v3.1.0-beta

New features

• Support dark mode on macOS.
• Add option to find accounts by email.
• Add option to hide Menu bar to View menu.
• Show a loading indicator in the sidebar.
• Update Help Center to open help page of the currently active server.
• Improve auto-detection of spellchecker language.
• Disable menu items on non-server pages.

Fixes

• Updated, more robust server validation logic.
• Fix JSON DB errors observed when switching tabs.
• Fix issue with the creation of large .node files in the Temp folder on Windows machines.
• Fix issue where drafts were not saved properly.

Development

• Migrate codebase to TypeScript.
• Set the indent_size in .editconfig to 4.
• Use .env file for reading Sentry DSN.

v3.0.0

New features

• Add context menu in the left sidebar.
• Enable per-user installation on Windows.
• Switch to next server on Ctrl+Tab.
• Add option to copy zulip URL.
• Allow zoom options from numpad.
• Use server language for spellchecker for all platforms.
• Allow installing app without admin privileges.
• Allow insecure requests on user request.
• Unify case across menus and settings.

Enhancements

• Remove Found bug button.
• Set custom css to false by default.
• Disable beta updates if auto updates disabled
• Update menu items on setting page.
• Include certificates in all requests for icon.
• Document show sidebar shortcut properly.
• Improve organization page.
• Improve wording of adding a new org button.
• Increase width of add a new org button.
• Add eol for linebreaks on windows.
• Teach git to ignore unnecessary binary files.
• Send user-agent with request.
• Minimize to tray on startup.
• Update test config files.
• Ensure backward compatibility when using narrow.by_topic.
• Use path.sep for path separator to support Windows.
• Change the window title to contain active Realm's name.
• Use path.basename to get the certificate file name.
• Disable pdf-viewer window.
• Default to starting app on login.
• Modify the reset app data button.
• Add requestOptions to replace request instances.
• Workaround buggy focus switching in Electron 3.0.10.
• Reorder file menu and add option to Add Organization.
• Improve development guide.
• Implement CSS linting with stylelint.
• Add "role" key to webview property.
• Implement HTML Linting with htmlhint and fix indent.
• Limit the number of lines in log files.
• Fix focus after clicking back button.
• Remove minimize and close from the File menu.
• Add config for installer name.

Fixes

• Fix request ecdhCurve mismatch errors
• Fix typo in network error message.
• Fix context menu not working on adding new org.
• Fix reply from the notification.
• Fix shortcut section horizontal alignment.
• Fix broken link in docs.
• Fix grammatical errors.
• Fix typo error in the issue template.
• Fix text for Toggle DND in sidebar on hover.
• Fix focus after soft reload.
• Fix tip's place for Windows & Linux.

Module updates

• Update node-json-db to v0.9.1.
• Update sentry to v0.12.1.
• Update electron-window-state to v5.0.3.
• Update electron to v3.0.10.
• Update electron-builder to v20.40.2.
• Update electron-sentry to v0.14.0.
• Update dependencies to fix minor dev security alerts.
• Update snap config.

v2.3.82

Fixes

• Fix about page not opening up
• Minor UI enhancements
• Updated some menu items

v2.3.8

New features

• 8d0b683 Auto hide menubar on Windows/Linux. Add a setting option for the same.
• 177bff6 Improve design of setting page.
• 86e3d06 Toggle app on clicking the tray icon (Linux).
• 6ebc9ac Update sidebar realm name when it's changed in webapp.
• 0ad4ea4 left-sidebar: Add initial character of Realm Name instead of default icon.

Fixes

• 10cd785 linux: Fix ALT+SHIFT opening menu items on Linux.
• c1af019 sentry: Add ignore errors to sentry configuration.
• 2ece432 Linux: Add label for help menu item.
• 278dc68 file-attachments: Allow multiple downloads of same file name.

Module Updates

• b4fa4ca electron: Update electron to v2.0.9.

v2.3.7-beta

New features

• Add a feature to show and view pdf file in the app (6fd9e1b)

Fixes

• config-util: Use package reload instead of custom reload. This is an experimental fix for setting files getting corrupted issue (bb99015)
• Unescape server name in window menu item (50647e3)

Module Updates

• (24f5c9b) Update electron-builder to v20.28.3
• (dc6c4be) Update electron-updater to v3.1.2

v2.3.6

New features

• Add proxy details while validating a server (#534), (9ba2792)

Fixes

• Fix youtube video not playing in lightbox (#537), (21d6eb5)
• Fix realm name not escaped properly (#541), (8bd1492)

Module updates

• electron: Update electron to v2.0.8

Full changelog - v2.3.5...v2.3.6

v2.3.5

New features

• Add a setting option to show downloaded file in file manager (a5c1ae8)
• Added electron bridge to communicate with webapp in real time (124a842)

Fixes

• Fix failing attached file downloads (ed50968)
• Fix page_params error (60d10d8)
• gulpfile: Update syntax and methods for gulp v4.x (3f6d256)

v2.3.4-beta

Fixes

• Fix downloading functionality of file attachments.
• Fix null of downloadPath when settings.json fails.

v2.3.3

Enhancements

• Add dock bounce effect on macOS (306e0f3)
• Add a setting option to use the system proxy settings (a27cf9e)
• Add support for self/custom signed certificate (0a893c9)
• Add Sentry support to get the bug reports (7299cd5)
• Show a notification when a user clicks on file attachments and open the same in default native app (6787b8d)

Fixes

• Fix auto-updates on Windows
• Fix image attachments not opening up in the app (99a1711)
• Security fix - Do proper HTML escaping for server data to avoid XSS attacks
• Other minor fixes

Module updates

electron-builder: v20.20.4
electron-updater: v2.23.3

Full changelog - v2.3.2...v2.3.3

v2.3.2

This is a quick release since we recently updated the certificate for code signing the app and we want to make sure the previous versions of the app get auto-updates without any conflicts.