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Changes

• Use direct messages in non-anonymous group chats instead of PM

Bug fixes

• Fix a problem with the Gajim symbolic icon when opening the Accounts dialog
• Make Gajim connect even if the Private XML Storage extension is not available on the server
• #10235 Roster tooltip error
• #10342 Add Workaround for UnicodeDecodingError popups
• #10377 Profile: Make adding a Organisation entry work
• #10384 Make the HistoryManager work again in standalone mode

New

• Completely rewritten settings backend
• Redesigned Preferences user interface
• Setting for automatic history cleanup
• Chat-specific 'Group Chat Settings' page
• Support for Chat Markers (XEP-0333)
• Completely rewritten Profile window
• Support for vCard4 (XEP-0292)
• Redesigned Voice/Video chat interface
• Group chat invitations show Avatars and additional infos
• 'Mark as Read' button for message notifications
• 'Send Message' button in chat windows
• Windows: support for XMPP link handling
• Preview for pasting images from the clipboard

Changes

• Sync threshold setting could not be migrated to new settings (please make sure to check if you set a custom value)
• Message styling: _underline_ style has been removed, and a new ~strikethrough~ style has been added
• Notification for contact sign in/out has been removed
• 'Auto copy' workaround for Ctrl+C usage in the chat window has been removed
• If Gajim fails to join a group chat, it now offers a Retry button (and also 'Forget Group Chat')
• Pressing the Escape key will not close chat windows by default
• Some shortcuts now use Primary (Ctrl/Cmd) instead of Alt (which is often used by Window Management): Change Subject (<Primary><Shift>S), Emoji Chooser (<Primary><Shift>M)
• Linux: Emoji button now opens GTK’s native Emoji chooser (with categories and recently used emojis)
• A/V codec selection has been improved

Bug fixes

• Some regressions with non-english keyboard layouts have been fixed
• Command for opening the Start Chat window (gajim --start-chat) has been fixed
• A/V menu entries are now updated (enabled/disabled) correctly when receiving the contact’s capabilities
• GSSAPI support has been fixed
• A bug where dropping selected text on a chat window would fail has been fixed
• 'Show status changes' setting has been fixed for group chats
• A bug where removing a plugin would fail has been fixed
• List of fixed issues https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=closed&milestone_title=1.3.0

New

• Status Selector was reworked
• Status Change dialog was reworked
• Preferences: Added Setting to toggle the use of a keyring
• Windows/Mac: Gajim notifies now about new updates
• ServerInfo: Show more details about the current connection

Changes

• The status "Free for Chat" was removed
• Default status message was removed, use presets instead
• XHTML: Support for the <img> tag was removed
• DBus: Ability to change settings was removed
• Removed ability to ignore TLS errors

Bug fixes

• #9011 Add support for KDE notification drag and drop
• #10176 Login Dialog throws error
• #10192 MUC: Respect print status setting for own status changes
• #10197 AddContact: Validate JID on input
• #10200 MUC: Gajim fails to connect to after suspend
• #10201 GroupchatRoster: Don’t fix height of rows
• #10208 PluginManager: Show error correctly when plugin removal fails
• Flatpak: Add hole for kwallet password storage
• Fix Jingle session termination
• #10221 ChatControl: Don’t fail when dropping text on chat
• StatusIcon: Fix setting status

New

• ServerInfo: Display status address
• Add block and spam reporting in various places
• Roster: Allow to add contacts from Not in contact list group via DND
• Roster: Allow sending message to serveral groups
• Groupchat/Chat: Rework DND
• Groupchat: Display recent history from the database

Changes

• Removed Privacy Lists support
• Roster: Remove blocking whole group feature

Bug fixes

• #10067 Error when showing invite menu
• #10144 Windows: Multiple instances of Gajim not possible
• #10152 Error when trying to disactivate or delete account
• #10160 Can't http upload with self signed Certificate
• #10162 Add option to use fixed-width horizontal tabs
• #10164 Timeout error when using music track listener
• #10171 Show error when MUC invite fails
• GroupchatRoster: Sort contacts in correct order
• MamPreferences: Correctly display preference state for JID
• Windows: Auto activate shipped plugins

New

• Rewritten network code
• Support for WebSocket (RFC 7395)
• Improved proxy handling
• Group chat pages (invite, information, nickname, subject, etc.)
• Group chat creation window
• Updated account creation assistant
• Updated assistants for password changing and account removal
• Updated server info window (connection details)
• Updated theme manager
• Default avatars (XEP-0392)
• Paste images from clipboard
• Contrast and color improvements for both light and dark themes
• Removed 'Invisible' status
• Removed FuzzyClock feature
• Add account badges
• Add usage hint for the Start Chat dialog
• Various smaller improvements

Bug fixes

• List of fixed issues https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=closed&milestone_title=1.2.0

• Flatpak build update

New

• Add a mobile phone indicator to the chat window
• Rework HTTPUpload dialog
• Add a "paste as quote" option to the message input

Bug fixes

• #8822 Fix memory leak when using spell checker
• #9514 Fix jingle filetransfers not working in some circumstances
• #9573 Dont leak DNS query when connecting over proxy
• #9578 Determine Windows version more reliably
• #9622 Fix an error while quitting Gajim
• #9633 Fix an error while sending a file
• #9637 Restore window size correctly on wayland
• #9660 GPG Agent setting is ignored
• #9645 Make zeroconf IPV6 compatible
• Improve dark theme colors
• Fix access to GnuPG keys
• Use UUID4 item ids for pubsub posts
• Dont send invalid show values
• Windows: Dont override format region settings
• Various smaller improvements

New

• Remove support for XEP-0091

Bug fixes

• #9322 Error when adding contact
• #9385 Ignore invalid bookmarks
• #9386 Discovery: Browsing nodes without identity
• #9393 Error when parsing invalid timestamps
• #9398 Error on jingle file transfer

Bug fixes

• #8362 DBus: Incorrect unread message count
• #9427 Placeholder not cleared if pasting text into message input
• #9444 Determine the delay timestamp correctly when using mam:1
• #9453 Fix opening links inside the group chat subject (MacOS/Windows)
• #9465 Allow the full range of possible nicknames in group chats
• #9067 Gajim crashes when receiving xhtml messages
• #9096 Error when clicking on a subscription notification
• #9446 Chatstate error in MUC conversation
• #9471 Conversation Textview: Error on key press
• #9472 Handle presences without from attr correctly
• #9473 Error when creating a new group chat
• #9491 Identify group chat subject changes correctly
• #9496 Error on MUC roster selection change
• Determine soundplayer correctly on unix systems
• In some circumstances plugins could not be deleted
• Show correct contact status on tabs
• Dont answer group chat receipt requests
• Fix receipts for private messages
• Pressing the back button in the Accounts window leads to an error
• Better handle not available keyring backends
• Dont show incorrect contact on private messages
• Join group chat menu is disabled when there are no bookmarks
• Error on start chat menu action
• Error when opening sign-in/out notification
• Copying text does not work with different keyboard layouts

New

• Remove support for XEP-0091

Bug fixes

• #8968 Windows: Gajim loads DLLs from wrong location
• #9322 Error when adding contact
• #9357 Acquire sleep inhibtor correctly after sleep
• #9385 Ignore invalid bookmarks
• #9386 Discovery: Browsing nodes without identity
• #9393 Error when parsing invalid timestamps
• #9398 Error on jingle file transfer

New

• Implement XEP-0398
• MUC: Set Threshold for requesting history
• Show icon for unencrypted messages
• Support more media players for broadcasting the current tune
• Windows: Add a debug logging switch in preferences
• Preferences: enable/disable dark theme
• Preferences: enable/disable the MUC subject beeing shown on join
• Preferences: enable/disable ascii emoji conversion

Bug fixes

• #9198 Creating new MUCs with captial letters is not possible
• #9210 Error when clicking on new message indicator
• #9280 Inviting users to a MUC causes error
• #9301 Error when opening service discovery window
• #9309 Error when clicking on a groupchat invite notification
• #9311 Error when requesting server info
• #9117 Windows UAC changes status not available
• #9324 No menus/dialogs on Win7
• #9326 IPV6 Connection problem on Win10
• #9334 Joining big MUCs takes very long
• #9339 Error caused by remote_control

New

• Support for setting a MUC Avatar
• Support for PKIX over Secure HTTP (POSH)
• Support idle time for GNOME on Wayland
• New Emoji chooser
• Noto Emoji theme updated to Unicode 11
• Twitter Emoji theme added
• Gajim Theming reworked
• Design updates to many dialogs
  • Join Groupchat
  • Bookmarks
  • Add new contact
  • History
  • Profile
  • Accounts

Bug fixes

• #8658 Translation doesnt work on Windows
• #8750 Increase time frame for duplicate search in MUCs
• #9138 Translation in Flatpak does not work
• #9140 Error when clicking on the notification of an incoming message
• #9159 Wrong form type when responding to a voice request
• #9069 Send cancel IQ if muc configuration is aborted
• #9167 Flatpak fails to determine locale settings
• #9171 Gajim requests vcard multiple times
• #9198 Creating new MUCs with capital letters is not possible
• #9211 Punycode and Unicode with Internationalized Domain Names

Other changes

• Support http:upload:0
• Remove forward message adhoc commands
• Remove support for XEP-0090
• Remove RC4-SHA because it is insecure (Was not used with current OpenSSL versions)
• Improve speed when loading the roster
• Handle new MUC status code 333
• Switch to GDBus for Gajim remote
• Removed support for ESessions
• Improvements to the dark theme of Gajim
• New dependency: python3-cssutils >= 1.0.2
• New dependency: python3-keyring
• Removed dependency: python3-avahi
• Removed dependency: python3-pyasn1

Bugs fixed:

• #8296 Fix errors on roster updates after stream management resume

• #9106 Convert font weight from pango to css values

• #9124 Bring ChatControl to front when notification is clicked

• Set no-store hint on groupchat chatstates

• Dont show OOB uri if message body is the same

• Add missing bybonjour dependency for Windows zeroconf

Flatpak:

• Limit dbus access

Bugs fixed:

• #7879 Server name is rejected for group chat bookmarks

• #8964 setup.py install misses some files if used with "--skip-build"

• #9017 Password was sometimes stored in plaintext

• #9022 Don't show error when receiving invalid avatars

• #9031 Windows: Always hide roster window on X

• #9038 No License in About dialog

• #9039 Encode filenames before sending

• #9044 Catch invalid IQ stanzas and log them

• #9049 XMPP logo in "Add New Contact" window instead Gajim logo

• #9050 Mark some strings as translatable

• #9054 Error on file send completion

• #9055 Removing a bookmark causes error

• #9057 Avatar is deleted when updating vCard

• #9065 Account label isn't change in tooltip of notification area icon

• #9066 Placeholder text doesn't disappear

• #9068 Missing pulseaudio in Flatpak image

• #9070 Fix History Manager search

• #9074 Proxy comobobox in accounts/connections doesn't get update after ManageProxies

• #9094 problem receiving file

• #9101 Notification never autohides in gnome

• Correctly reload Plugins

• Save history export with utf8 encoding

• Don't allow plain BOSH by default

• Improve MAM support
• Image preview in file chooser dialog
• Groupchat: Set minimize on auto join default True
• Delete bookmark when we destroy a room
• Fix account deletion
• Fix custom font handling
• Fix OpenPGP message decryption
• Fix window position restore on multi-head setups
• Fix scrolling in message window
• Improve Windows build and build for 64 bits

• Add support for geo: URIs
• More improvements for HiDPI Screens
• Fixed various MAM related issues

• Speed up DB querys on MAM sync
• Fix config file encoding
• Bug fixes

• Integrate HTTPUpload
• Add Navigation buttons in History Window
• Added XEP-0368 (SRV records for XMPP over TLS)
• Improvements for HiDPI Screens
• Move Chat Menu button so we are not forced to use CSD
• Depend on the python keyring package for password storage
• Bug fixes

• Fix DB migration