Weekly Recap: January 13-17, 2025

Updates Announcements
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Hi Everyone!

Hope your year is off to a good start :slight_smile: We had quite a bit go out this week so let’s jump in!

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Betas & Updates

Open Cloud Messaging API V2 [Beta]

  • The Open Cloud Messaging API V2 enables the publication of messages to game servers of your experiences from external sources outside the Roblox environment.
  • This allows integration with your own system for live announcements, running LiveOps events, banning bad actors in real time, and other functions leveraging the MessagingService.

Announcements & Updates

Update on Legacy Chat Deprecation and TextChatService Migration

  • As we announced last year, we plan to remove the legacy chat system and all creators must migrate to TextChatService by April 30th, 2025.
  • We’ve introduced additional guidelines on what is considered chat.

Updating Friends API & Deprecating IsOnline property from GetFriendsAsync

  • The friend limit on Roblox has been increased from 200 to 1000!

Video uploads now available in five more languages!

  • Video assets can now be uploaded in Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese (simplified + traditional), Japanese, and Korean.
  • We plan to add support for remaining Roblox-supported locales in the near future.

[Update] Projecting decals to EditableMesh!

  • Introducing DrawImageProjected - a new API that allows you to add decals and images to assets, including avatar bodies.

Release Notes

Deprecated Web Endpoints

Deprecating a Legacy Inventory API

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