1.4.1b2

Changes since 1.4.1b1. Flatpak users can now install from GtkHx's own repository, which keeps them updated:

flatpak install --user https://dl.gtkhx.org/gtkhx-beta.flatpakref

Files

• Downloading a folder that holds files of 4 GB or more no longer fails partway
• File names in non-Roman scripts, such as Japanese, no longer go missing from file listings

Voice and Video

• Cameras you plug in or unplug show up right away, in Settings and on the camera button
• A chosen camera that isn't plugged in stays chosen in Settings, marked as missing
• Chat says when someone in your voice room turns their camera on or starts sharing their screen
• No video is downloaded while the window is minimized
• On a metered connection you receive one video at a time, and click another to switch; Settings → Voice can turn this off
• Video no longer sometimes stays blank, or fails to start, after someone turns their camera on
• Screen readers can now name the camera and screen-share buttons and the users list's video icon
• Join and leave sounds are right again after switching voice rooms

Chat

• Load Older no longer gets stuck on "Loading…" when the server turns it down
• A private chat you closed no longer reopens when the server answers late
• Names with accented characters no longer show "is now known as" at every status change
• Server broadcasts show accented characters correctly

News

• Accented characters in threaded news show correctly: folder and category names, subjects, authors and posts
• A news folder, category or article the server refuses no longer stays stuck loading; you can try again
• Posting into a category, or making one inside a folder, with an accented name works on more servers
• Loading and posting news no longer flashes by in the Tasks list

Hotline Protocol

• HOPE secure logins now compress the connection with the Compression setting's choice (GZIP, LZ4 or ZSTD) when the server supports it
• Closing a server's agreement window now declines it, like the Disagree button
• An empty server agreement no longer opens an empty window
• Older servers that refuse GtkHx's once-a-minute check that the connection is alive no longer cause an error each time
• Sending a message, loading the user list and fetching chat history no longer appear in the Tasks list

Updates

• The Flatpak tells you when a new version is out, and can update and restart into it; Settings → General can turn this off
• Windows, macOS and Flatpak test builds show their real version, such as 1.4.1b2, in About instead of 1.4.1-dev

Code Modernization

• HOPE secure login and its ciphers moved to hx-libs, the Hotline library GtkHx shares with hxd-ng and hx-ng

Translations

• The Flatpak download now includes the translations

Full Changelog: v1.4.1b1...v1.4.1b2

1.4.1b1

Files

• Large folders open several times faster, and sorting by name is faster too
• Renaming in place now replaces the name instead of adding to it
• Moving a file and renaming it in one step no longer leaves it under its old name
• Get Info can save just a comment on Janus servers
• The right-click menu's last items are no longer cut off
• Local folders no longer show "(4096 items)" as their size
• Very long folder names no longer break the path sent to the server

Docking

• A new dock, built on mullion-gtk in place of libpanel; your layout carries over
• A pane's tabs sit in its top corner as icons, in sight where the pane has room for them and otherwise while you are in the pane; Pane Titles puts tab strips with titles back
• Drag a tab onto another pane's tabs, onto a pane, or onto an edge to split it
• Drag a tab out of the window to give it a window of its own, and back to dock it
• Reset Layout puts the default layout back at once, rather than at the next launch
• Alt with the arrows moves between panes, and with Shift moves the pane; Alt+Enter zooms one to fill the window
• A pane closes when its last panel is moved out or closed
• A panel's toolbar button and menu item always bring it back after it was undocked

Voice and Video

• Changing the microphone, speaker or camera in Settings now switches a call in progress
• Video tiles fill the panel, each at its stream's shape, instead of fixed-height strips
• Click a tile to bring it into focus at the top of the panel; click it again to show everyone alike
• Each tile has controls to focus, mute, or stop watching someone, and you can watch them again from the bar below
• The users list shows who has a camera or screen share on, even when GtkHx can't play video

Chat

• Chat history shows line breaks and accented characters correctly
• Very long scrollbacks stay fast as new messages arrive and while scrolling
• Nickname completion is faster on busy servers
• A link whose text isn't its address shows the real address before opening it, and every link shows its address on hover
• Email addresses are links again
• Dismissing a selection with a click no longer also opens the link under it
• Chat settings now reach every connection, not just the one in focus
• Settings → Chat can turn off opening links with a single click

Hotline Protocol

• A rejected login now shows the server's own message
• Fixed HOPE-encrypted connections misreading a message split across frames
• No more error at every login on servers that refuse your saved GIF icon
• Sending text is faster on servers without Unicode
• GtkHx now tells servers it is GtkHx (client version 254) instead of the Hotline 1.8.5 client

Code Modernization

• The file browser is now Rust
• GtkHx now reads tracker listings with code shared with the hxd-ng server
• The chat view is now Rotulus, a standalone GTK 4 widget published on crates.io
• Moved to gtk-rs 0.22; building now needs Rust 1.92

Development

• Performance benchmarks, from single functions up to the running app
• End-to-end tests of GtkHx's own file requests against real servers
• The test servers now include hlservd, the Hotline 1.9 server
• A reference guide to the Hotline protocol and its extensions

Translations

• The Local / Remote selector in the file browser is now translated

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.4.1b1

1.4.0

• Video
  • Video chat and screen sharing, on servers that support it
  • A dockable Video panel shows everyone's camera and screen, plus your own preview
  • Choose a camera in Settings → Voice
  • Camera tiles keep the same order, by user, instead of shuffling between calls
• Voice
  • Fixed occasional audio problems after joining or rejoining voice
• Themes and Icons
  • Themes now color the whole window, not just the chat
  • Richer chat colors, and each nickname keeps its own color
  • New icons that match the desktop and follow the theme's colors
  • The original pixel-art icons live on in the new Classic theme
  • New Neon Doll theme
  • Settings → General can keep the system's window colors around a themed chat
• Files
  • The file browser is now its own window, one per connection
  • Clearer layout, with labeled Download and Upload buttons
  • Right-click a file for Open, Preview, Get Info, Rename, Delete and more
• User Interface
  • Slimmer window chrome, so chat gets much more of the window
  • The server banner and connection status now sit in the header bar
  • The status bar is gone, and the toolbar is optional (off by default)
  • Pane titles and action bars can be hidden
  • Chat tabs stay hidden until there is a second conversation
  • Settings opens with Ctrl+,
• Hotline Protocol
  • Fixed file transfers with Windows clients and servers
• macOS
  • GtkHx now asks for camera and microphone access
  • Fixed a crash on macOS versions too old to run GtkHx
• Code Modernization
  • GtkHx now shares its Hotline protocol code with the hxd-ng server
• Translations
  • Translated the new strings

1.4.0b1

What's Changed

• release: name the macOS artifacts by architecture, not by runner by @mishan in #644
• release: split snapshot and release into separate workflows by @mishan in #645
• ci: drop the build-output caches from the release path by @mishan in #646
• macos: declare the minimum OS the bundle actually needs by @mishan in #647
• Consume shared hxproto from hx-libs by @mishan in #650
• Take the protocol C ABI back from hxproto into gtkhx-proto-ffi by @mishan in #651
• Vendor git dependencies into the Flatpak build by @mishan in #652
• Consume shared file transfer codecs by @mishan in #653
• Consume shared HFS sidecar codecs by @mishan in #654
• Relink binaries when only Rust changed by @mishan in #658
• Slim the window chrome: header banner, pane controls, optional bars by @mishan in #657
• Files: a window per connection, with a clearer two-panel layout by @mishan in #659
• Add video chat and screen sharing over the voice session by @mishan in #656
• Prepare the tree for 1.4.0: metadata, changelog, translations, docs by @mishan in #661
• Harden video: portal hangs, a closed panel's stream, refused requests by @mishan in #662
• Reach the camera through the Camera portal inside the Flatpak by @mishan in #663
• Gate the Camera portal's remote to Unix, fixing the Windows build by @mishan in #664
• Fix macOS bundle.sh parse error under bash 3.2 by @mishan in #665

Full Changelog: v1.3.2...v1.4.0b1

1.3.2

• Fixed issue with Linux Flatpak and bundled library paths
• News Browser
  • Fixed double load issue
  • Fixed a bug that prevented users from creating a new folder

1.3.1

• Build
  • Bundle fonts and translations for macOS and Windows packages
• Connections
  • Include some more servers for new users
• User Interface
  • Fix chat scroll bug

1.3.0

• Connections (formerly Bookmarks)
  • Bookmarks are now Settings → Connections; the separate Bookmarks window is gone
  • Each connection can override your nickname and icon for that server, or
    inherit the defaults from Settings → Identity
  • Bookmarks are now kept in a single TOML file
  • Legacy bookmark files are imported if the TOML file does not exist
  • Connections can be exported to legacy Hotline bookmark files
  • Built-in bookmarks can now be deleted
• Build
  • GtkHx is now available for macOS and Windows
• Code Modernization
  • GtkHx is now mostly Rust code
• Config
  • The settings file (gtkhxrc) is now gtkhx.toml
  • GtkHx will migrate the old gtkhxrc if one is present and no gtkhx.toml exists
  • Fixed bugs in preferences along the way
• Hotline Protocol
  • Fixed old bug with resumable file transfers
  • Ensure that multi-byte names > 32 bytes get truncated at a character boundary
• Multiple Connections
  • Users may now be connected to more than one server at a time, and switch between connections with tabs
• Sound
  • Replaced libcanberra with rodio for notification sound playback
• Translations
  • Updated existing translations
  • Added Japanese translations
• User Interface
  • Button icons now default to their original size, rather than upscaled
  • Brand new hxchat widget for Chat (replaces forked version of HexChat's xtext)
    • Significantly better performance
    • Markdown support (toggleable)
    • Icon display next to speaker (toggleable)
    • Speaker grouping, so doesn't have to keep appearing on every consecutive line
    • Right clicking on a speaker's name or icon will now pop up a "user" popup menu
    • Chat history can be searched via Ctrl-F
  • Ctrl-U now works to clear any input in the app
  • [Enter] in the Connect dialog now connects
  • Handle character conversion on user list and user info
  • Closed panels/windows will not reopen on startup
  • Docking a window will now highlight the pane that is being targeted
  • Panel foreground state is now persisted

1.3.0b7

• Now Rustier than ever!
• Fixed chatpost click sound
• Multiple connections
• Preferences migrated to gtkhx.toml
• Updated translations
• Added Japanese translations
• Bug fixes
• Dock fixes

1.3.0b6

• Hotline Protocol
  • Fixed old bug with resumable file transfers
• User Interface
  • Brand new hxchat widget for Chat (replaces forked version of HexChat's xtext)
    • Significantly better performance
    • Markdown support (toggleable)
    • Icon display next to speaker (toggleable)
    • Speaker grouping, so doesn't have to keep appearing on every consecutive line
    • Right clicking on a speaker's name or icon will now pop up a "user" popup menu
    • Chat history can be searched via Ctrl-F
  • Ctrl-U now works to clear any input in the app
  • [Enter] in the Connect dialog now connects

1.2.2

• Voice
  • Voice activity detection for self
  • Volume control slider for each individual
  • Sounds for join / leave events
  • Update to follow latest version of the voice chat spec
• Code Modernization
  • Parts of GtkHx's UI are now written in Rust