Changelog

v3.12.1

• Improve some internal type definitions

v3.12.0

• Liveblocks branding will appear for free plans.

• Added badgeLocation option for the client library to control the branding location for free plans.

• Added badgeLocation option to LiveblocksProvider to control the branding location for free plans.

Infrastructure

• We've been doing lots of prep work to enable a new opt-in storage engine for Liveblocks rooms that will bring performance benefits like faster room connection speed and larger document sizes to everyone—stay tuned!

Documentation

• Fix useThreads API reference, it returns oldest threads first, not newest threads.

Contributors

Contributors include:

3 authors

v3.11.1

• Log full error details when WebSocket connections to Liveblocks are getting blocked

• Fix an issue where a document incorrectly reported its sync state.

Contributors

Contributors include:

1 authors

Examples

• New example: Comments search.
• Add custom “Copy link” comment dropdown item to the Linear-like Issue Tracker example.

Showcase

• New item: Search through comments.

Contributors

Contributors include:

1 authors

v3.11.0

• Introduce useSearchComments hook that allows searching comments by text and other filters.

• Fix regression: handle rejection messages from the server again.

• Update type definitions for provider models to support GPT-5.1 variants.

Examples

• Updated Next.js Starter Kit to use Tiptap v3 and BlockNote 0.42.

Documentation

• New guide: Can I use my own database with Yjs?
• New guide: Why you can’t delete Yjs documents.
• Add info on mass deleting rooms.
• Rename "Liveblocks" notification kinds as "Collaboration" kinds.

Contributors

Contributors include:

5 authors

• Changed name of Liveblocks-sent notifications (thread, textMention) from Liveblocks notifications to Collaboration notifications.

• New blog post: Building an AI copilot inside your Tiptap text editor.

Contributors

Contributors include:

2 authors

v3.10.1

• Fix a bug where a fresh provider is required by Lexical in order to initialize properly by always requieting a new provider in the factory function

Documentation

• New section on group mentions.
• Updated other information on the users and mentions page.
• Updated Tenants page with new information.
• Add information on AI web search in overview pages.

Dashboard

• Standardized all date displays with a new unified component, including richer hover details, copyable timestamps, and improved list-view scannability.

Website

• New blog post: What's new in Liveblocks: October 2025.
• New streaming video player in blog posts.
  • Smoother, as quality is automatically adjusted to stream without pauses on poor connections.
  • More performant, as offscreen videos automatically pause.
  • More accessible, as videos are paused by default for those with prefers-reduced-motion: reduce enabled.

Contributors

Contributors include:

4 authors

v3.10.0

• Tweak reconnection logic to not retry on specific 400 level error codes.

• Prevents certain 400 level errors from being reported as a 403.

• Add dropdownItems prop to Comment (commentDropdownItems prop on Thread) to allow customizing comments’ dropdown items in the default components.

• Fix scroll issues in some scenarios where AiChat would be rendered but hidden.

• Support for Tiptap v3.

Documentation

• New guide: Upgrading to 3.10.
• New guide: Migrating from Tiptap 2 to 3.
• New guide: Tiptap best practices and tips.
• New guide: Yjs best practices and tips.

Contributors

Contributors include:

4 authors

v3.9.1

• Update type definitions for provider models to support GPT-5 variants.

Documentation

• New AI Copilots get started guides for Next.js and React.
• New AI Copilots overview pages:
  • Copilots.
  • Default components.
  • Hooks.
  • Knowledge.
  • Tools.
  • Styling and customization.
  • Troubleshooting.
• New guide: How to use fallback AI models in AI Copilots.

Examples

• Added batched notifications to Custom Notifications example.

Website

• New diff code block styling.
• New icons for docs overview pages.
• Fixed example integrations when no environment variable is needed.
• Fixed code snippet background color.

Contributors

Contributors include:

2 authors

v3.9.0

• Add support for web search to <AiChat /> component.

• Add showSources, showRetrievals and showReasoning props to <AiChat /> component to determine how sources, retrievals and reasoning are displayed respectively.

• Disable AI chat composers when AI service is not available.

• Add query filter subscribed on the useThreads hook.

• Add useUrlMetadata hook to get metadata for a given URL.

• Expose disconnected status in useAiChatStatus to indicate when AI service is not available.

• Add query filter subscribed on the room.getThreads method.

• Update createAiCopilot and updateAiCopilot to include web search in provider options for OpenAI and Anthropic.

• Remove all schema validation related client methods that should no longer be used. Schema validation was sunsetted on May 1st, 2025.

Dashboard

• Greatly improved “Notifications” flow, making it much clearer how they're linked to webhooks.
  • New “Kinds” tab, allowing you to define batching per kind.
  • See the status of your webhooks from here.
  • Warnings when no webhooks are set up, and shortcuts to get started.
• Improved “Webhooks” page.
  • Set a rate limit for your webhooks when creating them.
  • More detailed error messages when creating webhooks.
  • Better UX on the URL input.
• Improved UX when creating projects
  • New polished project cards displaying more info such as region restrictions.
  • More clarity in project creation dialog boxes.
• Improved team/project selectors with UI polish and better accessibility.
• Improved MAU usage cards showing your team’s personalized limits.
• More clarity in project settings regarding environment and regions not being editable.
• Fixed problem downloading examples with create-liveblocks-app integration.

Documentation

• New sections on notification batching.
• Better clarity on Storage/Yjs limits.

Contributors

Contributors include:

8 authors

v3.8.1

• Add chatId prop to RegisterAiKnowledge to scope knowledge to a specific chat, similar to RegisterAiTool. This is the same as using the knowledge prop on AiChat.

• Fix issue where useAiChat() didn't re-render correctly when chat title gets updated.

• Fix issue where tenantId was not being passed to the request when using Liveblocks.createRoom().

• Add comments:write to the list of possible room permissions.

Examples

New example: AI app builder. New example: AI calendar.

Contributors

Contributors include:

6 authors