17.09

• Updated for Xcode 9 and iOS 11

• Added symbolication support for crash reports

• Added Automatic dSYM Uploading script

• Added extension subspec for integrating Rich Push Notifications with CocoaPods

• Added nullability specifiers for better Swift compatibility

• Added 28 new system UIViewController subclass exception for Auto View Tracking

• Added convenience method for recording action event for manually handled notifications

• Added convenience method for recording handled exception with stack trace

• Added precaution for invalid event keys

• Added precaution for corrupt request strings

• Made Zero-IDFA fix optional

• Fixed a view tracking duration problem where duration being reported as timestamp

• Replaced crashLog method with recordCrashLog and added deprecated warning

• Changed dispatch queue type for opening external URLs

• Other various improvements

  • Added Bengali translation for star rating dialog
  • Updated metric, event, view tracking and crash report reserved keys as constants
  • Deleted unnecessary gitattributes file
  • Deleted duplicate Zero-IDFA const
  • Rearranged file imports
  • Updated HeaderDocs
  • Cleaned whitespace

17.05

• Added Rich Push Notifications support (attachments and custom action buttons)

• Added manual session handling

• Added URL escaping for custom device ID and other user defined properties

• Added support for accidental extra slash in host

• Added architecture, executable name and load address for crash reporting

• Added IP optional parameter

• Added SDK metadata to all request

• Switched to SHA256 for parameter tampering protection

• Discarded recordUserDetails method and combined it with save method

• Improved AutoViewTracking active duration calculation

• Improved Countly payload check in notification dictionary

• Fixed inner event timestamp for 32 bit devices

• Fixed token cleaning when user's permission changes

• Fixed checksum calculation for zero-IDFA fix case

• Fixed OS version metric for tvOS

• Fixed double suspend method call when user kills the app using App Switcher

• Fixed a compiler warning for macOS targets

• Fixed AutoViewTracking for macOS targets

• Fixed showing of multiple alerts in succession

• Other various improvements

  • Refactored picture upload data preparation from request string using NSURLComponents
  • Refactored zero-IDFA check
  • Refactored additional info to be sent with begin session request
  • Refactored checksum appending
  • Refactored URLSession generation
  • Refactored opening external URLs on main thread
  • Refactored device model identifier method
  • Refactored sending crash report into connection manager
  • Replaced __OPTIMIZED__ flag with DEBUG flag for push notification test mode detection
  • Replaced boundary method with constant string
  • Replaced text based dismiss button with cross dismiss button for star-rating
  • Redefined request query string keys as constants
  • Redefined push notification reserved keys as constants
  • Redefined GET request max length as a constant
  • Redefined server input endpoint as a constant
  • Redefined push notification test mode values as enum
  • Standardized some integer types
  • Standardized target checking preprocessor macro usage
  • Deleted unnecessary init override in push manager
  • Deleted unnecessary updateSessionPeriod property in connection manager
  • Deleted unnecessary starRatingDismissButtonTitle config property
  • Deleted internal crash test methods
  • Added Czech and Latvian localization for star-rating dialog
  • Changed example host URL for rebranding compatibility
  • Updated handling of notification on iOS9 and older
  • Updated alert key handling in push notification payload
  • Updated HeaderDocs
  • Cleaned whitespace

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.12, please see before you update :

• Push Notifications section in documentation as push notifications integration has changed and simplified.

If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, please see before you update :

• Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Notes section in documentation as device ID mechanism has changed.

16.12

• Refactored push notifications
  • Made integration more easy
  • Added iOS10 push notifications handling
  • Added convenience method for asking push notifications permission covers all iOS versions
  • Renamed feature name from CLYMessaging to CLYPushNotifications
  • Added configuration option doNotShowAlertForNotifications to disable push triggered alerts
  • Discarded complicated UIUserNotificationCategory actions
  • Added configuration option sendPushTokenAlways to record push token always (for sending silent notification to users without notification permission)
  • Discarded App Store URL fetching with NSURLConnection
• Discarded iOS7 support and deprecated method calls
• Switched to runtime controlled internal logging instead of preprocessor flag
• Added AutoViewTracking support for tvOS
• Added view controller title and custom titleView support for AutoViewTracking
• Improved AutoViewTracking performance and Swift compatibility
• Refactored suspending for crash reporting
• Switched to async file save for suspending
• Added user login and logout convenience methods
• Added configuration option to enable Apple Watch related features
• Moved archiving of queued request into sync block to prevent a very rare occurring crash
• Refactored unsent session duration
• Added completion callback for automatically displayed star-rating dialog
• Partially fixed but temporarily disabled APM feature until server completely supports it
• Fixed too long exception name in crash reports on iOS10
• Other various improvements
  • Refactored starting method
  • Switched to separate window based alert controller displaying for push notifications and star-rating dialogs
  • Renamed constant kCountlyStarRatingButtonSize to prevent compile time conflicts
  • Renamed server input endpoint variable for white label SDK renamer script compatibility
  • Updated star-rating reserved event key
  • Added internal log for successful initialization with SDK name and version
  • Fixed unused UIAlertViewAssociatedObjectKey warning for macOS
  • Removed old deviceID zero-IDFA fixer redundant request
  • Added internal logging for connection type retrieval exception
  • Added exception type info to crash reports
  • Fixed duplicate exception adding for AutoViewTracking
  • Prevented Countly internal view controllers from being tracked by AutoViewTracking
  • Prefixed all category methods to prevent possible conflicts
  • Changed timer's runloop mode
  • Updated timestamp type specifier (thanks to @scottlaw)
  • Changed SDK metadata sending to begin_session only
  • Replaced empty string checks with length checks
  • Cleared nullability specifiers
  • Updated HeaderDocs
  • Cleaned whitespace

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.12, please see before you update :

• Push Notifications section in documentation as push notifications integration has changed and simplified.

If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, please see before you update :

• Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Notes section in documentation as device ID mechanism has changed.

16.06.4

• Fixed iOS10 zero-IDFA problem
• Fixed TARGET_OS_OSX warning for iOS10 SDK on Xcode 8.
• Fixed ending of background tasks.
• Added parameter tampering protection.
• Added density metric.
• Added alwaysUsePOST config property for using POST method for all requests regardless of the data size.
• Added timezone.
• Switched to millisecond timestamp.
• Disabled server response dictionary check.
• Other minor improvements like better internal logging, standardization, whitespacing, code cleaning, commenting, pragma marking and HeaderDocing

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has been changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device ID mechanism has been changed.

16.06.3

• Fixed a persistency related crash
• Improved thread safety of request queue and events
• Added Star-Rating, the simplest form of feedback from users, both automatically and manually.
• Improved event recording performance and safety for APM and Auto View Tracking.
• Added custom HTTP header field support for requests, both on initial configuration and later.
• Standardized internal logging grammar and formatting for easier debugging
• Improved headerdocs grammar and formatting for easier integration and usage
• Fixed some static analyzer warnings

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has been changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device ID mechanism has been changed.

16.06.2

• Added Star-Rating, the simplest form of feedback from users, both automatically and manually.
• Improved event recording performance and safety for APM and Auto View Tracking.
• Added custom HTTP header field support for requests, both on initial configuration and later.
• Standardized internal logging grammar and formatting for easier debugging
• Improved headerdocs grammar and formatting for easier integration and usage
• Fixed some static analyzer warnings

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device device ID mechanism has changed.

16.06.1

• Added support for certificate pinning.
• Added deleting of user details properties on server by setting them as NSNull.
• Implemented switching between GET and POST depending on data size on requests.
• Fixed a URL encoding issue which causes problems for Asian languages and some JSON payloads.
• Fixed custom crash log formatter.

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device device ID mechanism has changed.

16.06

Important: Due to a bug introduced in this release, developers are encouraged to use latest SDK version.

• Fixed a problem with changing device ID (for system generated device IDs)
• Added isTestDevice flag to mark test devices for Push Notifications
• Improved Auto View Tracking by ignoring non-visible foundation UIViewController subclasses
• Implemented manually adding exception UIViewController subclasses for Auto View Tracking
• Changed default device ID type for tvOS from IDFA to NSUUID
• Added stored requests limit
• Added optional parameters ISOCountryCode, city and location for advanced segmentation
• Discarded timed events persistency
• Added buildUUID and build number to Crash Reports
• Added SDK name (language-origin-platform) to all requests
• Changed default alert title for push messages
• Other minor improvements like better internal logging, standardization, whitespacing, code cleaning, commenting, pragma marking and HeaderDocing

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device device ID mechanism has changed.

16.02.01

• Swithed to POST method for all requests by default
• Fixed some issues with Crash Reporting persistency
• Fixed some issues with CocoaPods v1.0.0
• Other minor fixes and improvements

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device device ID mechanism has changed.

16.02

Completely re-written iOS SDK with watchOS, tvOS & OSX support

• APM
• Manual/Auto ViewTracking
• UserDetails modifiers
• watchOS 2 support
• tvOS support
• Configurable starting
• Custom or system provided (IDFA, IDFV, OpenUDID) device ID
• Changing/merging device ID on runtime
• Persistency without CoreData
• Various performance improvements and minor bugfixes

! Warning for existing Countly iOS SDK users !
If you are already using a Countly iOS SDK version older than v16.02, before you update :

• Please see Integration section in documentation as starting method of Countly has changed.
• Please see Notes section in documentation as device device ID mechanism has changed.