Features / Improvements ✨

• Open :members in the same window by default (#458)
• Render image previews lazily (#464)
• Support generating shell-completions using clap_complete (#489)
• Support basic sticker viewing (#502)
• Open Matrix URIs on the command line and support user mentions (#508)
• MSC4027: Display image reactions (#518)
• Improve completions (#520)
• Add config option set_window_title (#528)
• Support login via a configured password file (#558)
• Support disabling SSL verification (#565)
• Add :mentions window and hopefully finally fix unreads (#579)
• Support placing encryption indicator in room title instead of prompt (#581)
• Add configurable cursor shape via settings.terminal.cursor_shape (#587)
• Support media captions (#592)
• Store event cache in ~/.cache/iamb (#596)
• Support manually marking rooms as unread (#603)
• Improve verifications (#605)
• Add input_prompt configuration option for overriding message bar prompt (#610)
• Add option to show sender name in extra line (#613)
• Accessibility: Specify position of invisible/custom cursor (#614)
• Add default_split tunable to control <C-W>f split direction (#620)
• Send messages asynchronously using the SDK's send queue (#627)
• Allow explicitly controlling when extended keypresses are enabled (#632)
• Support running room commands in :members window and room lists (#633)
• Show manually marked unread rooms in :unreads (#637)
• Add "server" field for sorting room lists (#638)
• Display user's room role in :members list (#639)
• Add support for SOCKS and HTTPS proxying (#640)
• Support configuring when read marker updates are triggered (#641)
• Add default_markup for configuring message parsing (#643)
• Image Preview improvements (#653)
• Support setting per-room user display names (#654)
• Support upgrading rooms and following tombstone information (#656)
• Add support for room knocking (#658)
• Add support for updating user profile information (#662)
• Add CursorShape::Auto (#665)
• Add ignorecase setting (#669)
• Support using room aliases and DMs with :space child set (#672)
• Add a :room access command for managing join rules (#673)
• Support room aliases for :room access set restricted (#674)
• Don't force user to join room on :space child set (#675)
• Allow user's to specify a default register for editing (#683)
• Support implicit read receipts (#691)
• Use a broken link callback to simplify matrix.to links (#693)
• Add default_via to always tell homeserver how to resolve a room (#694)
• Support opening location messages with :open (#695)
• Add :invites list (#703)
• Send read receipts instantly (#704)
• Add :verify recover to verify with a recovery key (#706)
• Unify the the room list representation (#708)
• Show a trackbar between the last-read and first-new message (#709)
• Handle invalid matrix.to URLs that look like mentions (#712)
• Make :room version upgrade use ++creator for additional creators (#714)
• Support user-defined command aliases (#715)

Documentation / README updates 📚

• Add several missing options to the iamb(5) manual page (#580)
• Mention conda-forge package in README (#604)
• Fix: Rename location to indicator_location in example config (#635)
• Document how to build size-optimized binaries in the README (#644)
• Document options for user sorting (#659)
• Fix documentation reference to settings.users (#668)
• Document :room history commands in iamb(1) (#671)
• Clean up minor manual page issues (#713)

Bug Fixes 🐞

• Show newest edit of messages even after application restart (#445)
• Show placeholder if replied to message is not loaded and strip fallback reply (#474)
• Don't wrap messages without formatted_body in middle of word (#486)
• Handle ambiguous display names conforming to spec (#515)
• Search plaintext body for links to open as fallback (#573)
• Pretty-print error on application exit (#595)
• Fix replies for messages in threads (#648)
• Fix wording of client creation error (#649)
• Truncate usernames by grapheme instead of word boundaries (#651)
• Don't consider left users for username disambiguation (#655)
• Force room names to be fetched in the background when none are cached (#657)
• Fix crash from value underflow while rendering timeline (#661)
• Fix image preview position for narrow windows (#666)
• Use SlicedProtocol to render images that are partially off-screen (#667)
• Fix message bar broken display when :editor yields an empty buffer (#680)
• Use ASCII characters for encryption status indicators (#684)
• Remove double tear down of alternate screen (#687)
• Disable terminal alt screen before opening the external editor (#688)
• Respect default register setting in scrollback window (#697)
• Expand '~' and env variables in :upload argument (#702)
• Show intermediate window instead of blocking on :join request (#711)
• Update :open and :download to also expand ~ (#716)
• Ensure aliases are registered in definition order (#718)
• Ensure gf goes to room (#719)
• Simplify implicit receipt tracking and retry failed updates (#720)

Building / Housekeeping 🧹

• Simplify room creation by using SDK helpers (#593)
• Improve logging rotation and change default level to WARN (#594)
• Fix build on rustc 1.94.0 (#599)
• Fix broken-string-escape warning when using stricter .nix parsers (#601)
• chore: Update dependencies (#602)
• Bump MSRV to 1.92 (#607)
• Fix mdoc(7) warnings in docs/iamb.5 (#621)
• Update dependencies (#625)
• Flake improvements (#630)
• Add shell completions to flake output (#631)
• Update to use Rust 2024 Edition (#642)
• Update Cargo.toml to 0.0.12-alpha.1 (#645)
• Workaround cargo-generate-rpm issue with pre-release versions (#646)
• Refactor sticker and image preview (#652)
• Update Cargo.toml to 0.0.12-alpha.2 (#663)
• Update modalkit{,-ratatui} and ratatui{,-image} (#664)
• Cleanup imports and create prelude (#681)
• Fix cargo doc warning (#685)
• Remove settings.image_preview.lazy_load and always enable it (#689)
• Update dependencies (#699)

Contributors 🙏

Many thanks to @azizsayfiddin, @codegax, @demaledetti, @hanzpo, @kaizoplant, @KaraZajac, @litlighilit, @maskjelly, @Neo-Oli, @Nightchicken, @pavelzw, @stevenpollack, @TayfurYldz, @TianHengZhuang, @titaniumtraveler, @VAWVAW, @xsa-dev, and @zivarah for their contributions for their release!