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Platform Upgrade: Global Presence API
April, 2019
It is not all about the features! Recently we upgraded our Presence API, fully rolling it out globally. The result? 400% improvement in latency. We took an already fast API and made it even faster! From an average latency of 50 milliseconds to about 10 milliseconds. Awesome! With faster Presence capabilities, that means downstream customer application experiences are that much better!
Introducing Firebase Cloud Messaging Support
March, 2019
As Google has announced the deprecation of their “Google Cloud Messaging” (GCM) service, PubNub has switched over to that service's replacement: Firebase Cloud Messaging Service. There is no expected customer impact due to this change. Configuration of the PubNub Push API, to use the new Firebase Cloud Messaging Service, is still done through the PubNub Admin Dashboard and overall feature behavior remains the same.
New Feature Release: Message Counts API
March, 2019
We're excited to announce the release of our new API – Message Counts – enabling the retrieval of message counts, on a per channel basis, and using a single API call, of messages published to multiple channels after a specified timestamp (time-token). This API is available in our REST API platform as well as in the following SDKs: Objective-C, Swift, Java, JavaScript, Go, Unity, Python, PHP. See here for more information.
ChatEngine BLOCKs for AWS Cognitive APIs - Polly, Translate and Comprehend
April, 2018
BLOCKS Catalog now includes BLOCKs that will help you build chat applications that can translate messages to different languages, detect the sentiment of these messages and even read these messages out loud! Read our tutorial on how to integrate these APIs here:
ChatEngine Tutorial Available for Angular
April, 2018
Build a fully-functioning chat app for web and mobile web using AngularJS and ChatEngine. Check out information from here: https://www.pubnub.com/docs/chat/overview
ChatEngine Tutorial Available for Vue.js
April, 2018
Build a fully-featured Vue.js chat app using Vuex. Check out information from here: https://www.pubnub.com/docs/chat/overview
Major Mobile Push Upgrades
April, 2018
PubNub now supports using the updated interface to the Apple notification service (APNS HTTP/2). We have fully implemented this new service as well as supporting several new features that it enables. You can now use tokens from your developer account instead of push certificates. This vastly simplifies the process of securing the connection - no more need to generate certificates, which is an error prone process. Simply specify your token using cut and paste.
This also provides the ability to send a single message to multiple different apps registered to your Apple developer account. The process to remove a device from the service when a user deletes an app from their device is now much faster, and several other benefits. It will be rolled out shortly to all users, but if you want to use it in the meantime please contact support@pubnub.com.
Unity v4 SDK
April, 2018
PubNub released a major new version of our Unity SDK. Check out information on upgrading to version 4 here: http://www.pubnub.com/docs/unity3d-c-sharp/migration-guide-from-v3
Go v4 SDK beta
February, 2018
PubNub released a major new version of our Go SDK. Check out information on upgrading to version 4 here: https://www.pubnub.com/docs/sdks/go
Server side publishing
February, 2018
We added a new endpoint to reach our services for our large customers sending messages from their servers to be delivered to devices using the PubNub network. This provides a number of features and optimizations specifically for this use case. Contact your customer success team if you want to make use of this endpoint.