What's Changed ✨ Features Add pillification to the new timeline renderer by @jmartinesp in #7761 Allow getting notifications from other sessions in the same device by @jmartinesp in #7977 🙌 Improvements Keep timeline selection when forwarding is cancelled by @ganfra in #7925 Add room suggestions when forwarding content by @ganfra in #7951 Iterate on the Notification settings screen to match the de…
What's Changed ✨ Features Enable automatic back pagination and unread indicators by default by @jmartinesp in #7800 Allow displaying only unread notifications by @jmartinesp in #7803 Dismiss notifications for rooms fully read in other devices by @jmartinesp in #7846 Announce multi-account support by @bmarty in #7865 Add global search backfill worker by @jmartinesp in #7860 Enable global search fea…
Hotfix version: Fixes an issue with the room list not displaying all activity from unread messages. Full Changelog: v26.09.3...v26.09.4
What's Changed ✨ Features Integrate the new timeline renderer behind a feature flag by @jmartinesp in #7722 Add headers (h1-h6) tag support for the new timeline renderer by @jmartinesp in #7754 🙌 Improvements Add smooth animation to voice messages play progress by @bxdxnn in #7698 Add linkification to the new timeline renderer by @jmartinesp in #7731 🐛 Bugfixes Make global search use a Joined filt…
What's Changed 🙌 Improvements Keep the push foreground service alive while notifications are fetched by @Johennes in #7639 Stop clearing the remote config when clearing the cache by @jmartinesp in #7662 🐛 Bugfixes Fix fetched remote config being cached with the wrong key by @jmartinesp in #7626 Make sure enforce_element_pro is taken into account in FOSS by @jmartinesp in #7631 🗣 Translations Sync…
What's Changed ✨ Features Support creating polls with multiple answers and send response with multiple answers by @bmarty in #7613 🙌 Improvements Only track read receipts on message-like events by @hayaksi1 in #7361 Stop rescanning message bodies for emoji only on every recomposition by @hayaksi1 in #7531 🐛 Bugfixes Ensure that noisy notifications are still noisy when the app has a PIN code. by @b…
Release v26.09.0
Note: this release contains a regression in Element Call. The release will not be pushed to production What's Changed 🧱 Build Add releaseV2.sh, a release script automating the GitHub release by @bmarty in #7579 Update submodule ref. by @bmarty in #7582 Others Keep the formatting of a caption that is being edited by @hayaksi1 in #7572 Say when the server cannot be reached instead of showing nothing…
Note: this release contains a regression in Element Pro. This is not impacting Element X, but the release will not be pushed to production What's Changed ✨ Features Let users enter their full Matrix user ID on the account provider screen by @jennaharris7 in #7500 Enable user status feature and hide status text in the timeline by @bmarty in #7517 🐛 Bugfixes Fix cold start with a mobile deep link by…
What's Changed 🙌 Improvements Render push notifications for live location share starts (MSC4505) by @ara4n in #7203 [Task] Show active call participants in the people list #7199 by @Eklavya47 in #7300 🐛 Bugfixes Fix overlap issue. by @bmarty in #7331 Announce checked/unchecked state for user rows in invite screen by @bmarty in #7136 Display 'add reactions' menu in the threads screen by @jmartinesp…
Note: this release in an internal release, it will not be pushed to the stores. What's Changed ✨ Features Remove the legacy web-based account creation for matrix.org by @jmartinesp in #7412 🙌 Improvements Move the custom tile server URL config to the Element wellknown content by @jmartinesp in #7416 Explain a rate limiting push gateway in the notification troubleshooter by @hayaksi1 in #7448 Move…
What's Changed ✨ Features feat(call): Active call timeline rendering by @BillCarsonFr in #7051 🙌 Improvements Announce expanded/collapsed state on the timeline group header by @unclejay80 in #7226 Allow adding extra elements to the developer settings from external modules by @jmartinesp in #7230 Update keyboard visibility to track hasFocus by @jennaharris7 in #7284 🐛 Bugfixes Live location sharing…
What's Changed ✨ Features Scroll to unread messages by @bmarty in #7024 🙌 Improvements Collapse runs of deleted messages in the timeline by @manfrommedan in #7195 Allow homeserver to disable encryption in Element Pro by @jmartinesp in #7198 🐛 Bugfixes Fix jump-to-unread requiring two taps for an out-of-window read marker by @jennaharris7 in #6943 Add content description to video preview for screen…
What's Changed ✨ Features Add read all messages feature by @hghgrtut in #7049 🐛 Bugfixes Detect RTL text in events and adjust the text rendering by @jmartinesp in #6994 🗣 Translations Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #7071 Sync Strings by @ElementBot in #7115 🧱 Build Fix Sonar with AGP 9 (some workarounds) by @jmartinesp in #7055 Disable periodically generating the screenshot gallery by @jmartinesp…
What's Changed ✨ Features Add well-known parsing and extension seam for custom recovery passphrase by @jennaharris7 in #6944 🙌 Improvements Add ability to forward a message to several rooms. by @bmarty in #7013 🐛 Bugfixes screen_custom_recovery_key_input_notice is now a plurals. by @bmarty in #7045 Replace ContentResolver.delete usage with a backwards-compatible version by @jmartinesp in #7053 Dep…
What's Changed ✨ Features Click on avatar in moderation bottom sheet opens avatar preview by @jmartinesp in #6991 🙌 Improvements Change: hide UserLocationPuck when sharing from current device by @ganfra in #6955 Replace "Edit" button with Crop icon. by @bmarty in #6953 change(location): ensure permissions are always requested at least once by @ganfra in #6996 Refactor: replace client-side event fi…
Security fixes 🔐 Fixed an issue with OIDC callback URLs that could cause the app to crash (GHSA-r4f9-46vw-v7g3). Full Changelog: v26.06.1...v26.06.2
Security fixes 🔐 This release contains some important security fixes: Check the user ID in the sender_device_keys property of Olm-encrypted to-device events to prevent sender spoofing by homeserver owners. (#6553, High, CVE-2026-45056, GHSA-wfq4-36m3-9g42) Reject invalid edits as candidates for timeline updates. (#6454, Moderate, CVE-2026-45057, GHSA-h97m-27fx-42rx) What's Changed ✨ Features Make…
What's Changed ✨ Features Image edition before sending: crop and rotate. by @bmarty in #6842 Use a raw key for the SDK stores for new sessions by @jmartinesp in #6835 Notification settings: pick custom sounds for messages and call ringtones by @bmarty in #6897 🙌 Improvements Do not show membership/profile events in public rooms by @bxdxnn in #6360 Use runBlocking for the token refresh logic by @jm…
v26.06.0
What's Changed ✨ Features Remove SignInWithClassic FeatureFlag to enable the feature. by @bmarty in #6698 Create a new room when inviting people in a DM by @jmartinesp in #6756 Remove LiveLocationSharing feature flag by @ganfra in #6811 🙌 Improvements Disable biometric unlock when we disable pin code unlock by @jmartinesp in #6781 🐛 Bugfixes Fix room list duplicate-detection telemetry crashing bef…
What's Changed ✨ Features Add flag for automatic back pagination feature by @jmartinesp in #6637 Promote "history sharing on invite" out of developer options by @richvdh in #6647 Remove RoomDirectorySearch feature flag — always enable the feature by @Copilot in #6736 🙌 Improvements Change native back button behavior in EC view (close settings in EC with os native back) by @toger5 in #6642 Revert P…
What's Changed 🙌 Improvements Natural media viewer swiping order by @bxdxnn in #6431 Replace rustls-platform-verifier-android.aar with single class by @jmartinesp in #6610 Cleanup FetchPushForegroundService by @jmartinesp in #6577 cleaning: Remove join button from call notify timelineItemView by @BillCarsonFr in #6603 🐛 Bugfixes Fix crash when going back to threads list by @bxdxnn in #6620 audio:…