Changelog

3.3.3 (2018-02-14)

Bugfixes

• Attribute error when empty IQ stanza is returned for vCard query
• In fullscreen view, sometimes a background MUC would come into the foreground
  when a new message appears inside it.

Security fixes

• CVE-2018-6591: Don't allow PEP bookmarks if pubsub#publish-options is not advertised by the server.

  In previous versions of converse.js, bookmarks sent to servers that don't
  support pubsub#publish-options were visible to all your contacts, even
  though they should be kept private. This is due to those servers simply
  ignoring the pubsub#publish-options directive and converse.js not checking
  first whether pubsub#publish-options is supported before setting bookmarks
  via PEP.

  More info here: https://gultsch.de/converse_bookmarks.html

New features

• XEP-0382 Spoiler Messages (currently only for private chats)
• Listen for new room bookmarks pushed from the user's PEP service.
• Simplified the embedded usecase.
  • No need to manually blacklist or whitelist any plugins.
  • Relies on the view_mode being set to 'embedded'.
  • The main converse.js build can be used for the embedded usecase.
  • Maintain MUC session upon page reload

API changes

• New API method _converse.disco.getIdentity to check whether a JID has a given identity.

Configuration settings

• auto_reconnect is now set to true by default.
• New configuration setting allow_public_bookmarks
• New configuration setting root
• The view_mode setting now has a new possible value: embedded

Translation updates

• Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian

Bugfixes

• Various fixes for IE11.
• Could not register on Ejabberd 18. "Missing attribute 'id' in tag qualified by namespace 'jabber:client'"
• #878 Ending slash in link not recognized
• #921 FATAL error when visible_toolbar_buttons.emoji = false
• #959 Add padding for the iPhone X (to the mobile CSS).
• #993 moment.format is not a function error when sending a message.
• #994 TypeError when using the user.login API.
• #995 ChildNode.replaceWith is not available in Internet Explorer or Safari. Use Node.replaceChild instead.
• #999 MUC Chat Send button causes page reload
• #1000 Scroll to bottom when maximizing a chat room.
• #1003 Handle bare MUC room JIDs

Translation changes

• Updated Dutch, French, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål and Ukrainian translations

Changes

UI/UX changes

• Add new configuration option
  show_message_load_animation
  with a default value of false. The message load animations (added in 3.3.0)
  cause slowness and performance issues in Firefox, so they're now disabled by default.

Translation changes

• Updated Spanish and French translations.
• New translation: "Simplified Chinese"
• Rename zh language code to zh_TW and add Simplified Chinese as zh_CN

Changes

Bugfixes

• #800 Could not register successfully in ejabberd 17.01
• #949 Don't flash the roster contacts filter (i.e. hide by default)
• #951 Duplicate messages received in an MUC chat room.
• #953 MUC "Features" displayed when exiting configuration
• #967 Rooms list doesn't show when the server doesn't support bookmarks
• Don't require auto_login to be true when using the API to log in.
• Moment locale wasn't being set to the value passed via the i18n option.
• In the chat heading, two avatars sometimes get rendered.
• Refetch the roster from the server after reconnection.
  From the perspective of the XMPP server, this is an entirely new login,
  and therefore as per RFC-6121
  the roster SHOULD be queried, making the client an "interested resource".
  Otherwise connected contacts might not get your presence updates.
• The way the archive ID of a MAM message is specified, has changed.
  See https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html#archives_id
• Fixed error building DOM toggle_chats.html span.unread-message-count class attribute
• Bugfix. In a MUC the /help command didn't render properly.
• The /voice MUC command didn't set the right role in order to grant voice again.

New Features

• Emojis are now sent in unicode instead of short names
• #314 Add support for opening chat rooms with a URL fragment such as #converse/room?jid=room@domain
  and private chats with a URL fragment such as #converse/chat?jid=user@domain
• #828 Add routing for the #converse/login and #converse/register URL
  fragments, which will render the registration and login forms respectively.
• New configuration setting view_mode
  This removes the need for separate inverse.js and converse-mobile.js
  builds. Instead the converse.js build is now used with view_mode set to
  fullscreen and mobile respectively.
• Fetch VCard when starting a chat with someone not in the user's roster.
• Show status messages in an MUC room when a user's role changes.
• In MUC chat rooms, collapse multiple, consecutive join/leave messages.
• Performance improvements for rendering private chats, rooms and the contacts roster.
• MUC Leave/Join messages now also show a new day indicator if applicable.

API changes

• New API method _converse.disco.supports to check whether a certain
  service discovery feature is supported by an entity.
• New API method _converse.api.vcard.get which fetches the VCard for a
  particular JID.

Configuration changes

• hide_open_bookmarks is now by default true.

UX/UI changes

• #984 Improve loading of archived messages via "infinite scroll"
• Use CSS3 fade transitions to render various elements.
• Remove Login and Registration tabs and consolidate into one panel.
• Show validation error messages on the login form.
• Don't hang indefinitely and provide nicer error messages when a connection
  can't be established.
• Consolidate error and validation reporting on the registration form.
• Don't close the emojis panel after inserting an emoji.
• Focus the message textarea when the emojis panel is opened or closed.
• MUC chatroom occupants are now sorted alphabetically and according to their roles.

Technical changes

• Converse.js now includes a Virtual DOM
  via backbone.vdomview and uses
  it to render various views.
• Converse.js no longer includes all the translations in its build. Instead,
  only the currently relevant translation is requested. This results in a much
  smaller filesize but means that the translations you want to provide need to
  be available. See the locales_url
  configuration setting for more info.
• The translation machinery has now been moved to a separate module in src/i18n.js.
• jQuery has been completely removed as a dependency (still used in tests though).

Bugfixes

• Various IE11 fixes.
• #907 Unnecessary login validation error when default_domain or locked_domain are set.
• #908 Login form for inVerse is only 200px when allow_registration is set to false.
• #909 Translations written as template literals aren't parsed properly by xgettext.
• #911 Use getDefaultNickName consistently to allow better overrides via plugins.
• #912 maximize method in converse-minimize fails if the controlbox is not there.

New Plugins

• New plugin converse-disco which replaces the original support for
  XEP-0030 and which has been
  refactored to allow features for multiple entities to be stored.

New features and improvements

• Add support for Emojis (either native, or via Emojione).
• Add JID validation to the contact add form, the occupant invite form and the login form.
• #896 Consistently use XMPP username in user-facing text (instead of JID, Jabber ID etc.).

New configuration settings

• The visible_toolbar_buttons.emoticons configuration option is now changed to visible_toolbar_buttons.emoji.
• use_emojione
  is used to determine whether Emojione should be used to render emojis,
  otherwise rendering falls back to native browser or OS support.
• emojione_image_path
  is used to specify from where Emojione will load images for rendering emojis.

New events

• 'discoInitialized'
• 'afterMessagesFetched'

Code changes

• Removed jQuery from converse-core, converse-vcard and converse-roomslist.
• Remove jquery.easing from the full build. Was only being used by the
  conversejs.org website, which has been updated to not rely on it.
• All promises are now native (or polyfilled) ES2015 Promises instead of jQuery's Deferred.
• #866 Add babel in order to support ES2015 syntax

Bugfixes:

• The domain was queried for MAM:2 support, instead of the JID.
• Roster filter is not shown when all groups are collapsed.
• When filtering, contacts in closed groups appear.
• Room name wasn't being updated after changing it in the configuration form.
• Server disco features were "forgotten" after logging out and then logging in again.
• Don't show duplicate sent groupchat messages in Slack chat rooms.
• Bookmark icon shown in the open rooms list when allow_bookmarks is to false.
• It wasn't possible to add or remove bookmarks via the "Open Rooms" list.
• #879 Text in links are converted to smileys leading to non-clickable links.
• #899: Only touch stamp-npm if npm install was successful
• #902 make build dependends on non-existing files

• Use a patched version of awesomplete which doesn't render suggestions as HTML (possible XSS attack vector). [jcbrand]

More info here: LeaVerou/awesomplete#17082

API changes

• Deprecate the updateSettings method in favour of
  _converse.settings.update. [jcbrand]
• Add a new API method _converse.promises.add for exposing promises to be
  used with _converse.waitUntil. [jcbrand]
• The message event now returns a data object with stanza and
  chatbox attributes, instead of just the stanza. [jcbrand]

New Plugins

• New non-core plugin converse-singleton which ensures that no more than
  one chat is visible at any given time. Used in the mobile build:
  converse-mobile.js and makes the unread messages counter possible there.
  [jcbrand]
• New non-core plugin converse-roomslist, which shows a list of open rooms
  in the Rooms tab of the control box. [jcbrand]

New configuration settings

• New setting for converse-bookmarks:
  hide_open_bookmarks
  It is meant to be set to true when using converse-roomslist so that open
  rooms aren't listed twice (in the rooms list and the bookmarks list).
  [jcbrand]

Github tickets resolved

• #567 Unreaded message count reset on page load [novokrest]
• #575 Logging out from converse.js doesn't clear the connection status from the
  sessionStorage [jcbrand]
• #591 Unread message counter is reset when the chatbox is closed [novokrest]
• #754 Show unread messages next to roster contacts. [jcbrand]
• #864 Remove all inline CSS to comply with strict Content-Security-Policy headers [mathiasertl]
• #873 Inconsistent unread messages count updating [novokrest]
• #887 Make embedded images clickabe [jcbrand]
• #890 Message carbons not sent out after reconnection [jcbrand]
• #894 Room affiliation lost when connection jid and room presence jid are of different case [Rayzen]

Miscellaneous

• Support for XMPP-0313 Message Archive Management
  has been upgraded to version 2. [jcbrand]
• Show unread messages for minimized chats. [jcbrand]
• Render nickname form when entering a room via invitation. [jcbrand]