July 2026

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ANDROID RELEASE v2026.7.2
2026-07-31

Important Information

• Fixed the Identity Provider Browser for Android 17
  • I don’t actually have an Android 17 phone, but my friend does. This update is for him to test it out.

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ANDROID RELEASE v2026.7.1
2026-07-28

Important Information

• Fixed notifications for Pixels and other stock Android devices
  • The notification icon is now a white outline of the logo instead of the full app icon.

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SERVER RELEASE v2026.7.1
2026-07-14

Work in Progress & Minor Changes

• Bug hunt July 2026 - - can’t see pictures in the chat on ios. It’s only recently uploaded pictures that won’t display on iOS. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - the “user is typing…” Message stayed on screen even when the other user left the channel on thier device —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - on mobile pressing play on a video in the chat does nothing. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - gifs should maybe also use a skeleton of the right size as a place holder while loading. Currently the chat resize when gif finally load in. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - logging out on iOS hangs on the page with a spinner saying “securely logging out”. The IDP browser never closes. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - logging out from one server on iOS also logged me out from all other connected server in the app. (All these server use a completely different IDP) —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - once logged out on iOS, I can’t log back in. The “Welcome back. Please log in to continue.” Page is shown. But clicking on the “log in” button does absolutely nothing. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - hide the nav menu edit menu button from the friend edition. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - updating channel name in info panel works everywhere, except for the text field in the info panel. Edit the channel name, save, the old channel name remains. Reloading the page fixes the issue. —> Implemented & Tested
• Bug hunt July 2026 - - the email field in the user profile dialog should not be read only —> Implemented & Tested

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IOS RELEASE v2026.7.2
2026-07-10

Important Information

• video uploaded from iphone fail to playback on android
  • Improve device side compression on ios.

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ANDROID RELEASE v2026.7.0
2026-07-09

New Features, Fixes & Improvements

• Android various bugs
  • Sometimes, rarely, when uploading video to the chat in the android app, the file chip showing progress does not appear at all. Once the compression and upload are completed in the background, the chip appears as a completely uploaded file. —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in android-v2026.6.3, Tested in android-v2026.6.3)

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SERVER RELEASE v2026.6.18
2026-07-09

Important Information

• Rework the login flow to better work on mobile
  • The login flow is setup with desktop browsers in mind. It relies on cookies. The mobile apps are terrible a keeping the cookies in sync. Solution : Implement a PKCE flow for the mobile apps.

New Features, Fixes & Improvements

• QC for server-v2026.6.18
  • the press and hold is unreliable. Closing the channel and reopening it fixes the issue. I suspect an issue with the underlying JS file —> Implemented & Tested
  • • sometimes when opening a channel, the channel opens for a fraction of a second(I can see messages), then the skeleton appears, then the channel content reappears. —> Implemented & Tested
  • pictures uploaded to be an avatar often show up sideways. Image upload to chat also upload sideways. —> Implemented & Tested
  • opening the action sheet should slightly vibrate the phone —> Implemented & Tested
  • Rich text for YouTube videos should show a player —> Implemented & Tested
  • chat reactions notifications should be enabled by default. —> Implemented & Tested
  • need a button to cancel a message edit —> Implemented & Tested
  • disable notifications, switch server, switch back to the original server. The notifications are now enabled again. —> Implemented & Tested
  • for users log in with Casdoor IDP, the email set in Casdoor shows up in the user profile card, but not in the user’s profile settings. —> Implemented & Tested
  • iOS users can’t see images in the chat —> Implemented & Tested
• Chat bugs
  • editing a message on desktop doesn’t seem to update right away. Page Refresh required. Might only apply to encrypted channels. On desktop, type a message, arrow up, edit the message, press enter. —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.4, Tested in server-v2026.6.4)
  • Sidebar sometimes show unread badge for messages that have already been read. —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.4, Tested in server-v2026.6.4)
  • Copy button for code blocks does not work —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.6, Tested in server-v2026.6.7)
  • rich link cards are clickable on the full width of the chat. should only be clickable on the card itself —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.6, Tested in server-v2026.6.6)
  • Remove the server name from the notification title. Only the channel name and username of the sender. —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.7, Tested in server-v2026.6.7)
  • Add a channel delete button to the channel info panel. This button should only be visible to family edition servers. —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.7, Tested in server-v2026.6.7)
  • Where is the argive channel button? —> Implemented & Tested (Implemented in server-v2026.6.7, Tested in server-v2026.6.7)
  • on desktop, the chat doesn’t seem to always scroll automatically —> Implemented & Tested
  • When scrolling up fast on desktop, there is a lot of resizing as elements with images, rich links and other component load in. Would there be a way, when scrolling up, to load everything in the background and then display it when ready, instead of doing all the resizing in front of the user. —> Implemented & Tested

Work in Progress & Minor Changes

• QC pass fixes - going through the iphone migration process (switching from an old iphone to a newer one), The spokes session is retained, but the push notification are also retained, but don’t work. To get notification working on the new iphone, the user must disable and re-enable notifications —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - Clicking on a notification with the app open in another server doesn’t swtich server properly. —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - Notification debug log copy not working on ios —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - Pictures posted to a channel prior to it’s conversion into a secure chat channel are no longer displayed. —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - Remove the snackbar notification for unlocking the secure chat —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - can’t copy the notification debug log on ios —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - on mobile, creating new channels does not update the side bar ui right away. —> Implemented & Tested
• QC pass fixes - when a server is down, the mobile app takes a very long time to show the server unavailable page. instead the page remains blank and the server switcher is not accessible. —> Implemented
• QC pass fixes - if the phone falls a sleep while the user is connected to a voice channel, the app hangs on a progress bar forever when trying to reconnect. (when the phone is unlocked) —> Implemented

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