1. Notable changes since 4.84v
- Security and access control: tightened chat operation permissions by requiring proper read/write access checks; additional permission hardening was applied across related flows.
- CSP and policy handling: completed CSP parser integration and follow-up fixes, including policy exposure hardening and parser/library alignment.
- Voice messaging and widget UX: improved voice-message flow and UX, updated voice app behavior, kept cursor focus on desktop, and added a widget-theme option to disable voice messages.
- Translation workflow: improved automatic translation reliability, added DeepL model/formality options, enhanced metadata/error handling, and refined start/stop and old-message translation flows.
- Analytics and timing metrics: improved chat duration/response-time calculations, participant timing accounting, and operator duration output in reports.
- REST API and diagnostics: added optional custom REST API messages, improved exception visibility/traceback details, and enabled direct log viewing from back office.
- Invitations and online-hours logic: enhanced invitation alias/profile handling and improved overlapping online-hours period calculations.
- UI/translations/dependencies: updated translations, refreshed JS dependencies (including html-react-parser migration), and applied multiple package/security updates.
- Misc fixes: delivered issue-specific fixes and regressions cleanup (including #2378, #2379, #2382), plus release workflow updates.
2. Summary
- This release focuses on security hardening, CSP maturity, and operator productivity, while also improving voice messaging UX and translation automation quality.
- It also improves chat/mail timing metrics and diagnostics, with additional stability updates across UI, dependencies, and release automation.
For update just follow standard update procedure. No new DB migration script required for this release.
**Full Changelog**: ;https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/compare/4.84v...4.85v
