Vector v0.2.1

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 💬 Group Chats: chat with up to ~100 people at once, with OpenMLS-powered encryption.
• 🐱 Emoji Redesign: a beautiful Emoji Panel redesign, with enhanced search.
• 📝 New Markdown Engine: bringing the best modern markdown features to Vector via our new, expressive markdown engine.
• 🔎 Image Magnifier: you can now tap on images to fullscreen them, with Zooming & Panning.
• 🛡️ New Privacy Features: URL-tracker stripping, Web Preview toggling, and Typing Indicator toggling.
• ☁️ Blossom-based Media Storage: Vector now uses the decentralised Blossom Protocol for File Storage.
• ✈️ Send Button: a new mobile-friendly Send Button that replaces the Microphone button when text is written.
• 🟢 Notification Dot: an in-app notification dot now displays when you have unread messages in other chats.
• 🤖 Bot Indicators: Vector now displays a small branded '🤖' bot icon next to Vector Bots, for easy identification.
• 🐦 X Previews: posts on X are new previewed in the chat.

Improved:

• 🎆 Optimised Image Uploads: images now upload significantly faster, thanks to a 29,800x speed improvement in Vector's Blurhashing algorithm.
• 🎇 More Image Previews: preview support was added for both TIFF and ICO image files.
• 🖼️ Image Type Display: image previews now display a small File Extension indicator at the bottom-right of each image.
• 🛜 Intelligent Profile Sync: Vector now has a bandwidth-optimised, high performance Profile Sync system to keep your contact list up-to-date without wasting bandwidth on Billy, who last DM'd you "hi" 8 months ago.
• 👤 New Placeholder Avatars: a simplified, brand-tuned display for Avatar-less chats.
• 📜 Infinite Scroll: you can now infinitely scroll your chat history.
• ❇️ New Syncing Design: a sleek, slim 'syncing bar' displays and pulses while Vector is syncing, disappearing when done.
• 💚 UI Polish: an uncountably large amount of small UI adjustments to improve UX, consistency
  & stability.

Fixed:

• 🫡 Too many bugs to count.

Vector v0.2.0

A new Vector release arrives! If you can see this, the changelog has not been written yet, wait around to see whats new!

Vector v0.1.9

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• ⚙️ Account Exports: You can now export your account via Seed Phrase (for Vector-created accounts) and nsec (for all accounts), improving multi-device logins and providing an improved backup method for users.

Improved:

• ⚡ Stability Improvements: Vector now has far better stability with large contact lists, message history, and smoother database upgrades, Mutes now reliably apply to chats.
• 📁 Expanded File Support: Vector now handles significantly more file upload formats.
• 🏓 Notification Reliability: Unread Markers are more reliable, no longer leaving messages accidentally 'unread'.
• 💚 UI Polish: Minor improvements were added to the UI, fixing some lop-sided buttons and ensuring consistency in our themes.

Fixed:

• 🤳 Android Voice Messages: Long Voice Messages on Android no longer 'clip' and end early in neither Recording or Playback.

Vector v0.1.8

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 🔥 Auto-Updates: Vector now notifies you of pending updates, and allows upgrading in a single click. No more GitHub upgrades. (Windows and MacOS are the target platforms, Linux one-click updates may be unsupported).

Improved:

• ⚡ Improved Relay Connectivity: Vector now proactively polls its connected Relays for liveness, ensuring maximum connectivity, even in unstable environments.
• 💚 Renderer Throttling: Vector now throttles its rendering process when in the background; this allows it to continue running in a low-power-state, without losing connection or functionality, maximum efficiency without the drawbacks.

Vector v0.1.7

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 📱 Android Support: Vector in your pocket, on-the-move, without a trace.
• 🤳 Profile Revamp: animated banners, bios, ability to Mute and Nickname folks, and an expanded Profile Editor.
• 📡 Network Revamp: a real-time Relay Viewer, enhanced connection stability and message-sending reliability.

Improved:

• 📀 New Media Server: a free-to-use, 5 TB, highly-optimised NIP-96 Media Server for your encrypted cloud.

Unfinished changelog, the full feature and additions list will trickle in throughout the next 24h.