Features / Improvements ✨

• Improve initial load time by using the event cache (#660)
• Support styling user interface (#472)
• Show unread count in room list (#677)
• Support for showing polls (#678)
• Support pinned events (#692)
• Add sync_delay_ms option for preventing back-to-back syncs (#723)
• Return correct MessageKey for state events (#726)
• Add option to insert a linebreak on <Enter> instead of sending a message (#727)
• Jump to :replied target after loading it (#728)
• Show errors from the sendqueue to the user (#730)
• Show preview information for unjoined rooms (#732)
• Support using style modifiers in the theme section (#740)
• Reference theme config subsection in list of toplevel options (#741)
• Use Buffer::set_style in widgets to get consistent backgrounds (#742)
• Extract mentions from anchors that include title attributes (#743)
• Add theme.users for styling the username palette (#744)
• Add message_formatted_display option to show the plaintext message body (#745)
• Indicate thread messages in notifications (#747)
• Add theme.completion to style the completion menu (#755)
• Support picking the line type used when drawing different boxes (#757)
• Enable parsing Markdown table syntax (#758)
• Show unjoined rooms in spaces (#762)
• Add joined roomlist sort option (#763)
• Load space children from state events (#764)
• Use the via parameter from space children to find rooms (#765)
• Only show joined and joinable rooms in spaces (#766)
• Support native OAuth login (Matrix 2.0) (#767)
• Add support for for native OAuth login (#767) (#768)
• Add :spaces toplevel (#769)
• Improve format of room previews (#771)
• Support matrix uris with :join (#773)
• Set default log_level to off (#774)
• Reuse the old device ID when logging back in (#777)
• Load read receipts for threaded messages (#778)
• Show section headers in lists for visual grouping (#779)
• Add :ignore commands for managing ignore list (#780)
• Add :self invites command for managing invite permissions (#781)
• Rename config.basic.toml to config.example.toml (#784)
• Add support for restoring OAuth session after logout (#786)
• Add "Muted" and "Calmed" labels for rooms with adjusted notification settings (#787)
• Add :message window to show more information (#788)
• Allow configuring the date and time formats (#789)
• Use Message::show for displaying pinned messages (#793)
• Add a :theme command and theme config option (#796)
• Use dark ayu-mirage theme (#797)
• Add catppuccin, papercolor, and other themes for iamb (#798)
• Add colorblind theme based on Okabe Ito palette (#822)
• Update Catppuccin theme to use more of the palette for usernames (#801)
• Update themes to apply palette to unread counters (#803)
• Add section header for server names (#808)
• Support loading themes from $XDG_DATA_DIRS (#810)
• Allow styling selected items in lists and timelines (#811)
• Add rainbow-light and rainbow-dark username palettes (#812)
• Add more themes and improve completion menu contrast (#814)
• Exclude drawing your own read receipts (#815)

Documentation / README Updates 📚

• Document aliases as a top-level setting #725
• Fix documentation for :knock send (#731)
• Document key import passphrase escaping (#751)
• Add config.basic.toml and rename example config to config.full.toml (#782)
• Document in the manual page that logging now defaults to off (#809)

Bug Fixes 🐞

• Print verification commands with quotes (#724)
• Don't silently drop events that could not be decrypted (#739)
• Cleanup internal functions and sort encrypted events into the correct thread (#759)
• Default to no themes when the directory cannot be read (#800)
• Reassign where colors are used in several dark themes (#804)
• Avoid setting background colors in default ANSI theme (#807)
• Use fallback text for HTML-only poll answers (#813)
• Skip unparsable themes and log instead of exit (#816)
• Correctly show unread mark (#818)
• Restore joining room on :join with arguments (#819)
• Update theme copy in ApplicationSettings on theme change (#820)

Building / Housekeeping 🧹

• Update Cargo.toml version to 0.0.13-alpha.1 (#721)
• Remove sled to sqlite upgrade path (#722)
• Remove commented-out code (#729)
• Update dependencies (#738)
• Fix CI and add stricter test (#752)
• Update to modalkit{,-ratatui}@0.0.31 (#790)
• Update Cargo.lock for updated rustls-webpki (#821)
• Add workflow for uploading iamb release artifacts (#823)

Contributors 🙏

Many thanks to @Anandb71, @anyingiit, @Ashutosh-Panda2004, @lanker, @Nightchicken, @professorwaltwood, @tayfuryldz, @VAWVAW for their contributions to this release!