Here comes the first bugfix release of the year 🎉

The 0.29.1 comes with a more polished and improved Stories feature, database fixes as well as some preparatory work for the PHP 8.4 version.

This release will be the last one to support PHP 8.1. PHP 8.2 and above will then be required for Movim 0.30.

Polishing the Stories feature

In the 0.29 Movim introduced the Stories feature, it is even now showcased on the main website.

This release fixes a few quirks introduced in the last version:

• When viewing Stories between different browsers on the same connected account the "viewed" synchronization is now working properly.
• It is now possible to publish Stories without having a camera enabled (or no camera at all), you'll then be able to just pick an image file from your device gallery.
• The play/pause buggy feature was fixed with a new timer (which was also used in the Chat dictaphone fixing some recording timer problems).
• Close the Stories viewer using the previous button or Esc key.

Preliminary work on PHP 8.4

The brand new PHP 8.4 release introduces a lot of interesting new features... but also deprecates some old syntaxes and enforces strong typing for some extensions.

Most of the errors were fixed in the Movim code but the dependencies need to be updated to ensure proper compatibility with this version, this update will drop the PHP 8.1 version (that is now in end of life). So we are suggesting to start to update to at least PHP 8.2 to prepare for the upcoming release.

Database fixes

The most important fixes of this release are related to the database. A serious issue with chatroom presences that was preventing Movim to handle some of them was fixed (issue #1386). This fix leads to discover a more serious issue that was there for more than two years (!) and that causes some presences to be deleted from the cache unexpectedly (issue #1357).

Those changes come with some database migrations, don't forget to migrate when updating Movim!

The translations were also updated, a big thanks to all the translators 🫶

That's all folks! ✨

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