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Cwtch Beta 1.11

· 3 min read
Sarah Jamie Lewis

Cwtch 1.11 is now available for download!

Cwtch 1.11 is the culmination of the last few months of effort by the Cwtch team, and includes many foundational changes that pave the way for Cwtch Stable including new reproducible and automatically generated bindings, as well as support for two new languages (Slovak and Korean), in addition to several performance improvements and bug fixes.

In This Release

A screenshot of Cwtch 1.11

A special thanks to the amazing volunteer translators and testers who made this release possible.

  • New Features:
  • Bug Fixes / Improvements:
    • When preserving a message draft, quoted messages are now also saved
    • Layout issues caused by pathological unicode are now prevented
    • Improved performance of message row rendering
    • Clickable Links: Links in replies are now selectable
    • Clickable Links: Fixed error when highlighting certain URIs
    • File Downloading: Fixes for file downloading and exporting on 32bit Android devices
    • Server Hosting: Fixes for several layout issues
    • Build pipeline now runs automated UI tests
    • Fix issues caused by scrollbar controller overriding
    • Initial support for the Blodeuwedd Assistant (currently compile-time disabled)
    • Cwtch Library:
  • Accessibility / UX:
    • Full translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and Welsh
    • Core translations for Danish (75%), Norwegian (76%), and Romanian (75%)
    • Partial translations for Luxembourgish (22%), Greek (16%), and Portuguese (6%)

Reproducible Bindings

Cwtch 1.11 is based on libCwtch version 2023-03-16-15-07-v0.0.3-1-g50c853a. The repliqate scripts to reproduce these bindings from source can be found at https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/repliqate-scripts/src/branch/main/cwtch-autobindings-v0.0.3-1-g50c853a

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