Even though Fractal 5 was released only 1 month ago, development has been going at a
steady pace with a few new contributors, so we want our users to benefit from our
progress.
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The staff’s picks:
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<ul>
<li>Restoring sessions from Secret Services other than GNOME Keyring has been fixed</li>
<li>Times follow the format (12h or 24h) from the system settings</li>
<li>Media history works in encrypted rooms</li>
<li>The accessibility of the sidebar was improved</li>
<li>More notifications settings were added, you can now set global and per-room behavior and even manage your keywords</li>
<li>A bunch of refactoring, notably the port to the <code>glib::Properties</code> macro from gtk-rs that helped us removed almost <em>3000</em> lines of code!</li>
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As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to
all our contributors, and our upstream projects. As the version implies, there might be a
slight risk of regressions, but it should be mostly stable. If all goes well the next
step is the release candidate!
We would also like to thank our new and returning contributors and our upstream projects.