2026.5.1
paulpierre/markdown-crawler2026.5.1May 26, 2026by devlikepro
AI Summary
Introduces GOWS features for converting Lottie stickers to animated WebP and adds configuration for status broadcast batch sizes, alongside fixes for session states and media retry logic.
Key Highlights
- Convert Lottie stickers to animated WebP
- Add batch size control env variable
- Fix status@broadcast batch timeouts
- Fix all outbound messages failing due to cipher hash mismatch
New Features
- Convert Lottie stickers (application/was) to animated WebP
- Add WAHA_GOWS_STATUS_PARTICIPANTS_BATCH_SIZE env variable
Full Release Notes
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/compare/2026.4.2...2026.5.1
### 2026.5[#](https://waha.devlike.pro/docs/overview/changelog/#20265)
🆕 **New**
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - Convert Lottie stickers (application/was) to animated WebP - [#2039](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2039)
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - Add `WAHA_GOWS_STATUS_PARTICIPANTS_BATCH_SIZE` env variable for status@broadcast batch size control - [#2080](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2080)
🛠️ **Fixes**
- `2026.5.1` - **WEBJS** - Session stuck in `starting`/`stopped` state due to Node.js Buffer limit with large RemoteAuth entries (PostgreSQL) - [#2090](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2090)
- `2026.5.1` - **WEBJS** - Ignore symlinks for remote storages — **PLUS**
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - All outbound messages fail with error 400 until session restart - [#2084](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2084)
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - MediaRetry triggers on ciphertext hash mismatch (not only 403) - [#2085](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2085)
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - Fix status@broadcast batch timeouts, default batch size reduced to 500 - [#2080](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2080)
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS**, **NOWEB** - Send video: fix gif to mp4 format conversion - [#2077](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2077)
- `2026.5.1` - **NOWEB** - message.edit event fix - [#2072](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2072)
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - Sticker download: drop placeholder a.whatsapp.net URL
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - Handle encrypted message edits - [#2062](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2062)
- `2026.5.1` - **WEBJS** - e2e session and disappearing setting messages - [#2046](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2046)
- `2026.5.1` - **API** - `POST /api/{session}/chats/overview` — require pagination - [#2070](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2070)
**📊 Dashboard**
- `2026.5.1` - Dashboard - WEBJS e2e session and disappearing messages settings support - [#2046](https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha/issues/2046)
⚙️ **Updates**
- `2026.5.1` - **GOWS** - up engine
- `2026.5.1` - **NOWEB** - up engine
- `2026.5.1` - **WPP** - up engine