2025-03-27

• Feat: Support deleting and clearing messages for all conversation participants.

1.8.9​

Release date : 2025-03-07

• Feat: Support conversation labels.
• Feat: Refactor the database upgrade logic.
• Feat: Add instrumentation for slow SQL logs.
• Fix: Ensure that resultSet instances are closed properly.

1.8.7​

Release date : 2025-02-13

• Feat: Support group member capabilities.

1.8.6​

Release date : 2025-02-08

• Feat: Add an API for retrieving cached message reactions.
• Feat: Support server-side message modification after sending.

1.8.5​

Release date : 2025-01-16

• Feat: Add an API for retrieving the push-notification language.
• Feat: Add an image upload API.
• Feat: Support message modification.
• Feat: Add S3 support for file uploads.
• Feat: Support message reactions.
• Fix: Stop the video preview when leaving a call.

1.8.3​

Release date : 2024-12-16

• Feat: Set the push-notification language.
• Feat: Include the connection session in logs.
• Feat: Add video calls.
• Feat: Add multi-party calls.
• Feat: Add VoIP push notifications.
• Fix: Disconnect calls when a user is kicked by IM.

1.8.2​

Release date : 2024-11-27

• Feat: Route audio through the speaker or earpiece.
• Feat: Add call-ended messages.
• Fix: Clear caches correctly when the connection is disconnected.

1.8.1​

Release date : 2024-11-14

• Feat: Refactor connection logic with a state machine to handle reconnection after network and foreground/background transitions.

1.8.0​

Release date : 2024-11-08

• Feat: Add the JuggleCall audio/video calling module with ZEGO support.

1.7.7​

Release date : 2024-10-30

• Feat: Add a parameter to the join-chatroom API that controls whether a missing chatroom is created automatically.
• Feat: Use UUIDs for client message IDs and message deduplication.
• Fix: Correct message status when an acknowledgment arrives after a send timeout.

1.7.6​

Release date : 2024-10-29

• Feat: Allow the join-chatroom API to retrieve the latest N messages sent before joining.
• Feat: Support filtering message searches by conversation type.
• Feat: Search conversations by message keywords.

1.7.5​

Release date : 2024-10-22

• Fix: Fix missing messages when retrieving the latest message list.
• Fix: Fix message retrieval callbacks in edge cases.

1.7.4​

Release date : 2024-10-16

• Feat: Set pinned-conversation ordering rules.
• Feat: Remove deprecated APIs.

1.7.3​

Release date : 2024-10-15

• Feat: Integrate log uploads.
• Feat: Add a message retrieval API.
• Fix: Fix an exception caused by a missing log file.

1.7.2​

Release date : 2024-09-27

• Fix: Fix missing message callbacks.

1.7.1​

Release date : 2024-09-18

• Feat: Improve message synchronization.
• Feat: Improve the chatroom message synchronization queue.
• Feat: Replace the fixed five-second reconnect interval with exponential backoff.
• Feat: Add retry handling for failed conversation synchronization.
• Feat: Add retry handling for failed chatroom attribute synchronization.
• Feat: Add push data to messages.

1.7.0​

Release date : 2024-09-03

• Feat: Set conversation unread status.
• Feat: Trigger message push notifications when the app enters the background.
• Feat: Add chatroom support.
• Feat: Add an API for retrieving unread message counts by conversation type.
• Feat: Add an API for retrieving the first unread message.

1.3.0​

Release date : 2024-08-23

• Feat: Add message search.
• Feat: Consolidate the message retrieval APIs.
• Fix: Prevent reconnection after a user is kicked.