From 025a1b8bfd972652ca6b6534ed0e541cfa222ec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Werner Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 02:21:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add preliminary changelog --- CHANGELOG.md | 178 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 178 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index af8b9e5d..f20d747e 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,5 +1,183 @@ # Changelog +## [0.9.0] -- Unreleased + +### Highlights + +- Somewhat stable end to end encryption + - Show the room verification status + - Configure Nheko to only send to verified users + - Store the encryption keys securely in the OS-provided secrets service. + - Support online keybackup as well as sharing historical session keys. +- Crosssigning bootstrapping + - Crosssigning is used to simplify the verification process. In this release + Nheko can setup crosssigning on a new account without having to use a + different client. + - Nheko now also prompts you, if there are any unverified devices and asks you to verify them. +- Room directory (Manu) + - Search for rooms on your server and other servers. (Prezu) + - If their topic interests you and it has the right amount of members, join + the room and the discussion! +- Custom sticker packs + - Add a custom sticker picker, that allows you to send stickers from MSC2545. + - Support creating new sticker (and emote) packs. + - You can share packs in a room and enable them globally or just for that + room. +- Token authenticated registration (Callum) + - Sign up with a token to servers, that have otherwise disabled registration. + - This was done as part of GSoC and makes it easier to run private servers for + your family and friends! + +### Features + +- Support email in registration (required on matrix.org for example) +- Warn, if an @room would mention the whole room, because some people don't like that. +- Support device removal as well as renaming. (Thulinma) +- Show your devices without encryption support, when showing your profile. + (Thulinma) +- Move to the next room with unread messages by pressing `Alt-A`. (Symphorien) +- Support jdenticons as a placeholder for rooms or users without avatars. + (LorenDB) + - You will need to install https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/qt-jdenticon +- Properly sign macOS builds. +- Support animated images like GIF and WebP. + - Optionally just play them on hover. +- Support accepting knocks in the timeline. +- Close a room when clicking it again. (LorenDB) +- Close image overlay with escape. +- Support .well-known discovery during registration. +- Limited spaces support. + - No nice display of nested spaces. + - No previews of unjoined rooms. + - No way to edit a space. +- Render room avatar changes in the timeline. (BShipman) +- Support pulling out the sidebar to make it wider. +- Allow editing pending messages instead of blocking until they are sent. + (balsoft) +- Support mnemonics in the context menus. (AppAraat) +- Support TOFU for encryption. (Trust on first use) +- Right click -> copy address location. +- Forward messages. (Jedi18) +- Alt-F to forward messages. + +### Improvements + +- Tranlation updates: + - French by MayeulC, ISSOtm, Glandos, Carl Schwan + - Dutch by Thulinma, Bas van Rossem, Glael, Thijs + - Esperanto by Tirifto, Colin + - Estonian by Priit + - Indonesian by Linerly + - German by 123, Konstantin, fnetX, Mr. X, CryptKid + - Portuguese (Portugal) by Tnpod, Xenovox, Gabriel R + - Portuguese (Brazil) by Terry, zerowhy + - Finnish by sdrrespudro, Priit + - Polish by Prezu, AXD, stabor + - Malayalam by vachan-maker + - Italian by Daniele, Lorenzo + - Spanish by lluise + - Russian by kirillpt + - Various wording improvements throughout. +- Verification status and identity keys should now update properly after login. +- Clicking the user in a read receipt opens their profile. (LorenDB) +- Invites should now work properly on mobile. +- Use the modern notifications on macOS. +- Decode blurhashes faster. +- Port various dialogs to Qml. (LorenDB) +- Improve paste support on Windows, when mimetype detection fails and pasting + SVGs (Thulinma) +- --help and --version now work, even if Nheko is already running somewhere. +- Update emoji support to version 14. +- Properly navigate to linked to events. (Thulinma) +- Lots of smaller bugfixes and refactorings. (LorenDB) +- Scroll entire profile page and properly trim contents. (Thulinma) +- Make it easy to switch between global and room specific profiles. (Thulinma) +- Deduplicate messages sent by the server. (Thulinma) +- Decrease the margin of blockquotes. (tastytea) +- Alerts now work, if the homeserver does not implement the notifications + endpoint. (Thulinma) +- Right click menu now works on replies. +- Decrypt encrypted media only in memory. +- Don't use CC-BY in the appstream license to not confuse Gnome Software. +- Document how to sync the repo on Gentoo. (alfasi) +- Support online key backup. +- Improve FAQ. (harmathy) +- Support Backtab/Shift-Tab for moving backwards in completer selections. +- Clear cache to support the new features. +- Improve the emoji completer (less jitter and fix places where it didn't open). (Thomaps Karpiniec) +- Cleanup @room escape logic. +- Improve performance of timeline rendering. +- Add fallback for sent stickers, so that they show on iOS. +- Load rooms somewhat lazily. +- Properly scale avatars to DPI. +- Round avatars once in the backend instead of on every render. +- Request keys of all members, when opening a room the first time. +- Timeout TCP connections, if heartbeat can't be heard. +- Change secrets name. You might need to rerequest your secrets after upgrading! +- Protect against replay attacks where megolm sessions are reused. +- Add "request keys" button to undecryptable messages. +- Remove superfluous permissions in Flatpak. +- Properly set window parents on Wayland. +- Properly show users and allow opening their profiles in the members and read + receipt dialogs. (LorenDB) +- Use Qt5.15 Connections syntax in Qml. +- Remove "respond to keyrequests option". We now reply to the right requests + automatically and securely. +- Show confirmation prompt when leaving a room. +- Add trailing newline to session export for gomuks compatibility. +- Use a fancy Nheko logo as the loading indicator. +- Improve how the invite dialog handles users. (LorenDB) +- Store more data about megolm sessions. +- Speed up database queries by caching transactions. +- Use curl for network requests. + - This removes the boost dependency. + - Proxies now work using the usual curl variables. + - Fixes a myriad of crashes. + - Faster. + - Less CPU load. + - Less bandwidth usage. +- Cleanup user color generation. +- Show borders around tables. +- Improve wording of a few menu entries. (absorber) +- Highlight navigated to message. + +### Bugfixes + +- Redaction of edited messages should now actually show those messages as removed. +- Bootstrap after registration should run properly now. +- Getting logged out after registration should not happen anymore. +- Removed edgecases where identity keys could get uploaded twice. +- Fix the event loop when fetching secrets breaking random things like scrolling. +- Don't crash when clearing an empty timeline. +- Opening an invite in your browser or a matrix: URI should not crash Nheko anymore or do nothing. +- When clicking on an item in the roomlist, you don't have to move your mouse anymore, before being able to click again. +- Don't hide space childs when viewing that specific space and its children are hidden. +- Only allow specific URI schemes to be followed automatically. +- Properly hide day change indicator, when loading older messages. +- Rotate session properly when 'verified only' is set. +- Handle missing keys in key queries properly. +- Properly show the window title for Qml dialogs on windows. +- Don't show decryption errors in replies. +- Don't crash when storing secrets. +- Don't send megolm messages to ourselves, if possible. +- Fix SSSS without a password. +- Fix a few edge cases with OTK upload. +- Cache more media properly (i.e. in the Goose Chooser). +- Inline images in messages now load properly. +- Don't show verification requests after startup. +- Emoji picker now follows the theme. +- Send less newlines in the reply fallback. +- Fix tags going missing when joining spaces. +- Handle inline images with single quotes. (Cadair) +- Delay key requests until a room is opened. +- Fix rooms not showing, when groups endpoint is missing. +- Don't use deprecated parameters in /login. +- Fix encoding issues when translating matrix.to to matrix: URIs. + +### Packaging changes + +- Removed the AppImage + ## [0.8.2] -- 2021-04-23 ### Highlights