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[0.9.0] -- 2021-11-19

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)
  • 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.
  • A new video and audio player, that should look a bit nicer.

Improvements

  • Translation 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. (On macOS it still uses a tempfile because of https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69101)
  • 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.
  • Switched to the fluent icon set. (LorenDB)

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.
  • Prevent edits from stripping the whole message, if it had a quote.

Packaging changes

  • Removed the AppImage
  • Removed dependency on boost
  • Now depends on coeurl, which depends on libevent and libcurl.
  • VOIP support now needs to be explicitly controlled using the VOIP and SCREENSHARE_X11 cmake options.
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