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# Changelog

## [0.8.2] -- unreleased

### Highlights

- Edits
  - If you made a typo, just press the `Up` key and edit what you wrote.
  - Messages other users edited will get updated automatically and have a small
      pen symbol next to them.
- Privacy Screen
  - Blur your messages, when Nheko looses focus, which prevents others from
    peeking at your messages.
  - You can configure the timeout of when this happens.
- Improved notifications (contributed by lorendb)
  - No more breakage, because the message included a > on KDE based DEs.
  - Render html and images where possible in the notification.
  - Render if a message is a reply or someone sent an emote message more nicely
      where possible.
  - Encrypted notifications now show, that the content is encrypted instead of
      being empty.
- Screenshare support in calls on X11 (contributed by trilene)
  - Share your screen in a call!
  - Select if your mouse cursor should be shown or not and if your webcam should
      be included.
- SEND MESSAGES AS RAINBOWS! (contributed by LordMZTE)
  - YES MESSAGES, EMOTES AND NOTICES!

### Features

- Set your displayname and avatar from Nheko either globally or per room.
    (contributed by jedi18)
- Show room topic in the room settings.
- Double tap a message to reply to it.
- Leave a room using `/part` or `/leave`. (contributed by lorendb)
- Show mxid when hovering a username or avatar.
- Allow opening matrix: uris on Windows.
- Disable room pings caused by replies sent via Nheko (unless you are using
    Element Web/Desktop).

### Improvements
- Userprofile can be closed via the Escape key. No more hotel california!
    (contributed by lorendb)
- Most dialogs are now centered on the Nheko window.  (contributed by lorendb)
- Update Hungarian translations. (contributed by maxigaz)
- Update Estonian translations. (contributed by Priit)
- Update Russian translations. (contributed by Alexey Murz and Artem)
- Update Swedish translations. (contributed by Emilie)
- Update French translations. (contributed by MayeulC and Nicolas Guichard)
- Allow drag and drop of files on the whole timeline. (contributed by lorendb)
- Enable notifications on Haiku. (contributed by kallisti5)
- Update scheme handler to the latest matrix: scheme proposal.
- Close completers when typing a space after the colon. (contributed by jedi18)
- Port room settings to Qml. (contributed by jedi18)
- Improved read marker handling. Read marker should now get stuck less often.
- Various changes around hover and tap handling in the timeline, which hopefully
    now works more predicatably.
- Buttons in the timeline are now rendered in a box on hover on desktop
    platforms.
- Complete room links in the timeline after typing a # character. (contributed
    by jedi18)
- An improved quick switcher with better rendering and search. (contributed by jedi18)
- Some fixes around inline emoji and images.
- Jump into new rooms, after you created them. (contrubuted by jedi18)
- Improved search in the emoji picker.
- Allow disabling certificate checks via the config file.
- Use native menus where possible.
- Fix video playback on Windows. (contrubuted by jedi18)
- Send image messages by pressing Enter. (contributed by salahmak)
- Escape closes the upload widget. (contributed by salahmak)
- Improve session rotation and sharing in E2EE rooms.

### Bugfixes
- Emojis joined from separate emojis with a 0xfe0f in the middle should now
    render correctly.
- Fix a bug when logging out of a non default profile clearing the wrong
    profile. (contrubuted by lorendb)
- Various fixed around profile handling. (contributed by lorendb)
- Focus message input after a reaction. (contributed by jedi18)
- Disable native rendering to prevent kerning bugs on non integer scale factors.
- Fix duplex call devices not showing up. (contributed by trilene)
- Fix a few crashes when leaving a room. (contributed by jedi18)
- Fix hidden tags not updating properly. (contributed by jedi18)
- Fix some issues with login, when a server had SSO as well as password login
    enabled (for example matrix.org).
- Properly set the dialog flag for dialogs on most platforms. (Wayland does not
    support that.)
- Properly add license to source files.
- Fix fingerprint increasing the minimum window size.
- Don't send markdown links in the plain text body of events when autocompleting
    user or room names.
- Fix webcam not working in flatpaks.
- Fix markdown override in replies.
- Fix unsupported events causing errors when saving them. (contributed by
    anjanik)
- Fix exif rotation not being respected anymore in E2EE rooms.
- Remove unused qml plugins in the windows package.
- Fix broken olm channels automatically when noticed.
- Fix pasting not overwriting the selection.

### Packaging changes
- Added xcb dependency on X11 based platforms for screensharing (optional)
- Bumped lmdbxx version from 0.9.14.0 to 1.0.0, which is a BREAKING change. You
    can get the new version here: https://github.com/hoytech/lmdbxx/releases
    (repo changed)
- Removed tweeny as a dependency.


## [0.8.1] -- 2021-01-27

### Features

- `/plain` and `/md` commands to override the current markdown setting. (contributed by lorendb)
- Allow persistent hiding of rooms with a specific tag (or from a community) via a context menu.
- Allow open media messages in an external program immediately. (contributed by rnhmjoj)

### Improvements

- Use async dbus connection for notifications. (contributed by lorendb)
- Update Hungarian translations. (contributed by maxigaz)
- Update Finnish translations. (contributed by Priit)
- Update Malayalam translations. (contributed by vachan-maker)
- Update Dutch translations. (contributed by Glael)
- Store splitter size across restarts.
- Add a border around the completer. (contributed by lorendb)
- Request keys for messages with unknown message indices (once per restart, when they are shown).
- Move the database location to XDG_DATA_DIR. (contributed by rnhmjoj)
- Reload the timeline after key backup import.
- Autoclose completer on `space`, when there are no matches.
- Make completer only react, when the mouse cursor is moved.

### Bugfixes

- Fix unhandled exception, when a device has no keys.
- Fix some cmake warnings regarding GNUInstallDirs.
- Fix tags being broken. If you have no tags showing up, you may want to logout and login again.
- Fix versionOk being called on the wrong thread. (contributed by Jedi18)
- Fix font tags showing up in media message filenames.
- Fix user profile in dark themes showing the wrong colors. (contributed by lorendb)
- Fix emoji category switching on old Qt versions. (contributed by lorendb)
- Fix old messages being replayed after a limited timeline.
- Fix empty secrets being returned from the wallet breaking verification.
- Make matrix link chat invites create a direct chat.
- Fix focus handling on room change or reply button clicks.
- Fix username completion deleting the character before it.

## [0.8.0] -- 2021-01-21

### Highlights

- Voice and Video Calls (contributed by trilene)
  - Call your friends right from within Nheko.
  - Use your camera if you want them to see your face!
  - This requires a somewhat new gstreamer, so our builds don't support it on all platforms yet.
- Cross-Signing and Device/User Verification (contributed by Chethan)
  - Verify who you are talking to!
  - Ensure no malicious people eavesdrop on you!
  - Enable your connected devices to access key backup and your friends to see, which of your devices you trust!
  - Show devices in a users profile.
- Separate profiles (contributed by lorendb)
  - Run multiple Nheko instances with separate profiles side by side.
  - Use multiple accounts at the same time in separate windows.

### Features

- Before a call select which audio device to use. (contributed by trilene)
- Auto request unknown keys from your own devices.
- Add a command to clear the timeline and reload it. (/clear-timeline).
- Add a command to rotate the outbound megolm session. (/rotate-megolm-session).
- React to messages instead of replying with arbitrary strings using `/react`.
- Inline emoji and user completers. (contributed by Lurkki)
- Show filename on hover over an image. (contributed by kamathmanu)
- Mobile mode, that disables text selection and changes some dialogs.
- Allow sending text after a `/shrug` command. (contributed by MayeulC)
- Allow selecting a ringtone. (contributed by trilene)
- View avatars fullscreen. (contributed by kamathmanu)
- Request or download cross signing secrets in the settings.
- Support 'matrix:' URIs. This works in app on all platforms and on Linux Nheko may be opened by clicking a 'matrix:' link.
- Support inline replies on notifications on Linux.

### Improvements

- Remove dependency on libsodium.
- Keep a cache of received messages on disk.
- Warn when kicking, banning or inviting people.
- Align day separators in the timeline. (contributed by not-chicken)
- Confirm quit during an active call. (contributed by trilene)
- Make timestamps somwhat fixed width.
- Add NixOS to readme. (contributed by Tony)
- Speed up database accesses.
- A lot of translation updates by various users.
- Port a few more parts of the UI to Qml.
- Various end-to-end encryption fixes.
- Use a QFontComboBox to select fonts. (contributed by lorendb)
- Delete text in input area with Ctrl+U. (contributed by lorendb)
- Reduce memory usage by not loading members into RAM.
- Speed up rendering the timeline by a lot by removing excessive clipping.
- Reload encrypted message when room_key is received.
- Improve wording in various places. (contributed by MayeulC)
- Improve rendering of avatars in various places. (contributed by MayeulC)
- Riot -> Element in README. (Contributed by Kim)
- Improve login and registration page error reporting. (contributed by kirillpt)
- Move CI to Gitlab.
- Use system Nheko icon on login page. (contributed by lorendb)
- Add Fedora build requirements. (contributed by trilene)
- Add ripple effect to various buttons.
- Allow more font sizes to be selected.
- Swedish translation. (contributed by Emilie)
- German translation. (contributed by Mr X and various others)
- Romanian translation. (contributed by Mihai)
- Polish translation. (contributed by luff)
- Russian translation. (contributed by kirillpt and librehacker)
- Italian translation. (contributed by Lorenzo)
- French translation. (contributed by MayeulC)
- Hungarian translation. (contributed by maxigaz)
- Show read markers when clicking read indicator. (contributed by lorendb)

### Bugfixes

- Fix text sometimes being rendered blurry.
- Fix not being able to change theme (contributed by not-chicken)
- Fix relations sometimes being sent as null in encrypted messages.
- Don't send formatted body without format.
- Links sometimes not opening properly from Qml.
- Fix autolinking breaking on single quotes.
- Fix translation loading on some locales.
- Don't send url in encrypted file events.
- Prevent duplicate messages from showing up in the timeline.
- Fix crash when pasting image from clipboard on macOS.
- Settings toggles don't get stuck anymore. (contributed by kirillpt)
- Fix some emojis being rendered as two emoji.
- Fix SSO login on some servers that allow multiple login methods. (contributed by d42)

### For packagers

- Nheko now depends on QtKeychain.
- Nheko optionally depends on GStreamer for VOIP.
- Nheko does not depend on Sodium anymore.
- Minimum OpenSSL version is now 1.1.

## [0.7.2] -- 2020-06-12

### Highlights

- Reactions
  - React to a message with an emoji! 🎉
  - Reactions are shown below a message in a small bubble with a counter.
  - By clicking on that, others can add to the reaction count.
  - It may help you celebrating a new Nheko Release or react with a 👎 to a failed build to express your frustration.
  - This uses a new emoji picker. The picker will be improved in the near future (better scrolling, sections, favorites, recently used or similar) and then probably replace the current picker.
- Support for tagging rooms `[tag]`
  - Assign custom tags to rooms from the context menu in the room list.
  - This allows filtering rooms via the group list. This puts you in a focus mode showing only the selected tags.
  - You can assign multiple tags to group rooms however you like.
- SSO Login
  - With this you can now login on servers, that only provide SSO.
  - Just enter any mxid on the server. Nheko will figure out that you need to use SSO and redirect your browser to the login page.
  - Complete the login in your browser and Nheko should automatically log you in.
- Presence
  - Shows online status of the people you are talking to.
  - You can define a custom status message to tell others what you are currently up to.
  - The status message appears next to the usernames in the timeline.
  - Your server needs to have presence enabled for this to work.

### Features

- Respect exif rotation of images
- An italian translation (contributed by Lorenzo Ancora)
- Optional alerts in your taskbar (contributed by z33ky)
- Optional bigger emoji only messages in the timeline (contributed by lkito)
- Optional hover feedback on messages (contributed by lkito)
- `/roomnick` to change your displayname in a single room.
- Preliminary support for showing inline images.
- Warn about unencrypted messages in encrypted rooms.

### Improvements

- perf: Use less CPU to sort the room list.
- Limit size of replies. This currently looks a bit rough, but should improve in the future with a gradient or at some other transition.
- perf: Only clean out old messages from the database every 500 syncs. (There is usually more than one sync every second)
- Improve the login and register masks a bit with hints and validation.
- Descriptions for settings (contributed by lkito)
- A visual indicator, that nheko is fetching messages and improved scrolling (contributed by Lasath Fernando)

### Bugfixes

- Fix not being able to join rooms
- Fix scale factor setting
- Buildfixes against gcc10 and Qt5.15 (missing includes)
- Settings now apply immediately again after changing them (only exception should be the scale factor)
- Join messages should never have empty texts now
- Timeline should now fail to render less often on platforms with native sibling windows.
- Don't rescale images on every frame on highdpi screens.

### Upgrade Notes

<span style="color: red;">This updates includes some changes to the database. Older versions don't handle that gracefully and will delete your database. It is therefore recommended to not downgrade below this version!</span>

## [0.7.1] -- 2020-04-24

### Features

- Show decrypted message source (helps debugging)
- Allow user to show / hide messages in encrypted rooms in sidebar

### Bugfixes

- Fix display of images sent by the user (thank you, wnereiz and not-chicken for reporting)
- Fix crash when trying to maximize image, that wasn't downloaded yet.
- Fix Binding restoreMode flooding logs on Qt 5.14.2+
- Fix with some qml styles hidden menu items leave empty space
- Fix encrypted messages not showing a user in the sidebar
- Fix hangs when generating colors with some system theme color schemes (#172)

## [0.7.0] -- 2020-04-19

0.7.0 *requires* mtxclient 0.3.0.  Make sure you compile against 0.3.0
if you do not use the mtxclient bundled with nheko.

### Features
- Make nheko session import / export format match riot.  Fixes #48
- Implement proper replies
- Add .well-known support for auto-completing homeserver information
- Add mentions viewer so you can see all the messages you have been mentioned in
  - Currently broken due to QML changes.  Will be fixed in the future.
- Add emoji font selection preference
- Encryption and decryption of media in E2EE rooms
- Square avatars
- Support for muting and unmuting rooms
- Basic support for playing audio and video messages in the timeline
- Support for a lot more event types (hiding them will come in the future)
- Support for sending all messages as plain text
- Support for inviting, kicking, banning and unbanning users
- Sort the room list by importance of messages (thanks @Alch-Emi)
- Experimental support for [blurhashes](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2448)

### Improvements
- Add dedicated reply button to Timeline items.  Add button for other options so
    that right click isn't always required.
- Fix various things with regards to emoji rendering and the emoji picker
- Lots and lots and lots of localization updates.
- Additional tweaks to the system theme
- Render timeline in Qml to drop memory usage
- Reduce memory usage of avatars
- Close notifications after they have been read on Linux
- Escape html properly in most places
- A lot of improvements around the image overlay
- The settings page now resizes properly for small screens
- Miscellaneous styling improvements
- Simplify and speedup build
- Display more emojis in the selected emoji font
- Use 'system' theme as default if QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME is set

### Bugfixes

- Fix messages stuck on unread
- Reduce the amount of messages shown as "xxx sent an encrypted message"
-