4.9.0
Important announcement
This release probably will be the very last one for the time being.
I decided to put BTD in a "feature freeze" state and will only address critical bug fixes should they arise until the eventual rollout of the new TweetDeck that will break BTD entirely. Please read the following issue for more details #848.
Note that this decision was taken before the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter, but this situation confirms my intention of not wanting much to do with TweetDeck until the new version releases, or it disappears/breaks completely. Thank you all for using and supporting the project, and thank you to the Tweeps who allowed it to stay alive and contributed/worked on TweetDeck. 🫡
See also thread on Twitter about this release
If you want to stay tuned about my future side projects that may or may not include a 3rd party Twitter(+Mastodon?) web client:
Feature highlight
Add a setting to show a badge for accounts that are "Blue verified". This setting is opt-in. Who knows if this whole thing will still be up by the time this update reaches you? Oh well!
Thanks to:
- @luciascarlet for the nerd checkmark
- @JoshQuake for the clown checkmark
Other changes
- Add settings to highlight/mute tweets made in a Twitter Circle (#853 thanks @Vogeslu)
- Migrate the Chrome extension to Manifest V3. This shouldn't break or change anything, but Google will stop accepting Manifest V2 extensions soon, so this was needed. I'll be doing a similar update when Mozilla/Apple starts accepting Manifest V3 extensions.
- Made tooling optimizations to have smaller files so Mozilla's validation system wouldn't reject the extension because of its size.
- More fixes around content warnings detection.
- Fixes around the "show link preview" setting.
- Mark the extension as requiring Safari 15.4 at a minimum due to the switch to Event Pages.
