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Author: devlikepro

content/blog/waha-2025-8/index.md

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+---
+title: "WAHA 2025.8 - Ignore Chats, Send Poll Vote, and more!"
+description: "Sessions Ignore (Status, Groups, Channels), Send Poll Vote API, and more improvements in WAHA 2025.8"
+excerpt: "Sessions Ignore for Status/Groups/Channels, Send Poll Vote API, Dashboard tweaks, List Messages, and fixes."
+date: 2025-08-29T08:48:45+00:00
+draft: false
+images: [ "waha-2025-8.png" ]
+categories: [ "Releases" ]
+tags: [ ]
+contributors: [ "devlikeapro" ]
+pinned: false
+homepage: false
+slug: waha-2025-8
+---
+
+![WAHA 2025.8](waha-2025-8.png)
+
+## 🖥️ Sessions - Ignore Chats
+You can now ignore incoming chats at the engine level — Status, Groups, and Channels — to keep your processing focused and clean.
+
+- How to: [**🖥️ Sessions — Ignore**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/sessions#ignore" >}})
+- Related: [**🟢 Status**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/status" >}}), [**👥 Groups**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/groups" >}}), [**📢 Channels**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/channels" >}})
+
+## 📶 Send Poll Vote API (GOWS)
+Programmatically vote in WhatsApp polls using GOWS — works in DMs, Groups, and Channels.
+
+- How to: [**📶 Polls — Send Poll Vote**]({{< relref "docs/how-to/polls#send-poll-vote" >}})
+- Channels example: [**📢 Channels — Send Poll Vote to the Channel**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/channels#send-poll-vote-to-the-channel" >}})
+
+## 🆕 Also New
+- Send List Message API (NOWEB, GOWS) — [**📤 Send messages — Send List**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/send-messages#send-list" >}}) — Plus only
+- Chats: Unread Chat (GOWS) — [**💬 Chats — Unread Chat**]({{< relref "/docs/how-to/chats#unread-chat" >}})
+- Dashboard: Copy session name button
+- WEBJS: `config.webjs.tagsEventsOn`
+- GOWS: `/api/sendLocation`
+- Dashboard: Simplified Chinese
+
+## 🛠️ Fixes and Updates
+Stability fixes across engines (WEBJS, GOWS), Status and Channels improvements, and a GOWS engine/proto bump.
+
+Check the full list in the [**🆕 WAHA 2025.8 Changelog**]({{< relref "/docs/overview/changelog#20258" >}}).
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       "-filter-by-ack",
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       "-search-channels-api",
       "-security-in-waha-core",
       "-send-link-custom-preview",
+      "-send-poll-vote-api-gows",
       "-send-reaction-to-channels",
       "-sessions",
+      "-sessions---ignore-chats",
       "-stability-improvements",
       "-status",
       "-storages",