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Changes in Element v1.4.4 (2022-03-09)

Features ✨

  • Adds animated typing indicator to the bottom of the timeline (#3296)
  • Removes the topic and typing information from the room's top bar (#4642)
  • Add possibility to save media from Gallery + reorder choices in message context menu (#5005)
  • Improves settings error dialog messaging when changing avatar or display name fails (#5418)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Open direct message screen when clicking on DM button in the space members list (#4319)
  • Fix incorrect media cache size in settings (#5394)
  • Setting an avatar when creating a room had no effect (#5402)
  • Fix reactions summary crash when reopening a room (#5463)
  • Fixing room titles overlapping the room image in the room toolbar (#5468)

In development 🚧

  • Starts the FTUE account personalisation flow by adding an account created screen behind a feature flag (#5158)

SDK API changes ⚠️

  • Change name of getTimeLineEvent and getTimeLineEventLive methods to getTimelineEvent and getTimelineEventLive. (#5330)

Other changes

  • Improve Bubble layouts rendering (#5303)
  • Continue improving realm usage (potentially helping with storage and RAM usage) (#5330)
  • Update reaction button layout. (#5313)
  • Adds forceLoginFallback feature flag and usages to FTUE login and registration (#5325)
  • Override task affinity to prevent unknown activities running in our app tasks. (#4498)
  • Tentatively fixing the UI sanity test being unable to click on the space menu items (#5269)
  • Moves attachment-viewer, diff-match-patch, and multipicker modules to subfolders under library (#5309)
  • Log the since token used and next_batch token returned when doing an incremental sync. (#5312, #5318)
  • Upgrades material dependency version from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 (#5392)
  • Using app name instead of hardcoded "Element" for exported keys filename (#5326)
  • Upgrade the plugin which generate strings with template from 1.2.2 to 2.0.0 (#5348)
  • Remove about 700 unused strings and their translations (#5352)
  • Creates dedicated VectorOverrides for forcing behaviour for local testing/development (#5361)
  • Cleanup unused threads build configurations (#5379)
  • Notify element-android channel each time a nightly build completes. (#5314)
  • Iterate on badge / unread indicator color (#5456)

Note - 1.4.4 was regenerated to include #5484

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