PATCH NOTES

What’s New in v0.2.6

New Features & Enhancements:

• Added new encryption method using browser crypto API  (50 to 100x faster)
• Added ORION Help button & links to the app
• Ability to send videos up to 60MB
• Added date of last activity on chat preview
• Expanded font weight options

Bug Fixes:

Chat Functionality

• Fixed cross-chat messages display errors
• Resolved issue of not being able to see most recent messages while connected to a hotspot
• Ensured messages load for new accounts
• Restored scrolling functionality to view chat history
• Prevented messages and chat history from disappearing
• Chats are now displayed in chronological order, with the most recent at the top
• Fixed incorrect or missing chat avatars
• Restored time stamps for older messages
• Disabled notifications for user’s own messages or reactions
• Resolved issue with missing latest messages in chats

 UI/UX Issues

• Fixed profile pictures becoming oval for chats with long group names
• Adjusted reaction toolbar so it no longer blocks part of the message
• Stopped keyboard from automatically opening when a entering chat on mobile
• Enhanced contrast to the “New Chat” border in new chat creation window
• Send button no longer cut off while app display is enlarged on mobile (zoom) 
• Last message preview is now correct 
• Empty messages displaying only timestamp and username
• Emojis on preview message no longer cut off Contact counter no longer cut off when adding new members to a chat 

 User Profile & Settings

• Restored functionality for icons in the user profile
• Icons under user profile now work
• Incorrect user profile display (username missing)

 Group Chat Issues

• Rectified duplicate users appearing in the member list after adding a new member
• Resolved issue where user role changes only displayed after refreshing
• Addressed member update event not processing correctly

 Reactions & Notifications

• Resolved issue where failed messages with reactions display a reaction hash 

 Contact Management

• Able to  add contact via members list
• Contacts now update after 20 users
• Resolved issue with contacts not loading or showing undefined for some users

 Mobile & Zooming Issues

• Adjusted zoom behavior to center account settings on mobile
• Save button cut off in edit message modal when zoomed in
• Fixed mobile feedback form functionality

 App Installation & Refresh Issues

• Removed “Install App” button while using downloaded desktop app
• Hard refreshing sometimes logs user into another account (if they have multiple accounts)
• Error updating chat list leads to all chats disappearing

 File & Link Issues

• Hyperlinks open twice into 2 tabs 
• Unable to see download and zoom buttons for enlarged images while zoomed
• Eye button to hide text doesn’t work
• Fixed attachment view

 Miscellaneous

• Restored chat history loading
• Ensured stored data is cleared on logout
• Added background to “New Version” banner
• Prevented infinite loading from broken messages in peer-to-peer chats
• Corrected emoji search bar text color on ORION theme
• Emoji search input text not visible on ORION theme
• Fixed lateral scroll enabling when searching for users in contacts
• Pasting image in chat sometimes results in a broken attachment or ‘send’ button remains inactive
• Enabled scrolling down to submit feedback when zoomed on mobile feedback page/drawer
• Adjusted sent message text color on white theme

What’s New in v0.2.5

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

• Improved contact search functionality within the ‘Add Members’ dialog of group chats, particularly beneficial for users managing extensive contact lists (400+)
• Resolved video controls in the attachment view modal on desktop app
• Increased contrast for better visibility of PDF view control buttons
• Updated button colors in the attachment view modal for the light theme
• Optimized message bubble and chat list entry to prevent text overflow, avoiding horizontal scrolling in chats
• Rectified default avatar & chat picture display for usernames that start with a special character to prevent instances where ‘undefined’ displays instead of two letters 
• Fixed chat name display in chat header and chat drawer

What’s New in v0.2.4

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved issue where P2P chats appeared above group chats in the chat list
• Rectified problem preventing moderators from adding users to group chats
• Addressed glitch causing attachments to display multiple times in the media drawer
• Resolved visual bug causing background ornaments to overlap in some screen

What’s New in v0.2.3

Performance Improvements & Optimizations

• Performance: ORION has been optimized for users participating in hundreds of chats, whether P2P of group chats
• Scalability: Architecture & implementation can accommodate groups of up to 100k users)
• Security: Strengthened security protocol for API requests

New Features & Enhancements:

• Redesigned Chat List: New look, latest message activity populates at the top of the chat list, preview text displays most recent message for quick reference
• Streamlined Contact Page: Redesigned to reduce steps needed to add or message users
• Simplified Chat Creation: Updated for a smoother user experience
• Theme Updates: New dark theme; light theme redesign; ORION blue theme improvements
• Attachment Preview Enhancement: View attachment previews with a solid color background for better clarity
• Account Settings Update: Improved zoom slider
• Search Contacts: *NEW*
• Enhanced Chat Management: Simplified user experience by removing the capability to create multiple chats with the same user
• One Reaction Per Message: Users can add only one reaction per message
• Enhanced P2P Notifications: P2P notifications now display sender

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved issue preventing users from zooming in and out of attachments
• Fixed role change bug; member list no longer duplicates, eliminating the need for refreshing to view role change updates
• Addressed contact count inconsistency
• Ceased notifications for users’ own reactions or edits
• Fixed chat avatar display for new chats, removing the need for manual refresh
• Restored service messages upon user departure or removal from chats
• Fixed attachment refusal bug related to non-Unicode filenames
• Ensured consistency in profile pictures after modification
• Prevented deleted users from receiving notifications for specific chats
• Improved consistency and clarity in user search results

What’s New in v0.1.4:

Bug Fixes & Improvements:

• Attachments upload no matter the name (still needs to be saved as a .jpeg or .png before uploading)
• No longer receive notifications for reactions – users still get notifications for messages, but not for reactions (emojis)
• No longer receive notifications for a group chat that user has left
• A broken message in a chat caused the entire chat to show a spinning wheel

What’s New in v0.1.3:

Bug Fixes & Improvements:

• Chat list now displays profile images for DMs
• Header within the DM chat displays profile images
• Buttons to open DM chat from drawer works
• Reply with an image to an image or to a reply with an image now works
• Note to self reintroduced and working
• Reactions in DM chats display correctly

What’s New in v0.1.0:

• Added ability to mute chats
• Improved scroll function
• Improved infinite scroll on messages
• Copied messages include styling (rich text format)
• Added landscape mode on Android tablets
• New P2P chat entities & events

Bug Fixes & Improvements:

• Resolved issue where every chat name appeared as the username of the account owner
• Drawer no longer blocks modal when attempting to leave a chat or delete a group chat
• No longer need to refresh in order for a deleted chat to be removed from chat list
• Fixed text box size on mobile
• Users can be promoted to admin or moderator without losing chat key
• Users can now navigate between attachments on preview modal
• Restored ability to copy messages outside of ORION app

What’s New in v0.0.5:

• Application reload time is a lot faster
• Open chat info drawer by clicking on the name of the chat
• Add ability to create a chat with users that are not in your contacts
• Add ability to add users that are not in your contacts to an existing chat
• Save attachments in IndexDB to for 30 days to improve chat load time and avoid having to re-decrypt them
• Unsent messages get saved as drafts
• Allow user to enlarge all app components instead of only text size
• Number of unread messages on app icon badge 
• Virtualization of the members list in chat drawer, improving performance of big groups
• Retain format when copy/pasting
• Virtualization of contacts, allowing improve performance for contact list
• Showing Orion users on chat creation dialog
• Improvements of the websocket reconnecting flow, improving performance when coming back into the app
• Versioning system got changed in order to use industry standards (semver)
• Save app files on device to make it to work offline 
• Core data architecture to improve performance
• Added ADD TO CONTACTS button in user drawer
• Faster encryption and decryption

Bug Fixes:

• New chat not showing service messages (if user is not the creator)
• Chat shows as empty until first scroll
• The same chat name shows up multiple times in Chat list
• Unable to open the chat that is highlighted when app loads (was selected before closing the app)
• “Load more messages” not triggering if all messages from the first bach are visible on the screen
• User can’t take back emoji reaction if the user wasn’t the first to react
• Scrolling through messages sometimes freezes the app
• “Unread messages count” not always clearing after viewing a messages from a chat
• Missing “user removed” service message
• Reaction disappears after exiting the chat & re-entering
• Content from previous seen chat shows in the newly opened chat for a second
• Messages sent while “websocket loading bar” is on don’t appear in the chat.
• After reconnecting, app jumps to a different chat
• Secret key missing after chat creation, causing critical failure
• Chats show in incorrect order when a new chat is created from another device
• Deleting a chat requires a refresh to make it also disappear from the list
• Message sent in note to self chat appeared in another chat
• Sometimes messages do not appear in a new chat without refresh
• Sometimes chat in the URL is not synchronized with selected chat
• Can create a group chat named “ “ (empty space)
• Text written in message input clears out when a new member is added
• Download button not working for PDFs
• Creating a chat with long name shifts the UI
• Spamming the add contact button causes duplicate entries in contacts