Release Notes

The Client SDK release notes cover the three iOS SDKs (VonageClientSDK, VonageClientSDKVoice and VonageClientSDKChat), three Android SDKs (com.vonage.client-sdk,com.vonage.client-sdk-voice and com.vonage.client-sdk-chat) and the JS SDK (@vonage/client-sdk).

Elements of the change log that only affect one component of SDK (Voice/Chat) are marked as such. Elements of the changelog that only affect parituclar platforms include that platforms icon.

For example:

• Voice: Added Privacy manifest to comply with new App Store guidelines

Denotes a change in the Voice component of the SDK on the iOS platform.

While:

• Default logging level now will be Error

Denotes a change in both Voice and Chat components on all platforms.

1.7.2 - 2024-08-08

• Changes:
  • Clear HTTP Connection Pool on SessionSuccessEvent event.

1.7.1 - 2024-08-06

• Fixed:
  • Moved internal resources to resource bundle, to avoid conflicts when exporting via Cocoapods.

1.7.0 - 2024-07-30

• Changes:

  • Voice: Updated WebRTC to 99.13.76

• Fixed:

  • User input sanitization regex.

1.6.2 - 2024-07-10

• Fixed
  • Checks for unsanitized user input on create and update actions.
  • Session reconnect failure.

1.6.1 - 2024-06-12

• Changes

  • Voice: call-related Audio element can now be retrieved via client.getAudioOutputElement()
  • Voice: Updated WebRTC to 99.13.58 and MLTransformersAudioNoiseSuppression to 1.0.8
  • Updated okhttp to 4.12.0 and AGP to 8.1.0

• Fixed

  • Voice: Fixed Noise Suppression Warning Message formatting

1.6.0 - 2024-05-14

• Additions:

  • Voice: Added Privacy manifest to comply with new App Store guidelines
  • Chat: Added field channel in MemberEventBody. It will have a null id if the event is not related to a call.

• Changes

  • Voice: Updated WebRTC to 99.13.54 and MLTransformersAudioNoiseSuppression to 1.0.7

1.5.2 - 2024-04-29

• Changes

  • Voice: updated a number of enums to be more consistent with the rest of the SDK in using string inplace of a kotlin enum object

• Fixed

  • Chat: fixed missing startId in getConversationEvents

1.5.1 - 2024-03-01

• Changes:

  • Increased minimum Android SDK version to 23

• Fixes:

  • Voice: Fixed error returned from answerCall due to race condition in inbound call creation.

1.5.0 - 2024-02-19

• Changes:

  • Update Kotlin Serialization Plugin
  • Voice: improve the error handling of call setup
  • Replace Axios with Fetch API

• Additions:

  • Chat: sendMessageSeenEvent method added.
  • Chat: SDK will internally send a message:delivered event upon receiving a message event
  • Chat: Message Events now include a membersStatuses map, indicating the status of the event for each member
  • Chat: Introduced socket events for message status message:delivered, message:seen, message:rejected, message:undeliverable, message:submitted
  • Voice: Call Media Errors are surfaced via the onCallMediaError delegate

• Fixes:

  • Voice: Audio Session is now activated on call initialization
  • Chat: body is now an Object on Ephemeral events instead of a JSON string
  • Fixed methods to accept both enum parameters and corresponding string representations

1.4.2 - 2024-01-25

• Changes:
  • Updated Kotlin to 1.9.22
  • Patched follow-redirects vulnerability in axios dependency.

1.4.1 - 2024-01-23

• Changes:
  • Default logging level now will be Error

1.4.0 - 2024-01-15

• Additions:
  • Noise Suppression for reduction of background noise for calls on mobile
  • Boolean flag enableNoiseSuppression can be set on ClientConfig to make noise suppression for reducing background during calls optional. Default is false.
  • New method enableNoiseSuppression(callId) to enable noise suppression for reducing background during an ongoing call
  • New method disableNoiseSuppression(callId) to disable noise suppression if enabled during an ongoing call
  • Exposed method getCallLegs and model LegsPage to fetch info about the legs of a call such as the media state of the leg as well as other legs in the same call.
• Changes:
  • Return CustomData as JSON instead of string

1.3.1 - 2024-01-08

• Fixes:
  • Stability improvements.

1.3.0 - 2023-12-07

This version introduces the new Vonage Client Chat SDK, see the documentation landing page for more information.

• Additions:

  • The VonageLogger interface for custom logger implementations.
  • A createVonageLogger factory function.
  • A onRtcStatsUpdate delegate/listener to listen on RTC stats changes.
  • A boolean flag autoReconnectMedia can be set on ClientConfig to enable/disable automatic call reconnection on network change.
  • A boolean flag rtcStatsTelemetry can be set on ClientConfig to make RTC stats collection optional

• Changes:

  • Client initializer can now throw a fatal error if the provided ClientInitConfig object contains more than 10 custom loggers.

• Fixes:

  • Improve exception handling by ensuring that all methods returning an exception now consistently provide a VonageError/VGError.
  • Fixed config issue with websocket path.
  • Resolved occurrences of unintended or erroneous calls to the onCallMediaDisconnect delegate.
  • Crash when creating multiple VGVoiceClient/VGVonageClient instances.
  • Sporadic crashes on Client initializer due to WebRTC Logger.

1.2.1 - 2023-10-03

• Changes:
  • Updated to VonageWebRTC version 99.9.26.
  • Client constructor now accepts loggingLevel and region as strings
  • setConfig now accepts region as a string

1.2.0 - 2023-09-28

• Additions:

  • registerVoipToken(_:withDeviceToken:isSandbox:callback) and registerVoipToken(_:withDeviceToken:callback).
  • registerVoipToken(_:isSandbox:callback) and registerVoipToken(_:callback).

• Changes:

  • Verbose logging now includes WebRTC logs.

• Fixes:

  • Setting a configuration for the Client is now optional. It will default to the US region.

• Deprecations:

  • setDefaultLoggingLevel and setVonageClientLoggingLevel in favor of ClientInitConfig.loggingLevel.
  • registerDevicePushToken(_:userNotificationToken:isSandbox:callback) in favor of registerVoipToken(_:withDeviceToken:isSandbox:callback)

1.1.5 - 2023-09-08

• Fixes:
  • Stability improvements.

1.1.4 - 2023-09-08

• Fixes:
  • Stability improvements.

1.1.3 - 2023-09-06

• Additions:
  • Support automatic call reconnect when network change occurs.
• Changes:
  • Updated to VonageWebRTC version 99.7.23.

1.1.2 - 2023-08-24

• Changes:

  • Android clients now use a invoke operator methods instead of top-level functions. Java API now uses VonageClient.createClient(ctx) instead of VonageClientKt.VonageClient(ctx).

• Fixes:

  • Stability improvements.

1.1.1 - 2023-08-03

• Fixes:
  • Stability improvements.

1.1.0 - 2023-07-25

• Added:

  • createSession can now be called with just a token parameter.
  • off method to remove event listeners with event name and listener symbol returned by on

• Fixes:

  • Stability improvements.
  • Fixed error on invoking createSession after a session error has been received.

1.0.3 - 2023-07-12

• Fixes:
  • Stability improvements.

1.0.2 - 2023-07-04

• Fixes:
  • Fixed Crash on unauthorized error when rejecting/answering a call.

1.0.1 - 2023-06-01

• Fixes:
  • Stability improvements.
  • Fixed loudspeaker audio issues with CallKit.

1.0.0 - 2023-04-26

This is the initial release of the new Vonage Client SDK, see the documentation landing page for more information.