[SC] Chatbox 3.4.1

[SC] Chatbox — New Features Through 3.4.1

• Multiple Chat Rooms
Switch between separate discussions using compact room tabs.

• Public, VIP and Private Rooms
Offer open discussions, restrict VIP rooms to selected user groups, or invite specific members into private rooms.

• Room Creation Permissions
Control who can create rooms, which room types they can create, and how many rooms they can own.

• Room Management
Edit room details, manage invitations, close posting, and let staff archive or reorder rooms.

• Separate Room Activity
Each room has its own message history, search results, typing indicators, active-user list and read tracking.

• Room-Specific Drafts
Keep separate unfinished messages when switching rooms.

• Remembered Room Selection
Return to the previously selected room.

• Native Message Reporting
Report messages through XenForo’s report centre, including nearby messages from the same room for context.

• Embedded Mention Navigation
Bell alerts open the forum chatbox, select the correct room and highlight the mentioned message.

• Message-Action Dropdowns
Access secondary message tools through a compact dropdown menu.

• Modern Visual Design
Refreshed header, segmented room tabs, softer message bubbles, smaller mention styling and an integrated composer.

• Improvements & Maintenance.
• Root & Internal Addon.JSON now matches.

Chatbox 3.3.5 resolves an issue affecting automatic license activation in certain 3.3.4 downloads.

• Corrected automatic licensing integration.
• Added reliable license-validation cron registration during upgrades.
• Ensures licensed installations are properly registered with the issuing marketplace.
• Existing settings, messages and Chatbox data are preserved.
• No visual or feature changes were made.

Customers using version 3.3.4 should download version 3.3.5 and install it as a normal add-on upgrade.

This major update brings [SC] Chatbox from version 2.3.2 to 3.1.5 with extensive improvements to conversations, uploads, member experience, mobile usability, performance, privacy and XenForo compatibility.

New conversation features

• Direct replies with an inline preview of the original message
• Quote-message controls
• Copy-message controls
• Permanent links to individual messages
• Staff message pinning
• Unread-message tracking for each member
• Unread-message divider
• Floating Jump to latest button
• Load older messages without refreshing
• Load Older only appears when additional history exists
• Live typing indicators
• Online and offline presence indicators
• Today and Yesterday date separators
• Soft-deleted “Message removed” placeholders
• Optional deletion reasons
• Stored message-edit history
• Full-screen Chatbox mode
• Sticky mobile message composer
• Compact and comfortable display-density preferences
• Custom member Chatbox status messages
• Recent and favorite smileys

Notifications and preferences

• Optional notification sounds
• Optional browser notifications
• Configurable mention notifications
• Individual member preference panel
• Draft preservation for unfinished messages
• Failed upload retries without losing entered text

Attachment improvements

• Drag-and-drop uploading
• Paste screenshots directly from the clipboard
• Multiple attachments per message
• Attachment preview and removal controls
• Upload progress indicator
• Cancel and retry controls
• Protected JPG, PNG, GIF and WebP uploads
• Optional PDF, ZIP and MP3 attachments
• Configurable extension allow-list
• Configurable per-file and combined upload limits
• Configurable maximum displayed image width and height
• Server-side proportional image resizing
• JPEG and WebP compression when PHP GD is available
• EXIF and GPS metadata removal
• Cached image thumbnails
• Full-size lightbox viewing
• Previous and next image navigation
• Protected attachment delivery
• Browser caching and ETag support
• SHA-256 storage deduplication
• Automatic orphan-file cleanup
• Upload support on servers without PHP Fileinfo

Performance and reliability

• Retention cleanup moved into a scheduled background task
• Automatic removal of expired attachments
• Live purge synchronization across open Chatbox sessions
• Corrected touchActiveUser() repository implementation
• Fixed the malformed repository code found in version 2.3.2
• Fixed recurring polling requests returning HTTP 404
• Polling now uses XenForo-generated URLs and works with friendly URLs enabled or disabled
• Fixed the missing Chatbox Preferences icon
• Fixed an invalid XenForo user-title getter error

Compatibility improvements

• The optional pinned-resource feature is skipped when XFRM is unavailable
• Added an option to place Chatbox at the absolute top of the forum list
• Default Chatbox height changed from 280px to 220px
• Improved button and icon spacing
• Improved mobile presentation

Upgrade instructions

Upgrade directly from version 2.3.2 or any newer release. Do not uninstall the existing add-on because uninstalling can remove saved Chatbox data.

After upgrading, perform one hard browser refresh to ensure the newest JavaScript and styling are loaded.

Compatibility: XenForo 2.3.7 or newer.

This update introduces secure local-device image uploads and additional display controls for Chatbox images.

What’s new:

• Members can attach JPG, PNG, GIF and WebP images directly from their devices.
• Supports text with an image or image-only messages.
• Added a compact paperclip attachment icon.
• Added separate ACP settings for maximum image display width and height.
• Images preserve their original proportions and remain responsive on mobile devices.
• Uploaded files are stored securely in XenForo’s protected internal-data directory.
• Added a dedicated user-group permission for uploading images.
• Added a configurable upload-size limit from 1–25 MB.
• Images are automatically removed when their messages are deleted, purged or removed through scheduled cleanup.
• Removed the PHP Fileinfo dependency, fixing the “Class finfo not found” error on servers where the extension is unavailable.
• Includes the optional XenForo Resource Manager dependency improvement, allowing Chatbox to install and operate without XFRM (for pinned resources).

Default image display size: 640 × 360 pixels.

Upgrade directly over the previous version. Uninstalling first is not required, and existing messages, settings and licensing information are preserved.


Compatible with XenForo 2.3.7 and newer.