arcanechat-android/CHANGELOG.md

Delta Chat Changelog

v0.9.3

2017-07-13

• Introduce "Read receipts" and avoid social pressure to leave it activated
• Improve encryption dialog in profile
• Fix marking messages as "seen" when opening the contact requests
• Ignore signature.asc files of signed-only messages
• Update Polish, Portuguese and Russian translations

v0.9.2

2017-06-28

• Encrypt group chats
• Cryptographically sign messages
• Validate signatures of incoming messages ("Info" shows the state)
• Show a little lock beside end-to-end-encrypted messages with a validated signature
• If end-to-end-encryption is available on sending time, guarantee the message not to be sent without end-to-end-encryption later
• Show special characters in HTML-mails
• Help MUAs on showing chat threads
• Show attachments from multipart/alternative structures
• Upgrade from Autocrypt Level 0 to Level 1; as the levels are not compatible, encryption on mixed setups does not happen
• Update Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and French translations

v0.9.1

2017-06-04

• Profile: Improve encryption state dialog
• Improved video quality of short clips
• Make encryption-dialog localizable
• Update Russian translation

v0.9.0

2017-06-01

• Add end-to-end-encrypting following the OpenPGP and Autocrypt standards
• Add a function to compare keys
• Profile: Add option to copy the email address to the clipboard
• Pimp GUI

v0.1.36

2017-05-04

• Support camera on Android Nougat

v0.1.34

2017-05-03

• Link to new homepage https://delta.chat
• Localizable Help-URLs

v0.1.33

2017-04-29

• Better support for right-to-left (RTL) languages, taking advantage of Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean MR1, API level 17).
• Send PNG files without resizing and converting to JPEG
• If JPEG files are send without compression, they still appear as image, not as attached files
• Raise-to-speak defaults to false
• Unify long click behaviour
• Support Android's system function "Delete data"
• Replies to messages pop up automatically even if send from other email addresses (typical scenario for alias addresses)
• Fix group-replies from normal email-clients.

v0.1.32

2017-04-22

• Update Spanish and Portuguese translations
• Update internal sqlite library to version 3.18.0, released on 2017-03-28
• Remove more of the custom language handling, use Android's routines instead
• General code cleanup
• Play GIF files
• Option to disable autoplaying GIF files
• When sending contacts, only use the names the receivers have set themselves
• Show some hints when long-pressing icons in the action bar

v0.1.29

2017-04-19

• Add Russian translation
• For outgoing (group-)messages, only use the names the receivers have set themselves

v0.1.28

2017-04-14

• Pimp notifications
• Bug fixes

v0.1.27

2017-04-12

• Use a permanent foreground service for reliable notifications
• Monitor the IMAP-IDLE thread and reconnect if IMAP-IDLE seems to hang
• Various battery and background optimizations

v0.1.25

2017-04-04

• Use system or user selected video player.
• Do not connect if not configured (avoids a warning on the first time startup)
• Add vertical scrollbar, eg. to settings activities.
• Pimp GUI and logo.
• Update Korean.

v0.1.24

2017-03-31

• Share images and documents from other apps to Delta Chat
• Offer to mailto:-link-support to other apps
• Ignore implausible sending time of incoming messages; use the receive time in these rare cases
• Show errors only when Delta Chat is in foreground
• Dynamically adapt video bitrate for longer videos to an attachment-size of max. 25 MB

v0.1.23

2017-03-28

• Retry connecting to IMAP if there is not network available on the first try
• Notify about new messages if the app is not active for hours, optimize battery consumption

v0.1.22

2017-03-22

• Show HTML-only messages
• Show connection errors
• Add options for SSL/TLS and STARTTLS
• Automatic account configuration, if possible
• Recode large videos
• Add Hungarian translation
• Add Korean translation

v0.1.21

2017-03-10

• Record and send voice messages
• Record and send videos
• Send and play music
• Send contacts and email addresses
• Sending and opening attachments of any type
• Share and open commands for all attachments
• Accept VCards send to us by other apps
• Clickable email addresses
• Update Polish translation
• Fix tablet startup bug
• Close the app when using the lock-app-via-pincode function
• Protect data by using a content provider for sharing
• Try to clear the task switcher's screenshots when locking the app via pincode
• Pimp GUI

v0.1.20

2017-02-16

• Avoid unwanted downloads of lots of old messages
• Make the "Chats" folder visible if the server hides new folders by default
• Fix a crash when the server returns empty folders
• Update Polish and Portuguese translations
• Use API level 25 (Nougat 7.1) as target

v0.1.18

2017-02-11

• Add Polish translation
• Use a new default background for chats
• Improve typography by using the system font instead of a custom resource font
• Remove custom plural handling, use Android's routines instead
• Remove unused source code and strings
• More fixes of lint errors and warnings

v0.1.17

2017-02-07

• Drop two unnecessary permissions: ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
• Really add French translation
• Update Portuguese translation
• Start fixing translation handling of the program
• Remove special "foss" build, because the whole program is free now.

v0.1.16

2017-02-06

• Add French translation
• Fix some lint errors and warnings

v0.1.15

2017-01-31

• Prepare for release on F-Droid