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Kaidan 0.4.0 released!

   Jul 8, 2019 • zatrox

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It’s finally here!

After more than one and a half years there finally is a new release. Kaidan 0.4.0 is the biggest update until now and apart from some bug-fixes and many minor and major features increasing the usability, Kaidan now has multiplatform-support for all common operating systems like Linux, Windows, Android and macOS.

But have a look at the changelog yourself:

Changelog

Build system:

  • Support for Android (ilyabizyaev)
  • Support for Ubuntu Touch (jbb)
  • Support for macOS (ilyabizyaev)
  • Support for Windows (ilyabizyaev)
  • Support for iOS (ilyabizyaev)
  • Add KDE Flatpak (jbb)
  • Switch Android builds to CMake with ECM (ilyabizyaev)
  • Improve Linux AppImage build script (ilyabizyaev)
  • Add additional image formats in AppImage (jbb)

New features:

  • Show proper notifications using KNotifications (lnj)
  • Add settings page for changing passwords (jbb, lnj)
  • Add XEP-0352: Client State Indication (gloox/QXmpp) (lnj)
  • Add media/file (including GIFs) sharing (lnj, jbb)
  • Full back-end rewrite to QXmpp (lnj)
  • Implement XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload and UploadManager for QXmpp (lnj)
  • Use XEP-0280: Message Carbons from QXmpp (lnj)
  • Use XEP-0352: Client State Indication from QXmpp (lnj)
  • Check incoming messages for media links (lnj)
  • Implement XEP-0308: Last Message Correction (lnj, jbb)
  • Make attachments downloadable (lnj)
  • Implement XEP-0382: Spoiler messages (xavi)
  • Kaidan is now offline usable (lnj)
  • Kaidan is able to open xmpp: URIs (lnj)
  • New logo (ilyabizyaev)
  • Show presence information of contacts (lnj, melvo)
  • Add EmojiPicker from Spectral with search and favorites functionality (jbb, fazevedo)
  • Highlight links in chat and make links clickable (lnj)
  • New about dialog instead of the about page (ilyabizyaev)
  • Add image preview in chat and before sending (lnj)
  • Send messages on Enter, new line on Ctrl-Enter (ilyabizyaev)
  • ‘Add contact’ is now the main action on the contacts page (lnj)
  • Elide contact names and messages in roster (lnj)
  • Chat page redesign (ilyabizyaev)
  • Display passive notifications when trying to use online actions while offline (lnj)
  • Automatically reconnect on connection loss (lnj)
  • Contacts page: Display whether online in title (lnj)
  • Add different connection error messages (jbb)
  • Use QApplication when building with QWidgets (notmart)
  • Ask user to approve subscription requests (lnj)
  • Remove contact action: Make JIDs bold (lnj)
  • Add contact sheet: Ask for optional message to contact (lnj)
  • Add empty chat page with help notice to be displayed on start up (jbb)
  • Redesign log in page (sohnybohny)
  • Add Copy Invitaion URL action (jbb)
  • Add ‘press and hold’ functionality for messages context menu (jbb)
  • Add copy to clipboard function for messages (jbb)
  • Add mobile file chooser (jbb)
  • Highlight the currently opened chat on contacts page (lnj)
  • Remove predefined window sizes (lnj)
  • Use new Kirigami application header (nicofee)
  • Make images open externally when clicked (jbb)
  • Use QtQuickCompiler (jbb)
  • Display upload progress bar (lnj)
  • Add text+color avatars as fallback (lnj, jbb)
  • Remove diaspora log in option (lnj)

Misc:

  • Forget passwords on log out (lnj)
  • Append four random chars to resource (lnj)
  • Save passwords in base64 instead of clear text (lnj)
  • Generate the LICENSE file automatically with all git authors (lnj)
  • Store ubuntu touch builds as job artifacts (lnj)
  • Add GitLab CI integration (jbb)

Fixes:

  • Fix blocking of GUI thread while database interaction (lnj)
  • Fix TLS connection bug (lnj)
  • Don’t send notifications when receiving own messages via. carbons (lnj)
  • Fix timezone bug of message timestamps (lnj)
  • Fix several message editing bugs (lnj)
  • Fix black icons (jbb)
  • Fix rich text labels in Plasma Mobile (lnj)
  • Small Plasma Mobile fixes (jbb)

Bug reports go to our issue tracker as always and translations are managed on Weblate.

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PS: We’re searching for someone with an iPhone who can build & test Kaidan for iOS: contact us!