element-android-Github/CHANGES.md

Changes in RiotX 0.21.0 (2020-XX-XX)

Features ✨:

• Identity server support (#607)
• Switch language support (#41)

Improvements 🙌:

• Better connectivity lost indicator when airplane mode is on
• Add a setting to hide redacted events (#951)

Bugfix 🐛:

• After jump to unread, newer messages are never loaded (#1008)
• Fix issues with FontScale switch (#69, #645)
• "Seen by" uses 12h time (#1378)

Translations 🗣:

SDK API changes ⚠️:

Build 🧱:

Other changes:

• support new key agreement method for SAS (#1374)

Changes in RiotX 0.20.0 (2020-05-15)

Features ✨:

• Add Direct Shortcuts (#652)

Improvements 🙌:

• Invite member(s) to an existing room (#1276)
• Improve notification accessibility with ticker text (#1226)
• Support homeserver discovery from MXID (DISABLED: waiting for design) (#476)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix | Verify Manually by Text crashes if private SSK not known (#1337)
• Sometimes the same device appears twice in the list of devices of a user (#1329)
• Random Crashes while doing sth with cross signing keys (#1364)
• Crash | crash while restoring key backup (#1366)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• excludedUserIds parameter added to the UserService.getPagedUsersLive() function

Changes in RiotX 0.19.0 (2020-05-04)

Features ✨:

• Change password (#528)
• Cross-Signing | Support SSSS secret sharing (#944)
• Cross-Signing | Verify new session from existing session (#1134)
• Cross-Signing | Bootstraping cross signing with 4S from mobile (#985)
• Save media files to Gallery (#973)
• Account deactivation (with password only) (#35)

Improvements 🙌:

• Verification DM / Handle concurrent .start after .ready (#794)
• Reimplementation of multiple attachment picker
• Cross-Signing | Update Shield Logic for DM (#963)
• Cross-Signing | Complete security new session design update (#1135)
• Cross-Signing | Setup key backup as part of SSSS bootstrapping (#1201)
• Cross-Signing | Gossip key backup recovery key (#1200)
• Show room encryption status as a bubble tile (#1078)
• UX/UI | Add indicator to home tab on invite (#957)
• Cross-Signing | Restore history after recover from passphrase (#1214)
• Cross-Sign | QR code scan confirmation screens design update (#1187)
• Emoji Verification | It's not the same butterfly! (#1220)
• Cross-Signing | Composer decoration: shields (#1077)
• Cross-Signing | Migrate existing keybackup to cross signing with 4S from mobile (#1197)
• Show a warning dialog if the text of the clicked link does not match the link target (#922)
• Cross-Signing | Consider not using a spinner on the 'complete security' prompt (#1271)
• Restart broken Olm sessions (MSC1719)
• Cross-Signing | Hide Use recovery key when 4S is not setup (#1007)
• Cross-Signing | Trust account xSigning keys by entering Recovery Key (select file or copy) #1199
• E2E timeline decoration (#1279)
• Manage Session Settings / Cross Signing update (#1295)
• Cross-Signing | Review sessions toast update old vs new (#1293, #1306)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix summary notification staying after "mark as read"
• Missing avatar/displayname after verification request message (#841)
• Crypto | RiotX sometimes rotate the current device keys (#1170)
• RiotX can't restore cross signing keys saved by web in SSSS (#1174)
• Cross- Signing | After signin in new session, verification paper trail in DM is off (#1191)
• Failed to encrypt message in room (message stays in red), [thanks to pwr22] (#925)
• Cross-Signing | web <-> riotX After QR code scan, gossiping fails (#1210)
• Fix crash when trying to download file without internet connection (#1229)
• Local echo are not updated in timeline (for failed & encrypted states)
• Render image event even if thumbnail_info does not have mimetype defined (#1209)
• RiotX now uses as many threads as it needs to do work and send messages (#1221)
• Fix issue with media path (#1227)
• Add user to direct chat by user id (#1065)
• Use correct URL for SSO connection (#1178)
• Emoji completion 🎉 does not completes to 🎉 like on web (#1285)
• Fix bad Shield Logic for DM (#963)

Translations 🗣:

• Weblate now create PR directly to RiotX GitHub project

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Increase targetSdkVersion to 29

Build 🧱:

• Compile with Android SDK 29 (Android Q)

Other changes:

• Add a setting to prevent screenshots of the application, disabled by default (#1027)
• Increase File Logger capacities ( + use dev log preferences)

Changes in RiotX 0.18.1 (2020-03-17)

Improvements 🙌:

• Implementation of /join command

Bugfix 🐛:

• Message transitions in encrypted rooms are jarring #518
• Images that failed to send are waiting to be sent forever #1145
• Fix / Crashed when trying to send a gif from the Gboard #1136
• Fix / Cannot click on key backup banner when new keys are available

Changes in RiotX 0.18.0 (2020-03-11)

Improvements 🙌:

• Share image and other media from e2e rooms (#677)
• Add support for /plain command (#12)
• Detect spaces in password if user fail to login (#1038)
• FTUE: do not display a different color when encrypting message when not in developer mode.
• Open room member profile from avatar of the room member state event (#935)
• Restore the push rules configuration in the settings

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash on attachment preview screen (#1088)
• "Share" option is not appearing in encrypted rooms for images (#1031)
• Set "image/jpeg" as MIME type of images instead of "image/jpg" (#1075)
• Self verification via QR code is failing (#1130)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• PushRuleService.getPushRules() now returns a RuleSet. Use getAllRules() on this object to get all the rules.

Build 🧱:

• Upgrade ktlint to version 0.36.0
• Pipeline file for Buildkite is now hosted on another Github repository: https://github.com/matrix-org/pipelines/blob/master/riotx-android/pipeline.yml

Other changes:

• Restore availability to Chromebooks (#932)
• Add a documentation to run integration tests

Changes in RiotX 0.17.0 (2020-02-27)

Features ✨:

• Secured Shared Storage Support (#984, #936)
• It's now possible to select several rooms (with a possible mix of clear/encrypted rooms) when sharing elements to RiotX (#1010)
• Media preview: media are previewed before being sent to a room (#1010)
• Image edition: it's now possible to edit image before sending: crop, rotate, and delete actions are supported (#1010)
• Sending image: image are sent to rooms with a reduced size. It's still possible to send original image file (#1010)

Improvements 🙌:

• Migrate to binary QR code verification (#994)
• Share action is added to room profile and room member profile (#858)
• Display avatar in fullscreen (#861)
• Fix some performance issues with crypto

Bugfix 🐛:

• Account creation: wrongly hints that an email can be used to create an account (#941)
• Fix crash in the room directory, when public room has no name (#1023)
• Fix restoring keys backup with passphrase (#526)
• Fix rotation of full-size image (#647)
• Fix joining rooms from directory via federation isn't working. (#808)
• Leaving a room creates a stuck "leaving room" loading screen. (#1041)
• Fix some invitation handling issues (#1013)
• New direct chat: selecting a participant sometimes results in two breadcrumbs (#1022)
• New direct chat: selecting several participants was not adding the room to the direct chats list
• Room overview shows deleted messages as “Encrypted message” (#758)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Get crypto methods through Session.cryptoService()
• ProgressListener.onProgress() function will be invoked on the background thread instead of UI thread
• Improve CreateRoomParams API (#1070)

Changes in RiotX 0.16.0 (2020-02-14)

Features ✨:

• Polls and Bot Buttons (MSC 2192 matrix-org/matrix-doc#2192)

Improvements 🙌:

• Show confirmation dialog before deleting a message (#967, #1003)
• Open room member profile from reactions list and read receipts list (#875)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash by removing all notifications after clearing cache (#878)
• Fix issue with verification when other client declares it can only show QR code (#988)
• Fix too errors in the code (1941862499, a250a895fe)

SDK API changes ⚠️:

• Javadoc improved for PushersService
• PushersService.pushers() has been renamed to PushersService.getPushers()

Changes in RiotX 0.15.0 (2020-02-10)

Improvements 🙌:

• Improve navigation to the timeline (#789, #862)
• Improve network detection. It is now based on the sync request status (#873, #882)

Other changes:

• Support SSO login with Firefox account (#606)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Ask for permission before opening the camera (#934)
• Encrypt for invited users by default, if the room state allows it (#803)

Changes in RiotX 0.14.3 (2020-02-03)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix Exception in DeviceListManager

Changes in RiotX 0.14.2 (2020-02-02)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix RiotX not starting issue

Changes in RiotX 0.14.1 (2020-02-02)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Cross-signing: fix UX issue when closing the bottom sheet verification (#813)
• Room and room member profile: fix issues on dark and black themes

Changes in RiotX 0.14.0 (2020-02-01)

Features ✨:

• First implementation of Cross-signing
• Enable encryption in unencrypted rooms, from the room settings (#212)
• Negotiate E2E by default for DMs (#907)

Improvements 🙌:

• Sharing things to RiotX: sort list by recent room first (#771)
• Hide the algorithm when turning on e2e (#897)
• Sort room members by display names

Other changes:

• Add support for /rainbow and /rainbowme commands (#879)

Build 🧱:

• Ensure builds are reproducible (#842)
• F-Droid: fix the "-dev" issue in version name (#815)

Changes in RiotX 0.13.0 (2020-01-17)

Features ✨:

• Send and render typing events (#564)
• Create Room Profile screen (#54)
• Create Room Member Profile screen (#59)

Improvements 🙌:

• Render events m.room.encryption and m.room.guest_access in the timeline

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix broken background sync in F-Droid version
• Fix issue with downloaded file on encrypted rooms. The file was not properly decrypted

Build 🧱:

• Change the way versionCode is computed (#827)

Changes in RiotX 0.12.0 (2020-01-09)

Improvements 🙌:

• The initial sync is now handled by a foreground service
• Render aliases and canonical alias change in the timeline
• Introduce developer mode in the settings (#745, #796)
• Improve devices list screen
• Add settings for rageshake sensibility
• Fix autocompletion issues and add support for rooms, groups, and emoji (#780)
• Show skip to bottom FAB while scrolling down (#752)
• Enable encryption on a room, SDK part (#212)

Other changes:

• Change the way RiotX identifies a session to allow the SDK to support several sessions with the same user (#800)
• Exclude play-services-oss-licenses library from F-Droid build (#814)
• Email domain can be limited on some homeservers, i18n of the displayed error (#754)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix crash when opening room creation screen from the room filtering screen
• Fix avatar image disappearing (#777)
• Fix read marker banner when permalink
• Fix joining upgraded rooms (#697)
• Fix matrix.org room directory not being browsable (#807)
• Hide non working settings (#751)

Changes in RiotX 0.11.0 (2019-12-19)

Features ✨:

• Implement soft logout (#281)

Improvements 🙌:

• Handle navigation to room via room alias (#201)
• Open matrix.to link in RiotX (#57)
• Limit sticker size in the timeline

Other changes:

• Use same default room colors than Riot-Web

Bugfix 🐛:

• Scroll breadcrumbs to top when opened
• Render default room name when it starts with an emoji (#477)
• Do not display " (IRC)" in display names https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/issues/444
• Fix rendering issue with HTML formatted body
• Disable click on Stickers (#703)

Build 🧱:

• Include diff-match-patch sources as dependency

Changes in RiotX 0.10.0 (2019-12-10)

Features ✨:

• Breadcrumbs: switch from one room to another quickly (#571)

Improvements 🙌:

• Support entering a RiotWeb client URL instead of the homeserver URL during connection (#744)

Other changes:

• Add reason for all membership events (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2367)

Bugfix 🐛:

• When automardown is ON, pills are sent as MD in body (#739)
• "ban" event are not rendered correctly (#716)
• Fix crash when rotating screen in Room timeline

Changes in RiotX 0.9.1 (2019-12-05)

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix an issue with DB transaction (#740)

Changes in RiotX 0.9.0 (2019-12-05)

Features ✨:

• Account creation. It's now possible to create account on any homeserver with RiotX (#34)
• Iteration of the login flow (#613)
• [SDK] MSC2241 / verification in DMs (#707)

Improvements 🙌:

• Send mention Pills from composer
• Links in message preview in the bottom sheet are now active.
• Rework the read marker to make it more usable

Other changes:

• Fix a small grammatical error when an empty room list is shown.

Bugfix 🐛:

• Do not show long click help if only invitation are displayed
• Fix emoji filtering not working
• Fix issue of closing Realm in another thread (#725)
• Attempt to properly cancel the crypto module when user signs out (#724)

Changes in RiotX 0.8.0 (2019-11-19)

Features ✨:

• Handle long click on room in the room list (#395)
• Ignore/UnIgnore users, and display list of ignored users (#542, #617)

Improvements 🙌:

• Search reaction by name or keyword in emoji picker
• Handle code tags (#567)
• Support spoiler messages
• Support m.sticker and m.room.join_rules events in timeline

Other changes:

• Markdown set to off by default (#412)
• Accessibility improvements to the attachment file type chooser

Bugfix 🐛:

• Fix issues with some member events rendering (#498)
• Passphrase does not match (Export room keys) (#644)
• Ask for permission to write external storage when uri comes from the keyboard (#658)
• Fix issue with english US/GB translation (#671)

Changes in RiotX 0.7.0 (2019-10-24)

Features:

• Share elements from other app to RiotX (#58)
• Read marker (#84)
• Add ability to report content (#515)

Improvements:

• Persist active tab between sessions (#503)
• Do not upload file too big for the homeserver (#587)
• Attachments: start using system pickers (#52)
• Mark all messages as read (#396)

Other changes:

• Accessibility improvements to read receipts in the room timeline and reactions emoji chooser

Bugfix:

• Fix issue on upload error in loop (#587)
• Fix opening a permalink: the targeted event is displayed twice (#556)
• Fix opening a permalink paginates all the history up to the last event (#282)
• after login, the icon in the top left is a green 'A' for (all communities) rather than my avatar (#267)
• Picture uploads are unreliable, pictures are shown in wrong aspect ratio on desktop client (#517)
• Invitation notifications are not dismissed automatically if room is joined from another client (#347)
• Opening links from RiotX reuses browser tab (#599)

Changes in RiotX 0.6.1 (2019-09-24)

Bugfix:

• Fix crash: MergedHeaderItem was missing dimensionConverter

Changes in RiotX 0.6.0 (2019-09-24)

Features:

• Save draft of a message when exiting a room with non empty composer (#329)

Improvements:

• Add unread indent on room list (#485)
• Message Editing: Update notifications (#128)
• Remove any notification of a redacted event (#563)

Other changes:

• Fix a few accessibility issues

Bugfix:

• Fix characters erased from the Search field when the result are coming (#545)
• "No connection" banner was displayed by mistake
• Leaving community (from another client) has no effect on RiotX (#497)
• Push rules was not retrieved after a clear cache
• m.notice messages trigger push notifications (#238)
• Embiggen messages with multiple emojis also for edited messages (#458)

Build:

• Fix (again) issue with bad versionCode generated by Buildkite (#553)

Changes in RiotX 0.5.0 (2019-09-17)

Features:

• Implementation of login to homeserver with SSO (#557)
• Handle M_CONSENT_NOT_GIVEN error (#64)
• Auto configure homeserver and identity server URLs of LoginActivity with a magic link

Improvements:

• Reduce default release build log level, and lab option to enable more logs.
• Display a no network indicator when there is no network (#559)

Bugfix:

• Fix crash due to missing informationData (#535)
• Progress in initial sync dialog is decreasing for a step and should not (#532)
• Fix rendering issue of accepted third party invitation event
• All current notifications were dismissed by mistake when the app is launched from the launcher

Build:

• Fix issue with version name (#533)
• Fix issue with bad versionCode generated by Buildkite (#553)

Changes in RiotX 0.4.0 (2019-08-30)

Features:

• Display read receipts in timeline (#81)

Improvements:

• Reactions: Reinstate the ability to react with non-unicode keys (#307)

Bugfix:

• Fix text diff linebreak display (#441)
• Date change message repeats for each redaction until a normal message (#358)
• Slide-in reply icon is distorted (#423)
• Regression / e2e replies not encrypted
• Some video won't play
• Privacy: remove log of notifiable event (#519)
• Fix crash with EmojiCompat (#530)

Changes in RiotX 0.3.0 (2019-08-08)

Features:

• Create Direct Room flow
• Handle /markdown command

Improvements:

• UI for pending edits (#193)
• UX image preview screen transition (#393)
• Basic support for resending failed messages (retry/remove)
• Enable proper cancellation of suspending functions (including db transaction)
• Enhances network connectivity checks in SDK
• Add "View Edit History" item in the message bottom sheet (#401)
• Cancel sync request on pause and timeout to 0 after pause (#404)

Other changes:

• Show sync progress also in room detail screen (#403)

Bugfix:

• Edited message: link confusion when (edited) appears in body (#398)
• Close detail room screen when the room is left with another client (#256)
• Clear notification for a room left on another client
• Fix messages with empty in_reply_to not rendering (#447)
• Fix clear cache (#408) and Logout (#205)
• Fix (edited) link can be copied to clipboard (#402)
• KeyBackup / SSSS | Should get the key from SSSS instead of asking recovery Key (#1163)

Build:

• Split APK: generate one APK per arch, to reduce APK size of about 30%

Changes in RiotX 0.2.0 (2019-07-18)

Features:

• Message Editing: View edit history (#121)
• Rooms filtering (#304)
• Edit in encrypted room

Improvements:

• Handle click on redacted events: view source and create permalink
• Improve long tap menu: reply on top, more compact (#368)
• Quick reply in timeline with swipe gesture (#167)
• Improve edit of replies
• Improve performance on Room Members and Users management (#381)

Other changes:

• migrate from rxbinding 2 to rxbinding 3

Bugfix:

• Fix regression on permalink click
• Fix crash reported by the PlayStore (#341)
• Fix Chat composer separator color in dark/black theme
• Fix bad layout for room directory filter (#349)
• Fix Copying link from a message shouldn't open context menu (#364)

Changes in RiotX 0.1.0 (2019-07-11)

First release!

Mode details here: https://medium.com/@RiotChat/introducing-the-riotx-beta-for-android-b17952e8f771

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Changes in RiotX 0.X.0 (2020-XX-XX)

Features ✨:

Improvements 🙌:

Bugfix 🐛:

Translations 🗣:

SDK API changes ⚠️:

Build 🧱:

Other changes: