v2.1.0: Custom emojis and stickers (Birthday edition)

Last week on July 28 Cinny marked its first birthday. 🍰 🎉

Over the year we have gained ~800 Github stars, ~44k DockerHub pulls, and ~14k downloads from Github releases. Thank you everyone for these milestones!

Features

• Custom emoji and sticker support using MSC2545 by @ajbura in #686
  • Option to add packs to room, space, and user account
  • Option to use any pack globally and one place to remove them
  • Option to delete existing packs
  • Option to rename, delete entire pack or individual image
  • Option to change pack usages
  • Space packs works in all it's children including subspaces
  • Render stickers nicely
  • Animated emojis and stickers work
  • New sticker board
  • Reaction with custom emojis using MSC3746
• Blurhash support for Images and Videos by @ginnyTheCat in #701
• Add "Mark as read" button to space options by @exodrifter @Mapledv in #667
• Send user pills when mentioning users by @ajbura in #686
• Add toggle to show password on login/register pages by @ajbura in #73
• Accept MXID on login by @ajbura in #187
• Follow system theme by default by @ajbura in 5c0eb20
• Support RTL text in messages by @ajbura in #717
• Add emoji name fallback; means Unicode 14 emojis are now in Cinny by @ginnyTheCat in #658
• Show full timestamp on hovering over message date/time by @ginnyTheCat in #714
• Add support to play .mov files by @Thumbscrew in #672
• Support mark as read by ESC while in room input by @deanveloper in #669

Bugs

• Fix parsing encoded matrix.to URL by @chuangzhu in #660
• Fix captcha loop issue in registration form by @ajbura in #664
• Fix wrong power level in room permission by @ajbura in 009966a
• Allow removing the room name by @ginnyTheCat in #702
• Fix keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboards by @ginnyTheCat in #715
• Don't enable e2ee for bridge users from user profile by @kfiven in #666

Full Changelog: v2.0.4...v2.1.0

v2.0.4

What's Changed

• Don't show verify button if Cross-Signing is not enabled by @ajbura
• Fix emoji autocomplete in some cases by @ajbura (#565)
• Add support for building docker image for linux/arm64 by @kfiven in #494

Full Changelog: v2.0.3...v2.0.4

Desktop app

• Fix drag-n-drop not working by @kfiven
• Add dev-tools to production builds by @kfiven
• Fix copy-paste not working on macOS by @kfiven (#531)
• Flatpak package for of the desktop app by @kfiven (#527)

Full Changelog: cinnyapp/cinny-desktop@v2.0.3...v2.0.4

v2.0.3

What's Changed

• Fix editing message not working by @ajbura #552

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.0.3

v2.0.2

What's Changed

• Fix pasting into settings password field actually pastes into composer by @ajbura #551

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.0.2

v2.0.1

What's Changed

• Add the ability to focus on paste by @deanveloper in #545
• Add allowCustomHomeservers config option by @ashhhleyyy in #525
• Fix crash in room without m.room.create state event by @ajbura in #546
• Fix message edit isn't reflected in reply by @ajbura in #421
• Fix join room with alias by @ajbura #533
• Fix crash on leaving room by @ajbura #532

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

v2.0.0: Session verification and other e2ee features

Features

• Redesign app/user settings by @ajbura in #404
• Add support to manage sessions by @ajbura in #415
• Add support to manage cross-signing and key backup by @ajbura in #461
• Add Session verification by emojis by @ajbura @ginnyTheCat in #513
• Add recently used section to emoji board by @ginnyTheCat in #373
• Add LaTeX / math input and rendering support by @ginnyTheCat in #345
• Add notification sounds by @ginnyTheCat in #367
• Add sound on incoming invites by @ajbura in #400
• Sort DM's by activity by @ajbura in #393
• Sort search results by activity by @ajbura in #399
• Improve jump to unread button by @ajbura in #396
• Replace confirm and prompt with custom dialogs by @ajbura in #500
• Adapt to different device widths by @C0ffeeCode in #401
• Native application using Tauri by @kfiven in #53

Bugs

• Fix loading on older browsers by @nitanmarcel in #397
• Fix loading on older browsers by @kfiven in #424
• Fix crash on load and room creation on dendrite by @ajbura in #418
• Fix can't open spaces from public room list by @ajbura in #419
• Fix max power level in room permissions by @kfiven in #480
• Fix incorrect custom html crashing app by @ajbura in #429
• Fix crash on unable to getContent of tombstoned room by @ajbura
• Don't enable e2ee for bridged platform by @RUBINELEZI @ajbura in #476

Full Changelog: v1.8.2...v2.0.0

Cinny for desktop

Since this release, we are also shipping a desktop app of Cinny for Windows, MacOS and Linux. You can download the app for your platform from https://github.com/cinnyapp/cinny-desktop/releases

v1.8.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix new message not appearing by #391
• Fix sending message not mark as read

v1.8.1

Bug fixes:

• New messages don't appear #185
• Pressing a key with an active highlight jumps in history #344
• Fix not all emoji-only messages being detected as such #368 by @ginnyTheCat
• Fix muted room show unread indicator #375
• Fix view source shows original event for an edited message #376 by @clmnin
• Fix wrong notification count and NaN notification
• Add cmd + k hotkey for mac os

Cinny v1.8.0: Spaces

Features

• Spaces (#52)
  • Add option to create spaces and subspaces (#163)
  • Add option to create rooms inside space
  • Add option to add existing room and space to a space
  • Can explore Space hierarchy and admins can manage (#163)
  • Add space settings such as permission, address management and visibility
  • Add option to invite others to space
  • Add option to leave space (#152)
  • Drag and reorder space in sidebar (#153)
  • One place to manage pinned spaces
  • Can view subspaces as categories
• Normalize unicode search (#263 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Add desktop notifications (#252 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Add support for sending spoiler markdown (#267 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Add support for drag and drop files (#283 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Add option to view event source (#320 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Add button and hotkey to close room settings (#269)
• Show tombstone message in tombstoned room (#195)
• Keep direct rooms orthogonal (#183)

Bugs

• Fix emoji scaling in suggestion (fb0a0b0)
• Fix various keyboard focus related bugs (#299 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Fix crash when opening room permission on conduit homeserver (#312 by @ginnyTheCat)
• Fix reaction tooltip message showing user multiple times (b008c5f)
• Fix linking when sending replies (#231)
• Fix select effect in emojiboard (#254)
• Fix avatar showing 'av' when loading (#247)
• Fix member load triggering re-renders (#261)

Cinny v1.7.0

Features

• Room settings (#3)
  • Add support for room message search in unencrypted rooms (#90)
  • Support options for Room visibility and Room addresses
  • Manage room permissions
  • Enable encryption and manage room history visibility
• Custom emoji (#83)
  • Show user and room emoji in auto-complete cmd and emojiboard
  • Show custom emojis in reactions
• Use jumbo emojis for emoji only messages (#204)
• Add toggle to use browser's preferred theme (#224)
• Show placeholder profile picture when it fails to load (#247)
• Show ban, kick, unban options in profile viewer
• Ability to change power level in profile viewer (#215)

Bugs

• Fix loading all twemoji on startup (#88)
• Fix wrong read receipt count in encrypted rooms (#227)
• Reset scroll when switching Home/DM (#243)
• Fix gap under typing indicator in some device
• Fix username overflow in timeline change messages
• Fix message formatting

New contributors

Welcome all and thank you for adding amazing features!

• @Alch-Emi : for the work on Custom emojis
• @gpanders : for adding automatic theme selection
• @notjustinshaw : for fixing #88