Element X Android v26.08.0

What's Changed

✨ Features

• feat(call): Active call timeline rendering by @BillCarsonFr in #7051

🙌 Improvements

• Announce expanded/collapsed state on the timeline group header by @unclejay80 in #7226
• Allow adding extra elements to the developer settings from external modules by @jmartinesp in #7230
• Update keyboard visibility to track hasFocus by @jennaharris7 in #7284

🐛 Bugfixes

• Live location sharing timeout by @ganfra in #7184
• Fix logging via QR code when using MDM-configured homeserver by @mxandreas in #7228
• Fix #7181: Remove back arrow from device verified screen and use 'Done' text by @thirumani-vihaan in #7222
• Fix padding for captions of media in 'not found' state by @jmartinesp in #7247
• Fix banned mime type errors in DefaultContentScannerService by @jmartinesp in #7255
• Fix ContentErrorView not calculating its text size synchronously by @jmartinesp in #7281
• Fix media viewer for medias not related to events displaying invalid state by @jmartinesp in #7280
• Try making HeaderFooterView more robust by @jmartinesp in #7267
• Fix insets in several screens by @jmartinesp in #7285

⚠️ API Changes

• Add a password strength estimator wrapping the SDK zxcvbn API by @jennaharris7 in #7186

🗣 Translations

• Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #7277

🧱 Build

• CI: fix 'Update Gradle Wrapper' by @jmartinesp in #7238
• Update Gradle Wrapper from 9.5.1 to 9.6.1 by @ElementBot in #7240
• Localazy: improve search, parallelize checks by @jmartinesp in #7261
• Run Konsist tests sequentially by @jmartinesp in #7293

📄 Documentation

• Group Element Pro changes into a dedicated release notes section by @manuroe in #7236

🚧 In development 🚧

• Plug emoji picker for custom user status by @ganfra in #7257
• WIP : display user status by @ganfra in #7232

Dependency upgrades

• Update roborazzi to v1.67.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7188
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v8.48.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7217
• Update dependency com.google.crypto.tink:tink-android to v1.23.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7229
• Update kotlin to v2.3.10 by @renovate[bot] in #7234
• Update dependency net.zetetic:sqlcipher-android to v4.17.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7218
• Update dependency com.google.firebase:firebase-bom to v34.16.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7237
• Update dependencyAnalysis to v3.16.1 by @renovate[bot] in #7212
• Update actions/setup-java action to v5.5.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7214
• Update dependency io.element.android:element-call-embedded to v0.22.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7161
• Update kotlin to v2.4.10 by @renovate[bot] in #7244
• Update roborazzi to v1.68.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7245
• Update metro to v1.3.2 by @renovate[bot] in #7243
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v26.07.22 by @renovate[bot] in #7258
• Update zizmorcore/zizmor-action action to v0.6.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7256
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v26.07.23 by @renovate[bot] in #7262
• Update dependency io.sentry:sentry-android to v8.49.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7263
• Update dependencyAnalysis to v3.17.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7265
• Update actions/setup-java action to v5.6.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7268
• Update dependency org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kover-gradle-plugin to v0.9.9 by @renovate[bot] in #7273
• Update actions/setup-python action to v7 by @renovate[bot] in #7278
• Update roborazzi to v1.70.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7274
• Update actions/checkout action to v7.0.1 by @renovate[bot] in #7282
• Import Compound tokens from v10.2.3 by @jmartinesp in #7272
• Update dependency org.matrix.rustcomponents:sdk-android to v26.07.28 by @renovate[bot] in #7287
• Update dependency org.maplibre.gl:android-sdk to v13.4.0 by @renovate[bot] in #7290

💼 Element Pro

• Content scanner (Element Pro): scan timeline events for unsafe content by @jmartinesp in #7159
• Add content scanner support to media gallery and viewer (Element Pro) by @jmartinesp in #7233
• Enforce HS disabling E2EE in DM creation too (Element Pro) by @jmartinesp in #7292
• Allow adding a path suffix to the OAuth client URI by @jmartinesp in #7286

Others

• [A11y] Improve rendering on focused UI items by @bmarty in #7182
• Add a button role to clickable icons and text on the login/onboarding screens by @unclejay80 in #7225
• Expose formatting toggle state to TalkBack by @unclejay80 in #7227
• Add warning to the 'Scan QR code' screen by @jmartinesp in #7264
• Refactor SearchBarResultState.Initial/NoResultsFound to data objects by @ganfra in #7266
• Remove no longer temporary strings by @jmartinesp in #7260
• Use the right insets in the home screen UI by @jmartinesp in #7271
• Make settings section separators visible in black theme by @mvanhorn in #7039

New Contributors

• @thirumani-vihaan made their first contribution in #7222
• @mvanhorn made their first contribution in #7039

Full Changelog: v26.07.1...v26.08.0