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.
Download:
- Source code (.tar.xz)
- Windows (x64)
- macOS (x64)
- Android (armv7) (experimental!)
- Ubuntu Touch (armv7) (experimental!)
- Flatpak builds are only available as nightlies: Installing the Kaidan Flatpak
PS: We’re searching for someone with an iPhone who can build & test Kaidan for iOS: contact us!