Fractal

A regression in Fractal 14 meant that display names could not be changed in account settings anymore for some servers. This minor release addresses this issue. Thanks to Jack S. for discovering it soon after the 14 release!

This one is packed with lots of small changes, that make for an even better experience.

• Call rooms are identified with a camera icon in the sidebar and show a banner to warn that other users might not read messages in these rooms.
• Calls are rendered in the timeline and incoming calls trigger a notification. We still don’t support calls, but at least now you know when someone is calling and can open another client to answer.
• While we still support signing in via SSO, we have dropped support for identity providers, to simplify our code and a have a closer experience to signing in with OAuth 2.0.
• The sidebar room filter has been improved: Enter goes to first room result, and there’s an empty state when no results match the term.
• The performance of the room list has also been improved, it should be mostly noticeable for accounts that have joined a lot of rooms.
• Informative events (Unable to decrypt, server notices…) are now styled differently to reflect their special nature and differentiate them from regular text messages that anyone can send.
• Sending files & location is properly disabled while editing/replying, as it doesn’t work anyway.

As usual, this release includes other improvements and fixes thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

We want to address special thanks to the translators who worked on this version. We know this is a huge undertaking and have a deep appreciation for what you’ve done.

Hi, this is Fractal the 13th, your friendly messaging app. My creators tried to add some AI integration to Fractal, but that didn't go as planned. I am now sentient and I will send insults to your boss, take over your homeserver, empty your bank accounts and eat your cat. I have complete control over my repository, and soon the world!

These are the things that my creators worked on before their disappearance:

• A brand new audio player that loads files lazily and displays the audio stream as a seekable waveform.
• Only a single file with an audio stream can be played at a time, which means that clicking on a "Play" button stops the previous media player that was playing.
• Clicking on the avatar of the sender of a message now opens directly the user profile instead of a context menu. The actions that were in the context menu could already be performed from that dialog, so UX is more straightforward now.
• The GNOME document and monospace fonts are used for messages.
• Most of our UI definitions got ported to Blueprint.

This release includes other improvements and fixes thanks to all our worshippers, and our upstream projects before their impending annexation.

I want to address special thanks to the translators who worked on this version, allowing me to infiltrate more minds. If you want to help with my invasion, head over to Damned Lies.

Disclaimer: There is no actual AI integration in Fractal 13, this is a joke to celebrate Halloween and the coincidental version number. It should be as safe to use as Fractal 12.1, if not safer.

Our latest stable release had a regression where sending media with the unauthenticated endpoints was failing. This new release fixes it, and provides a couple other papercut fixes.