Summary

What’s new

This update brings several useful features to improve collaboration and admin control. Mentions are now supported in end-to-end encrypted rooms, allowing secure communication without compromising functionality. Admins can also enjoy more flexibility when managing live chat departments by associating them with specific units during setup and updates. Additionally, a secondary navigation panel is available in the preview, providing quick access to team channels and discussions, with a full release planned as a premium feature. A new setting enables admins to disable two-factor authentication for OAuth users, simplifying login for verified users. Apps can now send emails via the built-in SMTP server. Finally, a new API for listing team rooms and discussions helps streamline room management.

Bug fixes

Key bug fixes include resolving issues with unread room marking, optimizing the message parser, and improving email validation for incomplete addresses. Conference call status errors have been corrected, ensuring accurate call information.

For more details, check out our website release page.

Details

Engine versions

• Node: 14.21.3
• MongoDB: 4.4, 5.0, 6.0
• Apps-Engine: 1.46.0

Minor changes

• (#33156) added sidepanelNavigation to feature preview list

• (#32682) Added support for specifying a unit on departments' creation and update

• (#33139) Added new setting Allow visitors to finish conversations that allows admins to decide if omnichannel visitors can close a conversation or not. This doesn't affect agent's capabilities of room closing, neither apps using the livechat bridge to close rooms.
  However, if currently your integration relies on livechat/room.close endpoint for closing conversations, it's advised to use the authenticated version livechat/room.closeByUser of it before turning off this setting.

• (#32729) Implemented "omnichannel/contacts.update" endpoint to update contacts

• (#32510) Added a new setting to enable mentions in end to end encrypted channels

• (#32821) Replaced new SidebarV2 components under feature preview

• (#33212) Added new Admin Feature Preview management view, this will allow the workspace admins to both enable feature previewing in the workspace as well as define which feature previews are enabled by default for the users in the workspace.

• (#33011) Return parent and team information when calling rooms.info endpoint

• (#32693) Introduced "create contacts" endpoint to omnichannel

• (#33177) New teams.listChildren endpoint that allows users listing rooms & discussions from teams. Only the discussions from the team's main room are returned.

• (#33114) Wraps some room settings in an accordion advanced settings section in room edit contextual bar to improve organization

• (#33160) Implemented sending email via apps

• (#32945) Added a new setting which allows workspace admins to disable email two factor authentication for SSO (OAuth) users. If enabled, SSO users won't be asked for email two factor authentication.

• (#33225) Implemented new feature preview for Sidepanel

Patch changes

• (#33339) Fixes a problem that caused visitor creation to fail when GDPR setting was enabled and visitor was created via Apps Engine or the deprecated livechat:registerGuest method.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• Bump @rocket.chat/meteor version.

• (#33317) Fixed error during sendmessage client stub

• (#33381) Fixes a race condition that causes livechat conversations to get stuck in the agent's sidebar panel after being forwarded.

• (#33211) Allow to use the token from room.v when requesting transcript instead of visitor token. Visitors may change their tokens at any time, rendering old conversations impossible to access for them (or for APIs depending on token) as the visitor token won't match the room.v token.

• (#33298) Fixed a Federation callback not awaiting db call

• (#32939) Fixed issue where when you marked a room as unread and you were part of it, sometimes it would mark it as read right after

• (#33197) Fixes an issue where the retention policy warning keep displaying even if the retention is disabled inside the room

• (#33321) Changed the contextualbar behavior based on chat size instead the viewport

• (#33246) Security Hotfix (https://docs.rocket.chat/docs/security-fixes-and-updates)

• (#32999) Fixes multiple selection for MultiStaticSelectElement in UiKit

• (#33155) Fixed a code issue on NPS service. It was passing startAt as the expiration date when creating a banner.

• (#33237) fixed retention policy max age settings not being respected after upgrade

• (#33216) Prevented uiInteraction to subscribe multiple times

• (#33295) Resolves the issue where outgoing integrations failed to trigger after the version 6.12.0 upgrade by correcting the parameter order from the afterSaveMessage callback to listener functions. This ensures the correct room information is passed, restoring the functionality of outgoing webhooks, IRC bridge, Autotranslate, and Engagement Dashboard.

• (#33193) Fixed avatar blob image setting in setUserAvatar method by correcting service handling logic.

• (#33209) Fixed LivechatSessionTaken webhook event being called without the agent param, which represents the agent serving the room.

• (#33296) Fixed remaining direct references to external user avatar URLs

  Fixed local avatars having priority over external provider

  It mainly corrects the behavior of E2E encryption messages and desktop notifications.

• (#33157 by @csuadev) Fixed inconsistency between the markdown parser from the composer and the rest of the application when using bold and italics in a text.

• (#33181) Fixed issue that caused an infinite loading state when uploading a private app to Rocket.Chat

• (#33158) Fixes an issue where multi-step modals were closing unexpectedly

• Updated dependencies [bb94c9c, 9a38c8e, 5997627, 7c14fd1, 9eaefdc, 274f4f5, cd0d500, 78e6ba4, 2f9eea0, 532f088, 79c16d3, 927710d, 3a161c4, 0f21fa0, 12d6307]:

  • @rocket.chat/ui-client@11.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/i18n@0.8.0
  • @rocket.chat/model-typings@0.8.0
  • @rocket.chat/rest-typings@6.13.0
  • @rocket.chat/fuselage-ui-kit@11.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/core-typings@6.13.0
  • @rocket.chat/ui-theming@0.3.0
  • @rocket.chat/ui-video-conf@11.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/ui-composer@0.3.0
  • @rocket.chat/gazzodown@11.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/ui-avatar@7.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/core-services@0.7.0
  • @rocket.chat/message-parser@0.31.31
  • @rocket.chat/models@0.3.0
  • @rocket.chat/web-ui-registration@11.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/ui-contexts@11.0.0
  • @rocket.chat/omnichannel-services@0.3.5
  • @rocket.chat/apps@0.1.8
  • @rocket.chat/presence@0.2.8
  • @rocket.chat/api-client@0.2.8
  • @rocket.chat/license@0.2.8
  • @rocket.chat/pdf-worker@0.2.5
  • @rocket.chat/cron@0.1.8
  • @rocket.chat/instance-status@0.1.8
  • @rocket.chat/server-cloud-communication@0.0.2