21.2.106

Highlights for users (since 20.0.103)

Many fixes and improvements, including:

• Full support for custom emoji, including in composing messages and in reactions.
• Fetch updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle.
• Fixed bug: a message view seen shortly after starting the app could show "No messages".
• Fixed bug: uploading an image while viewing a stream would go to the wrong topic.
• Fixed bug: a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost.
• Complete translations for Italian and Korean.

Full changes for users (since 21.1.105)

• Fixed a regression in 21.0.104: the autocomplete popup would sometimes not respond when touched. (#3209)

sha256sum -c <<EOF
88f82c35aef91234e1011f6431d73e3984f86bcd6fb7180c48c9fc9a59e85e46  app-release.apk
EOF

21.1.105

Highlights for users (since 20.0.103)

Many fixes and improvements, including:

• Full support for custom emoji, including in composing messages and
  in reactions.
• Fetch updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle.
• Fixed bug: a message view seen shortly after starting the app could
  show "No messages".
• Fixed bug: uploading an image while viewing a stream would go to the
  wrong topic.
• Fixed bug: a draft message typed just after starting the app was
  lost.
• Complete translations for Italian and Korean.

Full changes for users (since 21.0.104)

• Fixed issue where a message view seen shortly after starting the app
  could show "No messages". (#3162)
• Fixed issue where uploading an image while viewing a stream would go
  to the wrong topic. (#3130)
• Fixed a regression in 21.0.104: the password input for logging into
  a server was rendered in a broken way, looking empty. (#3182)

Full changes for developers (since 21.0.104)

Workflow improvements

• tools/test accepts a --fix option. (177d3ea)

Architecture, interface, and quality improvements

• New internal API withGetText for acquiring a handy
  string-translating function, to use in any part of the app that
  isn't a React component. (#2812; c22dfee^..9eaa05c)
• New experimental internal API for the (server) API bindings:
  import api from ..., then api.sendMessage(...) etc.
  (63ae598^..acb979c)
• We no longer write props: Props, or where applicable
  state: State, at the top of each React component; the type
  arguments to PureComponent or Component express that already.
  (7e3becf, c5df779)
• A good swath of our uses of any and Object are replaced with
  real types, and 20 more files are marked strict-local; 60 to go.
  (9a0df74^..60f14ed)

$ sha256sum -c <<EOF
e25a8cc7d909c8e4ff1183d0ae5980fc293885eb258dd7689a81f6dec7170c7a  app-release.apk
EOF

21.0.104

Highlights for users

Many fixes and improvements, including:

• Added full support for custom emoji, including in composing messages and in reactions.
• The app now fetches updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle.
• Fixed issue where a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost.
• Complete translations for Italian and Korean.

Full changes for users

• Added full support for custom emoji ("realm emoji"), including in composing messages and in reactions. (#2129, #2846)
• The app now fetches updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle. (#3190)
• Fixed issue where a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost. (#2861)
• Complete translations for Italian and Korean. (62c8d92)
• Fixed missing line that made switching to Indonesian language not work. (d92329b)
• Messages pending send can now be deleted in long-press menu, like other messages. (#3189)
• Force-upgrade screen provides helpful App Store or Play Store deep-link. (#3158)
• Fixed handling of old reactions with emoji that have changed name. (#3169)
• Fixed misrendering of "keypad" emoji like :zero:. (#3129)
• Group PM conversations now show combined avatars with rounded corners, like individual avatars. (#3167)
• Fixed bugs causing top bar to sometimes be white instead of stream-colored. (#2797, #3139)
• Long-pressing a recipient bar now offers "Unmute topic" when appropriate. (8b60314 / #3156)
• Alert words are now highlighted in the message list. (#3082)
• Fixed fetching of explicit avatars (!avatar(...)) in messages. (#3047)
• Overflow menu in lightbox is now properly aligned. (#3024)
• Send button has larger touch target. (#2945)
• Error banners in message list show as red, rather than gray.
• Fixed oversizing of images in Dropbox inline previews. (#3136)
• Various improvements across the app for latency and performance.

Full changes for developers

Workflow improvements

• Tests and linters run fast by default (<5s on a fast desktop for small changes, <1s for no changes), by running only on files changed in the current branch. (977596d^..bd24bd1)
• Spell-checker results are now pure warnings, free to ignore. (ff7bc29)
• Configuration for Reactotron, and expanded developer documentation on debugging. (#3109, 0e5d036^..59967fc)
• One-step release-mode Android builds without signing keys or Sentry. (#2883; 8d55447^..ee40b3c)
• Detailed step-by-step instructions for setting up dev environment on WSL. (#3193)

Architecture, interface, and quality improvements

• Extensive refactoring of the message list and rendering to HTML. (#3156, #3170)
• New caseNarrow abstraction for working with narrow objects. (fa6134a^..e9fe1e8)
• Explain Auth vs. Account types, and introduce distinct Identity. (f5a2603^..28b1177)
• Applied @flow strict-local to most files and @flow strict to many files, fixing newly-exposed type issues. (#3164, 6efa798, 2a96ede, fa1b8a8; 5ec1d3f^..597c51f; 5a2d49f^..da5d519)
• Began to use more Flow "exact types". (01003e6, 24211fb, others)
• Flow types on many more areas of code.
• Enable ESLint in most places where it was disabled, fixing issues. (ddd51e5^..a533fa8)
• Scripts run on Bash, and are moved out of package.json to their own files. (6c25bee, 3119ec6, 8d3e8ad^..4d58c11)

$ sha256sum -c <<EOF
3599c12985241f5cc2e1c3d3af150ee0557477d5bdfc36e2cbdbd9a12176c843  app-release.apk
EOF

20.0.103

Highlights

Many fixes and improvements, including:

• Mark messages you see as read, even in a short thread.
• Tapping an emoji reaction works again to add/remove your own.
• Messages you send no longer flicker when they reach the server.
• Translation updates. Complete translations for Polish and Portuguese, the latter nearly from scratch!

Full

• Mark messages you see as read, even in a short thread. (#2988)
• Tapping an emoji reaction works again to add/remove your own. (#2784)
• Messages you send no longer flicker when they reach the server. (#2483)
• (iOS) Downloading a shared image works again. (#2618)
• (iOS) Fix multiple bugs affecting autocorrect when typing a message. (#3052, #3053)
• (iOS) New React Native version 0.57 no longer breaks typing in Chinese or Japanese. (#2434)
• (Android) New React Native version 0.57 no longer crashes when typing an astral-plane Unicode character, including post-2009 emoji. (#2787)
• (Android) Fix crash when downloading a file, by requesting needed permissions. (#3115)
• SSO login was broken. (#3126)
• Translation updates. Complete translations for Polish and Portuguese, the latter nearly from scratch!
• (Android, infra) Client-side support for removing notifications when you read the messages elsewhere. (#2634)
• (infra) Updated to React Native v0.57 (from v0.55). (#2789)

sha256sum -c <<EOF
62804f0d8f5e7c12763cf7d7a93c69e6861b257260365d592e3d2f832a5e39ca  app-release.apk
EOF

19.2.102

• (Android) Critical issue with Chrome 70 update. (#3078, #3080)
• (Android) Target SDK version updated to 26. No change in minimum SDK version. (#3075)
• Translated to Ukrainian and Hungarian! Updates to others.
• Unreads screen didn’t show PMs when there were no unread stream messages. (#2949)
• Autocomplete popup was much taller than screen. (#2997)
• Other fixes and improvements. (#2905, #2935, #3013, #3046)

sha256sum -c <<EOF
dd6cb650aa2ac8af94c22b6630282d6a625c8478619b95cc1538fed7ee24373b  app-release.apk
EOF

18.0.99

Many bugfixes, including:

• Search terms found in topic are properly highlighted (#2845).
• Opening embedded items like YouTube videos now works (#2895).
• When you star a message, the message list updates to show that (#2676).

$ sha256sum -c <<EOF
a00d6507664bf1a0054660d194cbb25c46d7bd64900721a4a57f3aa173677c8f  app-release.apk
EOF

13.1.85

New major release! Many UI changes and bugfixes.

12.4.84

Bug fixes, including:

• Uploaded images now load!
• Better retry handling when returning from offline, greatly reducing server load in some cases.
• Fixed issue where upon sending the first message to a stream or topic, it would appear not to have been sent.

12.3.83

Bug fixes from master, cherry-picked onto 12.1.81.

12.1.81

refactor: Make notification handling more consistent

* no need for async for handlePendingNotifications
* proper name for the event handler
* handlePendingNotifications() in iOS the same as Android