#Amethyst v1.04.0: Lists for all
This version adds support for creating, managing, deleting, and viewing follow lists, which include both public and private members. We've also added similar UI to support for creating, managing, deleting, and viewing follow packs from following.space, allowing you to assemble following lists not only for yourself, but also as a starter packs for other users. You will find a new "My Lists" menu option in the side bar and Follow buttons when extended behavior to add users directly into lists or packs.
This version also introduces significant improvements to the quality of video compression and hash checks during media upload/download, along with new codecs and a new image gallery for displaying sequences of images in posts. The startup loading of outbox relay lists and user metadata for large follow lists (> 1000 people) has been significantly improved with new mechanisms to search for missing outbox relay lists.
The Top Bar filter "All Follows" now merges all follow lists, follow packs, following hashtags, following geotags, and following communities into a single feed. Two new options were also added: "All User Follows," which includes only the main and other follow lists, and "Default Follow List," which is the standard follow list used by every client.
Finally, we completed our Quartz migration to Kotlin Multiplatform, added significant performance improvements when processing events and running cryptographic procedures, as well as new ease-of-use extensions.
New Features:
- People List creation and management by
@npub1a3tx...kq4k
- Follow Pack creation, management and feed view
- Image gallery in posts by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Finishes migration of Quartz to Kotlin Multiplatform
- New Filters in the top nav bar
- Performance improvements across all features
Improvements:
- Adds support to rejection replies from NIP-55 signers by
@greenart7c3
- Adds live/offline indicator to live bubbles by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Refines the video compression procedure by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Replaces MP4 parser libraries with native MediaMuxer / MediaCodec by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Adds a H.265/HEVC codec to reduce file size by up to 50% while maintaining the same quality by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Optimizes video file structure by moving metadata to the beginning, so videos start playing more quickly by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Adds "All User Follows" feed filter in the top nav bar that removes hashtags, communities and geotag follows
- Adds "Default Follow List" feed filter in the top nav bar that contains only Kind 3 follows
- Shows a dialog to select a signer when using multiple signers are present by
@greenart7c3
- Saves bandwidth by avoiding constant REQ updates before EOSEs come back in a subscription
- Changes the following icon on top of user's pictures to include follows in all lists and follow sets
- Removes non-outbox relays from the outbox lists
- Adds support bigger, up to 4GB, payloads in NIP-44
- Restructures the default REQ limits from each relay in all feeds
- Adds a guarantee incoming message order to OkHttp websocket implementations to avoid EOSE mismatch
- Only downloads DMs and Drafts if the account is writeable / nsec is present
- Adds support for copying/cloning follow lists in the UI.
- Adds a default relay list for indexers in new accounts with local backup
- Smoothes the disappearing effect for the Top and Bottom navigation.
- Adds support for NWC deep links and removes hardcoded Alby integration
- Adds a missing outbox relay list popup on posting new notes
- Adds a missing inbox relay list check on notification screens
- Migrates to njump.to to disperse shareable links
Quartz:
- Migrates Quartz from Android to CommonMain (Kotlin Multiplatform)
- Adds a maven publishing to ship quartz
- Fully converts OpenTimestamp Java codebase to Kotlin, migrating the sync and async HTTP call interfaces to OkHttp and coroutines
- Redesigns parsing of relay commands, messages and filters for performance in Jackson.
- Uses KotlinX Serialization when speed is not a requirement
- Migrates all Jackson field annotations to Kotlin Serialization
- Migrates Regex use in Quarts to Kotlin's Regex class
- Migrates Base64 library from Android to Kotlin
- Migrates UUID library from Android/Java to Kotlin
- Migrates LRUCache usage from Android/Java to Kotlin collections
- Migrates all String to bytearray conversions to Kotlin methods
- Migrates all System.arraycopy calls to kotlin native ones.
- Separates parsing code from the data classes in Companion objects
- Exposes Rfc3986 normalizations to each platform.
- Exposes URI parsing classes to each platform.
- Exposes URL Encoders to each platform.
- Exposes BigDecimal to each platform.
- Exposes the Url Detector to each platform.
- Exposes Mac instances to each platform
- Exposes Diggest instances to each platform.
- Exposes BitSet to each platform.
- Exposes GZip to each platform.
- Exposes Secp256k1 to each platform.
- Exposes SecureRandom to each platform.
- Exposes Time in seconds to each platform.
- Exposes the LargeCache to each platform.
- Exposes AES CBC and AES GCM encryption/decryption to each platform
- Migrate test assertions to Kotlin Tests
- Exposes Address class to each platform because of the Parceleable requirement in Android
- Creates our own ByteArrayOutputStream.
- Removes threadsafe features inside our Bloomfilters because we don't need that consistency
- Migrates UserMetadata parser from Jackson to Kotlin serialization
- Removes @Static methods in each tag.
- Adds an EventTemplate serializer
- Removes the need for KotlinX Datetime
- Adds support for LibSodium in the JVM desktop platform
- Creates a shared test build for iOS targets
- Increases the Bloom filter space to better use hints in the app.
- Removes support for iOS in x86
- Creates a performant JacksonMapper just for NIP-55, which stays in the Android build only.
- Keeps the event store in the android build due to the SQL Lite dependency
- Removes @syncronized tags in favor of Mutexes.
- Improved sendAndWaitForResponse NostrClient method to properly account for returns from each relay.
- Removes the need for GlobalScope and async calls
- Removes the dependency on Jackson's error classes across the codebase.
- Moves the hint to quote tag extension methods to their own packages.
- Migrates NIP-06 and Blossom uploads to use Kotlin Serialization
- Adds ease of use functions for the downloadFirst nostr client extension method
- Refactors error logging in BasicRelayClient
- Starts NostrClient in active instead of waiting for a connect() call
- Adds initial test cases for NostrClient and extensions
- Adds an option to ignore failed reconnection delays that should be used when the network settings change.
- Adds a build template option for NIP-42 AUTHs
- Moves quartz to Java 21 due to binary inconsistencies between the multiple builds of KMP (tests conflicting with main)
- Adds support for COUNT relay messages
- Treat COUNT as query only, not subscriptions in the NostrClient
- Moves statistics collection out of the inner classes to be an external option for app developers instead.
- Restructuring relay classes to maintain order of incoming messages for relay listeners
- Defers all processing of incoming messages to coroutines via channels, freeing OkHttp's thread as soon as possible.
- Simplifies the main relay class by using attached listener modules for each function of the relay client.
- Migrate defaultOnConnect calls to become listener based and moved to NostrClients
- Coordinates REQs so that if an update is required to be sent but the server has not finished processing events, waits for it to finish and sends it later as soon as EOSE or Close arrives
- Correctly maintain the local and server state of each Req.
- Avoid subsequent REQ updates before EOSE or CLOSE calls.
- Refactors NostrClient authenticators to do complete operation as an optional module
- Breaks down Relay Client modules (Auth, Reqs, Counts, Event submissions) in the Relay Pool class.
- Creates listeners just for REQ subscriptions
- Move statistics to outside the base relay class as a listener
- Move logs to outside the base relay class as a listener
- Better structures a Standalone Relay client
- More appropriately communicate errors to the listeners
- Remove relay states on listeners, move each to its own method
- Removes the hardcoded Dispatchers on Quartz
- Adds streaming hash utility function, follow the existing pool/worker design
- Adds fast search for events and addresses in the Deletion Event
- Adds an update method for to create a new event template from an event.
Fixes and UI Improvements:
- Changes the DVM feed to sort by follows that liked or zapped the DVM
- Changes the icon of account preferences to translation for now
- Improves click and long press interactions with the relay list item and status bar items
- Fixes the visual references to communities and hashtags in the top right of the post
- Removes disappearing top and bottom bars from settings screens
- Fixes tall top bars on Ephemeral and Public Chat rooms
- Fixes lack of live stream name on the top bar
- Fixes animations to navigate from and to list screens
- Fixes cursor behind the keyboard when typing long texts.
- Fixes line wrap in the relay info top nav bar title
- Moves message button to Profile Actions
- Fixes User profile banner being off place in short images
- Also fixes spacing of the Follow button
- Adds an option to render a user gallery from hex keys instead of full User objects
- Adds context to the highlights
- Increases the contrast of placeholder text
- Refines performance of the QuickAction menu bar
- Fixes hidden words not being applied to NIP-04 DMs on notifications
- Fixes not loading some event kinds in notifications
- Fixes crash when updating a metadata with null name
- Fixes crash when attempting to share an image that is still loading by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes disappearing stats on relay screen by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes proper switch between single and two-pane layouts on rotation by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes sendAndWaitForResponse never receiving a response by
@greenart7c3
- Fixes NWC URI parsing bug by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes bookmark removal from Private/Public removing from both by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes OutOfMemoryError for large file uploads by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes DecryptZapRequest CommandType by
@greenart7c3
- Fixes location being added to note even after deselecting it by
@greenart7c3
- Fixes crash when trying to parse unparseable NIP-11s
- Prevents resource leaks with file streams by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Removes any relay url that has a percent-encoded null byte, regardless of size
- Forces streaming url online check when the stream is offline but the user enters the chat
- Fixes duplicated loading of NIP-11 relay info by different parts of the screen
- Fixes the new Video events as non replaceable, while keeping the old ones in the replaceable
- Fixes crash on starting when the contentResolver is not ready yet.
- Fixes addressable deletions deleting not only the past when updating feeds
- Fixes long form previews when missing the author's picture
- Fixes feed filter update when changing the top nav filter
- Fixes crash when sorting with the same createdAt in the discovery feeds
- Fixes reply routes when clicking in the Conversations tab when the event is a PublicChat, LiveStream or Ephemeral Chat
- Fixes livestream chats appearing on home bubbles after the live stream is finished
- Fixes not sending the live stream events anywhere when the stream doesn't have a relay set declared
- Fixes animations when selecting Tor options in the privacy screen
- Fixes animations jumping when loading privacy screen
- Fixes the use of index relays and search relays to load users and events as well as become the default for global feeds.
- Fixes mark as read when drafts are the latest message in the chat
- Fixes showing blog posts in the future in the Discovery reads
- Fixes crashing when comparing int and long in Live Events comparator
- Fixes recompositions of subject add-on to text on rendering
- Fixes crash on trying to change dont translate from options
- Fixes NPE on the ln invoice callback with errors parser
- Fixes parsing encrypted NIP-28 chats
- Fixes disappearing relay stats (larger LRU cache)
- Fixes sendAndWait nostr client coroutine that was waiting forever
- Fixes lack of req by forcing an updateFilter at the start of new subs with the client.
- Fixes bug that skipped loading follow's metadata on startup
- Fixes issues when unfollowing a hashtag from old contact lists
- Fixes relay list flickering bug
- Fixes crash when checking and creating new users from `p` tags.
- Fixes the author of the highlight
- Fixes scope lifecycle of media uploads to avoid cancellation while uploading
- Fixes parser for null and default values from NIP-55 using Jackson
- Fixes relay icons not showing up when sending DMs
- Fixes imeta parsing with multiple urls
- Fixes relay-specific global feed matching incoming note checks
- Fixes video progressive download by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fixes several usages of Reflection when serializing classes
- Fixes a bug on loading event test database for the HintBloom filter test
- Forces relay status updates when connecting and disconnecting
- Only shows live stream bubbles that are not playing 24/7 with active follows in the past 15 minutes.
- Opens Follow Packs on following.space
Performance:
- Restructures the parser and serialization of the relay messages and commands for performance
- Speeds up the generation of Bech32 addresses
- Migrates memory counters from Long to Int
- Avoids using JSON parsers with DataStore to speed up loading time (loading the parser itself takes ~300ms)
- Adds new benchmarks for NIP-44 operations
- Reduces memory consumption for NIP-44 operations, avoiding GC
- Faster Hkdf functions with less array copying and allocations (which can be impactful if the ciphertext is large)
- Faster Mac calculations by avoiding array assemblies before calling the function
- Faster Hash check calculations avoiding the creation of a separate bytearray to compare ids
- About 30-40% event hashing performance boost by building the json by hand and skipping string encoders when not needed.
- 30% Faster isHex for strings with precisely 32 bytes.
- Loads the main account in parallel faster before the screen needs it
- Merge expanding and checking HMac functions to avoid re-creating the Mac instance.
- Separates EOSE cache for drafts alone.
- Speeds up the loading of users in follow lists on start up
- Speeds up OkHttp startup
- Adds submap index queries to the addressable large cache
- Performance improvement for the address serializer.
- Adds a default cut off for notifications from random relays to 1 week ago.
- Increases local video disk cache to 1GB
- Defers the initialization of disk caches for videos and images to a few seconds after loading
- Only listens to notification feed changes when the UI is visible
- Separates a relay failure tracker to a module
- Caches the User object for each Account to avoid being deleted by the soft reference on Local Cache
- Moves all Dispatchers.Default to the IO threadpool because of the amount of Synchronized code in dependencies blocking heavy threads
- Only download reports from the author's outbox relay if we have it (don't use our default bootstrapping relays for reports)
- Keep a local cache of following geoshahes and hashtags in lowercase.
- Don't intern signatures, content and stringified tags since they are not usually duplicated
- Unifies the parser for the tag array across the app
- Adds simplified extensions to create Requests from NostrClient
- Adds a Start request callback to the request listener
- Adds a req that returns the list of events in order of arrival
- Adds a flatten straight into a set utility
- Adds a decrypted people and follow list cache on the account class and updates TopNav to use the new caching
- Creates slim ListItem composables
- Marks address, user states, edits and channel metadata view models as Compose Stable
- Removes unnecessary list of icons drawer rows, which affected Compose stability
- Improves the composition of NIP-05 lines
- Adds a pre-parser to find image galleries and video links before rendering.
- Adds the user outbox relays when loading addressables by that user.
- Avoids sending CLOSE to subs that are already closed.
- Rejects additional urls with %20 and fixes "Wss" ones.
Code Quality
- Reduce http max requests when in emulator to avoid crashing by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Resolve intermittent CI build failures by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Fix benchmark apk location by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Change from runBlocking to runTest where appropriate by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Reduce errors in log: concurrent modification exception by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Moves the precision of mills to seconds on the isOnline Check
- Migrates to use suspending routines for OTS, statuses and edit flows
- Unify outbox calculation in the RelayOutbox loader
- Refactors zap the devs card view
- Creates an interface for NostrClient strategies
- Adds an isMobileOrFalse flow in connectivity to speed UI updates
- Removes one of the Application dependencies in viewmodel
- Changes the Theme class to only take the preferred theme directly.
- Adds dependency on NWC to Account to avoid linking directly with the Application class
- Migrates Account management to an Application lifecycle to prepare for multi-account screens
- Establishes a scope for each account loaded so that flows can be killed on sign off
- Moves the event processor to the Account class
- Creates an interface for the DualHttpClientManager to allow IDE previews
- Removing the dependency on an application class from AccountViewModel
- Removes dependency on the viewModel on AccountFeedStates
- Moves account saving from StateViewModel to Account
- Removes dependency on the application class from DecryptAndIndexProcessor
- Changes the name and singleton of the nav to avoid confusing the auto import
- Switches account cache to a flow to allow observers
- Removes dependency in the Amethyst class from Playback calculator
- Removes the dependency on windowSizeClass and displayFeatures to be passed in the global preferences of the app (which is activity independent)
- Moves the OTS processor from Account's decrypt process to Application since it doesn't need the account information.
- Separates Application dependencies into an AppModules class to create only after the OnCreate event.
- Switches TorSettings to be per Application and not per Account anymore
- Since TorSettings is now global, moves the okHttpClient determinations out of the Account-based classes into the Application.
- Since TorSettings is now global, set's up Coil's image loader only once when creating the Application
- Moves UISettings state to App Modules instead of viewmodel
- Migrates TorSettings and UISettings to DataStore
- New tor evaluator service for relay connections now uses all account's trusted relays and dm relays at the same time.
- Migrates composable-state-based UISettings to Flow-based UI settings, while observing connectivity status
- Removes the displayFeatures and windowSizeClass from the shared model
- Fixes not requesting Notification Permissions for APIs older than Tiramisu in the FDroid flavor
- Moves the NIP-11 document cache from singleton to the App Modules
- Avoids using AccountViewModel to check NIP-11 Relay documents
- Moves the UI Settings usage in composables to functions that do not observe the state since they don't need to refresh the screen when changed.
- Refactors UI Settings screen to separate components and remove the sharedViewModel
- Only starts Internal Tor if that option is selected in the TorSettings.
- Turn TorSettings into a data class to observe changes to it
- Drops the SharedPreferences ViewModel to use UISettingsFlow directly from App Modules
- Reorganizes OTS Events after simplification of the OkHttp based on TorSettings.
- Applies memory trimming service to all logged-in accounts at the same time
- Adds a test for native vs libsodium chacha20
- Added test for emulator to set maxRequests to 128 to prevent crashing emulator by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Dumps the number of relay hints urls in the DB
- Creates our own Coil Logger to minimize trash stacks in the logs
- Adds a declared outbox lists for follows state
- Removes the deprecated hacks to store communities, hashtags and geohashes on Contact Lists
- Updates deprecated Clipboard manager
- Updates emoji and user autocomplete state to use Account and avoid linking AccountViewModel
- Refactors many viewModels to avoid using callback lambdas
- Correctly marks EOSE for filters that are aligned with the Req State from NostrClient
- Changes User loading features in a tentative to make them faster since they are used by all functions in the app.
- Creates an Account follow list per Relay state that only includes shared relays as a better source of functioning relays
Deprecations:
- Removes fmt.wiz.biz from bootstrap relays
- Removes void.cat from default servers by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Removes filestr share links
- removes zapstr.live share links
Updated translations:
- Czech, German, Swedish and Portuguese by
@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡
- Hindi by
@npub1ww6h...w5e6
- Slovenian by
@StellarStoic
- Polish by
@Polak
- Hungarian by
@npub1ww8k...nvtp @summoner
- Spanish by
@⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡
- Latvian by
@ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝
- Dutch by
@Bartus
- French by
@npub106ef...r8fz
- Chinese by
@CXPLAY
- Thai by
@npub1vm0k...xp8e
- Persian by
@npub1cpaz...xxpk
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