Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug introduced in the previous release where rooms would get stuck in a “Loading…” state
Changelog
RSSImprovements
- Generally improved responsiveness and less UI freezing
Bug Fixes
- Sender name and avatars are now more consistently shown in group chats
- Reply threads no longer show more than one reply
- Fixed issue that prevented users from replying to non-text messages
- Message timestamps no longer overlap message content
- Undecrypted messages now update once content has been decrypted
- Fixed several crashes related to latest conversation view update
Improvements
- Shiny new app icon
- Improved reliability of conversation search results
- Improved reliability of sync spinner on top bar of chat list
- Better support for smaller/zoomed-in screens
Conversation View Features and Improvements
- Reactions and the ability to play videos are back
- Read receipts, date pills, edits, deletes and replies are improved and more reliable
- Updated emoji picker for reactions
- Messages from a same author are visually grouped
- Display animated stickers as static thumbnails
- Shared locations can can be viewed in a map
Bug Fixes
- Major improvements to problems with missing or outdated conversations
- Stability improvements
- Videos play sound when phone is silenced
- Names are no longer missing in invitates
- DMs show full name of other participant
- Room previews are more accurately updated
- Matrix Rooms with unusual names now show correctly in the list
- General decryption fixes and performance improvements
Known Issues
- Conversations open to the newest message, not the first unread
- Some encrypted messages may not decrypt right away: leaving and re-entering the room should show the message
Features
- Ability to accept or decline room invites from the inbox
Improvements
- Snazzy new look for inbox search
- More improvements to image download reliability
Bug Fixes
- Fewer long loading screens on app launch
- Performance improvements and crash fixes
Bug fixes:
- Images and video now work in bridged rooms
- Sending images/video attachments now works
- Text size is now adjustable (uses global iOS text size setting)
- Fixed tons of crashes
New features:
- Beeper now has an iPhone app!
- Does not support all features of Beeper Desktop yet
- Layout and display of chats has many bugs. This is not the final design!
- Search: basically does not work at this point. Do not report bugs about search 😂
- Invites: sometimes it is not possible to accept new invites.
- Please: only report bugs related to reliability at this time.
- eg if you do not receive a message in Beeper iOS, or you cannot send a message, let us know in your Beeper Support room
General
- Fixed a bug that could cause successfully sent messages to be incorrectly marked as Not Sent
- Fixed a rare issue which could cause any sent messages to get stuck in the pending state
- Improved the reliability of message sends under poor network conditions
Inbox
- Pinned chats are now centred instead of left-aligned
- Added support for Arabic sender names in previews
- Fixed an issue where a bridged chat could be incorrectly categorized as a Matrix chat in the inbox
Media
- Fixed several causes of attachments not downloading or playing
- GIFs are now treated as a separate media type from regular videos
Onboarding
- New logins can now opt to save their recovery code securely in the Passwords app
Composer
- Sent photo attachments now respect edits applied from the Photos app
Conversation View
- Improved the performance of quickly switching between conversations on iPad
- Tapping a video message bubble in a reply thread now correctly presents the thread view instead of playing the video
- Fixed several inconsistencies in rendering reply threads
- Audio message bubbles in a reply thread now render correctly in light mode
Share Sheet
- The frequently contacted chats section now presents the correct results
- The composer is no longer pre-populated with the shared media's filename
- Tweaked the cursor in the composer to line up with the placeholder text