ZapFast 0.18.2 finishes the new logo: the login, lock, About and Settings screens now show the icon itself, and Linux trays that showed a blank placeholder show it too. It also stops a startup burst of sticker downloads that got accounts rate-limited, so pictures and stickers sent right after connecting no longer fail, and keeps the emoji picker's Recent row still while you use it.
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On a Mac, brew install --cask crmne/tap/zapfast. On Arch, yay -S zapfast-bin.
The screenshot uses ZapFast's built-in demo content.
Fixed
- The new icon everywhere in the app. The login, lock, About and Settings screens drew a flat disc in the theme's colour instead of the refreshed icon. They now show the icon itself. By @crmne.
- The Linux tray shows the icon, not a placeholder. Trays that look icons up by name showed an image-missing placeholder, because ZapFast sent only a picture. It now also names its installed icon. By @crmne; thanks @kalligator, who traced it. (#310)
- Pictures and stickers send right after connecting. ZapFast fetched every missing favourite sticker at once when it connected, and every recent one when the picker opened; WhatsApp answered with "rate-overlimit" and briefly refused the next picture or sticker too. Stickers are now fetched a few at a time, all of them pause when WhatsApp says to slow down, and a sticker gone from WhatsApp's servers is not asked for again on every start. By @crmne; thanks @claudiocp and @oovaa, whose logs pinned it down. (#298, #307)
- The emoji picker's Recent row stays put while you use it, so you can send the same emoji several times in a row, as in WhatsApp. It catches up the next time the picker opens. By @crmne; thanks @fedalc. (#294)
- No crash when a sound ends after the app that started ZapFast has closed. ZapFast could quit when a notification sound finished if it had been started from an app that was gone by then. By @dadofsambonzuki. (#297)
- Selecting message text is steadier. By @nathanbzrr. (#304)
Known limitations
- Favourite stickers that were already missing now arrive over a few minutes instead of all at once.
- A portable copy run without installing its icon still depends on the tray drawing the picture ZapFast sends.
- Links that do nothing when clicked on Windows (#311) are not fixed yet.
Thanks
@dadofsambonzuki and @nathanbzrr for the pull requests in this release, and @kalligator, @claudiocp, @oovaa and @fedalc for their reports.
Full changelog: v0.18.1...v0.18.2