CHANGELOG.md

v6.2.0 (2022-09-22)

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES ⚠️

• Added feature to set how Ferdium handles WebRTC IP Exposure (under Settings > Privacy)
  • Services that depend on RTC can be affected by this change (eg. Discord). Please see @SpecialAro comment on the issue #611 to see a way to fix it.

Features

• Added Latvian in the list of supported languages.
• New Crowdin translation updates (Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Japanese, Hebrew, Latvian)

Services

• Added Magic Level recipe
• Added Mailfence recipe
• Added Odysee recipe
• Added OnMail recipe
• Updated Proton Mail icon
• Fixed Ferdium theme warning hijacking popups on WhatsApp

Bug fixes

Under the hood

• Upgrade electron to 20.2.0
• Upgrade electron-builder to 23.5.1
• Upgrade nodejs to 16.17.0
• Upgrade electron to 20.1.2

v6.1.0 (2022-08-27)

Features

• Added native Ferdium Translator.
• Added language support for Vietnamese, Arabic, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, Norwegian, Romanian, Sinhala and Swedish. Note that the percentage of each translation can be found in: https://crowdin.com/project/ferdium-app
• New translation updates (Crowdin)

Services

• Added Grammarly recipe
• Added warning to whatsapp theming
• Added Tick recipe

Bug fixes

• Fix purple screen when trying to run a second instance of Ferdium
• Fix for Windows not detecting Ferdium window after maximized with the tray icon
• Fix for app dark mode handler replacing the dark mode recipe setting
• Fix Toggle Full Screen not working on Menu bar

Under the hood

• Add mailto to email in md files
• Upgrade electron to 20.1.0
• docs: Update README badges
• ci/cd: Make winget workflow ready for production
• Update Ferdi/Ferdium names in Migration guide
• Upgrade npm to 8.14.0
• Upgrade nodejs to 16.16.0
• Replace deprecated react-addons-css-transition-group with react-transition-group
• chore: change values with mobx actions
• Upgrade electron-builder to 23.3.3
• Fix bad conversion to action of reaction _setLocale()
• Fix pnpm run create directions on recipes

v6.0.0 (2022-07-21)

Features

• Handle both ferdi and ferdium servers for transferring from
• Refactor the 'Welcome' screen and the 'SetupAssistant' for better UX
• Create winget updater GH workflow (#484)
• Feature: Add Release Notes
• Add 'Services' tab to settings

Services

Bug fixes

• Fix icons misalignment in horizontal mode
• horizontal sidebar style on macOS
• enable/disable todos menu
• remove autoHibernate
• draggable area on fullscreen (macOS)

Under the hood

• Added more badges into 'README.md`
• Fix prepare-code script
• use global crowdin link and lint fixes
• Use defaults defined in one place instead of hardcoding in multiple places

v6.0.0-beta.3 (2022-07-12)

Features

• Bring the draggable area back on MacOS
• Remember collapsed state of hamburger menu on refresh/reboot
• Add NSIS and portable arm64 builds for Windows OS
• Copy Ferdium info from the About dialog into the clipboard
• Change names of released artifacts for better intuitive experience of first time users
• Add Server Information to About Dialog and to Global Messages
• Add hint text to go back to welcome screen from the login screen
• Remove msi builds on windows and build separate windows installers for all archs
• Allow selecting help text (eg the user-agent helper urls)

Services

• New recipe: protondrive
• New recipe: pushover
• Switch from counting of space-badges to room tile badges for Element
• Fix syntax errors in nextcloud recipes
• Hide install messenger button
• Workaround for Whatsapp Web UI lag
• New recipe: trakt.tv
• New recipe: Zammad
• Fix outlook issue by changing the service URL
• New recipe: Tiktok
• New recipe: GamingOnLinux
• Allow self-hosted option for bitbucket
• Fix in app URLs for discord
• Fix indirect notification count in github
• New recipe: kiwiIRC
• Fix issue with telegram web-k not being recognized correctly
• Fix facebook notifications counter

Bug fixes

• Reduce tab item layout shift
• Disable API Server recipes updates
• Fix Cache Settings subsection styling
• Fix toggle for pre-release updates on Ubuntu
• Fix crowdin link on app
• Disable symlinks to build_id for rpm
• Fix bug of TODO settings not being shown when a TODO Recipe is present
• Add file size info and error message while setting a custom image in the recipe settings screen
• Use the default accent color if the user removes value from textbox
• Fix Menu bar on Windows not being clickable
• Fix local server import/export
• Fix blank screen after in-app update on Windows
• Fix Windows 11 Platform message

Under the hood

• chore: moved tests to ./test directory
• Add documentation about exporting settings when using the internal server [skip ci]
• Converted portions of the javascript code into typescript
• Move the MIGRATION.md documentation from another repo [skip ci]
• recommend specific vscode extensions to setup development [skip ci]
• Change allowed version for MSVS on Windows build script [skip ci]
• Checks if MSVS 2019 or 2022 exists through reg key [skip ci]
• Mobx & React-Router upgrade
• Upgrade npm to 8.13.2 and pnpm to 7.4.1
• Upgrade electron-updater to 5.1.0
• Upgrade electron to 19.0.8
• Upgrade moment to fix dependabot warning
• Upgrade macos-notification-state to 2.0.1
• Upgrade pnpm to 7.5.0
• Upgrade electron-builder to 23.3.1

v6.0.0-beta.2 (2022-06-25)

Features

• Add ability to navigate recipe with mouse buttons
• Add audio-record plug to snap build
• Add removable-media snap interface
• Add color picker component for accent color setting
• Add 'Google Keep' as another option in Ferdium TODOs
• Add progress indicator on top of the Ferdium window for page loading. The color of the progressbar can be set globally, and it can be enabled/disabled per-service
• Add startpage.com as option search-engine and make it the default for new users
• Remove Ferdi Server from available Servers List
• Add Toggle Navbar to View Menu (global)
• Change 'Most Popular' list in Services to 'Ferdium Picks'
• Change login screen layout
• Disable TODOs feature by default
• Add split mode toggle to side bar, View menu and hide/collapse button
• Improve TODO menu behaviour on fresh install

Services

Bug fixes

• Fix hero image (was referring to ferdi repo)
• Fix blank window appearing on startup
• Fix service labels cut off when using Slim Sidebar
• Fix broken faq url
• Fix for Developer Tools not showing up via menu
• Move location of 'Change server' link on main screen for better visibility
• Fix default accent color to Ferdium gradient
• Fix reload after resume and add idle time setting
• Don't replace custom icon when service updates
• Workaround for in-app Password Recovery
• Fix navigation toolbar buttons not being clickable
• Fix drag-n-drop not working if the service name is shown
• Fix ribbon menu style on windows

Under the hood

• Expose a new utility method 'Ferdium.isImage' for use by recipes
• Align 'Save service' button to right when adding recipe
• Change Input box to slider on Grayscale dim level
• Upgrade electron to the latest public version (19.0.6) to bring in lots of security fixes
• Upgrade node to 16.15.1, npm to 8.12.2 and pnpm to 7.3.0
• Upgrade electron-builder to 23.2.0 and electron-updater to 5.0.6
• Enable AutoUpdates from in-app with code-signing certificates on macOS and windows
• Remove integration with sentry
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md for new contributors' dev machine setup
• Lock snapcraft to v5 since v7 breaks the build
• Add GH workflows to publish on nightly, beta and release builds for homebrew casks and reddit
• Remove DevContainer from project

v6.0.0-beta.1 (2022-05-26)

Features

• Rebrand from Ferdi to Ferdium (text and visuals)
• New website is up and running!
• Ferdium server is also available for those who want to self-host
• Ferdium server also shows up as an option for those who want to move away from the publicly-hosted Ferdi server
• Add scripts/documentation to help users migrate from Ferdi to Ferdium (not automated due to the various combinations possible) - both hosted-server as well as serverless modes
• Use a different port number for the internal server (used in accountless mode) so that it doesn't clash if a user wants to run Ferdi and Ferdium simultaneously
• Resurrect the electron-process-manager for Ferdium
• Hide sidebar buttons toggled behind a hamburger menu
• Add monochromatic Service icons option with Dim adjustment
• Add new service-level option where the user can choose whether to open links in Ferdium or in the default browser. Currently implemented only for discord, skype, steamchat and zoom.

Services

• Fix unread count for msteams service
• Improve view width on Telegram 'K' version
• Fix LinkedIn dark mode
• Don't count muted chats, remove defunct workarounds in FB Messenger
• Add Gitea recipe
• Fix unread message counts for zulip, groupme and hostnet recipes
• Add support for self-hosted github url

Bug fixes

• Fix height of tab items in relation to width for Normal Sidebar
• Fix issue where the password got reset if any other setting was changed
• Increase the vertical height of the draggable area to center the 3 OS titlebar-buttons

Under the hood

• Upgrade electron to the latest public version (18.3.1) to bring in lots of security fixes
• Remove explicit dependency on node-gyp so as to minimize issues for compilation across different OSes and versions
• Turn off signing of mac and windows artifacts till we acquire the licenses
• Add build scripts for linux, macos and windows to help new contributors get Ferdium setup quickly for local development
• Convert some javascript files to typescript
• Start adding some unit tests (still a long way to go for decent coverage)
• Upgrade system dependencies and node modules to newer versions
• Update list of contributors in all repositories