Group chat, VoIP & video calling, file transfer and bridge networks!

Element

Join our mailing list

Stay up to date with latest software releases, news, software discounts, deals and more.

Subscribe
Download Element 1.11.17 (64-bit)

  -  116 MB  -  Demo

What's new in this version:

Element 1.11.17 (64-bit)
Features:
- Add inline code formatting to rich text editor
- Add emoji handling for plain text mode of the new rich text editor
- Overlay virtual room call events into main timeline
- Adds a new section under "Room Settings" > "Roles & Permissions" which adds the possibility to multiselect users from this room and grant them more permissions
- Add emoji handling for rich text mode
- Add setting to hide bold notifications
- Further password reset flow enhancements
- Snooze the bulk unverified sessions reminder on dismiss
- Honor advanced audio processing settings when recording voice messages
- Improve the visual balance of bubble layout
- Add config setting to disable bulk unverified sessions nag
- Only display bulk unverified sessions nag when current sessions is verified
- Separate labs and betas more clearly
- Show user an error if we fail to create a DM for verification

Fixed:
- Prevent unnecessary m.direct updates
- Fix checkForPreJoinUISI for thread roots
- Load RTE components only when RTE labs is enabled
- Fix issue where thread panel did not update correctly
- Remove async call to get virtual room from room load
- Check each thread for unread messages.
- Device manage - handle sessions that don't support encryption
- Fix hover state for formatting buttons (Rich text editor) (fix /issues/23832)
- Don't allow group calls to be unterminated
- Fix replies to emotes not showing as inline
- Update copy of 'Change layout' button to match Element Call
- Fix call splitbrains when switching between rooms
- bugfix: fix an issue where the Notifier would incorrectly fire for non-timeline events
- Fix power selector being wrongly disabled for admins themselves
- Show day counts in call durations


Element 1.11.16 (64-bit)
Features:
- Further improve replies
- Enable users to join group calls from multiple devices
- Fix(visual): make cursor a pointer for summaries
- Add placeholder for rich text editor
- Consolidate public room search experience
- New password reset flow
- Device manager - add tooltip to device details toggle
- Sliding sync: add lazy-loading member support
- Limit formatting bar offset to top of composer

Fixed:
- Fix issues around up arrow event edit shortcut
- Fix search not being cleared when clicking on a result
- Fix screensharing in 1:1 calls
- Fix the background color flashing when joining a call
- Fix the size of the 'Private space' icon
- Fix reply editing in rich text editor (https
- Fix thread list jumping back down while scrolling
- Fix regression with TimelinePanel props updates not taking effect
- Fix form tooltip positioning
- Extract Search handling from RoomView into its own Component
- Fix call splitbrains when switching between rooms
- [Backport staging] Fix replies to emotes not showing as inline


Element 1.11.15 (64-bit)
Features:
- Make clear notifications work with threads
- Change "None" to "Off" in notification options
- Advanced audio processing settings
- Add way to create a user notice via config.json
- Improve design of the rich text editor
- Enable user to zoom beyond image size
- Fix: Move "Leave Space" option to the bottom of space context menu

Fixed:
- Make build scripts work on NixOS
- Fix integration manager get_open_id_token action and add E2E tests
- Fix links being mangled by markdown processing
- Fix: inline links selecting radio button
- Fix wrong error message in registration when phone number threepid is in use
- Fix missing avatar for show current profiles
- Fix read receipts trickling down correctly
- Resilience fix for homeserver without thread notification support
- Don't switch to the home page needlessly after leaving a room
- Differentiate download and decryption errors when showing images
- Close context menu when a modal is opened to prevent user getting stuck
- Fix TimelineReset handling when no room associated
- Always use current profile on thread events
- Fix ThreadView tests not using thread flag
- Handle deletion of m.call events
- Fix incorrect notification count after leaving a room with notifications


Element 1.11.14 (64-bit)
Features:
- Loading threads with server-side assistance
- Make thread replies trigger a room list re-ordering
- Device manager - add extra details to device security
- Add plain text mode to the wysiwyg composer
- Sliding Sync: improve sort order, show subspace rooms, better tombstoned room handling
- Device manager - add learn more popups to filtered sessions [email protected]
- Show thread notification if thread timeline is closed
- Add message editing to wysiwyg composer
- Device manager - confirm sign out of other sessions
- Automatically request logs from other users in a call when submitting logs
- Add thread notification with server assistance (MSC3773)
- Support for login + E2EE set up with QR
- Allow pressing Enter to send messages in new composer

Fixed:
- Fix regressions around media uploads failing and causing soft crashes
- Fix /myroomavatar slash command
- Fix config.json failing to load for Jitsi wrapper in non-root deployment
- Fix NotificationBadge unsent color
- Fix room list sorted by recent on app startup
- Reset custom power selector when blurred on empty
- Reinstate timeline/redaction callbacks when updating notification state
- Only render NotificationBadge when needed
- Fix embedded Element Call screen sharing
- Send Content-Type: application/json header for integration manager /register API
- Fix joining calls without audio or video inputs
- Ensure spaces in the spotlight dialog have rounded square avatars
- Only show mini avatar uploader in room intro when no avatar yet exists
- Fix threads fallback incorrectly targets root event
- Align video call icon with banner text
- Set relations helper when creating event tile context menu
- Device manager - put client/browser device metadata in correct section
- Update the room unread notification counter when the server changes the value without any related read receipt


Element 1.11.13 (64-bit)
- Fix default behavior of Room.getBlacklistUnverifiedDevices
- Catch server versions API call exception when starting the client
- Fix authedRequest including Authorization: Bearer undefined for password resets


Element 1.11.12 (64-bit)
- Fix config.json failing to load for Jitsi wrapper in non-root deployment


Element 1.11.10 (64-bit)
- Fixed: Use correct default for notification silencing


Element 1.11.9 (64-bit)
Deprecations:
- Legacy Piwik config.json option piwik.policy_url is deprecated in favour of privacy_policy_url. Support will be removed in the next release

Features:
- Device manager - select all devices
- New group call experience: Call tiles
- Add Shift key to FormatQuote keyboard shortcut
- Device manager - sign out of multiple sessions
- Display push toggle for web sessions (MSC3890)
- Add device notifications enabled switch
- Implement push notification toggle in device detail
- New group call experience: Starting and ending calls
- New group call experience: Room header call buttons
- Make device ID copyable in device list
- Use display name instead of user ID when rendering power events
- Read receipts for threads

Fixed:
- Use the correct sender key when checking shared secret
- Fix device selection in pre-join screen for Element Call video rooms
- Don't render a 1px high room topic if the room topic is empty
- Don't show feedback prompts when that UIFeature is disabled
- Fix soft crash around unknown room pills
- Fix spaces feedback prompt wrongly showing when feedback is disabled
- Fix tile soft crash in ReplyInThreadButton


Element 1.11.8 (64-bit)
- Fixed: Bump IDB crypto store version


Element 1.11.3 (64-bit)
Features:
- Improve auth aria attributes and semantics
- Device manager - New device tile info design
- Device manager generic settings subsection component
- Migrate the hidden read receipts flag to new "send read receipts" option
- Live location sharing - share location at most every 5 seconds
- Increase max length of voice messages to 15m
- Move pin drop out of labs
- Start DM on first message
- Remove "Add Space" button from RoomListHeader when user cannot create spaces
- The Welcome Home Screen: Dedicated Download Apps Dialog
- The Welcome Home Screen: "Submit Feedback" pane
- New User Onboarding Task List
- Add support for disabling spell checking
- Live location share - leave maximised map open when beacons expire

Fixed:
- Some slash-commands (/myroomnick) have temporarily been disabled before the first message in a DM is sent
- Use stable reference for active tab in tabbedView
- Fix pillification sometimes doubling up
- Fix highlights not being applied to plaintext messages
- Fix dismissing edit composer when change was undone
- 1-to-1 DM rooms with bots now act like DM rooms instead of multi-user-rooms before
- Apply inline start padding to selected lines on modern layout only
- Peek into world-readable rooms from spotlight
- Use default styling on nested numbered lists due to MD being sensitive
- Fix replying using chat effect commands


Element 1.11.2 (64-bit)
Features:
- Live location share - focus on user location on list item click
- Live location sharing - don't trigger unread counts for beacon location events
- Support for sending voice messages as replies and in threads
- Add Reply in thread button to the right-click message context-menu
- Starred_Messages_Feature_Contd_II/Outreachy
- Use "frequently used emojis" for autocompletion in composer
- Improve clickability of view source event toggle button
- Improve clickability of "collapse" link button on bubble layout
- Starred_Messages_Feature/Outreachy
- Implement Use Case Selection screen
- Live location share - handle insufficient permissions in location sharing
- Improve _FilePanel.scss
- Improve spotlight accessibility by adding context menus

Fixed:
- Replace mask-images with svg components in MessageActionBar
- Unbreak in-app permalink tooltips
- Show a back button when viewing a space member
- Align the right edge of info tile lines with normal ones on IRC layout
- Prevent email verification from overriding existing sessions
- Fix wrong buttons being used when exploring public rooms
- Re-add padding to generic event list summary on IRC layout
- Joining federated rooms via the spotlight search should no longer cause a "No known servers" error


Element 1.11.1 (64-bit)
- Enable URL tooltips on hover for Element Desktop
- Hide screenshare button in video rooms on Desktop
- Add a developer command to reset Megolm and Olm sessions
- add spaces to TileErrorBoundary
- Location sharing - add localised strings to map
- Added trim to ignore whitespaces in email check
- Improve _GenericEventListSummary.scss
- Live location share - tiles without tile server (PSG-591)
- Add option to display tooltip on link hover
- Support a module API surface for custom functionality
- Adjust encryption copy when creating a video room
- Add bidirectonal isolation for pills
- Delabs `Show current avatar and name for users in message history`
- Live location share - open latest location in map site
- Improve LinkPreviewWidget
- Render HTML topics in rooms on space home
- Hide timestamp on event tiles being edited on every layout
- Introduce new copy icon
- Allow finding group DMs by members in spotlight
- Live location share - explicitly stop beacons replaced beacons
- Remove unpin from widget kebab menu
- Live location share - redact related locations on beacon redaction
- Live location share - disallow message pinning


Element 1.11.0 (64-bit)
Changed:
- Remove Piwik support

Features:
- Document how to configure a custom home.html
- Move New Search Experience out of beta
- Switch video rooms to spotlight layout when in PiP mode
- Live location sharing - render message deleted tile for redacted beacons
- Improve view source dialog style
- Improve integration manager dialog style
- Implement MSC3827: Filtering of /publicRooms by room type
- Show chat panel when opening a video room with unread messages
- Live location share - forward latest location
- Allow integration managers to validate user identity after opening
- Create a common header on right panel cards on BaseCard
- Integrate searching public rooms and people into the new search experience
- Bring back waveform for voice messages and retain seeking
- Improve colors in settings
- Keep draft in composer when a slash command syntax errors
- Release video rooms as a beta feature
- Clarify logout key backup warning dialog
- Slightly improve the look of the Message edits dialog
- Add support for MD / HTML in room topics
- Live location share - link to timeline tile from share warning
- Improve composer visiblity
- Makes the avatar of the user menu non-draggable
- Improve widget buttons behaviour and layout
- Use AccessibleButton for 'Reset All' link button on SetupEncryptionBody
- Adjust message timestamp position on TimelineCard in non-bubble layouts
- Use AccessibleButton for 'In reply to' link button on ReplyChain
- Live location share - enable reply and react to tiles
- Change dash to em dash issues fixed

Fixed:
- Reduce video rooms log spam
- Connect to Jitsi unmuted by default
- Work around a Jitsi bug with display name encoding
- Make invite dialogue fixed height
- Correct issue with tab order in new search experience.
- Clicking location replies now redirects to the replied event instead of opening the map
- Keep clicks on pills within the app
- Don't overlap tile bubbles with timestamps in modern layout
- Connect to Jitsi unmuted by default
- Maximize width value of display name on TimelineCard with IRC/modern layout
- Align the avatar and the display name on TimelineCard
- Remove inline margin from reactions row on IRC layout
- Align "From a thread" on search result panel on IRC layout
- Display description of E2E advanced panel as subsection text
- Remove inline end margin from images on file panel
- Disable option to Quote when we don't have sufficient permissions
- Add padding to font scaling loader for message bubble layout
- Set 100% max-width to display name on reply tiles
- Fix alignment of pill letter
- Move the beta pill to the right side and display the pill on video room only
- Stop using absolute property to place beta pill on RoomPreviewCard
- Make the pill text single line
- Hide overflow of public room description on spotlight dialog result
- Fix position of message action bar on the info tile on TimelineCard in message bubble layout
- Remove inline start margin from display name on reply tiles on TimelineCard
- Improve homeserver dropdown dialog styling
- Fix crash when drawing blurHash for portrait videos PSB-139
- Fix grid blowout on pinned event tiles
- Fix temporary sync errors if there's weird settings stored in account data
- Fix reactions row overflow and gap between reactions
- Fix issues with the Create new room button in Spotlight
- Remove margin from E2E icon between avatar and hidden event
- Fix waveform on a message bubble
- Location sharing maps are now loaded after reconnection
- Update the avatar mask so it doesn’t cut off spaces’ avatars anymore
- Add a bit of safety around timestamp handling for threads
- Remove top margin from event tile on a narrow viewport
- Fix keyboard shortcuts on settings tab being wrapped
- Add try-catch around blurhash loading
- Prevent new composer from overflowing from non-breakable text
- Use common subheading on sidebar user settings tab
- Fix clickable area of advanced toggle on appearance user settings tab
- Disable redacting reactions if we don't have sufficient permissions
- Update the live timeline when the JS SDK resets it
- Fix flex blowout on image reply
- Enable background color on hover for chat panel and thread panel
- Fix #20026: send read marker as soon as we change it
- Allow AppTiles to shrink as much as necessary
- Make widgets in video rooms immutable again
- Use MessageActionBar style declarations on pinned message card
- Expire video member events after 1 hour
- Name lists on invite dialog
- Live location share - show loading UI for beacons with start timestamp in the future
- Fix scroll jump issue with the composer
- Fix the incorrect nesting of download button on MessageActionBar
- Revert link color change in composer
- Fix 'Logout' inline link on the splash screen
- Fix disappearing widget poput button when changing the widget layout
- Reduce gutter with the new read receipt UI
- Add ellipsis effect to hidden beacon status
- Make the pill on the basic message composer compatible with display name in RTL languages
- Prevent the banner text from being selected, replacing the spacing values with the variable
- Ensure the first device on a newly-registered account gets cross-signed properly
- Hide live location option in threads composer
- Make sure MessageTimestamp is not hidden by EventTile_line on TimelineCard
- Make PiP motion smoother and react to window resizes correctly
- Prevent Invite and DevTools dialogs from being cut off
- Squish event bubble tiles less
- Use random widget IDs for video rooms
- Fix read avatars overflow from the right chat panel with a maximized widget on bubble message layout
- Fix CallView crash


Element 1.10.15 (64-bit)
- Fix missing element desktop preferences


Element 1.10.14 (64-bit)
Features:
- Make Lao translation available
- Option to disable hardware acceleration on Element Desktop
- Configure custom home.html via .well-known/matrix/client["io.element.embedded_pages"]["home_url"] for all your element-web/desktop users
- Live location sharing - open location in OpenStreetMap
- Show a dialog when Jitsi encounters an error
- Add support for setting the avatar_url of widgets by integration managers
- Add an option to ignore (block) a user when reporting their events
- Add the option to disable hardware acceleration
- Slightly better presentation of read receipts to screen reader users
- Add jump to related event context menu item
- Add public room directory hook

Fixed:
- Stop Jitsi if we time out while connecting to a video room
- Remove inline margin from UTD error message inside a reply tile on ThreadView
- Move unread notification dots of the threads list to the expected position
- Prevent overflow of grid items on a bubble with UTD generally.
- Create 'Unable To Decrypt' grid layout for hidden events on a bubble layout
- Fix - AccessibleButton does not set disabled attribute
- Fix font not resetting when logging out
- Fix local aliases section of room settings not working for some homeservers
- Align EventTile_line with display name on message bubble
- Convert references to direct chat -> direct message
- Improve combining diacritics for U+20D0 to U+20F0 in Chrome
- Make the empty thread panel fill BaseCard
- Fix edge case around composer handling gendered facepalm emoji
- Fix a grid blowout due to nowrap displayName on a bubble with UTD
- Apply the same max-width to image tile on the thread timeline as message bubble
- Fix dropdown button size for picture-in-picture CallView
- Live location sharing - fix square border for image-less avatar (PSF-1052)
- Stop connecting to a video room if the widget messaging disappears
- Fix file button and audio player overflowing from message bubble
- Don't show broken composer format bar when selection is whitespace
- Fix media upload http 413 handling
- Fix emoji picker for editing thread responses. Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#13129
- Map attribution while sharing live location is now visible
- Fix info tile overlapping the time stamp on TimelineCard
- Fix position of wide images on IRC / modern layout
- Fix other user's displayName being wrapped on the bubble message layout
- Set spacing declarations to elements in mx_EventTile_mediaLine
- Fix wide image overflowing from the thumbnail container
- Fix styles of "Show all" link button on ReactionsRow
- Automatically log in after registration
- Fix offline status in window title not working reliably
- Align input area with event body's first letter in a thread on IRC/modern layout
- Fix crash on null idp for SSO buttons
- Don't open the regular browser or our context menu on right-clicking the Options button in the message action bar
- Show notifications even when Element is focused
- Remove padding from the buttons on edit message composer of a event tile on a thread
- ensure metaspace changes correctly notify listeners
- Hide image banner on stickers, they have a tooltip already
- Adjust EditMessageComposer style declarations


Element 1.10.12 (64-bit)
Features:
- Made the location map change the cursor to a pointer so it looks like it's clickable (https
- Implement improved spacing for the thread list and timeline  
- LLS: expose way to enable live sharing labs flag from location dialog
- Fix source text boxes in View Source modal should have full width  
- Read Receipts: never show +1, if it’s just 4, show all of them
- Add opt-in analytics to onboarding tasks
- Allow user to control if they are signed out of all devices when changing password - Implement new Read Receipt design
- Stick connected video rooms to the top of the room list
- LLS: fix jumpy maximised map
- Persist audio and video mute state in video rooms
- Forcefully disconnect from video rooms on logout and tab close
- Add local echo of connected devices in video rooms
- Improve text of account deactivation dialog
- Live location sharing: own live beacon status on maximised view
- Show a lobby screen in video rooms
- Settings toggle to disable Composer Markdown
- Cache localStorage objects for SettingsStore
- Bring View Source back from behind developer mode

Fixed:
- Fix Jitsi Meet getting wedged at startup in some cases.
- Fix camera getting muted when disconnecting from a video room.
- Fix race conditions around threads
- Fix reading of cached room device setting values
- Fix issue with dispatch happening mid-dispatch due to js-sdk emit
- Match MSC behaviour for threads when disabled (thread-aware mode)
- Specify position of DisambiguatedProfile inside a thread on bubble message layout  
- Location sharing: do not trackuserlocation in location picker
- fix text and map indent in thread view
- Live location sharing: don't group beacon info with room creation summary
- Don't linkify code blocks - read receipts: improve tooltips to show names of users
- Fix poll overflowing a reply tile on bubble message layout  
- Fix text link buttons on UserInfo panel  
- Clear local storage settings handler cache on logout
- Fix jump to bottom button being always displayed in non-overflowing timelines
- fix timeline search with empty text box should do nothing  
- Fixes "space panel kebab menu is rendered out of view on sub spaces"
- Add margin to the location map inside ThreadView  
- Patch: "Reloading the registration page should warn about data loss"
- Live location sharing: fix safari timestamps pt 2
- Fix issue with thread notification state ignoring initial events
- Fix event text overflow on bubble message layout  
- Disable the message action bar when hovering over the 1px border between threads on the list  
- correctly align read receipts to state events in bubble layout
- Fix issue with underfilled timelines when barren of content
- Fix baseline misalignment of thread panel summary by deduplication
- Fix editing of non-html replies
- Read Receipts "Fall from the Sky"
- Make read receipts handle nullable roomMembers correctly
- Don't form continuations on either side of a thread root
- Fix centering issue with sticker placeholder and #6449.
- Disable download option on
- Fix infinite loop when pinning/unpinning persistent widgets
- Tweak ReadReceiptGroup to better handle disambiguation
- stop the bottom edge of buttons getting clipped in devtools
- Fix issue with threads timelines with few events cropping events
- Changed font-weight to 400 to support light weight font
- Fix issue with thread panel not updating when it loads on first render
- fix: "Mention highlight and cursor hover highlight has different corner radius"
- Fix regression around haveRendererForEvent for hidden events and #21725.
- Fix regression around the room list treeview keyboard a11y
- Remove float property to let the margin between events appear on bubble message layout  
- Fix race in Registration between server change and flows fetch
- fix rainbow breaks compound emojis  
- Fix RightPanelStore handling first room on app launch wrong
- Fix UnknownBody error message unalignment  
- Use -webkit-line-clamp for the room header topic overflow  
- Fix issue with ServerInfo crashing the modal
- Fixes around threads beta in degraded mode


Element 1.10.11 (64-bit)
Features:
- Handle forced disconnects from Jitsi
- Improve performance of switching to rooms with lots of servers and ACLs
- Avoid a reflow when setting caret position on an empty composer
- Add message right-click context menu as a labs feature
- Live location sharing - basic maximised beacon map
- Live location sharing - render users own beacons in timeline
- Improve Threads beta around degraded mode
- Live location sharing - beacon in timeline happy path
- Add copy button to View Source screen
- Add heart effect
- Update new room icon

Fixed:
- Fix: "Code formatting button does not escape backticks"
- Fix beta indicator dot causing excessive CPU usage
- Fix overlapping timestamps on empty messages
- Fix power selector not showing up in user info when state_default undefined
- Avoid looking up settings during timeline rendering
- Fix a soft crash with video rooms
- Fixes call tiles overflow
- Fix a bug with emoji autocomplete sorting where adding the final ":" would cause the emoji with the typed shortcode to no longer be at the top of the autocomplete list
- Fix image preview sizing for edge cases
- Refactor SecurityRoomSettingsTab and remove unused state  Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#12002
- Don't show the prompt to enable desktop notifications immediately after registration
- Stop tracking threads if threads support is disabled
- Fix some issues with threads rendering
- Fix threads rendering issue in Safari
- Fix space panel width change on hovering over space item
- Hide the reply in thread button in deployments where beta is forcibly disabled
- Prevent soft crash around room list header context menu when space changes  Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11416, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11692, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11739, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11772, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11891 matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11858 and matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11456.
- When selecting reply in thread on a thread response open existing thread
- Handle thread bundled relationships coming from the server via MSC3666
- Fix: Avatar preview does not update when same file is selected repeatedly
- Fix a bug where user gets a warning when changing powerlevel from Admin to custom level (100)
- Use a consistent alignment for all text items in a list
- Fixes button labels being collapsed per a character in CJK languages
- Fix: Remove jittery timeline scrolling after jumping to an event
- Fix regression of edits showing up in the timeline with hidden events shown
- Fix reporting events not working
- Make Jitsi widgets in video rooms immutable
- Fix: Ensure links to events scroll the correct events into view


Element 1.10.10 (64-bit)
Features:
- Handle forced disconnects from Jitsi
- Improve performance of switching to rooms with lots of servers and ACLs
- Avoid a reflow when setting caret position on an empty composer
- Add message right-click context menu as a labs feature
- Live location sharing - basic maximised beacon map
- Live location sharing - render users own beacons in timeline
- Improve Threads beta around degraded mode
- Live location sharing - beacon in timeline happy path
- Add copy button to View Source screen
- Add heart effect
- Update new room icon

Fixed:
- Fix: "Code formatting button does not escape backticks"
- Fix beta indicator dot causing excessive CPU usage
- Fix overlapping timestamps on empty messages
- Fix power selector not showing up in user info when state_default undefined
- Avoid looking up settings during timeline rendering
- Fix a soft crash with video rooms
- Fixes call tiles overflow
- Fix a bug with emoji autocomplete sorting where adding the final ":" would cause the emoji with the typed shortcode to no longer be at the top of the autocomplete list
- Fix image preview sizing for edge cases
- Refactor SecurityRoomSettingsTab and remove unused state Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#12002.
- Don't show the prompt to enable desktop notifications immediately after registration
- Stop tracking threads if threads support is disabled
- Fix some issues with threads rendering
- Fix threads rendering issue in Safari
- Fix space panel width change on hovering over space item
- Hide the reply in thread button in deployments where beta is forcibly disabled
- Prevent soft crash around room list header context menu when space changes Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11416, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11692, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11739, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11772, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11891 matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11858 and matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#11456.
- When selecting reply in thread on a thread response open existing thread
- Handle thread bundled relationships coming from the server via MSC3666
- Fix: Avatar preview does not update when same file is selected repeatedly
- Fix a bug where user gets a warning when changing powerlevel from Admin to custom level (100)
- Use a consistent alignment for all text items in a list
- Fixes button labels being collapsed per a character in CJK languages
- Fix: Remove jittery timeline scrolling after jumping to an event
- Fix regression of edits showing up in the timeline with hidden events shown
- Fix reporting events not working
- Make Jitsi widgets in video rooms immutable
- Fix: Ensure links to events scroll the correct events into view


Element 1.10.9 (64-bit)
Features:
- Release threads as a beta feature
- More video rooms design updates
- Update video rooms to new design specs
- Live Location Sharing - left panel warning with error
- Live location sharing - Stop publishing location to beacons with consecutive errors
- Live location sharing: allow retry when stop sharing fails
- Allow voice messages to be scrubbed in the timeline
- Live location sharing - stop sharing to beacons in rooms you left
- Allow sending and thumbnailing AVIF images
- Live location sharing - handle geolocation errors
- Show voice room participants when not connected
- Add margins between labs sections
- Live location sharing - send geolocation beacon events - happy path
- Add support for Animated (A)PNG
- Don't form continuations from thread roots
- Improve handling of animated GIF and WEBP images
- Wire up file preview for video files
- When showing thread, always auto-focus its composer
- Live location sharing - refresh beacon expiry in room
- Use styled mxids in member list v2
- Delete groups (legacy communities system)
- Add a prototype of voice rooms in labs

Fixed:
- Avoid flashing the Jitsi prejoin screen at the user before skipping it
- Fix editing

      tags with a non-1 start attribute

      - Fix URL previews being enabled when room first created

      - Don't use m.call for Jitsi video rooms

      - Scale emoji with size of surrounding text

      - Make "Jump to date" translatable

      - Normalize call buttons

      - Show room preview bar with maximised widgets

      - Update more strings to not wrongly mention room when it is/could be a space and

      - Fix issue with redacting via edit composer flow causing stuck editStates

      - Fix some image/video scroll jumps

      - Fix "react error on share dialog"

      - Fix disambiguated profile in threads in bubble layout

      - Responsive BetaCard on Labs

      - Display button as inline in room directory dialog

      - Null guard TimelinePanel unmount edge

      - Fix beta pill label breaking

      - Strip relations when forwarding

      - Don't try (and fail) to show replies for redacted events

      - Fix 3pid member info for space member list

      - Set max-width to user context menu

      - Fix issue with falsey hrefs being sent in events

      - Make video sizing consistent with images



      Element 1.10.7 (64-bit)

      Security fixes:

      - Fix a bug where URL previews could be enabled in right panel timelines when they should not have been


      Features:

      - Add a config.json option to skip the built-in Jitsi welcome screen

      - Add unexposed account setting for hiding poll creation

      - Allow pinning polls

      - Make trailing : into a setting

      - Location sharing > back button

      - use LocationAssetType

      - Location share type UI

      - Add a few more UIComponent flags, and ensure they are used in existing code

      - Add support for overriding strings in the app

      - Add support for redirecting to external pages after logout

      - Expose redaction power level in room settings

      - Update and expand ways to access pinned messages

      - Add slash command to switch to a room's virtual room


      Fixed:

      - Remove Lojban translation.

      - Merge pull request from GHSA-qmf4-7w7j-vf23

      - Add another null guard for member

      - Fix room account settings

      - Fix missing summary text for pinned message changes

      - Pass room to getRoomTombstone to avoid racing with setState

      - Hide composer and call buttons when the room is tombstoned

      - Fix bad ternary statement in autocomplete user pill insertions

      - Fix sending locations into threads and fix i18n

      - Fix location map attribution rendering over message action bar

      - Fix wrongly asserting that PushRule::conditions is non-null

      - Fix account & room settings race condition

      - Fix bug with some space selections not being applied

      - Revert "replace all require(.svg) with esm import"

      - Hide unpinnable pinned messages in more cases

      - Fix room list being laggy while scrolling 🐌

      - Make pinned messages more reliably reflect edits

      - Improve accessibility of the BetaPill

      - Autofocus correct composer after sending reaction

      - Consider polls as message events for rendering redactions

      - Prevent event tiles being shrunk/collapsed by flexbox

      - Fix ExportDialog title on export cancellation

      - Mandate use of js-sdk/src/matrix import over js-sdk/src

      - Fix backspace not working in the invite dialog

      - Fix right panel soft crashes due to missing room prop

      - fix color of location share caret

      - Wrap all EventTiles with a TileErrorBoundary and guard parsePermalink

      - Fix changing space sometimes bouncing to the wrong space

      - Ensure EventListSummary key does not change during backpagination - Fix positioning of the thread context menu

      - Inject sender into pinned messages

      - Tweak info message padding in right panel timeline

      - Fix another freeze on room switch

      - Fix out of memory error when failing to acquire location

      - Fix edge case in context menu chevron positioning

      - Fix composer format buttons on WebKit

      - manage voicerecording state when deleting or sending a voice message

      - Fix bug with useRoomHierarchy tight-looping loadMore on error

      - Fix upload button & shortcut not working for narrow composer mode

      - Fix emoji insertion in thread composer going to the main composer

      - Try harder to keep context menus inside the window

      - Fix edge case around event list summary layout

      - Fix event list summary 1 hidden message pluralisation

      - Fix vanishing recently viewed menu

      - Fix freeze on room switch

      - Check 'useSystemTheme' in quick settings theme switcher

      - Fix 'my threads' filtering to include participated threads

      - Remove log line to try to fix freeze on answering VoIP call

      - Support social login & password on soft logout page

      - Fix missing padding on server picker

      - Throttle RoomState.members handlers

      - Only show joined/invited in search dialog

      - Don't pillify code blocks

      - Fix keyboard shortcut icons on macOS



      Element 1.10.6 (64-bit)

      - Fix some crashes in the right panel



      Element 1.10.5 (64-bit)

      Translations:

      - This release contains a significant update to the Japanese translations


      Features:

      - Support "closed" polls whose votes are not visible until they are ended

      - Focus trap in poll creation dialog

      - Add labs flag: Show only current profile on historical messages

      - Keep unsent voice messages in memory until they are deleted or sent

      - A link to #/dm in a custom home.html will open the "Direct Messages" dialog

      - set icon-button-color to be configurable via quaternary-content variable

      - Allow editing polls

      - Abstract spotlight to allow non-room results too  matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10766, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10777, matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10767 matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10760 and matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10752.

      - Display '(edited)' next to edited polls

      - Use the resize observer polyfill consistently Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10700.

      - Consolidate, simplify and improve copied tooltips

      - Suggest @room when @channel, @everyone, or @here is typed in composer

      - Add customisation point to disable space creation

      - Consolidate RedactionGrouper and HiddenEventGrouper into MELS

      - Unify widget header actions with those in right panel

      - Improve new search dialog context text for exactly 2 parent spaces


      Fixed:

      - Fix command key missing in keyboard shortcuts tab

      - [Release] Tweak info message padding in right panel timeline

      - [Release] Fix edge case around event list summary layout

      - Wire up CallEventGroupers for Search Results

      - Fix edge case around event list summary layout

      - Fix misalignment with Event List Summaries

      - Fix non-customizable keybindings not working as expected and matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10830

      - Fix accessibility around the room list treeview and new search beta Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#10873

      - Inhibit tooltip on timeline pill avatars, the whole pill has its own

      - Fix virtual / native room mapping on call transfers

      - Fix ScrollPanel data-scrollbar not responding to window resizing

      - add cursor: pointer to actionable poll options

      - Tear down AppTile using lifecycle tracking

      - Fix layout inconsistencies with the room search minimized button

      - Fix space panel notification badge behaviour and metrics

      - Fix left panel widgets causing app crashes (again)

      - Fix right panel data flow

      - set mask-size for icons

      - Fix room create tile not showing up with hidden events shown

      - Fix delayed badge update for mentions in encrypted rooms

      - Fix add existing space not showing any spaces

      - Fix edge cases around event list summaries with hidden events and redactions #21050 and #21055.

      - Improve styling of edge case devtools state keys

      - Don't scroll to bottom when executing non-message slash commands

      - Fix cutout misalignment on some decorated room avatars

      - Fix desktop notifications for invites showing user IDs instead of displaynames  Contributed by @c-cal.

      - Fix bad pluralisation on event list summary hidden message handling

      - Properly recurse subspaces for leave space dialog options and

      - Fix translation for keyboard shortcut displaynames

      - Fix space member list opening with back button

      - Fix sort order for facepiles which was exactly reverse

      - Fix state events being wrongly hidden when redacted

      - Event List Summary guard against missing event senders

      - Fix all settings button opening sidebar settings tab

      - Fix theme selector dropdown overflow

      - Fix widget and mjolnir state events showing with mxid not name

      - Fix space member list not opening

      - Handle highlight notifications in timeline card button

      - Fix add existing space not showing any spaces

      - Inhibit Room List keyboard pass-thru when the search beta is enabled

      - Add unread notification dot to timeline card button



      Element 1.10.4 (64-bit)

      - Fix bug where badge colour on encrypted rooms may not be correct until anothe rmessage is sent



      Element 1.10.3 (64-bit)

      - Add map tile URL for location sharing maps to sample config (and element.io release app config)



      Element 1.10.1 (64-bit)

      Fixed:

      - Fix the sticker picker

      - Ensure UserInfo can be rendered without a room

      - Fix publishing address wrongly demanding the alias be available



      Element 1.10.0 (64-bit)

      Features:

      - Tweak room list header menu for when space is active  

      - Tweak light hover & active color for bubble layout  

      - De-labs Metaspaces

      - De-labs Message Bubbles layout

      - Add customisation point for mxid display

      - Add labs flag for default open right panel  

      - Tweak copy for the Sidebar tab in User Settings  

      - Make widgets not reload (persistent) between center and top container

      - Don't render a bubble around emotes in bubble layout  

      - Add ability to switch between voice & video in calls

      - Re-renable Share option for location messages

      - Make room ID copyable

      - Improve the look of the keyboard settings tab

      - Add tooltips to emoji in messages  nd

      - Improve redundant tooltip on send button in forward dialog

      - Allow downloads from widgets

      - Parse matrix-schemed URIs

      - Show a tile at beginning of visible history

      - Enable the polls feature

      - Display general marker on non-self location shares

      - Improve/add notifications for location and poll events

      - Upgrade linkify to v3.0

      - Update sidebar icon from Compound  

      - Replace home icon with new one  

      - Make the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog into a settings tab

      - Add setting for enabling location sharing

      - Add a developer mode 'view source' button to crashed event tiles

      - Replace kick terminology with Remove from chat  - Render events as extensible events (behind labs)

      - Render Jitsi (and other sticky widgets) in PiP container, so it can be dragged and the "jump to room functionality" is provided

      - Allow bubble layout in Thread View  

      - Make LocationPicker appearance cleaner

      - Limit max-width for bubble layout to 1200px  

      - Improve look of call events in bubble layout

      - Make files & voice memos in bubble layout match colouring  

      - Allow cancelling events whilst they are encrypting  


      Fixed:

      - [Release] Fix left panel widgets causing app-wide crash

      - Load light theme prior to HTML export to ensure it is present  

      - Fix soft-crash when hanging up Jitsi via PIP  

      - Fix RightPanelStore assuming isViewingRoom is false on load

      - Correctly handle Room.timeline events which have a nullable Room  Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#9490

      - Translate keyboard shortcut alternate key names  

      - Fix unfocused paste handling and focus return for file uploads

      - Changed MacOS hotkey for GoToHome view

      - Fix issue with the new composer EmojiPart which caused infinite loops  

      - Upgrade linkifyjs to fix schemes as domain prefixes  

      - Show bubble tile timestamps for bubble layout inside the bubble  

      - Improve taken username warning in registration for when request fails

      - Avoid double dialog after clicking to remove a public room

      - Fix space member list right panel state  

      - Fall back to legacy analytics for guest users

      - Always emit a space filter update when the space is actually changed  

      - Enlarge emoji in composer

      - Disable location sharing button on Desktop

      - Make pills more natural to navigate around

      - Fix excessive padding on inline images

      - Prevent pills from being split by formatting actions

      - Fix translation of "powerText"

      - Unhide display names when switching back to modern layout

      - Fix space member list not opening

      - Fix translation for the "Add room" tooltip

      - Make the close button of the location share dialog visible in high-contrast theme

      - Cancel pending events in virtual room when call placed  

      - Fix alignment of unread badge in thread list  

      - Fix left positioned tooltips being wrong and offset by fixed value

      - Fix MAB overlapping or overflowing in bubbles layout and threads regressions

      - Fix wrong icon being used for appearance tab in space preferences dialog  

      - Fix /jumptodate using wrong MSC feature flag

      - Ensure maps show up in replies and threads, by creating unique IDs

      - Differentiate between hover and roving focus in spotlight dialog  

      - Fix timeline jumping issues related to bubble layout  

      - Start a conference in a room with 2 people + invitee rather than a 1:1 call

      - Wait for initial profile load before displaying widget

      - Make widgets and calls span across the whole room width when using bubble layout

      - Always show right panel after setting a card

      - Support deserialising HR tags for editing  

      - Refresh ThreadView after React state has been updated  

      - Set initial zoom level to 1 to make zooming to location faster

      - truncate room name on pip header

      - Prevent enter to send edit weirdness when no change has been made  

      - Allow using room pills in slash commands 

Join our mailing list

Stay up to date with latest software releases, news, software discounts, deals and more.

Subscribe