deltachat/deltachat-desktop v1.4.2

1.4.2 - 2020-06-26

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Added

• Burner accounts with QR code
• Theming (some Dark themes and the possibibilty to add even custom ones)
• Mute Chats
• Add Search for Contacts and Messages
• Add autodelete settings
• add git rev to the version in the about dialog
• Oportunistic reminder to update after 90days
• Add a crash-screen that appears instead of the white-screen on a react crash.
• Add enlarge group image
• Add chat image to navbar

Fixed

• Pointer cursor on hovering over document item
• update Readme a bit
• Fix whitescreen crash on opening the EncryptionInfoDialog
• Fix drop send multiple files at once (#1622)
• Fix window bounds are not saved correctly #1705
• Fix export backup progress bar missing
• Fix dc_get_msg called with special msg_id=0 warnings printed to console
• Fix window position on first start (#1711)
• Fix error message on login starting with ',' #1702
• Fix offline toast displayed before login #1729
• Fix "Authentication failed" notification does not disappear even after successfull login #1594
• Fix login button staying disabled on error #1661
• Fix use system language until the user chooses their language #1712
• Fix selecting a non existing chat after restarting DeltaChat

Changed

• Tweak settings design a bit
• Adjust chatlistitem hover colors
• Improve human-readability of logfiles
• display the offline status as permanent toast instead of the error message
• open an electron error dialog on uncaught Excerptions
• Tweak Login styling
• move qr code description up
• Tweak: Less cursor type switching
• Improve styling of Fullscreen-Attachment buttons
• move the verified icon over the group avatar
• now it is possible to have multiple accounts with the same email address (you can import a backup next to the active account)
• change account path again - now the account folder name isn't tied to the email address anymore.
• Update to deltachat-node v1.39.0 (async core)
• Add open attachment to message context menu and increase clickable area (click to open attachment)
• Overhauled login/update credentials flow & ui/ux to provide a more stable and clear experience
• Importing a backup now automatically loads the imported account
• Save account path instead of account addr for remembering the last selected account
• We don't scroll down on incoming messages anymore
• Solved the macOS appstore issue and the macOS notarizing issue.
• Exclude some unused resources from being bundled with the release.

Technical

This section is only relevant to contributors.

• Convert everything in the source folder to typescript
• move more styles from styled-components to scss
• Refactor Dialog system to make things easier for developers and fix stacking multiple instances of the same dialog
• split settings dialog into multiple files
• convert requires to imports
• Refactor Keybindings
• Split Build script into smaller build scripts.
• replace node-sass with sass to remove the native dependency
• introduce runtime.ts as a place to collect electron specific functions (will replace renderer/ipc.ts)
• 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 don't have a tag/release as they were test versions only distributed on the Microsoft App Store

Updates

• update Translations
• update Help

Downloads under: https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.4.2/