Features: * Add the new public rooms API. * Add some languages support. * Add Room.forget API.
Improvements: * Add a dedicated method to mark all messages as read. * Ignore invalid avatarURL. * Add plaftform flavor in the request user agent. * Set the log timestamp to UTC. * Move the room preview management in a dedicated thread to avoid UI thread lags. * Improve the network connection detection.
Bugfixes: * Issues reported by GA. * Fix some registration issues. * #1080 : The message sent with QuickReply is not added to the room history if the dedicated room activity is opened. * #1093 : Cannot decrypt attachments on Android 4.2.X. * #1129 : App-Name changed from "Riot" to "Matrix Android SDK" * #1148 : Cannot login when the device language is set to turkish * #1186 : Infinite back pagination whereas the app is in background * #1210 : Please don't log encryption payloads in rageshakes. * Fix double cryptostore creation. * Fix some crypto issues.
Features: * Add the MSDISN support for the registration and the authentification (3Pid). * Add the e2e keys import/export. * Add some settings to send encrypted messages to veryfied devices only (for a dedicated room or any room).
Improvements: * Improve the session loading time. * Add a callback to prevent sending messages to unknown devices. * Add a custom user agent with the application / SDK version. * Improve the audio attachments support
Bugfixes: * Fix many cryptography issues. * Fix many issues reported by GA. * #929 : Retry schedule is too aggressive for arbitrary endpoints * #938 : Unbanning users is broken * #952 : Launch a call in a e2e and 1:1 room with unknown devices make the call fails.
Improvements: * Use the new contacts lookup request.
Bugfixes: * #894 : matrix user id regex does not allow underscore in the name * Fix backward compatibility issue.
Improvements: * Update the olm library. * Improve the email bunch lookup method
Bugfixes: * The users were not saved after the login. They were only saved after restarting the application.
Improvements: * Video call : The local preview is moveable. * e2e : The e2e data is now saved synchronously to avoid not being able to read our own messages if the application crashes. * Use a dedicated logger to avoid having truncated logs.
Bugfixes: * Fix many crashes reported by Google Analytics. * Update the olm library (fix the random string generation issue, invalid emoji support...). * #816 : Custom server URL bug. * #821 : Room creation with a matrix user from the contacts list creates several empty rooms. * #841 : Infinite call ringing.
Improvements: * The e2e keys are sent by 100 devices chunk
Bugfixes: * Several issues reported by GA. * In some edge cases, the read all function does not clear the unread messages counters.
Improvements: * Many e2e improvements * Reduce the stores launching times.
Bugfixes: * Several issues reported by GA. * #374 : Check if Event.unsigned.age can be used to detect if the event is still valid. * #687 : User adress instead of display name in call event * #723 : Cancelling download of encrypted image does not work
Improvements: * reduce the memory use to avoid having out of memory error.
Bugfixes: * The rest clients did not with http v2 servers.
Features: * Add room.isDirectChatInvitation method * Send thumbnail for the image messages * Update to the attachment encryptions V2
Improvements: * Improve the cryptostore management to avoid working on UI thread. * Improve the crypto store to avoid application logout when the files are corrupted * Update the olm lib.
Bugfixes: * #680 : Unsupported TLS protocol version * #731 : Crypto : Some device informations are not displayed whereas the messages can be decrypted. * #739 : [e2e] Ringtone from call is different according to the encryption state of the room * #742 : Unable to send messages in #megolm since build 810: Network error
Improvements: * Improve the cryptostore management to avoid working on UI thread.
Bugfixes: * Add try / catch block in JSonUtils methods (GA issues)
Features: * Encryption * DirectChat management * Devices list management
Bugfixes: * GA issues * #529 : the unread notified messages are not properly cleared when the network connection is lost / unstable * #540 : All the store data is lost if there is an OOM error while saving it. * #546 : Invite a left user doesn't display his displayname. * #558 ! Global search : the back pagination does not work anymore * #561 : URLs containing $s aren't linkified correctly * #562 : Some redacted events were restored at next application launch * #589 : Login as email is case sensistive * #590 : Email validation token is sent even to invalid emails * #602 : The 1:1 room avatar must be the other member avatar if no room avatar was set * #611 : Remove display name event is blank
Bugfixes: * Ensure that ended calls are no more seen as active call. * #490 : Start a call conference and stop it asap don't stop it * #501 : [VoIP] crash in caller side when a started video call is stopped asap. * Some files were sent with an invalid mimetype text/uri-list.
Features: * #406 : Chat screen: New message(s) notification * #465 : Chat screen: disable auto scroll to bottom on keyboard presentation
Bugfixes: * #386 : Sender picture missing in notification * #396 : Displayed name should be consistent for all events * #397 : Generated avatar should be consistent for all events * #404 : The message displayed in a room when a 3pid invited user has registered is not clear * #407 : Chat screen: The read receipts from the conference user should be ignored * #415 : Room Settings: some addresses are missing * #439 : add markdown support for emotes * #445 : Unable to join federated rooms with Android app * #455 : Until e2e is impl'd, encrypted msgs should be shown in the UI as unencryptable warning text * #473 : Huge text messages are not rendered on some android devices
Improvements: * #351 : VoIP Checklist (add the end of call reason, receive a call while already in call).
Features: * Add the attachment upload/download detailled information (progress, mean bitrate, estimated remaining time...) * Add the conference call management.
Bugfixes: * #290 : Redacting membership events should immediately reset the displayname & avatar of room members * #320 : Sanitise the logs to remove private data * #330 : some medias are not downloadable * #352 : some rooms are not displayed in the recents when the 10 last messages are redacted ones after performing an initial sync * #358 : Update the event not found message when clicking on permalink * #359 : Redacting a video during sending goes wrong * #364 : Profile changes shouldn't reorder the room list.
Features: * The room ids, the room aliases, the event ids are now clickable.
Bugfixes: * Update the background color of the markdown code. * #297 : Redact avatar / name update event should remove them from the room history. * #318 : Some member avatars are wrong.
Improvements: * Improve file extension retrieving. * Update to gradle 1.5.0 * Image message in the recents page: display the filename when it is known instead of XX sent an image.
Features: * Add the requests to add/remove aliases to/from a room aliases.
Bugfixes: * #262 : The app should not display <img> from HTML formatted_body * #263 : redactions shouldn't hide auth events (eg bans) from the timeline. they should only hide the human readable bits of content * #265 : vector-android seems to use display names for join/part when in a room, but not in the latest message display in the rooms list. * #271 : Accepting an invite does not get full scrollback.
Improvements: * The room visibility messages are displayed in the room history. * Do not refresh the turn servers if the HS does not support it. * RoomState : The events_default and users_default default values are now 0.
Features: * Add some new room settings management (list in Directory, room access, room history) * The background sync timeout is now configurable. * A sleep can be defined between two sync requests.
Bugfixes: * #206 : There is no space between some avatars (unexpected avatar). * GA issue : EventTimeLine.mDataHandler is empty whereas it should be. * onInvalidToken should not be triggered when MatrixError.FORBIDDEN is received. * #186 : Start chat with a member should use the latest room instead of the first found one. * Fix a crash with JingleCall class (when teh libs are not found on the device). * The room object was not always initialized when MessagesAdapter is created (tap on a notication whereas the client is not launched). * Fix a crash when an incoming call is received and the dedicated permissions are not granted.
Improvements: * The room visibility messages are displayed in the room history. * Do not refresh the turn servers if the HS does not support it. * RoomState : The events_default and users_default default values are now 0.
Features: * Add some new room settings management (list in Directory, room access, room history) * The background sync timeout is now configurable. * A sleep can be defined between two sync requests.
Bugfixes: * #206 : There is no space between some avatars (unexpected avatar). * GA issue : EventTimeLine.mDataHandler is empty whereas it should be. * onInvalidToken should not be triggered when MatrixError.FORBIDDEN is received. * #186 : Start chat with a member should use the latest room instead of the first found one. * Fix a crash with JingleCall class (when teh libs are not found on the device). * The room object was not always initialized when MessagesAdapter is created (tap on a notication whereas the client is not launched). * Fix a crash when an incoming call is received and the dedicated permissions are not granted.
Bugfixes: * issue #176 Update the notification text when invited to a chat * issue #194 Public room preview : some public rooms have no display name * issue #180 Some invited emails are stuck (invitation from a non matrix user) * issue #175 The notifications settings should be dynamically refreshed * issue #190 Room invitation push rules is disabled for a new account on android but enabled on the webclient interface
Improvements: * The "table" markdown were badly displayed : use the default Html render * Remove useless roomSummary error traces (not supported event type) * Add missing fields in PublicRoom
Features: * Add ignore users feature. * Add an API to retrieve the pusher * Add the room preview management
Bugfixes: * Fixes several crashes reported by GA. * Incoming call did not trigger any pushes.
Improvements: * Add a method to retrieve the SDK version programmatically. * Add an error callback in the media downloader. * Improve the room history back pagination management. * Add method to customize the highlighted pattern in a message. * Refresh automatically the user account information to avoid having staled one. * Mark as sent a message when the SEND request succeeds (do not wait anymore the server acknowledge). * Simplify the room messages layout. * Add Room.isEventRead to tell if an event has been read. * Highlight a message if its content fullfills a push rule. * The room member events are not anymore counted as unread messages * The messages resending code is factorized in MatrixMessagesListFragment. * Improve the message html display. * Warn the application when the credentials are not anymore valid. * Fix some memory leaks * Improve the room activity rendering * Room member events should not be displayed with sender. * Increase the image thumbnail.
Features: * Add the currently_active field to User. * The messages search is now done on server side. * Add the email login support. * Add the message context management. * Add the 3rd party invitation * Add the markdown support. * Add the new registration process support. * Add the emails binding * Add reset password
Bugfixes: * The bing rules were sometines not initialized after the application launch. * SYAND-90 The very first pagination jumps the scroll bar. * The room spinner was sometime stuck. * The presense was sometimes invalid. * MXMediasCache : delete the destinated file if it already exists. * The back pagination was sometimes stuck after a network error. * Texts sizes are now defined in SD instead of DP. * The medias message sending did not work properly when the application was in background. * Fix an issue when a room is left, joined, left and joined again. * The account info was sometimes resetted after receiving a membership event. * The filestore was not really cleared after a logout. * Fix an infinite back pagination while rotating the device. * Fix a crash when jingle_peerconnection.so is not found. * The network connection listener did not manage properly the data connection lost.
- Improvements:
- The read receipts are displayed for outgoing and incoming messages.
- The room members search methods have been improved.
- The user account data is updated at application launch and resume to speed up account update.
- The server sync methods are not anymore called in the IU thread.
- Updates to support the renamed JSON fields (server update).
- Reduce the number of room backpagination requests when reaching the room history top.
- Features:
- Add new server synchronisation.
- Add room tags support.
- Add the mute room notifications methods.
- Add the remote text search method.
- Bugfixes:
- Some member avatars were not properly retrieved.
- The read receipts were not properly saved.
- The room loading spinner was sometimes stuck when joining a room.
- Some redacted events were wrongly displayed in the recents (e.g. John:null).
- Do not try to download an invalid media at each room refresh.
- A full sync was triggered after failing to send some messages.
- Fix a null pointer while refresh the messages fragment.
- Some redacted events were displayed as echoed one (light gray).
- Fixed some leave - join - leave - join issues.
- Improvements:
- Now supports setting a default alias for rooms
- Rooms can now clear or set ACLs for scrollback
- Better SSL support for older devices
- Improved the recent events display
- Improved scrolling and update after screen rotation
- Features:
- Read receipts!
- Added refresh_token support
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a case where the user got randomly logged out
- Fixed echo during Android<->Android VOIP calls
- Improvements:
- Add support of file:// in mediaCacheFile.
- Many UI classes are more customisable (click management, UI fields…).
- The catchup time should be shorter.
- The room catchup can be performed while search a pattern.
- MXFileStore : some files are zipped to reduce the used storage space and to reduce saving time.
- MXFileStore : Saving thread is now a low priority thread.
- Features:
- Add video and location messages support
- Add self signed cert support.
- Bug fixes:
- The event lifetime parameter was not checked.
- The application used to crash while starting a voice/video with a device with no camera or no front camera.
- Many crashes while logging out.
- Improvements:
- Add assert to avoid using released session
- The RespAdapter callbacks are called in try/catch block to avoid crashing the application.
- Get thumbnail bitmap file from URL.
- Share the lastactive delay to string method.
- Ignore presence events until the initial presences refresh is done.
- GCM registration : Add the append field management.
- Add a message header to the room items.
- The network events are not anymore managed with the pause/unpause commands.
- Reduce the number of messageAdapter refreshes.
- The text selection in a chat message is disabled to avoid flickering with long taps.
- Allow click on any textual event to copy its content.
- Update the transaction id for unsent messages.
- Increase the max number of events stored by room to avoid trigger network requests.
- room::requestHistory provides 20 events per requests. Room class buffers the storage events to avoid having a huge bunch of events.
- Improve the storage events management.
- Features:
- Voice/Video call management.
- Bug fixes:
- The displayname was not initialized if the settings page was not opened once.
- Add mFileStoreHandler sanity check (GA issues).
- Highlight messages with displayname / userID in room instead of using the push rules.
- Fix a GA crash while listing the public rooms.
- Fix a GA crash while listing room members list.
- Fix a GA crash with caseInsensitiveFind use (empty string case).
- Fix a GA crash when maxPowerLevel is set to 0.
- The rooms deletion use to crash the application in some race conditions.
- The room joining was not properly dispatched when done from another device.
- The avatar and displayname udpates were not properly saved.
- The messages are sent with PUT instead of POST to avoid duplicated messages.
- In some race conditions, the user profile was not properly updated.
- SYAND-95 Tap on displayname to insert into textbox as poor's man autocomplete
- SYAND-102 Accepted room invites not properly resolved.
- Improvements:
- Display the members presence in the chat activity.
- Bug fixes:
- The 0.4.2 update used to display an empty history.
- Improvements:
- Improve the room members listing (it used to be very slow on huge rooms like Matrix HQ).
- Display the server error messages when available.
- Multi servers management.
- Update to the latest robolectric.
- Add filename param into the media post request to have a valid name while saving with the web client.
- Features:
- Bing rules can now be updated on the client.
- Bug fixes:
- Some rooms were not joined because the roomIds were URL encoded.
- SYAND-91 : server is not federating - endless load of public room list.
- Back pagination was sometimes broken with “Invalid token” error. The client should clear the application cache (settings page).
- The application used to crash when there was an updated of room members meanwhile others members listing action.
- Thread issue in MXFileStore.
- Improvements:
- Automatically resend failed medias.
- Bug fixes:
- The matrixMessagesFragment was not properly restarted after have been killed by a low memory.
- The emotes were not properly displayed.
- The dataHandler field was not set for "myUser" so displayName update was not properly managed.
The SDK and the console application are now split into two git projects.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-android-sdk : The matrix SDK https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-android-console : The console application. Thus, it would be easier to implement a new application.
- Improvements:
- Move AutoScrollDownListView from console to the SDK.
- Image resizing : use inSampleSize instead of decompressing the image in memory.
- The image cache should not stored large and very large images.
- Rotate image with exif if the device has enough memory.
- Enable largeHeap to be able to manage large images.
- Move ImageUtils from console to the SDK.
- Each account has its own medias directory (except the member thumbnails).
- Update the media file name computation to ensure its uniqueness.
- The media download & upload progress is more linear.
- Remove the presence and typing events while processing the first events request after application launch.
- Add onLiveEventsChunkProcessed callback : it is triggered when a bunch of events is managed.
- IconAndTextAdapter customization.
- Features:
- Add MXFileStore : The data is now saved in a filesystem cache. It improves the application launching time.
- The sent messages are also stored when the device is offline.
- Add GCM registration to a third party server.
- Bug fixes:
- The media download could be stuck on bad/slow network connection.
- On kitkat or above, the image thumbnails were not properly retrieved.
- SYAND-80 : image uploading pie chart lies.
- Improvements:
- Move RoomSummaryAdapter from the application to the SDK.
- Move RoomMembersAdapters from the application to the SDK..
- Large file upload did not warn the user that the media was too large.
- Do not restart the events listener each 10s if there is no available network. Wait that a network connection is retrieved.
- Features:
- Add multi-accounts management.
- Bug fixes:
- Some unsent messages were not properly automatically resent.
- The content provider did not provide the mimetype.
- The application used to randomly crashed on application when there was some network issues.
- The duplicated member events were not removed;
- Live state : the left/banned thumbnails were lost.
- Join a room on the device did not warn the application when the initial sync was done.
- Improvements:
- Re-order the room actions : move from a sliding menu to a standard menu.
- Do not refresh the room when the application is in background to reduce battery draining.
- The notice messages are merged as any other messages.
- Re-order the members list (join first, invite, leave & ban).
- Features:
- Applications can share medias with Matrix Console with the "<" button.
- Matrix console can share medias with third party applications like emails.
- A message can be forwarded to an existing room or to a third party application.
- The images are not anymore automatically saved when displayed in fullscreen : there is a new menu when tapping on the message. (The media mud have been downloaded once).
- Add multi-accounts management. Create/Join a room require to select an account.
- Some push notifications were not triggered when the application was in background.
- Bug fixes:
- A selected GIF image was transformed into a JPG one.
- The room name was sometimes invalid when the user was invited.
- SYAND-68 : No hint on display name in settings
- SYAND-69 : Avatar section in settings
- SYAND-71 : Cannot view message details of a join.
- SYAND-72 When an user updates their avatar, the timeline event for the change should reflect the update.
- The room cached data was not removed after leaving it.
- The member display name did not include the matrix Id if several members have the same display name.
- On some devices, invite members by matrix ID did not work properly because some spaces are automatically appended after a semicolon.
- Improvements:
- Any request is automatically resent until it succeeds (with a 3 minutes timeline).
- Remove the dataHandler listeners when logging out to avoid getting unexpected callback call.
- Improvements:
- Add the image watermarks
- Display the members count in the members list.
- Can invite several users from the known members list or from their user ids.
- Hide the image icon until it is fully loaded.
- Add the hardware search button management (e.g. motorola RAZR).
- Improve many dialogs (room creation, invitation..).
- Display leaving rooms.
- Can send several files at once.
- Make GCM receiver display notifications and move to own package.
- Make RoomActivity start the event stream.
- Add app-global GcmRegistrationManager to register for push services.
- The bug report contains more details.
- Add some sliding menus.
- Include room name in message notifications.
- Room name will be picked up if passed to GcmIntentService.
- Add an inliner image preview before sending the message.
- Ensure that the login parameters are only on one line.
- Add basic support for Android Auto.
- Remove tag from notifications (to maintain current behaviour on phones)
- Scroll the history to the bottom when opening the keyboard.
- Remove some tags in the logs to avoid displaying the accesstoken.
- Features:
- Supoort Android Lollipop.
- Use the material design support.
- Add the contacts support.
- Manage the new push rules.
- Factors the message adapter and fragments to be able to create some new ones without copying too many code.
- Bug fixes:
- SYAND-46 : Crash on launch on my S4 running Android 4.
- SYAND-51 : New room subscription did not occur in android app.
- SYAND-54 : Images should be available in gallery apps.
- SYAND-55 : share multiple images at once.
- SYAND-58 : scroll in "Invite known user”.
- SYAND-60 : ” Leave room" should be renamed when you are the latest user in the room.
- SYAND-62 : Android doesn't seem to specify width/height metadata for images it sends.
- SYAND-64 : Room name on recents doesn't update.
- SYAND-65 : Recent entries when leaving rooms
- SYAND-66 : Auto-capitalisation is not turned on for the main text entry box.
- SYAND-67 : Screen doesn't turn on for incoming messages.
- The unread messages counter was invalid after leaving a room.
- The client synchronisation was not properly managed when the account was shared on several devices.
- Fix many application crashes while leaving a chat or logging out.
- The room summaries were not properly sorted when a message sending failed.
- Some images were partially displayed.
- The emotes were drawn in magenta.
- Stop the events thread asap when logging out and ignore received events.
- Some unexpected typing events were sent.
- The time zone updates were not properly managed.
- Improvements:
- Avoid refreshing the home page when it is not displayed.
- Display a piechart while uploading a media.
- Refresh the display when some messages are automatically resent (after retrieving a data network connection for example).
- Update the user rename message to be compliant with the web client.
- Use the local media files instead of downloading them when they are acknowledged (messages sending).
- Create a medias management class.
- Display the offline status in the members list.
- Avoid creating new homeActivity instance when joining a room from member details sheet.
- The public rooms list are now saved in the bundle state : it should avoid having a spinner when rotated the device.
- The animated GIFs are now supported.
- Features:
- Add the rate limits error management. The server could request to delay the messages sending because they were too many messages sent in a short time (to avoid spam).
- Can take a photo to send it.
- A chat room page is automatically paginated to fill. It used to get only the ten latest messages : it displayed half filled page on tablet.
- Add the sending failure reason in the message details (long tap on a message, “Message details”).
- The user is not anymore notified it the push rules are not fulfilled.
- Add some room settings (Display all events, hide unsupported events, sort members by last seen time, display left members, display public rooms in the home page).
- Add various accessibility tweaks.
- Bug fixes:
- The media downloads/uploads were sometimes stuck.
- The private room creation was broken.
- SYAND-33 : number of unread messages disappears when entering another room.
- The RoomActivity creation used to crash when it was cancelled because the Room id param was not provided.
- The client used to crash when the home server was invalid but started with http.
- The account creation used to fail if the home server had a trailing slash.
- SYAND-44 In progress text entry could be saved across crashes.
- SYAND-38 Inline image viewer in Android app.
- Improvements:
- Exif management : the uploaded image is rotated according to the exif metadata (if the device has enough free memory).
- Add a piechart while downloading an image
- Add JSON representation of a message (tap on its row, “Message details”
- The public rooms list is now sorted according to the number of members.
- Features:
- Add configuration and skeleton classes for receiving GCM messages
- Add REST client for pushers API with add method for HTTP pushers.
- Add the account creation.
- Bug fixes:
- Reset the image thumbnail when a row is reused.
- SYAND-30 Notification should be away when entering a room.
- Some images thumbnails were downloaded several times.
- Restore the foreground service
- The medias cache was not cleared after logging out.
- The client crashed when joining #anime:matrix.org.
- SYAND-29 Messages in delivery status are not seen
- Some user display names were their matrix IDs.
- The room name/ topic were invalid when inviting to a room.
- Features:
- Add a network connection listener.
- Unsent messages are automatically resent when a network connection is retrieved.
- Improvements:
- There is no more alert dialog when receiving a new message. They are always displayed in the notifications list.
- Tap on a member thumbnail opens a dedicated.
- The message timestamps are always displayed. They used to be displayed/hidden when tapping on the other avatar side.
- The unsent messages were not saved in the store when leaving a room view.
- Display a spinner while joining / catching up a room.
- Unsent images can now be resent. They used to be lost.
- Add "mark all as read" button.
- Can select text in a message.
- A room is highlighted in blue if your display name is in the unread messages.
- Add support to the identicon server (it displayed squared avatar when the member did not define one).
- The notifications can be enlarged to display the message with more than one line.
- Replace the notification icon by a matrix one.
- Features:
- Add the command lines support (see the settings page to have the available command list).
- Add the typing notifications management.
- SYAND-24 Respond to IMs directly from push.
- Bug fixes:
- The image upload failed when using G+-Photos app.
- Correctly set Content-Length when uploading resource in ContentManager.
- The user profile was never refreshed when opening the settings activity.
- The push-rules were not refreshed when the application was debackgrounded.
- The notice messages (e.g. “Bob left…”) are not anymore merged.
- Unban was displayed instead of “kicked” in the notice events.
- The room header was not refreshed when joining a room.
- The notice events were not summarised in the recents view.
- The image messages were not properly summarized in the recents.
- Use scale instead of crop to request thumbnails from content API.
- Size thumbnail in image message dependent on the size of the view.
- Joining a room used to perform two or three sync requests.
- The sound parameter of the push notifications was not managed.
- SYAND-16 : No feedback when failing to login.
- SYAND-19 : “My rooms” doesn’t display UTF-8 correctly
- SYAND-25 : Issues showing the home screen with self-build android app.
- SYAND-26 : can’t highlight words in message.
- Features:
- Added basic support for redacted messages.
- Added bing rules support.
- Improvements:
- Room messages are merged
- The oneself messages are displayed at screen right side
- The images are cached to improve UX.
- Redacted messages support.
- The rooms list displays the private and the public ones.
- Can search a room by name.
- The unread messages count are displayed.
- Features:
- Add rageshake to submit a bug report
Bug fixes: * SYAND-17 Crash on login on master