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Emily N.
Emily N.
Published March 31, 2025 Updated May 5, 2025

Follow along with our weekly product updates for Stream Chat, Feeds, Video, and Moderation.

Updates — September 22nd, 2025

Chat

  • Android

    • Add pendingMessages field to the Channel model
    • Add Channel.messageCount field representing the total number of messages in the channel
    • Add upload of standalone attachments
    • Add channelRole property on the Message model
    • Bug fixes and full changelog

  • React

    • Add imageToLink Remark plugin for converting image MD links to anchor tags
    • Support inserted text element in message markdown rendering

  • React Native

Video

  • iOS

    • Updated WebRTC version to 135

  • Android

  • Flutter

    • Expose the participant source to the ParticipantState
    • Kick user feature
    • Video pause on low bandwidth
    • Fix for enabling multitasking camera on iOS

  • React & React Native

    • Video-filters: prevent background tab throttling

Updates — September 15th, 2025

Chat

  • iOS

    • Add filtering by channel role in channel list query
    • Expose channelRole to the message model
    • Easier color customizations on the navigation bar in SwiftUI
    • Bug fixes and full changelog

  • Android

    • Add pendingMessages field to the Channel model holding all current pending messages in the channel
    • Add markMessagesPending flag to the Config model indicating whether pending messages are enabled for the channel
    • Add Channel.messageCount field representing the total number of messages in the channel
    • Add ChatClient.getPendingMessage to fetch a pending message (and its metadata) by its ID
    • Support for uploading standalone attachments
    • Add channelRole property on the Message model
    • Bug fixes and full changelog

  • React

    • Export LoadingChannel component
    • Add missing translations for poll composer error messages
    • Display message actions dialogs for thread replies sent to channel

Video

  • iOS

    • Add the user action to kick a participant from a call
    • CallParticipant now exposes the source property, which can be used to distinguish between WebRTC users and ingest sources like RTMP or SIP
    • You can now set the ViewFactory instance to be used from Picture-in-Picture
    • When the user is missing a permission, the SDK will prompt them to accept any missing permission

  • React

    • CallParticipant now exposes the source property, which can be used to distinguish between WebRTC users and ingest sources like RTMP or SIP

Updates — September 8th, 2025

Chat

  • Android

    • New Silent messages are not increasing the unread count
    • Add channel entity to ChannelVisible/Hidden events

  • React Native

    • Fix presence of remindMe and saveForLater message actions
    • Prevent textarea selection reset upon text insertion

Video

  • Android

    • Fix a rare crash when creating the publisher peer connection
    • Expose Device Management APIs for Manual PN Registration
    • Improve handling of quick disconnect/reconnect by debouncing participantState UI collection

  • React & React Native

    • Updated WebRTC dependency

Updates — September 1st, 2025

Chat

Moderation

Feeds

Updates — August 25th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — August 18th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — August 11th, 2025

Chat

Video

Moderation

  • Bulk actioning released

Updates — August 4th, 2025

Chat

Feeds

Video

Updates — July 28th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — July 21st, 2025

Chat

Moderation

  • API

    • Rule builder
    • Mask and flag for regex

Video

Updates — July 14th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — June 30th, 2025

Chat

  • React Native

    • Major release 8.0
      • Integration of the Message Composer to handle the message input, polls and attachment uploads state in the React Native SDK
      • Draft messages
      • The emoji suggestions now receive the data from an external dependency
      • The commands UI is now added to the message input through a different setup

  • Android

    • Support for toggling original text and translated one
    • Draft messages bug fix to avoid potential issues on the sync process
    • Channel info view helpers
    • Bug fixes and full changelog

  • React

    • Add pagination tools to ChannelList context
    • Prevent debouncing the selection state update in TextareaComposer

Video

  • iOS

    • Performance improvements
    • Fix an issue causing video not showing in some scenarios

  • Android

    • Update floating window when there are no remote participants
    • Deprecate the old feedback API and introduce the new version
    • Debounce participant updates as the number of participant increases
    • Bug fixes and full changelog

Updates — June 23rd, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — June 16th, 2025

Chat

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Video

Moderation

  • OCR Moderation can now analyze text from an image through the LLM
  • Mask words from blocklists with ***

Updates — June 9th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — June 2nd, 2025

Chat

Video

  • React Native

    • Accept incoming call without device unlock on Android

Updates — May 26th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — May 19th, 2025

Chat

Video

  • iOS

    • Synchronize CallKit audioSession with the audioSession in the app
    • Fixed an issue that was causing CallSettings misalignment during reconnection

  • Android

Moderation

  • Soft/Hard Delete Messages when banning them through the dashboard
  • Blur Images in the media queue on app level. Previously, a browser stored setting, now, when changing the Blur Images toggle under the Preferences page it affects all users within that app.
  • Total Usage Redesign to the dashboard Overview page and false positives trend line

Updates — May 12th, 2025

Chat

Feeds

Video

Updates — May 5th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — April 28th, 2025

Chat

Video

Updates — April 21st, 2025

Chat

  • Backend & Backend SDKs

    • Create a new event (app.updated) to notify clients about app changes
    • Extended the Query Threads endpoint to support filter and sort parameters

Video

Moderation

  • Domain Allowlist Filters

    • You can now moderate with domain allowlist filters, which work in the opposite way of domain blocklists. When using a domain allowlist, you specify which domains are allowed, and any content containing domains that are not in the allowlist will be blocked.

Updates — April 14th, 2025

Chat

  • Android

    • Draft messages support
    • Introduce MentionListController, responsible for managing the state of the mention list
    • Fix crash happening after process death when accessing GlobalState from the UI components

  • Flutter

    • Added support for moderation and message bouncing
    • Exposed access to blocked user IDs for the current user
    • Message preview text now supports polls

  • Backend SDKs

    • Query Threads improvements (more fields to filter on)

Video

  • React

    • Collect more granular RTC stats and RPC tracing

  • Flutter

    • Camera zoom and focus functionality

  • iOS—Bug Fixes

    • During a reconnection/migration, the current user will not appear twice anymore
    • Fix ParticipantsCount and AnonymousParticipantsCount not updating correctly
    • CallSettings weren't set correctly (when you were passing manually or from the dashboard) when a call was joined without setting the create flag to true

Updates — April 7th, 2025

Chat

  • React Native

    • Fix for the audio component recursive loading for expo
    • Several bug fixes in the Thread List component
    • Fixed unread indicator label presence in the message list

  • iOS

    • Fix runtime exception if fonts in Appearance.default.fonts are set to scaled fonts
    • Fix draft not deleted when attachments are removed from the composer
    • Support for customization of error popups in SwiftUI

Video

  • Android

    • Fixed an issue where startedAt was not updated correctly
    • Fixed a parsing issue when custom data was not available

  • Flutter

    • Added noise cancellation support
    • Fixed bugs in the reconnection flow
    • Fixed bugs in the screen sharing feature

  • React & React Native

    • Added retry logic for joining calls

Moderation

Updates — March 31st, 2025

Chat

  • Drafts—Coming Soon

    Draft message support is rolling out this week for both Android and SwiftUI.

  • iOS

    • Fixed an issue where draft local attachments were erased when the draft updated event was triggered.
    • Resolved a bug where background tasks weren’t consistently running in IOSBackgroundTaskScheduler.
    • Composer content now clears properly when a draft deleted event is triggered.
    • Updated ChatChannelListItemView to use ColorPalette.text for the titleLabel.

Feeds

  • Audit Logs (Enterprise Preview)

    • We’re rolling out audit logs to select enterprise customers. While documentation is not live, here’s a sneak peek of the unpublished docs:

Video

  • iOS SDK

    • Fully compatible with Swift 6.
    • Fixed an issue where Picture-in-Picture mode stayed active even when the app was in the foreground.
    • Updated WebRTC dependency to resolve a crash that could occur on Hang Up in certain scenarios.
    • The VideoRendererView for the local participant now flips only the front camera feed—no longer flipping the back camera.
    • Better handling for blocked users

  • Android SDK

    • Prioritized software decoding for specific codecs to fix an issue where all key frames were dropped, resulting in video loss.
    • Improved handling of call ended events.

Moderation

  • LLM-Powered Moderation (Beta)

    • We now support full LLM-backed moderation for dramatically improved accuracy and contextual understanding. This update allows your moderation to go beyond keyword filtering and understand meaning across conversations. Contact us to enable it on your app.

  • Ruby SDK: Moderation API Support

  • CSV Export for Moderation Logs

    • You can now export moderation logs as CSVs directly from the dashboard. We received many requests from moderators who maintain their analytics in spreadsheets, so we listened. You'll find a new export button on the dashboard that lets you analyze the logs however you want.

  • Improved Test Policy Visibility

    • The dashboard now displays all detected classifications, not just ones with configured actions. That means clearer visibility into what your AI moderation is detecting—no more guessing.
    • Previously, the dashboard only showed moderation classifications if you had configured specific actions for them—making it tricky to tell whether AI moderation was working or just taking a coffee break. That led to some understandable confusion.
    • Now, we’ve made things much clearer: all classifications are shown, whether or not they’re tied to an action. It’s full transparency into what your AI is detecting—no more guessing games.
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