1.6.1

This release adds additional enhancements to operational stability, for publishers in particular, when running on a devices with unreliable network connectivity.

Please see:

Full Changelog

Implemented enhancements:

• Wait for Ably connection to leave the "suspended" state before performing operations on Ably #973
• Make publisher.track() and publisher.add() return instantly #966

Fixed bugs:

• Handle presence.enter() retries in a special way #972
• Remove connect() and attach() timeouts from DefaultAbly #948
• Non-fatal errors responses for presence.enter() cause Publisher to throw exceptions #907
• Publisher can get into a bad state if offline for > 2 minutes #906
• Publisher apps reporting "Timeout was thrown when waiting for channel to attach" #859

Closed issues:

• Flakey test: faultBeforeAddingTrackable[DisconnectWithFailedResume] #961
• Presence operations are invalidly reattempted after a failed resume #951
• Add Publisher.start() and Publisher.stop() coverage to NetworkConnectivityTest #939
• Adding trackable just before fallback reconnection results in multiple exceptions #863

Merged pull requests:

• Increase ably-java core version to 1.2.24 #982 (ikbalkaya)
• 973 check channel state #981 (davyskiba)
• Configure the Subscribing Example Project for Firebase App Distribution #979 (QuintinWillison)
• Fix minor issue in the adhoc example app publishing workflow #978 (QuintinWillison)
• Make some fixes and improvements to recent DefaultAbly test changes #977 (lawrence-forooghian)
• Add pointers to sites that can be used to verify Maven Central releases #976 (QuintinWillison)
• Add workflow to allow us to adhoc-publish the example apps #969 (QuintinWillison)
• Remove timeouts from attach and connect #965 (KacperKluka)