Release Notes (Development Version)

Note

Only the IM SDK for Android/iOS platforms has a development version and a stable version. The development version (Dev) SDK introduces new features first and also receives the fastest bug fixes.

5.12.3 Dev

Release Date: 2025/01/17

New Features

• Added the latestRCMessage property to IMLib's RCConversation, which is the complete message body RCMessage of the latest message in the conversation.
• Declared the method name for setting the delegate in IMLib Swift calls.
• Added support for draft capabilities for quoted messages in IMKit conversations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where clicking on a phone number text message in IMKit iOS 18 did not trigger the dialer.
• Fixed an issue where the left toggle button icon was incorrect when switching from input mode to voice mode in IMKit.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where selecting a video in the preview page of the album after sending a video message would display an error prompt and fail to select the video.

5.12.2 Dev

Release Date: 2024/12/26

New Features

• Added support for system conversation types when getting the total unread message count by conversation Do Not Disturb level.
• iOS now supports multi-device sync for reading status in system conversations.
• Added the disableUpdateLastMessage property to RCMessaage, which controls whether to update to the latest message in the conversation.
• Improved the UI for group-related capabilities in IMKit's User Profile Hosting.

Bug Fixes

• Optimized the message extension processing logic for IMLib ultra groups.
• Optimized the callback and notification logic for IMLib's information hosting interface.
• Fixed an issue where the default content in the IMKit conversation input box could not be hidden.
• Fixed an issue in IMLib iOS 18 where videos containing spatial audio could not be sent.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit iOS 18 with continuous audio playback.
• Optimized the logic for inserting media messages in IMLib.

5.12.1 Dev

Release Date: 2024/10/28

New Features

• Adapted the logic for cross-platform custom messages.

5.12.0 Dev

Release Date: 2024/10/18

New Features

• Added group and member management capabilities to the information hosting service.
• Added friend relationship management capabilities to the information hosting service.
• IMKit added group and member management, as well as friend relationship management capabilities.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where IMKit occasionally failed to locate the latest photo when selecting photos.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit on iOS 11.4.1 where an extra horizontal line would appear if tableView did not have a footerView set.

5.10.4 Dev

Release Date: 2024/08/29

New Features

• Adapted to iOS 18.
• Added a callback for SDK database upgrades.
• Disabled bitcode.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the location sharing gray bar still appeared in the conversation after uninstalling, reinstalling, and re-entering the conversation.

5.10.2 Dev

Release Date: 2024/08/01

New Features

• Message sending now supports setting HarmonyOS push attributes.
• User Online Status Update Callback now supports the HarmonyOS platform.
• Added the join time to the success callback when joining a chatroom.

Bug Fixes

• Optimized the click events for phone numbers and links in RCComplexTextMessageCell to be consistent with text messages.
• Resolved the issue with assigning pushcontent when sending media messages.

5.10.1 Dev

Release Date: 2024/07/02

Bug Fixes

• The default value for the switch to sync pinned empty conversations is now set to NO, meaning empty conversations are not synced by default.

5.10.0 Dev

Release Date: 2024/06/28

New Features

• Added User Profile Hosting functionality, supporting the modification, querying, and subscription of hosted user information.
• Added a switch configuration for pinning empty conversations, allowing developers to choose whether to sync pinned empty conversations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in IMKit where file downloads in the merged forwarding page could not be canceled.

5.8.2 Dev

Release Date: 2024/06/05

New Features

• Added a callback for when all messages have been pulled in the IMKit conversation page.
• Added an API for batch retrieval of conversation information.
• Added an API to control whether the operation time is updated when pinning a conversation.
• Added a switch for chatroom message deduplication.

Optimizations

• Optimized the display of the play button when dragging the progress bar of a short video.
• Optimized the display format of merged forwarded messages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the original file of a quoted message was already downloaded, but clicking on the quoted file still showed "Start Downloading".
• Fixed an issue where files might be incomplete after resuming a paused download.

5.8.1 Dev

Release Date: 2024/04/29

New Features

• Added support for searching historical messages by keyword for specified message types in a specific conversation.
• Added client-side subscription for user online status.

Optimizations

• Optimized the message recall mechanism. Now, when recalling a message, the user information (UserInfo) and extra information (extra) carried in the command message are also recalled.

5.8.0 Dev

Release Date: 2024/03/29

New Features

• Added media upload and download interception callback interfaces to IMLib and IMKit.
• Supported retrieving the list of target users for targeted messages. This feature is only applicable to regular groups and ultra groups.
• Added error code 34296, which is returned when the conversation type is not a group chat or ultra group, and the target user list for targeted messages is empty.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in IMKit where sending a message with senderUserInfo would overwrite the alias in the recipient's local user cache.
• Fixed the issue of pinned conversations taking priority in the conversation list.
• Fixed an issue where the emoji remained as a seal after switching to the seal emoji in the conversation page, returning to the conversation list, and then re-entering the conversation page.

5.6.11 Dev

Release Date: 2024/03/20

Optimizations

• Optimized the internal processing logic for media messages

5.6.10 Dev

Release Date: 2024/02/26

Bug Fixes

• Fixed reconnection errors in specific scenarios for versions 5.6.7, 5.6.8, and 5.6.9.

5.6.9 Dev

Release Date: 2024/01/31

New Features

• Provided a Framework that includes PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy. For details, see Notice on Privacy Manifest for iOS Spring 2024.
• Ultra groups now support sending targeted messages, allowing messages to be sent to specified users in specified channels, while other users in the channel will not receive the message.
• Ultra groups now support deleting user historical messages from both local and remote sources simultaneously.

Optimizations

• After setting a conversation as pinned, the pinned status will be synced to other devices logged in by the user. If the conversation does not exist in the local conversation list on other devices (not yet created or already deleted), the SDK will automatically create the conversation and pin it.
• When retrieving the conversation list, support for specifying parameters to ignore the pinned status and return the conversation list strictly sorted by time.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where conflicts with third-party libraries calling AVAudioSession's setCategory caused voice message recording to fail.

5.6.8 Dev

Release Date: 2023/12/29

Optimizations

• Optimized the handling of message receipt status. After receiving a message, regardless of whether it has been received by other simultaneously online or previously logged-in devices, as long as the other devices receive the message first, the status value will change to received. If the message has been read on other devices, it will also change to read.
• Added APIs for setting message receipt status and inserting messages, supporting the new message receipt status type RCReceivedStatusInfo.
• Added the operationTime property to the RCConversation object, which can be used as the timestamp passed in when paginating the conversation list.
• Added support for sending messages with message configuration (of type RCSendMessageOption), currently only supporting control over whether to use VOIP push.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the issue of out-of-order timing between onReceived and onOfflineMessageSyncCompleted.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where searching for a conversation with a draft message and then entering the conversation page resulted in incorrect positioning.
• Fixed a memory leak issue in IMKit after recording a short video.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where selecting a video after multiple pulls to load album content failed to select the video.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the chat UI would flash every time it was entered after updating to version 5.6.7.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where images sent by the user were received as empty images by the recipient.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where selecting an animated image exceeding the limit (2 MB) in the album did not prompt a warning.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the location page of the map would shift after returning from the background.
• Fixed a memory leak in RongLocationlib's NSMutableArray *delegateArray.

5.6.7 Dev

Release Date: 2023/11/23

New Features

• Added Honor push configuration parameters to the message push attributes.
• Supported iOS Time Sensitive notifications for push.
• IMKit now supports copying the referenced content in quoted messages.
• IMLib's chatroom member change functionality now supports returning the current number of chatroom members.

Optimizations

• Optimized the issue in IMKit where the checkbox on the far right of the image was difficult to click after entering the album.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an SDK crash issue during decodeUserInfo.
• Fixed an issue where RCStickerDownloader timed out, causing sessionDescription to be empty.

5.6.6 Dev

Release Date: 2023/10/27

• Added pause download functionality, supporting resuming from breakpoints.

Optimizations

• Added a black icon for forwardIcon@2x.png in IMKit's RCFilePreviewViewController.
• Removed the duration limit for short video files in IMKit when uploading to a custom OSS.
• Added a crash collection switch crashMonitorEnable, which can be turned off to stop the SDK from capturing crash events.
• Optimized the SDK connection logic.
• Optimized the logic of getDeltaTime to avoid causing lag.
• Optimized the SDK log upload mechanism.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the thread was blocked when receiving messages.
• Fixed an issue with abnormal traversal of the conversation list array.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where RCComplexTextMessageCell would flicker after multiple refreshes.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the app would crash during merged forwarding because the app did not provide user information.

5.6.4 Dev

Release Date: 2023/09/25

New Features

• Ultra group business can now use the getRemoteHistoryMessages method under RCChannelClient to retrieve remote historical messages.
• Ultra group business now supports using getUltraGroupMessageCountByTimeRange to count the number of local historical messages.

Optimizations

• The RCConversation returned by getConversationsFromTagByPage now includes the isTopForTag property, which indicates whether the conversation is pinned under the current tag.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in IMKit where merged forwarded messages with images did not prompt "Image loading failed" when clicking on the image message after disconnecting the network.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the button to enter the chat file page did not appear in the top right corner when viewing a short video in the merged forwarding page.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where dynamic emojis were not displayed after the first installation if the network was disconnected before downloading them, and the app was restarted.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the layout of multiple short videos and file messages in the chat page appeared too compact.
• Fixed an issue where the addConversationsToTag method returned 33003 instead of 34012 when passing in an ultra group type.
• Fixed an occasional issue where the SDK returned a 400 error when uploading logs.

5.6.3 Dev

Release Date: 2023/08/31

New Features

• IMLib now returns the current status of the chatroom (whether muted, whether in the mute allowlist, number of chatroom members, etc.) when joining a chatroom. The chatroom room event listener protocol now includes corresponding callback methods.
• IMKit conversation pages now support intercepting the click event on the common phrases button.

Optimizations

• The long-press delete message feature in IMKit conversation pages now defaults to synchronously deleting remote historical messages.
• IMKit now inserts a gray bar message even if the original message no longer exists locally when a message is recalled.
• IMLib removed the 2-second delay before automatically rejoining a chatroom after reconnecting.
• IMLib optimized the time-consuming issue of deleting all messages in a single conversation.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in IMKit where recording a video with the screen turned off midway and then resuming recording resulted in a video with no sound.
• Fixed a crash issue in IMKit when displaying usernames in quoted replies.
• Fixed an issue where Global Do Not Disturb did not take effect in 12-hour mode.
• Fixed an issue where the error "DB Error: 1 'no such table: CONVERSATION_INFO'" appeared during the first installation.

5.6.2 Dev

Release Date: 2023/08/11

New Features

• IMKit/IMLib now supports multi-device sync for system conversation read status, adding error code 20109.
• IMLib ultra groups now support searching for messages sent by a specified user ID in the local database and searching for messages across all channels by keyword.

Optimizations

• Adjusted the SDK reconnection interval to 0.05s, 0.25s, 0.5s, 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s, and then retries every 64s.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in IMKit where merged forwarded messages longer than 4 lines did not show an ellipsis.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the location plugin in the conversation interface caused the navigation bar and status bar to turn black when clicked.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the multi-select button did not refresh.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the album list was blank when scrolling while selecting images.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where content error checks were not returned when sending file messages.

5.6.1 Dev

Release Date: 2023/07/14

Optimizations

• Optimized the message loading speed in IMKit one-to-one and group chat conversation pages.
• Removed 1x images from the bundle and switched to asset management for resources.
• Hardened the IMKit SDK to prevent crashes caused by illegal characters in rare cases.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the error where Arabic text content was left-aligned.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where scrolling the message list was incorrectly triggered when closing a zoomed historical image in the conversation page.
• Fixed an issue in IMKit where the UI became messy after swiping right on the conversation page without exiting the page when dynamic common phrases were enabled.

5.6.0