Highlights

• Edits
  • If you made a typo, just press the Up key and edit what you wrote.
  • Messages other users edited will get updated automatically and have a small
    pen symbol next to them.
• Privacy Screen
  • Blur your messages, when Nheko looses focus, which prevents others from
    peeking at your messages.
  • You can configure the timeout of when this happens.
• Improved notifications (contributed by lorendb)
  • No more breakage, because the message included a > on KDE based DEs.
  • Render html and images where possible in the notification.
  • Render if a message is a reply or someone sent an emote message more nicely
    where possible.
  • Encrypted notifications now show, that the content is encrypted instead of
    being empty.
• Screenshare support in calls on X11 (contributed by trilene)
  • Share your screen in a call!
  • Select if your mouse cursor should be shown or not and if your webcam should
    be included.
• SEND MESSAGES AS RAINBOWS! (contributed by LordMZTE)
  • YES MESSAGES, EMOTES AND NOTICES!

Features

• Set your displayname and avatar from Nheko either globally or per room.
  (contributed by jedi18)
• Show room topic in the room settings.
• Double tap a message to reply to it.
• Leave a room using /part or /leave. (contributed by lorendb)
• Show mxid when hovering a username or avatar.
• Allow opening matrix: uris on Windows.
• Disable room pings caused by replies sent via Nheko (unless you are using
  Element Web/Desktop).

Improvements

• Userprofile can be closed via the Escape key. No more hotel california!
  (contributed by lorendb)
• Most dialogs are now centered on the Nheko window. (contributed by lorendb)
• Update Hungarian translations. (contributed by maxigaz)
• Update Estonian translations. (contributed by Priit)
• Update Russian translations. (contributed by Alexey Murz and Artem)
• Update Swedish translations. (contributed by Emilie)
• Update French translations. (contributed by MayeulC and Nicolas Guichard)
• Allow drag and drop of files on the whole timeline. (contributed by lorendb)
• Enable notifications on Haiku. (contributed by kallisti5)
• Update scheme handler to the latest matrix: scheme proposal.
• Close completers when typing a space after the colon. (contributed by jedi18)
• Port room settings to Qml. (contributed by jedi18)
• Improved read marker handling. Read marker should now get stuck less often.
• Various changes around hover and tap handling in the timeline, which hopefully
  now works more predicatably.
• Buttons in the timeline are now rendered in a box on hover on desktop
  platforms.
• Complete room links in the timeline after typing a # character. (contributed
  by jedi18)
• An improved quick switcher with better rendering and search. (contributed by jedi18)
• Some fixes around inline emoji and images.
• Jump into new rooms, after you created them. (contrubuted by jedi18)
• Improved search in the emoji picker.
• Allow disabling certificate checks via the config file.
• Use native menus where possible.
• Fix video playback on Windows. (contrubuted by jedi18)
• Send image messages by pressing Enter. (contributed by salahmak)
• Escape closes the upload widget. (contributed by salahmak)
• Improve session rotation and sharing in E2EE rooms.

Bugfixes

• Emojis joined from separate emojis with a 0xfe0f in the middle should now
  render correctly.
• Fix a bug when logging out of a non default profile clearing the wrong
  profile. (contrubuted by lorendb)
• Various fixed around profile handling. (contributed by lorendb)
• Focus message input after a reaction. (contributed by jedi18)
• Disable native rendering to prevent kerning bugs on non integer scale factors.
• Fix duplex call devices not showing up. (contributed by trilene)
• Fix a few crashes when leaving a room. (contributed by jedi18)
• Fix hidden tags not updating properly. (contributed by jedi18)
• Fix some issues with login, when a server had SSO as well as password login
  enabled (for example matrix.org).
• Properly set the dialog flag for dialogs on most platforms. (Wayland does not
  support that.)
• Properly add license to source files.
• Fix fingerprint increasing the minimum window size.
• Don't send markdown links in the plain text body of events when autocompleting
  user or room names.
• Fix webcam not working in flatpaks.
• Fix markdown override in replies.
• Fix unsupported events causing errors when saving them. (contributed by
  anjanik)
• Fix exif rotation not being respected anymore in E2EE rooms.
• Remove unused qml plugins in the windows package.
• Fix broken olm channels automatically when noticed.
• Fix pasting not overwriting the selection.

Packaging changes

• Added xcb dependency on X11 based platforms for screensharing (optional)
• Bumped lmdbxx version from 0.9.14.0 to 1.0.0, which is a BREAKING change. You
  can get the new version here: https://github.com/hoytech/lmdbxx/releases
  (repo changed)
• Removed tweeny as a dependency.