
Reduce the amount of DDP API calls on login screen The login screen was requesting unnecessary data which was making the process busy when lots of unlogged users were accessing the login screen.At we reduced the amount of unauthenticated connections from thousands to a few hundred. The connection will be restored as soon the user focuses on the page again.This prevents the multitude of unnecessary connections to the backend.
Disconnect users from websocket when away from the login screen for 10min From this version users who spend 10 minutes away (without focus) from the login screen will have their websocket disconnected. Add prometheus port config If you are running Rocket.Chat and want to monitor the internal details of methods, sessions, etc., it’s possible to connect Prometheus to the Rocket.Chat instances and now it’s possible to configure the port you want to grab the information from in case the default port 9100 is already in use. We have been adding some improvements to our performance, the first wave was related to monitoring using Prometheus, reducing the amount of unnecessary websocket connections and reducing the amount of DDP calls for non-logged users. REST API endpoint tDefault New endpoint to REST API v1 tDefault to set channel as default for new users. The old endpoint permissions was deprecated and will be removed in the future. REST API endpoints permissions.list and permissions.update & Deprecated endpoint permissions 2 new endpoints were added to REST API v1, permissions.list and permissions.update. So, the information about the navigation will be displayed as a message into the LiveChat room, but the visitor will not be notified. To activate it, simply access the LiveChat administrative panel. Using this feature, the agent who joins the chat will be notified each time the visitor’s navigation is changed. Send LiveChat visitor navigation history as messagesThe purpose of this feature is to send the navigation history of the LiveChat visitor as a message. Youtube BroadcastingThis new feature adds an integration between Rocket.Chat and Youtube Live, when enabled and set up, your channel owners will be able to broadcast their camera feed live to the Livestream feature which allows all users on the channel to watch a common stream. Direct messages between users from both servers are also available.With this feature, which is still in the early stages of its implementation, we are looking to have a better and stable implementation as ever all contributions are welcome.This feature will also be our inaugural Feature Spotlight, coming soon to the blog. The IRC server can also join and participate on channels from the Rocket.Chat server.
IRC Federation - Alpha stageIt’s now possible to use Rocket.Chat to send and receive messages from an IRC server.Check if you are using this field for any integration. To prevent information leaks, all REST APIs that return users’ information will have the field services removed. Rocket.Chat is pleased to announce its release of Rocket.Chat 0.66 with the following highlighted features and changes:(Please note: bug fixes implemented by 0.66.1 and 0.66.2 are detailed further below) Breaking Changes