This one is packed with lots of small changes, that make for an even better experience. Here is a quick reminder of the changes since Fractal 13:
- 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.
- Calls are rendered in the timeline and incoming calls trigger a notification. We still don’t support calls, but at least now you know when someone is calling and can open another client to answer.
- 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.
- The sidebar room filter has been improved: Enter goes to first room result, and there’s an empty state when no results match the term.
- The performance of the room list has also been improved, it should be mostly noticeable for accounts that have joined a lot of rooms.
- Informative events (
Unable to decrypt, server notices…) are now styled differently to reflect their special nature and differentiate them from regular text messages that anyone can send. - Sending files & location is properly disabled while editing/replying, as it doesn’t work anyway.
As usual, this release includes other improvements and fixes thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.
We want to address special thanks to the translators who worked on this version. We know this is a huge undertaking and have a deep appreciation for what you’ve done. If you want to help with this effort, head over to Damned Lies.
This version is available right now on Flathub.
This cycle, we were lucky enough to get a higher than usual number of new contributors. Most of the changes listed above come from them. If you want to join the gang, you can start by fixing one of our newcomers issues. We are always looking for new members!