Changelog for PubNub Java SDK

v5.1.0

May 20, 2021

Added

• Method grantToken has beed added. It allows generation of signed token with permissions for channels and channel groups.

Fixed

• UUID is now exposed as PNMembership field which make is accessible from PNMembershipResult argument of SubscribeCallback.membership() method.

v5.0.0

May 12, 2021

Added

• Now random initialisation vector used when encryption enabled is now default behaviour.

Fixed

• There were some non daemon threads running in background preventing VM from exiting. Now they are daemon threads.

v4.36.0

April 8, 2021

Added

• New way of controlling Presence by Heartbeat calls for purpose of usage with dedicated server configuration (ACL). This feature can be used only with additional support from PubNub.

v4.33.3

October 21, 2020

Fixed

• Improved handling of random initialization vector for encrypting messages.
• Restore Android compatibility for Gradle 3.X by removing Stringjoin().
• Return appropriate error information when payload is too large.

v4.33.2

October 8, 2020

Fixed

• To improve security of messages, added support for random initialization vector to encrypt and decrypt messages.

v4.33.1

September 24, 2020

Fixed

• PubNubException now overrides Throwable's getMessage so the status.errorData.throwablemessage can be properly set.

v4.33.0

September 14, 2020

Added

• Objects (v2) API exposed to enable metadata management.
• Enable Objects (v2) related permissions management via Grant method.

v4.32.1

August 24, 2020

Fixed

• Fix for subscription loop to prevent unexpected disconnections caused by unhandled HTTP statuses.

v4.32.0

August 14, 2020

Added

• Allows to upload files to channels, download them with optional encryption support.

v4.31.3

June 17, 2020

Fixed

• Fix typo in suppressLeaveEvents in PNConfiguration.

v4.31.2

June 12, 2020

Added

• Add "click_action" parameter to PushPayloadHelper in order to pass it to FCM.

v4.31.1

April 16, 2020

Fixed

• Fix OkHttp reconnection policy

v4.31.0

February 25, 2020

Added

• Implemented Objects Filtering API

Modified

• Handled more network events to keep the client subscribed
• Improved interaction with classes from org.json*
• Made PNCallback eligible for SAM/lambda conversion
• Deprecated PNPushType.GCM in favor of PNPushType.FCM

v4.30.0

January 23, 2020

Added

• Add support for APNS2 Push API
• Add a utility class to ease creating push payloads

v4.29.2

December 2, 2019

Modified

• Disable OkHttp reconnection policy

v4.29.1

October 22, 2019

Modified

• Made the SDK more Kotlin-friendly
• Categorized cancelled requests as such
• Removed the 'audit' method

v4.29.0

October 8, 2019

Added

• Implemented Message Actions API
• Added 'includeMeta' to history()
• Added 'includeMeta' to fetchMessages()
• Added 'includeMessageActions' to fetchMessages()

v4.28.0

October 1, 2019

Added

• Add PAMv3 support
• Implement TMS (Token Manager)
• Upgrade PAM endpoints to v2
• Introduce delete permission for grant

v4.27.0

August 27, 2019

Added

• Add Objects API support

v4.26.1

August 13, 2019

Added

• Introduce serialization class for Signals API

v4.26.0

August 9, 2019

Added

• Add Signals support

Fixed

• Expose OkHttp logging interceptor library

v4.25.0

June 6, 2019

Added

• Move state param from heartbeat to subscribe calls

Fixed

• Enable app level grants
• Custom encode auth key where it's not encoded automatically

v4.24.0

May 21, 2019

Added

• Enforce a minimum presence timeout value
• Disable presence heartbeats by default

v4.23.0

May 8, 2019

Fixed

• Fix reconnection issues by allowing it solely for network issues

v4.22.0

April 26, 2019

Added

• Introduce Message Count API
• Update 3rd party libraries

v4.22.0-beta

January 31, 2019

Added

• Update 3rd party libraries

v4.21.0

October 26, 2018

Added

• Support optional query parameters for every request
• Update documentation

v4.20.0

August 7, 2018

Fixed

• Fix an issue where the global-here-now response was interpreted incorrectly

v4.19.0

March 29, 2018

Fixed

• Fix an issue where end of channel history was interpreted as an error

v4.18.0

January 11, 2018

Modified

• lock down OkHttp version to support latest android version

v4.17.0

December 19, 2017

Modified

• allow SDK to only send heartbeats without subscribing to the data channel.

v4.16.0

November 21, 2017

Modified

• allow setting setMaximumConnections to open more connections to PubNub

v4.15.0

November 17, 2017

Modified

• update gson dependency

Fixed

• make listeners thread safe
• close hanging threads on shutdown

v4.14.0

October 25, 2017

Modified

• add support to suppress leave events

v4.13.0

October 23, 2017

Modified

• do not execute subscribe on empty string channel, channel groups
• stop heartbeat loop if an error shows up.

v4.12.0

October 5, 2017

Added

• prevent concurrent modification of listeners.

Fixed

• fix worker thread unloading.

v4.11.0

October 5, 2017

Fixed

• fix retrofit unloading.

v4.10.0

September 17, 2017

Added

• rework the loading of services to load the classes once.

v4.9.1

August 14, 2017

Added

• patch-up to the deduping algorithm

v4.9.0

August 14, 2017

Added

• Internal deduping mechanism when devices cross regions (dedupOnSubscribe).

v4.8.0

August 8, 2017

Added

• Allow certificate pinning via setCertificatePinner on PNConfiguration
• Allow disabling of heartbeat by setting the interval to 0.
• GAE fixes.

v4.7.0

July 20, 2017

Added

• Allow injection of httpLoggingInterceptor for extra logging monitoring..

v4.6.5

June 28, 2017

Fixed

• adjust queue exceeded notifications to be greater or equal of.

v4.6.4

June 10, 2017

Fixed

• gracefully handle disabled history

v4.6.3

June 3, 2017

Added

• on interval events, pass hereNowRefresh to indicate if a here_now fetch is needed.

v4.6.2

April 13, 2017

Added

• set a name for Subscription Manager Consumer Thead.

v4.6.1

April 6, 2017

Added

• add deltas on interval action.

Fixed

• SDK crash in Android with Airplane Mode

v4.6.0

March 14, 2017

Added

• To distinguish UUID's that were generated by our SDK, we appended pn- before the UUID to signal that it's a randomly generated UUID.
• Allow the passing of OkHttp connection spec via setConnectionSpec

Modified

• Bump retrofit to 2.2.0

v4.5.0

February 15, 2017

Added

• add .toString methods to all public facing models and POJOs

v4.4.4

February 6, 2017

Added

• Add support to configure host name verifier.

v4.4.3

February 2, 2017

Added

• Add support to configure custom certificate pinning via SSLSocketFactory and X509 configuration objects.

v4.4.2

January 31, 2017

Fixed

• SDK was not sending the user metadata on Message Callback

v4.4.1

January 25, 2017

Fixed

• SDK did not honor the exhaustion of reconnections, it will now disconnect once max retries happened

v4.4.0

January 24, 2017

Modified

• Support for maximum reconnection attempts
• Populate affectedChannel and affectedChannelGroups
• Support for GAE
• Emit pnconnected when adding / removing channels.

v4.3.1

December 22, 2016

Modified

• support for key-level grant.

v4.3.0

December 14, 2016

Modified

• JSON parser is switched to GSON, new artifact on nexus as pubnub-gson
• GetState, setState return a JsonElement instead of a plain object.

v4.2.3

Modified

• Swapping out logger for SLF4J API and removing final methods

v4.2.2

December 9, 2016

Modified

• remove final identifiers from the public facing API.

v4.2.1

November 23, 2016

Modified

• include publisher UUID on incoming message
• allow to set custom TTL on a publish

v4.2.0

October 25, 2016

Modified

• Signatures are generated for all requests with secret key to ensure secure transmission of data
• support for alerting of queue exceeded (PNRequestMessageCountExceededCategory)
• signaling to OkHttp to stop the queues on termination.

v4.1.0

October 12, 2016

Modified

• destroy now correctly forces the producer thread to shut down; stop is now deprecated for disconnect
• support for sending instance id for presence detection (disabled by default)
• support for sending request id to burst cache (enabled by default)
• proxy support via the native proxy configurator class.

v4.0.14

September 20, 2016

Modified

• on PAM error, populate the affectedChannel or affectedChannelGroup to signal which channels are failing

v4.0.13

September 14, 2016

Modified

• populate jso with the error.

v4.0.12

September 13, 2016

Fixed

• fixing parsing of origination payload within the psv2 envelope

v4.0.11

September 9, 2016

Modified

• bumping build process for gradle 3 / merging documentation into the repo and test adjustments

v4.0.10

September 7, 2016

Modified

• adding channel / channelGroup fields when a message / presence event comes in.

v4.0.9

August 24, 2016

Modified

• adjustments for handling pn_other and decryption
• retrofit version bumps.

v4.0.8

August 16, 2016

Added

• added unsubscribeAll, getSubscribedChannels, getSubscribedChannelGroups
• SDK will establish secure connections by default
• added support for exponential backoff reconnection policies

v4.0.7

August 11, 2016

Modified

• reduce overlap on error handling when returning exceptions.

v4.0.6

July 18, 2016

Modified

• send heartbeat presence value when subscribing

v4.0.5

July 7, 2016

Modified

• unified retrofit handling to lower amount of instances and sync'd the state methods.

v4.0.4

June 24, 2016

Fixed

• setting State for other UUID's is now supported.

v4.0.3

June 15, 2016

Added

• fire() method and no-replication options.

v4.0.2

June 15, 2016

Fixed

• fix to the version fetching.

v4.0.1

June 6, 2016

Fixed

• adjustment of the subscribe loop to alleviate duplicate dispatches.

v4.0.0

June 3, 2016

Fixed

• first GA.

v4.0.0-beta4

June 3, 2016

Modified

• reconnects and minor adjustments.

v4.0.0-beta3

June 3, 2016

Fixed

• fixing state not coming on the subscriber callback.
• adjustments to URL encoding on publish, subscribe, set-state operations to avoid double encoding with retrofit.

v4.0.0-beta2

June 3, 2016

Modified

• reworking of message queue.
• checkstyle, findbugs.
• reworking error notifications.

v4.0.0-beta1

June 3, 2016

Modified

• initial beta1.