Vector v0.3.1

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 👥 Group Management: multi-admin, edit group info, bulk invites, invite-by-npub, group avatars, and many fixes
• 🔔 Android Notifications: background message sync with Mark Read and inline Reply actions
• 📡 Multiplayer Networking Upgrade: faster connections, seamless WiFi + cellular switching, and Android connectivity fixes
• 🎙️ Voice-to-Text AI: rebuilt speech-to-text with GPU acceleration on Android
• 📁 File Attachment Overhaul: styled download boxes with progress spinners and retry states
• 📦 Directory Zip & Send: compress and send entire folders with live progress and file tree preview
• 🔒 Customizable Encryption: encrypt Vector with a PIN, Password, or go passwordless with instant logins
• 🔄 Deterministic Sync: Vector now syncs your entire history, including missing messages, at ultrafast speeds (negentropy!)
• 😀 Emoji Upgrade: Vector supports the very latest Unicode, with a library of over 2,000 emojis
• 📬 Smarter DM Delivery: messages now route to the recipient's preferred relays, for those with custom relay setups
• 🤖 32-bit ARM on Android: added support for older Android devices (typically 32-bit ARM)
• 🎮 Mini App Update Badges: one-tap in-panel updating when newer versions are available

Improved:

• ⚡ Performance Overhaul: faster boot, image processing, and audio - up to >15x speedup across the board
• 🗜️ Smaller & Faster App: >33% smaller install size and ~50% smaller frontend (we shrunk!)
• 🖼️ New Image Placeholders: sharper, faster (12x) previews while photos load - powered by our custom Thumbhash library
• 🧠 Memory Optimizations: lower RAM usage across the board (especially for high message & contact counts)
• 🏗️ Background Sync: restructured backend enables reliable background sync on Android
• 🎨 UI Polish: updated themes, chat backgrounds, settings layout, popup styling, and profile display

Fixed:

• 🔄 Group Reliability: improved message delivery with smarter relay handling, retry logic, and safer commit handling
• 🤙 Emoji Panel Performance: fixed freezing and jitter when opening the emoji panel
• 🍎 macOS White Flash: no more white flash on app startup (we improved Tauri to do this!)
• 📱 Android Media: video and audio seeking now works correctly, with stream-based seeking in a custom media backend
• 🔧 Upgrade Safety: fixed migration bug affecting some users upgrading from v0.2.3, extending backward-compat
• 💰 PIVX Wallet: improved wallet management and transaction reliability

Contributors

@alltheseas submitted PR #44 - Improving NIP-17 connectivity via Nostr Inbox Relay List integration.