Nheko-Reborn/nheko v0.8.0

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[0.8.0] -- 2021-01-21

Highlights

• Voice and Video Calls (contributed by trilene)
  • Call your friends right from within Nheko.
  • Use your camera if you want them to see your face!
  • This requires a somewhat new gstreamer, so our builds don't support it on all platforms yet.
• Cross-Signing and Device/User Verification (contributed by Chethan)
  • Verify who you are talking to!
  • Ensure no malicious people eavesdrop on you!
  • Enable your connected devices to access key backup and your friends to see, which of your devices you trust!
  • Show devices in a users profile.
• Separate profiles (contributed by lorendb)
  • Run multiple Nheko instances with separate profiles side by side.
  • Use multiple accounts at the same time in separate windows.

Features

• Before a call select which audio device to use. (contributed by trilene)
• Auto request unknown keys from your own devices.
• Add a command to clear the timeline and reload it. (/clear-timeline).
• Add a command to rotate the outbound megolm session. (/rotate-megolm-session).
• React to messages instead of replying with arbitrary strings using /react.
• Inline emoji and user completers. (contributed by Lurkki)
• Show filename on hover over an image. (contributed by kamathmanu)
• Mobile mode, that disables text selection and changes some dialogs.
• Allow sending text after a /shrug command. (contributed by MayeulC)
• Allow selecting a ringtone. (contributed by trilene)
• View avatars fullscreen. (contributed by kamathmanu)
• Request or download cross signing secrets in the settings.
• Support 'matrix:' URIs. This works in app on all platforms and on Linux Nheko may be opened by clicking a 'matrix:' link.
• Support inline replies on notifications on Linux.

Improvements

• Remove dependency on libsodium.
• Keep a cache of received messages on disk.
• Warn when kicking, banning or inviting people.
• Align day separators in the timeline. (contributed by not-chicken)
• Confirm quit during an active call. (contributed by trilene)
• Make timestamps somwhat fixed width.
• Add NixOS to readme. (contributed by Tony)
• Speed up database accesses.
• A lot of translation updates by various users.
• Port a few more parts of the UI to Qml.
• Various end-to-end encryption fixes.
• Use a QFontComboBox to select fonts. (contributed by lorendb)
• Delete text in input area with Ctrl+U. (contributed by lorendb)
• Reduce memory usage by not loading members into RAM.
• Speed up rendering the timeline by a lot by removing excessive clipping.
• Reload encrypted message when room_key is received.
• Improve wording in various places. (contributed by MayeulC)
• Improve rendering of avatars in various places. (contributed by MayeulC)
• Riot -> Element in README. (Contributed by Kim)
• Improve login and registration page error reporting. (contributed by kirillpt)
• Move CI to Gitlab.
• Use system Nheko icon on login page. (contributed by lorendb)
• Add Fedora build requirements. (contributed by trilene)
• Add ripple effect to various buttons.
• Allow more font sizes to be selected.
• Swedish translation. (contributed by Emilie)
• German translation. (contributed by Mr X and various others)
• Romanian translation. (contributed by Mihai)
• Polish translation. (contributed by luff)
• Russian translation. (contributed by kirillpt and librehacker)
• Italian translation. (contributed by Lorenzo)
• French translation. (contributed by MayeulC)
• Hungarian translation. (contributed by maxigaz)
• Show read markers when clicking read indicator. (contributed by lorendb)

Bugfixes

• Fix text sometimes being rendered blurry.
• Fix not being able to change theme (contributed by not-chicken)
• Fix relations sometimes being sent as null in encrypted messages.
• Don't send formatted body without format.
• Links sometimes not opening properly from Qml.
• Fix autolinking breaking on single quotes.
• Fix translation loading on some locales.
• Don't send url in encrypted file events.
• Prevent duplicate messages from showing up in the timeline.
• Fix crash when pasting image from clipboard on macOS.
• Settings toggles don't get stuck anymore. (contributed by kirillpt)
• Fix some emojis being rendered as two emoji.
• Fix SSO login on some servers that allow multiple login methods. (contributed by d42)

For packagers

• Nheko now depends on QtKeychain.
• Nheko optionally depends on GStreamer for VOIP. GStreamer 1.18 is required for proper turnserver support, if you want it to work across some NATs.
• Nheko does not depend on Sodium anymore.
• Minimum OpenSSL version is now 1.1.