nheko/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[0.8.2] -- 2021-04-23

Highlights

• Edits
  • If you made a typo, just press the Up key and edit what you wrote.
  • Messages other users edited will get updated automatically and have a small pen symbol next to them.
• Privacy Screen
  • Blur your messages, when Nheko looses focus, which prevents others from peeking at your messages.
  • You can configure the timeout of when this happens.
• Improved notifications (contributed by lorendb)
  • No more breakage, because the message included a > on KDE based DEs.
  • Render html and images where possible in the notification.
  • Render if a message is a reply or someone sent an emote message more nicely where possible.
  • Encrypted notifications now show, that the content is encrypted instead of being empty.
• Screenshare support in calls on X11 (contributed by trilene)
  • Share your screen in a call!
  • Select if your mouse cursor should be shown or not and if your webcam should be included.
• SEND MESSAGES AS RAINBOWS! (contributed by LordMZTE)
  • YES MESSAGES, EMOTES AND NOTICES!

Features

• Set your displayname and avatar from Nheko either globally or per room. (contributed by jedi18)
• Show room topic in the room settings.
• Double tap a message to reply to it.
• Leave a room using /part or /leave. (contributed by lorendb)
• Show mxid when hovering a username or avatar.
• Allow opening matrix: uris on Windows.
• Disable room pings caused by replies sent via Nheko (unless you are using Element Web/Desktop).

Improvements

• Userprofile can be closed via the Escape key. No more hotel california! (contributed by lorendb)
• Most dialogs are now centered on the Nheko window. (contributed by lorendb)
• Update Hungarian translations. (contributed by maxigaz)
• Update Estonian translations. (contributed by Priit)
• Update Russian translations. (contributed by Alexey Murz and Artem)
• Update Swedish translations. (contributed by Emilie)
• Update French translations. (contributed by MayeulC, Nicolas Guichard and Carl Schwan)
• Allow drag and drop of files on the whole timeline. (contributed by lorendb)
• Enable notifications on Haiku. (contributed by kallisti5)
• Update scheme handler to the latest matrix: scheme proposal.
• Close completers when typing a space after the colon. (contributed by jedi18)
• Port room settings to Qml. (contributed by jedi18)
• Improved read marker handling. Read marker should now get stuck less often.
• Various changes around hover and tap handling in the timeline, which hopefully now works more predicatably.
• Buttons in the timeline are now rendered in a box on hover on desktop platforms.
• Complete room links in the timeline after typing a # character. (contributed by jedi18)
• An improved quick switcher with better rendering and search. (contributed by jedi18)
• Some fixes around inline emoji and images.
• Jump into new rooms, after you created them. (contrubuted by jedi18)
• Improved search in the emoji picker.
• Allow disabling certificate checks via the config file.
• Use native menus where possible.
• Fix video playback on Windows. (contrubuted by jedi18)
• Send image messages by pressing Enter. (contributed by salahmak)
• Escape closes the upload widget. (contributed by salahmak)
• Improve session rotation and sharing in E2EE rooms.

Bugfixes

• Emojis joined from separate emojis with a 0xfe0f in the middle should now render correctly.
• Fix a bug when logging out of a non default profile clearing the wrong profile. (contrubuted by lorendb)
• Various fixed around profile handling. (contributed by lorendb)
• Focus message input after a reaction. (contributed by jedi18)
• Disable native rendering to prevent kerning bugs on non integer scale factors.
• Fix duplex call devices not showing up. (contributed by trilene)
• Fix a few crashes when leaving a room. (contributed by jedi18)
• Fix hidden tags not updating properly. (contributed by jedi18)
• Fix some issues with login, when a server had SSO as well as password login enabled (for example matrix.org).
• Properly set the dialog flag for dialogs on most platforms. (Wayland does not support that.)
• Properly add license to source files.
• Fix fingerprint increasing the minimum window size.
• Don't send markdown links in the plain text body of events when autocompleting user or room names.
• Fix webcam not working in flatpaks.
• Fix markdown override in replies.
• Fix unsupported events causing errors when saving them. (contributed by anjanik)
• Fix exif rotation not being respected anymore in E2EE rooms.
• Remove unused qml plugins in the windows package.
• Fix broken olm channels automatically when noticed.
• Fix pasting not overwriting the selection.
• Fix Nheko sometimes overwriting received keys with keys it requested, even if they have a higher minimum index.

Packaging changes

• Added xcb dependency on X11 based platforms for screensharing (optional)
• Bumped lmdbxx version from 0.9.14.0 to 1.0.0, which is a BREAKING change. You can get the new version here: https://github.com/hoytech/lmdbxx/releases (repo changed)
• Removed tweeny as a dependency.

[0.8.1] -- 2021-01-27

Features

• /plain and /md commands to override the current markdown setting. (contributed by lorendb)
• Allow persistent hiding of rooms with a specific tag (or from a community) via a context menu.
• Allow open media messages in an external program immediately. (contributed by rnhmjoj)

Improvements

• Use async dbus connection for notifications. (contributed by lorendb)
• Update Hungarian translations. (contributed by maxigaz)
• Update Finnish translations. (contributed by Priit)
• Update Malayalam translations. (contributed by vachan-maker)
• Update Dutch translations. (contributed by Glael)
• Store splitter size across restarts.
• Add a border around the completer. (contributed by lorendb)
• Request keys for messages with unknown message indices (once per restart, when they are shown).
• Move the database location to XDG_DATA_DIR. (contributed by rnhmjoj)
• Reload the timeline after key backup import.
• Autoclose completer on space, when there are no matches.
• Make completer only react, when the mouse cursor is moved.

Bugfixes

• Fix unhandled exception, when a device has no keys.
• Fix some cmake warnings regarding GNUInstallDirs.
• Fix tags being broken. If you have no tags showing up, you may want to logout and login again.
• Fix versionOk being called on the wrong thread. (contributed by Jedi18)
• Fix font tags showing up in media message filenames.
• Fix user profile in dark themes showing the wrong colors. (contributed by lorendb)
• Fix emoji category switching on old Qt versions. (contributed by lorendb)
• Fix old messages being replayed after a limited timeline.
• Fix empty secrets being returned from the wallet breaking verification.
• Make matrix link chat invites create a direct chat.
• Fix focus handling on room change or reply button clicks.
• Fix username completion deleting the character before it.

[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.
• Nheko does not depend on Sodium anymore.
• Minimum OpenSSL version is now 1.1.

[0.7.2] -- 2020-06-12

Highlights

• Reactions
  • React to a message with an emoji! 🎉
  • Reactions are shown below a message in a small bubble with a counter.
  • By clicking on that, others can add to the reaction count.
  • It may help you celebrating a new Nheko Release or react with a 👎 to a failed build to express your frustration.
  • This uses a new emoji picker. The picker will be improved in the near future (better scrolling, sections, favorites, recently used or similar) and then probably replace the current picker.
• Support for tagging rooms [tag]
  • Assign custom tags to rooms from the context menu in the room list.
  • This allows filtering rooms via the group list. This puts you in a focus mode showing only the selected tags.
  • You can assign multiple tags to group rooms however you like.
• SSO Login
  • With this you can now login on servers, that only provide SSO.
  • Just enter any mxid on the server. Nheko will figure out that you need to use SSO and redirect your browser to the login page.
  • Complete the login in your browser and Nheko should automatically log you in.
• Presence
  • Shows online status of the people you are talking to.
  • You can define a custom status message to tell others what you are currently up to.
  • The status message appears next to the usernames in the timeline.
  • Your server needs to have presence enabled for this to work.

Features

• Respect exif rotation of images
• An italian translation (contributed by Lorenzo Ancora)
• Optional alerts in your taskbar (contributed by z33ky)
• Optional bigger emoji only messages in the timeline (contributed by lkito)
• Optional hover feedback on messages (contributed by lkito)
• /roomnick to change your displayname in a single room.
• Preliminary support for showing inline images.
• Warn about unencrypted messages in encrypted rooms.

Improvements

• perf: Use less CPU to sort the room list.
• Limit size of replies. This currently looks a bit rough, but should improve in the future with a gradient or at some other transition.
• perf: Only clean out old messages from the database every 500 syncs. (There is usually more than one sync every second)
• Improve the login and register masks a bit with hints and validation.
• Descriptions for settings (contributed by lkito)
• A visual indicator, that nheko is fetching messages and improved scrolling (contributed by Lasath Fernando)

Bugfixes

• Fix not being able to join rooms
• Fix scale factor setting
• Buildfixes against gcc10 and Qt5.15 (missing includes)
• Settings now apply immediately again after changing them (only exception should be the scale factor)
• Join messages should never have empty texts now
• Timeline should now fail to render less often on platforms with native sibling windows.
• Don't rescale images on every frame on highdpi screens.

Upgrade Notes

This updates includes some changes to the database. Older versions don't handle that gracefully and will delete your database. It is therefore recommended to not downgrade below this version!

[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.