You can now mention any participant in a conversation by typing @ followed by their name. Once you've typed the at-symbol, a menu will come up so you can quickly select the person you're looking for.

With the addition of mentions also comes a new option for notifications. When adding/updating a participant to a conversation, you can now set the "notify" option to "MentionsOnly" to only be notified when someone mentions the user. You can learn more about the different notification settings in our documentation on participants.

New Additions to the JavaScript SDK

• Added a sendFile method to all widgets to send a file to the current conversation.. You can pass it a Blob to upload a specific file directly from your application. If you don't specify a file, the file picker dialog will open, so the user can pick a file to upload.
• Added a sendLocation method to all widgets. It will send the user's current location in the current conversation.

Note that both methods still open the confirmation dialog, so the user can confirm or cancel sending the message.

• Added an onKeyDown method to all  widgets.

React Native SDK TalkJS for React Native v0.4.0

With this release, we have updated the SDK's dependencies and peer dependencies to keep them up to date and also fix bugs in some of them. As of npm v7, peer dependencies are installed by default so upgrading the TalkJS SDK should also upgrade the peer dependencies accordingly. For yarn users, you may have to update the packages individually as shown:

yarn upgrade @notifee/react-native@^5.3.0 @react-native-community/push-notification-ios@^1.10.1 @react-native-firebase/app@^14.11.0 @react-native-firebase/messaging@^14.11.0 react-native-webview@^11.21.2

These libraries are defined as peer dependencies rather than dependencies since they contain native code and currently, React Native does not auto link transitive dependencies.

The new version of the notifee library also eliminates the need to add the local maven repository manually to your project. You can remove the section below. (Your app will still build and run if you don't remove it)

maven {
  url "$rootDir/../node_modules/@notifee/react-native/android/libs"
}

Improvements and Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where certain sequences could of numbers and symbols could be incorrectly treated as phone numbers, meaning they would be turned into links or suppressed by contact info suppression.
• Fixed an issue where the scroll position was not maintained properly when the on-screen keyboard opened.
• Fixed an issue where quickly switching between conversations on a slow network could cause an error.
• Fixed an issue in Safari where message parsing could cause an error.
• Our dashboard should now give more useful errors for invalid APNS certificates
• Guests can now delete messages in conversations, if their role grants them to necessary permissions.
• Screen readers should now be able to better announce emoji in messages
• Fixed an issue where push notifications on IOS didn't have a sound
• Fixed an issue where the activity pag'e on the dashboard wouldn't load for certain customers with a lot of conversations
• Fixed an issue where the scroll bar wasn't visible on dark themes

TalkJS lets you build a chat feature in hours instead of months.

Added

• Capture keyboard events inside the chat UI: 
  • Added captureKeyboardEvents option 
  • Added on("keyup") event
• Added message field SDK functions: getText and typeText

Improved

• Bugfix: Users sporadically unable to send messages after seeing "Conversation not found" or creating a conversation in parallel with loading a chat UI
• Bugfix: when enterSendsMessage is true, pressing enter did not inserts a newline
• Security improvements

A major TalkJS update today! Read more background here.

New message field in 2 flavours

Emoji picker

Emoji auto-suggest

And more:

- File attachment confirmation dialog

- Better accessibility

- Better keyboard navigation

Read more on our blog.

Added

Conversation List Item component: Theme your inbox list items with the new component.

Idempotency keys: Ensure exactly-once delivery of messages - Read more.

Webhooks: message.deleted added to the webhooks list in the dashboard.

API: Fully delete participants when leaving a conversation - Read more.

Push notification tester: You can now test your push notifications via the dashboard UI.

Improved

Android Push Notifications: Priority changed to high, which helps apps that aren't running in the background.

Emojis 😲: Updated to include newer emojis.

Dashboard Settings: Improved layout to give saving settings more visible.

Improved UX for autoscrolling new messages.

Security and performance improvements.

Fixed

System messages suppressed in emails: Fixed a bug where system messages containing contact information were incorrectly being suppressed.

Added: 

Themeable inbox conversation list header component, allowing more customization on your chat's UI.

Fixed:

Triggering of on("conversationSelected") was being called inconsistently.

Added: You can now run TalkJS on a custom subdomain (eg chat.yourcompany.com). This way, no network requests go to talkjs.com at all. (Enterprise plan only - get in touch if you're interested).

Improved: 

• The Chat UI got much faster 🚀. It's snappier and uses less battery than before.
• Made it possible to run TalkJS with a stricter Content-Security-Policy (docs)
• "Send message" REST API endpoint now returns message IDs in the response payload
• Made dashboard "Role editor" navigation clearer and easier to use

Fixed:

• Sending a large message would not always scroll the message list down to the bottom correctly.
• Inbox Feed Filters would sometimes not show sufficient data in the conversation list, or the "load more" button would be unavailable
• showChatHeader: false was ignored in some cases, making it impossible to hide the header.
• In the enlarged shared image view, the close button would display as "⨯" and not as "X" (on sites/apps that did not use UTF-8 encoding)
• Email attachment file sizes were sometimes incorrectly reported in the Chat UI
• CSS syntax errors in the Theme Editor could break the Chat UI without an actionable error. Now, it shows a useful error in the devtools console.

Added: the current amount of Monthly Active Users to the billing page.

Fixed: Issue where the inbox would show no conversations when a feed filter was applied, even when there were conversations that match the filter.

Several other bug fixes.

Added: New themeable component, Chat Header - customize the chat header with the new HTML & CSS template.

Added: New themeable component, No Chats view - customize the messaging and layout of the view when there aren't any chats with the new HTML & CSS template.

Added: Autofocus the message field on desktop devices, new option to toggle this behaviour with messageField.autofocus.

Fixed: When a user has been removed from a conversation, it will no longer be reported as unread when new messages come in.

From now on, you can customize your chat UI further by using the new Theme Editor, you'll have access to some of the component's HTML and CSS with more components being added soon. Read more about the Themes V2 update.

New

• Customizing the UI with Theme Editor
• New default theme
• Ability to use the same theme for multiple roles
• Custom data in messages (metadata)

Note – Your old themes will continue to work with the new upgrade.

View Themes Documentation

• Added: New dynamic group chat icon
  A set of avatars will now display on a group chat, showing avatars of some of the participants, along with a counter for the number of users in the chat. But, of course, you can always set your own icon too!

  
  

  
  
  
  
• Fixed: Spacing on the typing indicator.