v0.7.2

[0.7.2] -- 2020-06-12

Highlights

• Reactions
  • React to a message with an emoji! 🎉
  • Reactions are shown below a message in a small bubble with a counter.
  • By clicking on that, others can add to the reaction count.
  • It may help you celebrating a new Nheko Release or react with a 👎 to a failed build to express your frustration.
  • This uses a new emoji picker. The picker will be improved in the near future (better scrolling, sections, favorites, recently used or similar) and then probably replace the current picker.
• Support for tagging rooms [tag]
  • Assign custom tags to rooms from the context menu in the room list.
  • This allows filtering rooms via the group list. This puts you in a focus mode showing only the selected tags.
  • You can assign multiple tags to group rooms however you like.
• SSO Login
  • With this you can now login on servers, that only provide SSO.
  • Just enter any mxid on the server. Nheko will figure out that you need to use SSO and redirect your browser to the login page.
  • Complete the login in your browser and Nheko should automatically log you in.
• Presence
  • Shows online status of the people you are talking to.
  • You can define a custom status message to tell others what you are currently up to.
  • The status message appears next to the usernames in the timeline.
  • Your server needs to have presence enabled for this to work.

Features

• Respect exif rotation of images
• An italian translation (contributed by Lorenzo Ancora)
• Optional alerts in your taskbar (contributed by z33ky)
• Optional bigger emoji only messages in the timeline (contributed by lkito)
• Optional hover feedback on messages (contributed by lkito)
• /roomnick to change your displayname in a single room.
• Preliminary support for showing inline images.
• Warn about unencrypted messages in encrypted rooms.

Improvements

• perf: Use less CPU to sort the room list.
• Limit size of replies. This currently looks a bit rough, but should improve in the future with a gradient or at some other transition.
• perf: Only clean out old messages from the database every 500 syncs. (There is usually more than one sync every second)
• Improve the login and register masks a bit with hints and validation.
• Descriptions for settings (contributed by lkito)
• A visual indicator, that nheko is fetching messages and improved scrolling (contributed by Lasath Fernando)

Bugfixes

• Fix not being able to join rooms
• Fix scale factor setting
• Buildfixes against gcc10 and Qt5.15 (missing includes)
• Settings now apply immediately again after changing them (only exception should be the scale factor)
• Join messages should never have empty texts now
• Timeline should now fail to render less often on platforms with native sibling windows.
• Don't rescale images on every frame on highdpi screens.