# 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


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This page was last updated at 2026-05-22T16:32:19.453Z.

For the most recent version of this documentation, visit [https://getstream.io/chat/docs/unity/roadmap-and-changelog/](https://getstream.io/chat/docs/unity/roadmap-and-changelog/).