Vector v0.3.1

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 👥 Group Management: multi-admin, edit group info, bulk invites, invite-by-npub, group avatars, and many fixes
• 🔔 Android Notifications: background message sync with Mark Read and inline Reply actions
• 📡 Multiplayer Networking Upgrade: faster connections, seamless WiFi + cellular switching, and Android connectivity fixes
• 🎙️ Voice-to-Text AI: rebuilt speech-to-text with GPU acceleration on Android
• 📁 File Attachment Overhaul: styled download boxes with progress spinners and retry states
• 📦 Directory Zip & Send: compress and send entire folders with live progress and file tree preview
• 🔒 Customizable Encryption: encrypt Vector with a PIN, Password, or go passwordless with instant logins
• 🔄 Deterministic Sync: Vector now syncs your entire history, including missing messages, at ultrafast speeds (negentropy!)
• 😀 Emoji Upgrade: Vector supports the very latest Unicode, with a library of over 2,000 emojis
• 📬 Smarter DM Delivery: messages now route to the recipient's preferred relays, for those with custom relay setups
• 🤖 32-bit ARM on Android: added support for older Android devices (typically 32-bit ARM)
• 🎮 Mini App Update Badges: one-tap in-panel updating when newer versions are available

Improved:

• ⚡ Performance Overhaul: faster boot, image processing, and audio - up to >15x speedup across the board
• 🗜️ Smaller & Faster App: >33% smaller install size and ~50% smaller frontend (we shrunk!)
• 🖼️ New Image Placeholders: sharper, faster (12x) previews while photos load - powered by our custom Thumbhash library
• 🧠 Memory Optimizations: lower RAM usage across the board (especially for high message & contact counts)
• 🏗️ Background Sync: restructured backend enables reliable background sync on Android
• 🎨 UI Polish: updated themes, chat backgrounds, settings layout, popup styling, and profile display

Fixed:

• 🔄 Group Reliability: improved message delivery with smarter relay handling, retry logic, and safer commit handling
• 🤙 Emoji Panel Performance: fixed freezing and jitter when opening the emoji panel
• 🍎 macOS White Flash: no more white flash on app startup (we improved Tauri to do this!)
• 📱 Android Media: video and audio seeking now works correctly, with stream-based seeking in a custom media backend
• 🔧 Upgrade Safety: fixed migration bug affecting some users upgrading from v0.2.3, extending backward-compat
• 💰 PIVX Wallet: improved wallet management and transaction reliability

Contributors

@alltheseas submitted PR #44 - Improving NIP-17 connectivity via Nostr Inbox Relay List integration.

Vector v0.3.0

The new era of communication begins.

Important: Group Chats have undergone several breaking-changes, due to the lack of stability in our previous Alpha Group Chats implementation, and thereby their lack of usage; Group Chats will be reset when you download v0.3.0, please re-create any Groups you previously owned.

New:

• 🧩 Mini Apps Platform: WebXDC-based games & apps within Vector with P2P Multiplayer (Yes, it plays DOOM!)
• 🏪 The Nexus: discover and install Mini Apps from a secure, decentralised App Store, built for Vector
• 💰 PIVX Wallet: send and receive PIVX directly within Vector via the PIVX Mini App
• 🌐 Custom Relays: configure your own preferred relays for personalized connectivity
• 🎨 New Themes: three additional themes, each with their own exotic takes, Keep it Purple, people
• 🔔 Notification Sounds: audio notifications, with our homemade Prélude sound, custom sounds, and smart caching
• 🖼️ GIF Picker & Inline Images: search and send GIFs directly from the chatbox, powered by GIFverse
• 👋 Leave Group: ability to leave groups, with proper system event notifications for everyone else
• ✏️ Message Editing: edit sent messages with full history tracking
• ⌨️ Popup Shortcuts: Enter to confirm, Escape to close popups; ESC to cancel Reply/Edit

Improved:

• 🔐 MLS Overhaul: major messaging protocol improvements for reliability and security, based on the latest MDK
• 📂 MIP-04 File Sharing: imeta attachment handling for MLS groups, built for compatibility with White Noise
• ⚡ Memory Optimizations: reduced memory usage during image uploads (around 4x less!)
• 🗄️ Database Performance: migration system overhaul with improved stability, safety and performance
• 💬 Message Bubbles: refined corner rounding, grouping and a new "Sending/Sent" status
• 🖼️ SVG Optimization: optimized vector graphics across the app (reduced app size!)

Fixed:

• 🖼️ Profile Sync: avatars and banners now update correctly
• ⏱️ Chat Timestamps: fixed timestamps disrupting avatar/message streaking
• 💬 Typing Indicators: deduplicated indicators and optimized performance
• 🔄 Reply Context: replies now display the latest edited content
• 🔍 Search Box: fixed styling and typing indicator expiries

Vector v0.2.3

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 🪪 Vector Web Profiles: you can now share your profile "Contact Card" over the web, with one-click adding, try this!
• 🎤 Overhauled Voice Messaging: a completely new Voice Messaging experience, with intuitive gestures & sleek UI.
• 📁 Upload Previews: files are now previewed prior to uploading, giving you a chance to review and confirm.
• 🗂️ Image Compression: images are now intelligently compressed before uploading; full-quality is just a switch!
• 🖼️ Window Persistence: Vector now remembers how you size and position your app.

Improved:

• 🖌️ UI Revamp: a glassy, animated header, redesigned popups, mini-avatars, group creator UI, and more.
• 💬 Expanding Chatbox: the real OG of this update; your chatbox finally expands to the size of your yap.
• ⚡️ On-Demand Decryption: Vector no longer decrypts fully at boot, but on-demand, vastly reducing RAM & CPU use.

Fixed:

• ⚡️Flashbang: Vector had a brief "white flash" at startup, nicknamed "the flashbang", this has been resolved.
• 🪵 Fixed Logouts: on some systems, particularly Windows, Logouts were failing, this has been resolved.
• 📨 Several Unread-System Bugs: more reliable read markers, and better cross-device compatibility.
• 📥 Improved Download Stability: attachment downloads are more stable, and less resource-wasteful.
• ⌨️ Removed Search OS Autocorrect: the Emoji Search was often interrupted by OS-autocorrect, this is now disabled.

Vector v0.2.2

The new era of communication begins.

New:

• 📲 Android APK: the first public Android APK is now available for Vector!
• 📦 Storage Manager: a Settings section that gives a glance-able breakdown of Vector's storage usage.
• 👥 Primary Device Setting: a new setting that allows you to set a device to receive future Group Invites.
• 💽 New Database: Vector now uses SQLite (w/ encryption layer) for ultra-fast, reliable, compact persistence.

Improved:

• 🛜 Faster Synchronization: parallel processing enables Vector's syncing to be noticeably faster.
• 📂 New File Attachment Design: a significant design overhaul when transferring non-media files.
• 👤 Profile Shortcuts: in the Group Overview, you can now click on anyone to visit their profile.
• 📨 Profile Message Shortcut: you can now hit "Message" on anyone's profile to jump straight in their DMs.
• ⚙️ Settings Dangerzone Redesign: a beautiful Settings polish, along with a redesign of The Dangerzone.
• 💌 New Invite Design: incoming invitations look significantly nicer. (and the 'Notif Dot' displays on Pending Invites!).
• 🖼️ Improved Popup UI Design: a well-needed polish to an old UI flow.
• 📝 Improved Selection Highlights: a Vector-esque Gray is now used for the Selection Highlight colour.

Fixed:

• 📨 Fixed 'slow/stuck' Group Chat messages: a race condition, plus many inefficiencies, were resolved in Group Chat messaging, making it feel significantly smoother and snappier.
• 📪 Fixed automatic 'Mark as Read': on Windows particularly, 'auto-Mark-as-Read' now works consistently.
• 🐧 Fixed potential Linux Media crashes: on Linux, playable media is now displayed as regular File Attachments, preventing a crash when Videos or Audio cannot be loaded.
• 🐱 Fixed 'jitter' on first Emoji Panel open: the Emoji Panel rendering has been optimised, removing 'jitter' when first opened.
• 📺 Fixed intense "UI Flickering" in the Chatlist during sync: no more login seizures.
• 👍 Fixed Reactions in Group Chats: for spamming 🍆 on every post until you're inevitably banned.
• 👥 Fixed newly-joined Group Chat bugs: they no longer drop to the bottom of your chatlist on join, and the "Header" is now clickable even if no messages were sent in the group yet.
• 🎆 Fixed 'PNG-Pill' on tiny images: Emoji-sized images now hide the File Extension Tag, a.k.a, the "PNG Pill".
• 🟢 Removed 'Status Dot' from Group Chats: this is meant for people, not rooms.
• 🖥️ Fixed excessive Group Chat re-renders: shaves some CPU usage from Group Chat UI.
• 🖥️ Fixed excessive Typing Indicator events: shaves some CPU usage from Typing Indicators.
• 🖥️ Fixed excessive Chat Timestamp re-renders: shaves some CPU usage from 'last message' timestamp updates.
• 🖱️ Fixed "Double Scrollbar" at startup: rarely, a "double" scrollbar displayed while Vector was booting.

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.