Kinegram eMRTD Connector SDK iOS - Changelog

• Added support for CocoaPods again (in addition to SPM)

Notice: The recommended way is to integrate the SDK via SPM, as cocoapods is only in maintenance mode since 2024-09 (see official announcement)

This is a major rewrite of the eMRTD Connector SDK with significant architectural changes and breaking changes from V1.

✨ Key Improvements:

• Solves the iOS 20-second NFC timeout issue by moving APDU exchanges to the device
• Simple one-call validation API with validate(with:)
• Modern Swift concurrency with async/await
• Improved error handling and progress reporting

⚠️ Breaking Changes:

• New WebSocket protocol - Uses v2 protocol
• Complete API redesign - Async/await based, simplified interface
• Minimum iOS version increased from iOS 13.0 to iOS 15.0
• Swift Package Manager only - CocoaPods support removed
• Binary dependency required - Now includes KinegramEmrtd.xcframework

📚 Migration: See MIGRATION_V1_TO_V2.md for detailed migration instructions from V1.

• Add a flag enableDiagnostics to interface functions for enabling diagnostics in the DocVal server.

• Add support for setting custom HTTP headers for the WebSocket connection. See connect method in EmrtdConnector class.

• Seperate github build jobs (no functional change to framework)

• Optimized github build action (no functional change)

• Added also validationID to ObjC interface

• Add a simplified and ObjectiveC compatible version, build as static framework. See folder ObjCFramework for more info.

• Improve documentation
• Rename library module from KTAKinegramEmrtdConnector to KinegramEmrtdConnector! Update your import statements accordingly.

• Add instruction to set "Team" in signings config to Readme

• Also parse the optional field "files_binary" in the EmrtdPassport Result JSON

• Show Details if Passive Authentication not successful
• Enforce Document Number to be Upper Case
• Minor Improvements to the Documentation

• Minor Improvements to the Documentation

• Improvements to the API of EmrtdConnector
• Make Example App use revised EmrtdConnector API
• Additions to the Documentation

• Everything begins