ZapFast 0.16.1 fixes the problems people found in the first day of 0.16: group chats that stayed empty until someone wrote, chats that shook when opened, a message box that jumped while typing, a link that went quiet after the computer slept, and files dropped on a Wayland desktop that never arrived. The composer and the voice recorder also sit better in the new rounded field.
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On a Mac, brew install --cask crmne/tap/zapfast installs it and keeps it updated with Homebrew. On Arch, yay -S zapfast-bin.
Fixed
- Group chats show their messages when opened. While ZapFast recovered the phone's chat lock state, it held back the first read of the open chat and never answered it, so the chat stayed empty (search still found the messages) until someone wrote. By @crmne; thanks @Adxa1 for the report and @leandroruel for looking into it. (#180, #181)
- Chats no longer shake when opened. A picture whose message didn't state its size took one height on screen and another off it, and a chat held at its last message could bounce between the two every frame. By @crmne; thanks @Adxa1. (#179)
- The message box stays still while you type. When a line wrapped or joined, the box grew a frame late and briefly hung below the window. By @crmne.
- ZapFast reconnects after sleep. After the computer wakes, or when the connection has received nothing for two minutes, ZapFast reconnects and fetches what arrived meanwhile, instead of waiting on a connection that looks open but no longer delivers. The underlying hang is also proposed upstream as oxidezap/whatsapp-rust#1547. By @crmne; thanks @edmooredop for the detailed report. (#177)
- Dropping files works on Wayland. Files dragged from a file manager onto ZapFast in a Wayland session now attach, as they already did under X11. By @crmne; thanks @felipemartoni for tracking down the cause. (#178)
- The composer's buttons sit in its rounded ends. Plus sits in the left end like send in the right, emoji sits close beside it, and the send button no longer has an uneven gap around it. By @crmne.
- The voice recorder uses the whole field. Discard, the time, and a waveform across the field, then send, as in WhatsApp, instead of everything squeezed against send. By @crmne.
Thanks
@Adxa1, @leandroruel, @edmooredop, @felipemartoni, and everyone who tried 0.16 on its first day and told us what broke.
Full changelog: v0.16.0...v0.16.1