4.74.0

March 14, 2025

StreamChat

✅ Added

• Add MarkdownParser for parsing and styling markdown strings #3590
• Add Fonts.title2 for supporting markdown headers #3590
• Add channel reads pagination support #3613
  • Add ChatChannelController.loadChannelReads(),
  • Add ChatChannelController.loadMoreChannelReads()
  • Add Chat.loadMembers()
  • Add Chat.loadMoreMembers()

🐞 Fixed

• Fix background task warning by making task tracking thread-safe #3604
• Fix an issue where ChatRemoteNotificationHandler can lead to persistent store's data inconsistencies #3601
• Fix the order of channels when using ChannelListSortingKey.default 3615
• Fix channel membership not updated when the current user adds itself to a channel #3618

StreamChatUI

🔄 Changed

• Feature rich markdown rendering with AttributedString #3590
  • Note: Markdown is rendered only on iOS 15 and above. On iOS 14 and below markdown is rendered as plain text
  • Rename MarkdownFormatter.format(_:) to MarkdownFormatter.format(_:attributes:) for allowing to pass in current text attributes

💥 Removed

• Remove MarkdownStyles.linkFont because link attributes are ignored by UITextView. Update ChatMessageContentView.textView.linkTextAttributes instead #3590
• Remove DefaultMarkdownFormatter.markdownRegexPattern because regular expression based validation was removed #3590
• Remove MarkdownFormatter.containsMarkdown(_:), optionally validate input strings in MarkdownFormatter.format(_:attributes:) instead #3590