✨️ New Features
Note
Most of these are effect of my recent work on my own AppImage maker,@reforged/maker-appimage. This means these changes are not limited to WebCord but any other Electron app using my maker can opt-in for these as well via Forge configuration.
- AppImages now use
type2-runtimethat while being experimental, doesn't require installingfuse2package installed on modern distros/DEs (as most of them usefuse3now) and since we usefuse2builds, we still don't deprecate users with older software installed.- AppImages bundled by my maker aren't fully static yet and most likely can't be used by users with non-glibc installed, as only few libraries being part of Electron binaries are bundled inside. I might try to improve my maker if there will be huge interest for these users to use my AppImage – but this might require the custom
AppRunto invoke the interpreter bundled in the AppImage. Bundling the whole libraries will most likely also drastically affect the resulting size of the AppImages.
- AppImages bundled by my maker aren't fully static yet and most likely can't be used by users with non-glibc installed, as only few libraries being part of Electron binaries are bundled inside. I might try to improve my maker if there will be huge interest for these users to use my AppImage – but this might require the custom
- AppImages now support parsing Arch Linux styled
{{ name }}-flags.conffiles (#382).- Important: Althrough this feature is now distro-independent, I consider limiting this feature to Arch-based distros only, as these
.conffiles are quite specific thing to Arch and are quite non-standard on other distros.
- Important: Althrough this feature is now distro-independent, I consider limiting this feature to Arch-based distros only, as these
- (Finally) add select all item/keybind to menu bar for all platforms (#319)
🧹️ Maintenance updates
- Bump Electron to
v25. - Remove polyfills from WebCord. This comes with removal of packages such as
electron-fetchand@pkgjs/parseargswith their imports and use in code and simplifies code a bit, at cost of support for older Electron releases. - Update code for breaking changes in some WebCord dependencies. This comes with the support for the new (modular?)
markedrelease and a bit simplifies the code around Markdown highlighting. - Update overall dependencies to their latest versions.
Full Changelog: v4.2.0...v4.3.0