🟢 [ V E C T O R ] Open Beta v0.2.2
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We are happy to share with you all the latest release—weeks worth of polish, updates, and improvements. From a complete database rewrite, to new features, bug fixes, and a smoother user experience. It will be a significant and noticeable change, especially for Group Chats and visiting the Settings tab.
💡 Feature Spotlight: Android Support
We have now released the public Android APK that has been officially published on GitHub. There is also mobile support via the website (listed above), where you’ll find a download button for your Android device.
Development Updates:
New:
📲 Android APK: the first public Android APK is now available for Vector!
📦 Storage Manager: a Settings section that gives a glance-able breakdown of Vector's storage usage.
👥 Primary Device Setting: a new setting that allows you to set a device to receive future Group Invites.
💽 New Database: Vector now uses SQLite (w/ encryption layer) for ultra-fast, reliable, compact persistence.
Improved:
🛜 Faster Synchronization: parallel processing enables Vector's syncing to be noticeably faster.
📂 New File Attachment Design: a significant design overhaul when transferring non-media files.
👤 Profile Shortcuts: in the Group Overview, you can now click on anyone to visit their profile.
📨 Profile Message Shortcut: you can now hit "Message" on anyone's profile to jump straight in their DMs.
⚙️ Settings Dangerzone Redesign: a beautiful Settings polish, along with a redesign of The Dangerzone.
💌 New Invite Design: incoming invitations look significantly nicer. (and the 'Notif Dot' displays on Pending Invites!).
🖼️ Improved Popup UI Design: a well-needed polish to an old UI flow.
📝 Improved Selection Highlights: a Vector-esque Gray is now used for the Selection Highlight colour.
Fixed:
📨 Fixed 'slow/stuck' Group Chat messages: a race condition, plus many inefficiencies, were resolved in Group Chat messaging, making it feel significantly smoother and snappier.
📪 Fixed automatic 'Mark as Read': on Windows particularly, 'auto-Mark-as-Read' now works consistently.
🐧 Fixed potential Linux Media crashes: on Linux, playable media is now displayed as regular File Attachments, preventing a crash when Videos or Audio cannot be loaded.
🐱 Fixed 'jitter' on first Emoji Panel open: the Emoji Panel rendering has been optimised, removing 'jitter' when first opened.
📺 Fixed intense "UI Flickering" in the Chatlist during sync: no more login seizures.
👍 Fixed Reactions in Group Chats: for spamming 🍆 on every post until you're inevitably banned.
👥 Fixed newly-joined Group Chat bugs: they no longer drop to the bottom of your chatlist on join, and the "Header" is now clickable even if no messages were sent in the group yet.
🎆 Fixed 'PNG-Pill' on tiny images: Emoji-sized images now hide the File Extension Tag, a.k.a, the "PNG Pill".
🟢 Removed 'Status Dot' from Group Chats: this is meant for people, not rooms.
🖥️ Fixed excessive Group Chat re-renders: shaves some CPU usage from Group Chat UI.
🖥️ Fixed excessive Typing Indicator events: shaves some CPU usage from Typing Indicators.
🖥️ Fixed excessive Chat Timestamp re-renders: shaves some CPU usage from 'last message' timestamp updates.
🖱️ Fixed "Double Scrollbar" at startup: rarely, a "double" scrollbar displayed while Vector was booting.
Learn More:
https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.2.2
