v0.0.27

0.0.27 (2025-03-17)

Highlights for users

• Handle website previews in messages. (#1016)
• Settings for dark vs. light theme, or opening links in a browser within or outside the app. (#1216, #1228)
• Better handle moved or resolved topics: follow topic permalinks (#1028), and update inbox (#901).
• Design updates including dark-theme contrast (#973), autocomplete results (#913), and app icons (#1254, #415, (Android: #1402, #1401)).
• Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.

Highlights for developers

• We now have a GitHub action making a weekly PR to update translations from Weblate. (#276)

• All user-facing strings are now wired up for translation, or else have a comment saying why translation wouldn't be appropriate or is currently difficult. (#277)

• Resolved: #277, part of #1210, #1319, #1358, #1130, #1247, #737, #1246, #1172, #1028, #1016, PR #1380, #1178, #59, #1356, #973, PR #1315, #913, #1225, #1357, #1226, #1216, #1354, #1254, #415, #1402, #1401, #1228, part of #901

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v0.0.26

0.0.26 (2025-02-07)

Highlights for users

• Resolve or unresolve a topic, from the menu after you press and hold the topic. (#744)
• Autocomplete now offers @all, @topic, and other wildcards. (#234)
• Channel names starting with emoji go at the start of the list. (#1202)
• Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.

Highlights for developers

• Resolved: #1205, #1289, #942, #1238, #1202, #1219, #1204, #1171, PR #1296, #234, #1207, #1330, #1309, #725, #744

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v0.0.25

0.0.25 (2025-01-13)

Highlights for users

• The combined feed is now conveniently accessible from the app's main navigation bar. (#1164)
• Messages with @-topic mentions now show them properly. (#892)
• The lightbox now shows the sender's avatar. (#41)
• The About Zulip screen is now available from the main menu. (#1128)
• Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.

Highlights for developers

• Resolved: #892, #1177, #1164, #1177, #1128, #1189, #1116, #739, #41

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v0.0.24

0.0.24 (2024-12-11)

This is a preview beta, including some experimental changes not yet merged to the main branch.

Highlights for users (coming from legacy app)

Welcome to Zulip's next-gen mobile app! In this beta:

• Much faster and smoother: try opening a busy channel and scrolling back through history.
• Fresh new design, matching this year's updates to Zulip on the desktop and web.
• Full multi-account support.

Please let us know what you think — and especially any missing features that are critical to how you use the old Zulip mobile app.

Highlights for users (since last beta, v0.0.23)

• All the improvements from the previous beta 0.0.23, plus several small fixes to its new features.
• Translations have begun: first out of the gate are contributors translating many strings for Polish and Russian.

Highlights for developers

• Resolved in main: #348, #1035, #388, #945, #845

• Resolved in the experimental branch:

  • #913 via PR #995

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v0.0.23

0.0.23 (2024-12-09)

This is a preview beta, including some experimental changes
not yet merged to the main branch.

Highlights for users

• New navigation structure for the app. (#1035)
• Big emoji improvements: use any emoji for reactions; better emoji search results; ❤️ appears properly. (#388, #1068, #1113, #1104)
• Fixed channel-wildcard mentions for Zulip Server 10. (#1064)
• Mute, unmute, or follow topics. (#348)

Highlights for developers

• The Flutter commit ID is recorded in pubspec.yaml alongside the Flutter version number, to help reproduce the exact build. (#1118)

• Resolved in main: #1064, #1104, #1115, #1113, #1118, #1119, #1068

• Resolved in the experimental branch: #1035, #388, #913, #845, #945, #348
  via PRs: #1076, #1103, #995, #1059, #1050, #1041

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v0.0.22

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0.0.22 (2024-11-26)

Highlights for users

• (Android) Notifications now use Zulip's custom sound by default. (#340)
• New visual design for the compose box. (#915)
• Autocomplete for emoji (":smile:"). (#670)
• Support for logging out of an account. (#463)
• Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.

Highlights for developers

• The generated localization files are now tracked in version control instead of going in an ephemeral flutter_gen package, so switching branches should no longer cause analysis issues (which used to require running flutter pub get or another command to resolve). (PR #1058)

• Resolved: #463, #340, #674, #915, PR #1058, #563, #1040, #1082, #669, #670, #360

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v0.0.21

0.0.21 (2024-11-13)

Highlights for users

• You can now vote in polls. (#166)
• Design improvements: new bottom sheet, new bot icon, adjusted dark-theme colors, others. (#90, #978, #955)
• Support Zulip's new "message links". (#1046)
• Fix bug affecting code blocks in YAML and some other languages. (#933)
• Communicate more when unable to connect to server. (#555)
• Show others when you're typing. (#666)
• Too many other improvements and fixes to list them all here.

Highlights for developers

• The new tools/content/check-features script fetches public Zulip messages from a server like chat.zulip.org, and identifies any features of Zulip message content that the app's parser calls unimplemented. (#190)

• Expanded developer documentation, including on setup and on implementing UI designs.

• Resolved: PR #972, PR #983, PR #955, #978, #90, #190, #555, #614, #933, #1026, #351, #166, #1046, #666, #1052, #1045, #941

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v0.0.20

Highlights for users

• (Android) Notifications are removed when you read the message. (#341)
• Show polls and their results. (#165)
• (Android) Videos play in higher quality. (#951)
• The screen stays on when you're watching a video. (#763)
• Clearer emoji in dark theme; "Starred messages" feed; new "edited"/"moved" labels on messages. (#953, #251, #900)
• Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.

Highlights for developers

• In tests, "matchers" from Flutter upstream can now be conveniently used, via package:flutter_checks. (#232)

• Resolved: #182, #251, #341, #905, #926, PR #919, #810, #232, PR #951, #763, #953, #165

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v0.0.19

0.0.19 (2024-08-15)

Highlights for users

• Introducing dark theme! The app now follows your system-wide dark/light setting. (#95)
• The app is snappier to re-connect to your Zulip server after being offline, and shows a loading indicator when doing so. (#554, #465)
• Handle messages being moved, muted, or unmuted while the app is open. (#150, #421)
• Autocomplete for topics; show "typing…" status; offer the "Mentions" message feed. (#310, #665, #250)
• Too many other improvements and fixes to describe them all here.

Highlights for developers

• Many "stream" names in the codebase have been renamed to say "channel". (toward #631)

• Resolved: #803, #351, #613, #665, #250, #675, #858, #228, #712, #291, #150, #465, #554, #131, #421, #310, #879

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v0.0.18

0.0.18 (2024-07-25)

Highlights for users

• Attaching an image or video to a message works properly with the new Zulip Server 9.0. (#829)
• When opening an image in the lightbox with the new Zulip Server 9.0, the image is shown at full scale from the beginning. (#830)
• Autocomplete for @-mentions now prioritizes showing users recently active in the same conversation or channel. (#828)

Highlights for developers

• New supplemental setup instructions for doing development on a remote cloud server. (PR #802)

• Resolved: #829, PR #828, #830

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