- Show last usage timestamp of OMEMO keys - Use the iOS 18 UI in the share sheet - Allow using any language in the Display Name field in account settings - Try to improve location sharing accuracy - Improve contact last activity timestamps - Fix several bugs

- Fixed speaker not turning on for video calls on some devices - Now forcing SASL2+SCRAM for yax.im (already forced for conversations.im) - Fixed display of messages containing a list of urls - Fixed crash when receiving files with too long filenames - Fixed rare case not connecting to a server after bringing the app from foreground to background too fast - Fixed rare OMEMO devicelist publishing loop (thanks renegade) - Fixed list of contacts in share sheet to not contain contacts only known from groupchats (thanks Kati) - Fixed very rare OMEMO identity regeneration when receiving a push after device reboot but before entering the passcode for the first time - Notes about new/deleted OMEMO devices of chat partners aren't displayed anymore for TOFU devices (no device explicitly trusted/untrusted by the user) - Fixed some more small bugs

- Fixed omemo devicelist updates not published properly - Fixed endless loop adding/removing devices from omemo devicelist - Fixed audio recording timer visibility in dark mode - Fixed audio playback not working after recording a voice message - Accelerated connection establishment - Fixed joining of groups/channels after a longer period of being offline - Fixed long delay when sometimes answering an incoming call - Fixed internal state updates taking too long - Fixed crash when opening a new chat that wasn't listed as active before - Moved heavy deallocation work to a background task to make initial connection faster - Don't try to retrieve messages older than our autodelete timeout, if active - Allow users to ping the push appserver for debugging notification problems - Improved accessibility if users configure a dynamic font in settings (bigger text sizes)

- Fixed crash when receiving broken OMEMO bundles - Better fix for audio/video codec issues (aka black video stream) - Fixed broken video calls by fixing bug in Mozilla's webrtc-sdp library - Reworked complete OMEMO trust management - Fixed spurious "new OMEMO device found" notifications and status messages - Introduced some new OMEMO expert settings - Improved UI responsiveness in some rare cases - Made sure to periodically advance the OMEMO DH-ratchet even on devices only used for receiving messages, not sending - Made sure to remove old OMEMO devices not seen for more than 90 days from own devicelist

- Removed christmas special again - Added Estonian and Telugu translations - Fixed random black video feed on video calls - Make it harder for spammers to mention everybody: ignore mentions if more than 5 participants are mentioned per message - Properly display Visitor role in Channels - Add "Request Voice" button to contact details of moderated Channels

- Fixed Add Account screen

- Change App Logo to Christmas special by Ann-Sophie Zwahlen - Fix some presence leaks - Detect device migrations more reliably - Improve OMEMO discovery for chats with users not in our contact list - Don't crash on every bind errors - Add Telugo translations - Add Czech appstore translation - Make Appstore metadata translatable via Weblate - Make Appstore changelog entries translatable via Weblate - Improve MAM error messages - Show additional confirmation dialog before sharing location in a chat - Fixed rare crash when adding a new account

- Don't crash on unexpected call states - Don't fail when sending files using the sharesheet - Implement strict ordering of SCRAM attributes - Warn if MUC changes from private group to public channel - Added Chinese appstore description - Fixed multiple crashes - Ignore transient MUC errors from prosody - Fix automatic speaker activation in video calls - Allow SASL2 without channel-binding and SSDP - Changed some webrtc values, does this fix the video call problem?

- Don't mirror local camera view in videocalls - Don't autodisable account on some minor errors - Fix mam queries broken by last release

- Fixed handling of fromUser and toUser in muc mam queries - Contacts from the address book can now be shared again., thanks Melvo - Fix crashes when connectivity is unstable - Don't play call error sounds indefinitely - Fix bug in roster subscription handling

- Properly open links in external browser, if configured to do so - Fix accidental reordering of chats when opening a chat - Fixed display of back button in omemo keys view - Fixed display of back button in password change view - Fixed scrolling behavior in onboarding flow - Added workaround for compiler bug causing crashes - Fixed rare crashes when using the "respond via notification" functionality - Fixed discovery of jid type (muc/account) for some bridges

- Don't accept forbidden control characters as chat input - Update ssdp implementation to version 0.4 - Fix some more bugs

- Fix rare crashes on app startup - Improve internal logging - Fixed background crash - Revert christmas/winter special - Fix crash on incoming non-spec-conformant LMC - Make xmpp gateway detection more robust (thanks lissine) - Add new action to directly block users on incoming subscription requests rather than just denying the request - Check if we are still joined when opening a channel/group and rejoin if not

- Make sure to not enable accounts without password after being restored via iCloud backup - Improve OMEMO handling when offline - Fix more background crashes - Workaround for broken stun/turn on ejabberd lower than 24.12 - Christmas/winter special

- Add Arabic appstore description - Fix crashes when backgrounding app - Fix some more rare crashes

- Fix regression when connecting solely using old STARTTLS connection method - Fix crash when being unable to connect while creating new account - Fix connection problems on slow connections - Show timestamp of last received push in notification debug menu - Fix various other crashes

- Fix out-of-memory crash when parsing link previews - Fix display of qr-code button when viewing own omemo keys - Make discovery of group/channel names more reliable - Don't crash on errors when adding a new account - Don't leave messages in "Sending..." state after resuming the app from background - Allow adding gateway jids as contacts - Make group/channel detection more reliable when adding via jid

- Fix xmpp: uri handling - Fix spurious PLAIN warning again

- Fix omemo handling when chatting with users not in the contact list - Improve PLAIN-only warning message on first login - Don't show spurious "new message" notifications for outgoing media files - Make sure to open the receiver's chat when sharing via sharesheet - Fix hang on startup - Fix SASL2 upgrade path for servers using LDAP as auth backend

- Add setting to configure if file transfers should show up in Files App - Add setting to send images as original - Improve Onboarding texts - Fix flickering of intro screens - Improve handling of xmpp: URIs - Several other bugfixes

- Allow image cropping when setting a group/channel avatar - Fix position of floating scroll-to-bottom button (thanks Matthew Fennell) - Fix buttons in contact list not working sometimes (thanks Matthew Fennell) - Implement setting to control the time used for auto-deletion of messages (thanks Noman Ashraf) - Fix bug sometimes showing an empty list of omemo keys in groups - Fix saving of group name when creating groups on ejabberd servers - Fix message retraction in groups/channels - Fixed dark mode display of chat placeholder image (park) - New Onboarding flow introducing Monal, XMPP and Privacy Settings - Accessibility fixes when using VoiceOver - Merge and improve add contact menu and contact requests menu - Show contact requests menu when tapping onto a contact request notification - Fix several crashes and other bugs - Updated translations - This is the last release that will support iOS 14 + 15.

- Implement channel management - Rewrite of complete group/channel management UI - Implement group/channel destroy button - Fix crash on message retraction - Fix bug in Message Displayed Synchronization handling (XEP-0490) - Improve AV-Call connectivity (allow incoming P2P connections) - Implement optional DNSSEC validation - Restructure settings menu to be more accessible and resemble the structure of the new Conversations' settings menu - Fix sharing files using share sheet - Fix initial scroll position when opening a chat - Add new setting to enable/disable in-app display of webpages in Safari - Make more parts of the UI translatable (accessibility labels, section headings etc.) - Implement SVG support for received images and displaying avatars - Fix typos in english strings - Update license texts to include all used libraries - Open websites linked in settings inline (but allow to open them in the default browser, too)

- Fix flickering of chat background image - Make keyboard auto-appear configurable - Improve error propagation when uploading/downloading files - Fix detection of omemo keys for groupchats - Make several UI elements translatable now - Fix error handling when creating groups - Show used / discovered MUC servers in server details

- Fix muc status code handling for biboumi - Implement XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction - Implement XEP-0490: Message Displayed Synchronization - Better default chat background for light and dark mode - Fix crashes when used with very old Openfire server - Improve cert error message - Highlight selected chat on iPad and macOS - Mark pinned chats with icon instead of color - Completely rewrite privacy settings (thanks Vaidik) - Automatically focus chat input and open keyboard when entering chat - Allow SASL PLAIN on servers not supporting SCRAM but SASL2 - Completely new debug menu - Add new privacy setting to allow/block calls from strangers - Don't block callkit in china anymore - Fix several other crashes and UI bugs

Features: - Group creation - Group management - Displaying qr-codes when generating invitations, thanks lissine - Added privacy setting to ignore incoming messages from unknown sources Fixes: - Improved background handling - Multiple iPad related fixes - Fixed backscrolling for selfchats (notes to self) - Fixed muc status code handling - Fixed dark mode for some alerts - Improved accessibility of several of our new UIs (thank you very much @ryanlintott) - Improve first login - Improve multi account devices - Many crash & bug fixes