flare/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Changed

• Better UI for showing the last message of a channel.
• Only show the message timestamp if it differs from the next message.

0.10.0 - 2023-08-28

Added

• Deleting messages of a channel locally.
• Blurred placeholders for attachments.

Changed

• Better UI for linking.
• Better UI for attachments.
• Better UI for message entry.

Fixed

• Handle libsecret stores that can lock specific items.
• Restrict sending of a file-attachment such that a file-attachment must be sent without any additional attachments (restriction from Signal).

0.9.3 - 2023-08-17

Added

• Support for libspelling.

Fixed

• Fixed performance issues when loading messages.

Note to Packagers

• New library required: gtksourceview5.
• New library recommended: libspelling.

0.9.2 - 2023-08-09

HOTFIX

• Fix linking being broken.

Changed

• Updated description and namespace.

0.9.1 - 2023-08-02

Added

• Notifications on reactions received (configurable).
• Setting to turn off sending a message when the enter-key is pressed.
• Ability to submit captcha requests.

Changed

• Text of the quote in the reply message is now truncated to 2 lines.
• Moved the download and open attachments buttons to the popover.
• Don't hard-code the font size for texts.

Fixed

• General UI fixes.

Chores

• Update all dependencies. This especially includes presage/libsignal-service-rs backends becoming post-quantum secure.

0.9.0 - 2023-07-10

Changed

• Added support for voice messages/audio files.
• Ported the ui to Blueprint.
• New UI improvements to the feed list. This also now respects the accent colors set in GNOME.
• Reworked the popover menu for messages.
• Updated to GTK 4.10 with many UI improvements and minor fixes.
• Message popups are now opened with right-click or long-press (touch only).

Fixed

• Issue where special characters in replied messages were displayed incorrectly.
• Attachments with very long names not being ellipsized.
• Messages with only attachment not persisting reactions.

0.8.2 - 2023-05-29

Added

• A "pick emoji" button for the text entry.
• Support for receiving mentions.
• Smaller UI improvements.

Fixed

• Avatar of contacts with special characters not displaying the initials label.
• No profile names were shown in notifications.
• Removing expiration timer for conversations with expire messages.

0.8.1 - 2023-05-07

Added

• Button to show all channels.
• Button to scroll down in the messages view.
• Keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+Q" to close window.

Changed

• Only show non-empty channels by default.
• UI changes to differentiate own messages from others.

0.8.0 - 2023-05-03

Changed

• Rewrote the message list to be a ListView.
• Slight fix for the icon.

Fixed

• Switches in the settings having inconsistent activation.
• Possibly fixed session corruptions upstream.
• Don't ignore emoji remove reactions.
• Fixed sending wrong reaction with complex emojis.
• Fixed groups not working (upstream).

0.7.2 - 2023-04-08

Added

• Message deletion.

Changed

• Updated application icon and emblem.
• Don't receive messages from blocked contacts anymore.

0.7.1 - 2023-04-01

HOTFIX

• Fix outgoing 1-to-1 messages stored incorrectly.

0.7.0 - 2023-03-29

BREAKING

• Due to a new storage for data, a relink is required on first startup

Added

• Integration with feedbackd.
• Showing profile names.
• Copy action in message menu.
• Initial channel information dialog with identity reset.
• Show offline status in GUI.

Changed

• Notifications for group messages now display the name of the group instead of just the name of the sender.
• Messages must now be successfully sent before displaying in a chat.
• UI got revamped.

Fixed

• Fixed not setting revision for groups.
• Prevent sending messages while offline.

Chores

• Updated all dependencies.

0.6.0 - 2023-01-13

Added

• Ability to receive messages in the background.

Fixed

• Fixed restarting the backend after suspend.
• Fixed grammar error in the project description.

[0.5.7] - 2022-12-17

Fixed

• Fixed application freeze when there are many initial messages
• Fixed incorrect ordering of new messages

0.5.6 - 2022-12-03

Fixed

• Fixed memory leak.
• Fixed displayed reply message not clearing attachments when changing reply.
• Fixed crash when searching non-existing channel.

0.5.5 - 2022-11-16

HOTFIX

• Fix linking not working

0.5.4 - 2022-11-15

Changed

• Slight UI update to channel list

Fixed

• Crash when clicking on call message
• URLs containing "&" not being displayed
• Fixed some (hopefully all) duplicate messages
• Fixed receiving messages from certain groups

0.5.3 - 2022-10-27

HOTFIX

• Updated certificate of Signal servers (upstream, #32)

0.5.2 - 2022-10-16

Added

• Pasting files and images into the text entry (#19)
• Unlink without deleting messages
• Messages and notifications for calls

Fixed

• Fixed showing messages with "&", "<" or ">"

Chores

• Refactored GTK properties
• Greatly refactored messages

0.5.1 - 2022-10-10

Added

• Clickable links in text messages. (#24)
• Open image in default program. (#22)
• Contributing guidelines

Changed

• Show backend thread panics.
• UI improvements for the channel list. (#20)
• Display user initials in profile pictures. (#26)

Fixed

• Fixed duplicate message receiving.
• Wrapping for extremely long words.

0.5.0 - 2022-10-05

Added

• Immediately sync contacts after linking, without application restart required.
• Show UUID for unknown contacts (without name, phone numbers) instead of empty string.
• Notification support

Changed

• Many UI updates (#9, #10, #11, #13)
• Use new libadwaita widgets (about dialog, message dialog, entry row)
• New message storage backend

Fixed

• Wrongly associated stored messages from other devices (#12)
• Possibly fixed #4
• (Upstream) Fixed duplicate messages to other third-party Signal clients

BREAKING

• Due to changes in the storage backend, your previously stored messages will be lost.

0.4.1 - 2022-09-20

Added

• Button in the link window to copy link URL to clipboard (#6)
• Group storage
• Search for the channel view (#7)

Fixed

• Maybe fixed rare crash in the backend thread
• Fixed messages sent to contacts being wrongly stored to "Note to self" (#8)

0.4.0 - 2022-09-16

Added

• Accessibility (no idea how good it is)
• Message storage
• Prevented sending empty messages
• Display the time the message was sent

Fixed

• Attachment list not hiding after sending message
• Minor glib warning

0.3.3 - 2022-09-05

Added

• Keyboard shortcuts

Changed

• Small UI updates
• Moved from Entry to TextView which provides:
  • Multi-Line editing
  • Line Wrapping

Fixed

• Fixed screenshot dummy

0.3.2 - 2022-08-30

Fixed

• Revert fix for #4 which fixes a crash when no default collection is set up.

0.3.1 - 2022-08-25

Fixed

• Gschema not being installed

0.3.0 - 2022-08-25

Added

• Settings dialog.
• Configurable device name.
• Basic video attachment support.
• Lazy-loading of attachments including configuration on what to load when viewed and what to load on click.

Fixed

• Crash on startup when presage failed.
• Not unlocking the default libsecret collection at startup, see #4.
  • Update: Actually not fixed, even made worse.

0.2.1 - 2022-08-15

Added

• Section in the README on installation

Changed

• Small UI change with messages
• Link to signal-notify renamed to messenger-notify

Fixed

• Link-Window never popping up, see #5.
• Unlink not clearing all the data

0.2.0 - 2022-08-07

Added

• Weblate for translations.
• Ability to unlink device.
• Receive non-image attachments.
• Send non-image attachments.
• Display sender of last message in channel overview.

Fixed

• Another attempt at fixing the application freeze. Pretty sure it should work this time.

Internationalization

• New Norwegian Bokmål (thanks @kingu)
• New French (thanks @rene-coty)
• Modified German (thanks @gastornis)
• Updated all the translations

0.1.5 - 2022-07-23

Added

• Upload attachments (currently image-only).
• Download attachments.
• Remove reply message before sending a message.
• Remove attachments before sending a message.
• Improved UI for replies in the chat.

Fixed

• Reply message not being cleared when sending a message.
• Reply message not being cleared when switching channels.
• Replies not showing correctly.
• Another attempt at fixing application freeze.
• Non-adaptive UI in the error dialog.

Development

• Fixed cargo clippy.

0.1.4 - 2022-07-16

Added

• A few new GitLab templates for issues (e.g. for feature requests).
• CHANGELOG

Fixed

• Issue where messages sent from other device will land in the "Note to self" disregarding the recipient.
• Contacts with unknown name were displayed as "Note to self" in the channel list. Now their phone numbers are displayed.
• Maybe fix a crash where the application did not respond any more. (Update: The patch did not fix this issue. Still investigating)
• Maybe fix a crash when the sled database was locked causing the window not to open.

Development

• Refactored that external classes should not access Manager::internal.
• Fixed cargo clippy.
• Updated presage to official repository.