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Better Messages · Version history

Better Messages changelog and version history

Latest version
3.2.2
Nov 6, 2026 (3 days ago)
Releases
33
since 2022
In the last year
26
about one every 13 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.2
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20221 release
  • 20243 releases
  • 20254 releases
  • 202625 releases

202625 releases

  1. Better Messages 3.2.2Latest

    • Added the better_messages_can_add_participant filter: it can refuse someone before they join an existing conversation, on every route that adds a person to one and before anything is published
    • Added the better_messages_system_message_should_emit filter: one conversation can have a system message, such as the group call alert, while they are off for the site
    • Added GET /app/bootstrap and GET /app/strings for apps built on a site (WebSocket version): how to sign in, who is asking, how to connect, features and limits, reactions, appearance and translated words, and pages on other origins can now send signed requests
    • Added picture in picture to group video calls in the mobile app, showing one person as on the web: the spotlight or a pin, a shared screen, or whoever is speaking (with the next app build)
    • Improved the microphone and camera controls in calls: they spin from the press until the device is on, so one waiting for AI Noise Removal or a background to start no longer reads as a press that did nothing
    • Improved choosing a camera, microphone or speaker in the device settings of a call: each is now a clear field that opens the native menu of the browser or phone (the mobile app with its next build)
    • Improved group calls on a slow upload: the microphone gives way to the camera, so the picture freezes less (the mobile app with its next build)
    • Improved joining a group call where a network blocks the address of the call servers: the browser now tries the other call servers, the nearest first, and starts from the one that worked for the next day
    • Improved the flag beside Settings on WebSocket sites: a new report or a message held for approval shows on it within seconds, and it goes within seconds of being handled
    • Improved background blur in calls on a Mac, iPhone or iPad: the device settings suggest Portrait or Background in Control Center, and in Safari Blur pauses by itself while Portrait is on, so the background is not blurred twice
    • Improved notifications during a call: new message, site notification and group call cards wait until the call ends, so they no longer cover the call or show on a shared screen, and message sounds stay off
    • Improved the Plugins screen: a WebSocket version update that cannot be installed now says why in its row
    • Improved Settings → Calls: AI Noise Removal has a section of its own, Audio Effects, as it works in audio calls too
    • Improved sticker suggestions while typing: they open once the typing stops and float over the conversation, so they no longer flash or move it
    • Improved on-site notifications: they no longer cover the reply area, and step above it as it grows, as the page scrolls or as a conversation opens under them
    • Fixed on-site notifications standing in the middle of the screen while a conversation stayed docked in the closed floating bubble
    • Fixed guests on a screen reader or a keyboard being unable to choose their name: the guest sign-up takes them to a labelled Display Name field, and (Change) beside their name can be reached and pressed
    • Fixed the floating bubble, Restore? after deleting a conversation and buttons other plugins add to the conversation header not working from a keyboard or a screen reader, and the time unit and group call choices having no name for a screen reader
    • Fixed the camera in a direct call staying at very low quality on a slow upload, and the microphone now gives way there so the picture freezes less (the mobile app with its next build)
    • Fixed the microphone in a group call in the iPhone app coming straight back on after being turned off (with the next app build)
    • Fixed Video interrupted covering a camera that was still playing, for as long as it kept playing: a browser no longer decides it from what it decodes itself. Until the WebSocket servers can say when someone’s media really stopped, which a later update brings, a stopped camera keeps its last picture…
    • Fixed call microphones opened in stereo going silent moments into a call in Chrome: they now open in mono, and the sound of a shared screen stays in stereo
    • Fixed error messages being hidden behind a call that fills the window or the screen
    • Fixed an AI bot renamed on a site with a persistent object cache, such as Redis, keeping its old name: the room puts it right as it opens, and the update puts right a bot renamed before it
    • Fixed the word in @all not being translatable, so a translation can show it as @everyone or in its own language
    • Fixed words that stayed in English on translated sites: “You:” before your own last message, the name of a group without a subject, the file encryption error, two request errors, and the mobile app error screen and its Android notification channels
    • Fixed the notice on joining a group call squeezing its words beside its buttons on a wide call
    • Fixed the Chat Rooms list answering a member signed in from an app as if signed out
    • Fixed adding someone who cannot join a conversation, such as an AI chat bot to an encrypted one, saying everyone is already in it
    • Fixed a member logged out while a page stayed open seeing “Cookie check failed” on any page of the site: the messenger now asks to refresh the page, a message not sent goes out by itself after logging in again, and a tab logged back in no longer stays refused

  2. Better Messages 3.2.1

  3. Better Messages 3.2.0

  4. Better Messages 3.1.6

  5. Better Messages 3.1.5

  6. Better Messages 3.1.4

  7. Better Messages 3.1.3

  8. Better Messages 3.1.2

  9. Better Messages 3.1.0

  10. Better Messages 3.0.14

  11. Better Messages 3.0.13

  12. Better Messages 3.0.12

  13. Better Messages 3.0.11

  14. Better Messages 3.0.10

  15. Better Messages 3.0.9

  16. Better Messages 3.0.8

  17. Better Messages 3.0.6

  18. Better Messages 3.0.5

  19. Better Messages 3.0.3

  20. Better Messages 3.0.0

  21. Better Messages 2.15.33

  22. Better Messages 2.14.16

  23. Better Messages 2.13.0

  24. Better Messages 2.12.9

  25. Better Messages 2.11.1

20254 releases

  1. Better Messages 2.10.4

  2. Better Messages 2.9.17

  3. Better Messages 2.8.16

  4. Better Messages 2.7.23

20243 releases

  1. Better Messages 2.6.7

  2. Better Messages 2.5.19

  3. Better Messages 2.4.36

20221 release

  1. Better Messages 1.9.10.72

Questions about Better Messages’s releases

What is the latest version of Better Messages?

3.2.2, released on Nov 6, 2026 (3 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.2 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Better Messages updated?

26 releases in the last year, about one every 13 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from November 2022.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Better Messages’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.