4.71.0

January 28, 2025

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Expose Event.name to easily check which event it is #3569
• Add support for transforming Messages, Channels and Members #3564
  • Add ChatClientConfig.modelsTransformer
  • Add ChatMessage.replacing()
  • Add ChatChannel.replacing()
  • Add ChatChannelMember.replacing()

🐞 Fixed

• Calling async connectUser() methods can sometimes throw CurrentUserDoesNotExist() unexpectedly #3565
• Fix creating controllers from background threads leading to rare crashes #3566
• Fix hard deleted message events not being reported in EventsController #3569
• Fix hard deleting a parent message not deleting its replies #3569

StreamChatUI

✅ Added

• Add a simpler way to customize header and footer views in the Message List #3567
  • Add ChatMessageListVC.headerView
  • Add ChatMessageListVC.footerView
• Make it easier to provide state handling when loading more messages #3567
  • Add ChatChannelVC.loadPreviousMessages() + ChatChannelVC.didFinishLoadingPreviousMessages(error:)
  • Add ChatChannelVC.loadNextMessages() + ChatChannelVC.didFinishLoadingNextMessages(error:)
  • Add ChatThreadVC.loadPreviousReplies() + ChatThreadVC.didFinishLoadingPreviousReplies(error:)
  • Add ChatThreadVC.loadNextReplies() + ChatThreadVC.didFinishLoadingNextReplies(error:)

🐞 Fixed

• Fix thread reply action shown when inside a Thread #3561
• Fix reaction author's view with shrinked reaction images in iOS 18 #3568
• Fix missing final attributes for supplementary views exception #3570
• Fix duplicated didReceiveEvent inside ChatThreadVC #3569

🔄 Changed

• Deprecates ChatThreadVC.channelEventsController #3569