Switch OpenWA to Baileys v7 (currently on 6.7.23/legacy)?

[m7fz7]

6.7.23 is now tagged legacy on npm, 7.0.0-rc13 is latest. Main reason to move: WhatsApp's LID rollout broke phone-number resolution on 6.7.23 (no way to get a sender's real number from a @lid anymore), and v7 adds proper LID support to fix that.

I already did a trial migration locally, engine + tests updated, 2038 tests passing, typechecks clean. It's still an RC though, not a stable release.

Anyone opposed to switching? If not I'll open a PR.
@rmyndharis

[kikipatton]

Just setup on a private KVM using Baileys, is it working? Am only able to send to groups and my personal line, any other number it refuses to send

[rmyndharis]

Hi @m7fz7 — appreciate the thoroughness! Good news: as of v0.10.1 we've already shipped the upgrade to @whiskeysockets/baileys@7.0.0-rc13, so this is live on main. Your instinct on the LID story was right — that was the main driver for the move.

@kikipatton — what you're describing (messages to groups/your own number go through, but messages to new contacts silently fail, or show as sent but never arrive) is a known issue we're actively investigating. There's a reproducible pattern across a few reports, and it's tied to how WhatsApp's server-side trust policy handles the first cold-contact send.

Update: I've opened #830 — First message to a brand-new contact sometimes never arrives as the canonical tracking issue. If you can drop your Baileys version + a minimal repro there using the template in the issue body, that'd really speed things up. 🙂

Thanks again for the write-up!