Changes in 1.8.0 (2022-02-09)
✨ Features
- Message Bubbles are now available as a Labs feature in Element iOS 🎉
- Threads are now available as a Labs feature in Element iOS 🎉
- Threads: Add
View in roomaction to the thread root event. (#5117) - Add a splash screen before authentication is shown. (#5159)
- Remove location sharing settings entry and enable it by default. Add .well-known configuration support for tile server and map styles. (#5298)
🙌 Improvements
- Show target user avatars for collapsed membership changes (#4148)
- Updated available emojis with data from https://github.com/missive/emoji-mart/blob/master/data/apple.json (#5517)
- Upgrade MatrixSDK version (v0.22.0).
- Permalinks: Create for thread events & handle navigations. (#5094)
- Search: Navigate to thread view for search results in threads. (#5095)
- Search: display matching pattern with a highlight color (#5252)
🐛 Bugfixes
- Share: Handle jpeg and png UTType properly (#3636)
- Timeline: automatically scroll timeline to the bottom when opening a room or rotating device. (#4524)
- Fix bugs when building with Xcode 13: bar appearance / header padding / space avatar content size. Additionally, use UIKit context menus on the home screen. (#4883)
- joining a space seemed to noop (#5171)
- Accepting a Space Invite has shouty button labels (#5175)
- RoomDataSource: Avoid reloading of data source on thread screen itself. (#5263)
- MXKAccount: Gracefully pause the session. (#5426)
- HomeViewController: Reload section if total number of rooms changed. (#5448)
- Selecting Transfer in a call should immediately put the the other person on hold until the call connects or the Transfer is cancelled. (#5451)
- Avatar view prevents to select space in space list (#5454)
- Fixes media library freezing under iOS 15.2. (#5465)
- Room Settings: Fix incorrect header title. (#5525)
🗣 Translations
- Localisation: Add Indonesian and Slovak languages. (#5048)
🧱 Build
- Fix CI builds for external contributors using forked repos. (#5496, #5491)
- Use Xcode 13.2 to build the project. (#4883)
Others