Monal 4.9.1 (Build 686)

This is the release of Monal 4.9.1 (Build 686 iOS, 691 Mac ).

Relevant changelog:

• XEP-0172: Nicknames (set own nickname, read other nicknames)
• XEP-0084: User Avatar (set own avatar)
• Add account via QR-Code scanning
• iOS: Floating scroll to bottom button
• You are able to adjust the message notification content (Notification Privacy Setting Options UI)
• Monal should run faster now
• Complete parser rewrite (including a new project specific XML query language and abstractions for pubsub/pep, data forms and XMPP stanza elements)
• Actions for notifications (mark as read, direct reply)
• Improve MAM preferences UI
• /me command
• Use roster names or nicknames for name display instead of JID
• Support for XEP-0333 displayed/read markers synchronizing read state across devices and removing notifications for messages read on another device
• Update of various translations
• OMEMO: Major rewrite and improvements, such as sending pictures from iOS 12
• Another bunch of improvements and code clean-ups
• Another bunch of bugfixes

There were many more changes you can always review here.
See also significant issues and pull request assigned to milestones: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/milestone/1

Please update to the new version! Feedback is always welcome.

Monal 4.8.0 (Build 658)

This is the release of Monal 4.8 (Build 658 iOS, 662 Mac ).

Relevant changelog:

• Add translations files and string updates
• Add shift enter command for new line
• Adding default BartyCrouch config (Support tool for translations)
• Add XEP-0092 Software Version functions
• Activate NSE filtering entitlement (Apple finally approved it!)
• NotificationService -> iOS 13.6
• Travis: use Xcode 11.7
• New shortcut: Command + I opens contact details
• Message state handling ('send' & 'receive' status)
• Reduced amount of OMEMO decryption errors (atomic storage) and also more OMEMO fixes
• Improvements on MAM (chat history) and proper ordering of messages
• Improvements of logging, log view and export
• Improvements of IPC messages
• More improvements on push notifications
• Upgrades the embedded default database from version 1.6 to version 4.0
• Many code clean-ups
• Fix idle state notification
• Fix DataLayer completion
• Many more bugfixes

There were many more changes you can always review here.
See also significant issues and pull request assigned to milestones: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/milestone/2

Please update to the new version! Feedback is always welcome.

Monal 4.7.0 (Build 636)

This is the release of Monal 4.7 (Build 636 iOS, 637 Mac ).

Relevant changelog:

• Only create DateFormatter once
• Fix exponential backoff to actually increase
• Live-update last interaction time while in chatview
• Make typing notifications more user friendly
• Don't send CSI nonzas when no resource is bound
• Start refactoring iq creations
• Abbreviate chatbubble text if it is larger than 2048 chars
• Enable file logger even in emulator (and in beta builds)
• Fix crash if push server is not reachable via http(s)
• Implement XEP-0319 and streamline CSI/presence implementation
• Remove TLS switch because support for TLS is mandatory
• Add missing disco features
• Rework and refactor complete connection logic
• Implement various background modes
• Removed reachability.{h,m}
• Adding lastInteraction labels
• Update podfile
• Moved lock img on image in cell
• Resize chatInput
• Remove insecure MD5 based auth
• Implement display side of XEP-0319
• Fix disco features implementation to be more robust
• Make xmpp sendIq: available in MLIQProcessor and cleanup
• Resurrect entity capabilities implementation and fix it
• Fix seque back from chat to activeChats
• Display old navbar in activeChats again
• Display log in seperated navigation controller
• mac: display send message instead of last draft
• Style + remove unused code
• Implement XEP-0085 (chatstates aka typing notifications)
• Implement new urn:xmpp:http:upload:0 (now draft standard)
• Rename sendIq:withResponseHandler: into withResultHandler:
• Remove airdrop completely
• Don't allow sending of messages if account is disabled
• Don't warn on implicit retain of 'self' in blocks
• Fix security bugs making injection of stanzas and TLS stripping possible
• Don't call reconnect twice on stream error
• Use exponential backoff when reconnecting
• Log app build time on app start
• Signal successful message delivery not before smacks ack
• Move setPingTimerForID to right place
• Use new network path from NetworkFramework instead of Reachability
• Fixing omemo duplicate message errors
• Remove leftover crashlythics parts
• Remove extracted() indirection for _outputQueue in send:
• Signal smacks/mam catchup after login
• Keep resource when changing account settings
• Remove gtalk from codebase
• Drop protocol table from database
• Remove abandoned oauth code fragments
• Renamed oldstyleSSL to directTLS
• Only do database upgrade once instead of in every thread
• Display resource in account settings, fix coding style
• Add debug attributes to , too
• Allow sending messages in smacks hibernated state, fix wrong translation
• Correct tests for streaming parser
• Add delay tag to smacks queued stanzas
• Fix race condition that produces rare smacks counting bugs
• Do not show "Connection refused" message if there are more SRV record…
• Display accounts / recipients in share sheet
• Check if share sheet message should be encrypted
• Show warning before disabling encryption
• Add share sheet comment to message history
• Rework (re)connection logic
• Don't send a presence on successful smacks resume
• Fix disco info hash to use the same string than raw disco
• Fix offline sending if app was swiped away
• Add debug attributes to smacks resume request, too
• Use isHibernating to check if smacks queue can be used when sending
• Allow log sharing
• Increase logsize to 64MiB per file, adding log view options
• Fix stanza counting bug
• Remove dead code in many code sections

There were many more changes you can always review here: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/commits/develop

Please update to the new version! Feedback is always welcome.