Conversation API Release Notes

See how the Sinch Conversation API is evolving and find out about new features and bug fixes.

2024-04-03

• Added support for Reply To to the Viber BM channel
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

2024-03-21

• Added support for Flows Messages to the WhatsApp channel

2024-03-20

• Improved Reply To , increasing support time to 3 days
• Added support for Reply To to the Telegram channel

2024-02-21

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

2024-02-14

• Fixed update app request , making display_name field optional
• Added support for configurable message retry time and Delivery Report based fallback
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

2023-11-14

• Added channel field to the list messages request to enable filtering messages by channel
• Added active_channel field to the list conversation request to enable filtering conversation by its active channel
• Added new Smart Conversations powered Message Redaction Webhook Trigger. See Redacted Messages . Note that Smart Conversations is currently available for open beta testing.

2023-09-20

• Added callback_settings object with secret_for_overridden_callback_urls field to the create app request and update app request to enable callback verification in dynamic message delivery
• Added the conversation_metadata_update_strategy field to the send message request (similar to the query parameter in the conversation update request )

2023-09-04

• Added documentation for version 2 (V2) of the Templates API . Moving forward, V2 of the Templates API is the recommended version for template creation, configuration, and maintenance via API calls. Some updates include:
  • Strongly typed translations field content , allowing the user to define the message using the same JSON structure used to define messages in a send message request
  • Improved validation
  • The option to override the omni-channel template configuration with a channel-specific template (for channels on which channel-specific templates can be created) using the explicit_channel_omni_message field

2023-06-29

• Improved the consistency of how MO Contact deliveries (that is, when a subscriber shares a Contact record with the business) are handled. Rather than delivering the Contact as a stringified text message type, it is now delivered as a media message with a URL linking to a vCard. The vCard has a TTL of 7 days; you must retrieve the vCard from the URL within that time period.

2023-06-14

• Added the correlation_id field to send message request
• Improved the handling of template messages sent with multiple channels defined. The template will now be properly evaluated for each different channel send attempt.
• Changed the CardMessage title field to optional on the send message request

2023-05-16

• Added format description to the documentation for the ttl field of the send message request of the Conversation API

2023-05-10

• Stricter validation of the channels provided in the channel priority order field of a Send Message request . All channels provided in this field must be configured in the corresponding Conversation API app, or the request will be rejected.

2023-04-19

• Added Smart Conversations functionality to the Conversation API app configuration options available on the Sinch Customer Dashboard . This feature allows you to add artificially intelligent analysis to your Conversation API app. Note that Smart Conversations is currently available for open beta testing.

2023-03-22

• Improved list messages endpoint , with the addition of new parameters to allow filtering messages by channel identity and accept_time.

2023-03-08

• Extended the existing list contacts endpoint to enable the retrieval of contact information based on externalId or channel-identity.

2023-02-01

• Improved handling of failed Send Event (POST /v1/projects/{project_id}/events:send) requests
• Deprecated Opt-In and Opt-out endpoints. They now return mocked responses to maintain backwards compatibility with existing integrations

2023-01-25

• Contact channel identities duplication protection mechanism in Conversation Api.

2023-01-11

• Updated the limit of options for choice messages to 10

2022-12-17

• Removed Conversation API Opt-In and Opt-Out endpoint documentation

2022-10-05

• Added List and Get query generators to the Sinch Customer Dashboard to assist developers with early integration troubleshooting. These queries can be used to retrieve and display information regarding messages , conversations , and contacts .

2022-09-09

• Added Markdown support for the Telegram Bot channel

2022-08-26

• Improved Conversation API metadata documentation (callbacks, conversations)

2022-08-10

• Queue Prioritisation to support HIGH_PRIORITY messages
• App Cache improvements
• Autoscaling improvements

2022-07-29

• Removed manual channel webhook configuration step when configuring Telegram and LINE channels via API

2022-06-01

• Added a webhook for when a contact is updated
• Added field metadata_update_strategy to Conversation Update

2022-04-27

• Added field default_sender to MMSCredentials
• Added the injected flag to the message object
• Added restriction to callback queue length per application

2022-04-13

• Improved webhook url validation

2022-03-21

• Internal improvements

2022-03-02

• Improved validation of the request body

2022-02-21

• Updated Postman Collection
• Moved List Message documentation to the Messages tab in the API reference section

2022-02-09

• Release of Dispatch processing mode support Beta
• Support for SMS_MAX_NUMBER_OF_MESSAGE_PARTS channel property on SMS channel

2022-01-21

• Release of WeChat channel support Beta

2021-12-15

• Added Processing Mode documentation
• Improved descriptions of several APIs
• Added more information to unsupported callbacks webhook
• Added support to conversation MO metadata

2021-11-16

• Release of LINE channel support Beta

2021-10-28

• Improved Apple BC card message with rich link transcoding

2021-09-29

• Release of Apple Business Chat channel support Beta

2021-09-22

• Allow 4 digit short code senders for the MMS channel
• Correctly populate the ViberBM DR timestamp

2021-09-21

• Improved Instagram icebreaker, shop product referral and story reply callbacks with metadata

2021-09-08

• Added support for Instagram private replies feature

2021-09-06

• Added supporting for Telegram Card & Choice Messages

2021-08-11

• Improved validation of Location and Choice Messages for Facebook Messenger
• Bugfix for timestamps in Viber Business contact messages
• Improved Instagram setup process with Facebook login button

2021-07-28

• Facebook Media Messages now support image, audio, video and document types
• Improved error messages for MMS channel media validation
• Viber Bot channel user profile query support

2021-07-14

• Release of KakaoTalk channel support Beta
• Improvements in validating content for WhatsApp message requests
• Validation of phone number contact identities

2021-07-08

• Release of Telegram channel support Beta

2021-06-24

• Improvements in transcoding of CardMessage and CarouselMessage for Instagram channel

2021-06-23

• Improvements on MMS channel for handling choice responses and contact messages that contain media attachments
• Improvements in message request validation
• Enabled setting contact metadata in message request for newly created contacts
• Handling of Suspended state for WhatsApp bots

2021-06-09

• Bugfixes in the CardMessage text formatting on WhatsApp and Viber Business channels
• Improvements for WhatsApp channel error response mapping and forwarding
• Support for vCard .vcf files on MMS channel in MediaMessage and CardMessage
• Support for MMS STRICT VALIDATION channel property to validate MMS media message contents against best practices
• Support for contact based retention policy
• New feature in Contact Management: enables fetching user profile from channels (this first release only supports Facebook Messenger)

2021-06-02

• Release of Instagram channel support Beta

2021-05-26

• Bugfix for supporting RCS CardMessage without media
• Improvements in retention policy execution

2021-05-12

• Improved request body validation
• Support for SMS_SENDER channel property to populate originator on SMS channel
• Added support for sending and receiving documents on Viber Business Messaging
• Improved error response mapping and forwarding on Viber Business and SMS channels
• Bugfix for keeping card order in RCS CarouselMessages

2021-04-28

• Improvements in Viber Business Messaging transcoding with text formatting
• Various bugfixes

2021-04-14

• Added support for MMS
• Added validation of URLs in MT messages
• Added validation against duplicated callback triggers
• Handle ChoiceResponseMessages on Viber Bot that have no match in the choice tracking data
• Fixed prematurely closed HTTP connection exceptions for WhatsApp