Would like to release tonight a new milestone of my messenger. It should be a little bit more comfortable to use now! Also there is a place with my gratitude to you, awesome people who help me one way or another!

Changelog

Squawk 0.2.2 (May 05, 2022)

Bug fixes

• now when you remove an account it actually gets removed
• segfault on uninitialized Availability in some rare occasions
• fixed crash when you open a dialog with someone that has only error messages in archive
• message height is now calculated correctly on Chinese and Japanese paragraphs
• the app doesn't crash on SIGINT anymore

Improvements

• there is a way to disable an account and it wouldn't connect when you change availability
• if you cancel password query an account becomes inactive and doesn't annoy you anymore
• if you filled password field and chose KWallet as a storage Squawk wouldn't ask you again for the same password
• if left the password field empty and chose KWallet as a storage Squawk will try to get that password from KWallet before asking you to input it
• accounts now connect to the server asynchronously - if one is stopped on password prompt another is connecting
• actualized translations, added English localization file

New features

• new "About" window with links, license, gratitudes
• if the authentication failed Squawk will ask again for your password and login
• now there is an amount of unread messages showing on top of Squawk launcher icon
• notifications now have buttons to open a conversation or to mark that message as read

Please report any bugs you find!

#xmpp, #qt