Roadmap & Changelog

Up next

Features planned for upcoming releases:

  • Livestream WebRTC broadcaster mode — optimized go-live from apps at large-audience scale
  • Livestream broadcast analytics digest: detailed attendance and publisher/viewer quality reports
  • Ringing reliability: server-tracked ring attempts and consistent missed/timeout semantics across platforms
  • SIP ingress GA + SIP outgoing calls
  • Waiting rooms
  • Faster call joins
  • Higher-quality RTMP/SRT ingest transcoding (H.264 High profile, source-true frame rates)
  • RTMP with AV1 + fallback codec

Changelog

August 2026

  • End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for calls: available on React; mobile SDK support to follow
  • Client-side issues overview in the Stream Dashboard

July 2026

  • SRT/RTMP ingress events delivered over webhooks

June 2026

  • Call attendance stats API (/sessions)
  • Realtime livestream stats API

May 2026

  • Automatic audio recovery

April 2026

  • WHIP with simulcast support

March 2026

Improved call reliability and lifecycle control

  • New WebRTCJoinPolicy to delay join completion
  • Calls end automatically when app backgrounds during ringing

Better audio/video UX and diagnostics

  • Audio connection loading indicators
  • Permission state tracking + noise cancellation improvements

Expanded customization for video experiences

  • Video effects segmentation smoothing + model selection

  • Recording error handling + UI state improvements

  • SIP - incoming calls, DTMF event

February 2026

  • iOS + Android: Raw, individual, and composite recording support; new recording listing APIs (older query methods deprecated)
  • Android: USB microphone support
  • All SDKs: Improved flat-line no-audio detection; fixed stale speaking-while-muted detection
  • React: Microphone setup detector API added
  • All SDKs: Improved incoming call flow for missing camera/audio permissions; speech detection now respects device permissions
  • React Native: Updated CallKit integration and audio handling improvements; added stereo playing support

January 2026

  • React Native: Updated CallKit integration and audio handling; added stereo playing support
  • iOS: Fixed callSettings not propagating correctly and microphone stopping when screen was locked

December 2025

  • New dashboard call stats
  • 100k participants benchmark
  • Ringing notifications for individual members
  • React Native SDK: Granular Audio Routing

November 2025

  • Hi-Fi and Stereo playback support (Android)
  • Moderation blur and warning events
  • Telecom support on Android
  • React SDK: Test Microphone and Speaker UI

October 2025

  • Kick user out of call functionality

September 2025

  • TURN UDP on well-known IP address range
  • SRT ingress support
  • Audio hi-fi release (web and RTMP-ingress, iOS/Android following)
  • WHIP ingress released

August 2025

  • New TURN/STUN on TCP/UDP 443 and static IP ranges

July 2025

  • Inbound video pause: React v1.19.0, React Native v1.19.0, Plain-JS v1.27.0
  • Automatic video track pause (congestion control)
  • Agents Python SDK alpha release

June 2025

  • Improved video telemetry stats on Android SDK
  • Integrated video moderation available out of the box
  • Stereo audio support: React v1.18.6, React Native v1.17.1, Plain-JS v1.25.0

May 2025

  • Noise cancellation support for React Native v1.14.0
  • S3 compatible storage support (e.g., minIO)
  • Improved telemetry and device performance data collection: React v1.15.0, React Native v1.12.0, Plain-JS v1.21.0

April 2025

  • Endpoint to query call participants
  • Riverside RTMP streaming support
  • Telemetry data collection: React v1.14.0, React Native v1.11.0, Plain-JS v1.19.0

February 2025

  • Official Java SDK released
  • HLS end of stream tag support
  • Frame recorder egress for keyframe images over webhooks

January 2025

  • Major HLS latency improvements (average delay reduced from 20s to 10s)
  • Codec negotiation support: React v1.10.0, React Native v1.8.0, Plain-JS v1.15.0
  • Closed captions support: React v1.9.0, React Native v1.6.0, Plain-JS v1.14.0

October 2024

  • VP9 and AV1 support: React (1.7.0), React Native (1.2.0), Plain-JS (1.9.0)
  • Dynascale to remove simulcast/SVC on 1-1 calls: React (1.7.0), React Native (1.2.0), Plain-JS (1.9.0)
  • Golang SDK publicly available
  • Manual quality selection: React (1.5.0), React Native (1.1.0), Plain-JS (1.8.0)

September 2024

  • React Native v1.0.0 released
  • Reconnects v2: React (v1.3.0+), React Native (v1.0.0), Plain-JS (v1.6.0)

August 2024

  • Picture in Picture (PiP) support for React Native iOS (v0.10.5)
  • RTMP out support

July 2024

  • Picture in Picture (PiP) support on Flutter SDK

June 2024

  • Blur and AI video filters for React Native (Android, iOS)
  • Moderation endpoints (blocking users, banning, muting)

May 2024

April 2024

March 2024

  • Call statistics reporting: React, React Native, Plain-JS

February 2024

  • React Video SDK v0.5.0 release
  • React Native Video SDK v0.5.0 release
  • Transcriptions went live
  • iOS SDK v0.5 release
  • External storage for recorded calls (S3, Google Cloud, Azure)
  • Flutter Video SDK v0.3.2: fast reconnect, background VoIP callback for iOS terminated state, push notifications enhancements

January 2024

  • Audio & video filter support on iOS and Android
  • Screensharing supported for all mobile SDKs

December 2023

  • Flutter Video SDK v0.3.0

November 2023

  • Unity SDK GA
  • Recording 2.0 live
  • Composite layout support
  • Python and Node.js server-side SDKs live and documented

October 2023

  • React/Plain-JS SDK screen share audio support
  • iOS SDK v0.4 release
  • Android SDK v0.4.0 release
  • React v0.4.0 and Plain-JS v0.4.0 release

September 2023

  • React Native release
  • Expo support
  • Video call benchmark up to 10k participants
  • Android SDK v0.3.4 with fast reconnect
  • Thumbnails for livestreaming previews
  • React SDK v0.3.31 (LivestreamLayout, thumbnail support)
  • Flutter SDK v0.1.0 (improved VoIP/CallKit, SDK alignment)

August 2023

  • iOS SDK v0.3 release
  • React v0.3, JS-SDK v0.3 (improved call state handling, device management)
  • Android SDK v0.3 release (ringing, livestreaming, chat improvements)
  • RTMP supports multiple resolutions and audio levels
  • Benchmark up to 400 video call participants
  • Livestream tutorials

July 2023

  • Android SDK v0.2 release
  • iOS SDK v0.2 release
  • Kotlin, Swift, React and Flutter v0.1 release

Backlog

Features under consideration:

  • Dashboard stats improvements
  • PHP SDK
  • Expand external storage support to R2, Digital Ocean Spaces and Supabase
  • Tap to focus (supported by iOS atm)
  • Whiteboards
  • Camera controls
  • WHEP
  • Client-side recording
  • Ruby SDK
  • C# SDK (server-side)
  • Ingress for SDI, NDI, MTS/MPEG-2 TS, RIST and Zixi
  • Multicast support for WHIP
  • Geofencing v2 (user location restrictions, configurable fences, dashboard integration)
  • RTSP ingress
  • Fixed streaming key (RTMP/SRT)
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