Did you miss us? Only two weeks after our beta release, we are ready to release Fractal 8.rc.
Here are the main goodies since Fractal 8.beta:
- Draft messages are persisted in the database, allowing to restore them after a restart
- A banner appears when synchronization with the homeserver fails too many times in a row
- Links in room descriptions are detected in most places
- Collapsed categories in the sidebar are remembered between restarts, with the “Historical” category collapsed by default
- The history media viewers show properly when they are loading or empty
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, it should be mostly stable and we expect to only include minor improvements until the release of Fractal 8, which we expect to happen in two weeks. Our strings are frozen until then.
If you want to spend your summer or winter coding, solving our issues is a great place to start!