v0.13 - Security Review, Relay Setup Wizard, Bigger Servers & Windows Volume Fix

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No breaking changes, so 0.12.2 and 0.13 work together. Self-hosters, update your relay too, so it handles big servers with far less traffic and keeps its memory use within a set limit.

SECURITY

• Our own security review of Hollow is finished, and its full report is published
• Images from other people pass a safety check before Hollow shows them, and HEIC and AVIF images can't be shown for now
• Each member's encryption keys in a server now renew regularly
• Important security fixes for the relay, servers and your devices

VOICE & CALLS

• On Windows, joining a voice room or a call no longer turns down your music, videos and games

SERVERS

• Sending a message costs about the same in a full server as in a small one
• A server holds up to 512 people, and the invite dialog says when it is full
• Joining a server or opening a channel uses much less data, and long histories load faster
• Keeping track of who is online uses far less data
• Fixed a new member of a busy server sometimes never seeing the channel history
• Escape always closes server settings

YOUR DEVICES

• Removing a device now reaches your contacts through your direct messages, even after you go offline
• A device you remove while it is online now locks at once and starts its three-day erase
• The "added a new device" alert now stays until you read it, even if that device has been removed since
• Fixed re-adding a friend right after removing them sometimes being undone
• Fixed a server change made on two of your devices at the same moment sometimes getting lost

CHAT

• On macOS and Linux, pressing Enter while typing Japanese, Chinese or Korean finishes the word instead of sending it half-typed
• Up and Down now move the cursor when you edit a message

SELF-HOSTING

• A new setup wizard installs your own relay on Ubuntu or Debian with one command, sudo bash relay-uws/install.sh from a clone of the repository, as the self-hosting guide explains
• Run sudo hollow-relay-setup later to update the relay or change its settings
• The wizard also sets up TURN, push and the media forwarder, and secures the machine the same way as the official relay
• A relay you set up by hand or with Docker can move to the wizard and keep its settings and keys
• You can leave the online count and traffic figures off your relay's public stats page

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