1.9.0

What's Changed

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix identity pinning link. by @pixlwave in #3395

🧱 Build

• Update the version to 1.9.0. by @pixlwave in #3396

Full Changelog: 1.8.6...1.9.0

1.8.6

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Show the Login with QR Code button. by @pixlwave in #3392

🙌 Improvements

• Add a subtitle to the QR Code login instructions. by @pixlwave in #3386
• Tweak the UI in the EncryptionReset, IdentityConfirmation and SecureBackupRecovery screens. by @pixlwave in #3391
• Update the secondary button stroke colour. by @pixlwave in #3393

🚧 In development 🚧

• crypto: Configure decryption trustRequirement based on config flag by @BillCarsonFr in #3358
• Introduce a feature flag for the new identity pinning violation notifications feature by @stefanceriu in #3394

Others

• Fix an authentication UI test snapshot. by @pixlwave in #3387
• Ask the iPad to reveal the keyboard in UI Tests when it's hidden. by @pixlwave in #3389

Full Changelog: 1.8.5...1.8.6

1.8.5

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Display a warning when a user's pinned identity changes by @stefanceriu in #3368

🙌 Improvements

• Add detection for latest devices. by @pixlwave in #3327
• Configure the AuthenticationService later now that we have 2 flows on the start screen. by @pixlwave in #3316
• Selecting a server that doesn't support login now fails instead of letting you continue to a failure later. by @pixlwave in #3342
• Add new emoji from iOS 17.4 to the reaction picker. by @pixlwave in #3376

🐛 Bugfixes

• Use a plain view for reactions instead of a TabView. by @pixlwave in #3328
• Upgrade Kingfisher to fix a bug that prevented GIFs from being tapped. by @pixlwave in #3326
• Make sure the room header takes up as much space as possible (to hide the back button). by @pixlwave in #3335
• Have ElementCall always default to the speaker; prevent the lock button from ending the call by @stefanceriu in #3338
• Allow focusing the different avatars making up a DM details cluster separately. by @stefanceriu in #3341
• Disable auto correction when running on the Mac by @stefanceriu in #3364

🗣 Translations

• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3347
• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3371

🧱 Build

• Start fixing flakey tests ❄️ by @pixlwave in #3329
• Integration test runner switch by @stefanceriu in #3343
• Switch UI tests back to the perf-only runner. by @pixlwave in #3349

🚧 In development 🚧

• Add developer option to hide media in the timeline. by @pixlwave in #3366

Others

• Integration test improvements by @stefanceriu in #3330
• crypto: rename invisible crypto flag to deviceIsolationMode by @BillCarsonFr in #3331
• chore(deps): update dependency fastlane to v2.223.0 by @renovate in #3337
• Log any failures when creating a call widget. by @pixlwave in #3339
• chore(deps): update dependency fastlane to v2.223.1 by @renovate in #3340
• Tracing and integration test tweaks by @stefanceriu in #3336
• Remove message pinning FF by @Velin92 in #3318
• Move the core logic in LoginScreenCoordinator into the ViewModel. by @pixlwave in #3348
• Bump the RustSDK to v1.0.53: adopt latest record based timeline item APIs by @stefanceriu in #3356
• use element-hq RTE version by @Velin92 in #3360
• Hide timeline media preparation by @pixlwave in #3361
• chore(deps): update dependency fastlane to v2.224.0 by @renovate in #3370
• Record a missing snapshot. by @pixlwave in #3374
• Update the SDK and use media filename and caption internally. by @pixlwave in #3375
• update sdk by @Velin92 in #3377

Full Changelog: 1.8.4...1.8.5

1.8.4

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Enable message pinning by @Velin92 in #3308

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix: confusion of lab flags for invisible crypto by @BillCarsonFr in #3319
• Fix a regression where you can't scroll the timeline on iOS 17 by @pixlwave in #3320
• Fix a bug where the Join Room screen was sometimes shown instead of the Room. by @pixlwave in #3323
• Fix a bug on iOS 18 where the timeline background would use the wrong colour scheme when using the app switcher. by @pixlwave in #3324
• Don't use the new iPad modal presentation mode for the timeline item menu by @pixlwave in #3325

🗣 Translations

• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3315

🧱 Build

• Update the project to use Xcode 16. by @pixlwave in #3303

Others

• A bunch of random tweaks. by @pixlwave in #3317

Full Changelog: 1.8.3...1.8.4

1.8.3

What's Changed

✨ Features

• crypto: Add configuration flag to enable invisible crypto by @BillCarsonFr in #3247
• quick and dirty /join command by @ara4n in #3288

🐛 Bugfixes

• Await for room sync only for push notification invites by @Velin92 in #3307

🧱 Build

• Try to stop random codecov test result action failures from failing the whole test run. by @stefanceriu in #3301

Others

• Various Danger fixes by @stefanceriu in #3304

Full Changelog: 1.8.2...1.8.3

1.8.2

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Allow registration on matrix.org using a custom helper URL. by @pixlwave in #3282

🙌 Improvements

• Allow account deactivation when not using OIDC. by @pixlwave in #3295

🗣 Translations

• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3283

🧱 Build

• Bump SDK to 1.0.51 by @Velin92 in #3298

🚧 In development 🚧

• Add a WebRegistrationScreen (not included in the flow yet). by @pixlwave in #3281
• Added analytics for message pinning by @Velin92 in #3284

Others

• Bump the RustSDK to v1.0.50 by @stefanceriu in #3292
• Push the deactivate account screen. by @pixlwave in #3297
• Use the new strings for send failures when the unsigned devices are your own. by @pixlwave in #3299
• Stop delaying subscriptions until after startup by @stefanceriu in #3294

Full Changelog: 1.8.1...1.8.2

1.8.1

What's Changed

🐛 Bugfixes

• Make sure we don't reuse an old NSEUserSession after logging out and back in. by @pixlwave in #3273
• Make sure we reset the feature flag when upgrading to SSS. by @pixlwave in #3272
• Fix interactive dismissal of our QLPreviewController iOS 18 (when built with Xcode 16). by @pixlwave in #3274
• Replace client side room awaiting with the SDKs new awaitRoomRemoteEcho method by @stefanceriu in #3279
• Handle notifications properly when a call is happening. by @pixlwave in #3276

🧱 Build

• Upload test results to Codecov. by @pixlwave in #3266

Full Changelog: 1.8.0...1.8.1

1.8.0

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Add a banner that offers the user to transition to native sliding sync by @stefanceriu in #3252

🙌 Improvements

• Delay setting up subscriptions until the RoomListService is running in order to avoid cancelling in flight initial sync requests by @stefanceriu in #3233
• Require acknowledgement to send to verified users who have unsigned devices or have changed their identity. by @pixlwave in #3215
• Make the SessionDirectories type responsible for cleaning up data. by @pixlwave in #3261

🐛 Bugfixes

• Rewrite how out of band verification changes are handled within the onboarding flows by @stefanceriu in #3234
• Allow voice message playback in the background by @stefanceriu in #3236
• Fix wrong durations for uploaded media by @stefanceriu in #3245
• Make sure introspections are used on iOS 18. by @pixlwave in #3248
• Bring back default controls for QuickLook based media viewers by @stefanceriu in #3254
• Reduce the maximum height used by the plain text composer by @stefanceriu in #3255
• Force frame sizes for timeline items that are missing sizing info by @stefanceriu in #3259

🗣 Translations

• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3239

🧱 Build

• Replace Prefire with a very similar but simpler and more direct approach by @stefanceriu in #3232
• Switch codecov-action back to v3 as 4 significantly decreases coverage by @stefanceriu in #3246
• Free up CI runner disk space before running UI tests. by @stefanceriu in #3253
• version bump to 1.8.0 by @Velin92 in #3260
• Sdk v1.0.47 by @Velin92 in #3265

🚧 In development 🚧

• Pin Tweaks by @Velin92 in #3242
• Allow redacted messages to be viewed and unpinned by @Velin92 in #3251
• Added a pin icon by @Velin92 in #3257

Others

• Switch license to AGPL by @stefanceriu in #3237
• Remove SS proxy migration and waitlist screens by @stefanceriu in #3154
• Update bug.yml by @stefanceriu in #3250

Full Changelog: 1.7.5...1.8.0

1.7.5

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Add a logout button on the identity confirmation screen by @stefanceriu in #3212

🐛 Bugfixes

• Make sure reactions always go through the timeline controller. by @pixlwave in #3209
• Prevent issues when loading user profiles by @stefanceriu in #3213
• Accept current autocorrection/suggestion before sending a message by @stefanceriu in #3219
• Update subscriptions if visible range rooms change without the range itself changing by @stefanceriu in #3220
• Prevent verification state changes other than verified from blocking the user on the session verification screen by @stefanceriu in #3224
• Make pinned events required state in SlidingSync by @jmartinesp in #3225
• Force room title headers to layout on one single line by @stefanceriu in #3229

🗣 Translations

• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3218

🚧 In development 🚧

• Native Sliding Sync Discovery by @pixlwave in #3211

Others

• Update GitHub Actions (major) by @renovate in #3222
• Update GitHub Actions (major) by @renovate in #3227
• Bump the RustSDK to v1.0.44 by @stefanceriu in #3230

New Contributors

• @jmartinesp made their first contribution in #3225

Full Changelog: 1.7.4...1.7.5

1.7.4

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Show encryption authenticity warnings on messages in the timeline. by @pixlwave in #3180
• Picture in Picture support for Calls (requires a supported widget deployment). by @pixlwave in #3204

🙌 Improvements

• Clarify the copy for Mentions in notifications. by @pixlwave in #3142
• Remove a notification if its event has been redacted. by @pixlwave in #3191

🐛 Bugfixes

• RoomScreenViewModel refactor part 2 by @Velin92 in #3169
• Automatically try reloading failed images on network changes by @stefanceriu in #3170
• Fixes problems processing invites, build rooms differently based on their membership by @stefanceriu in #3189

⚠️ API Changes

• Introduce a new RoomProxyType and treat rooms differently based on their membership state by @stefanceriu in #3187

🗣 Translations

• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3172
• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3179
• Translations update by @RiotRobot in #3201

🚧 In development 🚧

• RoomScreenViewModel is now TimelineViewModel by @Velin92 in #3157
• PinnedBanner is now managed by the RoomScreenViewModel by @Velin92 in #3163
• Navigation support for upcoming Element Call Picture in Picture mode. by @pixlwave in #3174
• Use native video call picture in picture! by @pixlwave in #3190
• Pinned Events Timeline actions and differentiation by @Velin92 in #3182
• TimelineKind refactor by @Velin92 in #3193

Others

• Add a danger check for PR titles that contain a "Fixes #1234" prefix. by @pixlwave in #3161
• Update package acknowledgements (after resetting the packages). by @pixlwave in #3167
• Bump the SDK to v1.0.39 by @stefanceriu in #3171
• Remove GenericCallLinkCoordinator, merging it into CallScreen. by @pixlwave in #3181
• Fix the call URL input field in Developer Options by @pixlwave in #3192
• Update the SDK by @pixlwave in #3196
• Update the client's request timeout to match the SDK's default. by @pixlwave in #3205

Full Changelog: 1.7.3...1.7.4