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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 We are pleased to announce the latest version of Ferdi. We have been hard at work over the past few months to fix bugs, add new features, upgrade electron and so much more. We thank all of our users, and welcome suggestions and bug reports - and hope to fix them asap! Enjoy!

Features

  • Add a confirmation dialog and a preference while quitting Ferdi (#1879) 💖 @vraravam
  • Services now support aliases!!!! (#1774) 💖 @vraravam
  • Turn off the certificate-whitelisting in ms-teams since that can cause an MITM attack. 💖 @vraravam, @kris7t
  • Remove 'shareFranz' feature since its always turned off for Ferdi 💖 @vraravam
  • Sort the recipes according to their service name in the 'Add new Service' screen 💖 @vraravam
  • Add buttons in the 'Advanced' section of preferences to allow users to quickly open the ferdi profile in their file explorer 💖 @vraravam
  • [Security] Refactored Url helpers to ensure that theres a single place for vetting and opening external urls as recommended by this article (#1789) 💖 @vraravam
  • Catch up with minor changes in Franz 5.7.0
  • Add entitlements for screen-capture-permissions on macos 💖 @vraravam
  • Ferdi is now present in the snapstore 💖 @mhatvan
  • Quicker way to toggle dark mode from the sidebar context menu 💖 @vraravam
  • Follow OS reduced motion setting (#1757) 💖 @mhatvan, @vraravam
  • Add new Help menu item to allow easy import/export of config files 💖 @vraravam
  • Remove 'Most Popular' services since it alludes to user-tracking (#1718) 💖 @vraravam
  • Add a 'wakeUpStrategy' that the user can control to wake up a previously hibernated service (#1680) 💖 @vraravam

Minor changes

  • Upgrade nodejs to 14.17.5 💖 @vraravam
  • Set default fallback locale for spell-checker to be 'en-US' 💖 @vraravam
  • 'Clear cache' button should not log out of services 💖 @mhatvan, @vraravam
  • Move some npm dependencies that were incorrectly classified as runtime deps, thus saving approx 16MB from the installed file (measured on macos) 💖 @vraravam, @mhatvan
  • Remove What's New functionality since that is superceded by the Changelog (#1864) 💖 @mhatvan
  • Improve contribution documentation (#1865) 💖 @sad270, @vraravam

Under the hood

  • Upgrade to electron 13.3.0 💖 @vraravam
  • Upgrade electron-builder to 22.12.1 which will allow converion from npm to pnpm 💖 @mhatvan
  • Remove references to 'premium' validation checks and paid subscriptions (making them permanently on) since Ferdi is free to all users forever 💖 @vraravam
  • Build tooling: 'recipes' (using 'pnpm') will coexist with 'ferdi' (using 'npm') (#1905) 💖 @mhatvan, @vraravam
  • Use symbols for key shortcuts consistently 💖 @vraravam
  • Add ability for service recipe to expose known certificate hosts (#1890) 💖 @vraravam
  • Remove dependency of recipes requiring electron and electron/remote modules (#1869 & getferdi/recipes#674) 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix 'stores.app.accentColor is marked as required' console error (#1859) 💖 @sad270, @vraravam
  • Ensure stored settings conform to type-safety 💖 @vraravam
  • Use namespaces when pulling docker base images since this is reqd for podman 💖 @vraravam
  • Refactoring to have consistent usage (prep for ts conversion) (#1821) 💖 @vraravam
  • Use Ferdi.safeParseInt to ensure that parsing for unread count is done consistently in all recipes 💖 @vraravam
  • Remove some leftover Franz branding 💖 @vantezzen
  • Switch from misty to concurrently (#1846) 💖 @vantezzen
  • Services: Normalize all service recipes to be es6 compliant 💖 @vraravam
  • Services: Change entry point in the facebookpages service (getferdi/recipes#640) 💖 @oda-alexandre, @vraravam
  • Set the channel for the auto-update (check if this fixes the in-app updater) 💖 @vraravam
  • Start conversion to typescript with stricter rules 💖 @vraravam
  • Move build-time js files out of 'src' and into 'scripts' 💖 @vraravam
  • Move 'gulp'-related packages to 'devDependencies' resulting in slimming down the installation file considerably (8MB on macos) 💖 @vraravam
  • Minor cleanup of 'NaN' logic when loading recipe badges 💖 @vraravam
  • Completed plumbing required for conversion from javascript to typescript 💖 @vraravam
  • Added animations step in gulp to transpile scss and copy to build 💖 @mhatvan
  • Generate '.gitignore' from gitignore.io 💖 @vraravam
  • Replace old '@meetfranz/electron-notification-state' with 'macos-notification-state' 💖 @vraravam
  • Enable service contextIsolation 💖 @kris7t, @vraravam
  • Use import instead of require resulting in slight memory performance improvements 💖 @vraravam
  • Move internal-server into a sub-folder as opposed to a git submodule for ease of maintenance 💖 @vraravam
  • Migrate from tslint to @typescript-eslint (#1706) 💖 @mhatvan

Services

Bug Fixes

  • Check if default app protocol is different before overriding it (#1818) 💖 @ayxos, @vraravam
  • Fix sidebar dimension when used in horizontal style (#1896) 💖 @CSY54
  • Partially revert the certificate-whitelisting for outlook since it caused crashes 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix macOS black screen when closing to systray in fullscreen mode (#1878) 💖 @sad270
  • Fix issue while importing exported ferdi.data file while switching from one laptop to another when it had workspaces (#1874) 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix for 'Support' link not working (404 error) (#1806) 💖 @kytwb
  • Fix zoom actions executed on another services (#1867) 💖 @sad270
  • Fix sidebar context menu not synced when toggling via the context menu (#1871) 💖 @sad270
  • Ferdi locking with lock feature disabled (#1866). Set & run the inactivity timeout only if lock feature is enabled, and use same condition between lock screen and locked menu 💖 @sad270
  • When the active workspace gets deleted, the default workspace gets auto-selected. 💖 @sad270, @vraravam
  • Fix reordering of services in vertical style layout (#1833) 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix address bar not updating (#1836) 💖 @mhatvan
  • Fix screensharing in discordsince the previous release (getferdi/recipes#625) 💖 @oda-alexandre
  • Per popular demand, reworded Use Vertical style to Use Horizontal style 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix bug where the service-defaults were not merged when creating a service 💖 @vraravam
  • Audio toggle is now decoupled from notification toggle (#1691) 💖 @vraravam
  • Incorrect position while adding a new service when there were pre-existing services (#1820) 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix issue with some shortcuts not working on macos (those that either used alt or shift keys) 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix app focus detection 💖 @vraravam
  • Fix error while importing ferdi configuration without workspaces (#1776) 💖 @vraravam
  • Use electron's API to enable/disable spell-check when the app starts up 💖 @vraravam
  • Explicitly use env var to specify hostname for adonis for the internal-server. This fixes issue for some users where they have an alias for the localhost 💖 @vraravam
  • Prevent pasting twice (#1644) 💖 @stnkl, @vraravam

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