v6.0.0

New

• Added message flagging and reporting support, along with translations for 20 locales, allowing users to moderate conversations in their preferred language.
• Added the CometChatComposerLayout component with both single-line and double-line layout options for greater flexibility when customizing the message composer experience.
• Added a keyboard diagnostics utility to simplify troubleshooting and validation of keyboard-related behaviors across chat interfaces.
• Added a thumbnail extraction utility to generate preview images from supported media content more efficiently.
• Added an in-chat image viewer, allowing users to open and preview shared images directly within conversations.
• Added Firebase configuration support to the sample application to simplify setup for push notifications and related integrations.

Enhancements

• Improved the composer layout rendering pipeline to provide more consistent behavior and easier customization across composer variants.
• Enhanced the rich-text messaging flow to use a dedicated WYSIWYG-only rendering path for more predictable formatting behavior.
• Improved image message bubbles to provide a more polished and consistent media viewing experience in conversations.
• Expanded the conversation preview utility to support additional conversation and message preview scenarios.
• Refreshed BLoC implementations across conversations, groups, users, message actions, call buttons, and ongoing call flows to improve consistency and maintainability across the SDK experience.
• Updated sample application screens to better reflect the latest UI components, layouts, and interaction patterns.
• Reorganized the Skills directory structure and added .claude-plugin manifest support to improve plugin discovery and project organization.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where long-press actions on formatted mentions could produce incorrect formatter behavior in certain message interaction flows.
• Fixed an issue where calling functionality could stop working after a user logged out and logged back in, ensuring calls continue to work reliably across session changes.
• Fixed an issue where Android audio message recording could become stuck after the microphone permission prompt, restoring smooth voice message recording.

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v6.0.0-beta.2

New

• Added AI Assistant support with chat history, events, and stream services.
• Added a new AI sample app in examples/ai_sample_app.
• Added an overlay for managing ongoing calls.
• Added emoji utilities for improved text rendering.
• Added AI agent skills and configuration support for AI coding assistants.

Enhancements

• Improved calling UI components and workflows.
• Enhanced the message composer, message list, and conversation components.
• Updated group, user, and search components for improved performance and consistency.
• Refined shared UI components, including message inputs, reactions, badges, and action bubbles.
• Improved media components, text formatting utilities, and status indicators.
• Updated keyboard handling, Android native plugins, and audio recording support.
• Enhanced sample app screens and feature configuration options.
• Updated the cometchat_uikit package with architectural improvements.

Fixes

• None

v5.2.14

New

• None

Enhancements

• None

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where call screens could appear partially hidden behind system UI elements on certain devices.
• Fixed mention styling limitations in CometChatThreadedHeader by adding support for the textFormatters parameter for custom appearance.

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v6.0.0-beta.1

New

• Introduced a Clean Architecture with BLoC-based state management across all components, enabling predictable updates using immutable states and event-driven workflows.

• Added a Smart Message Bubble system using a factory-based registry for efficient message type rendering, supporting both automatic and custom message views.

• Introduced CometChatMessageTemplate, allowing granular customization of message UI sections such as header, content, footer, status, thread, and reply views.

• Added a DefaultBubbleFactories registry that provides built-in bubble implementations with customizable styling for text, image, video, audio, and file messages.

• Introduced configurable data access through Repository and DataSource overrides, enabling developers to customize component data handling.

• Added request builder parameters for conversations and messages to allow request-level customization without replacing the entire data layer.

• Introduced a WYSIWYG Rich Text Composer with inline formatting options including bold, italic, strikethrough, code, links, ordered lists, bullet lists, and code blocks.

• Added a hybrid theme caching system that allows theme values to be pre-cached and reused across widgets to improve UI performance during scrolling and keyboard interactions.

• Introduced keyboard-aware spacing using SliverSpacing, enabling dynamic layout adjustments based on scroll position.

• Added a shared call operations module to standardize call handling across call UI components.

• Introduced AI-powered extensions including Smart Replies, Conversation Summary, and Conversation Starter.

Enhancements

• Enhanced the UIKit architecture with a modular structure using BLoC, Repository, Use Cases, and Dependency Injection across conversations, messages, users, groups, search, and call modules.

• Improved state management by adopting flutter_bloc with optimized UI rebuild handling.

• Improved message list performance with optimized lookup and indexing mechanisms to support smoother rendering of large datasets.

• Enhanced theme handling with cached theme helpers to reduce repeated theme lookups during UI updates.

• Added a ValueNotifier pattern for high-frequency UI updates such as typing indicators and user presence.

• Optimized MediaQuery usage to reduce unnecessary UI overhead.

• Expanded message customization capabilities by allowing templates to fully replace or extend default message bubble implementations.

Removals

• Removed the GetX dependency from migrated components as part of the updated architecture.

v5.2.13

New

• None

Enhancements

• Improved stability by safely handling API calls to avoid conflicts during UI rebuilds.
• Enhanced the handling in 1-on-1 calls ensuring calls close as expected when the other participant leaves.

Fixes

• Fixed missing AI “thinking” placeholder after text message end events.
• Resolved issue where custom mention formatters were ignored.
• Fixed crash when tapping on TextSpan with a gesture recognizer.

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v5.2.12

New

• Introduced the CometChatCompactMessageComposer component, a streamlined, single-line message composer for a more efficient message composition experience.
• Added the showTextSelectionMenuItems prop, enabling the display of text formatting options (e.g., bold, italic) in the native text selection menu when users select text within the composer.
• Added the hideRichTextFormattingOptions prop to hide the fixed formatting toolbar above the message composer, providing a cleaner interface.
• Introduced the enableRichTextEditor master prop to control all rich text functionality. When disabled:
  • Both the selection menu items and fixed formatting toolbar are hidden, regardless of other settings.

Enhancements

• None

Fixes

• None

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v5.2.11

New

• None

Enhancements

• Added validation for unsupported file types in chat and displayed an error message in the message bubble when users attempt to send a restricted file format.
• Updated cometchat_uikit_shared to version 5.2.1.
• Improved iOS app lifecycle handling and added support for Flutter version 3.41.
• Enhanced the Users, Groups, Call Logs and Conversations screens to refresh automatically after the internet connection is restored.

Fixes

• Resolved a problem where the Messages screen did not refresh automatically after the internet connection was restored, preventing newly received messages from appearing until the screen was reloaded.
• Fixed an issue where an incorrect error message indicated that a file exceeded the 100 MB upload limit when attempting to upload a much smaller file under unstable or slow internet conditions.

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v5.2.10

New

• Introduced badge count support in the Flutter Sample App, enabling the app icon to display unread message counts for improved visibility of new activity.
• Integrated badge functionality using a reliable badge management dependency to ensure accurate and consistent badge updates across supported platforms.

Enhancements

• Improved notification experience by automatically updating the app icon badge count based on unread messages.
• Ensured seamless badge synchronization when messages are received, read, or cleared.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the group call events were missing in CometChatMessageListController.

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v5.2.9

New

• Added the 'Mark as Unread' option, allowing users to mark previously read messages as unread for better message management.
• Introduced a new message indicator UI that visually separates unread messages from read ones, improving the user experience and making unread messages more noticeable.

Enhancements

• Implemented the setStartFromUnread property, enabling the message list to start from the unread messages when set to true. This feature provides a more seamless experience for users who want to focus on new messages.

Fixes

• None

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None

v5.2.8

New

• Global Conversation and Message Search: Introduced a new feature that allows users to easily search across all conversations and messages for quick access to specific content.
• Quoted Replies: Users can now swipe to a message and reply directly to it, creating a quoted reply for improved context in conversations.

Enhancements

• Updated cometchat_uikit_shared to version 5.1.9.

Fixes

• None

Deprecations

• None

Removals

• None