Let’s see the main improvements:

• Mentions are sent intentionally
• Authenticated media are supported
• Draft messages are kept per-room and persisted across restarts
• More links are detected in messages and room descriptions
• Collapsed categories in the sidebar are remembered between restarts, with the “Historical” category collapsed by default
• A banner appears when synchronization with the homeserver fails too many times in a row
• The verification and account recovery processes have been polished
• HTML rendering has been improved, with the support of new elements and attributes

As usual, this release includes other improvements and fixes thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

We want to address special thanks to the translators who worked on this version. We know this is a huge undertaking and have a deep appreciation for what you’ve done. If you want to help with this effort, head over to Damned Lies.

Here comes Fractal 7, with extended encryption support and improved accessibility. Server-side key backup and account recovery have been added, bringing greater security. Third-party verification has received some bug fixes and improvements. Amongst the many accessibility improvements, navigability has increased, especially in the room history. But that’s not all we’ve been up to in the past three months:

• Messages that failed to send can now be retried or discarded.
• Messages can be reported to server admins for moderation.
• Room details are now considered complete, with the addition of room address management, permissions, and room upgrade.
• A new member menu appears when clicking on an avatar in the room history. It offers a quick way to do many actions related to that person, including opening a direct chat with them and moderating them.
• Pills are clickable and allow to directly go to a room or member profile.

As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

We want to address special thanks to the translators who worked on this version. We know this is a huge undertaking and have a deep appreciation for what you’ve done. If you want to help with this effort, head over to Damned Lies.

Barely 2 months after Fractal 5, we feel there have been enough improvements to grant a new stable release. You have probably noticed that we have adopted a version scheme similar to GNOME and will bump the major version with each new release.

The list of goodies:

• Fractal can open Matrix URIs, it is even registered as a handler for the “matrix” scheme
• The verification flow was rewritten, hopefully solving most verification issues
• Room members can be kicked, banned or ignored from their profile
• More notifications settings, global or per-room, were added
• Times follow the format (12h or 24h) from the system settings
• Tab auto-completion also works for mentioning public rooms, just start your query with “#”

This version is fully translated into 6 languages 🙌️ and we hope to get even more 📈 for the next one! Head over to Damned Lies if you want to give a hand.

We would also like to thank our new and returning contributors and our upstream projects.

Fractal 5 is a full rewrite compared to Fractal 4, that now leverages GTK 4, libadwaita, and the Matrix Rust SDK. The two-and-a-half-year effort brings a new interface that fits all screens, big 🖥️ or small 📱, but should still look familiar to users of earlier versions.

It still offers the same old features you know and love, with a few additions. Highlights (italics is new✨ in 5):

• Find rooms to discuss your favorite topics, or talk privately to people, securely thanks to end-to-end encryption
• Send rich formatted messages, files, or your current location
• Reply to specific messages, react with emoji, edit or remove messages
• View images, and play audio and video directly in the conversation
• See who has read messages, and who is typing
• Log into multiple accounts at once (with Single-Sign On support)

This new major release is the result of 10 months of hard work.

New features:

• Videos now have a preview directly in history
• New videos player: click on a preview to open it
• Improved audio file support, with a nicer presentation and seeking
• Redacted messages are removed from history
• Edited messages are replaced with their new content and show a small icon
• Translations have been updated
• Spellcheck language is saved per room
• New swipe-back gesture to go back from room to room list in narrow view
• New swipe left and right gesture to navigate through media in media view
• SOCKS proxy are now also supported

Bugfixes:

• Thumbnail for pasted images have been fixed
• File type detection for uploads is more reliable
• Typing notifications are now only sent when text is actually typed in the message input

Under the hood:

• Code refactor is still going
• Some improvements to logging, including access token removal for privacy

This new minor release is the result of 2 months of hard work.

New features:

• Translation strings have been updated

Bugfixes:

• Newlines now work when markdown is enabled
• Account settings can be accessed again
• Redaction is working again
• Compatibility with HTTP-only (non HTTPS) servers has been restored
• Some crashes fixed

Under the hood:

• Code refactor is still going

This new minor release is the result of 2 months of hard work.

New features:

• Autocompletion popover position fix
• Translation strings have been updated
• Disable the textbox when there are no write permissions

Bugfixes:

• Fix crash on logout and login with wrong credentials

Under the hood:

• Code refactor continues

This new major release is the result of 7 months of hard work by 37 contributors pushing over 200 commits.

New features:

• Adaptive window, mobile friendly
• Window size and position are remembered
• Redesigned login
• Spellcheck
• Network proxy support
• Typing notifications
• Badges are shown for operators and moderators
• Keyboard shortcuts for easier navigation across rooms
• Audio and video files are now tagged correctly
• Image files have a thumbnail
• Various tweaks to the file chooser

Bugfixes:

• Logs actually output something now
• A few issues with invites and direct chats have been resolved
• More reliable scrolling
• Some crashes fixed

Under the hood:

• Code refactor continues
• We’re now using Rust 2018
• Many improvements to the build system and CI

This new major release is the result of 3 months of hard work by 25 contributors pushing over 340 commits.

New features:

• Enhanced history view with adaptive layout, day divider
• Reorganised headerbar, app menu merged with user menu
• Larger display of emoji-only messages
• Some performance improvements
• Opening a room jumps to first unread message

Bugfixes:

• More reliable notifications
• Fixed display bug for avatars

Under the hood:

• Large code refactor
• Logging infrastructure
• Continuous integration
• More informative build output