Let’s celebrate the winter (or summer) solstice with a new beta release! Even though Fractal 5 was released only 1 month ago, development has been going at a steady pace with a few new contributors, so we want our users to benefit from our progress.
The staff’s picks:
- Restoring sessions from Secret Services other than GNOME Keyring has been fixed
- Times follow the format (12h or 24h) from the system settings
- Media history works in encrypted rooms
- The accessibility of the sidebar was improved
- More notifications settings were added, you can now set global and per-room behavior and even manage your keywords
- A bunch of refactoring, notably the port to the
glib::Propertiesmacro from gtk-rs that helped us removed almost 3000 lines of code!
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!
If you find yourself with time to spare during these end-of-year holidays, you can always try to fix one of our issues. Any help is greatly appreciated!