What's new?

NOTE: If you want to try out the new Private API features (or Big Sur Private API), server version v0.3.0 and Private API helper version v0.0.3 are required! The latest server (v0.3.0) will auto-install the bundle for you when Private API features are enabled

Changes

The Big Stuff

• Private API support for Big Sur+ (Intel only Macs)
• Big Sur+ chat creation (DMs only for right now, we hope to add group chat support via the Private API soon)
• View replies (requires Big Sur and up)
• View message effects
• New Private API features!
  • Rename group chats
  • Add & remove participants from group chats
  • Send effects
  • Send subject lines
  • Send replies (requires Big Sur and up)
• iOS Emojis
• Text Forwarding support (this is not Android SMS support, just SMS support for those who have iPhone Text Forwarding / SMS Relay enabled)
• Minor bug fixes & improvements

The Nitty Gritty

New Features

• Private API Features
  • Rename group chats
  • Add & remove participants from group chats
  • Send effects
  • Send subject lines
  • Send replies (requires Big Sur and up)
• UI Features / iMessage Feature Parity
  • View message effects
  • View replies (requires Big Sur and up)
  • DM chat creation for Big Sur+
  • iOS Emojis
  • Text Forwarding / SMS Relay support
  • Add immersive mode option (make bottom navigation bar transparent and show app contents behind it)
  • Added ability to change font weight (bold / light) of text in theme settings
• Added ability to delete attachments to free up space without resetting the whole app
• Added support for copying the server address when tapping it
• Support underlining multiple phones / emails / links in a single message
• Support translating reaction text ('somebody liked "a message"') if it was sent from a device in another language
• Add incognito keyboard option on Android (when enabled, the keyboard will not store any data as you type)
• Added support for automatically saving pictures to gallery and files to downloads folder
• Added support for generating a chat transcript, either as a plaintext or PDF document
• Completely redesigned setup screen UI

Bug Fixes

• Fixed padding for images sent with a message
• Fixed attach recent photo text misalignment
• Fixed off-center icons
• Fixed video preview in attachment picker
• Removed the ability to set .heic images as a custom avatar (it would crash the app)
• Fixed chat creator defaulting to the message text field rather than the participant text field
• Fixed clicking on a selected attachment selects it a second time
• Fixed attachment viewer wouldn't show images past the most recent 25
• Fixed text field text would carry over to a different chat when opening that chat through a notification popup
• Removed empty box when there are no smart replies
• Fixed overlay not disappearing in material mode video player
• Fixed issues with sent / delivered / read receipts not updating
• Fixed reply from notification shade not working
• Fixed reaction alignment for digital touch messages
• Fixed changing color on theme picker dark mode would reset the tab bar selected item to light mode
• Android fixes
  • Fixed duplicate notification issue
  • Fixed contact avatars not showing for notifications sometimes
  • Fixed a lot of bugs with unread blue dot
  • Fixed link parsing incorrect with some characters (this will still remain an issue on web and desktop because Google MLKit is unsupported there)
  • Swipe back gesture in tablet mode will now exit the app
  • Fixed .heic images not loading
• Web fixes
  • Fixed reactions not displaying in message preview
  • Fixed connection & sync empty header display in settings

Improvements

• Moved server statistics to its own dialog to reduce clutter
• Added dismiss button to QR code generation
• Under-the-hood improvements when fetching notifications to fix avatars not loading
• Reduced attach recent photo threshold
• Removed extra notification categories in android settings
• Made server connection dialog continue when pressing enter on the password field
• Improved notification reliability
• Improved speed of launching chat details page
• Hide more database related items on Web, since database is unsupported there
• Hide keyboard when app is not in foreground (mainly to not show the keyboard input method notification)
• Show server details as the first page in tablet mode settings
• When in phone landscape mode, the chat header will shrink to allow more content to show
• When in dark mode, the theme settings will now automatically start in the dark mode tab

Note: The GitHub builds found here support Android Auto. The PlayStore builds do not