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@deepbluev7 deepbluev7 released this 20 Jan 00:40
v0.8.0
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[0.8.0] -- 2021-01-21

Highlights

  • Voice and Video Calls (contributed by trilene)
    • Call your friends right from within Nheko.
    • Use your camera if you want them to see your face!
    • This requires a somewhat new gstreamer, so our builds don't support it on all platforms yet.
  • Cross-Signing and Device/User Verification (contributed by Chethan)
    • Verify who you are talking to!
    • Ensure no malicious people eavesdrop on you!
    • Enable your connected devices to access key backup and your friends to see, which of your devices you trust!
    • Show devices in a users profile.
  • Separate profiles (contributed by lorendb)
    • Run multiple Nheko instances with separate profiles side by side.
    • Use multiple accounts at the same time in separate windows.

Features

  • Before a call select which audio device to use. (contributed by trilene)
  • Auto request unknown keys from your own devices.
  • Add a command to clear the timeline and reload it. (/clear-timeline).
  • Add a command to rotate the outbound megolm session. (/rotate-megolm-session).
  • React to messages instead of replying with arbitrary strings using /react.
  • Inline emoji and user completers. (contributed by Lurkki)
  • Show filename on hover over an image. (contributed by kamathmanu)
  • Mobile mode, that disables text selection and changes some dialogs.
  • Allow sending text after a /shrug command. (contributed by MayeulC)
  • Allow selecting a ringtone. (contributed by trilene)
  • View avatars fullscreen. (contributed by kamathmanu)
  • Request or download cross signing secrets in the settings.
  • Support 'matrix:' URIs. This works in app on all platforms and on Linux Nheko may be opened by clicking a 'matrix:' link.
  • Support inline replies on notifications on Linux.

Improvements

  • Remove dependency on libsodium.
  • Keep a cache of received messages on disk.
  • Warn when kicking, banning or inviting people.
  • Align day separators in the timeline. (contributed by not-chicken)
  • Confirm quit during an active call. (contributed by trilene)
  • Make timestamps somwhat fixed width.
  • Add NixOS to readme. (contributed by Tony)
  • Speed up database accesses.
  • A lot of translation updates by various users.
  • Port a few more parts of the UI to Qml.
  • Various end-to-end encryption fixes.
  • Use a QFontComboBox to select fonts. (contributed by lorendb)
  • Delete text in input area with Ctrl+U. (contributed by lorendb)
  • Reduce memory usage by not loading members into RAM.
  • Speed up rendering the timeline by a lot by removing excessive clipping.
  • Reload encrypted message when room_key is received.
  • Improve wording in various places. (contributed by MayeulC)
  • Improve rendering of avatars in various places. (contributed by MayeulC)
  • Riot -> Element in README. (Contributed by Kim)
  • Improve login and registration page error reporting. (contributed by kirillpt)
  • Move CI to Gitlab.
  • Use system Nheko icon on login page. (contributed by lorendb)
  • Add Fedora build requirements. (contributed by trilene)
  • Add ripple effect to various buttons.
  • Allow more font sizes to be selected.
  • Swedish translation. (contributed by Emilie)
  • German translation. (contributed by Mr X and various others)
  • Romanian translation. (contributed by Mihai)
  • Polish translation. (contributed by luff)
  • Russian translation. (contributed by kirillpt and librehacker)
  • Italian translation. (contributed by Lorenzo)
  • French translation. (contributed by MayeulC)
  • Hungarian translation. (contributed by maxigaz)
  • Show read markers when clicking read indicator. (contributed by lorendb)

Bugfixes

  • Fix text sometimes being rendered blurry.
  • Fix not being able to change theme (contributed by not-chicken)
  • Fix relations sometimes being sent as null in encrypted messages.
  • Don't send formatted body without format.
  • Links sometimes not opening properly from Qml.
  • Fix autolinking breaking on single quotes.
  • Fix translation loading on some locales.
  • Don't send url in encrypted file events.
  • Prevent duplicate messages from showing up in the timeline.
  • Fix crash when pasting image from clipboard on macOS.
  • Settings toggles don't get stuck anymore. (contributed by kirillpt)
  • Fix some emojis being rendered as two emoji.
  • Fix SSO login on some servers that allow multiple login methods. (contributed by d42)

For packagers

  • Nheko now depends on QtKeychain.
  • Nheko optionally depends on GStreamer for VOIP. GStreamer 1.18 is required for proper turnserver support, if you want it to work across some NATs.
  • Nheko does not depend on Sodium anymore.
  • Minimum OpenSSL version is now 1.1.
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