Changelog: Twilio Chat REST API

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Change Logs

Updates and Changes to the Programmable Chat REST API will be posted by date the change was released on.

October 4, 2017

V2

New Features

Channel subresources are now accessible directly by channel UniqueName for all operations (GET, POST, DELETE)
Member now accessible through user Identity for all operations (GET, POST, DELETE)
Added Service instance webhook retry configuration options
Added media message capability for sending new Messages referencing Media resources

Changes and Fixes

Allow posting empty Message body from API
Minor bug fix for a rare race condition when adding channel members

August 23, 2017

V2

Changes

Added new mutable parameters to Channels (Create and Update): DateCreated, DateUpdated, CreatedBy
Added new mutable parameters to Members (Create and Update): DateCreated, DateUpdated, LastConsumedMessageIndex, LastConsumptionTimestamp
Added new mutable API parameters to Messages (Create and Update): DateCreated, DateUpdated, From, LastUpdatedBy
Exposed new resource field for Messages: LastUpdatedBy

July 19, 2017

V2

Changes

Attributes are now returned for LIST GETS in the /v2 for Channels, Messages and Users
If Attributes are not set, "{}" will be returned

May 2, 2017

V2

Changes

/v2 of the Chat REST API Released.
The maximum page size for all LIST GETS in /v2 is now 100 (down from 1000). Note that in /v1 this is still 1000.

New Features and Capabilities

A new endpoint, Channels, has been added as a sub-resoure of the Users resource. This will return all the joined Channels for the specified User. The location for this endpoint is: /v2/Services/\{Service sid\}/Users/\{User sid\}/Channels
A new request parameter, Order, has been added to the Messages LIST GET endpoint. This parameter allows the latest Messages list in a Channel to be retrieved - order descending vs the default ascending. The valid options are asc and desc
A number of new configuration options have been added to the Services endpoint. These include options to change Service instance Limits, enable iOS Badge counts for new message pushes and more.

V1

Deprecations

/v1 of the Chat REST API has been deprecated. Please switch to /v2 as soon as possible.
Webhooks V1 configuration field webhooks in Service endpoint has been removed.