v0.16.1

What's New in v0.16.1

Added

• macOS: clicking a notification now opens the exact conversation it belongs to (native notification routing)
• Desktop: relaunching the app focuses the already-running window instead of opening a second instance
• Linux: quit when the window is closed if the system tray is unavailable, so the app can always be reopened
• Login screen validates JID format locally before attempting to connect
• Enhanced freeze-triage diagnostic probes in fluux.log for troubleshooting

Changed

• Group chats: skip member-list discovery for rooms that forbid affiliation lists, reducing traffic and avoiding errors
• Group chats: occupant avatar updates coalesced on room join to reduce re-renders
• Empty state screens use consistent icons from the icon rail

Fixed

• Group chat history: closed catch-up gaps that could silently drop a stretch of messages after long offline periods, with a "load missing messages" marker to recover them (also applied to 1:1 history)
• Connections: race IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (Happy Eyeballs) so a broken IPv6 route no longer stalls connecting
• OpenPGP: publish your public-key fingerprint in upper-case as required by XEP-0373, improving cross-client key discovery
• Presence pills shown in grey while reconnecting instead of disappearing
• Encrypted reactions no longer surface as a blank conversation preview
• Show a "decrypting…" placeholder while the encryption plugin is still loading instead of a blank message
• Opening a contact profile no longer bounces back to the conversation
• Link-preview images retried once before being hidden
• Stream Management: keep sm in stream features unless it was negotiated inline, fixing some reconnection cases
• Desktop: downloading an image now uses the native save dialog
• About dialog width reduced
• Reconnection details (spinner, retry countdown, cancel) moved back to the sidebar status area — the top connection banner made the UI jump on unstable connections
• OpenPGP: fingerprint case normalized in peer-verification trust checks (green lock now reliable across clients)
• MUC occupant avatar preserved across presence updates
• Desktop: system proxy bypassed for loopback XMPP bridge hop to prevent connection failures
• Whisper: allow continuing a whispered conversation from its conversation frame
• Whisper menu action uses correct verb form across all locales
• Reply-quote bubble uses the same sender color as the original message
• Message list: fixed undefined React key on certain message rows
• Reply-quote previews render as nested vertical bars instead of raw quote markers
• Composer resize scroll correction coalesced into animation frame for smoother behavior
• Content ResizeObserver correctly created on same-commit mounts
• Image attachment placeholder reserved in error state to prevent layout shift
• MAM: bodiless encrypted messages from archive surfaced instead of dropped
• MAM: backward-pagination cursor corrected for scroll-up history loading

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