mattermost-desktop/CHANGELOG.md

Mattermost Desktop Application Changelog

Release v1.3.0 (Beta)

Changes

• Changed the license, from MIT License to Apache License, Version 2.0.

Fixes

Windows

• Fixed the pixelated app icon on the top left of the window.
• Fixed the blurred tray icon.

OS X

• Fixed that two icons appear on a notification.

Improvements

• Added shortcuts
  • Zoom
    • Ctrl+0 (View -> Actual Size): Reset the zoom level.
    • Ctrl+Plus (View -> Zoom In)
    • Ctrl+Minus (View -> Zoom Out)
  • Control window
    • Ctrl+W (Window -> Close): On Windows and Linux, this works as minimize for the main window.
    • Ctrl+M (Window -> Minimize)
  • Switch teams (these shotcuts also reopen the main window)
    • Ctrl+{1-9} (Window -> Team name): Open the n-th tab.
    • Ctrl+Tab or Alt+Command+Right (Window -> Select Next Team): Open the right tab.
    • Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Alt+Command+Left (Window -> Select Previous Team): Open the left tab.
• Added Add button next to the "Teams" label on the Setting page.
• Added Edit button on the team list on the Setting page.
• Added Help menu to indicate the application version.
• Added auto-reloading when the tab failed to load the team.

Windows

• Added the tooltip text for the tray icon in order to show count of unread channels/mantions.
• Added the option to launch the application on login.
• Added the option to blink the taskbar icon when a new message has arrived.
• Added installers (experimental)

OS X

• Added colored badges to the menu icon when there are unread channels/mentions.

Linux

• Added the option to show the icon on menu bar. (requires libappindicator1 on Ubuntu)
• Added the option to launch the application on login.

Release v1.2.1 (Beta)

Fixes

• Fixed issue to remove "Electron" from appearing in the title bar on startup.

Improvements

• Added a dialog to confirm use of non-http(s) protocols prior to opening links. For example, clicking on a link to file://test will open a dialog to confirm the user intended to open a file.

Windows and OS X

• Added a right-click menu option for tray icon to open the Desktop application on Windows and OS X.

Known issues

• The shortcuts can't switch teams twice in a raw.
• The team pages are not correctly rendered until the window is resized when the zoom level is changed.

Release v1.2.0 (Beta)

• Released: 2016-05-17

This release contains a security update and it is highly recommended that users upgrade to this version.

Fixes

• Node.js environment is enabled in the new window.
• The link other than http:// and https:// is opened by clicking.

Linux

• Desktop notification is shown as a dialog on Ubuntu 16.04.

Improvements

• Improve the style for tab badges.
• Add Allow mixed content option to render images with http://.
• Add the login dialog for http authentication.

OS X

• Add the option to show the icon on menu bar.

Linux

• Add .deb packages to support installation.

Release v1.1.1 (Beta)

• Released: 2016-04-13

Fixes

All platforms

• Settings page doesn't return to the main page when the located path contains a blank.

Linux

• Alt+Shift opens menu on Cinnamon desktop environment.

Release v1.1.0 (Beta)

• Released: 2016-03-30

The electron-mattermost project is now the official desktop application for the Mattermost open source project.

Changes

All platforms

• Rename project from electron-mattermost to desktop
• Rename the executable file from electron-mattermost to Mattermost
  • The configuration directory is also different from previous versions.
  • Should execute following command to take over config.json.
    • Windows: mkdir %APPDATA%\Mattermost & copy %APPDATA%\electron-mattermost\config.json %APPDATA%\Mattermost\config.json
    • OS X: ditto ~/Library/Application\ Support/electron-mattermost/config.json ~/Library/Application\ Support/Mattermost/config.json
    • Linux: mkdir -p ~/.config/Mattermost && cp ~/.config/electron-mattermost/config.json ~/.config/Mattermost/config.json

Improvements

All platforms

• Refine application icon.
• Show error messages when the application failed in loading Mattermost server.
• Show confirmation dialog to continue connection when there is certificate error.
• Add validation to check whether both of Name and URL fields are not blank.
• Add simple basic HTTP authentication (requires a command line).

Windows

• Show a small circle on the tray icon when there are new messages.

Fixes

Windows

• File > About does not bring up version number dialog.

Linux

• File > About does not bring up version number dialog.
• Ubuntu: Notification is not showing up.
• The view crashes when freetype 2.6.3 is used in system.

Known issues

All platforms

• Basic Authentication is not working.
• Some keyboard shortcuts are missing. (e.g. Ctrl+W, Command+,)
• Basic authentication requires a command line.

Windows

• Application does not appear properly in Windows volume mixer.