Fractal 14.beta released

Things have been fairly quiet since the JasonAI takeover.

  • Sending files & location is properly disabled while editing/replying, as it doesn’t work anyway.
  • Call rooms are identified with a camera icon in the sidebar and show a banner to warn that other users might not read messages in these rooms.
  • While we still support signing in via SSO, we have dropped support for identity providers, to simplify our code and a have a closer experience to signing in with OAuth 2.0.
  • Map markers now use a darker variant of the accent color to have a better contrast with the map underneath.
  • Many small behind the scenes changes, mostly through dependency updates, and we have removed a few of them. Small improvements to the technical docs as well.

As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

It is available to install via Flathub Beta, see the instructions in our README.

As the version implies, there might be a slight risk of regressions, but it should be mostly stable. If all goes well the next step is the release candidate!

We are very excited to see several new contributors opening MRs lately to take care of their pet peeves with Fractal, which will benefit everyone in the end. If you have a little bit of time on your hands, you can try to join them by fixing one of our newcomers issues.

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