The date on a release generally reflects when the source commit was tagged and the release build was first posted to GitHub or our alpha channels on the Play Store and Apple's App Store. The main rollout to users in general on the app stores is typically a few days later.
We number our versions like so:
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Android requires a monotonically increasing integer version ID. Call that N. We increment it on each release, including those that only go to alpha or beta.
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Then we use version numbers A.B.N, where N is that same N, and...
- A is incremented for "a major release", whatever that means. (It's a bit of an arbitrary choice we make when making the release.)
- B is reset to zero on "a major release", and otherwise incremented.
The list of "Resolved issues" on each release is intended to be
- comprehensive,
- as a list of issues we believe were resolved by changes in that release -- a bug fixed, feature implemented, or desired change made.
It doesn't include
- duplicate issues
- issues we determined had been fixed, but don't know when
- issues we closed because we decided not to make the requested change, or couldn't make use of the bug report
- Initial support for muted users. (#4655)
- New color scheme to match the new Zulip logo. (PR #4544)
- (Android) Fixed a bug where the app sometimes opened to a wrong conversation. (#4758)
- Fixed a glitch where the add-server screen sometimes flashed by before the auth screen. (#4604)
- (Android) Now available on the Play Store to devices without cameras. (#4722)
- Fixed bugs with keypad and letter emoji. (#3517, #3395)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- Fixed crash on opening a notification. (#4818)
- Resolved issue: #4818
This was a beta-only release.
- Initial support for muted users. (#4655)
- New color scheme to match the new Zulip logo. (PR #4544)
- (Android) Fixed a bug where the app sometimes opened to a wrong conversation. (#4758)
- Fixed a glitch where the add-server screen sometimes flashed by before the auth screen. (#4604)
- (Android) Now available on the Play Store to devices without cameras. (#4722)
- Fixed bugs with keypad and letter emoji. (#3517, #3395)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Extended Jest coverage to include Android-only codepaths. (#4700)
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Ran
yarn upgradeto take all semver-compatible upgrades, as of 2021-06-07. (It had been almost two years since the last one.) (PR #4789) -
Fixed new iOS build failures. (PRs #4721, #4634)
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restartevents can now cause updates tozulipVersionandzulipFeatureLevelinstate.accounts[0]. (PR #4707) -
Increased test coverage of our storage logic, and continued cleaning up
redux-persist. (#4709) -
Fixed a bug where
CaughtUpstate was being wrongly overwritten. (PR #4698) -
In dev mode only, a user-facing string passed to a
_: GetTextwill now be highlighted in the UI if it doesn't have an entry inmessages_en.json. (#4728) -
Improved documentation for the release process. (PR #4690)
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We tried out Dependabot and decided not to use it for now. (#4787)
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Resolved issues (latest to earliest): #4801, #4726, PR #4707, #4715, PR #4777, most of #4655, PR #4750, #4758, PR #4761, PR #4717, PR #4710, PR #4749, #4722, #4604, PR #4728, #3540, #4323, #4734, PR #4721, #4264, PR #4716, PR #4634, PR #4697, PR #4544, PR #4698, PR #4686, PR #4689, #3517, #3395
- A message is now marked as read when you scroll to the bottom of it, not just the top. (#4561)
- Fixed bug with entering the emoji 😄 and 0️⃣, 1️⃣, …, :ten:. (#4638)
- (Android) Fixed bug in sharing an image from the lightbox. (#4539)
- More parts of the app now offer a menu when you make a long press, with options like muting or unmuting a topic. (#3473, #4532)
Plus, like every release, numerous other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- Fixed endless loading screen after logging out. (#4723)
- Resolved issues (latest to earliest): #4723
(This was a beta-only release.)
- A message is now marked as read when you scroll to the bottom of it, not just the top. (#4561)
- Fixed bug with entering the emoji 😄 and 0️⃣, 1️⃣, …, :ten:. (#4638)
- (Android) Fixed bug in sharing an image from the lightbox. (#4539)
- More parts of the app now offer a menu when you make a long press, with options like muting or unmuting a topic. (#3473, #4532)
Plus, like every release, numerous other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Upgraded Flow to v0.126. In particular this means exact object types work correctly with indexer properties:
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Dropped iOS 11 support; now iOS 12+. (PR #4664)
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(Windows) Fixed issue affecting postinstall script at end of
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Error handling:
- Exceptions from inside the WebView now report the browser version in the Sentry event. (#4452)
- An error in handling an event now affects just that one event. (PR #4611)
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The
state.unread.streamsmodel is now an efficient data structure using Immutable.js. The time we spend handling a stream message being marked as read, in a representative many-unreads case, is about 1.5-2x faster: measured as 150-200ms vs 300ms. (#4438, PR #4685) -
Resolved issues (latest to earliest): PR #4664, PR #4685, #4532, #3473, PR #4468, PR #4654, #4638, #4427, #3996, #4614, #4238, PR #4611, PR #4612, #4539, PR #4561, #4491, #2694, #4595, #4416, #4415, #4425, #4579, PR #4547, #4017, PR #4542, #4438, #4521, #4530, #4496, #4185, PR #4518, #4451, #4210, #4452, #3961
- Relative to v27.159, also #4587, #4584, #4560, which were cherry-picked into stable releases v27.160 and v27.161.
This is a stable release in the v27.159 series, with cherry-picked changes including a critical bug fix.
- Fixed issue that could cause a persistent white screen at startup. (#4587)
- Added a React "error boundary" so that white-screen failures show an error message and stack trace. (#4584)
This was an Android-only release, with a cherry-picked fix atop v27.159.
- (Android) Fixed issue causing notifications not to arrive. (#4560)
- Fixed crash which affected some users at startup. (#4453)
- (iOS) Viewing a conversation now takes you to the right point in the history, including the first time. (#3457, #4357)
- (iOS) Scrolling through lots of messages is now fast. (#3557)
- The PM-conversations tab now shows many more conversations. (#3133)
- Support the Zulip "spoilers" feature. (#4155)
- People's avatars now show up crisply, without pixelation. (#4305)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- Fixed crashes which affected some users at startup. (#4453, #4458)
- Fixed crash in previous version on certain @-mentions. (#4422)
- The PM-conversations tab now shows many more conversations. (#3133)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Upgraded to React Native v0.63 -- the current latest version! (#4245)
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We've significantly refactored how we handle navigation, aiming to make it simpler and better support changes we want to make. This came in PRs #4443, #4441, #4440, #4428, #4430, following PR #4393 which upgraded us to React Navigation v5 (issue #4296). More to come.
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Improvements to our data structures continue:
- Most uses of emails to identify users have been switched to user IDs. (PR #4424; mostly completes #3764)
state.messagesis anImmutable.Map. (#4390)- Our various Redux sub-reducers now receive the global Redux state, allowing us to optimize some algorithms and drop some hacks we'd had for partial versions of the same thing. (PR #4437)
- User IDs have a distinct
UserIdtype: simplynumberat runtime, but the type-checker tracks the distinction. (PR #4421)
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Sentry error reports didn't include the Zulip server version in the case of uncaught exceptions; now they do. (PR #4493)
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Development on Windows was broken, and works again. (#4297)
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We have new, detailed instructions for profiling and benchmarking the app. (PR #4314)
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Resolved issues (latest to earliest): PR #4485, PR #4493, #4453, #4458, #4460, #4405, #4469, PR #4467, #4449, #4267, #4083, #4365, #4245, #4422, #4369, #4296, #4401, #4297, #4232, #4306, #3133, #4385.
(This was a beta-only release.)
- (iOS) Viewing a conversation now takes you to the right point in the history, including the first time. (#3457, #4357)
- (iOS) Scrolling through lots of messages is now fast. (#3557)
- Support the Zulip "spoilers" feature. (#4155)
- People's avatars now show up crisply, without pixelation. (#4305)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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The representation of narrows, and particularly of PM conversations, has been greatly refactored. It should now be much simpler to write and understand code dealing with them, and especially to write it without introducing subtle bugs. (PRs #4382, #4368, #4364, #4361, #4356, #4346, #4342, #4339, #4335, #4332, #4330)
- A new Narrow type straightforwardly follows the structure of the information we're representing, in place of the old data structures which mirrored the wire format for the much more complex get-messages API of the server. (PRs #4346, #4342, #4339)
- PM conversations are represented with the users' IDs, not emails. (PR #4382, PR #4346)
- The
recipientmodule offers a suite of functions for explicitly translating between the remaining different ways that different data structures encode PM conversations. (#4035, PR #4356, PR #4335, PR #4332)
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We now use GitHub Actions for our CI, instead of Travis CI. This should be a much more stable platform; it's faster (builds take about 8-9 minutes, vs. 9-12 minutes on Travis); and it may also help us make it run faster still and produce clearer output. (#4174)
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Sentry error reports now include the Zulip server version. (#3745)
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Developer scripts now support NixOS (by using
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Resolved issues (latest to earliest): #4388, PR #4387, #4155, #4174, PR #4373, #4357, #3457, PR #4367, PR #4366, PR #4350, #4035, #3557, #2750, #4338, #4157, #4305, #4307, #3745.
- Fixed several bugs related to opening a notification. (#4290, #4293, PR #3922)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- We no longer tie in our navigation with Redux; we no longer use react-navigation-redux-helpers. (#3804)
- Bumped targetSdkVersion to 29, aka Android 10. (#3665)
- Dropped iOS 10 support; now iOS 11+. (c953bc336)
- Resolved issues (latest to earliest): #4303, #4298, #4301, #3804, #4293, #3324, #4290, PR #3922, #3665, #2756 (at 78a62b249), #4281, #4100.
- Fixed crashes in the pre-alpha release 27.155. (#4270, #4275)
For other changes since last production release, see 27.155.
(This release was distributed as a pre-alpha only, due to #4270.)
- Added support for the new "timezone-aware times" in messages that mention them. (#4162)
- Animated GIFs work again (broken in last release.) (#4212)
Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- #3782: Upgraded to RN v0.62!
- #3649, #4248: Upgraded to react-navigation v4, from v2.
- a0d838338, #3547: Experimental support for building an Android App Bundle instead of a single APK.
- Updated icons for the new Zulip logo. (#4200)
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- #4151: Upgraded to RN v0.61!
- PR #4204: New script tools/run-android to replace
react-native run-android, which turns out to have never quite worked correctly (even with the hacks we'd had to try to help it.)
- You can now sign in with an Apple ID. (#3964)
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- #4180: Added logging for the message-list WebView taking a long time to load.
- (Android) Fixed bug in downloading an image from a message. (#3124)
- (Android) Fixed bug in viewing a file attached to a message. (#3303)
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
(Note that although #3124 and #3303 are related, and the news on both is for Android users only, their status on iOS differs: with #3124 the bug was Android-only, but with #3303 a second bug #4136 still stands in the way on iOS.)
- #3548: Upgraded to RN v0.60!
- #4026: Started using RN's new "autolinking" feature.
- PR #3852: Updated to use AndroidX.
- #3809: Resumed uploading to Sentry the info it needs to interpret stack traces.
- #4081: Added a
URLpolyfill; prefer this over trying to handle URLs as strings.
- Fixed longstanding issue that caused the message list to scroll slightly back from the end. (#3301)
- Fixed issue causing profile icon to show as blank when first logging into an account. (#4077)
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
(With this version we return to shorter "highlights" summaries.
For a complete list of changes, see git log as always.)
- #3950, PR #4047: We now customize how our Redux state is serialized for storage, which means we can begin to keep data structures of our choice in Redux.
This is a stable release on top of 26.26.149, with one cherry-picked fix for a critical bug.
- Fixed bug introduced in 26.24.147 that could cause the app to crash on launch. (#4038)
User-facing:
- #4038: crash at launch involving group PMs
- #3985: bad arithmetic in colorHashFromString; root cause of #4038
- Fixed bug from previous release: you can again search for a person, stream, or emoji when writing a message by typing "@", "#", or ":" and starting to type the name. (#4019)
User-facing:
- #4019: auto-complete popup was hidden behind message list
Developer-facing:
- #3983, 954fbe5e2^..8b4b78443: use CocoaPods to manage iOS build with RN and other dependencies; greatly clean up Xcode project.
This version of the app was published as 26.24.147 for iOS and as 26.25.148 for Android.
(On Android, the version number 26.24.147 was used in a broken build which was uploaded to Google Play but not published.)
- You can now write math formulas using LaTeX, just like Zulip on the web. (#2660)
- Where someone was @-mentioned in a message, you can tap to see their profile. (#3879)
- Searching for emoji now looks for your query in the middle of each emoji's name, as well as at the start. (#3948)
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Resolved issues, user-facing:
- #2660: support writing math with LaTeX
- #3716: some emoji didn't render in the "who reacted" list
- #3857: "N unreads" notice was half-visible when compose box tall
- #3977: keep open some of message view even when compose box tall
- #3879: show a user's profile on tapping an @-mention of them
- #3986: fix color contrast in language-picker screen in dark mode
- PR #3974: use contrasting color on group PM pseudo-avatars
- #3948: emoji autocomplete searches inside name, not just start
- PR #3967: fix initial scrolling on entering a muted stream
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Resolved issues, developer-facing:
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Docs: cdb850ffd: state machine for presence Heartbeat class
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95d5e8278^..680489f85: more getUser* selectors, especially for lookup by user ID; more jsdoc
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- The app is now much clearer about when data is still being updated from the server. (#3802, #3025, #3387)
- (iOS) Opening a notification didn't take you to the conversation if the app was already running but in the background. (#3647)
- New complete translation for Persian, and updates for 21 other languages.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Resolved issues, user-facing:
- #3647: (iOS) opening a notification when in background didn't work
- #3387, #3025: loading banner across the app when data stale
- PR #3897, PR #3959: offer full set of translated languages in settings
- #3699: app could report presence when in background
- #3806: support "delete topic"
- #3874: garbled title in long-press UI in certain circumstances
- #3802: don't say "No messages" when in fact we're loading messages
- #3860: (Android) on loading screen, status bar was gray, not green
- 3799aed94 long-overdue translation sync: complete new translation for Persian, and updates for Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional).
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Resolved issues, developer-facing:
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Docs:
- 21c415123: jsdoc on state.session.loading
- 49e253dd3: archeological results on Zulip's APNs payloads
- f3694dce2^..368bbfc0b: some tips, in experimental new format
- 0a1f00107^..2fed12775: more build/run troubleshooting, especially for old versions of the app
- 664ee092e: some docs on
GlobalStateand redux-persist - c4c06fc34: docs on
unreadstate - b5ce1e91b^..b1a0e85e9: partial docs on the various notions of "recipients"
- 930a55bb6^..8bf489397: docs on "account", "user", and friends
- 6775b4f44, 756a7c268, 1d05c703a: expand docs on translation infra
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Tests:
- 6d1d1df89^..6dea1330d, 79fc8a1af^..16c1687f0: add Lolex, to mock the clock in tests
- 87042c30e: well-type notification-test.js
- 4b5b76231: well-type accountsReducer-test.js
- 4670210f8: well-type messageActionSheet-test.js
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abc043253: embrace inline styles, disable lint rule against them
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#3910: cleanly parse notification data, especially in iOS case
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33562dab1^..2e2355cde: several JSONable-related types
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db7c42f73: better solution for running dev notification code on iOS
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PR #3839: store Zulip server version in Redux, and parse it
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#3015: all
createSelectorcaches now actually cache -
#3451: fix all type errors hidden by connectFlowFixMe!
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Resolved issues, server-facing:
- #3672: (iOS) extraneous nonsense push tokens were sent to server
- A bug in the PM conversations screen caused it not to show certain conversations when they first started.
- (iOS) In dark mode, when moving from one screen to another the app would show a white flash.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Resolved issues, user-facing:
- #3871: put "Add a reaction" always as first option on long-press
- #3729: couldn't send to stream with a comma in its name
- #3654: PMs from new sources weren't immediately shown in PMs list
- #3857: unread notice had slight overlap with a very tall compose box
- #3743: strip leading/trailing whitespace from topic on send
- #3816: crash at user profile when user's timezone unrecognized
- #2914: screen flashed white at navigation on iOS, in dark mode
- #3788: show error message when deleting a message fails
- #3813: crash on trying to use camera when iOS permission denied
- #3449: stream notification settings reflect user's global choice of default
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Resolved issues, developer-facing:
- #3888: log malformed APNs device tokens
- 60807bde2: document CrossRealmBot
- 1eb4ae068^..f254f45f8: document Outbox, and "caught up"
- ba8928209^..7a3a84547: correct jsdoc on FIRST_UNREAD_ANCHOR
- Animated GIFs now animate, even when shown full-screen.
- When you type a very long message, the input box no longer overflows the screen.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Resolved issues, user-facing:
- #3497: animated GIFs in lightbox
- #3551: show in user profile when user is deactivated
- #3760: UI glitch in "create stream" flow
- #3614: keep compose box appropriately sized when message is long
- #3528: drop "Reply" in message action sheet for PM or topic narrow
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Resolved issues, developer-facing:
- #3768: Flow bug affecting
connect - #3801: document how to use React DevTools
- #3827: type fixes for upcoming Flow upgrade
- #3783: build failure on macOS
- #3777: build failure on Windows
- 555721cf4: new type JSONable, for JSON-clean values
- #3768: Flow bug affecting
- When a topic's name is too long to fit in the UI, you can long-press the topic to show it in full.
- Links to conversations now work correctly for streams and topics with names that go beyond ASCII characters.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
This is a regular release from the master branch following 26.18.141. In addition to the changes mentioned here, it includes the changes that were cherry-picked for 26.19.142.
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New test suite
pirlo(#3669), which runs an end-to-end smoketest of an Android release build in the cloud using pirlo.io. -
Improvements to Sentry logging (#3733): instead of interpolating details of an event into the message string, we now typically use the Sentry "extras" mechanism to attach the data, and leave the message string constant. This causes Sentry to keep the events grouped as a single issue even when the data varies.
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Resolved issues: #3570, #3711, #3715, #3631 (showing long topic names), #3752, #3739 (decoding non-ASCII in narrow-links)
(iOS-only release.)
Fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
This is a cherry-pick release atop 26.17.140, with selected small changes. It does not include the changes made in 26.18.141.
- Resolved issues: 30018d7d7 (on welcome-help text)
(Android-only release.)
Fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Upgraded Sentry from v0.x to v1.x, take 2.
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Resolved issues: #3585
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You can now see who left emoji reactions on a message! Just long-press on the message or reaction.
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If your Zulip server uses SAML authentication, the app now supports it.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- Resolved issues: #2252, #3670, e438f82b2
Fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
(Some important fixes were backported for a cherry-pick release 26.15.138, and are described there.)
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We tried upgrading Sentry from v0.x to v1.x, but reverted the upgrade for now. See issue #3585, PR #3676, and commit 57e08f789.
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New convention and lint rule: props types for our React components are read-only. See 821aa44fd^..760cfa9cf, aka PR #3682.
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New (tiny) test suite:
tools/test deps, which runsyarn-deduplicate. See 8b155e92b. -
Resolved issues: #3689
- Fixed an issue that affected notifications if you reset your API key.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
This is a bugfix release atop 26.14.137, with small cherry-picked changes.
- Resolved issues: #3695, 7caa4d08e
(iOS-only release.)
- Fixed an issue affecting certain models of iPad, which caused messages not to promptly appear.
- Resolved issues: #3657
(This release went to prod on Android but on iOS only to beta.)
- When the app hasn't been able to reach the server, the PM-conversations tab now shows cached data like most of the app, rather than a loading spinner.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Bumped minimum Android version to Android 5 Lollipop, API 21; dropped support for Android 4.4 KitKat. (b3eced058)
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Resolved issues: #3602, #3242
(The last release supporting Android 4.4 KitKat.)
Fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Bumped targetSdkVersion to 28! Aka Android 9 Pie. (#3563)
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Started importing certain code directly from the webapp: see #3638 and its companion zulip/zulip-mobile#13253. (This also fixed some quirks in our sending of typing-status events.)
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Resolved issues: #3563 (modulo beta feedback).
- If you use multiple Zulip accounts, the app now switches to the right one when you open a notification.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- Resolved issues: much of #2295 (via PR #3648); and issue described in PR #3084.
(Android-only release.)
Fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- In f65b50c85 (#3644), fixed an issue affecting the message list on very old Chrome versions. (Found on Android K, L, and M on the small fraction of devices where the WebView implementation hasn't been getting updated.)
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(Android) Fixed issue where opening a notification wouldn't go to the specific conversation if the app was already running in the background.
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Fixed issue where we didn't set your availability to "active" until one minute after launching the app.
Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.
- Resolved issues: #3582, #3590, #2902
- Fixed issue where search results would be based on an incomplete version of your query.
Plus, like every release, many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Resolved issues: #3591, #3592, #2209, #3058
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Started sending typing "stop" events when message sent.
Bugfixes and other improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Reverted the client-side fix for #3594; it's now fixed on the server side, and this keeps us compatible with servers running Zulip versions from before the original change.
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Resolved issues: #3369, #3509
- Updated Google auth process to match a recent change in the Zulip server.
- Resolved issues: #3594
- Highlight colors for code blocks now match the webapp and offer more contrast, especially in night mode.
Plus, like every release, many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Logging to the device log (via
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Resolved issues: d6f497bd6
- Highlight colors for code blocks now match the webapp and offer more contrast, especially in night mode.
Plus, like every release, many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Logging added on connection failure at RealmScreen.
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Resolved issues: #3568, #3515, #3524
- (iOS) Fixed issue where new users couldn't log in (yikes!)
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Upgraded to react-navigation v2 (part of #3573).
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Resolved issues: #3588
- Fixed issue where new users couldn't log in (yikes!)
This release is identical to 25.8.122, except for the version number. It was released for iOS only, as a stopgap fix for #3588.
Reintroduces two issues (excluding Android-only issues): #2760, #3176. Also returns us to RN v0.57.
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Links to other Zulip conversations were broken; now they work again.
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On Android you can now upload any file from your device, in addition to photos.
- Resolved issues: #2760, #3184
- Upgrades across most of the third-party software we use to help make the app.
Plus, like every release, many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Upgraded React Native to v0.59! (#3399)
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Resolved issues: #3399, #3323, #3176, #3574
Bugfixes and other improvements for your Zulip experience.
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Upgrades to lots of dependencies, and other changes in preparation for the RN v0.59 upgrade #3399.
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Dropped iOS 9 support; now iOS 10.3+.
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Resolved issues: #3106, #3565, #3550, #3518
(This was a beta-only, and Android-only, release.)
Bugfixes and other improvements for your Zulip experience.
Resolved issues: #3553, #3539, #3196
- You can now see when any message was sent by tapping on it. (#3491)
Plus, like every release, many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
Resolved issues: #3264, #3526, #3516
This is a beta-only release for testing an in-development feature:
- The time each message was sent is now tucked in at the end, rather than sliding in when tapped. (#3488, replacing #3491)
Like every release, it comes with many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
(This was a beta-only release.)
- You can now see when any message was sent by tapping on it. (#3491)
Plus, like every release, many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
Resolved issues: #3375
Incremental release following 25.2.116, with several bugfixes.
Incremental release following 25.0.114, with several bugfixes.
Alpha release; no release notes. See Git log for detailed changes.
Special highlights:
- Just like Zulip on the desktop and web, we now highlight messages that you're reading for the first time. (#3125)
- Fixed a bug that caused the app to miss some messages. (#3441)
Like every release, this contains many other improvements for your Zulip experience.
Many fixes and improvements, including:
- The app now fetches more messages more eagerly when scrolling through the message list, so you'll less often have to wait.
- Long-pressing a link in a message copies the link.
- The special
:zulip:emoji. - A new complete translation for Romanian, and updates for Czech, Turkish, and Italian.
- Touching a user's avatar or name in the app bar above a message list leads to their profile.
- Fetch more messages sooner, to reduce user waiting. (6ccf3a297)
- Adjusted text on "Switch account" and "Log out" buttons.
- The special
:zulip:emoji is now supported. (#2375) - User status / "unavailable" feature more fully supported. (#3417)
- Azure AD authentication backend supported, when enabled on server. (#3227)
- On iOS when displaying the message list, switched a major system-provided component ("WebView") to a newer version offering performance and stability improvements. (#3296)
- Complete translation into Romanian from scratch; translation updates for Czech, Turkish, and Italian.
- Fixed a bug on iOS where long-pressing something in the message list could act like a normal press after the long-press. (#3429)
- When a message contains a link, you can now copy the link by long-pressing it. (#3385)
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The Android app now supports Kotlin! In fact we're migrating to Kotlin -- new code will be in Kotlin. See doc.
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The Android app now has unit tests! Just a few so far -- but now that we have a model to follow, we'll write them for other code as appropriate. See doc.
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We've begun using a "crunchy shell, soft center" pattern in handling data from the server. This means all parsing of messy data-from-the-network happens at the edge (the "crunchy shell") -- and constructs new, clean data structures with an exactly known format. Then the rest of the app can be a "soft center", with many fewer boring checks, so the real application logic it's expressing easier to read and the code is less prone to bugs.
So far this is demonstrated in parsing of notification data (i.e. FCM messages) in our Android code, in FcmMessage.kt. See also discussion in the commit message of f85d3250f. The same pattern works great in JS too, and we may gradually also move to it there.
- We've begun to put small single-use helper React components in the same file where they're used, and in general to put several React components in a file when that makes the code clearer. Disabled the lint rule that would complain about that. Discussion in cb418f134, examples in 7f7620811 and parent.
- Types for the server API significantly reorganized: moved
initial-data types in from app's
types.js, and separated out model types and generic protocol/transport types in their own files. (12bc3e801^..958bc2b7e) - Types for our Redux state separated out and organized. (cc945867a^..4bc77bdab)
Touchablerevised to more effectively cover up a subtle, regrettable difference between upstream RN's interfaces for the implementations we use on Android vs. iOS. (ec32af1a4, f44114b2b)- Fixed most remaining violations of Flow's
strict-local; just 8 files remain without it. (dd03939cb^..d298669ef)
Small Android-only bugfix release following 23.2.111.
- Fixed regression in 23.2.111 that broke autocomplete on Android.
Many fixes and improvements, including:
- Support for setting yourself as away/unavailable, or setting a status message.
- Fixed several issues in message compose and autocomplete.
- Fixed several issues in sending messages under bad network conditions.
- Translation updates for Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Turkish, French, German, and Czech.
- Support for the new "availability" or "user status" feature (#3344; 7d16af845^..f37856207, 130fde9fd^..7bbd09896)
- Distinct nav icons "inbox" and "world" for the unreads and all-messages screens, rather than both "home". (#3232)
- Fixed issue causing stuttering animation on lightbox. (#3334)
- Fixed background color below compose box on notched displays. (#3329)
- Fixed color of user-group icon in @-mention autocomplete in dark mode. (#3366)
- Support batched remove-notification events, on Android. (#3343)
- Translation updates for Turkish. (a6b548999)
- Improved documentation for developing against a dev server. (e62f84f2d)
- Small improvements to Git documentation. (f018461d4)
- Almost all selectors are now annotated with types. (#3360, #3364)
- Fixed ineffective caching in many selectors. (#3015; 2e898e745^..414e48cc6)
- New script
tools/iosto build for iOS and upload to the App Store, entirely from the command line. (38f8b5da1) - New, more streamlined and secure workflow for signing Android release builds. (06b53639b^..23a3c705b)
This was a beta-only release.
Many fixes and improvements, including:
- Fixed several issues in message compose and autocomplete.
- Fixed several issues in sending messages under bad network conditions.
- Translation updates for Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, French, German, and Czech.
A terse and incomplete list:
- Numerous type improvements: actions, events, strict-local
- Fixed #3274, lightbox action sheet
- Fixed #3259, outbox reordering
- Fixed #3120 by retrying outbox
- Reducer refactor
- Fixed #3280, iOS layout at top
- Android build updates
- Compose box simpler, and fixed some latency
- Fixed double autocomplete popups
- Fixed #3295 in compose box
- Make WebViews debuggable
- Buffer thunk actions
- Fixed #2128, spamming server with notif signups
- android notif: Completely cut out wix library
- android notif: Upgrade to FCM from GCM
- Fixed #3338, by using server's
found_newest/found_oldest - Fixed caching in some selectors (#3015)
- Fixed some inefficient data structures (#3339)
- Fixed #3289,
@-autocomplete following newline - Cleaned up CI in several ways
- Fixed #2693, emoji cut off at bottom
- Translation updates for Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, French, German, and Czech
This was an alpha-only release, followed closely by 23.1.110. See above for details.
- Fixed regression in 22.0.107: launching the app from a notification would lead to a "No messages" screen. (#3284, 5d1b5b0d8)
Many fixes and improvements, including:
- Fixed bug: a successfully-sent message would stick around as a zombie, with "sending" animation.
- Evaded bug in React Native: the message list and nav bar sometimes failed to display.
- Redesigned language-settings screen uses each language's own name, drops flag images, and has search.
- Translation updates in Korean, Hindi, Ukrainian, and Chinese.
- Fixed bug: a successfully-sent message would stick around as a zombie, with "sending" animation. (#3203)
- Evaded bug in React Native: the message list and nav bar sometimes failed to display. (#3089)
- Redesigned language-settings screen uses each language's own name, drops flag images, and has search. (#2611, #3231)
- Don't (attempt to) stop notifications on switching accounts. (23e01e850)
- Fix broken layout on account details screen. (#3228)
- Paint "safe area" with appropriate background color. (#3236)
- Translation updates in Korean, Hindi, Ukrainian, and Chinese. (7cc9950c6, 6b4ce281c)
- Keep presence info up to date. (#3207)
All active developers will benefit from knowing about these. More details on each in subsections below.
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Major typing upgrades, including:
- Exact object types -- use them in most cases. Discussion in 61d2e3426.
- Intersection types -- probably never use them. Discussion in ff515bc9d and 124a2f39a.
- Read-only arrays -- use them in most cases. Discussion in 4c3aaa0b1.
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New patterns for getting styles: static where possible, and otherwise using new React context API instead of legacy one. All new code should follow. Examples in a2bfcb41b, 51dd1b3b2, f6ddc2dba.
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The type
Accountis no longer the same asAuth. In either case,Identityis preferred where it suffices. Changed in 5738ccb6f, as part of notifications changes. -
getAuthand other account-related selectors no longer return malformed data. Some throw; others explicitly can returnundefined. Interfaces in jsdoc inaccountsSelectors.js; discussion in 33a4df218. -
We no longer lie to Redux through
areStatesEqual! See #3163. -
Automated refactoring is pretty great! Discussion in e566058bf of one approach. Lower-tech approaches already helped powerfully for migrating to exact types, and to new
stylesAPI.
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Experimented with automated refactoring: an AST-based tool
jscodeshift, and lower-tech Perl one-liners. (jscodeshiftdiscussed in e566058bf, used in 47365203f. Perl one-liners on several occasions; seegit log --grep perl.) -
tools/testaccepts--diff COMMIT: run only on files changed sinceCOMMIT(vs. default of files changed in current branch.) (1fe380e1a) -
Reactotron disabled by default, because it broke basic app functionality. :'-( (170ed2a32, 598386524)
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New script
tools/changelogstreamlines some steps of making a release. (593d38d06^..9dfb52e24)
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Most object types are now exact. Let's do more of that. (Discussion in 61d2e3426; additional changes in a15c00e1a^..b9b48657f, 703739338, e5e57abe3^..9c1898242)
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Intersection types nearly all replaced with object spread. (Discussion in ff515bc9d and 124a2f39a; additional changes in eb3783b1a^..47365203f)
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New patterns for getting styles: static where possible, and otherwise using new React context API instead of legacy one. Most existing code migrated; all new code should follow. (examples in a2bfcb41b, 51dd1b3b2, f6ddc2dba; fuller changes in 112f99be9^..8dad2d191, 1f71edad9^..a4e0f23b3)
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Major parts of notifications code rewritten, others refactored; the wix
react-native-notificationslibrary reduced to a small role. (Context in #2877. Changes in 410041dfa^..2ed116267, dcbe2ac86^..d6454eb50, 034e25be8^..3a2076e0f, f1eae82d8^..233d68c40) -
Rewrote
accountsSelectors.js. NowgetAuthcan only return a real, authentication-bearing value. (Discussion in 33a4df218; changes in 3706965d3^..614f56bd2, f1eae82d8) -
Removed the
connectPreserveOnBackOptionhack, where we told lies to Redux viaareStatesEqual. (#3163, da6c43d4b^..cd7b25757) -
Server API bindings describe more routes (even that the app doesn't use); route bindings have a more uniform signature, and link to API docs. (1acf7d96a^..8170045d8, 0af4af22b^..6becc6e91
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We subscribe to all server events with our queue. (d8b36412c^..6c7fffc76)
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Logic fixes in Android notification UI code for sound and vibration; no visible changes yet. (125dc0806^..458ef8832)
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Don't run old migrations on first install. (863bca711)
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Don't use
console.warn. (21f64aad7) -
More read-only array types. (4c3aaa0b1)
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Translated-message files moved out of
src/, tostatic, to avoid spamming grep results. (1fc26a512) -
Upgraded RN to v0.57.8, from v0.57.1. (c03c85684^..ca759b106, 329dd67f0)
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New script
tools/upgradeto help systematize upgrading dependencies. (b64ce0023^..eb130c631)
Many fixes and improvements, including:
- Full support for custom emoji, including in composing messages and in reactions.
- Fetch updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle.
- Fixed bug: a message view seen shortly after starting the app could show "No messages".
- Fixed bug: uploading an image while viewing a stream would go to the wrong topic.
- Fixed bug: a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost.
- Complete translations for Italian and Korean.
- Fixed a regression in 21.0.104: the autocomplete popup would sometimes not respond when touched. (#3209)
This was a beta version that did not become a production release; see above.
- Fixed issue where a message view seen shortly after starting the app could show "No messages". (#3162)
- Fixed issue where uploading an image while viewing a stream would go to the wrong topic. (#3130)
- Fixed a regression in 21.0.104: the password input for logging into a server was rendered in a broken way, looking empty. (#3182)
tools/testaccepts a--fixoption. (177d3eaa9)
- New internal API
withGetTextfor acquiring a handy string-translating function, to use in any part of the app that isn't a React component. (#2812; c22dfee9b^..9eaa05c27) - New experimental internal API for the (server) API bindings:
import api from ..., thenapi.sendMessage(...)etc. (63ae59808^..acb979cf5) - We no longer write
props: Props, or where applicablestate: State, at the top of each React component; the type arguments toPureComponentorComponentexpress that already. (7e3becfba, c5df77962) - A good swath of our uses of
anyandObjectare replaced with real types, and 20 more files are marked strict-local; 60 to go. (9a0df7416^..60f14ed83)
This was a beta version that did not become a production release; see the regression fix above.
- Added full support for custom emoji ("realm emoji"), including in composing messages and in reactions. (#2129, #2846)
- The app now fetches updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle. (#3190)
- Fixed issue where a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost. (#2861)
- Complete translations for Italian and Korean. (62c8d92d8)
- Fixed missing line that made switching to Indonesian language not work. (d92329bb4)
- Messages pending send can now be deleted in long-press menu, like other messages. (#3189)
- Force-upgrade screen provides helpful App Store or Play Store deep-link. (#3158)
- Fixed handling of old reactions with emoji that have changed name. (#3169)
- Fixed misrendering of "keypad" emoji like
:zero:. (#3129) - Group PM conversations now show combined avatars with rounded corners, like individual avatars. (#3167)
- Fixed bugs causing top bar to sometimes be white instead of stream-colored. (#2797, #3139)
- Long-pressing a recipient bar now offers "Unmute topic" when appropriate. (8b60314e0 / #3156)
- Alert words are now highlighted in the message list. (#3082)
- Fixed fetching of explicit avatars (
!avatar(...)) in messages. (#3047) - Overflow menu in lightbox is now properly aligned. (#3024)
- Send button has larger touch target. (#2945)
- Error banners in message list show as red, rather than gray.
- Fixed oversizing of images in Dropbox inline previews. (#3136)
- Various improvements across the app for latency and performance.
- Tests and linters run fast by default (<5s on a fast desktop for small changes, <1s for no changes), by running only on files changed in the current branch. (977596d9e^..bd24bd1be)
- Spell-checker results are now pure warnings, free to ignore. (ff7bc2992)
- Configuration for Reactotron, and expanded developer documentation on debugging. (#3109, 0e5d03631^..59967fc23)
- One-step release-mode Android builds without signing keys or Sentry. (#2883; 8d55447be^..ee40b3c7b)
- Detailed step-by-step instructions for setting up dev environment on WSL. (#3193)
- Extensive refactoring of the message list and rendering to HTML. (#3156, #3170)
- New
caseNarrowabstraction for working with narrow objects. (fa6134aa6^..e9fe1e801) - Explain
Authvs.Accounttypes, and introduce distinctIdentity. (f5a2603a4^..28b1177d3) - Applied
@flow strict-localto most files and@flow strictto many files, fixing newly-exposed type issues. (#3164, 6efa7980c, 2a96ede50, fa1b8a85c; 5ec1d3f9d^..597c51f6e; 5a2d49f85^..da5d519bf) - Began to use more Flow "exact types". (01003e619, 24211fb55, others)
- Flow types on many more areas of code.
- Enable ESLint in most places where it was disabled, fixing issues. (ddd51e5eb^..a533fa8d8)
- Scripts run on Bash, and are moved out of package.json to their own files. (6c25beeb0, 3119ec697, 8d3e8ade5^..4d58c11d8)
Many fixes and improvements, including:
- Mark messages you see as read, even in a short thread.
- Tapping an emoji reaction works again to add/remove your own.
- Messages you send no longer flicker when they reach the server.
- Translation updates. Complete translations for Polish and Portuguese, the latter nearly from scratch!
- Mark messages you see as read, even in a short thread. (#2988)
- Tapping an emoji reaction works again to add/remove your own. (#2784)
- Messages you send no longer flicker when they reach the server. (#2483)
- Translation updates. Complete translations for Polish and Portuguese, the latter nearly from scratch!
- (iOS) Downloading a shared image works again. (#2618)
- (iOS) Fix multiple bugs affecting autocorrect when typing a message. (#3052, #3053)
- (iOS) New React Native version 0.57 no longer breaks typing in Chinese or Japanese. (#2434)
- (Android) New React Native version 0.57 no longer crashes when typing an astral-plane Unicode character, including post-2009 emoji. (#2787)
- (Android) Fix crash when downloading a file, by requesting needed permissions. (#3115)
- SSO login was broken. (#3126)
- (Android, infra) Client-side support for removing notifications when you read the messages elsewhere. (#2634)
- (infra) Updated to React Native v0.57 (from v0.55). (#2789)
- (Android) Critical issue with Chrome 70 update. (#3078, #3080)
- (Android) Target SDK version updated to 26. No change in minimum SDK version. (#3075)
- Translated to Ukrainian and Hungarian! Updates to others.
- Unreads screen didn’t show PMs when there were no unread stream messages. (#2949)
- Autocomplete popup was much taller than screen. (#2997)
- Other fixes and improvements. (#2905, #2935, #3013, #3046)
This was an alpha-only release, superseded by 19.2.102.
This was an alpha-only release, superseded by 19.2.102.
Many bugfixes, including:
- Search terms found in topic are properly highlighted (#2845).
- Opening embedded items like YouTube videos now works (#2895).
- When you star a message, the message list updates to show that (#2676).
Many bugfixes. Notable fixes include:
- Sending a message with an
@allmention now succeeds. 📣 - Several bugs fixed in sharing and viewing images 📷, especially on iOS.
- Subscribing / unsubscribing to a stream now works again.
- Topic list now renders the first time you visit it, too.
This was a beta-only release, superseded by 17.1.98.
- New emoji picker screen lets you be the first to react to a message. 🥇
- More responsive when visiting a conversation from the main nav, and in many other UI interactions.
- (Android) Stored data is compressed for efficiency.
- (Android in part) Friendlier error banner on certain failures; and fixed main cause of the same errors.
- Ready for server-side image thumbnailing, in upcoming versions of the Zulip server.
- (Android) Future-proof for new versions of the Zulip server to add new notifications features.
- (Android/iOS) New minimum OS version: Android 4.4 / iOS 9.
- A number of other fixes and improvements.
This was an alpha-only release, superseded by 16.2.96.
This was an alpha-only release, superseded by 16.2.96.
This was an alpha-only release, superseded by 16.2.96.
- Fixed #2800, the notorious "things stop updating" bug.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements.
(This was a beta-only release.)
- Fixed #2589, where text inputs would get very slow as you typed more than a couple of sentences.
- Many other fixes and improvements.
TODO?: backfill some of this information from notes in other places.