v1.4.16

Features ✨

• Use key backup before requesting keys + refactor & improvement of key request/forward (#5494)
• Screen sharing over WebRTC (#5911)
• Allow using the latest user Avatar and name for all messages in the timeline (#5932)
• Added themed launch icons for Android 13 (#5936)
• Add presence indicator busy and away. (#6047)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Changed copy and list order in member profile screen. (#5825)
• Fix for audio only being received in one direction after an un-hold during a sip call. (#5865)
• Desynchronized 4S | Megolm backup causing Unusable backup (#5906)
• If animations are disable on the System, chat effects and confetti will be disabled too (#5941)
• Multiple threads improvement (mainly UI) (#5959)

Improved Documentation 📚

• Note public_baseurl requirement in integration tests documentation. (#5973)

SDK API changes ⚠️

• New API to enable/disable key forwarding CryptoService#enableKeyGossiping()
• New API to limit room key request only to own devices MXCryptoConfig#limitRoomKeyRequestsToMyDevices
• Event Trail API has changed, now using AuditTrail events
• New API to manually accept an incoming key request CryptoService#manuallyAcceptRoomKeyRequest() (#5559)
• Small change in the Matrix class: deprecated methods have been removed and the constructor is now public. Also the fun workerFactory() has been renamed to getWorkerFactory() (#5887)
• Including SSL/TLS error handing when doing WellKnown lookups without a custom HomeServerConnectionConfig (#5965)

Other changes

• Improve threads rendering in the main timeline (#5151)
• Reformatted project code (#5953)
• Update check for server-side threads support to match spec. (#5997)
• Setup detekt (#6038)
• Notify the user for each new message (#4632)

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What's Changed

• Update notifications rules: make a sound for each notification by @Claire1817 in #5796
• Fixing crash on launch - Missing migration by @ouchadam in #5950
• Bump libphonenumber from 8.12.47 to 8.12.48 by @dependabot in #5955
• Reformats project based on editorconfig by @ericdecanini in #5953
• Feature/aris/threads improve rendering issue 5151 by @ariskotsomitopoulos in #5927
• Correct public_baseurl for nightly tests. by @michaelkaye in #5949
• Fixed dependabot by @MarcelCoding in #5966
• Dependabot reviewers by @bmarty in #5960
• Add diag request for Synapse by @bmarty in #5948
• Run the PR test after merge and report to channel if it fails by @michaelkaye in #5962
• noop change to test build system by @michaelkaye in #5990
• Fix typo - pull-request -> pull_request by @michaelkaye in #5991
• noop change to trigger another PR by @michaelkaye in #5992
• noop change to test Post PR merging by @michaelkaye in #5993
• noop change to README to test post-pr merging by @michaelkaye in #5994
• Bump jjwt from 0.11.2 to 0.11.5 by @dependabot in #5978
• Bump mockk from 1.12.1 to 1.12.3 by @dependabot in #5979
• Bump dagger from 2.40.5 to 2.41 by @dependabot in #5980
• Bump glide from 4.12.0 to 4.13.2 by @dependabot in #5982
• Bump lazythreetenbp from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot in #5983
• Bump mavericks from 2.5.0 to 2.6.1 by @dependabot in #5984
• Bump zxcvbn from 1.5.2 to 1.7.0 by @dependabot in #5986
• Add small step at the beginning of the release flow by @bmarty in #5945
• No animation -> no chat effect by @bmarty in #5941
• Try to workaround Dependabot issue #5961 by @bmarty in #5967
• Bump ffmpeg-kit-audio from 4.5.LTS to 4.5.1-1 by @dependabot in #5988
• Bump vanniktechEmoji from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 by @dependabot in #5985
• Bump gradle from 7.0.4 to 7.2.0 by @dependabot in #6003
• Bump emoji2 from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0 by @dependabot in #6009
• Bump olm-sdk from 3.2.10 to 3.2.11 by @dependabot in #6008
• Bump material from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 by @dependabot in #6007
• Bump constraintlayout from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3 by @dependabot in #6004
• Bump media from 1.4.3 to 1.6.0 by @dependabot in #6001
• Bump appcompat from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 by @dependabot in #5999
• Bump lifecycle from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 by @dependabot in #6002
• Bump fragment-ktx from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 by @dependabot in #6011
• Screen sharing over WebRTC by @onurays in #5911
• Handling SSL/TLS errors during WellKnown lookup by @ouchadam in #5965
• Bump dagger from 2.41 to 2.42 by @dependabot in #5998
• Updated copy and moved override in profile screen by @emotionalamoeba in #5831
• Bump kotlin-gradle-plugin from 1.6.0 to 1.6.21 by @dependabot in #5987
• Remove spec v1.3 check for threads by @turt2live in #5997
• Update/Revise SDK to implement reference flowchart for key sharing/forwarding + use backup by @BillCarsonFr in #5559
• Gh pages by @bmarty in #6022
• Bump preference-ktx from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0 by @dependabot in #6000
• Added themed icon for Android 13 by @hanthor in #5936
• Bump mockk from 1.12.3 to 1.12.4 by @dependabot in #6030
• Remove remaining dead code about flair by @bmarty in #6021
• Update doc about PR by @bmarty in #5756
• Using the same User Avatar for all messages in the timeline by @ahmed-radhouane in #5817
• FTUE - Temporarily hide EMS section by @ouchadam in #6013
• Feature/bca/fix 5906 by @BillCarsonFr in #5939
• Detekt by @bmarty in #6038
• Bump kotlinCoroutines from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 by @dependabot in #5981
• Ensure we print the user in the post-PR merge tests. by @michaelkaye in #6044
• add presence indicator busy and away by @chagai95 in #6047
• Document need for public_baseurl to be correctly set. by @michaelkaye in #5973
• Improve Matrix class by @bmarty in #5887
• Detekt: fix end period by @bmarty in #6064
• Feature/aris/threads post release improvements by @ariskotsomitopoulos in #5959
• Direction and track need to be set for hold/unhold by @langleyd in #6039
• Feature/bma/fix typing by @bmarty in #6072
• Translations update from Weblate by @RiotTranslateBot in #6075
• Fix translation by @bmarty in #6079

New Contributors

• @MarcelCoding made their first contribution in #5966
• @emotionalamoeba made their first contribution in #5831
• @hanthor made their first contribution in #5936

Full Changelog: v1.4.14...v1.4.16