Monal Beta 6.4.1-rc3 (Build 924, PR #1125)

• Fix message doubling when editing in a channel (LMC)
• Fix own messages in public channels erroneously having a lock icon despite not being encrypted
• Show contact requests menu when tapping onto a contact request notification
• Wrap onboarding titles properly on small screens
• Improve contact requests UI and show which account a request belongs to

Monal Beta 6.4.1rc2 (Build 919, PR #1111)

• Merge and improve add contact and contact requests menu
• Please make sure to test everything thoroughly: this is the
  final release candidate for the last stable version that will support
  macOS 11 + 12.
• Please make sure to test everything thoroughly: this is the
  final release candidate for the last stable version that will support
  iOS 14 + 15.

Monal Beta 6.4.1rc1 (Build 918, PR #1110)

• Fixed dark mode display of chat placeholder image (park)
• New Onboarding flow introducing Monal, XMPP and Privacy Settings
• Accessibility fixes when using VoiceOver
• Multiple crash fixes

Monal 6.4.1b1 (Build 912, PR #1091)

• Make more things translatable
• Clean up contact details of "notes to self" chats
• Allow image cropping when setting a group/channel avatar
• Fix position of floating scroll-to-bottom button (thanks Matthew
  Fennell)
• Fix buttons in contact list not working sometimes (thanks Matthew
  Fennell)
• Implement setting to control the time used for auto-deletion of
  messages (thanks Noman Ashraf)
• Fix bug sometimes showing an empty list of omemo keys in groups
• Fix saving of group name when creating groups on ejabberd servers

Monal 6.4.0 (Build 911, PR #1084)

• Implement channel management
• Rewrite of complete group/channel management UI
• Implement group/channel destroy button
• Fix crash on message retraction
• Fix bug in Message Displayed Synchronization handling (XEP-0490)
• Improve AV-Call connectivity (allow incoming P2P connections)
• Implement optional DNSSEC validation
• Restructure settings menu to be more accessible and resemble the
  structure of the new Conversations' settings menu
• Fix sharing files using share sheet
• Fix initial scroll position when opening a chat
• Add new setting to enable/disable in-app display of webpages in Safari
• Make more parts of the UI translatable (accessibility labels, section
  headings etc.)
• Implement SVG support for received images and displaying avatars
• Fix typos in english strings
• Update license texts to include all used libraries
• Open websites linked in settings inline (but allow to open them in the
  default browser, too)

Release

6.3.1 (#1058)

- Fix flickering of chat background image
- Make keyboard auto-appear configurable
- Improve error propagation when uploading/downloading files
- Fix detection of omemo keys for groupchats
- Make several UI elements translatable now
- Fix error handling when creating groups
- Show used / discovered MUC servers in server details

Release 6.3.0 (Build 900, PR #1047)

• Fix muc status code handling for biboumi
• Implement XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction
• Implement XEP-0490: Message Displayed Synchronization
• Better default chat background for light and dark mode
• Fix crashes when used with very old Openfire server
• Improve cert error message
• Highlight selected chat on iPad and macOS
• Mark pinned chats with icon instead of color
• Completely rewrite privacy settings (thanks Vaidik)
• Automatically focus chat input and open keyboard when entering chat
• Allow SASL PLAIN on servers not supporting SCRAM but SASL2
• Completely new debug menu
• Add new privacy setting to allow/block calls from strangers
• Don't block callkit in china anymore
• Fix several other crashes and UI bugs

6.0.0 (Build 869)

NEW: Audio-call support (This feature will not be available to users in China and macOS users!)

Other changes:

• New Logo and new placeholder images by Ann-Sophie Zwahlen
• New "Add Contact" and "Contact Requests" UI
• Complete rewrite of OMEMO code
• Speed up app start
• Add support for SASL2 (XEP-0388)
• Implement XEP-0424: Message Retraction
• Add support for creating invitations (button only displayed if your server supports it, see https://docs.modernxmpp.org/client/invites/)
• Add timestamp when quoting older messages
• Always show a "Notes to self“ chat
• Overhaul implementation of last interaction display
• Show scroll-down button in groupchats
• OMEMO keys are copyable now (double tap)
• Add OSS based crash reporting (KSCrash), reports can be voluntarily sent via mail
• Fix logfile handling
• Add XEP-0215 (external services) to server details ui
• Only show contacts in contacts panel if they are in our roster
• Implement invitations using qr codes in addition of xmpp: uris
• Implement new image viewer compatible with iOS 17
• Implement gif support in image viewer

Bugfixes:

• Many bugfixes
• Fix bookmarks2 handling
• Fix XEP-0333 in private groups
• Fix url preview for sites not having oc: tags
• Set notifications to "mention only" when joining public channels
• Show per-resource last interaction timestamp in resource list
• Fix file uploading and sharing
• Fix timer when recording audio messages
• Fix muc avatar fetching

5.2.0 (Build 796)

This is the release of Monal 5.2.0

Build: 796 iOS & Mac

Contributors: @tmolitor-stud-tu, @FriedrichAltheide, @janst97

Find our release files here: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal#releases

Highlights

• Switched to new push servers (Europe or US)
• Display transferred files in app's documents directory (file app)
• Removed voice message recordings from macOS for now
• Fixed QR code scanning on macOS
• Fixed encryption (OMEMO) QR code scanning bug
• Fixed crash on link preview (issue #833)
• Fixed onboarding via invite link
• Fixed iOS notification auth for new installs
• Fixed multiple crashes

5.1.1 (Build 793)

This is the release of Monal 5.1.1

Build: 793 iOS & Mac

Contributors: @tmolitor-stud-tu, @FriedrichAltheide, @janst97

Find our release files here: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal#releases

Highlights

• Only fetch group chat (MUC) avatars on hash changes
• Disable background image by default in new installs
• Only display active chats of enabled accounts
• Fix crash when trying to scan QR codes
• Fix crash when accounts are disabled
• Fix nickname field of contact details to show only for 1:1 chats
• Add support for sharing any file type with Monal via share sheet
• Introduce new encryption (OMEMO) keys UI
• Fix file upload encryption issue for share sheet uploads
• Implement new framework for mandatory handler arguments
• Fix crash if Monal retrieves a group chat (MUC) message via MAM while the sender is currently not joined
• Many bugfixes and improvements