5.6.0

July 03, 2026

✅ Added

• Add support for enhanced mention suggestions #1497
• Add PollsConfig.maxQuestionLength and PollsConfig.maxOptionLength to limit the character count of poll questions and options #1500

🐞 Fixed

• Keep the navigation bar and its buttons visible while searching in the add members screen #1499
• Announce each message as a single VoiceOver element #1505
• Announce media and voice attachments correctly to VoiceOver #1505
• Announce deleted and system messages as clear single VoiceOver elements #1505
• Hide decorative separators in the translated message indicator from VoiceOver #1505
• Improve VoiceOver support for polls so the header, options, and results announce as coherent elements #1503
• Improve VoiceOver announcements for channel list items #1504
• Fix VoiceOver focus landing on the back button instead of the composer when entering a channel #1502
• Fix composer placeholder and "Also send in channel" label truncating at large Dynamic Type sizes #1502
• Fix snackbar text truncating instead of wrapping at large Dynamic Type sizes #1502
• Avoid a deadlock when building message actions in the reactions overlay that could freeze the UI for very long messages #1506
• Fix link attachment previews not showing their image #1510
• Fix downloading files in the FileAttachmentPreview #1519
• Show the locally downloaded file in the FileAttachmentPreview instead of downloading it again #1519
• Fix text truncating and spacing collapsing at large Dynamic Type sizes across the channel list, message list, and composer pickers #1512
• Fix the reactions overlay message preview and action items overflowing the screen at large Dynamic Type sizes #1512
• Scale channel list and message list icons with Dynamic Type #1512
• Fix the composer's quoted and edited message previews overlapping other content at large Dynamic Type sizes #1512
• Fix the message list date separator overlapping messages at large Dynamic Type sizes #1512

🔄 Changed

• The reactions overlay now scrolls as a whole instead of only its message preview when the content is taller than the screen #1512
• Deprecate MessageViewModel.usesScrollView, which no longer has any effect #1512

🎭 New Localizations

• message.accessibility.system-message — prefix announced for system messages
• message.accessibility.you — sender prefix for the current user's messages
• message.accessibility.sent-time — spoken sent time ("at {time}")
• message.accessibility.status-sent, message.accessibility.status-delivered, message.accessibility.status-read — delivery status announced on the last message in a sequence
• message.accessibility.voice-recording, message.accessibility.voice-recording-own — voice message labels
• message.accessibility.image*, message.accessibility.video* — image and video attachment labels (with/without timestamp and duration)
• message.accessibility.actions — VoiceOver label for the message actions
• message.accessibility.playback-speed — VoiceOver label for the voice message playback speed control
• message.polls.accessibility.* — VoiceOver labels for polls
• channel.item.accessibility.* — VoiceOver labels for channel list items