Release Hangar v0.8.0 · sethcottle/hangar

Hangar v0.8.0

The biggest release Hangar has shipped. Video uploads, real conversations in DMs, the social graph, moderation, and a large accessibility pass.

Video, GIFs, and media

Videos and GIFs play inside the app through Hangar's own GStreamer pipeline, with a player dialog, inline feed playback, an autoplay setting, and persistent volume
Post video and GIFs: uploads start the moment you attach, with a progress pie tracking upload and processing over a first-frame preview. GIF files ride Bluesky's video service and stay animated
Embedded images open full size in a media viewer with zoom, share, copy, and save

Compose, rebuilt

Rich text facets with live highlighting, mention autocomplete, link card previews, content warnings, threadgates and postgates with saveable defaults, language selection, and a thread composer of up to 10 posts
Up to 4 images or one video per post, each with alt text and ALT badges
A Require Alt Text setting that holds the Post button until every attachment is described, thread posts included

Direct messages

Open conversations, page through history, and send messages
Emoji reactions with the system chooser, double click to heart, right click to react, copy, or delete for yourself
Posts shared into a chat render as compact cards that open the thread
A Message button on profiles (availability checked first) and a New Message picker

Social graph and profiles

Follow and unfollow from profile pages and people rows, with Follows You tags
Follower and Following lists, people search, and suggested accounts
Profiles scroll as one piece with banners and a condensed action bar; Posts, Replies, Media, and Videos tabs on every profile
Edit your profile in the app: name, bio, avatar, banner

Moderation

Mute, block, and report accounts and posts, from profile pages or straight from any post's overflow menu
Blocks confirm first and undo in one click; the report dialog covers every reason the protocol defines

Keyboard and accessibility

App shortcuts (Ctrl+N, Ctrl+K, F5, Alt+1 through 8, Alt+Left) and a shortcuts window on Ctrl+?
Single-key actions on the focused post: J/K move, L like, R reply, T repost, O opens the thread
Alt text surfaced to screen readers with visible ALT badges, announced toasts and banners, labeled spinners, and focus that follows navigation

Resilience and polish

Offline banner with paused polling and refresh on reconnect, try again pages on failed loads, empty states everywhere, loading skeletons
Saved posts, delete your own posts, unread badges, window state memory, settings categories, an About dialog that credits the projects Hangar builds on

Even more coming soon, stay tuned!

The feed no longer goes blank after roughly 205 posts
OAuth sessions survive token refreshes; revoked tokens re-authenticate instead of failing quietly
Threads and profiles no longer stack duplicate pages; sidebar Home always works
Mention and profile clicks work on every post list
Light theme tooltips, bio link punctuation, and a settings file missing one key no longer resets everything

The AppImage dropped from 40 MB to ~7-ish MB. It no longer bundles GTK and uses your desktop's own libraries, which also fixes theme breakage on newer distros. It now requires GNOME 45 or newer (GTK 4.12, libadwaita 1.5) and the host's GStreamer; it will tell you exactly what to install if something is missing
Updates now find you. AppImage and Flatpak bundle installs check for new releases at launch and offer them in a toast. This is the last release you should have to discover by hand
The About dialog now reports the real release version

Flatpak: hangar.flatpak. Install with flatpak install hangar.flatpak (installing a newer bundle over an older one keeps your data)
AppImage: Make executable and run. Updates in place via AppImageUpdate or Gear Lever using the embedded zsync info, or am -u hangar if you installed through AM

Hangar uses OAuth for authentication. An app password fallback is also available. Create one at bsky.app/settings/app-passwords.

Full changelog: https://hangar.blue/changelog · v0.7.0...v0.8.0