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Element X Android v0.4.16

05 Jul 10:02
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What's Changed

✨ Features

🙌 Improvements

  • Give locale and theme to Element Call by @bmarty in #3118
  • Let the SDK retrieve and parse Element well known content by @bmarty in #3127

🐛 Bugfixes

  • Let role and permissions screens works for invited room members too. by @bmarty in #3081
  • Fix image rendering after clear cache by @bmarty in #3082
  • Replace the 'answer' PendingIntent in ringing call notifications by @jmartinesp in #3093
  • Use IO dispatcher for cleanup in bug reporter by @jmartinesp in #3092
  • Fix @room mentions crashing in debug builds by @jmartinesp in #3107
  • Auth : fix restore session when there is no network. by @ganfra in #3109
  • Alert for incoming call even if notifications are disabled - WAITING FOR FINAL PRODUCT DECISION by @bmarty in #3053
  • Fix incorrect 'device verified' screen when app was opened with no network connection by @jmartinesp in #3110
  • Draft : also clear draft when composer is blank by @ganfra in #3115
  • Timeline : fix text item not refreshed when content change by @ganfra in #3123
  • FFs can now be toggled in release builds too by @jmartinesp in #3101
  • Fix crash when getting the system ringtone for ringing calls by @jmartinesp in #3131
  • Bugfix : avoid potential NPE on verification service. by @ganfra in #3140

🗣 Translations

🧱 Build

  • Let GitHub generates the release notes by @bmarty in #3105
  • Fix F-Droid reproducible build. by @bmarty in #3106
  • Element enterprise (EE) foundations by @bmarty in #3025
  • Fix Element Enterprise nightly build and publication using App Distribution by @bmarty in #3130
  • Improve screenshot testing with ComposablePreviewScanner by @jmartinesp in #3125

Dependency upgrades

  • Update dependency com.posthog:posthog-android to v3.4.0 by @renovate in #3060
  • Update danger/danger-js action to v12.3.3 by @renovate in #3059
  • Update dependency com.freeletics.flowredux:compose to v1.2.2 by @renovate in #3067
  • Update dependency com.google.firebase:firebase-bom to v33.1.1 by @renovate in #3062
  • Update dependency androidx.test.ext:junit to v1.2.0 by @renovate in #3088
  • Update test.core to v1.6.0 by @renovate in #3090
  • Remove dependencies androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core and androidx.appcompat:appcompat by @renovate in #3087
  • Update wysiwyg to v2.37.4 by @renovate in #3094
  • Update dependency androidx.test:runner to v1.6.0 by @renovate in #3089
  • Update test.core to v1.6.1 by @renovate in #3104
  • Update dependency androidx.test:runner to v1.6.1 by @renovate in #3103
  • Update dependency androidx.test.ext:junit to v1.2.1 by @renovate in #3102
  • Update dependency com.google.truth:truth to v1.4.3 by @renovate in #3108
  • Update dependency com.posthog:posthog-android to v3.4.2 by @renovate in #3111
  • Update dependency io.nlopez.compose.rules:detekt to v0.4.5 by @renovate in #3116
  • Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.2.29 by @renovate in #3119
  • Update plugin dependencycheck to v10 by @renovate in #3128
  • Update plugin dependencycheck to v10.0.1 by @renovate in #3129
  • Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v7.11.0 by @renovate in #3122
  • Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v0.2.30 by @renovate in #3138

Others

Full Changelog: v0.4.15...v0.4.16

Element X Android v0.4.15

19 Jun 12:57
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Changes in Element X v0.4.15 (2024-06-19)

Features ✨

  • Ringing call notifications and full screen ringing screen for DMs when the device is locked. (#2894)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Improve UX on notification setting changes. (#1647)
  • Fix tracing configuration in debug and nightlies:
  • Debug will now write the logs to disk too.
  • Nightly will be able to customise tracing filters.
  • Improved the configure tracing and bug report screens. (#3016)

Other changes

  • Allow cancelling jump to event in timeline. (#2876)
  • Make Element Call widget URL configurable (#3009)
  • Enable hidden access to developer options in release mode apps. (#3020)
  • Improve how active calls work by also taking into account external url calls and waiting for the sync process to start before sending the m.call.notify event. (#3029)

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Element X Android v0.4.14

07 Jun 12:54
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Features ✨

  • Add support for incoming share (text or files) from other apps (#1980)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Render selected/deselected room list filters on top (#2809)
  • Set auto captilization, multiline and autocompletion flags for the markdown EditText. (#2896)
  • Restore Markdown text input contents when returning to the room screen. (#2898)
  • Fixed sending rich content from android keyboards on the markdown text input (#2917)
  • Fix crash when restoring the selection values in the plain text editor. (#2959)

Other changes

  • BugReporting | Add public device keys to rageshakes (#2893)
  • Move push provider setting to the "Notifications" screen and display it only when several push provider are available. (#2912)
  • Simplify notifications by removing the custom persistence layer.
  • Bump minSdk to 24 (Android 7). (#2924)
  • Add a feature flag ShowBlockedUsersDetails, disabled by default to render display name and avatar of blocked users in the blocked users list. (#2930)
  • Be more specific with the widget permissions (#2932)
  • Analytics | Add support for SuperProperties (#2953)
  • Track when the user starts a room call and when they enable formatting options on the message composer (#2969)

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Element X Android v0.4.13

22 May 10:24
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Features ✨

  • Add plain text editor based on Markdown input. (#2840)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Use members display names for their membership state events. (#2286)
  • Make sure explicit links in messages take priority over links found by linkification (urls, emails, phone numbers, etc.) (#2291)
  • Fix modal contents overlapping screen lock pin. (#2692)
  • Fix a crash when trying to create an EncryptedFile in Android 6. (#2846)
  • Session falsely displayed as 'verified' with no internet connection. (#2884)

Other changes

  • Allow configuring push notification provider (#2340)
  • UX cleanup: reorder text composer actions to prioritise camera ones. (#2803)
  • Translation added into Portuguese and Simplified Chinese (#2834)
  • Use via parameters when joining a room from permalink. (#2843)

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Element X Android v0.4.12

13 May 16:02
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  • Add support for expected decryption errors due to membership (UX and analytics). (#2754)
  • Handle permalink navigation to Events. (#2759)
  • Pretty-print event JSON in debug viewer (#2771)
  • Add support for external permalinks. (#2776)
  • Enable support for Android per-app language preferences (#2795)
  • Fix session verification being asked again for already verified users. (#2718)
  • Instead of displaying 'create new recovery key' on the session verification screen when there is no other session active, display it always under the 'enter recovery key' screen. (#2740)
  • Adjust the typography used in the selected user component so a user's display name fits better. (#2760)
  • User display name overflows in timeline messages when it's way too long. (#2761)
  • Ensure the application open the room when a notification is clicked. (#2778)
  • Enforce mandatory session verification only for new logins. (#2810)
  • Make log less verbose, make sure we upload as many log files as possible before reaching the request size limit of the bug reporting service, discard older logs if they don't fit. (#2825)
  • Remove 'Join' button in room directory search results. (#2827)
  • Add missing app_id and Version properties to bug reports. (#2829)
  • RoomMember screen: fallback to userProfile data, if the member is not a user of the room. (#2721)
  • Migrate application data. (#2749)
  • Let the SDK manage the file log cleanup, and keep one week of log. (#2758)
  • UX cleanup: reorder options in the main settings screen. (#2801)
  • Analytics: Add support to report current session verification and recovery state (#2806)
  • UX cleanup: room details screen, add new CTA buttons for Invite and Call actions. (#2814)
  • UX cleanup: user profile. Move send DM to a call to action button, add 'Call' CTA too. (#2818)
  • Add room badges to room details screen. (#2822)
  • Encrypt new session data with a passphrase (#2703)

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Element X Android v0.4.10

17 Apr 07:28
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  • Matrix Rust SDK 0.2.14

Features ✨

  • Rework room navigation to handle unknown room and prepare work on permalink. (#2695)

Other changes

  • Encrypt new session data with a passphrase (#2703)
  • Use sdk API to build permalinks (#2708)
  • Parse permalink using parseMatrixEntityFrom from the SDK (#2709)
  • Fix compile for forks that use the noop analytics module (#2698)

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Full Changelog: v0.4.9...v0.4.10

Element X Android v0.4.9

12 Apr 14:32
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Changes in Element X v0.4.9 (2024-04-12)

  • Synchronize Localazy Strings.

What's Changed

  • Prevent the word "Element" from being included in string resources. by @bmarty in #2686
  • Always use method aRichTextEditorState instead of invoking the constructor by @bmarty in #2689
  • Update dependency com.posthog:posthog-android to v3.1.17 by @renovate in #2688
  • Add date of modification on EXA Gallery by @bmarty in #2693
  • Update wysiwyg to v2.37.0 by @renovate in #2694

Security

  • Fix crash while processing a room message containing a malformed pill.

Full Changelog: v0.4.8...v0.4.9

Element X Android v0.4.8

10 Apr 14:52
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Changes in Element X v0.4.8 (2024-04-10)

Features ✨

  • Move session recovery to the login flow. (#2579)
  • Move session verification to the after login flow and make it mandatory. (#2580)
  • Add a notification troubleshoot screen (#2601)
  • Add action to copy permalink (#2650)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Fix analytics issue around room considered as space by mistake. (#2612)
  • Fix crash observed when going back to the room list. (#2619)
  • Hide Event org.matrix.msc3401.call.member on the timeline. (#2625)
  • Fall back to name-based generated avatars when image avatars don't load. (#2667)

Other changes

  • Improve UI for notification permission screen in onboarding. (#2581)
  • Categorise members by role in change roles screen. (#2593)
  • Make completed poll more clearly visible (#2608)
  • Show users from last visited DM as suggestion when starting a Chat or when creating a Room. (#2634)
  • Enable room moderation feature. (#2678)
  • Improve analytics opt-in screen UI. (#2684)

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Full Changelog: v0.4.7...v0.4.8

Element X Android v0.4.7

26 Mar 16:29
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Changes in Element X v0.4.7 (2024-03-26)

Features ✨

  • Enable the feature "RoomList filters". (#2603)
  • Enable the feature "Mark as unread" (#2261)
  • Implement MSC2530 (Body field as media caption) (#2521)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Use user avatar from cache if available. (#2488)
  • Update member list after changing member roles and when the room member list is opened. (#2590)

Other changes

  • Compound: add BigIcon, BigCheckmark and PageTitle components. (#2574)
  • Remove Welcome screen from the FTUE. (#2584)

What's Changed

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Element X Android v0.4.6

15 Mar 15:05
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Changes in Element X v0.4.6 (2024-03-15)

Features ✨

  • Admins can now change user roles in rooms. (#2257)
  • Room member moderation: remove, ban and unban users from a room. (#2258)
  • Change a room's permissions power levels. (#2259)
  • Add state timeline events and notifications for legacy call invites. (#2485)

Bugfixes 🐛

  • Added empty state to banned member list. (#+add-empty-state-to-banned-members-list)
  • Prevent sending empty messages. (#995)
  • Use the display name only once in display name change events. The user should be referenced by userId instead. (#2125)
  • Hide blocked users list when there are no blocked users. (#2198)
  • Fix timeline not showing sender info when room is marked as direct but not a 1:1 room. (#2530)

Other changes

  • Add local_time, utc_time and sdk_sha params to bug reports so they're easier to investigate. (#+add-time-and-sdk-sha-params-to-bugreports)
  • Improve room member list loading times, increase chunk size (#2322)
  • Improve room member list loading UX. (#2452)
  • Remove the special log level for the Rust SDK read receipts. (#2511)
  • Track UTD errors. (#2544)

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