Beam/CHANGES.md

Changes in 1.1.2 (2023-06-08)

✨ Features

• Timestamp for messages incorporated in a bubble. (#948)
• Add the image picker flow for the creation of a room (#961)
• Update reply composer mode UI to include message being replied to (#976)
• Added an About section and links to legal information in the application settings (#1011)
• Tapping on a user avatar/name in the timeline opens the User Details view for that user. (#1017)

🙌 Improvements

• Improve bug report uploads with file size checks and better error handling. (#1018)
• Showing the iOS default contact/group silhouette in notifications when the avatar is missing. (#965)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Update PostHog to 2.0.3 to fix the app's accent colour. (#1006)
• Fix an incorrect colour when replying to a message in dark mode. (#1007)
• Prevent room navigation back button from jumping while animating (#945)

⚠️ API Changes

• Bump the minimum supported iOS version to 16.4. (#994)

Changes in 1.1.1 (2023-05-23)

✨ Features

• Redesigned the delivery status icon. (#921)
• Add creation of a room, fetching the summary, so the room will be ready to be presented. (#925)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Stopping bg task when the app is suspended and the slidingSyncObserver is finished. (#438)
• Added the context menu to the plain style. (#686)

Changes in 1.1.0 (2023-05-18)

✨ Features

• Add the entry point for the Start a new Chat flow, with button on home Screen and first page (#680)
• Show or create direct message room (#716)
• Add background app refresh support (#892)
• Adopt compound-ios on the Settings and Bug Report screens. (#43)
• Set up Analytics to track data. (#106)
• Add Localazy to the project for strings. (#124)
• Add user search when creating a new dm room. (#593)
• Add invites list (UI only) (#605)
• Users can accept and decline invites. (#621)
• Added unread badges in the invites list. (#714)
• Added the Room Member Details Screen. (#723)
• Ignore User functionality added in the Room Member Details View. (#733)
• Added DM Details View. (#738)
• Enabled Push Notifications with static text. (#759)
• Select members before creating a room (UI for selection) (#766)
• Local notifications support, these can also be decrypted and shown as rich push notifications. (#813)
• Remote Push Notifications can now be displayed as rich push notifications. (#855)
• Create a room screen (UI only) (#877)

🙌 Improvements

• Bump the SDK version and fix breaking changes. (#703)
• Updated dependencies, and added a tool to check for outdated ones. (#721)
• Add test plans for other test targets. (#740)
• change name to nil in direct room parameters (#758)
• Guard user suggestions behind feature flag so that they don't impact releasability of other room creation features (#770)
• Remove styling for developer toggles (#771)
• Use iOS localization handling for strings. (#803)
• Analytics: reset user's consents on logout. (#816)
• Use the existing quote bubble layout with TimelineReplyView. (#883)
• Use Compound fonts everywhere. Allow the search bar to be styled. (#43)
• Add Block user toggle to Report Content screen. (#115)
• Migrate strings to Localazy, remove Android strings and use UntranslatedL10n to be clear when strings won't be translated. (#124)
• Move media file loading logic to the SDK. (#316)
• Bump SDK version and fix breaking changes. (#709)
• Animations are disabled when tapping on an animations when the app is in background. (#776)
• Removed the about title copy from the people section. (#777)
• Move search users into UserProvider service (#789)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Hides the scroll down button for VoiceOver users if it is hidden for visual users by Sem Pruijs (#670)
• Hide the avatars when the users has larger font on by Sem Pruijs (#690)
• Hide the message composer textfield placeholder for VoiceOver users by Sem Pruijs (#695)
• Fix incorrect state string. (#704)
• Use a local copy of the accent colour in the asset catalog so it is applied to Alerts, Xcode previews etc. (#43)
• Fix all broken snapshot tests follow strings update. Use double-length pseudolanguage instead of German to avoid translators breaking tests. (#124)
• Fixed room previews failing to load because of incorrect sliding sync view ranges (#641)
• Fixed room list not loading in offline mode (#676)
• Fixed incorrect link detection and handling in the timeline (#687)
• Fixed a bug that prevented the right localisation to be used when the preferred language locale contained a region identifier. (#764)
• Fixed a bug that crashed the app when tapping on push notifications while the app was in some specific unhandled screens. (#779)
• Display the room list even if the room count is not exact. (#796)
• Notifications are now handled when the app is in a killed state. (#802)
• Fixed a bug that did not render the sender icon of a dm sometimes. (#863)

📄 Documentation

• Update the link of the element ios room to be the element x ios support room in CONTRIBUTING.md and README.md by Sem Pruijs (#668)

🚧 In development 🚧

• Remove AppAuth library and prepare for Rust OIDC. (#261)

Changes in 1.0.24 (2023-03-10)

✨ Features

• Auto Mocks generator added to the project. (#600)

🙌 Improvements

• Improved report content UI. (#115)
• Avatar url is now cached on the rust side. (#550)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed crash on the settings screen when showing the "complete verification" button before the session verification controller proxy was ready (#650)
• Ignore background images in OnboardingBackgroundView for VoiceOver users by Sem Pruijs (#658)
• Hide the message composer textfield placeholder for VoiceOver users by Sem Pruijs (#688)
• Hides the scroll down button for VoiceOver users if it is hidden for visual users by Sem Pruijs (pr670)
• Prevent creating collapsible groups for one single event. Increase their padding and touch area. (#631)
• Update top padding and a string in Login and Server Selection screens. (#632)

⚠️ API Changes

• Remove all APIs that load media from URLs. These were unused and we should continue to load media through MediaSource in the future. (#444)

Changes in 1.0.23 (2023-02-24)

No significant changes.

Changes in 1.0.22 (2023-02-24)

No significant changes.

Changes in 1.0.21 (2023-02-23)

✨ Features

• Added a feature that allows a user to report content posted by another user by opening the context menu and provide a reason. (#115)
• Added support for audio messages in the timeline as previewable files. (#594)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix broken split layout room navigation (#613)

Changes in 1.0.20 (2023-02-22)

✨ Features

• Enable auto-discovery of sliding sync proxy, directing users to more information when their server doesn't support it. (#410)

🙌 Improvements

• Added the functionality to attach a screenshot in the Bug Report View. (#127)
• Added associated domains applinks. (#301)
• Add missing shimmer effect on home screen and tweak the message composer. (#430)
• Added a progress bar to to the bug report screen, when sending the report. (#495)
• Launch UI tests directly in the screen that will be tested and type character by character instead of retrying. (#534)
• Removed reply/edit dimming for all non highlighted messages to increase readability. (#542)
• Refactored UserNotification into UserIndicator. (#547)
• Update appearance of forms in the app. Add formBackground and formRowBackground colours. (#565)
• Rename SettingsRow… to Form…Style and use these everywhere (sparingly on the Bug Report Screen which isn't a real form). (#602)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Allow blockquote bubbles to fill the message bubble (#527)
• Fixed and updated some UI Tests. (#554)
• Fix incorrect visible room ranges: correctly remove duplicates and ignore appearance changes while filtering (#603)
• Fixed incorrect link detection on messages containing emojis (#464)
• Context Menu Crash: Attempted fix by explicitly passing in the context to each cell. (#532)
• Fix UI Tests for OnboardingScreen, BugReportScreen, ServerSelectionScreen, and UserSessionFlows. Fix UITestsSignalling by switching to file-based communication with a publisher. (#534)
• Fix the background colour of the room members screen in dark mode. (#583)
• Make sure forms have pressed states, remove incorrect disclosure indicators, stop login screen placeholders from flickering and don't block the loging screen when parsing a username. (#602)

🧱 Build

• Update PR Build workflow triggers. (#564)
• Update SwiftLint and SwiftFormat rules. (#579)

Changes in 1.0.18 (2023-02-03)

No significant changes.

Changes in 1.0.17 (2023-02-03)

🙌 Improvements

• Hardcode the sliding sync proxy to matrix.org for FOSDEM demo. (#502)
• Add different states for a room's last message to distinguish loading from loaded from unknown. (#514)
• Finish the design review ready for a public TestFlight. (#430)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that recognised any amount in dollars as an untappable link. (#500)

Changes in 1.0.15 (2023-01-26)

🙌 Improvements

• Add support for aliases to RoomProxy and bump the SDK version. (#486)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Show the date instead of the time in the room list when the last message is from yesterday or before. (#484)
• Prevent room timelines from becoming stale if the room drops out of the sliding sync window (#448)

🚧 In development 🚧

• Design update for first public TestFlight (#430)

Changes in 1.0.14 (2023-01-20)

✨ Features

• Show state events in the timeline and (at least temporarily) on the home screen. (#473)

🙌 Improvements

• Logging: Redact Room/Message content and use MXLog.info in more places. (#457)
• Rooms: Mark rooms as read when opening/closing. (#414)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Prevent long room names from breaking the room navigation bar layout (#388)
• Fix room member details screen performance (#421)

🧱 Build

• DesignKit: Move into a sub-package as long term this package will live outside of this repo. (#459)

Changes in 1.0.13 (2023-01-13)

✨ Features

• Add support for manually starting SaS verification flows and accepting remotely started ones (#408)
• Add support for new timeline items: loading indicators, stickers, invalid events and begining of history (#424)

🙌 Improvements

• Add MediaProvider tests. (#386)
• UserSession: Add unit tests. (#390)
• Use the links colour from Compound for links and avoid recomputing the RoomScreen view hierarchy while scrolling. (#406)
• Notification Manager: Replace completion handlers with async/await. (#407)
• Use QuickLook previews for video and present previews full screen (doesn't address gestures yet). (#418)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Use pagination indicators and start of room timeline items to update the view's pagination state. (#432)
• Prevent crash popups when force quitting the application (#437)
• Wait for logout confirmation before changing the app state (#340)
• Migrate and store session data in Application Support instead of Caches (#389)
• Video playback: Fix playback of encrypted video files. (#419)

🧱 Build

• UI Tests: Remove the French locale from the tests. (#420)
• Send all issues to the EX board. (#439)

Changes in 1.0.12 (2023-01-04)

No significant changes.

Changes in 1.0.11 (2023-01-04)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Avoid the "Failed to load messages" popup when all messages have been loaded. (#399)
• Fix stuck timeline pagination because of too many membership events (#394)

Changes in 1.0.10 (2022-12-22)

✨ Features

• Added timeline day separators and read markers (#383)
• Add retry decryption encrypted timeline item debug menu option (#384)
• Display an indicator if the network is currently unreachable (#258)

🐛 Bugfixes

• • moved the message delivery status outside of the main content and added it to the plain timeline as well
  • fixed glithcy scroll to bottom timeline button
  • simplified the emoji picker, double tapping a timeline item directly opens it now and added a context menu option. Linked it to rust side reaction sending
  • fixed cold cache seemingly not working (invalid rooms treated as empty)
  • made splash screen full screen
  • fixed connectivity indicator starting off as offline
  • added presentation detents on the NavigationStackCoordinator as they're not inherited from the child
  • fixed timeline item link tint colors
  • removed some unnecessary classes (#381)

Changes in 1.0.9 (2022-12-16)

✨ Features

• Timeline: Sending and sent state for timeline messages. (#27)
• NSE: Configure target with commented code blocks. (#243)
• Timeline: Display images fullscreen when tapped. (#244)
• Implemented new SwiftUI based app navigation components (#286)
• Send messages on return. (#314)
• Implemented new user notification components on top of SwiftUI and the new navigation flows (#315)
• Implement a split screen layout for when running on iPad and MacOS (#317)
• Expose sliding sync proxy configuration URL on the server selection screen (#320)

🙌 Improvements

• Swift from a LazyVStack to a VStack for the timeline. (#332)
• Stop generating previews for light and dark colour schemes now that preview variants are a thing. (#345)
• Re-write the timeline view to be backed by a UITableView to fix scroll glitches. (#349)
• Re-write MXLogger in Swift. (#166)
• Timeline: Add a couple of basic tests to make sure the timeline is bottom aligned. (#352)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix a bug where the access token wasn't stored on macOS (Designed for iPad). (#354)
• Message Composer: Fix vertical padding with multiple lines of text. (#305)
• Reactions: Match alignment with the message to fix random floating reactions. (#307)
• Timeline: Fixed scrolling performance issues. (#330)
• Application: Fix background tasks & state machine crashes. (#341)

🧱 Build

• The Unit Tests workflow now fails when there are SwiftFormat errors. (#353)
• Tools: Add a command line tool to build a local copy of the SDK for debugging. (#362)

Others

• Setup tracing with a typed configuration and add some presets. (#336)

Changes in 1.0.8 (2022-11-16)

✨ Features

• Timeline: Add playback support for video items. (#238)
• Timeline: Display file messages and preview them when tapped. (#310)

📄 Documentation

• Updated some documentation files. (#312)

Changes in 1.0.7 (2022-11-10)

✨ Features

• Timeline: Display video messages. (#237)
• Timeline: Implement message editing via context menu. (#252)
• Added support for non-decryptable timeline items (#291)
• Added a timeline item context menu option for printing and showing their debug description (#292)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix identifier regexes: Fixes permalink action on timeline. (#303)
• Allow session restoration even while offline (#239)
• Timeline: Reset keyboard after a message is sent. (#269)
• Remove home screen list change animations (#273)

Changes in 1.0.6 (2022-11-02)

🙌 Improvements

• Move Rust client operations into a dedicated concurrent queue, make sure not used on main thread. (#283)
• Rebuilt the timeline scrolling behavior on top of a more SwiftUI centric approach (#276)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix state machine crashes when backgrounding the app before the user session is setup (#277)
• Fixed blockquote and item layout when using the plain timeline (#279)

Changes in 1.0.5 (2022-10-28)

✨ Features

• Enable e2e encryption support (#274)

🙌 Improvements

• Reduce code block font size and switch to SanFrancisco Monospaced (#267)
• Set a proper user agent (#225)

Changes in 1.0.4 (2022-10-25)

🙌 Improvements

• Build with Xcode 14.0 and fix introspection on the timeline List. (#163)
• Include app name in default session display name (#227)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix strong reference cycle between RoomProxy and RoomTimelineProvider (#216)

📄 Documentation

• Add notes for how to debug the network traffic (#223)

Others

• Include changelog.d in Xcode project (#218)

Changes in 1.0.3 (2022-09-23)

✨ Features

• UITests: Add screenshot tests. (#9)
• Logout from the server & implement soft logout flow. (#104)
• Implemented timeline item repyling (#114)
• Room: New bubbles design implementation. (#177)
• HomeScreen: Add user options menu to avatar and display name. (#179)
• Settings screen: Implement new design. (#180)

🙌 Improvements

• Use unstable MSC2967 values for OIDC scopes + client registration metadata updates. (#154)
• DesignKit: Update design tokens and add system colours to a local copy of ElementColors. (#186)
• DesignKit: Update fonts to match Figma. (#187)
• Include redacted events in the timeline. (#199)
• Rename RoomTimelineProviderItem to TimelineItemProxy for clarity. (#162)
• Style the session verification banner to match Figma. (#181)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Replace blocking detached tasks with Task.dispatch(on:). (#201)

🧱 Build

• Disable danger for external forks due to missing secret and run SwiftFormat as a pre-build step to fail early on CI. (#157)
• Run SwiftFormat as a post-build script locally, with an additional pre-build step on CI. (#167)
• Add validate-lfs.sh check from Element Android. (#203)
• Python 3 support for localizer script. (#191)

📄 Documentation

• CONTRIBUTING.md: Fix broken link to the createScreen.sh script. (#153)

🚧 In development 🚧

• Begin adding the same Analytics used in Element iOS. (#106)
• Add isEdited and reactions properties to timeline items. (#111)
• Add a redactions context menu item (disabled for now whilst waiting for SDK releases). (#178)

Others

• Add a pull request template. (#156)
• Use standard file headers. (#150)

Changes in 1.0.2 (2022-07-28)

✨ Features

• Implement rageshake service. (#23)
• Add filtering for rooms by name. (#26)
• Settings screen minimal implementation. (#37)
• Perform password login using the Rust authentication service. (#40)
• DesignKit: Add initial implementation of DesignKit to the repo as a Swift package. (#43)
• Room timeline: Add plain styler and add timeline option in settings screen. (#92)
• Implement and use background tasks. (#99)

🙌 Improvements

• Implement new ClientBuilder pattern for login (#120)
• Flatten the room list by removing the encrypted groups. (#121)
• Add AuthenticationService and missing UI tests on the flow. (#126)
• Room: Use bubbles in the timeline. (#34)
• Room: Add header view containing room avatar and encryption badge. (#35)
• Add the splash, login and server selection screens from Element iOS along with a UserSessionStore. (#40)
• DesignKit: Add DesignKit to the ElementX project, style the login screen with it and tint the whole app. (#43)
• Settings: Auto dismiss bug report screen and show a success indicator when bug report completed. (#76)
• Bug report: Add GH labels. (#77)
• Danger: Add a check for png files and warn to use SVG and PDF files. (#87)
• Add localizations to UI tests target and add some checks. (#101)

🐛 Bugfixes

• ElementInfoPlist: Use custom template for Info.plist. (#71)
• Add a sync limit of 20 timeline items and prefill rooms with this number of events when calculating the last message. (#93)

🧱 Build

• Add swiftformat to the project and run it for the first time. (#129)
• Use v0.0.1 of the DesignTokens package. (#78)
• Update to v0.0.2 of the DesignTokens package. (#90)
• Fix Danger's changelog detection. (#74)

🚧 In development 🚧

• Add a proof of concept implementation for login with OIDC. (#42)

Others

• Add Screen as a suffix to all screens and tidy up the template. (#125)
• Fix project urls in Towncrier configuration. (#96)