Release notes

• a lot of new group features
• 🐛 various bugfixes
• 🚀 server dependencies updates

New groups 🎉

This release focused on group features, including:

• private and public channels;
• short names for public groups. Just like user can have nickname, group can have short names assigned by owner. Short name can be used to find group in global search, or invite people with nice invite url.
• shared history for public groups;
• multiple group admins;
• ownership transfer;
• fine grained permission settings for admins/members. Owner of group decides what members can/can't do;
• optimized performance for big groups.

How to get this update

If you use actor-bootstrap

Make sure you have the latest revision of https://github.com/actorapp/actor-bootstrap, and server/build.sbt file contains correct version of actor-server-sdk, like this:

 libraryDependencies += "im.actor.server" % "actor-server-sdk" % "3.0.0"

If you have the previous version of actor-server, installed via PPA

execute on your server:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade actor

If you don't have previous actor-server installation

Use automatic installation script on Ubuntu 14.04

Release notes

• bot's slash commands
• 🐛 improved integration with Apple Push Notifcation Service(aka apple push). This change added additional system requirements; installation described here: https://developer.actor.im/docs/prerequisites#section-updating-openssl-and-installing-libapr1
• 🐛 improved GCM(aka google push) integration
• 🚀 overhaul of internal dialog representation
• 🐛 various fixes in call, file and activation modules

Additional prerequisites

This release introduces new system requirements described here: https://developer.actor.im/docs/prerequisites#section-updating-openssl-and-installing-libapr1

How to get this update

If you use actor-bootstrap

Make sure you have the latest revision of https://github.com/actorapp/actor-bootstrap, and server/build.sbt file contains correct version of actor-server-sdk, like this:

 libraryDependencies += "im.actor.server" % "actor-server-sdk" % "1.0.153"

If you have the previous version of actor-server, installed via PPA

execute on your server:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade actor

If you don't have previous actor-server installation

Use automatic installation script on Ubuntu 14.04

• 🐛 Various bug fixes and stability improvements

• 🚀 Faster encryption
• Flexible activation config
• EventBus service
• 🚀 Upgrade botkit(stability improvements)
• Unified error handling in rpc services
• 🐛 Optimize bot updates
• 🐛 Correct sender in kick/leave from group service messages
• Actor bots sends activation code, if user was online recently
• 🐛 WebRTC fixes

• 🐛 Don't allow deleted users to sign in
• Dialogs archiving logic
• Skip message in history in case if it can't be parsed

• 🐛 Encryption service fixes
• 🐛 Allow Range HTTP Header in files
• Strip bad messages from history
• 🐛 Return keys in ResponseSendEncryptedPackage event if own keys aren't present

• 🐛 Fixed migration

• 🚀 Increased unread messages counter performance
• 🚀 Delay RPC Requests ACKs as there is no need to send ACK if response came up quickly

• 🐛 Count messages from public groups in global counter
• 🐛 Don't remove whitespaces from file names
• 🐛 🚀 Upgrade Akka to 2.4.2-RC2 – files uploading fix, memory leak fix and performance boost

• 🐛 Don't allow deleted users to log in