element-hq/element-call v0.18.0-rc.1

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What's Changed

We welcome @JakeTripplJ as a new contributor who brings screen share volume controls to ElementCall.
On top, we get a better PiP experience in Web and an issue is fixed with portrait vs landscape streams/tiles. Which improves the mobile -> desktop call experience by a lot!

✨ Features

• Add volume control to screen shares by @JakeTripplJ in #3747
• Implement new Pip Layout (with control buttons) by @toger5 in #3775
• Auto fit video in tile depending on orientation of the tile and the source stream by @BillCarsonFr in #3756

🐛 Bugfixes

• fix: Netlify preview broken by @BillCarsonFr in #3731
• Fix: crash on mobile with 0.17.0-rc.2 due to a log causing stringify to crash with TypedError: circular structure by @BillCarsonFr in #3733
• fix: add id-token permission as its required by tailscale login by @fkwp in #3768

💾 Developer Experience

• Add debug logs to generateItems by @robintown in #3726
• Bumping LiveKit SFU and synapse versions in dev-backend-docker-compose.yml by @fkwp in #3757
• fix: add id-token permission as its required by tailscale login (part 3) by @fkwp in #3793
• Add zizmor checks on CI by @fkwp in #3792
• fix: OCI image push to element registry by @fkwp in #3795

Others

• fix: add id-token permission as its required by tailscale login (part 2) by @fkwp in #3770

👒 Dependencies

• Update dependency lodash-es to v4.17.23 [SECURITY] by @renovate[bot] in #3697
• Update GitHub Actions by @renovate[bot] in #3711
• Update dependency matrix-widget-api to v1.17.0 by @renovate[bot] in #3728
• Update all non-major dependencies by @renovate[bot] in #3712
• Update embedded package dependencies by @renovate[bot] in #3765
• Update docker/login-action digest to c94ce9f by @renovate[bot] in #3764

New Contributors

• @JakeTripplJ made their first contribution in #3747

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0-rc.1

Embedded packages

This release includes the following embedded packages that allow Element Call to be used as an embedded widget
within another application.

NPM

npm install @element-hq/element-call-embedded@0.18.0-rc.1

Android AAR

dependencies {
  implementation 'io.element.android:element-call-embedded:0.18.0-rc.1'
}

SwiftPM

.package(url: "https://github.com/element-hq/element-call-swift.git", from: "0.18.0-rc.1")

Docker full package

Element Call is available as a Docker image from the GitHub Container Registry.

The image provides a full build of Element Call that can be used both in standalone and as a widget (on a remote URL).

docker pull ghcr.io/element-hq/element-call:v0.18.0-rc.1