CHANGELOG.md

Zulip-terminal Changelog

0.7.0 - 20 May 2022

This long-awaited release includes contributions from our four 2021 GSoC students, though as with recent releases we welcomed those from many others - many thanks to you all for making this a great release!

This release features an extension of the existing autocomplete infrastructure to handle viewing, autocompletion and validation of private message recipients, dramatically improving the user experience in this area. Another major feature is application of arbitrary reactions to messages, which was previously limited to 👍. Those interacting with more visual communities may find the ability to download and open attachments particularly useful.

Other than these and other changes for growing parity with existing Zulip clients and later Zulip server versions, we continue to explore terminal-specific features such as improved layout designs, and ideas such as sender presence markers adjacent to each message.

IMPORTANT NOTES

Python versions (CPython 3.6-3.10, PyPy 3.6-3.9)

As noted in the release notes for 0.6.0, this release depends on a minimum of python 3.6 (see #838, #567) since 3.5 was dropped upstream some time ago. Testing against CPython 3.10 and a wider range of PyPy Python versions was added in CI (#1132, #1141, #1159).

This is highly likely to be the last release with support for python 3.6, for which support has now ended upstream (see #984).

Footlinks settings (#773, #841)

The previous footlinks setting for configuring footlinks now has adjusted behavior if enabled (the default), to show only the first 3 per message; the full set can be found in the Message Information popup (i).

In future this previous setting is expected to be phased out in favor of the new maximum-footlinks setting, where 0 corresponds to footlinks=disabled and 3 represents the new footlinks=enabled behavior.

Customized installs

If you've customized your install by editing themes or keys, be sure to back these up before upgrading and then carefully integrate them. This is particularly important in this release since themes are now structured differently in the codebase (see the new themes/THEME_CONTRIBUTING.md)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Message composition has great new features!
  • Private message recipients show sender names, may be autocompleted, and are validated
  • Autocomplete topic links like #**some stream>exciting topic**
  • Check your content markdown by comparing with examples via meta(alt)-m
  • Narrow to conversations you're just starting using meta(alt)-.
• More useful message actions!
  • Apply arbitrary reactions to messages via :, like in the web app
  • Download and open attachments directly from ZT
  • Open a message in the local web browser, for those features ZT doesn't yet handle
• More useful information!
  • Indicate the presence status of the sender of each message in the central list of messages
  • More information available for streams, messages, and now also for users via i
• Improved behavior for smaller terminals!
  • Popups can be wider on narrower (80-100 character) terminals, showing eg. all of help text
  • Autohide mode now overlays the side panels, which shrink to mini-panels to indicate their presence
  • View long messages in scrollable popup windows
• Theme support improves!
  • Syntax highlighting of code blocks via pygments
  • Contributions of new themes should be much simpler - eg. gruvbox_light added already
  • Support for 24-bit colors

Interactivity improvements

• Message actions:
  • Support downloading of media (attachments) and opening in default viewers (#1223, #1058, #740, #359)
  • Support adding arbitrary reactions to a message using : (#559, #707, #913)
  • Support renaming of messages with topic set to "(no topic)" (topicless messages) (#837, #946)
  • Allow editing messages when there is no time limit on edits (#1034, #1035)
  • Support opening a selected message in a web-browser (#397, #698, #991)
  • Give more information text when messages are moved between topics (#1172, #1178, #1196)
• Message composition:
  • Private message composition now shows the user name and supports autocompletion (#587, #877)
  • During private message sender autocomplete, name/email pairs are validated and tidied (#937)
  • During mention autocomplete, use user id's to distinguish between users with identical names (#151, #928)
  • Support autocomplete of topics in composing message content (#1004)
  • Properly handle spaces in autocomplete of mentions (#925, #1004)
  • Avoid cycling to stream name when editing stream messages (#870, #1161)
  • Add Markdown formatting help popup, accessed using meta(alt)-m (#623, #1025)
  • Notify the user if a message is sent/edited outside the current narrow (#781, #824)
  • Support narrowing to the current compose narrow using meta(alt)-. (#1182, #1194, #1206)
  • Use new urwid-readline feature and server parameters to limit typing long messages on the client side (#996)
  • Only send private message typing notifications if the setting is enabled on the server (#1136, #1163)
• General UI:
  • Indicate and update the number of starred messages in the top left UI area (#578, #951)
  • Indicate and update the presence status of the sender of each message in the central list of messages (#896, #987)
  • Toggle display of new User Information popup from user list using i (#511, #848)
• Options/configuration:
  • Added --notify and --no-notify command-line options to override the notify config file setting (#964)
  • Support update of per-stream notification setting during session, including from Stream Information popup (#900, #1080)
• System notifications:
  • Hide content of private messages if this setting is enabled on the server (#1166)
  • Hide spoiler content in all message notifications (#1173)
• Fetch organization custom emoji cleanly at startup and update them during each session (#809, #827)

Visual improvements

• Popups continue to show more information:
  • Links within topic names (eg. linkifiers) are shown in the Message Information popup (#709, #867)
  • Show year of message posting in Message Information popup (#879, #930)
  • Stream descriptions in the Stream Information popup now support any markdown included that is rendered in messages (#743, #749)
  • Stream Information popup has various other fixes and additional information available (#880, #1127, #1119, #1165)
• Message rendering:
  • If fewer than 4 users react to a message, their names are shown instead of a count (#1212, #1213)
  • Improved math text (katex) rendering (#1024)
  • Improved rendering of nested quotes (#942)
  • Heading titles in message markdown is now styled differently to main text (#1095, #1146)
• Improved behavior for smaller terminals:
  • Automatically scale popup widths better on narrower (80-100 character) terminals (#1018)
  • Autohide mode now indicates which panels are closed with a few labelled columns (#1097)
  • Autohide mode now overlays the side panels rather than 'squashing' the window (#1100)
  • View any (particularly long) messages in scrollable popup windows, showing rendered or raw formatting (#874, #543)
• Themes have been restructured, making contribution simpler (#1051, #1160, #1167):
  • Syntax highlighting of code blocks via pygments (#1012)
  • 24-bit colors may be specified in colors used in themes (#998, #1051)
  • A new gruvbox_light theme is available (#1144, #1176)
  • Gruvbox themes are updated to use only colors from the official suggested palettes for dark and light modes (#1176)
• Indicate web-public streams differently (#712, #1135, #1177)
• Respect user preference on server regarding 12- or 24-hour time rendering (#917, #770)
• Emphasize borders and text at top of sections (#952)
• Add categories of footer notifications, with different styling (#782, #971)
• Indent topic list appropriately to take into account space for any resolved-topic marker (#1124)

Important bugfixes

• Fix errors when both reactions and message read/star status are changed for uncached messages (#920, #1162)
• Always start a new prefilled composition when using x or c (#871, #947, #960)
• Remove unstarred messages from starred narrow upon leaving narrow (#940, #943)
• Avoid crash when entering an empty stream or topic search list; show feedback instead (#923, #977)
• Allow draft to be accessed (focused) when cursor was in the side panels (#1044)
• Maintain position in stream/topic lists before and after searches (#975, #978)
• Fix behavior where narrowing to another message within the same narrow failed (#954, #967)
• Fix failure to support editing only message content on later servers, by tracking original topic (#1056)
• Improve consistency of mouse scroll speed in side panels (#1082)
• Display hint in footer on attempting to select text in any area of the screen, not just a message (#1085)
• Only create debug.log file in current directory if in debug mode (#1066, #1122)
• Avoid sending and showing typing notifications from yourself (#1011)
• Improve tracking of topic message ids when message topics are edited (#1130)
• Include wildcard mentions (eg. @all, @everyone, @stream) in mentions narrow (#1037, #1038)
• Avoid rapid repeated help hints, by updating footer only if it does not have the same text (#647, #748)
• Correctly indicate stream markers on editing stream messages (eg. private streams) (#1181)

User documentation updates

• New documentation:
  • README section added to indicate where updates are announced (#1031)
  • New User Tutorial added as docs/getting-started.md (#922, #221)
  • Hot keys documentation is now generated automatically from the source, in docs/hotkeys.md (#926, #126, #941)
  • Clarify intentional design choices where different from webapp (#1224, #547)
• FAQ-related updates:
  • New FAQ entry regarding issues running with Windows Terminal (#955)
  • Indicate that we specifically wish to scale from 80x24 rowsxcolumns upwards and add a FAQ entry for how best to work at smaller widths (#1007)
  • Improved FAQ section regarding rendering symbols, with new zulip-term-check-symbols to test each for debugging (#979)
  • Add section to FAQ regarding how autocomplete works (#1017)
• Indicate possibility of -h/--help option in README (#1170)

Infrastructure improvements

• Automatically format codebase with black (#1039, #1087, #1092)
• Migrate development branch from master to main (#891)
• Various changes enabled by the new minimum python version of 3.6+:
  • type comments to inline type annotations (#910, #901)
  • prefer f-strings (eg. #949)
• Development documentation:
  • Commit style notes split out into an expanded section of README (#1055)
  • Add notes on using auto-formatting tools (#1192)
• GitHub Pull Request template added (#1071)
• Type annotations added to many tests, few now remain (eg. #1076, #1077, #1083, #1091, #1096, #1099, #1102, #1105, #1125)
• Use updated mypy with external packages for type stubs (#1131)
• Finalized migration away from hardcoded keys (#953, #469, #533, #539)
• Improved platform handling code, particularly appropriate to supporting WSL (#1059)
• Migrated to send and retain user_id for message composition as per updated API (#1006)
• Improved debug experience by saving all print() output to debug.log without requiring flush (#1122)
• Updated user and development dependencies (#1179)
• Reduce redundancy by redirecting Pipfile to setup.py and removing requirements.txt (#936)
• Add check-branch tool to ensure independence of commits in a branch (#1214)

0.6.0 - 28 January 2021

This release contains the second set of contributions from our two 2020 GSoC students, as well as Hacktoberfest participants and a range of various other contributors - thanks to them all for raising the standard of the project once again!

Now is a great time to give the project a try, with more features than ever and the newly-added 'explore mode' (--explore on the command-line) ensuring that no messages get marked as read in your client while you're just giving it a try!

IMPORTANT NOTES

This release fixes a security issue, so we strongly recommend upgrading immediately.

Python 3.5

This will be the last release with support for python 3.5, for which support has now ended upstream (see #838).

Customized installs

If you've customized your install by editing themes or keys, be sure to back these up before upgrading and then carefully integrate them.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Message composition feels a lot cleaner!
  • new design for entering message recipients, with stream & topic autocomplete available
  • interactive feedback shows whether recipients are valid on edit/autocomplete (ctrl-f/ctrl-r) and/or tab
• Editing of sent messages is much more feature-complete!
  • most editing modes are supported - rename partial or full topics
  • message edit history is accessible via Message information popup
• Jump (narrow) to linked streams or topics in messages via the Message information popup!
  • new quoted messages include the original author and contextual links
• Session-only draft feature supports pausing composition to review other messages (meta-s / d)
• Improved popup design including theming by popup category, with more information accessible in popups
• Various smaller updates to match existing and new features from Zulip 3.x
  • time mentions and organization emoji in messages, re-styled user list, 'no topic' messages, ...

Interactivity improvements

• Message editing:
  • All topic-editing modes are now available (change-one, change-later and change-all) (#675)
  • Editing of a message topic is now possible after the server-specified time (#675)
• Message composition:
  • Message recipients (streams, users in PMs) are now checked for validity (#738, #823, #865)
  • Destination stream and topic names can now also be autocompleted (#746)
  • Addition of session-only single draft feature (#772)
  • Messages with no topic are handled as per the webapp - they can be blank and convert to (no topic) (#754/#757)
  • Autocompleted emoji now include organization-specific (and zulip) emoji, loaded at startup (#710)
  • User mention autocomplete shows users involved in the conversation before others (#730)
  • Quoting messages uses the same format as the latest webapp, including author and link to original location (#854/#514)
  • Private message typing events now sent to server (#845/#884/#593)
  • Support * or ** at start of mentions, improving experience with repeat autocomplete/edits and selection of only user-groups (#794, #732)
• General UI:
  • Internal stream/topic links in the message information popup can be used to narrow to those streams/topics (#708)
  • Stop accepting leading spaces in search boxes (#784)
  • Support a for showing all messages, as in recent versions of the web-app (#805)
• Options/configuration:
  • Added --explore command-line option for 'explore mode', where messages are not marked as read (#787)
  • Added --list-themes command-line option to show available themes (with default) (#803, #807)
  • Support setting color depth in zuliprc files (#808/601)

Visual improvements

• Much improved compose box design: (#783)
  • Simpler horizontal-only bounding lines (#852/#629)
  • Stream/topic titles are replaced by a stream-colored # or P character (for public/private streams) and an ▶ arrow to the topic (#865)
• Popups are refreshed and show more information:
  • All popups have an improved contrasting layout using block elements, color-themed by type (#853)
  • The About popup now has separate sections for the Application, Server, and Application configuration (#821)
  • Stream Information popup now allows access to stream membership and weekly message counts (#856, #878)
  • Message edit-history (if present) can now be viewed in a popup from the Message Information popup (#663)
• Message rendering:
  • Time mentions (Zulip server 3.0+) are now shown, and detailed in the Message Information popup (#691/#765/#771)
  • No-text links render as either a final filename, internal link, or domain name (instead of simply the end of the URL) (#742/#750)
• The user list more closely resembles the webapp:
  • (you) is shown next to yourself (#798/#437)
  • Instead of dots, differently-filled circles are used to indicate varying activity levels (#817)
• Muted streams and topics are now styled differently, including their muted status (#802)

Important bugfixes

• Avoid unnecessary repeated reconnect attempts (#866)
• User search fully updates after backspacing to an empty search (#700)
• Muted topics are again indicated correctly using Zulip server 3.0 (or feature level 1+) (#744)
• Ensure view is rendered before displaying errors from server (#761)
• Topics are fetched on-demand rather than on startup, lowering startup time and server load (#493/#759)
• Various bugs fixed where streams were assumed to be subscribed (eg #795)
• Indicate to user if the zuliprc file could not be written (#801)
• In case of unexpected errors handling events, log them and allow other events to be processed (#819)
• Update topic list upon renaming of topics (#785, #832)

User documentation updates

• README updates:
  • About section added to improve project summary, feature status and limitations (#860)
  • Note added regarding using an insecure/self-signed-cert server setup (#788)
  • Note improved for handling passwords (#818)
  • Text corrected regarding (lack of) notifications support on WSL (#835)
• New FAQ sections:
  • Are there any themes available, other than the default one?
  • When are messages marked as having been read? (#789)
  • How do I access multiple servers? (#820)

Infrastructure improvements

• Dockerfile improvements, including options to build images from current git (#571)
• Log files generated less in general use - API calls only in debug mode, tracebacks only on exceptions (#760)
• Unicode symbols used in the interface are isolated into one source file for easier customization
• Use typing_extensions module instead of mypy_extensions for TypedDict & Literal (#769)
• Initial support for development environment using make (#777)
• Add CPython 3.9 support to installation range and to CI (#815)
• Various improvements to development notes, eg. commit style, pytest tips, file overview (#820, #857)
• Various improvements to support newer server versions
  • peer_add/peer_remove events for feature level 35+ (#814)
  • new standardized op field in later server versions (#786/#790)
• CI migrated from Travis to GitHub Actions; CodeQL testing added (#831, #869, #872, #875)

0.5.2 - 30 July 2020

This release contains the first batch of changes from this year's GSoC students, among other contributors - we're keen to get this out and let you have the improvements available!

SECURITY NOTICE

This release fixes two security issues, so we strongly recommend upgrading immediately.

Note that notifications while running in WSL are temporarily removed in this release due to this.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Links in messages are now shown more clearly with numeric references, with URLs as optional footnotes ('footlinks') and in the message information popup (#703/#618/#735)
• Typeahead/autocomplete suggestions are now shown dynamically in the footer (#540)
• The previous stream description popup can now be used to adjust stream properties (muting, pinning) (#695)
• An About popup was added to check application and server versions while running (#653/#616)
• Stream search and typeahead suggestions are ordered consistently, based on pinning and word sorting (#530)
• Messages from the server due to user-triggered interactions that fail are reported in the footer (#714/#427)
• Popup notifications for streams respect the desktop-notifications setting (#669)

Interactivity improvements

• Messages are not marked as read while browsing through messages resulting from a search (#624/#723)
• On searching with no search text, exit search and focus on the list below (don't perform an empty search) (#551)
• Require esc to exit message compose box - avoiding loss of draft upon clicking elsewhere (#720/#652)
• Autocomplete now triggers correctly with leading text (including parentheses), eg (#str (#542)

Visual improvements

• Pinned and unpinned streams are shown with a separator while searching (#577)
• Message reactions are shown clearer in the message information popup (#659)
• Links within messages are listed in the message information popup, above reactions (#708)

Important bugfixes

• Fixed crash on startup, related to looking up unsubscribed streams with unread counts (#694/#706)
• Fixed crash when trying to send private message from user list (#677)
• Fix security issue due to limited quote escaping in notifications
• Fix security issue when running in profiling mode (fixed filename in /tmp)
• Upgraded dependencies, leading to fix for color support in mosh & urxvt (via urwid 2.1.1)
• Ensure recipient headers are shown in narrow message view (#671/#672)
• Unread counts and message updating continue to be improved (#711/#697/#696)

Infrastructure improvements

• Known working terminal emulators added to FAQ.md - moved from README into docs/ (#689)

0.5.1 - 13 May 2020

While not composed of as many significant changes as 0.5.0, this is a meaningful release focusing on message and UI improvements - enjoy!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Lists in messages are displayed much more compactly, represent bulleted and numbered styles accurately, and indent appropriately for nested lists!
• Reactions are rendered more accurately and consistently, and are styled differently if you've reacted
• Bars adjacent to topic names and private message recipients are colored appropriately and thinner
• Theme names have changed to zt_dark, zt_light, zt_blue and gruvbox_dark (NOTE old names will continue working for now)
• Default (now zt_dark) theme colors should work more reliably across terminals
• Support for color depths other than the previous 256-color mode, including a polished monochrome mode, with new '--color-depth' option
• Stream/topic/user searches are clearly marked when they are in effect, in line with message search

Interactivity improvements

• Move focus fully into topic search box before entering text (don't leave topic selected)
• After topic search, return to previously selected topic
• Clearly indicate when a stream/topic/user search is in effect, in line with message search

Visual improvements

• Use bullet characters for unordered lists, in place of stars
• Render numbered lists fully and according to Zulip style (previously rendered as bulleted lists)
• Support nested lists (bulleted and numbered)
• Style reaction counts which include yourself differently (inverted colors, typically)
• Sort reactions alphabetically for consistency
• Support color depths other than 256-colors; try --color-depth=1 for a retro, high-contrast experience!
• Improve specificity of colors in default theme, enhancing rendering and consistency in 256 color mode
• Use triangle symbol (▶) to separate streams and topics, instead of simply '>'
• The 'bar' extending from topics or private message recipients is now thinner and colored if a stream

Important bugfixes

• If notifications are enabled but the external script was not found, cleanly warn the user just once per session and avoid showing a traceback over the screen
• Names of reactions and inline emoji for the same icon could be different - use emoji list from Zulip server to unify them and remove dependency on emoji package
• Remove extra newlines present in lists, improving rendering and leading to better use of screen space

Infrastructure improvements

• Improve Installation/Running/Configuration in README, including noting how to run a snapshot of the current development version, and that we have Dockerfiles
• Lint locally and in CI using flake8 (instead of pycodestyle), with continuation & quotes plugins, enforcing stricter, clearer rules on code style
• Tidy code using pyupgrade

0.5.0 - 16 April 2020

This release contains much of the remaining work from last year's GSoC students, and various other contributors - thanks to you all! (almost 200 commits)

If you've been waiting for autocomplete, popup notifications, mentions, better themes, search & platform support...this release is for you!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Autocomplete users/groups/streams/emoji when composing messages, given a prefix (ctrl+f / ctrl+r)
• Popup notifications for private messages & mentions (NOTE: disabled by default; tools may be required on WSL/Linux)
• See details of messages in which you are mentioned - narrow to them using #
• All themes now considered usable (light/blue much improved)
• Search for messages only within a specific narrow, not just within all messages
• Support added for running on Python 3.8 and PyPy, and also on WSL (including WSL2)
• Sample Dockerfiles added, to enable building containers to run from any docker-enabled system

Interactivity improvements

• Improved topic list handling (search topics, topics update)
• Support /me slash command
• Toggle display of stream description using i
• Enable/disable autohide setting at startup
• Extend support for vim-like navigation (scrolling)

Visual improvements

• Add support to render tables in messages
• Improve rendering of links in messages
• Categorize and further reorganize help menu
• Show the year of a message, if it is not the current year
• Show server name & description in the title bar

Important bugfixes

• Bug causing occasional screen corruption at startup (#456)
• On changing to a narrow which contains the focused message, retain focus on that message
• Message search results correctly reset between searches
• Improved unread count handling

Infrastructure changes

• Split linters into separate Travis tasks to improve developer understanding
• Replace pytest-pep8 with pycodestyle for PEP8 linting
• Add isort as linter/reformatter for imports
• Use pip instead of pipenv in Travis to improve CI speed
• Depend upon later versions of zulip, urwid & urwid-readline packages

0.4.0 - 22 July 2019

Thanks to the core team and many new contributors for the almost 300 commits since 0.3.1!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Cleaner style, compact, more functional - and lots of bugs fixed!
• Default to show both left and right panels (streams & users), with no_autohide mode
• Messages now only get marked read if you actively move onto them
• Clear indication of the current message view (narrow) next to the message search area
• 'Zoom' in and out of stream/topic narrows using z (also all-private-messages/one-conversation)
• Edit message content and subject/topic using e & see them marked & updated
• Toggle between listing streams & topics in a stream easily using t
• Examine who reacted to a message using the information menu accessible using i
• Mute a selected stream from within zulip-term using m
• Various areas now marked with shortcut keys in the UI, not just in the help menu (?)

Interactivity improvements

• The 'no_autohide' option is now the default, with both left and right panels always shown
• Added e to edit your own sent message content & subject/topic
• Update message content and subject/topic appropriately from server (#401)
• Change views as per webapp if the edited message subject/topic changes
• Only mark messages read, if actively move across to message list and select them
• Added z hot/shortcut key to toggle between stream/topic or all-private/specific-person narrows
• Added t to toggle between streams & list of all topics in selected stream
• Added m to mute/unmute selected stream, with confirmation popup
• Added i to show further information of selected message (including reactions)
• Use ? to show and hide help menu (esc continues to exit)
• Add additional shortcut key for sending messages (ctrl+d) (#176)
• Add hint in footer of how to copy text, if attempt to select text (with mouse) in terminal
• Stream search is now case-insensitive
• Add command-line option to check version (#280)
• Allow f and P shortcut keys to work from side panels (narrow starred & private messages)
• Warn on startup, if specified theme is lacking current required styles
• Upon unexpected crash, exit cleanly and log traceback to zulip-terminal-tracebacks.log

Visual improvements

• Right-align unread-counts in left & right panels (as in webapp)
• Remove intrusive flashing cursor in side panels
• Truncate text in left & right panels cleanly with '…', avoiding text overflow (#237)
• Show users' status as active (Green), idle (Yellow) or offline (White) using different colors.
• Update user list every minute, not just at startup (#330)
• Sort user list alphabetically, case-independently (#264)
• Further improvement/reordering of shortcut keys in README & help menu (?)
• Improve styling of help menu, and how it scales with application width & height (#297, #307)
• Make stream icons bold and correct background color
• Themes improved (#254)
• Support terminal transparency in default theme (#377)
• Clarify that ctrl+c is the intended way to exit/quit (#208)
• Mark edited messages with 'EDITED' at their top-left
• Show current narrow with search box, above current-recipient indicator for message (#201, #340)
• Hide current-recipient indicator when fully narrowed (in topic or conversation)
• Improve rendering of quoted text with indents
• Display custom emoji text-equivalents in messages and reactions (#238)
• Readline keys are now listed in the online help
• Change main widget styles, to clearly separate three columns, with bold top-lines
• Minimize space taken up by search boxes & display shortcut keys for each
• Remove bullets & display shortcut keys for all messages, private messages & starred messages
• Style private message header like webapp (You and ...)

Important bugfixes

• Bug undoing thumbs_up if not in same session (#334)
• Bug showing edited messages in raw text, not rendered version (#308)
• Bug quoting original message, not rendered version (#239)
• Bug where new messages from server would not be shown in message list
• Bug potentially mixing unread counts for messages from users & streams
• Bug with not showing self as recipient
• Bug increasing the unread counts if we sent the message
• Crash due to race in initialization (#391)
• Crash due to not supporting short color format for streams from older Zulip servers (#273)
• Crash pressing up on muted stream (#272)
• Crash when using certain keys in a stream with no previous conversations (#247)
• Crash in rare case of empty message content
• Crash on receiving multiple starred-message events
• Crash interacting with empty list of search results
• Crash when text entry was not disabled properly
• Crash on pressing ctrl+4 (sending quit character)
• Crash if user has unsubscribed from streams
• Traceback on sending to multiple private recipients when narrowed to that conversation
• Set terminal locale to utf-8 by default which removes issues with rendering double width characters.
• Exit cleanly if cannot connect to zulip server (#216)

Infrastructure changes

• Remove support for python 3.4, which will have no further releases
• Depend upon later versions of zulip & urwid-readline packages
• Improve installation, development & troubleshooting notes in README
• Minimized initial registration & communication with zulip server
• Internal refactoring & centralization of code handling zulip server communication
• Centralize server event callbacks into Model
• Improve test coverage, fixtures & builds on Travis
• Simplify UI objects used in left & right panels

0.3.1 - 26 December 2018

Interactivity improvements

• Much improved (& configurable on/off) autohide behavior for streams/users panels
• Toggle thumbs-up reactions to messages (+)
• Toggle star status of messages (* or ctrl+s)
• Narrow to starred messages (f, or via new button)
• Reply mentioning sender (@)
• Reply quoting message (>)
• Use enter to reply to a message
• Disable responding to suspend (ctrl+z), since cannot resume (yet)
• Disable responding to ctrl+s for flow control, enabling use with starring

Visual improvements

• Reorder streams into pinned and unpinned groups
• Style message contents (extracted using beautifulsoup)
• Improve recipient (eg. stream/topic) bar formatting
• Show star status of messages
• Show marker to left of messages
• Mark private streams with P instead of #
• Show unread count of muted streams as M
• Add gruvbox theme
• Internal help (?) more compact & reordered
• Random shortcut keys are shown at the bottom of the screen

Important bugfixes

• Allow narrowing to cross-realm bots
• Support private messages with multiple users properly
• Avoid showing duplicate recipient bars when scrolling
• Correctly set pointer data (for next unread)
• Improve theme handling on command-line

Infrastructure changes

• Documentation improvements
• Explicitly support latest versions of python 3.4 to 3.7
• Preliminary support for OSX/Darwin (tested by default)
• Higher test coverage
• Various internal refactoring

0.2.1 - 1 October 2018

Bugfix release

0.2.0 - 15 July 2018

First PyPI release