It’s time to experience La vie en rose! We just released Fractal 9.rc and to show our support 🩷 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we decided to change the accent color to pink. And it is also packed with bug fixes, take a look for yourself:
- We used to only rely on the secrets provider to tell us which Matrix accounts are logged-in, which caused issues for people sharing their secrets between devices. Now we also make sure that there is a data folder for a given session before trying to restore it.
- Our notifications are categorized as coming from an instant messenger, so graphical shells that support it, such as Phosh, can play a sound for them.
- Some room settings are hidden for direct chats, because it does not make sense to change them in this type of room.
- The size of the headerbar would change depending on whether the room has a topic or not. This will not happen anymore.
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 9, which we expect to happen in two weeks. Our strings are frozen until then.
If you are wondering what to do on a rainy day, you can try to fix one of our newcomers issues. We are always looking for new contributors!