1.5.8

Changes in 1.5.8 (2024-02-19)

✨ Features

• Add the list of banned users, shown to room members who have the power ban/unban. (#2355)

🙌 Improvements

• Replaced the share my location button icon with the iOS share icon. (#1486)

1.5.7

Changes in 1.5.7 (2024-02-16)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed link colours inside code blocks. (#2379)

1.5.6

Changes in 1.5.6 (2024-02-14)

✨ Features

• Show admins and moderators in the room member list. (#2355)

🙌 Improvements

• The timeline will filter some unnecessary state events. (#2404)
• Move member loading to the room member detail screen, avoid blocking the whole application (#2414)
• Allow text selection on the timeline item menu header (#2416)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Prevent crashes when computing aspect ratios on zero media width or height (#2437)
• Fixed RTE not retaining content when transitioning from a split navigation to a stack navigation. (#2364)
• SAS Emojis are now localised. (#2402)
• Long pressing a link will give the preview and the context menu to copy it (or open it in Safari). (#2440)

⚠️ API Changes

• Remove unnecessary analytics abstraction levels, directly create analytics events in the analytics service (#2408)

🚧 In development 🚧

• All Filters have been implemented, except for the Favourites one. (#2423)
• Add support for manually marking a room as read/unread (#2360)

1.5.5

Changes in 1.5.5 (2024-01-30)

✨ Features

• Added an advanced setting to turn off sending read receipts. (#2319)
• Allow partial text selection in the timeline item view source menu (#2378)

🐛 Bugfixes

• If a refresh token is found in a non OIDC session, the app will be logged out. (#2365)

🚧 In development 🚧

• Room list filters UI (does not have any impact on the room list yet) (#2382)

1.5.4

Changes in 1.5.4 (2024-01-25)

✨ Features

• Enable log previewing before reporting a problem (#734)

🙌 Improvements

• Unread messages that do not trigger notifications, will show a grey dot in the room list. (#2371)
• Removed unnecessary state events for DMs. (#2329)
• Change Leave Room to Leave Conversation for DMs (#2330)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Bugfix for the mention badge not being unset properly when opening the room. Also the mention badge is enabled by default. (#2367)
• You can't redact a message of your own if the room does not allow it. (#2368)
• Is now possible to take photos in landscape mode. (#1815)

1.5.3

Changes in 1.5.3 (2024-01-17)

✨ Features

• Automatically focus the composer when a hardware keyboards is connected (#1911)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Prevent the same WebView from being reused for multiple Element Call links (#2325)
• Fixed a bug that made the app crash when dictation ended. (#2344)

1.5.2

Changes in 1.5.2 (2024-01-16)

✨ Features

• Added back the mention badge option but only behind a feature flag. (#2281)
• Allow copying user display names on the room member details screen (#2333)

🙌 Improvements

• Added the user id in the room members list cells, to avoid ambiguity. (#2332)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Improved plain text mode stability. (#2327)
• Fix for dictation not working properly in RTE mode. (#2030)
• Composer won't reset its content the app is backgrounded on iPad. (#2275)
• Fix timeline entries flickering when a lot of mention pills present (#2286)
• Fix wrong notification placeholder avatar orientation on 17.2.1 (#2291)
• Trying to edit messages containing links with angle brackets doesn't pre-populate the message composer (#2296)
• Fix room messages coming in as push notifications when inside a room when entering it from the invites list (#2302)
• Fix for read receipts loading slowly when opening a room. (#2304)
• Fix reporting content screen not being displayed (#2306)

🚧 In development 🚧

• Enable database encryption for new logins on Nightly/PR builds. (#441)

1.5.1

Changes in 1.5.1 (2023-12-22)

No significant changes.

1.5.0

Changes in 1.5.0 (2023-12-21)

✨ Features

• When mentioned in a room, the room list will display a green at symbol for that room. (#1823)
• The poll history can be viewed in the room details. (#2230)

🙌 Improvements

• Add notification toggle for invitations. (#2205)
• Removed redundant options from the home menu. (#2250)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Don't keep throwing an error each time the user dismisses the error's alert when sharing a location. (#2233)
• Fix for plain text mode, using the RTE markdown to html conversion properly. (#2246)
• Detect links in room detail topics and make it more obvious when the text is truncated (#2210)
• Poll title is displayed in multiline when creating a poll. (#2215)
• Fix timeline thumbnail frames for media missing sizing info (#2253)
• Fix flipped notification placeholder avatars on iOS 17.2+ (#2259)
• Options in poll form creation can be multiline. (#2273)

🧱 Build

• Update most references of the old vector-im organisation to the new element-hq one. (#2231)
• Add support for InfoPlist.strings conversion from Localazy. (#2100)

1.4.3

Changes in 1.4.3 (2023-12-05)

✨ Features

• Open direct chat directly from the room member details screen (#2179)

🙌 Improvements

• Automatically pop the invites list when acting on the last one. Coming back from the room will go directly back to the room list (#2165)
• Use the Compound List component on PollFormScreen. (#2183)
• Show a loading indicator while searching for people to invite (#1950)
• Mentioned notifications have a new less verbose copy. (#2139)
• Hide pin code in lock screen setup mode (#2145)
• Automatically scroll the timeline to the bottom when sending a message (#2147)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash that happened when leaving a room through the details screen. (#2160)
• Fix room avatars not showing up on the message forwarding screen (#2168)
• Fixed an issue where the text cursor was not positioned correctly. (#1674)
• Improved the wrapping of the text for File and Audio timeline items. (#1810)
• Lists at the beginning of messages were displayed incorrectly. (#1915)
• Remove rooms from the room list after leaving them (#2005)
• Fixed some issues with voice messages when sent from a bridge. (#2006)
• Fix the touch area size for the voice message button. (#2038)
• Fix a bug where cancelling Face ID unlock would loop back round and present Face ID again. (#2134)
• Fixed a bug that made iOS 17 render avatars sideways in notifications. (#2136)
• Fix a crash when blocking/unblocking a user from the DM details screen. (#2140)
• If an invite notification has already been accepted tapping on it will bring you to the invite screen. (#2150)
• Fix the room attachment popover label colour when using the in-app appearance override. (#2157)
• Fixed a crash when sending voice messages on some Apple devices. (#2184)

🧱 Build

• Adopt Xcode 15 (sticking with iOS 16 simulator on CI). (#2007)