Nheko-Reborn/nheko v0.9.0

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[0.9.0] -- 2021-11-19

Highlights

• Somewhat stable end to end encryption
  • Show the room verification status
  • Configure Nheko to only send to verified users
  • Store the encryption keys securely in the OS-provided secrets service.
  • Support online keybackup as well as sharing historical session keys.
• Crosssigning bootstrapping
  • Crosssigning is used to simplify the verification process. In this release
    Nheko can setup crosssigning on a new account without having to use a
    different client.
  • Nheko now also prompts you, if there are any unverified devices and asks you to verify them.
• Room directory (Manu)
  • Search for rooms on your server and other servers. (Prezu)
  • If their topic interests you and it has the right amount of members, join
    the room and the discussion!
• Custom sticker packs
  • Add a custom sticker picker, that allows you to send stickers from MSC2545.
  • Support creating new sticker (and emote) packs.
  • You can share packs in a room and enable them globally or just for that
    room.
• Token authenticated registration (Callum)
  • Sign up with a token to servers, that have otherwise disabled registration.
  • This was done as part of GSoC and makes it easier to run private servers for
    your family and friends!

Features

• Support email in registration (required on matrix.org for example)
• Warn, if an @room would mention the whole room, because some people don't like that.
• Support device removal as well as renaming. (Thulinma)
• Show your devices without encryption support, when showing your profile.
  (Thulinma)
• Move to the next room with unread messages by pressing Alt-A. (Symphorien)
• Support jdenticons as a placeholder for rooms or users without avatars.
  (LorenDB)
  • You will need to install https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/qt-jdenticon
• Properly sign macOS builds.
• Support animated images like GIF and WebP.
  • Optionally just play them on hover.
• Support accepting knocks in the timeline.
• Close a room when clicking it again. (LorenDB)
• Close image overlay with escape.
• Support .well-known discovery during registration.
• Limited spaces support.
  • No nice display of nested spaces.
  • No previews of unjoined rooms.
  • No way to edit a space.
• Render room avatar changes in the timeline. (BShipman)
• Support pulling out the sidebar to make it wider.
• Allow editing pending messages instead of blocking until they are sent.
  (balsoft)
• Support mnemonics in the context menus. (AppAraat)
• Support TOFU for encryption. (Trust on first use)
• Right click -> copy address location.
• Forward messages. (Jedi18)
• Alt-F to forward messages.
• A new video and audio player, that should look a bit nicer.

Improvements

• Translation updates:
  • French by MayeulC, ISSOtm, Glandos, Carl Schwan
  • Dutch by Thulinma, Bas van Rossem, Glael, Thijs
  • Esperanto by Tirifto, Colin
  • Estonian by Priit
  • Indonesian by Linerly
  • German by 123, Konstantin, fnetX, Mr. X, CryptKid
  • Portuguese (Portugal) by Tnpod, Xenovox, Gabriel R
  • Portuguese (Brazil) by Terry, zerowhy
  • Finnish by sdrrespudro, Priit
  • Polish by Prezu, AXD, stabor
  • Malayalam by vachan-maker
  • Italian by Daniele, Lorenzo
  • Spanish by lluise
  • Russian by kirillpt
  • Various wording improvements throughout.
• Verification status and identity keys should now update properly after login.
• Clicking the user in a read receipt opens their profile. (LorenDB)
• Invites should now work properly on mobile.
• Use the modern notifications on macOS.
• Decode blurhashes faster.
• Port various dialogs to Qml. (LorenDB)
• Improve paste support on Windows, when mimetype detection fails and pasting
  SVGs (Thulinma)
• --help and --version now work, even if Nheko is already running somewhere.
• Update emoji support to version 14.
• Properly navigate to linked to events. (Thulinma)
• Lots of smaller bugfixes and refactorings. (LorenDB)
• Scroll entire profile page and properly trim contents. (Thulinma)
• Make it easy to switch between global and room specific profiles. (Thulinma)
• Deduplicate messages sent by the server. (Thulinma)
• Decrease the margin of blockquotes. (tastytea)
• Alerts now work, if the homeserver does not implement the notifications
  endpoint. (Thulinma)
• Right click menu now works on replies.
• Decrypt encrypted media only in memory. (On macOS it still uses a tempfile because of https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69101)
• Don't use CC-BY in the appstream license to not confuse Gnome Software.
• Document how to sync the repo on Gentoo. (alfasi)
• Support online key backup.
• Improve FAQ. (harmathy)
• Support Backtab/Shift-Tab for moving backwards in completer selections.
• Clear cache to support the new features.
• Improve the emoji completer (less jitter and fix places where it didn't open). (Thomaps Karpiniec)
• Cleanup @room escape logic.
• Improve performance of timeline rendering.
• Add fallback for sent stickers, so that they show on iOS.
• Load rooms somewhat lazily.
• Properly scale avatars to DPI.
• Round avatars once in the backend instead of on every render.
• Request keys of all members, when opening a room the first time.
• Timeout TCP connections, if heartbeat can't be heard.
• Change secrets name. You might need to rerequest your secrets after upgrading!
• Protect against replay attacks where megolm sessions are reused.
• Add "request keys" button to undecryptable messages.
• Remove superfluous permissions in Flatpak.
• Properly set window parents on Wayland.
• Properly show users and allow opening their profiles in the members and read
  receipt dialogs. (LorenDB)
• Use Qt5.15 Connections syntax in Qml.
• Remove "respond to keyrequests option". We now reply to the right requests
  automatically and securely.
• Show confirmation prompt when leaving a room.
• Add trailing newline to session export for gomuks compatibility.
• Use a fancy Nheko logo as the loading indicator.
• Improve how the invite dialog handles users. (LorenDB)
• Store more data about megolm sessions.
• Speed up database queries by caching transactions.
• Use curl for network requests.
  • This removes the boost dependency.
  • Proxies now work using the usual curl variables.
  • Fixes a myriad of crashes.
  • Faster.
  • Less CPU load.
  • Less bandwidth usage.
• Cleanup user color generation.
• Show borders around tables.
• Improve wording of a few menu entries. (absorber)
• Highlight navigated to message.
• Switched to the fluent icon set. (LorenDB)

Bugfixes

• Redaction of edited messages should now actually show those messages as removed.
• Bootstrap after registration should run properly now.
• Getting logged out after registration should not happen anymore.
• Removed edgecases where identity keys could get uploaded twice.
• Fix the event loop when fetching secrets breaking random things like scrolling.
• Don't crash when clearing an empty timeline.
• Opening an invite in your browser or a matrix: URI should not crash Nheko anymore or do nothing.
• When clicking on an item in the roomlist, you don't have to move your mouse anymore, before being able to click again.
• Don't hide space childs when viewing that specific space and its children are hidden.
• Only allow specific URI schemes to be followed automatically.
• Properly hide day change indicator, when loading older messages.
• Rotate session properly when 'verified only' is set.
• Handle missing keys in key queries properly.
• Properly show the window title for Qml dialogs on windows.
• Don't show decryption errors in replies.
• Don't crash when storing secrets.
• Don't send megolm messages to ourselves, if possible.
• Fix SSSS without a password.
• Fix a few edge cases with OTK upload.
• Cache more media properly (i.e. in the Goose Chooser).
• Inline images in messages now load properly.
• Don't show verification requests after startup.
• Emoji picker now follows the theme.
• Send less newlines in the reply fallback.
• Fix tags going missing when joining spaces.
• Handle inline images with single quotes. (Cadair)
• Delay key requests until a room is opened.
• Fix rooms not showing, when groups endpoint is missing.
• Don't use deprecated parameters in /login.
• Fix encoding issues when translating matrix.to to matrix: URIs.
• Prevent edits from stripping the whole message, if it had a quote.

Packaging changes

• Removed the AppImage
• Removed dependency on boost
• Now depends on coeurl, which depends on libevent and libcurl.
• VOIP support now needs to be explicitly controlled using the VOIP and SCREENSHARE_X11 cmake options.