v8.5.0

jo-inc/camofox-browserv8.5.0May 5, 2026by aldinokemal

AI Summary

This minor release adds a structured phone number field to contact webhooks, persists incoming contact messages into chat history, and fixes missing newsletter subscriber counts.

Key Highlights

Added a structured `phone_number` field to contact webhook payloads for better data handling.
Incoming contact messages are now persisted into chat storage instead of being dropped.
Fixed newsletter subscriber counts that were previously missing from the subscribed-list response.
Modernized codebase by removing dead code and updating to Go 1.18+ idioms.

New Features

Structured `phone_number` on Contact Webhooks
Persist Incoming Contact Messages in Chat Storage

Full Release Notes

## What's New in v8.5.0

🚀 **Minor Release: Contact Webhooks, Chat History for Contact Messages & Newsletter Subscriber Counts**

This release enriches the contact webhook payload with a structured `phone_number` field, persists incoming contact messages into chat history, and fixes newsletter subscriber counts that were missing from the subscribed-list response.

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## ✨ New Features

### Structured `phone_number` on Contact Webhooks (#656)
- Contact webhook payloads now include a structured `phone_number` field for both single contacts and multi-contact shares
- Original `vcard` field is preserved for backward compatibility
- Chatwoot forwarding path updated to understand the structured payload

### Persist Incoming Contact Messages in Chat Storage (#654)
- Incoming `ContactMessage` events are now serialized into chat history instead of being dropped when the message has no text or media
- The phone number embedded in the vCard is preserved in stored content
- Added test coverage for `ContactMessage` parsing

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## 🐛 Bug Fixes

### Newsletter Subscriber Counts (#660)
- Enrich subscribed newsletter metadata with detail fetches so `subscribers_count` is populated when WhatsApp omits it from the subscribed-list response
- Base subscribed newsletter list remains the source of truth
- Falls back to the original newsletter metadata if a detail fetch fails
- Fixes #658

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## 🔧 Technical Improvements

### Code Modernization
- Remove dead code across the codebase
- Modernize `interface{}` to `any` for Go 1.18+ idiomatic style

### Dependency Updates
- `go.mau.fi/whatsmeow`: updated to latest (multiple passes)
- All Go dependencies kept up-to-date

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## What's Changed

- fix: enrich newsletter subscriber counts by @aldinokemal in https://github.com/aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice/pull/660
- Add phone number to contact webhook payload by @juliomuhlbauer in https://github.com/aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice/pull/656
- Persist incoming contact messages in chatstorage by @juliomuhlbauer in https://github.com/aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice/pull/654
- chore: remove dead code and modernize interface{} to any by @aldinokemal
- chore: update whatsmeow to latest by @aldinokemal

## New Contributors

- @juliomuhlbauer made their first contribution in https://github.com/aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice/pull/656

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice/compare/v8.4.0...v8.5.0