v1.15.0

Added

• open message info when clicking on the error status icon of a message
• add deltachat desktop version & build info to the logfiles
• Add warn dialog for urls containing punycode
• add a minimalistic theme featuring an irc like message view
• add a context menu for electron (adds copy/paste options to composer #1997, #2047)
• Add copy button to qrcode text/url result dialog
• Add a confirmation dialog when starting a new videochat

Changed

• always show timestamp and padlock/nopadlock on messages (previously padlock and timestamp were hidden on error)
• update translations (10.02.2020)
• add Farsi translation
• Try to always focus composer textarea
• Store relative instead of absolute path to last Account #2028
• replace parcel bunder with esbuild bundler (faster bundle speed)
• turn "theme not found" error from the --theme cli option from process exit into normal init fail with a user readable error message in an dialog.
• loghandler: warn on non-writable stream
• move error toast to top in order to free the view onto the message input field.
• overhaul ui of email settings
• overhaul ui of switching between media/message list and map
• overhaul ui of "context" menu button
• ui: integrate map dialog into the main screen
• Upgrade electron to version 11
• use only esbuild for frontend builds (skip typescript build & validation, typescript can now be checked with npm run test or npm run check-types)
• ui: make videochat invite messages look like on android
• ui: overhaul send message button
• ux: indicate who forwarded the message in groups

Removed

• Remove intergrated BasicWebRTC, because it was broken and we currently lack the resources to fix and maintain it
• Disable React Devtools as they are broken in the newer electron versions
• remove terser minification, the minfication of esbuild is sufficient and faster

Fixed

• correctly display RTL text inside of the message input field (see #2036)
• performance: only mark messages read on the currently fetched page instead of all when selecting a chat
• show right default background for theme in background preview in settings
• handle invalid theme metadata better (don't display no themes anymore when one has invalid metadata)
• Fix copy of labeled links
• Fix hard to alter text in the middle of "Video chat instance" input field (see #2016)
• Add missing options (at once, one minute...) for autodelete from server
• Update failed messages also in messagelist
• Fix crash on upgrading from v1.12 or earlier

1.14.1

Added

• Add Press F5 to call dcMaybeNetwork

Changed

• Show linebreaks in quotes
• trust all labeled links from device chat
• Adjust order of buttons at labeled link dialog
• Change order and ux of context menus, especially for messages
• Increase padding of draft/reply area
• All import of .tar backup
• open profile view instead of chat on click on contact
• Switch to showing archived chats when selecting an archived chat in the chat search and emptying the search
• Switch to archived/normal view accordingly when selecting an archived/unarchived chat
• Update Translations
• call maybe_network on window focus

Fixed

• Fix "copy link" context menu option for labeled links
• Fix exception when opening second instance of deltachat and tray icon is disabled
• Fix showing/focusing deltachat on second instance
• Hide reply context menu option in device chat
• Fix messages sometimes overflowing
• Fix resizing of quote after fetching author
• Fix state update on unmounted components in Timestamp and LoginScreen
• Fix non emojis getting displayed big (see #1989)
• Fix selecting a chat focus composer input (see #1986)
• Fix processing qr code again while another is still getting processed
• Fix reconnecting logic on suspend/resume or disconnecting/connecting to a network
• Fix using first letter of email address on avatars if there is no username or profile image set
• Fix styling of disabled "remove profile image" button
• Fix bug in tray menu showing hide when the window was visible or vice-versa
• Hopefully fixed rare bug of draft area not getting cleared
• Fix copy text selection from context menu
• Fix Contact Requests (ui was not properly updating)

Downloads under https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.14.1/, app-store releases will follow.

1.14.0

Added

• Upgrade Emoji Picker(Emoji 12.1) and emojifont(Unicode 13.1) for new emoji support 🦾
• Add Keyboard navigation between accounts in account selection screen
• Add the account name to the account deletion-confirmation dialog
• Add a hover tool-tip with account path and size when hovering over the email address of an account
  (this is useful when importing a backup of an account you already have and can't distinguish which is the old account and which is the imported one)
• Add context menu to gallery
• Option for packagers to disable asar (NO_ASAR=true npm run pack:generate_config).
• Added context menu for info messages
• Add simple support for displaying quotes (no attachment preview nor jump to message yet)
• Show sending indicator for outgoing info messages #1867
• Implement tray icon (huge thanks to @pepea28 for contributing & pushing this)
• Add info log message that lists all unconfigured accounts, so you don't need to find them yourself to delete them. (see #1952)
• Add draft/staging area
  • add a description to the files you send
  • reply to other messages
• Re-add pasting in of qrcode data

Changed

• Change "More info" translation to "Message Details"
• Through the emoji mart update, frequent emojis are now not sorted immediately, fixes #1177
• gallery media display type is chosen via viewType now and if the mime type is not displayable by the browser an error is shown
• minor gallery style adjustments
• Own Context Menu Implementation that makes development easier
• Update translations
• Update deltachat-node to v1.50.0
• Update inAppHelp
• hasLocation indicator on messages is now always shown even when the experimental Location streaming feature is not turned on
• localize some unlocalized strings in settings ("select" and "remove" buttons beneath the profile image)
• Overhauled look and feel of the profile editing section in settings
• Overhauled look and feel of about dialog

Removed

• removed inline message buttons (3dot menu button and download button)

Fixed

• Fixed missing application icon for linux
• Fixed unselecting current chat after deleting another chat
• Fix hover color on emoji picker for light theme
• Fix missing translations in emoji picker
• Fix broken enlargen group image #1924
• Fix opening of multiple setting windows via keybinding
• Fix two issues with the labeled link (see #1893)
• Fix refresh of "empty chat" info meassage on chat changes
• Fix removing incompleted account (see #1952)
• Fix that drag n' drop selection message text resulted in an "send following dropped files" dialog
• Fix adding of multiple members to a group via add member with searches in between (see #1964)

Note: This release is currently in testing -> see https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcomming-1-14-release/1267

Downloads under https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.14.0/

v1.13.1

Attention: this version contains a bug that makes some providers unusable #1910, the next version will fix this bug.

[1.13.1] - 2020-10-06

Changed

• order media in gallery after sortTimestamp, newer ones up

Fixed

• Fix a bug where we render an empty message list
• Hide invalid options in menu (example: send video invitation in device chat)

[1.13.0] - 2020-10-01

Fixed

• Fix search shows placeholders
• Fix ok button not being a primary button in EncryptionInfo dialog
• Fix handling of QrReader errors with own logger instead of console.error

[1.13.0-rc4] - 2020-10-01

Added

• Added indicator icon if disappearing messages are enabled in a chat/group

Changed

• Update deltachat-node to v1.45.0
• run npm audit fix
• Overhaul colors of login hint
• Change "remove account" translation to "delete account"
• Disappearing messages are now enabled by default and not experimental anymore

Fixed

• Fix network errors not shown on failed login
• Fix crash on settings after first login
• Make sure login screen doesn't flash on slow devices
• Fix logging of react crashes.
• Fix confusing error message on wrong autocrypt setup message code
• Fix automatically login to last remembered account
• Fix scanning qr code and general improvement of the whole process
• Fix avatar initials of the text avatars, of people with no displayname, inside of the messagelist
• Fix refreshing message list when disappearing message timed out

[1.13.0-rc1] - 2020-08-13

Changed

• Improve UX of changing/updating group & contact names, add buttons in those dialogs to the dialog footer
• Overhaul QR Code dialog and condense scan/show qr code into one dialog
• Implement welcome screen & overhaul login flow & account overview
• Update deltachat-node to v1.44.0

Fixed

• Fix sluggish ui while typing in email address in login form
• Fix url parsing in labeled link confirmation dialog

Downloads under https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.13.1/

v1.12.0

v1.12.0

v1.10.0

this is a pre-release for testers: https://support.delta.chat/t/test-upcomming-desktop-1-10-x-release/1080

Changelog

Added

• :colon-emoji: support for skin tones (👍:skin-tone-6:)
• :colon-emoji:'s are now replaced with the unicode emoji they represent on send
• add explaination if there are no contact requests
• add support for markdown links [label](url) (with a open confirmation dialog to prevent phishing)
• implement disappearing messages as an experimental feature

Fixed

• fix using the system language if no language is selected
• fix a bug where the user would end up with multiple contexts after reloading from a frontend crash
• fix Chat-view does not scroll down on incoming message #1783

Changed

• when opening the emoji picker its search bar gets now focused and when closing it the composer gets focused

Technical

• removed styled-components
• increase the version numbering to 1.10 to sync up with ios & android versioning and to avoid troubles with the ancient tags that still linger in the git history.

Updated

• updated google-noto color emoji font
• deltachat-node to 1.40.0
• core version 1.40

Download

https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.10.0/

1.4.2 - 2020-06-26

Added

• Burner accounts with QR code
• Theming (some Dark themes and the possibibilty to add even custom ones)
• Mute Chats
• Add Search for Contacts and Messages
• Add autodelete settings
• add git rev to the version in the about dialog
• Oportunistic reminder to update after 90days
• Add a crash-screen that appears instead of the white-screen on a react crash.
• Add enlarge group image
• Add chat image to navbar

Fixed

• Pointer cursor on hovering over document item
• update Readme a bit
• Fix whitescreen crash on opening the EncryptionInfoDialog
• Fix drop send multiple files at once (#1622)
• Fix window bounds are not saved correctly #1705
• Fix export backup progress bar missing
• Fix dc_get_msg called with special msg_id=0 warnings printed to console
• Fix window position on first start (#1711)
• Fix error message on login starting with ',' #1702
• Fix offline toast displayed before login #1729
• Fix "Authentication failed" notification does not disappear even after successfull login #1594
• Fix login button staying disabled on error #1661
• Fix use system language until the user chooses their language #1712
• Fix selecting a non existing chat after restarting DeltaChat

Changed

• Tweak settings design a bit
• Adjust chatlistitem hover colors
• Improve human-readability of logfiles
• display the offline status as permanent toast instead of the error message
• open an electron error dialog on uncaught Excerptions
• Tweak Login styling
• move qr code description up
• Tweak: Less cursor type switching
• Improve styling of Fullscreen-Attachment buttons
• move the verified icon over the group avatar
• now it is possible to have multiple accounts with the same email address (you can import a backup next to the active account)
• change account path again - now the account folder name isn't tied to the email address anymore.
• Update to deltachat-node v1.39.0 (async core)
• Add open attachment to message context menu and increase clickable area (click to open attachment)
• Overhauled login/update credentials flow & ui/ux to provide a more stable and clear experience
• Importing a backup now automatically loads the imported account
• Save account path instead of account addr for remembering the last selected account
• We don't scroll down on incoming messages anymore
• Solved the macOS appstore issue and the macOS notarizing issue.
• Exclude some unused resources from being bundled with the release.

Technical

This section is only relevant to contributors.

• Convert everything in the source folder to typescript
• move more styles from styled-components to scss
• Refactor Dialog system to make things easier for developers and fix stacking multiple instances of the same dialog
• split settings dialog into multiple files
• convert requires to imports
• Refactor Keybindings
• Split Build script into smaller build scripts.
• replace node-sass with sass to remove the native dependency
• introduce runtime.ts as a place to collect electron specific functions (will replace renderer/ipc.ts)
• 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 don't have a tag/release as they were test versions only distributed on the Microsoft App Store

Updates

• update Translations
• update Help

Downloads under: https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.4.2/

1.3.2 - 2020-05-11

Fixed

• Fix not being able to delete the first character when renaming a contact

Changed

• Mirror picture when scanning a QR code
• Update deltachat-node to v1.32.0

Download: https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.3.2/

1.3.1 - 2020-05-05

Fixed

• Fix showing the correct menu on Mac
• Fix showing the title-bar on Mac
• Fix qr scanning on Mac

Download: https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.3.1/

v1.3.0

Added

• add Import/Scan QR code which enables you to verify contacts and to join verifed groups from desktop (#1550)
• add pinned chats #1537
• add big view of profile image (closes #1356)
• add option to change a contacts displayname (#1502)
• add some Mac keybindings (related to #1451)
  • add cmd + , as shortcut to open the settings
  • focus the message composer
  • mac specific hide window (solves #634)
• add primitive & experimental contact import (you can import a json array of contacts in the devconsole)
• add archive label to archived chats #1537
• add support for opening openpgp4fpr uris with deltachat-desktop

Changed

• --debug enables now --log-debug & --log-to-console
• The forward message dialog now shows saved messages as first option.

Performance Improvements

• remove lag when scolling the settings (add thumbnails for chat backgrounds in settings screen)

Bugfixes

• Info events are now always logged (not only when --log-debug is enabled)
• fix that emojis get displayed right in the popups
• fix composer whitescreen when having a zoomlevel
• Some styling fixes:
  • remove unneccessary border on chatlist
  • changer caret color of sarch input to the same color as the placeholder
  • make dialog height overlap navbar/composer for fixed dialogs
  • Fix fake-contact-item label #1529
• fixes help won't open on mac (open help in seperate electron window)
• fix hover color for selected chats and make it a lot more slight

Technical

This section is only relevant to contributors.

• Convert project files to typescript (75% complete)
• Move more styled components to scss and cleanup some unsused classes
• add top-evil script (shows places that need work)

Updated

• Update translations & languages shown in menu, change prefix of npm translation scripts
• Update Core to deltachat-core-rust @ 979d7c5 (deltachat-node v1.29.1)