matrixion/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[0.7.2] -- unreleased

Features

• Respect exif rotation of images
• perf: Only clean out old messages from the database every 500 syncs. (There is usually more than one sync every second)

Bugfixes

• Fix not being able to join rooms

[0.7.1] -- 2020-04-24

Features

• Show decrypted message source (helps debugging)
• Allow user to show / hide messages in encrypted rooms in sidebar

Bugfixes

• Fix display of images sent by the user (thank you, wnereiz and not-chicken for reporting)
• Fix crash when trying to maximize image, that wasn't downloaded yet.
• Fix Binding restoreMode flooding logs on Qt 5.14.2+
• Fix with some qml styles hidden menu items leave empty space
• Fix encrypted messages not showing a user in the sidebar
• Fix hangs when generating colors with some system theme color schemes (#172)

[0.7.0] -- 2020-04-19

0.7.0 requires mtxclient 0.3.0. Make sure you compile against 0.3.0 if you do not use the mtxclient bundled with nheko.

Features

• Make nheko session import / export format match riot. Fixes #48
• Implement proper replies
• Add .well-known support for auto-completing homeserver information
• Add mentions viewer so you can see all the messages you have been mentioned in
  • Currently broken due to QML changes. Will be fixed in the future.
• Add emoji font selection preference
• Encryption and decryption of media in E2EE rooms
• Square avatars
• Support for muting and unmuting rooms
• Basic support for playing audio and video messages in the timeline
• Support for a lot more event types (hiding them will come in the future)
• Support for sending all messages as plain text
• Support for inviting, kicking, banning and unbanning users
• Sort the room list by importance of messages (thanks @Alch-Emi)
• Experimental support for blurhashes

Improvements

• Add dedicated reply button to Timeline items. Add button for other options so that right click isn't always required.
• Fix various things with regards to emoji rendering and the emoji picker
• Lots and lots and lots of localization updates.
• Additional tweaks to the system theme
• Render timeline in Qml to drop memory usage
• Reduce memory usage of avatars
• Close notifications after they have been read on Linux
• Escape html properly in most places
• A lot of improvements around the image overlay
• The settings page now resizes properly for small screens
• Miscellaneous styling improvements
• Simplify and speedup build
• Display more emojis in the selected emoji font
• Use 'system' theme as default if QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME is set

Bugfixes

• Fix messages stuck on unread
• Reduce the amount of messages shown as "xxx sent an encrypted message"
• Fix various race conditions and crashes
• Fix some compatibility issues with the construct homeserver

Be aware, that Nheko now requires Qt 5.10 and boost 1.70 or higher.

[0.6.4] - 2019-05-22

Most of the below fixes are due to updates in mtxclient. Make sure you compile against 0.2.1 if you do not use the mtxclient bundled with nheko to get these fixes.

Features

• Support V3 Rooms

Improvements

• Fix #19
  • Fix initial sync issue caused by matrix-org/synapse#4898 (thanks @monokelpinguin)
  • Add additional lmbd max_dbs setting (thanks @AndrewJDR)
• Update DE translations (thanks @miocho)
• Update Dutch translations (thanks @vistaus)
• Fix text input UI bug (thanks @0xd800)
• Update linkifyMessage to parse HTML better (thanks @monokelpinguin)
• Update to Boost 1.69.0
• Fix some memory-leak scenarios due to mismatched new / delete (thanks @monokelpinguin)

Other Changes

• mtxclient now builds as a Shared Library by default (instead of statically)

[0.6.3] - 2019-02-08

Features

• Room notifications now distinguish between general and user mentions by using different colors
• User names are now colored based on both the theme and a hash from their user id.
• Add font selection preference

Improvements

• Fix room joining issue by escaping (thanks rnhmjoj)
• Mild tweaks to the dark and light themes
• Add paragraph tags back to markdown, fixing #2 / mujx#438
• Tweak author text to help differentiate it from the message text
• Some Russian translations have been added/fixed (thanks tim77)
• Partially address some build issues (related to #10)

[0.6.2] - 2018-10-07

Features

• Display tags as sorting items in the community panel (#401 @vberger)
• Add ability to configure the font size.

Improvements

• Don't enable tray by default.
• Hard-coded pixel values were removed. The sizes are derived from the font.

Other changes

• Removed room re-ordering option.

[0.6.1] - 2018-09-26

Improvements

• Add infinite scroll in member list. (#446)
• Use QPushButton on the preview modal.

Bug fixes

• Clear text selection when focus is lost. (#409)
• Don't clear the member list when the modal is hidden. (#447)

[0.6.0] - 2018-09-21

Features

• Support for sending & receiving markdown formatted messages. (#283)
• Import/Export of megolm session keys. (Incompatible with Riot) (#358)
• macOS: The native emoji picker can be used.
• Context menu option to show the raw text message of an event. (#437)
• Rooms with unread messages are marked in the room list. (#313)
• Clicking on a user pill link will open the user profile.

Improvements

• Update Polish translation (#430)
• Enable Qt auto scaling. (#397)
• Enable colors in the console logger.
• Refactor styling to better work with the system theme.

Bug fixes

• Fixed crash when switching rooms. (#433)
• Fixed crash during low connectivity. (#406)
• Fixed issue with downloading media that don't have a generated thumbnail.
• macOS: Add missing border on the top bar.
• Fallback to the login screen when the one-time keys cannot be uploaded.
• Show the sidebar after initial sync. (#412)
• Fix regression, where cache format changes didn't trigger a logout.

[0.5.5] - 2018-09-01

Features

• Add the ability to change the room avatar. (#418)
• Show the room id in the room settings modal. (#416)

Improvements

• More flicker improvements.
• Auto remove old messages from cache.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where nheko will stop retrying initial sync. (#422)
• Fixed the incomplete version string on Info.plist (macOS) (#423)
• Fixed a use-after-free error during logout.
• Temporary fix to work with servers that don't support e2ee. i.e Construct, Dendrite (#371)

[0.5.4] - 2018-08-21

Small release to address a crash during logout.

Features

• The settings page now includes the device id & device fingerprint (thanks @valkum )
• The Polish translation has been updated (thanks @m4sk1n )

[0.5.3] - 2018-08-12

Features

• Add option to disable desktop notifications (#388)
• Allow user to configure join rules for a room.
• Add tab-completion for usernames (#394).

Improvements

• Remove the space gap taken by the typing notifications.
• Remove hover event from emoji picker.
• Add tooltips for the message indicators (#377).
• Fix compilation on FreeBSD (#403)
• Update Polish translation.
• Small modal improvements.

Bug fixes

• Remove dash from the version string when building outside of git.
• Remove unwanted whitespace from the user settings menu.
• Consider the scale ratio when scaling down images (#393).

[0.5.2] - 2018-07-28

Features

• Mark own read messages with a double checkmark (#377).
• Add option to specify the scale factor (#357, #335, #230).
• Add input field to specify the device name on login.
• Add option to ignore key requests altogether.
• Show device list in user profile & add option to create 1-1 chat.

Improvements

• Add foreground color for disabled buttons on the dark theme.
• Increase the opacity of the hover color on the room list.
• Add missing tooltips on buttons (#249).
• Performance Improvements when filtering large number for rooms.
• Clear timeline widgets when they exceed a certain limit, to reduce the memory footprint (#158).
• Use native scrollbar in the timeline.
• Enable scrollbar on the room list for macOS.
• Remove some timeline flickering on macOS.
• Remove pixel values from modals.
• Update Polish translation.

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when the server doesn't have the joined_groups endpoint (#389).
• Reject key requests for users that are not members of the room.
• Add user avatar after the encryption is enabled message (#378)

[0.5.1] - 2018-07-17

Improvements

• Add the -v / --version option, which displays the version of the application.
• Explicitly set no timeout for the Linux notifications.

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when drag 'n drop files on text input. (#363)
• Convert MXC to HTTP URI for video files.
• Don't display the m.room.encryption event twice.
• Properly reset the auto-complete anchor when the popup closes. (#305)
• Use a brighter color for button's text on the system theme. (#355)

[0.5.0] - 2018-07-15

Features

• End-to-End encryption for text messages.
• Context menu option to request missing encryption keys.
• Desktop notifications on all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows).
• Responsive UI (hidden sidebar/timeline).
• Basic support for replies (#292)

Improvements

• Save timeline messages in cache for faster startup times.
• Debug logs will now be saved in a file.
• New translations
  • French (#329)
  • Polish (#349)
• No dependencies will be downloaded during build.

Bug fixes

• Allow close events from the session manager (#353).
• Send image dimensions in m.image event (#215).
• Allow arbitrary resizing of the main window & restore sidebar's size (#160, #163, #187, #127).

[0.4.3] - 2018-06-02

Bug fixes

• Overdue fixes for some regressions with regard to widget height introduced in the previous two releases
• The matrix id will be shown on hover on the display name.

[0.4.2] - 2018-05-25

Bug fixes

• Make the number of unread messages fit in the bubble (#330)
• Use white for messages on the dark theme (#331)
• Fix "jumpy messages" regression

[0.4.1] - 2018-05-23

Features

• Menu to modify the name & topic of the room.
• Desktop notifications for macOS.
• Option to start in tray (#319)
• Russian translation (#318)
• Read support for the room access level (#324)

Improvements

• HiDPI avatars.

Bug fixes

• Fix for the line break on messages with very long words/links.
• Translations are working again.

[0.4.0] - 2018-05-03

Features

• Basic member list
• Basic room settings menu
• Support for displaying stickers
• Fuzzy search for rooms

Improvements

• Cache refactoring (reduced memory consumption)
• Implement media cache (faster avatar loading)
• Show room tooltips when the sidebar is collapsed
• Flicker-free auto-completion menus (rooms, users)
• Improved message spacing in the timeline
• Improved macOS installer
• Fancier date separator widget
• Minor popup improvements

Bug fixes

• Fix UI inconsistencies between room list & communities
• Adjust popup completion menu to fit its contents
• Fix stuck typing notifications
• Handle invalid access tokens

[0.3.1] - 2018-04-13

Improvements

• The auto-completion menu can be navigated with TAB. (#294 )

Bug fixes

• Show auto-completion menu even if there are fewer than the max number of matches (#294)
• Hide emoji panel when it's not under the mouse cursor. (#254, #246)

[0.3.0] - 2018-04-03

Features

• Add auto-completion pop-up for usernames (triggered with @). (#40)
• Add ability to redact messages.
• Add context menu option to save images. (#265)
• Pin invites to the top of the room list. (#252)
• Add environment variable to allow insecure connections (e.g self-signed certs) (#260)

Improvements

• Updated dark theme.
• Add border in community list.
• Add version & build info in the settings menu.
• Easier packaging by allowing to use already built dependencies.

Bug fixes

• Fix invite unreadable button colors on the system theme. (#248)
• Track invites so they can be removed from other clients. (#213)
• Fix text color on the room switcher. (#245)

[0.2.1] - 2018-03-13

Features

• Implement user registration with reCAPTCHA
• Add context menu option to mark events individually as read

Bug fixes

• Update room name & avatar on newly created rooms
• Fix image uploading that was causing other image items to render its content

[0.2.0] - 2018-03-05

Features

• Support for pasting media & files into a room (#180)
• Server-side message & mention notifications
• Two new commands (/fliptable, /shrug)
• Option to disable typing notifications
• Check-mark to messages that have been received by the server (#93)
• Basic communities support (#195)
• Read receipt support
• Re-ordering of rooms based on activity

Improvements

• Automatically focus on input when opening a dialog
• Keep syncing regardless of connectivity (#93)
• Create widgets on demand for messages added to the end of the timeline
• Messages received by /messages will be rendered upon entering the room
• Load last content from all rooms
• Load the initial cache data without blocking the UI

Bug fixes

• Messages will be visible in the side bar after initial sync
• Enable room switcher only in the chat view (#251)
• Retry initial sync forever (#234)
• Show loading indicator while waiting for /login & /logout
• Disable minimize to tray except for the chat view.
• Fixed transparency issue on custom dialogs (#87)
• Fixed crash when there weren't any rooms

[0.1.0] - 2017-12-26

The first release providing the basic features to make use of the Matrix network.