aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice v8.9.0

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What's New in v8.9.0

🚀 Minor Release: Media Direct-Path Downloads, Selective Call Rejection, SQLite Send Reliability & Empty Chat Polling

This release persists WhatsApp media direct paths so downloads keep working after URL expiry, adds a device-scoped call-reject API and UI, reduces random API send timeouts under heavy incoming message load, and returns empty chat-message responses instead of server errors when a chat row has not been stored yet.

✨ New Features

Selective Call Rejection API (#735)

• Adds POST /call/reject for rejecting a specific incoming call with caller_jid and call_id, using the same whatsmeow RejectCall path as global auto-reject
• Keeps existing WHATSAPP_AUTO_REJECT_CALL behavior unchanged while enabling per-call business logic from webhook consumers
• Adds a device-scoped REST handler, validation, usecase/domain wiring, and a new embedded UI card for manual call rejection
• Documents the endpoint and webhook-driven usage examples in OpenAPI and webhook payload docs

🐛 Bug Fixes

Persisted WhatsApp Media Direct Paths (#731)

• Stores WhatsApp media direct_path alongside legacy media URLs in chat storage
• Rebuilds downloadable media from the stored direct path, with URL fallback for older rows
• Updates REST downloads, Chatwoot sync, and history-sync reconstruction to use the same downloadable-message helper
• Adds repository and utility coverage for direct-path extraction, persistence, fallback, and media reconstruction

Random API Send Timeouts Under Load (#732)

• Adds CHAT_STORAGE_MAX_OPEN_CONNS with a default of 5 so chat storage can use SQLite WAL read concurrency instead of serializing all device, webhook, API, and worker access through one connection
• Applies the configured connection count to both open and idle chat-storage connections, clamped to a minimum of 1 for operators who need the previous behavior
• Raises the CGO SQLite busy timeout from 5s to 30s, matching the purego build and reducing SQLITE_BUSY failures during write contention
• Documents the new environment variable in src/.env.example

Empty Chat Messages for Missing Chat Rows (#740)

• GET /chat/{jid}/messages now treats a missing chat row as an empty conversation instead of returning HTTP 500
• Returns the normal empty pagination shape with minimal chat info for brand-new or not-yet-upserted chats
• Keeps existing behavior unchanged for chats that are already present in storage

🔧 Technical Improvements

Dependency Updates

• go.mau.fi/whatsmeow: refreshed to v0.0.0-20260622185415-5f04eac6dbbb
• github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2: updated to v2.5.35
• Related Go dependency checksums refreshed through go.mod / go.sum

Release Metadata

• AppVersion is now v8.9.0, so runtime status matches the published release tag

What's Changed

• Persist WhatsApp media direct paths for download support by @aldinokemal in #731
• fix(chat): return empty result instead of 500 when chat row is absent by @huutranluc694-bot in #740
• feat(call): add API endpoint for rejecting incoming calls by @N0N4M3BNS in #735
• Fix: Random API send timeouts under heavy incoming message load by @N0N4M3BNS in #732
• chore: update whatsmeow to latest by @aldinokemal
• chore: bump version to v8.9.0 by @aldinokemal

New Contributors

• @huutranluc694-bot made their first contribution in #740
• @N0N4M3BNS made their first contribution in #735

Full Changelog: v8.8.0...v8.9.0