All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Fixed
- zero-terminate path buffer in dart libqaul ffi
Changed
- Upgraded libp2p to current version 0.54.1
- Upgraded all rust libraries to newest version
- Upgraded Kotlin version to 1.9.25
- Upgraded flutter to ^2.24.0
This release can only be upgraded from qaul version 2.0.0-beta.18
.
Please upgrade to beta 18 first, before upgrading to Release Candidate 1
or later.
Added
- Warning when trying to upgrade to this version on earlier instances of qaul 2.0.0-beta.17 and lower.
- About screen, with version information
Fixed
- Fixed a possible panic in libqaul that could occur when receiving an empty data package when receiving a file.
- Fixed UI flickering in 'Network View'.
Changed
- Upgraded libp2p to current version 0.53.2.
- Libqaul's communication protocols now have an own codec to encode and decode all messages. This codec is fully compatible to how qaul was sending it's messages before.
- Upgraded many libraries to new versions.
- removed old versions of unmaintained
sled
versions, which were only used for the upgrade procedure to qaul 2.0.0 beta 18. This means that upgrading to qaul version 2.0.0 release candidate 1 is only possible from qaul version 2.0.0 beta 18. - Configuration auto-upgrade of all static TCP peer entries to use the QUIC protocol for interconnections.
This release moves away from the unmaintained sled-extensions
data base extensions to a direct use of the sled
data base.
Added
- Automatically generate SBOM files for all binaries.
- UI redesign for simple adding of static links (Community Nodes) with many options: QUIC/TCP/IPv4/IPv6
Fixed
- UI: block user issue fixed
- UI: Network view upgraded & fixed not showing all connections
- Fixed a crash on Android, when BLE failed to initialize on a device (thanks to @link2xt)
Changed
- migrated from sled 0.29 used by sled-extensions to current sled 0.34.7.
- upgraded many libraries
- made
quic
the default transport option for static links
This release upgrades libp2p to 0.52.4 and includes the new quic
transport protocol option.
Added
- added
quic
transport option. - CI builds arm64 CLI binaries for ARM linux, e.g. for Raspberry Pi.
- CI builds arm64 linux snap app.
Fixed
- UI group creation issue on Android.
- fixed various small bugs
Changed
- upgraded libp2p to 0.52.4
- upgraded rust dalek crypto to new major version.
- upgraded all rust libraries to current version.
- upgraded flutter to 3.16
- upgraded all flutter libraries to current version.
- removed mplex stream multiplexer from TCP transport protocol. TCP transport is always using yamux now.
This release newly includes the android BLE-module. The Android BLE module is still experimental. The Android BLE module was tested on Android versions 13, 12, 11 & 10.
Added
- Android: BLE-module
- UI: Automatically open Group Chat after it is created.
- Added Raspberry 64 bit build documentation and build-script for libqaul
Fixed
- Fixed a crypto session issue, when two users started the a session parallel in DTN mode. This led to the users not being able to communicate with each other anymore.
- Fixed many things related to the BLE-Module, BLE-Manager, BLE connection.
- Fixed a layout issue on the support screen, to allow multiple lines for some text.
- Fixed a GUI issue with public messages, having a sending timestamp in the future.
- Fixed a libqaul group DB index issue, where the first entry sometimes did not start at 0.
- libqaul RPC now returns the session ID for group requests.
Changed
- Android: Changed to a new background execution mode, which fixed known issues with background execution
- Upgraded to Flutter 3.10
This release has breaking changes in the configuration file.
- The listening string became a string array on both, the LAN & Internet configuration:
- old:
listen: /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/0
- new:
listen: [/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/0, /ip6/::/tcp/0]
- old:
The qaul upgrade process will take care of the automated forward update.
If you want to roll back to an older version, you must roll back the config.yaml
manually.
Added
- Android: app keeps running in the Background.
- This release requires the Android permission to always run in the background.
- Run libqaul IPv4 & IPv6 dual stack by default.
- LAN & INTERNET mode are now listening for incoming connections on IPv4 and IPv6
- Amount of listening interfaces is freely configurable in the configuration file.
- This feature mainly targets the qauld community nodes, which can configure 0-n interfaces per module.
- Show user online status in direct chatroom.
Fixed
- Chat menu options sometimes misleading or not present.
- Fixed several documentation mistakes.
Added
- Italian Translation
Fixed
- Chinese & German translation
- Diverse Snap problems
- Linux GUI icon problems in nav bar
Added
- Spanish translation
- qauld docker image with docker-compose management
- iOS testflight listing
Fixed
- Snap: ultimately fixed: rights blockings, libqaul compilation for snap store, access rights, etc.
- UI:
- default locale on startup screen
Changed
- better translation strings for translators
- upgraded to stable flutter version 3.7
Fixed
- Android: build android library for release, fixed a bug that was not building for release.
- Snap: Set correct storage path to where the app has permission to store.
Added
- French translation
- German translation
Changed
- many UI changes & fixes
- upgraded libp2p to version 0.50
- build android library for release
- Window app name title fixed
Added
- Arabic translation
- Russian translation
Changed
- Libqaul only contains parts of libp2p.
- Made public messages selectable.
- fixed a lag of the UI when running qaul for a longer time.
- Many UI updates.
Added
- Internet Nodes now have an optional alias name.
- New upgrade module to automatically migrate versions with incompatible configuration or data base structures.
- All chat files display screen.
- New Mainland Chinese user interface translation.
- New Taiwanese Chinese user interface translation.
Changed
- Upgraded some rust libraries to newest versions.
- Many UI updates.
Changed
- GUI: Many updates.
- Libqaul: Upgraded deprecated ping & identify functions
Fixed
- Fixed chat image loading bug.
Changed
- Upgraded rust-libp2p to version 0.49.0
- Many GUI updates.
- Snap package on grade stable.
Fixed
- Fixed group chat rendering panic
- Fixed storage user adding widget
- Windows UI is now using the entire window.