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Changes for Relay 0.5.7 UI polish Made the room pill more prominent and dynamic in the main window title; removed the minimum-width constraint on the title. Restyled blockquotes with a leading quote icon. Refactored reaction badges. Text zoom Added text zoom for the timeline and compose box (View menu). Zoom now scales the app chrome too, debounces row re-measurement, and keeps the timeline…
Another set of fixes and features for Relay is here! New On-device live captions for remote participants in MatrixRTC calls. Captions are generated locally using on-device speech recognition -- nothing leaves your Mac. Camera and microphone input selection in the call window. You can now switch devices without leaving the call. Typing indicators now use a user-colored breathing bubble animation.…
Relay 0.5.5 Release Notes Calls (MatrixRTC) Fixed joining an in-progress call that had no visible participants or a split SFU Fixed call state not tearing down when a call fails to connect Show the active connecting step on slow networks so you know what's happening Show ongoing-call state in the room toolbar button Improved SFU discovery: fall back to peer-advertised foci, honor focus_selection:…
What's new in Relay 0.5.4 (Build 19)? Reactions redesign New iMessage-inspired emoji picker: a horizontally scrollable capsule of recently used emoji appears above the message bubble. Frequently used emoji are promoted automatically. Reactions now display as compact circle badges overlaid on the message bubble corner, with spring-animated fan-out on hover. Reply bubble redesign Replies now show an…
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Relay 0.5.3 is here with a whole collection of more polish and improvement. Timeline System events (joins, leaves, name changes, etc.) are now grouped when they occur in sequence and can be expanded to see individual events. Typing indicators are restyled as inline message rows inside the timeline scroll area instead of floating above the compose bar. Attachments now show thumbnails instead of…
Relay 0.5.2 is out with few critical bug fixes: Fixed an issue requesting audio input device permission when starting a call Fixed an issue accepting incoming emoji verification requests Fixed an issue with infinite view invalidation causing 100% CPU consumption Come say hello, get a link to the TestFlight builds and chat with us in #relayapp:matrix.org .
Relay 0.5.1 is here with a few quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. Room Upgrades Rooms that have been upgraded now display a tombstone banner linking to the new room. Archived/replaced rooms can be filtered from the room list. HTML Rendering Tables are now rendered in formatted messages. Improved paragraph spacing in HTML content. Inspector Share room links directly from the inspector…
Relay 0.5.0 is here! This is a big update. A feature I never expected to land in Relay was contributed by Andrew Hunter : voice and video calling via MatrixRTC! Read on for the full set of changes. Voice & Video Calling Integrated LiveKit for native voice and video calling via MatrixRTC. End-to-end encrypted calls with Element Call interop. Group call support with tiled remote participants.…
Relay 0.4.4 was just published for distribution in Test Flight. This release has a pile of new features: Draft messages -- Compose text is saved per-room. Switch rooms and come back without losing your message. Room settings & permissions -- Edit room details (name, topic, avatar) and manage member permissions from the room inspector. Activity Log -- New debug window (Window menu) that shows sync…