Changelog for PubNub Android SDK

v6.4.5

December 18, 2023

Fixed

Added reading message type from fetch messages response. Added random value 0.001-0.999s to delay between retries both for Linear and Exponential reconnection policies.

v6.4.4

November 30, 2023

Fixed

Bring back compatibility with Android 6+ by removing the Jackson library dependency.

v6.4.3

November 28, 2023

Added

Add error field to PNFileEventResult and set it in case of decryption failure.

v6.4.2

November 23, 2023

Fixed

Handle unencrypted message in subscribe and history when crypto configured (error flag is set on message result).

v6.4.1

October 30, 2023

Fixed

Updated the JSON lib to version 20231013. Changed license type from MIT to PubNub Software Development Kit License.

v6.4.0

October 16, 2023

Added	Add crypto module that allows configure SDK to encrypt and decrypt messages.
Fixed	Improved security of crypto implementation by adding enhanced AES-CBC cryptor.

v6.3.6

June 19, 2023

Added

Added possibility to set state using heartbeat endpoint. .

v6.3.5

May 18, 2023

Fixed

In case of error retry heartbeat call limited number of times.

v6.3.4

March 6, 2023

Fixed

Upgraded json lib.

v6.3.3

March 6, 2023

Fixed

Upgraded jackson-databind lib to remove security vulnerabilities.

v6.3.2

February 23, 2023

Fixed

Remove deprecation for Grant Token methods.

v6.3.1

December 15, 2022

Fixed

In case of an error response it checks if there's a body before reading from it.

v6.3.0

November 7, 2022

Added	Added acceptance tests for ObjectsV2 feature. Added possibility to add status when setting ChannelMembers. Added status and type to query parameters for objectV2 REST calls. For membership and member only status.
Modified	Upgrade OkHttp lib to 4.9.3.

v6.2.0

September 20, 2022

Added

PNFileEventResult has messageJson field with the same JsonElement type as in other events.

v6.1.0

July 21, 2022

Added

Add support for spaces and users permissions in grantToken. Add userId to PNConfiguration and deprecate uuid .

v6.0.2

May 19, 2022

Fixed

Upgraded gson to 2.9.0 to make SDK working under Java 17.

v6.0.1

May 9, 2022

Fixed

Do heartbeat and leave calls sequentially to prevent race condition between these two calls and 'phantom' join after leave.

v6.0.0

January 12, 2022

Modified

BREAKING CHANGES: uuid is required parameter in PNConfiguration constructor.

v5.3.0

December 16, 2021

Added

Add revoke token feature.

v5.2.4

December 9, 2021

Fixed

Emit PNReconnectedCategory in case of successful manual reconnection.

v5.2.3

November 17, 2021

Fixed

Eviction of OkHttp connection pool after reestablishing connection (affects transactional calls).

v5.2.2

November 4, 2021

Fixed

Reconnect always restarts the subscription connection.

v5.2.1

October 6, 2021

Added	Acceptance tests plugged into CI pipeline.
Fixed	Meta field exposed correctly in PNToken class.

v5.2.0

September 8, 2021

Added

Extend grantToken method to enable control of Objects API permission. Enhance granularity of permission control to enable permissions per UUID.

v5.1.1

July 13, 2021

Fixed

Update Jackson libraries to avoid known vulnerabilities.

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

Fixed	Enable app level grants Custom encode auth key where it's not encoded automatically
Added	Move state param from heartbeat to subscribe calls

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

Fixed	fix worker thread unloading.
Added	prevent concurrent modification of listeners.

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

Fixed	SDK crash in Android with Airplane Mode
Added	add deltas on interval action.

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.