Changelog

v2.7.0

• Refactor caching internals to prepare for upcoming features.

• Add support for query argument to useUserThreads_experimental.

• Fix bug where some combinations of query criteria could over-select threads in useThreads.

2.6.1

• Fix mention suggestions dropdown not following scroll in some scenarios.

Dashboard

• Improved error messages to provide clearer guidance during team creation.
• Implemented various bug fixes and performed stabilization work to enhance overall system reliability.

Contributors

Contributors include:

6 authors

Website

• New blog post: Dashboard enhancements to improve observability and developer experience.
• New blog post: What’s new in Liveblocks: August edition.

Documentation

• New guide on migrating to Comments.

Contributors

Contributors include:

1 authors

v2.6.0

• Add getInboxNotifications method which supports an unread query parameter.

Dashboard

• Room detail page enhancements:
  • Renamed "Document" tab to "Realtime APIs" (Storage + Yjs) to reflect new product offerings.
  • Reordered tabs: Comments, Text Editor, Realtime APIs, Metadata, Permissions.
  • Introduced a new Text Editor tab with enhanced features:
    • Preview Lexical documents directly from the dashboard, including mentions, comment annotations, and custom nodes.
    • Access comment threads from text annotations and browse their comments and metadata.
  • Broadcast custom events to people connected in the room using a typed editor.
• New inline view for comment threads:
  • Offers a more visual and intuitive way to browse comments.
  • Added ability to sort threads by latest activity, most replies, or creation date.
  • Introduced an option to delete all threads in a room at once.

Documentation

• Improved search dialog box:
  • Returns more accurate results, and is generally much more useful.
  • Returns more results than before, allowing you to accessibly scroll through the list.
• New guide on setting initial/default state in BlockNote.

Website

• New book a demo page, allowing you to easily set up a meeting with our sales team.

Contributors

Contributors include:

4 authors

Examples

• Add new features and polish to the Next.js Overlay Comments and Next.js Canvas Comments examples.
• Comments now flip when previously they would go offscreen, and other small bugs were fixed.

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Contributors include:

1 authors

v2.5.1

• Fix LiveblocksProvider update/change event not returning removed users.

v2.5.0

• Add useIsInsideRoom hook, useful for rendering different components inside and outside of RoomProvider.

• Fix a bug in useEditorStatus which prevented it from returning a correct status when LexicalPlugin was rendered conditionally.

• Fix remote cursors not displaying user names.

• Improve event propagation in Composer.

@liveblocks/codemod

• Prevent modifying files that weren’t changed by the codemods.

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Contributors include:

3 authors

Website

• New blog post: What’s new in Liveblocks: July edition.

Dashboard

• Add the ability to see the response body of webhook attempts in the webhook event details dialog (found in the "more" dropdown).

Documentation

• Add API reference for liveblocks.markThreadAsResolved and liveblocks.markThreadAsUnresolved.

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1 authors

Dashboard

• Add the Room API docs to the dashboard. Copy pre-filled code snippets from the API reference directly from the Room detail page.
• Optimize the width of rooms, schemas, and webhooks lists when a detail view is opened for more comfort on medium-sized screens.

Documentation

• Updated How to modify Storage from the server for Liveblocks 2.0.
• Fixed various typos.
• Show public/secret keys within the Bash code snippets for connected users.

Contributors

Contributors include:

4 authors

v2.4.0

• Add vanilla Comments and Notifications APIs to Client and Room, enabling these products outside of React.

Documentation

• Add info on new Comments and Notifications methods in @liveblocks/client API reference.
• Add info on typing thread metadata to React UI API reference.
• Various small fixes.

Dashboard

• Add room search functionality in the Rooms tab of a project.
• Include creation dates in the rooms table list.
• Fix number formatting issues for document sizes.
• Implement sorting options by room ID, last connection date, comments count, documents size, and creation date.
• Improve date formatting across the dashboard. Now using more human-readable relative dates, with absolute dates displayed on hover.
• Display the number of currently online users on the room details page.
• Add room deletion option in the detail page menu.
• Improve rooms table list responsiveness on mobile.

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Contributors include:

5 authors

v2.3.0

• New default components: AnchoredThreads and FloatingThreads to display threads that are tied to a specific part of the document, similar to Notion, Linear, etc:

  • FloatingThreads displays floating Thread components below text highlights in the editor.
  • AnchoredThreads displays a list of Thread components vertically alongside the editor.
  • These components can be used in the same application to create a UI that works on both mobile and desktop.

• Add useDeleteInboxNotification and useDeleteAllInboxNotifications hooks.

• Fix resolved query not being applied when filtering threads with useThreads.

• Various refactorings to Suspense internals.

• Add "Delete notification" action to InboxNotification.

• Hide "Mark as read" action in InboxNotification when already read.

• Improve keyboard navigation within emoji pickers.

• Add deleteInboxNotification and deleteAllInboxNotifications methods.

Examples

• Added delete all notifications button to notifications examples.

Documentation

• Open the config file by default in the interactive broadcasting events tutorial.

Website

• Fix changelog images on mobile.

Contributors

Contributors include:

6 authors

v2.2.2

• Fix missing avatar in textMention inbox notifications.
• Fix textMention usage (and its props type) when customizing rendering via kinds on InboxNotification.
• Fix broken CSS selector in default styles.

v2.2.1

• Don’t attempt to write Yjs changes if the current user has no write access

Contributors

Contributors include:

3 authors