squawk/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Squawk 0.2.4 (UNRELEASED)

Bug fixes

• messages to the mucs get sent once again

Improvements

• it's possible to build against Qt 6 now
• got rid of deprecated SimpleCrypt library

Squawk 0.2.3 (February 04, 2024)

Bug fixes

• "Add contact" and "Join conference" menu are enabled once again (pavavno)!
• availability is now read from the same section of config file it was stored
• automatic avatars (if a contact doesn't have one) get generated once again

Improvements

• deactivated accounts now don't appear in combobox of "Add contact" and "Join conference" dialogues
• all of the expandable roster items now get saved between launches
• settings file on the disk is not rewritten every roster element expansion or collapse
• removed unnecessary own vcard request at sturtup (used to do it to discover my own avatar)
• vcard window now is Info system and it can display more information
• reduced vcard request spam in MUCs

New features

• now you can enable tray icon from settings!
• there is a job queue now, this allowes to spread a bit the spam on the server at connection time
• squawk now queries clients of it's peers, you can see what programs other people use

Squawk 0.2.2 (May 05, 2022)

Bug fixes

• now when you remove an account it actually gets removed
• segfault on uninitialized Availability in some rare occasions
• fixed crash when you open a dialog with someone that has only error messages in archive
• message height is now calculated correctly on Chinese and Japanese paragraphs
• the app doesn't crash on SIGINT anymore

Improvements

• there is a way to disable an account and it wouldn't connect when you change availability
• if you cancel password query an account becomes inactive and doesn't annoy you anymore
• if you filled password field and chose KWallet as a storage Squawk wouldn't ask you again for the same password
• if left the password field empty and chose KWallet as a storage Squawk will try to get that password from KWallet before asking you to input it
• accounts now connect to the server asynchronously - if one is stopped on password prompt another is connecting
• actualized translations, added English localization file

New features

• new "About" window with links, license, gratitudes
• if the authentication failed Squawk will ask again for your password and login
• now there is an amount of unread messages showing on top of Squawk launcher icon
• notifications now have buttons to open a conversation or to mark that message as read

Squawk 0.2.1 (Apr 02, 2022)

Bug fixes

• build in release mode now no longer spams warnings
• build now correctly installs all build plugin libs
• a bug where the correction message was received, the indication was on but the text didn't actually change
• message body now doesn't intecept context menu from the whole message
• message input now doesn't increase font when you remove everything from it

Improvements

• reduced amount of places where platform specific path separator is used
• now message input is automatically focused when you open a dialog or a room
• what() method on unhandled exception now actually tells what happened

New features

• the settings are here! You con config different stuff from there
• now it's possible to set up different qt styles from settings
• if you have KConfig nad KConfigWidgets packages installed - you can choose from global color schemes
• it's possible now to choose a folder where squawk is going to store downloaded files
• now you can correct your message

Squawk 0.2.0 (Jan 10, 2022)

Bug fixes

• carbon copies switches on again after reconnection
• requesting the history of the current chat after reconnection
• global availability (in drop down list) gets restored after reconnection
• status icon in active chat changes when presence of the pen pal changes
• infinite progress when open the dialogue with something that has no history to show
• fallback icons for buttons, when no supported theme is installed (shunf4)
• better handling messages with no id (shunf4)
• removed dependency: uuid, now it's on Qt (shunf4)
• better requesting latest history (shunf4)

Improvements

• slightly reduced the traffic on the startup by not requesting history of all MUCs
• completely rewritten message feed, now it works way faster and looks cooler
• OPTIONAL RUNTIME dependency: "KIO Widgets" that is supposed to allow you to open a file in your default file manager
• show in folder now is supposed to try it's best to show file in folder, even you don't have KIO installed
• once uploaded local files don't get second time uploaded - the remote URL is reused
• way better compilation time (vae)

New features

• pasting images from clipboard to attachment (shunf4)
• possible compilation for windows and macOS (shunf4)

Squawk 0.1.5 (Jul 29, 2020)

Bug fixes

• error with sending attached files to the conference
• error with building on lower versions of QXmpp
• error on the first access to the conference database
• quit now actually quits the app
• history in MUC now works properly and requests messages from server
• error with handling non lower cased JIDs
• some workaround upon reconnection

Squawk 0.1.4 (Apr 14, 2020)

New features

• message line now is in the same window with roster (new window dialog is still able to opened on context menu)
• several new ways to manage your account password:
  • store it in plain text with the config (like it always was)
  • store it in config jammed (local hashing with the constant seed, not secure at all but might look like it is)
  • ask the account password on each program launch
  • store it in KWallet which is dynamically loaded
• dragging into conversation now attach files

Bug fixes

• never updating MUC avatars now get updated
• going offline related segfault fix
• statuses now behave better: they wrap if they don't fit, you can select them, you can follow links from there
• messages and statuses don't loose content if you use < ore > symbols
• now avatars of those who are not in the MUC right now but was also display next to the message
• fix crash on attempt to attach the same file for the second time

Squawk 0.1.3 (Mar 31, 2020)

New features

• delivery states for the messages
• delivery receipts now work for real
• avatars in conferences
• edited messages now display correctly
• restyling to get better look with different desktop themes

Bug fixes

• clickable links now detects better
• fixed lost messages that came with no ID
• avatar related fixes
• message carbons now get turned on only if the server supports them
• progress spinner fix
• files in dialog now have better comment

Squawk 0.1.2 (Dec 25, 2019)

New features

• icons in roster for conferences
• pal avatar in dialog window
• avatars next to every message in dialog windows (not in conferences yet)
• roster window position and size now are stored in config
• expanded accounts and groups are stored in config
• availability (from top combobox) now is stored in config

Bug fixes

• segfault when sending more then one attached file
• wrong path and name of saving file
• wrong message syntax when attaching file and writing text in the save message
• problem with links highlighting in dialog
• project building fixes

Squawk 0.1.1 (Nov 16, 2019)

A lot of bug fixes, memory leaks fixes

New features

• exchange files via HTTP File Upload
• download VCards of your contacts
• upload your VCard with information about your contact phones email addresses, names, career information and avatar
• avatars of your contacts in roster and in notifications

Squawk 0.0.5 (Oct 10, 2019)

Features

• chat directly
• have multiple accounts
• add contacts
• remove contacts
• assign contact to different groups
• chat in MUCs
• join MUCs, leave them, keep them subscribed or unsubscribed
• download attachmets
• local history
• desktop notifications of new messages