Air

New release: Air v0.22.0

Air is a new private messenger based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol.

✨️ New features:

• Animated image behavior can now be changed
• Warning for expired versions of the app

🛠️ Fixes:

• Dark(er) mode color tweaks
• Attachment thumbnails now appear faster
• Unwanted keyboard appearances have been tamed
• Smaller UX fixes
• Performance & stability improvements

New release: Air v0.20.0

Air is a new private messenger based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Invite-only for now.

✨️ New features:

• Many design changes to prepare for desktop support
• More preparation for multi-client support
• Notifications are grouped (Android)

We will be at @republica@berlin.social over the next 3 days and brought some invitation codes for Air! ✨

Reach out to @cityroler@chaos.social if you’d like to get early access to Air.

#rp26

It’s still early days for Air, but the foundation on which it is built is solid. The @sovtechfund@mastodon.social funded a security audit conducted by @srlabs@infosec.exchange of the underlying end-to-end encryption.

https://blog.phnx.im/openmls-independent-security-audit/

New release: Air v0.15.0

Air is a new private messenger based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Invite-only for now.

✨️ New features:

- Tab bar navigation for mobile clients
- Add a message to copied invitation codes

🛠️ Fixes:

- Back gesture on Android works again
- Empty groups could not be created
- Open notification navigation on Android
- Performance improvements
- Open links without a scheme

New release: Air v0.16.1

Air is a new private messenger based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Invite-only for now.

✨️ New features:

- Date separators in the chat
- Support for animated GIFs
- Highlight quoted messages when jumping to them

🛠️ Fixes:

- Contact requests could sometimes not be accepted
- The status bar used the wrong color sometimes on iOS
- Display a button to manually download attachments
- Robustness and performance improvements

New release: Air v0.12.0

✨️ New features:

- The status of the last sent message is now visible in the chat list

🛠️ Fixes:

- Make text selection in composer smoother
- Bring back image preview to mobile clients
- Hide message composer in contact request screen
- Font size now follows the system settings
- Improve right-clicking on test messages
- Increase the back button hit area
- Ignore empty message edits
- Consistent status bar color in light mode

New release: Air v0.11.1

Air is a new private messenger based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Invite-only for now.

✨️ New features:

- Message deletion: delete messages for yourself or for everyone
- Support for pasting images and files
- New Android tray icon

🛠️ Fixes:

- Robustness improvements for message handling
- Contact requests were sometimes showing multiple times
- Opening the app from a notification didn't show the right content

New release: Air v0.13.0

Air is a new private messenger based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Invite-only for now.

✨️ New features:

- Reply to messages inline. Swipe right on a message to reply to it.

🛠️ Fixes:

- No more crashes on older Android versions
- Fixed a race condition in group management
- Tapping on a message notification now reliably marks the message as read once the app is open
- The mouse cursor now changes when hovering on links

🛠️ Fixes:

• Better animations for new messages
• The UI sometimes froze
• Which message was last read was not always right
• Improvements to message processing stability
• Android push notifications are now more stable
• Better UI scaling (esp. on linux)
• Performance improvements
• Various minor fixes