aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice v8.5.0

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What's New in v8.5.0

🚀 Minor Release: Contact Webhooks, Chat History for Contact Messages & Newsletter Subscriber Counts

This release enriches the contact webhook payload with a structured phone_number field, persists incoming contact messages into chat history, and fixes newsletter subscriber counts that were missing from the subscribed-list response.

✨ New Features

Structured phone_number on Contact Webhooks (#656)

• Contact webhook payloads now include a structured phone_number field for both single contacts and multi-contact shares
• Original vcard field is preserved for backward compatibility
• Chatwoot forwarding path updated to understand the structured payload

Persist Incoming Contact Messages in Chat Storage (#654)

• Incoming ContactMessage events are now serialized into chat history instead of being dropped when the message has no text or media
• The phone number embedded in the vCard is preserved in stored content
• Added test coverage for ContactMessage parsing

🐛 Bug Fixes

Newsletter Subscriber Counts (#660)

• Enrich subscribed newsletter metadata with detail fetches so subscribers_count is populated when WhatsApp omits it from the subscribed-list response
• Base subscribed newsletter list remains the source of truth
• Falls back to the original newsletter metadata if a detail fetch fails
• Fixes #658

🔧 Technical Improvements

Code Modernization

• Remove dead code across the codebase
• Modernize interface{} to any for Go 1.18+ idiomatic style

Dependency Updates

• go.mau.fi/whatsmeow: updated to latest (multiple passes)
• All Go dependencies kept up-to-date

What's Changed

• fix: enrich newsletter subscriber counts by @aldinokemal in #660
• Add phone number to contact webhook payload by @juliomuhlbauer in #656
• Persist incoming contact messages in chatstorage by @juliomuhlbauer in #654
• chore: remove dead code and modernize interface{} to any by @aldinokemal
• chore: update whatsmeow to latest by @aldinokemal

New Contributors

• @juliomuhlbauer made their first contribution in #656

Full Changelog: v8.4.0...v8.5.0