With PubNub's new Chat SDK you can quickly add chat features to your Javascript application using simplified methods that handle the complexities of implementation. It allows you to easily add features like unread message counts, read receipts, @mentions, and much more, while giving you the freedom to create custom chat experiences with your own UI. Our Chat SDK is compatible with all front-end Javascript frameworks including React, React Native, Angular, and Vue.js, allowing it to be used on both web and mobile. Visit the documentation to learn more.
Rust SDK Generally Available
August, 2023
Rust is a modern programming language that combines the performance and control of low-level languages with the safety and simplicity of high-level languages. PubNub's new Rust SDK enables you to quickly add real-time interactivity to your Rust application without worrying about the complexities of a real-time infrastructure. It offers a modern SDK architecture developed based on specialized knowledge and years of experience of our engineers, making it an excellent choice for real-time applications where performance and safety are critical. This release contains Publish, Access Management, Subscribe, and Presence capabilities, allowing you to implement most real-time use cases. Learn more
Unity SDK v7 Generally Available
August, 2023
PubNub's new Unity SDK offers the full functionality of the PubNub platform for the Unity game engine. It enables you to quickly integrate real-time interactivity into your mobile, PC, or console games without having to worry about the complexities of a real-time infrastructure. This way, you can easily build features like game lobbies, multiplayer chat, in-game alerts, live leaderboards, push notifications, and more, regardless of scale. Compared to what is currently offered, it is a significant improvement that includes a streamlined setup, a variety of new Unity-specific functionality, better integration with development and debugging tools, and native Unity development experience. Learn more
New Product Release: PubNub Insights
May, 2023
PubNub Insights provides a simple and user-friendly dashboard to increase visibility and efficiency around monitoring your PubNub data. With PubNub Insights, you can easily see where your users are (down to city level) and drill down into the most active users and channels. This gives you a practical way to analyze how your app is being used, identify issues, and plan for the future without having to spend additional time and resources. Test it out by logging in to the PubNub Admin Portal.
Events & Actions is Now Generally Available
February, 2023
Events & Actions (E&A) is a new feature that helps capture and react to critical events generated by users and devices interacting on the PubNub platform. E&A delivers a highly scalable and cost-effective service that sifts through millions of events in real time and maps the relevant ones to a growing catalog of actions including webhooks, Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis. This way customers can capture critical events (e.g. important messages) and route them to third-party systems for storage, processing, data analysis, and more. Test it out by logging in to the PubNub Admin Portal.
React Native Chat Components Generally Available
November, 2022
React Native Chat Components is a software library with pre-built UI components for developers to build chat experiences. Now, in addition to creating in-app chat for iOS, Android, and React, PubNub customers can utilize our new Chat UI Components for React Native. With PubNub Chat Components you can get chat up and running quickly, focus on your core product without having to worry about real-time infrastructure, and quickly and easily add additional real-time functionality, beyond chat. Read more
Events & Actions Free Preview
June, 2022
PubNub is offering a free preview of our new Events & Actions feature until August 31, 2022.
Events & Actions is powerful event filtering with a simple UI to manage event listeners and associated actions. Events & Actions enables you to filter the meaningful events that are happening in your application and create corresponding actions that connect these events to the rest of your application infrastructure.The Events & Actions system can help users (technical and non-technical) easily develop new, no-code features based upon events that occur in PubNub.Check it out on your PubNub dashboard today!
Access Manager v3 Generally Available
October, 2021
PubNub announces the release of Access Manager v3, which is a new cryptographic, token-based permission system aimed to secure your application against unauthorized access. Read more
New and improved Dart SDK
June, 2021
Introducing our new and improved Dart SDK. Along with significant improvements in usability, our new Dart SDK is compatible with the latest Flutter 2.0 release, and we’ve also implemented null safety checks which are essential for Dart development. Our documentation has been updated and now includes a sample chat application to make it easier than ever to get started with our Dart SDK. Get Started Now
Improved DataDog Dashboards
May, 2021
At PubNub, we believe that the best improvements to our product are those based on customer feedback. That’s why we’re launching an update to our DataDog dashboards to provide our customers with even more insightful information about their app usage.
Here’s what’s new:
Summary metrics about total usage and client errors
Regional service usage for all 5 PubNub regions (us-east-1: Virginia, us-west-1: California, eu-central-1: Frankfurt, ap-northeast-1: Tokyo, ap-south-1: Mumbai)
Metrics about the percentage of error rate vs. total messages
Max requests-per-second (RPS) for the selected time period and respective RPS change from the same period in the previous day
Separated section for client errors, including error percentage of total requests and separated chat for client unauthorized requests
Function breakdown by inbound and outbound requests and respective errors
Push notification requests
Please note, DataDog dashboards are only available to customers on Platinum support plans. If you’re interested in adding them, please contact our team.