github signalapp/Signal-Desktop v1.15.0

latest releases: v7.34.0-beta.2, v7.34.0-beta.1, v7.33.0...
6 years ago

Visual changes:

  • New colors and message bubbles
  • Unified theme
  • Video playback updates
  • Disappearing messages can now be enabled without first turning them on with a '1 day' duration
  • The status of the last conversation message (if outgoing) is now shown in the left pane
  • One-click access for replying to message

Media Gallery:

  • Fixed: Wrong attachment would be saved from lightbox after left/right navigation
  • Better handling of videos - thumbnail of video is now used
  • Dark theme honored in all UI elements
  • Icons shown for all if no thumbnail is available

Begin SQLCipher migration. First stage: all messages and temporary message cache.

Fixed: When returning from idle, a conversation would sometimes be missing a set of messages

Fixed: When marking safety number as verified/not verified, that state would not sync to mobile device

Fixed: Deleting conversations with a large history would sometimes fail

Fixed: Sometimes triple-dot menu for replying to message would show up off-screen

Fixed: In some cases, messages would show up out of order. This should now be far less common.

Update localization strings

Dev:

  • New version 8 schema for messages: thumbnails and dimensions from image and video attachments, as well as a full-size video screenshot for use in conversation view
  • Much of the application has been moved to React
  • Dark theme rewritten from scratch
  • New CSS is now using Block Element Modifier syntax (BEM) for info: http://getbem.com/
  • JSHint removed from project; ESLint now scans entire project
  • _locales/en/messages.json is now included in jsprettier runs
  • All backbone-related functionality removed from Style Guide
  • Ensure set of Linux dev dependencies is complete in Contributing.md
  • Introduce mandatory migration on startup, to minimum version 7
  • Preserve migration state when deleting config due to failed login
  • Conversation: store lastMessage/lastMessageStatus in memory only
  • Moved to using window.log only for all browser-context logging, with new eslint rule to prevent direct use of console.log
  • Full eslintification of files in libtextsecure to take advantage of new console.log rule
  • Removed unnecessary and too-verbose console logging
  • When making thumbnail for video attachment to be sent, we generate a 100x100 preview instead of taking a full screenshot of the video

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