Custom sender address for notifications, and more - TalkJS

Use a custom sender address for notifications

An email address with a long, randomly generated string at the top. From that long address there’s an arrow pointing downward. At the center, the email address domain@r.talkjs.com is typed out.

You can now use a custom sender address for email notifications.

Previously, email notifications would be sent from a randomly generated address, such as jbvxkmldkrihi.mjh4b43vrl4m3tfhh455l2vwcr@r.talkjs.com. If you recently signed up, then by default all email notifications are sent by the much friendlier address notifications@r.talkjs.com.

Are you using a custom email domain? Then you can also configure the local part of the sender address (the part before the @-symbol) directly from the details page of your email domain to change the settings.

Would you also like to use a custom email address for notifications? Get in touch to enable a custom email address for notifications for your project.

Overview of other changes

Added

TalkJS Core (1.0.0): Initial release. The @talkjs/core package is stable and you can confidently use it to read, update, and subscribe to all your chat messaging data. Backward-compatibility guaranteed.
TalkJS Core (1.0.1): Exported types for GenericFileMetadata, AudioFileMetadata, ImageFileMetadata, VideoFileMetadata, and VoiceRecordingFileMetadata.
JavaScript SDK (0.37.0): Added a new messages marker (readUntil), to show users where they left off in a conversation.
JavaScript SDK (0.36.0): Added support for a new way of creating a session, using userId: string instead of the me: Talk.User parameter.
Added support for localizing the chat UI into Icelandic (is-IS). Is your preferred language still missing? Get in touch to get it added.

Changed

JavaScript SDK (0.36.0): Updated the email and phone fields when creating or editing a user. These fields now accept a string in addition to string[]. If you pass a single string, it gets converted to a single-element array.
Flutter SDK (0.15.1): Upgraded talkjs_flutter_inappwebview dependency.

Fixed

React Native SDK (0.13.1): Fixed an issue where, on iOS, opening the keyboard would intermittently add extra padding.
Fixed an issue where emojis used in messages would be rendered differently from emojis used in the emoji reactions.

Security

Fixed an issue where, using the JavaScript Data API, under certain conditions, users could perform calls that should have been restricted to app administrators.

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