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

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