Changes in Element v1.4.2 (2022-02-22 Palindrome Day!)
Features ✨
- Open the room when user accepts an invite from the room list (#3771)
- Add completion for @room to notify everyone in a room (#5123)
- Improve UI of reactions in timeline, including quick add reaction. (#5204)
- Support creating disclosed polls (#5290)
Bugfixes 🐛
- Remove redundant highlight on add poll option button (#5178)
- Reliably display crash report prompt (#5195)
- Fix for rooms with virtual rooms not showing call status events in the timeline. (#5198)
- Fix for call transfer with consult failing to make outgoing consultation call. (#5201)
- Fix crash during account registration when redirecting to Web View (#5218)
- Analytics: Fixes missing use case identity values from within the onboarding flow (#5234)
- Fixing crash when adding room by QR code after accepting the camera permission for the first time (#5295)
SDK API changes ⚠️
join
andleave
methods moved from MembershipService to RoomService and SpaceService to split logic for rooms and spaces (#5183)- Deprecates Matrix.initialize and Matrix.getInstance in favour of the client providing its own singleton instance via Matrix.createInstance (#5185)
- Adds support for MSC3283, additional homeserver capabilities (#5207)
Other changes
- Right align the notifications badge in the rooms list (and DMs) so that it's always in a consistent place on the screen. (#4640)
- Collapse successive ACLs events in room timeline (#2782)
- Home screen: Replacing search icon by filter icon in the top right menu (#4643)
- Make Space creation screens more consistent (#5104)
- Defensive coding to ensure encryption when room was once e2e (#5136)
- Reduce verbosity of debug logging, (#5209)
- Standardise emulator versions of GHA integration tests. (#5210)
- Replacing color "vctr_unread_room_badge" by "vctr_content_secondary" (#5225)
- Change preferred jitsi domain from
jitsi.riot.im
tomeet.element.io
(#5254) - Analytics screen events are now tracked on screen enter instead of screen leave (#5256)
- Improves bitmap memory usage by caching the shortcut images (#5276)
- Changes unread marker in room list from green to grey (#5294)
- Improve some internal realm usages. (#5297)
Translations 🗣
- Improved Japanese translations (special thanks to Suguru Hirahara!)