What's Changed
✨ Features
- Add flag for automatic back pagination feature by @jmartinesp in #6637
- Promote "history sharing on invite" out of developer options by @richvdh in #6647
- Remove RoomDirectorySearch feature flag — always enable the feature by @Copilot in #6736
🙌 Improvements
- Change native back button behavior in EC view (close settings in EC with os native back) by @toger5 in #6642
- Revert PR #6642 by @jmartinesp in #6724
- Use 'Report a problem' string instead of 'Report bug' by @jmartinesp in #6735
🐛 Bugfixes
- Remove distributed tracing of the 'timeline loading' flow by @jmartinesp in #6644
- Set max lines for 'in reply to' view conditionally by @jmartinesp in #6612
- Mention pill cut off by @bmarty in #6651
- Ensure that bottom sheet can scroll by @bmarty in #6661
- Remove legacy
mx-replyfromtoPlainTextformatted event contents by @jmartinesp in #6683 - Fix ANRs when receiving push notifications by @jmartinesp in #6696
- Mitigate a deadlock when loading room timelines by @jmartinesp in #6674
- Fix calls on Huawei devices: skip addWebMessageListener on Chromium < 119 by @manfrommedan in #6640
- Allow cancelling room loading in Home screen by @jmartinesp in #6723
- Let our Json parser accept comments and trailing comma. by @bmarty in #6700
- Fix low width image message by @krbns in #6692
- Make icons in the Chat screen top bar 16dp by @jmartinesp in #6733
- Fix back button sometimes not working after exiting a thread by @jmartinesp in #6732
- Make send event state UI easier to click by @jmartinesp in #6739
🗣 Translations
- Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #6658
- Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #6716
🧱 Build
- Fix record screenshots action permissions by @jmartinesp in #6679
- Fix dependency error by @bmarty in #6697
🚧 In development 🚧
- [Link new device] Add missing screen to render digits that the user has to type on the other device by @bmarty in #6680
Dependency upgrades
- Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.5.7 by @renovate[bot] in #6594
- Update zizmorcore/zizmor-action action to v0.5.3 by @renovate[bot] in #6630
- Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v8.38.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6597
- fix(deps): update camera to v1.6.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6514
- Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v8.39.1 by @renovate[bot] in #6648
- Update dependency io.element.android:element-call-embedded to v0.19.2 by @renovate[bot] in #6662
- Update dependencyAnalysis to v3.9.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6657
- Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v26.04.27 by @renovate[bot] in #6666
- Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v8.40.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6691
- Update dependency org.jsoup:jsoup to v1.22.2 by @renovate[bot] in #6660
- Update kotlin by @renovate[bot] in #6687
- Update dependency androidx.compose:compose-bom to v2026.04.01 by @renovate[bot] in #6693
- Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.5.8 by @renovate[bot] in #6711
- Update dependency com.posthog:posthog-android to v3.43.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6704
- Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v26.05.4 by @renovate[bot] in #6718
- Update roborazzi to v1.60.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6722
- Update dependency net.zetetic:sqlcipher-android to v4.15.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6727
- Update dependency org.maplibre.gl:android-sdk to v13.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6731
- Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v26.05.6 by @renovate[bot] in #6734
- Update dependencyAnalysis to v3.10.0 by @renovate[bot] in #6742
- Update tspascoal/get-user-teams-membership action to v4 by @renovate[bot] in #6747
Others
- devx: fix build sdk script options for macos by @BillCarsonFr in #6636
- PR:Fix mention pill cut off by @krbns in #6622
- Update media viewer UI by @bmarty in #6643
- Strip formatting from media captions in room summary by @bxdxnn in #6670
- Update error mappings for Link new device flow by @hughns in #6677
- Rename
OIDCcomponents and variables toOAuthby @jmartinesp in #6686 - [Link new device] Add missing error case "already signed in" by @bmarty in #6688
- Improve detection of completion for Link new device flow by @hughns in #6681
- Remove external call support by @bmarty in #6668
- [a11y] Fix a set of issues by @bmarty in #6650
- Add clipping to RoomSummaryRow by @bxdxnn in #6654
- Fix media viewer flickering and crashing by @bxdxnn in #6715
- Rename verification methods by @bmarty in #6726
- Add a way to tweak MAS url. by @bmarty in #6682
- Fix 2 x Crash the app in Developer Options - Update AppDeveloperSettingsView.kt by @escix in #6708
- Introduce UI sample by @bmarty in #6740
New Contributors
- @krbns made their first contribution in #6622
- @toger5 made their first contribution in #6642
- @manfrommedan made their first contribution in #6640
- @Copilot made their first contribution in #6736
Full Changelog: v26.04.4...v26.05.0