aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice v8.3.3

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What's New in v8.3.3

🛠️ Patch Release: Archived Chats Filter, Link Metadata Fix, DB_URI Quote Handling & History Sync Improvement

This release adds archived chat filtering, fixes anti-bot blocking on link metadata fetching, resolves a DB_URI parsing issue with quoted values, prevents incorrect sender JIDs in group history sync, and updates dependencies and CI workflows.

✨ New Features

Chat: Archived Chats Filtering (#600, fixes #598)

• New: Added archived boolean field to the chats table via backward-compatible schema migration
• Filter: GET /chats now supports ?archived=true/false query parameter to isolate archived chats
• Event Sync: Added event listener for events.Archive which whatsmeow handles natively in AppStateSync and live updates
• Domain: Included Archived field in domainChatStorage.Chat and optional IsArchived pointer filter in ChatFilter
• Backward Compatible: Existing SQLite stores are upgraded automatically via ALTER TABLE

Utils: Browser-Like Headers for Link Metadata (#602, closes #592)

• Fix: GetMetaDataFromURL() now sends browser-like User-Agent and Accept headers to avoid 403/429 blocks from anti-bot protections when scraping link preview metadata for /send/link
• New Helper: newBrowserRequest() with Chrome UA and standard browser headers
• Applied To: Both page fetch and image download requests
• Tests: Added TestGetMetaDataFromURLSendsBrowserHeaders test

🐛 Bug Fixes

Database: Handle Quoted DB_URI Values (#613)

• Fix: Strip surrounding quotes from DB_URI before detecting database type, fixing the "unknown database type" error when .env values are quoted (e.g., DB_URI="file:data.db?_pragma=foreign_keys(1)")
• Docs: Updated .env.example to remove unnecessary quotes from DB_URI / DB_KEYS_URI

History Sync: Skip Senderless Group Messages (#609)

• Fix: Group messages without participant info during history sync are now skipped, preventing the group JID from being incorrectly stored as sender_jid

🔧 Technical Improvements

Dependency Updates

• go.mau.fi/whatsmeow: Updated to latest version
• All Go dependencies kept up-to-date

Build & CI

• ARM Runner: Switched ARM build runner from self-hosted [ARM64] to ubuntu-24.04-arm
• Workflow Cleanup: Normalized YAML quotes, trimmed trailing whitespace in goreleaser configs

What's Changed

• feat: Add archived chats filtering (#598) by @aldinokemal in #600
• feat(utils): add browser-like headers to metadata fetch by @aldinokemal in #602
• fix: handle quoted DB_URI and skip senderless group history messages by @aldinokemal
• chore: update whatsmeow to latest by @aldinokemal
• ci: update workflows with ARM runner and formatting fixes by @aldinokemal

Full Changelog: v8.3.2...v8.3.3