Added: Persian translation support.

Added: Themes sub-component boilerplate - it's now easier to add sub-components to your themes, with a boilerplate template for each new file created.

Fixed: Issue that would cause resetting app data to not work correctly.

Several bug fixes.

Added: Delete Message API - Allows the removal of a message via the API. (Read Delete Message documentation)  

Added: Live Event Log - Get a clear view of what's going on inside TalkJS in realtime. Did my REST call not arrive at all, or am I looking at the wrong user's Inbox? 

Added: Saving indicator whilst editing themes.

Improved: Dashboard navigation redesign which includes a clearer way to see if you're on Test or Live mode.

Several bug fixes.

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: Webhook event filters

It is now possible to toggle which webhook events you want to subscribe to, allowing you to only listen for events that are useful to your use case.

• 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.

• Improved: in the Inbox, unread conversations are now marked clearer:
  
  
  
• Added: a "new messages" marker, which clarifies which messages you've not seen yet. 

If you use Themes, both features will automatically adjust to your existing settings. The dot uses your "highlight" color, so it will automatically fit your design. Similarly, the marker for new messages uses the same style as day markers.

• Added: Analytics to the Standard plan and above

• Added: Ability to delete conversations via the REST API
• Improved: App-wide performance
• Improved: REST API documentation
• Improved: Inbound email deliverability
• Improved: FeedFilters ability to filter for users with lots of conversations
• Fixed: Video preview is now viewable full screen in Chrome and Safari
• Fixed: The chat UI from not scrolling to the bottom when a message is received and the user has scrolled up beyond a certain point
• Fixed: Search icon contrast for dark themes

• Added: a screen indicating that a conversation was not found.
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  Added: Ability to send images when replying to emails.

This is a setting for each role in our dashboard. In order to enable it, you need to choose “Enabled” option.

• Added: documentation on how to deal with deleting users.
  • Added: make it possible to load any chat UI without a selected conversation (null), or with the latest conversation (undefined). See select, session.createInbox, session.createChatbox and session.createPopup.
• Fixed: position of the "close" button in a popup on some devices.
• Fixed: internal improvements and minor bug fixes.

• Added: ability to cancel subscription via TalkJS Dashboard.
• Fixed: ability to show long welcome messages.
• Improved video preview.
• Performance and stability improvements of the Application.
• Improved performance of the Activity Page in the TalkJS Dashboard.
• Added: a tool tip with date, when you hover over a message timestamp.

• We have a new demo where you can test the rich messaging capabilities of our chat API in a private environment (https://talkjs.com/demo)
  
  
  
  • Added: Estonian UI localization
  • Performance improvements