0.13.0

Gossip Release 0.13.0

Gossip is a nostr client for desktop.

Gossip is open sourced at https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

This is a major release with the following changes:

• File Metadata support (NIP-92 / NIP-94)
  • imeta data in incoming events is utilized, including testing the hash,
    and displaying a placeholder blurhash (until the event loads)
  • Attached files get imeta attachments when posting including url,
    metadata (m), hash (x), size, dim, and blurhash
  • Failed media loading now shows why
• Blossom support (BUD-01, BUD-02)
  • Can attach local images and/or videos to your notes, which get uploaded
    to your blossom server.
  • Synchronizes with your nostr-saved blossom configuration, and you can
    edit that
• NIP-89 Support - Recommended Application Handlers
  • Gossip collects recommendations published by your contacts
  • These become menu options for opening events
  • You can disable any of them you don't want
  • You can recommend these to your friends
  • You can import a new handler (published by an application developer)
  • Support is only for 'web' handlers
• Search on relays (NIP-50)
  • You must choose your search relays first.
• Followers and Followed
  • On the Person page, you can view who someone follows, and who follows
    them (including for yourself)
  • Computing who follows them is expensive and inaccurate
• Undo Send - for 10 seconds (or whatever you configure) you can undo sending
• Thread replies now sorted by date, except author replies come first
• Cancelling a draft asks if you are sure, so misclicks don't erase your
  carefully crafted manifesto.
• Inbox indicator showing how many messages are waiting
• Feeds no longer inject new events and scroll while you are trying to read.
  Instead, you will get a "Show New Updates" link to press when you are ready.
• Every feed has it's own separate "include replies" switch now
• Relays can now be tested to see whether they are fit for purpose
• Zap amount can now be typed in (or slid with a slider)
• Support for pubkey hints in 'e' and 'q' tags
• Support for 'E' and 'A' tags and kind 1111 Comments (NIP-22)
• Font update to support more unicode codepoints
• NIP-46 replies with NIP-44 encryption if the client used it.
• NIP-44 encryption now used for private contacts and private lists.
• FFMpeg 7.1 support
• Relay URLs now rendered as links to the relay config page
• build.sh script to help users choose features when compiling
• New command line commands: delete_by_kind, disable_relay
• Subscription batching for naddr searches
• Database compacting reduced to once per week, and handles out of space error
• Some theme color changes
• Relay scoring adjusted
• Likes and zaps data updated more frequently than before
• Default relays for new users have been tested and updated
• Many fixes

0.12.0

Gossip Release 0.12.0

Gossip is a nostr client for desktop.

Gossip is open sourced at https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

This is a major release with the following major changes:

• Bookmarks support (including private bookmarks)
• Global feed and per-Relay feeds (with volatile storage, erased when you quit)
• Friends-of-friends scores shown in avatar
• Improved spam filtering script with more inputs to make decisions on

Minor changes

• Updated emoji picker
• Relay scoring reworked
• New commands: clear_timeouts, rapid
• More efficient background tasks
• Faster database (less syncing)
• LDMB compressed on startup
• Feed switching improvements (still not perfect)
• Cleaner shutdown (signals handling)
• DM area shows encryption level
• Event menus have been improved
• Relay panels have multiple improvements
• Ability to prune unused person records
• Style/rendering updates
• Less annoying logging
• Improved consistency between remote and local event querying
• Default relays updated
• Documentation updates
• Dependency updates
• Lots of bug fixes

0.11.3

This is a minor release with the following fixes:

• Inbox now correctly includes all direct replies, and excludes hellthreads unless you switch to "everything"
• Fixed panic with relay URLs longer than 255 characters re: bech32 TLV encodings
• Key generation now always gives only 02 even parity keys

0.11.2

Two patches:

• Feeds should now load the right amount of events initially and per 'load-more' chunk
• An annotate that is cancelled should not get stuck making the next reply an annotate

v0.11.1

• Fix a panic in the pending thread
• Support ffmpeg 7.0.0

v0.11.0

Gossip Release 0.11.0

Gossip is a nostr client for desktop.

Gossip is open sourced at https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

This release adds the following major features:

• SECURE DIRECT MESSAGING: NIP-17 DMs (with NIP-44 encryption and NIP-59
  Giftwrap) is fully supported, usable only if both parties have published
  their DM relays in a kind 10050 event. You will get a pending item reminding
  you to setup your DM relays if you haven't yet. Relays now have DM switches.

• LOAD MORE: now loads a fixed count of events, instead of a time period (which
  may have been empty or may have been massive).

• ANNOTATIONS: You may now annotate your messages. If you make a typo, your
  annotation (technically a reply event) will render inside the original message
  in gossip (but will render as a reply in other clients).

Fixes you may notice:

• Fixed around list synchronization
• Fixes around the tagging popup UI/UX
• Improvements in loading thread ancestors, including better feedback
• Nip46 approvals now persist
• Nip46 compatibility improvements
• An event ordering issue was fixed

Additionally:

• Support for wgpu renderer, and new command to set renderer: wgpu_renderer
• Option to render feed in reverse (with newest at the bottom)
• Improved local storage performance
• Fixes around switching feeds and refreshing
• Vertical scroll bar on relay options
• fixed deleting lists
• Thai font is now also supported in the 'lang-cjk' feature
• Blacklisted relay.nostr.band and filter.nostr.wine relay URLs with proliferating path issues
• k tag added to deletion events
• When querying events, we also query their possible deletion events
• Avoid accidently asking for DMs because some relays reject that subscription
• Avoid repeated AUTHs to broken relays that keep asking
• Improvements around which relays we post to
• Improvements about relay connections
• New commands: export_encrypted_key, import_encrypted_private_key
• UI/UX updates to notifications
• Setting for custom mouse acceleration
• Allow DPI setting up to 400
• UI/UX improvements to widgets and styles
• Updates to dependencies
• Render unknown event kinds better
• Lots more, see changelog-0.11.0.txt for all commit messages

v0.10.1

Changes in this patch release:

• Fixed multiple PersonList syncing bugs
• nip46 approvals now persist
• nip46 service works with more implementations
• Two events with the same timestamp will no longer clobber each other in feeds
• Broken embedded reposts will show an error (rather than an empty post)
• About page says "gossip" now instead of "gossip-lib"
• Relay connection reasons are only shown if Debug Statistics are turned on
• Some log level changes

v0.10.0

Release 0.10.0

See the released file README.txt for details

0.9

Upgrade Instructions

• SQLite 3 code has been removed. If you are running version 0.7.x of gossip, you need to run a 0.8.x version of gossip at least once in order to keep your old data. Otherwise you can just start fresh.

New Features

• Person Lists:
  • Curate your own lists of people
  • View a feed of just those people
  • Save to nostr events, synchronize with other nostr clients.
  • Mark members private to save secretly in encrypted contents.
• Onboarding wizard: Steps a new user through what is needed to get set up
• Support for the new nostr CLOSED message.
• Tagging now works by just typing an '@' and the name and picking from a popup list.
• Restyle of DM Chat
• Restyle of Profile pages
• New login page
• Improvements to event deletion (multiple issues resolved)
• "show more" on long notes
• scrolling improvements
• name improvements (which name to use)
• Better tracking of threads and replies (reposts, replies via 'a')
• Command line commands: reprocess_recent, print_followed, print_muted, bech32_decode, bech32_encode_event_addr, print_relay, add_person_relay, print_person, import_event, print_person_lists, add_person_list, rename_person_list,
• Relay communications are kinder to relays
• Documentation reworked
• TLS now defaults to rust code, but native (operating system provided) root certificates.
• Restructured as a library and a binary, so that people who want a different UI are free to replace the UI while continuing to use the underlying library.
• Lots of little things I didn't bother to add to this list. See the git history for the whole truth.

0.8.2

Patches to 0.8.1