21.0.104

Highlights for users

Many fixes and improvements, including:

• Added full support for custom emoji, including in composing messages and in reactions.
• The app now fetches updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle.
• Fixed issue where a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost.
• Complete translations for Italian and Korean.

Full changes for users

• Added full support for custom emoji ("realm emoji"), including in composing messages and in reactions. (#2129, #2846)
• The app now fetches updates much sooner when reopened after several minutes idle. (#3190)
• Fixed issue where a draft message typed just after starting the app was lost. (#2861)
• Complete translations for Italian and Korean. (62c8d92)
• Fixed missing line that made switching to Indonesian language not work. (d92329b)
• Messages pending send can now be deleted in long-press menu, like other messages. (#3189)
• Force-upgrade screen provides helpful App Store or Play Store deep-link. (#3158)
• Fixed handling of old reactions with emoji that have changed name. (#3169)
• Fixed misrendering of "keypad" emoji like :zero:. (#3129)
• Group PM conversations now show combined avatars with rounded corners, like individual avatars. (#3167)
• Fixed bugs causing top bar to sometimes be white instead of stream-colored. (#2797, #3139)
• Long-pressing a recipient bar now offers "Unmute topic" when appropriate. (8b60314 / #3156)
• Alert words are now highlighted in the message list. (#3082)
• Fixed fetching of explicit avatars (!avatar(...)) in messages. (#3047)
• Overflow menu in lightbox is now properly aligned. (#3024)
• Send button has larger touch target. (#2945)
• Error banners in message list show as red, rather than gray.
• Fixed oversizing of images in Dropbox inline previews. (#3136)
• Various improvements across the app for latency and performance.

Full changes for developers

Workflow improvements

• Tests and linters run fast by default (<5s on a fast desktop for small changes, <1s for no changes), by running only on files changed in the current branch. (977596d^..bd24bd1)
• Spell-checker results are now pure warnings, free to ignore. (ff7bc29)
• Configuration for Reactotron, and expanded developer documentation on debugging. (#3109, 0e5d036^..59967fc)
• One-step release-mode Android builds without signing keys or Sentry. (#2883; 8d55447^..ee40b3c)
• Detailed step-by-step instructions for setting up dev environment on WSL. (#3193)

Architecture, interface, and quality improvements

• Extensive refactoring of the message list and rendering to HTML. (#3156, #3170)
• New caseNarrow abstraction for working with narrow objects. (fa6134a^..e9fe1e8)
• Explain Auth vs. Account types, and introduce distinct Identity. (f5a2603^..28b1177)
• Applied @flow strict-local to most files and @flow strict to many files, fixing newly-exposed type issues. (#3164, 6efa798, 2a96ede, fa1b8a8; 5ec1d3f^..597c51f; 5a2d49f^..da5d519)
• Began to use more Flow "exact types". (01003e6, 24211fb, others)
• Flow types on many more areas of code.
• Enable ESLint in most places where it was disabled, fixing issues. (ddd51e5^..a533fa8)
• Scripts run on Bash, and are moved out of package.json to their own files. (6c25bee, 3119ec6, 8d3e8ad^..4d58c11)

$ sha256sum -c <<EOF
3599c12985241f5cc2e1c3d3af150ee0557477d5bdfc36e2cbdbd9a12176c843  app-release.apk
EOF