Roadmap & Changelog

Roadmap

This section outlines the upcoming features and improvements planned for Stream Chat.

• Design refresh for the SDKs
• New chat Demos on the website, showing slack style, live shopping and social use cases
• Permissions system ease of use improvements
• Documentation improvements
• Cache library standardization to improve performance
• Engagement stats
• Named query support (making it easier to change how you query channels across SDKs)

Changelog

March 2026

Beta Chat Redesign released across iOS, Android, React, React Native and Flutter

• Major cross-platform UI/UX overhaul now in beta.

Livestream & media enhancements

• Freeze/unfreeze channel support (livestream control)
• Video attachments now include dimensions + duration for custom CDN uploads

Performance & reliability improvements across SDKs

• Fixes for threads, pagination, offline behavior, and reconnection stability.

February 2026

• All SDKs: Server-defined defaults for message_limit and member_limit; QueryChannels defaults set to null to use server configuration; ChannelListQuery now uses backend defaults
• All SDKs: Broad documentation improvements across all Chat SDKs
• Android: Added method for clearing SDK cache and temporary files
• Android + iOS: team field added/exposed in MessageReadEvent

January 2026

• Android: Added method for clearing cache and temporary files, plus a team property to MessageReadEvent
• iOS: Fixed a rare deadlock when reconnecting to the web-socket and a crash when querying Channel List by .filterTags

December 2025

• Moving the changelog docs here
• Reminders
• Live location sharing
• Campaign stats
• Restricted visibility messaging
• Team-level permissions
• Push V3
• Multi-User device support
• Average response time API
• Message count per channel
• Delivery receipts
• Delete for me