API Changes

2023/09/20 - appconfig - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Enabling boto3 paginators for list APIs and adding documentation around ServiceQuotaExceededException errors

2023/09/20 - apprunner - 2 new 10 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds improvements for managing App Runner auto scaling configuration resources. New APIs: UpdateDefaultAutoScalingConfiguration and ListServicesForAutoScalingConfiguration. Updated API: DeleteAutoScalingConfiguration.

2023/09/20 - codeartifact - 22 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for the Swift package format.

2023/09/20 - logs - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add ClientToken to QueryDefinition CFN Handler in CWL

2023/09/20 - servicediscovery - 1 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   Adds a new DiscoverInstancesRevision API and also adds InstanceRevision field to the DiscoverInstances API response.

2023/09/19 - ec2 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for C7i, and R7a instance types.

2023/09/19 - outposts - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds the InstanceFamilies field to the ListAssets response.

2023/09/19 - api.sagemaker - 12 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for one-time model monitoring schedules that are executed immediately without delay, explicit data analysis windows for model monitoring schedules and exclude features attributes to remove features from model monitor analysis.

2023/09/18 - workmail - 4 new 12 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes four new APIs UpdateUser, UpdateGroup, ListGroupsForEntity and DescribeEntity, along with RemoteUsers and some enhancements to existing APIs.

2023/09/15 - connect - 3 updated api methods

Changes   New rule type (OnMetricDataUpdate) has been added

2023/09/15 - api.sagemaker - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces Skip Model Validation for Model Packages

2023/09/14 - appstream2 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces multi-session fleets, allowing customers to provision more than one user session on a single fleet instance.

2023/09/14 - lookoutequipment - 8 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds APIs for the new scheduled retraining feature.

2023/09/13 - drs - 3 new 11 updated api methods

Changes   Updated existing APIs and added new ones to support using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery post-launch actions. Added support for new regions.

2023/09/13 - firehose - 3 updated api methods

Changes   DocumentIdOptions has been added for the Amazon OpenSearch destination.

2023/09/13 - guardduty - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Add `managementType` field to ListCoverage API response.

2023/09/13 - xray - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add StartTime field in GetTraceSummaries API response for each TraceSummary.

2023/09/12 - ec2 - 3 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for restricting public sharing of AMIs through AMI Block Public Access

2023/09/12 - kendra - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Kendra now supports confidence score buckets for retrieved passage results using the Retrieve API.

2023/09/11 - medialive - 2 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Elemental Link now supports attaching a Link UHD device to a MediaConnect flow.

2023/09/11 - quicksight - 9 updated api methods

Changes   This release launches new updates to QuickSight KPI visuals - support for sparklines, new templated layout and new targets for conditional formatting rules.

2023/09/08 - api.sagemaker - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Autopilot APIs will now support holiday featurization for Timeseries models. The models will now hold holiday metadata and should be able to accommodate holiday effect during inference.

2023/09/08 - workspaces - 1 updated api methods

Changes   A new field "ErrorDetails" will be added to the output of "DescribeWorkspaceImages" API call. This field provides in-depth details about the error occurred during image import process. These details include the possible causes of the errors and troubleshooting information.

2023/09/06 - appflow - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Adding OAuth2.0 support for servicenow connector.

2023/09/06 - ec2 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds 'outpost' location type to the DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings API, allowing customers that have been allowlisted for outpost to query their offerings in the API.

2023/09/06 - medialive - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Adds advanced Output Locking options for Epoch Locking: Custom Epoch and Jam Sync Time

2023/09/06 - wafv2 - 8 updated api methods

Changes   The targeted protection level of the Bot Control managed rule group now provides optional, machine-learning analysis of traffic statistics to detect some bot-related activity. You can enable or disable the machine learning functionality through the API.

2023/09/05 - billingconductor - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for line item filtering in for the custom line item resource.

2023/09/05 - compute-optimizer - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to provide recommendations for G4dn and P3 instances that use NVIDIA GPUs.

2023/09/05 - ec2 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, delivering up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances.

2023/09/05 - rds - 18 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for feature integration with AWS Backup.

2023/09/05 - api.sagemaker - 1 updated api methods

Changes   SageMaker Neo now supports data input shape derivation for Pytorch 2.0 and XGBoost compilation job for cloud instance targets. You can skip DataInputConfig field during compilation job creation. You can also access derived information from model in DescribeCompilationJob response.

2023/09/05 - vpc-lattice - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds Lambda event structure version config support for LAMBDA target groups. It also adds newline support for auth policies.

2023/09/01 - media-pipelines-chime - 6 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the Voice Analytics feature for customer-owned KVS streams as part of the Amazon Chime SDK call analytics.

2023/09/01 - connect - 9 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Connect adds the ability to read, create, update, delete, and list view resources, and adds the ability to read, create, delete, and list view versions.

2023/08/31 - media-pipelines-chime - 9 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for feature Voice Enhancement for Call Recording as part of Amazon Chime SDK call analytics.

2023/08/31 - connect-campaigns - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Connect outbound campaigns has launched agentless dialing mode which enables customers to make automated outbound calls without agent engagement. This release updates three of the campaign management API's to support the new agentless dialing mode and the new dialing capacity field.

2023/08/31 - participant.connect - 1 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Connect Participant Service adds the ability to get a view resource using a view token, which is provided in a participant message, with the release of the DescribeView API.

2023/08/31 - ecs - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for an account-level setting that you can use to configure the number of days for AWS Fargate task retirement.

2023/08/31 - health - 1 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   Adds new API DescribeEntityAggregatesForOrganization that retrieves entity aggregates across your organization. Also adds support for resource status filtering in DescribeAffectedEntitiesForOrganization, resource status aggregates in the DescribeEntityAggregates response, and new resource statuses.

2023/08/31 - runtime.sagemaker - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds a new InvokeEndpointWithResponseStream API to support streaming of model responses.

2023/08/30 - appflow - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Add SAP source connector parallel and pagination feature

2023/08/30 - apprunner - 3 updated api methods

Changes   App Runner adds support for Bitbucket. You can now create App Runner connection that connects to your Bitbucket repositories and deploy App Runner service with the source code stored in a Bitbucket repository.

2023/08/30 - cleanrooms - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release decouples member abilities in a collaboration. With this change, the member who can run queries no longer needs to be the same as the member who can receive results.

2023/08/30 - datasync - 5 updated api methods

Changes   AWS DataSync introduces Task Reports, a new feature that provides detailed reports of data transfer operations for each task execution.

2023/08/30 - neptune-db - 43 new api methods

Changes   Allows customers to execute data plane actions like bulk loading graphs, issuing graph queries using Gremlin and openCypher directly from the SDK.

2023/08/30 - pca-connector-ad - 25 new api methods

Changes   The Connector for AD allows you to use a fully-managed AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for your self-managed enterprise CAs without local agents or proxy servers. Enterprises that use AD to manage Windows environments can reduce their private certificate authority (CA) costs and complexity.

2023/08/30 - api.sagemaker - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon SageMaker Canvas adds IdentityProviderOAuthSettings support for CanvasAppSettings

2023/08/29 - omics - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Add RetentionMode support for Runs.

2023/08/29 - email - 5 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for the new Export and Message Insights features: create, get, list and cancel export jobs; get message insights.

2023/08/28 - backup - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for customizing time zone for backup window in backup plan rules.

2023/08/28 - compute-optimizer - 2 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release enables AWS Compute Optimizer to analyze and generate licensing optimization recommendations for sql server running on EC2 instances.

2023/08/28 - servicequotas - 8 updated api methods

Changes   Service Quotas now supports viewing the applied quota value and requesting a quota increase for a specific resource in an AWS account.

2023/08/28 - workspaces-web - 4 updated api methods

Changes   WorkSpaces Web now enables Admins to configure which cookies are synchronized from an end-user's local browser to the in-session browser. In conjunction with a browser extension, this feature enables enhanced Single-Sign On capability by reducing the number of times an end-user has to authenticate.

2023/08/24 - ec2 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 M7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances.

2023/08/24 - glue - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added API attributes that help in the monitoring of sessions.

2023/08/24 - mediaconvert - 11 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes additional audio channel tags in Quicktime outputs, support for film grain synthesis for AV1 outputs, ability to create audio-only FLAC outputs, and ability to specify Amazon S3 destination storage class.

2023/08/24 - medialive - 7 updated api methods

Changes   MediaLive now supports passthrough of KLV data to a HLS output group with a TS container. MediaLive now supports setting an attenuation mode for AC3 audio when the coding mode is 3/2 LFE. MediaLive now supports specifying whether to include filler NAL units in RTMP output group settings.

2023/08/24 - api.mediatailor - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Adds new source location AUTODETECT_SIGV4 access type.

2023/08/24 - quicksight - 18 updated api methods

Changes   Excel support in Snapshot Export APIs. Removed Required trait for some insight Computations. Namespace-shared Folders support. Global Filters support. Table pin Column support.

2023/08/23 - apigateway - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds RootResourceId to GetRestApi response.

2023/08/23 - polly - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Polly adds 1 new voice - Zayd (ar-AE)

2023/08/22 - ce - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds the LastUpdatedDate and LastUsedDate timestamps to help you manage your cost allocation tags.

2023/08/22 - rds - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Adding parameters to CreateCustomDbEngineVersion reserved for future use.

2023/08/21 - finspace - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Allow customers to manage outbound traffic from their Kx Environment when attaching a transit gateway by providing network acl entries. Allow the customer to choose how they want to update the databases on a cluster allowing updates to possibly be faster than usual.

2023/08/21 - rds - 1 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   Adding support for RDS Aurora Global Database Unplanned Failover

2023/08/18 - codecommit - 1 new api methods

Changes   Add new ListFileCommitHistory operation to retrieve commits which introduced changes to a specific file.

2023/08/18 - securityhub - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Added Inspector Lambda code Vulnerability section to ASFF, including GeneratorDetails, EpssScore, ExploitAvailable, and CodeVulnerabilities.

2023/08/17 - ec2 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for SubnetConfigurations to allow users to select their own IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Interface VPC endpoints

2023/08/17 - gamelift - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift updates its instance types support.

2023/08/15 - glue - 4 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Glue Crawlers can now accept SerDe overrides from a custom csv classifier. The two SerDe options are LazySimpleSerDe and OpenCSVSerDe. In case, the user wants crawler to do the selection, "None" can be selected for this purpose.

2023/08/15 - pi - 7 new api methods

Changes   AWS Performance Insights for Amazon RDS is launching Performance Analysis On Demand, a new feature that allows you to analyze database performance metrics and find out the performance issues. You can now use SDK to create, list, get, delete, and manage tags of performance analysis reports.

2023/08/15 - route53domains - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Provide explanation if CheckDomainTransferability return false. Provide requestId if a request is already submitted. Add sensitive protection for customer information

2023/08/15 - api.sagemaker - 2 updated api methods

Changes   SageMaker Inference Recommender now provides SupportedResponseMIMETypes from DescribeInferenceRecommendationsJob response

2023/08/14 - omics - 10 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release provides support for annotation store versioning and cross account sharing for Omics Analytics

2023/08/11 - config - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Updated ResourceType enum with new resource types onboarded by AWS Config in July 2023.

2023/08/11 - ec2 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, deliver the highest performance in EC2 for deep learning (DL) and HPC applications. M7i-flex and M7i instances are next-generation general purpose instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/08/11 - quicksight - 18 updated api methods

Changes   New Authentication method for Account subscription - IAM Identity Center. Hierarchy layout support, default column width support and related style properties for pivot table visuals. Non-additive topic field aggregations for Topic API

2023/08/11 - swf - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new API parameters to override workflow task list for workflow executions.

2023/08/10 - connect - 3 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds APIs to provision agents that are global / available in multiple AWS regions and distribute them across these regions by percentage.

2023/08/10 - elasticloadbalancing - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release enables configuring security groups for Network Load Balancers

2023/08/10 - omics - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds instanceType to GetRunTask & ListRunTasks responses.

2023/08/09 - voice-chime - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Updating CreatePhoneNumberOrder, UpdatePhoneNumber and BatchUpdatePhoneNumbers APIs, adding phone number name

2023/08/09 - fsx - 18 updated api methods

Changes   For FSx for Lustre, add new data repository task type, RELEASE_DATA_FROM_FILESYSTEM, to release files that have been archived to S3. For FSx for Windows, enable support for configuring and updating SSD IOPS, and for updating storage type. For FSx for OpenZFS, add new deployment type, MULTI_AZ_1.

2023/08/09 - guardduty - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Added autoEnable ALL to UpdateOrganizationConfiguration and DescribeOrganizationConfiguration APIs.

2023/08/08 - backup - 2 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces a new logically air-gapped vault (Preview) in AWS Backup that stores immutable backup copies, which are locked by default and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. Logically air-gapped vault (Preview) allows secure recovery of application data across accounts.

2023/08/08 - elasticache - 1 new api methods

Changes   Added support for cluster mode in online migration and test migration API

2023/08/08 - servicecatalog - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Introduce support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud in Service Catalog by addying TERRAFORM_CLOUD product type in CreateProduct and CreateProvisioningArtifact API.

2023/08/07 - ivsrealtime - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add QUOTA_EXCEEDED and PUBLISHER_NOT_FOUND to EventErrorCode for stage health events.

2023/08/04 - connect - 1 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added a new API UpdateRoutingProfileAgentAvailabilityTimer to update agent availability timer of a routing profile.

2023/08/04 - datasync - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Display cloud storage used capacity at a cluster level.

2023/08/04 - api.sagemaker - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Including DataCaptureConfig key in the Amazon Sagemaker Search's transform job object

2023/08/03 - dms - 27 new api methods

Changes   The release makes public API for DMS Schema Conversion feature.

2023/08/03 - ec2 - 13 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new parameter isPrimaryIPv6 to allow assigning an IPv6 address as a primary IPv6 address to a network interface which cannot be changed to give equivalent functionality available for network interfaces with primary IPv4 address.

2023/08/03 - api.sagemaker - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon SageMaker now supports running training jobs on p5.48xlarge instance types.

2023/08/02 - cognito-idp - 2 new api methods

Changes   New feature that logs Cognito user pool error messages to CloudWatch logs.

2023/08/02 - resiliencehub - 2 new 17 updated api methods

Changes   Drift Detection capability added when applications policy has moved from a meet to breach state. Customers will be able to exclude operational recommendations and receive credit in their resilience score. Customers can now add ARH permissions to an existing or new role.

2023/08/02 - api.sagemaker - 1 new api methods

Changes   SageMaker Inference Recommender introduces a new API GetScalingConfigurationRecommendation to recommend auto scaling policies based on completed Inference Recommender jobs.

2023/08/01 - batch - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for price capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances.

2023/08/01 - dms - 1 new api methods

Changes   Adding new API describe-engine-versions which provides information about the lifecycle of a replication instance's version.

2023/08/01 - internetmonitor - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds a new feature for Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor that enables customers to set custom thresholds, for performance and availability drops, for impact limited to a single city-network to trigger creation of a health event.

2023/08/01 - medialive - 3 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Elemental Link devices now report their Availability Zone. Link devices now support the ability to change their Availability Zone.

2023/08/01 - polly - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Polly adds new French Belgian voice - Isabelle. Isabelle is available as Neural voice only.

2023/08/01 - rds - 2 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for deleted clusters PiTR.

2023/08/01 - api.sagemaker - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Add Stairs TrafficPattern and FlatInvocations to RecommendationJobStoppingConditions

2023/07/31 - amplifyuibuilder - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Amplify Studio releases GraphQL support for codegen job action.

2023/07/31 - autoscaling - 2 updated api methods

Changes   You can now configure an instance refresh to set its status to 'failed' when it detects that a specified CloudWatch alarm has gone into the ALARM state. You can also choose to roll back the instance refresh automatically when the alarm threshold is met.

2023/07/31 - cleanrooms - 8 new 15 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces custom SQL queries - an expanded set of SQL you can run. This release adds analysis templates, a new resource for storing pre-defined custom SQL queries ahead of time. This release also adds the Custom analysis rule, which lets you approve analysis templates for querying.

2023/07/31 - codestar-connections - 6 updated api methods

Changes   New integration with the Gitlab provider type.

2023/07/31 - drs - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for in-aws right sizing

2023/07/31 - inspector2 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds 1 new API: BatchGetFindingDetails to retrieve enhanced vulnerability intelligence details for findings.

2023/07/31 - lookoutequipment - 8 new 9 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes new import resource, model versioning and resource policy features.

2023/07/31 - omics - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Add CreationType filter for ListReadSets

2023/07/31 - rds - 16 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Aurora MySQL local write forwarding, which allows for forwarding of write operations from reader DB instances to the writer DB instance.

2023/07/31 - route53 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Route 53 now supports the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region (il-central-1) for latency records, geoproximity records, and private DNS for Amazon VPCs in that region.

2023/07/31 - scheduler - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces automatic deletion of schedules in EventBridge Scheduler. If configured, EventBridge Scheduler automatically deletes a schedule after the schedule has completed its last invocation.

2023/07/28 - applicationinsights - 6 new 17 updated api methods

Changes   This release enable customer to add/remove/update more than one workload for a component

2023/07/28 - cloudformation - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This SDK release is for the feature launch of AWS CloudFormation RetainExceptOnCreate. It adds a new parameter retainExceptOnCreate in the following APIs: CreateStack, UpdateStack, RollbackStack, ExecuteChangeSet.

2023/07/28 - cloudfront - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Add a new JavaScript runtime version for CloudFront Functions.

2023/07/28 - connect - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for new number types.

2023/07/28 - kafka - 2 new api methods

Changes   Amazon MSK has introduced new versions of ListClusterOperations and DescribeClusterOperation APIs. These v2 APIs provide information and insights into the ongoing operations of both MSK Provisioned and MSK Serverless clusters.

2023/07/28 - pinpoint - 20 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for sending push notifications using the FCM v1 API with json credentials. Amazon Pinpoint customers can now deliver messages to Android devices using both FCM v1 API and the legacy FCM/GCM API

2023/07/27 - ebs - 1 updated api methods

Changes   SDK and documentation updates for Amazon Elastic Block Store API

2023/07/27 - ec2 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   SDK and documentation updates for Amazon Elastic Block Store APIs

2023/07/27 - eks - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Add multiple customer error code to handle customer caused failure when managing EKS node groups

2023/07/27 - api.sagemaker - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Expose ProfilerConfig attribute in SageMaker Search API response.

2023/07/26 - entityresolution - 16 new api methods

Changes   AWS Entity Resolution can effectively match a source record from a customer relationship management (CRM) system with a source record from a marketing system containing campaign information.

2023/07/26 - glue - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Release Glue Studio Snowflake Connector Node for SDK/CLI

2023/07/26 - managedblockchain-query - 6 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query provides serverless access to standardized, multi-blockchain datasets with developer-friendly APIs.

2023/07/26 - aoss - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new collection type VectorSearch.

2023/07/26 - polly - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Polly adds 1 new voice - Lisa (nl-BE)

2023/07/25 - billingconductor - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for Auto-Assocate Billing Groups for CreateBillingGroup, UpdateBillingGroup, and ListBillingGroups.

2023/07/25 - profile - 2 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based resolution to match and merge similar profiles into unified profiles, helping companies deliver faster and more personalized customer service by providing access to relevant customer information for agents and automated experiences.

2023/07/25 - datasync - 3 new api methods

Changes   AWS DataSync now supports Microsoft Azure Blob Storage locations.

2023/07/25 - ec2 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds an instance's peak and baseline network bandwidth as well as the memory sizes of an instance's inference accelerators to DescribeInstanceTypes.

2023/07/25 - emr-serverless - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for publishing application logs to CloudWatch.

2023/07/25 - lambda - 13 updated api methods

Changes   Add Python 3.11 (python3.11) support to AWS Lambda

2023/07/25 - rds - 13 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for monitoring storage optimization progress on the DescribeDBInstances API.

2023/07/25 - securityhub - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for CONTAINS and NOT_CONTAINS comparison operators for Automation Rules string filters and map filters

2023/07/25 - sts - 1 updated api methods

Changes   API updates for the AWS Security Token Service

2023/07/25 - transfer - 1 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for SFTP Connectors.

2023/07/25 - wisdom - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release added two new data types: AssistantIntegrationConfiguration, and SessionIntegrationConfiguration to support Wisdom integration with Amazon Connect Chat