Because we know you can’t get enough of us, we are back again, and this time, as foretold, it’s to announce Fractal 8!
There have been little changes since our release candidate, so let’s recap the main improvements since Fractal 7:
- Mentions are sent intentionally
- Authenticated media are supported
- Draft messages are kept per-room and persisted across restarts
- More links are detected in messages and room descriptions
- Collapsed categories in the sidebar are remembered between restarts, with the “Historical” category collapsed by default
- A banner appears when synchronization with the homeserver fails too many times in a row
- The verification and account recovery processes have been polished
- HTML rendering has been improved, with the support of new elements and attributes
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.
We have a lot of improvements in mind for our next release, but if you want a particular feature to make it, the surest way is to implement it yourself! Start by looking at our issues or just come say hello in our Matrix room.