v0.10.0

[0.10.0] -- 2022-07-22

Highlights

• Notification counts 💯 (LorenDB, d42)
  • You can now see notification counts in more spaces, like your task bar or in
    the community sidebar.
  • For better work-life balance you can hide the notification counts on a per
    space basis.
  • For notification counts in the task bar your desktop environment needs to
    support the Unity protocol.
  • Notifications are also preserved across restarts now.
• Moderation 👮‍♀️
  • You can now change the permissions and aliases of a room.
  • Permissions are shown in the Memberlist
  • A new /redact command to redact an event or all messages by a user.
  • You can now provide a reason when inviting, knocking, kicking and banning
    users.
• Faster startup ⚡
  • On at least some systems startup should now be instant even with thousands
    of rooms.
• Encryption improvements 🛡️
  • Support for the most recent changes to Matrix E2EE including fallback keys,
    no longer relying on the sender_key.
  • Compatibility and stability improvements when dealing with different base64
    encodings and when verifying users and devices.
  • Fetch the whole online key backup at the klick of a button.
• Integration with external apps 🗺️ (LorenDB)
  • Nheko now has a D-Bus API, which you can enable in the settings menu.
  • This allows applications like KRunner or Rofi to list and switch between
    rooms.

Features

• Create a room link from a room. (brausepulver)
• Support rendering policy rules.
• Show notification counts for spaces (with options to disable them per space).
  (LorenDB)
• Keep notification counts across restarts.
• Support the new call events (but not the signaling yet). (r0hit)
• Add a dbus API, which allows external applications to list and switch rooms in
  Nheko. (LorenDB)
• Support editing room aliases.
• Support editing room permissions.
• Allow redacting all locally cached messages of a user using /redact @userid:server.tld reason.
• Request full online key backup when toggling the online backup button.
• Support the knock_restricted join rule.
• Allow cancelling uploads using escape. (r0hit)
• Send images on enter.
• Close image viewer when clicking on the background.
• Speedup startup by not loading messages for the room preview.
• Make settings slightly narrower.
• Show unread counts in the taskbar (if the Unity protocol is supported). (d42)
• Indicate if a room has no topic in the settings. (LorenDB)
• Simplify Fedora build instructions. (DaKnig)
• Support e2ee fallback keys.
• Allow opening rooms in separate windows.
• Support more image formats in flatpak.
• Show powerlevels in the memberlist.
• Use less exotic emoji shortcodes. (Bulby)
• Support sorting and filtering the memberlist. (LorenDB)
• Make initial spinner half transparent. (LorenDB)
• Fancier rendering for image pack changes. (tastytea)
• Allow accessing member list and room settings for spaces. (LorenDB)
• Add zsh completions. (tastytea)
• Fancy rendering for Powerlevel changes. (MTRNord)
• Make sender_key in encrypted messages optional.
• Close current room using Ctrl-W. (LorenDB)
• Allow knocking on failed room joins.
• Allow knocking via matrix.to urls.
• Allow specifying reasons for every room membership change.
• Make room name and topic editing inline.
• Add a jump to bottom button. (Malte)
• Port room creation to qml. (Malte)
• Streamline direct chat creation. (Malte)

###Translations

• Russian (Alexey Murz Korepov, Artem, Herecore, balsoft, librehacker,
  glebasson, Mihail Iosilevich)
• Chinese (Nekogawa Mio, Poesty Li, Reiuji Utsuho, hulb, ling, RainSlide, hosxy)
• German
• Dutch (Jaron Viëtor)
• Finnish (Lurkki, Aminda)
• Indonesian (Linerly)
• Estonian (Priit)
• French (Symphorien, Glandos, Eldred)
• Serbian (Miroslav)

Bugfixes

• Fix verification requests not stopping properly when initiated from this
  instance.
• Don't send matrix.to markdown links in replies.
• Make the database work on 32bit systems again. (MayeulC)
• Add missing window decoration to room directory dialog on macOS.
• Don't crash on empty image packs.
• Fix spacing of encryption indicator in the room tite if it contains widgets.
• Emojis during verification should no longer be clipped.
• Don't ping the whole room when replying to users with a localpart of room.
• Make icons sharp on all platforms. (q234rty)
• Work around synapse not sending the original resolution when requesting large
  thumbnails to make large thumbnails less blurry. (brausepulver)
• Fix weak symbols from private object destructor. (Jason)
• Fix failed uploads not cancelling properly.
• Edits now properly update in replies again.
• Improve text paste experience. (Syldra)
• Pins should now properly update when the events are fetched.
• Support latest iteration of the hidden read receipts MSC.
• Fix cursor movement with some themes. (Syldra)
• Properly handle glare during verification.
• Set an Element Android compatible height for custom emotes.
• Don't crash because of reusing items in completer on some platforms.
• Fix the privacy screen on popped out windows.
• Properly scale animated images.
• Don't clip pinned messages.
• Use correct powerlevels for direct chats.
• Properly close cursors before committing txn.
• Don't fail if a different client used the wrong base64 encoding when setting
  up SSSS.
• Spaces usually aren't DMs. (LorenDB)
• Don't send invalid aliases to the server on room creation. (Apurv)
• Fix invite dialog.

Notes

This release requires Matrix API v1.1-v1.3. Please make sure your server is up
to date.

This release limits the maximum connections per host to 8. For best performance
we recommend your server supports http/2 so that slow requests don't slow down
other parts of the app (like sending messages).

Nheko now has KRunner and Rofi plugins (developed by LorenDB and LordMZTE
respectively).