Hi the Ring community,
What's new since release of "Louis-Joseph Papineau" (our first Ring beta)?
This is a non-exhaustive list of merged patch available in our latest builds on
all supported platforms.
** Android
- stable text message acknowledgement of receipt
- ability to make audio-only calls
- improved text conversations (capitalization and multiline text)
- in-App Embedded QR Code scanner
- improved conversations search
- UI/UX improvements
- translations update
** Gnome (GNU/Linux)
- add RingID QRCode on welcome page
- added button to close chat view and return to the "welcome" page
- 'ring' binary renamed to 'ring.cx' to avoid conflict with existing package
- added 'make uninstall' target to simplify life for developpers
- fixed bug when copy/pasting RingID with leading or trailing invisible unicode
characters
- translations update
** OSX
- add RingID QRCode on welcome page
- account Import/Export
- user profile: you can now setup a local profile containing your name and a
photo that will be send automatically when you make a Ring call. After updating
your client you can go to the Preferences panel to set it up.
- translations update
** Windows
- add RingID QRCode on welcome page (accessible from share menu)
- user profile (see OSX note)
- add possibility to quit from taskbar icon
- account Import/Export
- various UI Improvement
- fix install path of 64bit version
- minor bug fixes (UTF-8, HDPI, etc...)
- translations update
** Core (daemon)
* New features
- message engine: added mechanism to follow status of IM message (sent,
received, ...)
- account are exportable now, as an encrypted (by password) file stored on your
local filesystem containing a JSON structured account information
* Changes
- removed default IP2IP account to prevent "sip-spam": you can recreate it by
adding an account with an empty hostname
- changed the installation path of dring binary from ${prefix}/bin to
${prefix}/sbin
* Fixes (# are our Tuleap tickets)
- #494 implemented dual TLS handshake to not transfer in cleartext the
certificate, this requires a minimal gnutls version 3.3.1
- #419 do not leak contacted RingID when bootstrap is unjoinable
- #486 fix crash when a camera has no channel
- #625 fix video sent even when disabled in preferences, if remote is sending
video
- #614 add more time on callee side to negotiate its ICE transport (was a
failing call 8s after received the ICE msg)
- #538 fix badly handled oversized SIPS packet
- #537 fix segfault when probing camera frame format on android
- #363 alsa: decouple capture handle from playback handle
- various platform dependent build fixes (android-arm64, android-x86, win32)
- various fixes to enable a smooth Ring packaging into GNU/Linux distributions
- various fixes on documentation/manpages
Thanks for your great support!
--
Guillaume Roguez | Senior Free Software Consultant
Ring Development Project Director
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