After half a year we proud to release this new beta version of Ferdi with tons of new features, bug fixes and 24 new services.

Due to problems with our Apple certificate, this release is unsigned on macOS. What does this mean to you? Due to this, you will have to manually update to this version on macOS by downloading the release below and installing it normally. If you are having problems opening the installer, please follow https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac.

Install

Use these Links to quickly download the right file for your OS:

Download Ferdi 5.6.0-beta.5 for:

• Windows
• Windows (portable)
• macOS

Download Ferdi-5.6.0-beta.5.AppImage, ferdi-5.6.0-beta.5.tar.gz, ferdi-5.6.0-beta.5.x86_64.rpm or ferdi_5.6.0-beta.5_amd64.deb below for Linux.

Features

• Make the notifications badge work with LauncherAPI-compliant (#736) 💖 @gabspeck

Minor changes

• Update node-sass to 4.14.0 for compatibility with Node 14.x (#656) 💖 @dpeukert
• Change Keyboard shortcut tooltip text in Sidebar for Settings (#665) 💖 @sampathBlam
• Restore "delete service" option in sidebar (#692) 💖 @sampathBlam
• Add Google Tasks to Todo providers (#695) 💖 @dannyqiu
• Restore window last closed maximize/fullscreen state (#733) 💖 @dannyqiu
• Add password hashing to lock password (#694)
• Close/open window when clicking on tray menu item (#630) 💖 @dandelionadia
• Use Tray popUpContextMenu on macOS/Windows only (#741)
• Setup nightly releases deployment pipeline (#730)
• Make Tray icons more robust on Linux (#748) 💖 @kris7t
• Load disable hibernation per service status on startup (#754) 💖 @kris7t
• Update global user agent to conform with spec (#779) 💖 @dannyqiu

Bug Fixes

• Prevent unnecessary electron popup windows for links (#685) 💖 @mahadevans87
• Refactor locking feature (#693)
• Review launch on startup for macOS, start Ferdi app, not renderer (#696) 💖 @dannyqiu
• Fix TodosWebview user agent (#713) 💖 @mahadevans87
• Fix crash when using Password Lock with TouchID API unavailable (#737) 💖 @mahadevans87
• Fix setting of webview disablewebsecurity attribute (#772) 💖 @dannyqiu

This release got replaced by 5.6.0-beta.2 due to problems with our building infrastructure.

Features

• Differentiate between indirect and direct notifications (#590), 💖 @Room4O4 @mahadevans87 @FeikoJoosten @sampathBlam
• Add setting to keep service in hibernation after startup (#577, #584)

Minor changes

• Update Electron to 8.2.3
• Remove excess code from Franz's hibernate feature (#609)
• Refocus Webview only for active service (#610), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87
• Use GitHub notifications center and direct notifications (getferdi/recipes#133)
• Switch back to original Telegram, add Telegram React (getferdi/recipes#132)
• Fix notifications for various services, 💖 @FeikoJoosten
• Add support for indirect messages for various services, 💖 @FeikoJoosten
• Use correct Riot icon (getferdi/recipes#125), 💖 @halms
• Remove incorrectly placed icons (getferdi/recipes#126), 💖 @halms
• Fix slack draft notifications (getferdi/recipes#127), 💖 @Serubin
• Remove automatic reloading from WhatsApp
• Update Microsoft Teams to allow Desktop Sharing (getferdi/recipes#116), 💖 @Gautasmi
• Organize settings with horizontal tabs (#569), 💖 @yourcontact
• Improve cache clearing UI feedback (#620), 💖 @saruwman

Features

• Merge Franz 5.5.0-beta.2 #264
• Add dropdown list to choose Todo service (#418, #477), 💖 @yourcontact
• Add hotkey for darkmode (#530, #537), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87
• Add option to start Ferdi minimized (#490, #534)
• Add option to show draggable window area on macOS (#304, #532)
• Add support for Adaptable Dark Mode on Windows (#548), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87
• Add notification & audio toggle action in tray context menu (#542), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87
• Add Dark Reader settings (#531, #568), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87
• Add support for 11 new services and improve existing ones, 💖 @rctneil @JakeSteam @sampathBlam @tpopela @RoiArthurB

Minor changes

• Improve user onboarding (#493)
• Improve "Updates" section in settings (#506), 💖 @yourcontact
• Improve information about Franz Premium and Teams
• Improve user scripts (#559)
• Hide user lastname on Ferdi servers as it is not stored
• Improve draggable window area height for macOS (#304, #479)
• Remove server setting from settings screen (#516), 💖 @mrassili
• Update Electron to 8.1.1 (#480)

Bug fixes

• Fix cache clearing not working in Windows 10 (#541, #544), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87
• Fix Home button in navigation bar not correctly navigating (#571, #573), 💖 @Room4O4 & @mahadevans87

Build changes

• Add retry commands to flaky build steps (#498)
• Run utility scripts pre-commit instead of pre-push (#515)

• Add support for unlocking with Touch ID #367
• Add find in page feature #67 #432
• Add custom dark mode handler support #445
• Add option to disable reload after resume #442
• Fix and enhance context menu #357 #413 #452 #354 #227
• Fix regresssion around muting services #428
• Window title now reflects service name #213

• Fix app unusable without an account on Windows since v5.4.0 #253
• Upgrade to Electron 8 #369
• Ferdi is now available as Flatpak on Flathub #323
• Add custom JS/CSS to services #83
• Add ability to change the services icons size and sidebar width #153
• Enhance system tray icon behaviour #307
• Enhance navigation bar behaviour setting #270
• Fix services URL validation/harmonization #276
• Fix app failing to properly lock itself at startup resulting in shortcuts not working #377 #362
• Fix shortcuts not working when locked #404
• Fix missing Slack services custom icons #290
• Fix app possibly unusable when using faulty translations #340
• Fix Dark Mode setting on Windows #347