Changes in 1.8.20 (2022-06-28)
✨ Features
- Added "Mark as read" option to the room context menu. (#6278)
🙌 Improvements
- Use dedicated HTMLFormatter and improve post format operations performance (#6261)
- Security fix: prevent playback on already read messages through push notifications, enable on device silencing. (#6265)
- Expose live location sharing labs flag (default: false) and re-enable background location access (#6324)
- Enable reporting of live location shares (#6326)
- Upgrade MatrixSDK version (v0.23.10).
- Update Reactions component (#5370)
- Handle longpress on back buttons (#5971)
- De-labs use only latest user avatar and name (#6312)
🐛 Bugfixes
- Fix settings screens items alignment (#6311)
- Accessibility: VoiceOver: Added an accessibility label and hint to the Record Voice Message button. (#6323)
- Make quoting context menu action work again (#6328)
- Display mandatory backup only if session is running (#6331)
- Authentication: Don't attempt to login if the user presses the return key whilst loading a homeserver parsed from a username. (#6338)
- Media: Fix size issues when opening media on an iPad whilst multi-tasking. (#6339)
- Timeline: Fixes the font when running Element on a Mac with Apple Silicon. (#6340)
- Accessibility: VoiceOver: Voice Messages: Properly end the active audio session so that VoiceOver audio returns to the main speaker when audio recording finishes. (#6343)
- Authentication: Trim whitespace and trailing slashes from the entered homeserver address. (#995)
- Share extension: Fix background colour in dark mode. (#3029)
- Fix Invites are collapsed incorrectly (#4102)
- Timeline: Reduce the tap target size for the sender's name so it no longer overlaps the first message. (#4324)
- Directory: Add some bottom space to the directory list. (#5113)
- Message Composer: Element no longer shows a banner about pasting from another app when selecting text. (#5324)
- Make avatar view tappable in bubble layout (#5572)
- Room: Update actions on the input toolbar when refreshed. (#5584)
- Room: Hide add people button on room intro header if user not allowed. (#5731)
- Soft logout: Fix a bug where clearing all data from soft logout didn't present the login screen. (#5881)
- Timeline: When an attachment is named like an email address, open the file instead of Mail.app when tapped. (#6031)
- Room: Add some additional spacing between the Jitsi and Threads buttons. (#6033)
- Room: Present loading indicator immediately on pagination and change wording. (#6271)
- Fix threads out of labs notice HTML formatting (#6283)
- AppDelegate: Do not show launch animation for
backgroundSyncInProgressstate. (#6288) - Use latest user data for mention pills (#6302)
- Authentication: Fix splash screen stuttering on some devices. (#6319)
🧱 Build
- locheck-script: fix build fails when there is space character on PROJECT_DIR's path. By Hudzaifah Lutfi. (#6296)
- Add Codecov and sonarcloud. (#6306)
🚧 In development 🚧
- Authentication: Add custom string representations of view model/coordinator results. (#5151)
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