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Changelog for PubNub Javascript SDK

v7.0.0

May 17, 2022

Modified

  • BREAKING CHANGES: Removed objects v1 source code.

v6.0.0

April 21, 2022

Added

  • Added a TypeScript build chain and moved from webpack to rollup.
  • Added an initial implementation of Event Engine.

v5.0.1

March 2, 2022

Fixed

  • Unsubscribe fix unsubscribe from channel group presence

v5.0.0

January 12, 2022

Modified

  • BREAKING CHANGES: uuid is required parameter in PubNub constructor.

v4.37.0

December 16, 2021

Added

  • Add revoke token feature.

v4.36.0

December 9, 2021

Fixed

  • Remove isomorphic-webcrypto polyfill for web Add buffer polyfill to react native.

v4.35.0

December 2, 2021

Added

  • Allows to specify multiple origins in the config, which enables domain sharding for custom origins.

v4.34.2

December 1, 2021

Fixed

  • Fix listener callback is invoked multiple times.

v4.34.1

November 19, 2021

Fixed

  • Update .npmignore and excluded resources from from NPM package.

v4.34.0

November 19, 2021

Added

  • Upgrade superagent.

v4.33.1

October 18, 2021

Fixed

  • Fixes issue of performing file publish message retry according to fileUploadPublishRetryLimit setting of PubNub instance.

v4.33.0

August 31, 2021

Added

  • Added support for Objects v2 in PAM v3 api.

Fixed

  • Fixes issue related to file decryption when cipherkey is provided in method.

v4.32.1

May 26, 2021

Fixed

  • Fixes issue of signature does not match error with getAllUUIDMetadata call.
  • Error handling with global hereNow call to provide detailed error message when feature not enabled.

v4.32.0

April 28, 2021

Added

  • Add grantToken support for channel and group resources.

v4.31.0

April 22, 2021

Modified

  • BREAKING CHANGE - Set true for useRandomIVs by default.

Fixed

  • Fix channel and uuid which is used with: files API, Objects and presence.

v4.30.1

March 30, 2021

Fixed

  • Revert v4.300.

v4.29.11

January 11, 2021

Modified

  • Set default increased limit for message count of History v3 api single call.

v4.29.10

November 30, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixes issue of missing more field in fetch messages response.

v4.29.9

October 5, 2020

Added

  • Adds timetoken of file publish in the sendFile response.

Fixed

  • Fixes getFileUrl so that it includes auth and signature query params.
  • Fixes downloadFile method to generate correct signature.

v4.29.8

September 21, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixes compatibility with @sentry/react-native library.

v4.29.7

September 14, 2020

Added

  • Added support for managing permissions of objects v2 while applying PAM v2.

Fixed

  • Fix uncaught promise exception in subscription manager caused by error in user code inside of subscription handlers. Error will be handled and returned to status handler with PNUnknownCategory category where errorData can be examined.

v4.29.6

September 8, 2020

Added

  • Add file download to Blob in React Native.

v4.29.5

September 1, 2020

Added

  • Add support for file upload via file URI in React Native.

Fixed

  • Fix file download to ArrayBuffer in React Native.

v4.29.4

August 14, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixes an artifact where ract-native entrypoint didnt use ssl.

v4.29.3

August 14, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixes an issue with react-native entrypoint where interfaces to File and Crypto are not included in the build.
  • Fixes the ability to sendByPost in publish.
  • Fixes an issue where getFileUrl returned and URI without a protocol.
  • Fixes an issue where storeInHistory false would not include the param.
  • Removes mime types dependency since that will be handled by the server.
  • Adds userMetadata to file event listener.

v4.29.2

August 5, 2020

Fixed

  • Move @babel/runtime to runtime dependency.

v4.29.1

August 4, 2020

Fixed

  • Release 4.291.

v4.29.0

August 4, 2020

Added

  • Allows to upload files to channels, download them with optional encryption support.
  • Allows to enable random IVs when encrypting messages.

Fixed

  • Fixes a bug with PAM and Objects v2.

v4.28.4

July 15, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixes issue of high cpu usage when heartbeat interval is not set.

v4.28.3

July 15, 2020

Fixed

  • getAllChannelMetadata no longer includes customFields by default.
  • removeChannelMetadata no longer hits wrong endpoint.
  • getMemberships and getChannelMembers now includes customFields by default.
  • getAllUUIDMetadata now includes totalCount by default.
  • getAllUUIDMetadata no longer includes limit by default.
  • all membership and channel members methods now accept a callback.
  • all objects v2 methods are properly typed now to include an optional callback.
  • getMemberships and getChannelMembers now include totalCount, prev, and next in the response.

v4.28.2

June 29, 2020

Fixed

  • Fixes a bug in removeChannelMembers and removeMemberships.

v4.28.1

June 19, 2020

Fixed

  • Ensure proper bytes padding in ArrayBuffer prepared for cbor-js library.

v4.28.0

June 3, 2020

Added

  • Added Objects v2 API and deprecated Objects v1 API.

v4.27.6

April 24, 2020

Added

  • Added support for delete permission in the grant method of accesses manager.

v4.27.5

April 21, 2020

Fixed

  • Update READMEmd CDN links during deployment.
  • Fix pre-compiled scripts update.

v4.27.4

March 18, 2020

Added

  • Add telemetry (latency) for all existing operation types.

Fixed

  • Replace cbor-sync module with cbor-js for client implementation for web to fix compatibility with Salesforce Lightning Web Components.

v4.27.3

January 6, 2020

Modified

  • Support for APNS2 Push API

Fixed

  • Restore functionality to set heartbeat interval when presence timeout is set below the default

v4.27.2

December 5, 2019

Fixed

  • disable presence heartbeats by default

v4.27.1

November 20, 2019

Modified

  • fix PAMv3 tests mocked signature
  • fix lint warnings for tests and code
  • fix gulp build so that failures in test and lint will trigger failure in travis

Fixed

  • Make changes in fetch_messages endpoint to move message actions (if any) for message from 'data' to 'actions' property (old 'data' will be in place for few updates to not break existing clients).

v4.27.0

October 8, 2019

Added

  • Add Message Actions API support which allow to: add, remove and fetch previously added actions
  • Add new arguments to fetch messages function which allow to fetch previously added actions and message metadata
  • Add new handler which can be used to track message actions addition / removal events

v4.26.1

September 27, 2019

Fixed

  • Ensures history response is an array before iterating it

v4.26.0

September 20, 2019

Fixed

  • Add support for auth tokens with Objects for Users, Spaces and Memberships

v4.25.2

September 3, 2019

Fixed

  • Fix issue with subdomains ending in 'ps'

v4.25.1

August 23, 2019

Fixed

  • Fix titanium build to support recent version

v4.25.0

August 16, 2019

Modified

  • Add Objects support for Users, Spaces and Memberships

v4.24.6

August 9, 2019

Fixed

  • Fix regression: 'PubNub is not a constructor' in Node.js

v4.24.5

August 7, 2019

Modified

  • Add Signals support

v4.24.4

July 26, 2019

Modified

  • Add minimum presence timeout

v4.24.3

June 19, 2019

Modified

  • Added support to enable heartbeat requests while subscribe when heartbeat interval is provided

v4.24.2

June 13, 2019

Modified

  • Added try catch block to handle exception for JSON.parse function
  • Updated default origin to ps.pndsn.com

v4.24.1

June 6, 2019

Modified

  • Maintains the state when the presence heartbeat is explicitly disabled

v4.24.0

May 9, 2019

Modified

  • Disables the presence heartbeat by default when a subscribe is called. Presence heartbeat can still be enabled explicitly.

v4.23.0

March 14, 2019

Modified

  • The timetoken parameter is deprecated in the message-counts function. Use 'channelTimetokens' instead, pass one value in 'channelTimetokens' to achieve the same results.

v4.22.0

March 4, 2019

Added

  • message counts

Modified

  • use null instead of '' for NativeScript networking module

v4.21.7

December 20, 2018

Modified

  • update dependencies
  • fix flow process on nativescript

v4.21.6

October 4, 2018

Fixed

  • fix POST for nativescript adapter over android

v4.21.5

August 6, 2018

Modified

  • update dependencies

v4.21.4

August 4, 2018

Modified

  • return error parameter into errorData when logVerbosity = true

v4.21.3

July 10, 2018

Modified

  • update dependencies

v4.21.2

June 12, 2018

Modified

  • add stringifiedTimeToken into the fetch endpoint

v4.21.1

June 8, 2018

Fixed

  • avoid security vulnerability in growl < 1.10.0

v4.21.0

June 6, 2018

Added

  • subscribe without using the heartbeat loop with flag withHeartbeats = false

v4.20.3

April 24, 2018

Modified

  • categorize ETIMEDOUT errors as PNNetworkIssuesCategory

Fixed

  • fix timetoken announces

v4.20.2

February 28, 2018

Fixed

  • fix signature to delete message

v4.20.1

January 29, 2018

Modified

  • allow set ssl to false for nodejs

v4.20.0

January 4, 2018

Added

  • add support for heartbeat sending without subscription via .presence()
  • add method setProxy for Nodejs
  • set ssl to true for nodejs by default

v4.19.0

December 5, 2017

Added

  • add support for Native Script

Modified

  • add missing flow types
  • upgrade superagent to ^3.8.1

v4.18.0

November 20, 2017

Added

  • added sdkName configuration parameter which allow completely override pnsdk in request query

Modified

  • keepAlive is now initialized globally instead of per-call, allowing better connection reuse

v4.17.0

October 19, 2017

Modified

  • allow disabling of heartbeats by passing 0 during initialization.

v4.16.2

October 19, 2017

Fixed

  • fix UUID library to work in browsers.

v4.16.1

October 12, 2017

Fixed

  • fix incorrect packaging of lil-uuid and uuid

v4.16.0

October 10, 2017

Added

  • support delete messages from history

Modified

  • swap uuid generator with support for IE9 and IE10

v4.15.1

August 21, 2017

Modified

  • fix typo to enable http keep alive support

v4.15.0

August 21, 2017

Modified

  • Support optional message deduping via the dedupeOnSubscribe config
  • Do not issue leave events if the channel mix is empty.

v4.14.0

August 14, 2017

Modified

  • Allow disable of heartbeats by passing heartbeatInterval = 0

v4.13.0

July 27, 2017

Modified

  • patch up 503 reporting
  • fix issue with where now and invalid server response
  • fix issue with here now and invalid server response

v4.12.0

June 19, 2017

Added

  • add additional hooks for connectivity
  • add auto network detection

Modified

  • fix issue of net with android for titanium

v4.10.0

May 23, 2017

Modified

  • fix issue of net with android for react-native

v4.9.2

Added

  • metadata is now passed on message envelope

v4.9.1

May 18, 2017

Added

  • add support custom encryption and decryption

v4.9.0

Added

  • integrate fetch for react-native SDK

Modified

  • announce when subscription get reactivated
  • stop heartbeats for responses with status PNBadRequestCategory

v4.8.0

April 6, 2017

Added

  • allow manual control over network state via listenToBrowserNetworkEvents

v4.7.0

March 30, 2017

Added

  • add support for titanium SDK

Modified

  • fix support for react-native SDK
  • add validation for web distribution

v4.6.0

March 27, 2017

Added

  • add support for presence deltas.
  • keep track of new and upcoming timetokens on status messages

v4.5.0

March 8, 2017

Added

  • add optional support for keepAlive by passing the keepAlive config into the init logic

v4.4.4

February 14, 2017

Modified

  • add guard to check for channel or channel group on state setting
  • add guard to check for publish, secret keys when performing a grant

v4.4.3

February 7, 2017

Modified

  • downgrade superagent to v2; add a new entry point for react native.

v4.4.2

January 31, 2017

Modified

  • adjust compilation for webpack based compilations

v4.4.1

January 31, 2017

Modified

  • proxy support for node

v4.4.0

January 23, 2017

Modified

  • upgrade dependencies; fix up linting.
  • handle network outage cases for correct reporting.

v4.3.3

December 16, 2016

Modified

  • bump version after v3 release.

v4.3.2

November 28, 2016

Modified

  • removes bundling of package.json into the dist file

v4.3.1

November 22, 2016

Modified

  • SDK now supports the restore config to allow message catch-up

v4.3.0

November 18, 2016

Modified

  • bulk history exposed via pubnub.fetchMessages
  • publish supports custom ttl interval
  • v2 for audit and grant; no consumer facing changes.
  • fixes for param validation on usage of promises

v4.2.5

November 4, 2016

Modified

  • SDK reports on the id of the publisher in the message

v4.2.4

November 1, 2016

Modified

  • Detection of support of promises improved.

v4.2.3

November 1, 2016

Modified

  • Fixes on encoding of apostrophes.

v4.2.2

October 31, 2016

Modified

  • Add promise support on setState operation (@jskrzypek)
  • Add hooks to stop polling time when the number of subscriptions drops to 0 (@jasonpoe)

v4.2.1

October 30, 2016

Modified

  • Encode signatures to avoid sending restricted characters

v4.2.0

October 26, 2016

Modified

  • Add optional support for promises on all endpoints.
  • History always returns timetokens in the payloads.
  • Optionally, if queue size is set, send status on queue size threshold

v4.1.1

October 17, 2016

Modified

  • Fix state setting for channels with reserved tags.

v4.1.0

October 13, 2016

Modified

  • Reset timetoken when all unsubscribes happen
  • Sign requests when a a secret key is passed

v4.0.13

October 5, 2016

Modified

  • Propagate status events to the status callback on subscribe operations.

v4.0.12

October 3, 2016

Modified

  • affectedChannels and affectedChannelGroups are now populated on subscribe / unsubscribe events

v4.0.11

September 27, 2016

Modified

  • Dependency upgrades

v4.0.10

September 14, 2016

Modified

  • Expose decryption and encryption as a global

v4.0.9

September 9, 2016

Modified

  • Channel / subscription items are populated in
  • Constants for operation and category are exposed on global object

v4.0.8

August 25, 2016

Modified

  • Re-publish of v4.0.7

v4.0.7

August 25, 2016

Modified

  • Dependency upgrades
  • Try..catch wrapped around localStorage for iframe compliance

v4.0.6

August 18, 2016

Modified

  • Adjustment of reconnection policies for web distributions.
  • PNSDK support for partner identification

v4.0.5

August 10, 2016

Modified

  • Stop exposing .babelrc which causes unpredictable behavior on react native.

v4.0.4

August 9, 2016

Added

  • Exposing generateUUID method to create uuids.

Modified

  • Adjust handling of presence payloads for state settings.
  • Triggering disconnect, reconnect events on Web distributions.
  • React Native adjustments to package.json information.

v4.0.3

August 7, 2016

Modified

  • Global Here Now parsing adjustments.

v4.0.2

August 3, 2016

Modified

  • Adjustments to internet disconnects on node.

v4.0.1

August 1, 2016

Fixed

  • Fixes to avoid double encoding on JSON payloads.

v4.0.0

August 1, 2016

Added

  • New iteration of JS / Node SDK family
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