50200.6.0

Bug fixes:

• Initialization of the attachment file browser is delayed until it is needed.
• Reply message coalescing now occurs if a non-reply intervening message is deleted.
• When showing the attachment management window, the main UI is dimmed.
• Fixed a race condition where a script completes after the user changes channels.

Other improvements:

• README: improve mention of display corruption (relevant to #544)
• README: clarify source build instructions (relevant to #536)

50200.5.0

New features:

• The configuration file now supports tilde expansion in the following fields, where a tilde ("~") will be expanded to the path to the user's home directory:
  • urlOpenCommand
  • syntaxDirectories
  • activityNotifyCommand
  • themeCustomizationFile
• The "message view" window (accessible in message selection mode by default with the v binding) has been redesigned.
  • The window now shows the message and the message's user reactions in separate tabs in a tabbed interface.
  • New key events, select-next-tab (default: Tab) and select-previous-tab (default: Shift-Tab), were added to control tab-switching behavior.
  • The window got some keybinding help text.
  • Message text is now wrapped in this view, whereas before long lines were not wrapped and had to be scrolled horizontally to be read. In addition, code blocks are not wrapped, making wide code blocks readable by scrolling as originally intended.
  • New theme attribute names, tabSelected and tabUnselected, were added to style the currently-selected and other tabs, respectively.
  • Sections on the available keybindings in the various tabs for this interface were added to the interactive help section on keybindings as well as the generated keybindings file provided with Matterhorn.
• The application's default attachment browser path can now be configured, thanks to Victor Shamanov (@wiruzx). See the defaultAttachmentPath setting in sample-config.ini for details.
• Added the /log-mark command to add user-specified marker messages to the log to aid in debugging.
• Logging no longer includes duplicate overlapping messages when paused and resumed.
• Added the /create-private-channel command to support creating private channels. (#512)
• The attachment list now supports the select-up and select-down key events.
• All editors in Matterhorn now support bracketed pastes if your terminal emulator supports bracketed paste mode.

Other improvements:

• Various files (e.g. keybindings.md) were moved to docs/ in the repository as well as in releases.
• The team selection interface at startup now shows team display names.
• The main user interface now shows the current team and user at the top of the channel list sidebar.

Bug fixes:

• The attachment file browser will now no longer disappear if the user attempts to navigate a symlinked directory. Instead, the symlinked directory will be navigated as expected. (#507)
• The "Fetching messages" message that appears in channels with pending server responses now gets cleaned up properly. (#498)
• Creating new /group-msg channels now properly shows the new group immediately; previously the /group-msg command had to be issued a second time or Matterhorn had to be restarted. (#477)

50200.4.0

New features:

• This release includes support for viewing, adding, and removing post emoji reactions:
  • A new message select keybinding (default a, event 'react-to-message') opens an emoji search window.
  • Pressing 'Enter' in the emoji search window posts the selected reaction to the selected message if you have not already posted that reaction, or removes it from the message otherwise.
  • The emoji search window automatically lists reactions that other users have posted before other emoji, along with your own posted reactions. This allows you to easily add your vote to (or remove) reactions.
  • Emoji reactions posted to a message are now displayed in the message view window (message select binding v).
• Emoji are now supported in autocompletion by pressing TAB after a colon (:). The autocompletion list also includes custom emoji obtained from the server. The standard emoji are sourced from the file emoji.json located in the same directory as the Matterhorn configuration file config.ini, or at the path emoji/emoji.json relative to the location of the matterhorn binary (as in releases).
• The channel list shown by the /join command has been redesigned to support incremental search similar to the UI for /msg.
• Special @all and @channel mentions are now highlighted and included in autocompletion. (#491)
• If a channel has new messages that go beyond the top of the displayed message area, a New Messages line appears at the top of the window to indicate that more unread messages precede it. (#131)

Other improvements:

• The subprocess logger indicates when unexpected stdout output was received. (#503)
• The log manager thread is now started before authentication begins so that the authentication code can do logging.
• Keybinding event names are now included in auto-generated text and Markdown keybinding tables.
• User status updates are automatically batched, resulting in O(1) user status requests on startup rather than O(n).
• Command help text now includes @ and ~ in arguments to more clearly indicate user and channel arguments respectively.

Bug fixes:

• Theme changes now invalidate the rendering cache, fixing color artifacts left over in the channel message area.
• When searching for users, username sigils are always trimed first. (#497)

50200.3.1

Bug fixes:

• Matterhorn now correctly handles server API responses with Content-type parameters (#496).

50200.3.0

New features:

• Message reply rendering has been improved. Matterhorn now uses a rendering almost identical to that of the web client: rather than rendering an arrow from the reply to its parent, Matterhorn now indents the reply with a vertical border to its left. Matterhorn now also only renders the reply's parent message if it is not already adjacent or if it is not in the same thread as the previous message. This greatly reduces clutter in channels with a lot of threaded message activity. (#490)

• At startup, Matterhorn no longer restores the terminal state to the pre-startup state in between authentication attempts.

• At startup, if Matterhorn immediately attempts a connection (due to credentials being available in the configuration), a "Connecting to ..." message is displayed while the connection attempt is underway.

• The syntax highlighting XML specification files included with Matterhorn were updated to the versions in the upstream Skylighting package as of commit bf3e5d163c3e7b9f98d1cd3b9aeb6780a6f76572. For more details, see

  • https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn/commit/70929a5bb029b9c37bf0cdcf4365328b3e8e43d6
  • https://github.com/jgm/skylighting

• The help and usage messages for the /msg command were improved.

• The run.sh script got various bug fixes and portability improvements.

Bug fixes:

• Messages from bots now properly display a "[BOT]" indicator next to the post author username (#494)
• Matterhorn no longer reports timeout-related network socket exceptions to the user (#492)

50200.2.0

New features:

• Channel scrolling mode has been merged with message select mode. There are no longer two separate modes that the user must switch between for fetching additional messages and operating on displayed messages.
  • As part of this change, message gaps in the local client history are displayed as special entries in the message history, along with specific key commands that can be used to fetch additional messages at those points.
• The /msg command now takes optional user and message arguments to make it faster and easier to initiate discussions with specific users: /msg [@user [message]]. This resolves enhancement issue #471.
• The /search and /flags post listings now support navigating to a post by pressing Enter when it is selected. This causes the client to switch to the post's channel and select the post in message selection mode.
• If smart editing is enabled and a triple backtick is typed at the start of a line, input automatically switches to multi-line mode. Fixes issue #467.
• Editor status is now tracked on a per-channel basis. The following editor state is tracked on a per-channel basis and is restored between channel changes:
  • Incomplete message (editor) entries.
  • Multi-line editor mode.
  • Input history scrollback position.
  • Incomplete message reply-to or editing-previous-post status. This resolves enhancement issue #445.
• Adds the /user command as an alias for the /msg command.
• Channel auto-completion mode indication of the user's membership in the channel is more clearly indicated.
• A new configuration item (directChannelExpirationDays) is added. In release 50200.1.0, the channel sidebar management was updated to automatically remove direct channels if there had been no activity for 7 days. This configuration item allows overriding that time period, (thanks, Brent Carmer).
• A new configuration item (cpuUsagePolicy) is added. Valid values are single and multiple which determines how many of the available processors Matterhorn will make use of. The default is multiple. This resolves enhancement issue #484.
• Additional information on managing attachments (relevant to issue #485).

New command-line options:

• -k: print the active keybindings in plain text format. The output includes customized bindings in the current configuration, or the defaults if -i is used.
• -K: print the active keybindings in Markdown format. The output includes customized bindings in the current configuration, or the defaults if -i is used.

Documentation updates:

• The FAQ is updated to help users with terminals that don't support hyperlinks (thanks, Bob Arezina).
• Updated the Design notes and development Practices documentation for Matterhorn.
• Matterhorn releases now include the default keybindings in a Markdown document, keybindings.md.

Bug fixes:

• Updated to mattermost-api 50200.1.2 which includes a bugfix for a server "UploadResponse" with a null client_ids field. This manifested as an error report when attempting to post a message with an attachment to a general channel.
• Misc process and maintenance changes to re-enable and update the Travis builds (fully passing now).

Dependency updates:

• Added support for building with GHC 8.6 (thanks, Adam Wick).

50200.1.2

Bug fixes:

• Permit user creation timestamp to be optional in server responses (#483)

50200.1.1

Bug fixes:

• The file browser now deals gracefully with directories containing broken symlinks.

50200.1.0

This release contains many new features and changes. Please read carefully!

New features:

• Matterhorn is now supported on CentOS 7. See the GitHub release tag for a prebuilt CentOS 7 binary.
• Matterhorn's channel sidebar has changed significantly:
  • Matterhorn now only shows recently-active DM channels in the sidebar rather than showing all users. This change brings Matterhorn closer to the behavior of the official web client and reduces clutter. However, this change may be disorienting since previously all users were shown in the sidebar. To begin a chat with a user absent from your sidebar, use the /msg command.
  • The sidebar channel group headings have been renamed to reflect the new changes and to match those of the official web client.
  • Group DM channels are now displayed in the new Direct Messages section along with one-on-one DM channels.
  • Each channel group heading now displays an asterisk if any channels in that group have unread activity.
• The autocompletion user interface has been dramatically improved.
  • The command completion UI now appears automatically if the user types a slash at the beginning of the prompt. Any text typed after the slash is matched case-insensitively on all client-side command names and descriptions, with a preference for matching command names. Tab then cycles through the displayed alternatives.
  • The user completion UI now appears automatically if the user enters a user sigil ("@"). Text typed after the sigil searches usernames, nicknames, and full names. Users in the current channel appear first and users not in the current channel appear next, marked with an asterisk and a help hint. Tab cycles through completion of the alternatives.
  • The channel completion UI now appears automatically if the user enters a channel sigil ("~"). Text typed after the sigil searches channel names, headers, and purposes. Channels of which the user is a member are listed first, with other channels following. Tab cycles through completion of the alternatives.
  • The fenced code block language name completion UI now appears automatically if the user types three backticks to begin a code block. Text following the backticks searches known language names case-insensitively with a preference for prefix match. Tab cycles through the alternatives.
• Matterhorn now supports adding attachments to posts:
  • The default binding of C-x shows a file browser.
  • Enter in the file browser selects a regular file for attachment (or, if used on a directory, navigates to that directory in the browser).
  • The default cancellation binding of Esc closes the browser.
  • The default binding of o opens the selected browser entry using the URL opening command.
  • Once a file is attached, an attachment count is displayed above the message editor.
  • Pressing C-x again will open the attachment list for the current post, where existing attachments can be removed (d) or new ones can be added (a).
• The channel selection mode (C-g) user input is now performed with a line editor, meaning that all of the text-editing keybindings that are supported in the message editor are now supported in channel selection mode.
• Channel sidebar cycling keys (C-n, C-p) now cycle through all channels including DM channels, not just non-DM channels as before.

New commands:

• /reconnect: forces a disconnection and reconnection of Matterhorn's websocket connection in case of network connection trouble. Ordinarily Matterhorn will time out and determine that its connection needs to be reestablished, but this command may be useful for other situations.
• /hide: hides the current single-user or group direct message channel from the sidebar. The channel will reappear later if new messages arrive in the channel.

New key events:

• show-attachment-list (default C-x): show the attachment list or file browser to attach a file to the current post.
• add-to-attachment-list (default a): in the attachment list, open the file browser to select an additional file to attach to the current post.
• delete-from-attachment-list (default d): in the attachment list, delete the selected pending attachment. (This does not affect the original disk file.)
• open-attachment (default o): in the attachment list or file browser, open the selected file or attachment with the URL opening command, if one is configured.

New theme attributes:

• fileBrowser: the base attribute for the attachment file browser.
• fileBrowser.currentDirectory: the attribute for the file browser's heading displaying its working directory.
• fileBrowser.selectionInfo: the attribute for the file browser's footer displaying information about the selected file or directory.
• fileBrowser.directory: the attribute used for directories in the file browser.
• fileBrowser.block: the attribute used for block devices in the file browser.
• fileBrowser.regular: the attribute used for regular files in the file browser.
• fileBrowser.char: the attribute used for character devices in the file browser.
• fileBrowser.pipe: the attribute used for named pipes in the file browser.
• fileBrowser.symlink: the attribute used for symbolic links in the file browser.
• fileBrowser.unixSocket: the attribute used for Unix sockets in the file browser.

New command-line options:

• -i/--ignore-config: start Matterhorn with no configuration, i.e., ignore the default configuration.

Performance improvements:

• Matterhorn now renders its user interface more efficiently, resulting in improved input latency, especially on larger window sizes.
• Matterhorn now makes fewer requests on startup, resulting in lower server API burden and improved startup performance.
• Message username and channel name highlighting is now more efficient.

Bug fixes:

• Username highlighting in messages now supports usernames containing periods and underscores (#373)
• Matterhorn will now ask for a keypress if an interactive URL opener exits with a non-zero exit status, to allow the user to observe any error output before returning to Matterhorn (#462)
• /group-msg now supports username arguments with sigils.
• Matterhorn now properly updates channel view timestamps under the right conditions (#449)
• The bundled notify script now uses bash, not sh, to get extended [ functionality.

Miscellaneous:

• The help interface now takes up the entire screen when it is active.
• The user list overlay for /msg now respects the direct message restriction server setting (#378).

50200.0.0

This release is compatible with server version 5.2.

New features:

• The channel list sidebar can now be shown and hidden:
  • With the /toggle-channel-list command
  • With the default binding of F2
  • With the customized keybinding name of toggle-channel-list-visibility
• The account preference for teammate name display is now honored and takes precedence over the server default; at present, only the "nickname" and "username" settings are supported.
• Channel selection mode now matches case-insensitively if the input is entirely lowercase and matches case-sensitively otherwise.
• Non-public channels now include their privacy level in the channel header.
• A bundled "talky" script is now provided for working with the Talky video chat service: https://talky.io/ (Thanks @tommd)
• Theme styles now support italics in terminals that support it. See the Theme help info for details.
• A new key event, "focus-next-unread-user-or-channel", was added. This event changes to the next channel with unread messages, preferring direct message channels. This event has no default binding. (Thanks Brent Carmer)

Bug fixes:

• Multiline mode in the built-in message editor is now preserved upon returning from editing with an external editor (#419)
• Mixed formatting in hyperlink labels is now supported (#418)
• When dealing with posts internally, we now use the post's root ID, not its parent ID, everywhere since parent IDs are unused (#404)
• Private channels are no longer included in the tab-completion alternative list
• Theme customization files can now use empty style lists.
• Message selection mode now disallows selection of deleted messages.
• The disconnection message is now displayed in a layer to avoid layout reflowing in the channel header.
• Message view mode now properly displays reply parent (#397)
• The startup team listing is now sorted by team name.
• We now log websocket timeout and generic exceptions (#385)

40901.0.0

New features:

• Improved logging infrastructure. Matterhorn now keeps a running bounded internal buffer of log messages that can be written to disk at any time, in addition to supporting the usual mode where all messages are logged to a file. This feature includes:
  • Four new commands:
    • /log-status: check on whether Matterhorn is currently logging at all.
    • /log-start <path>: start logging to the specified file.
    • /log-stop: stop any active logging.
    • /log-snapshot <path>: dump the internal log message buffer to the specified file.
  • A new optional configuration setting, logMaxBufferSize, which is the number of entries in the internal log buffer.
• Added a new message selection mode keybinding to view individual messages (default: v, keybinding name: view-message). This keybinding causes the selected message to be displayed alone in a pop-up window in which horizontal and vertical scrolling can be used to view the entire message. This is especially useful in cases where a message contains a code block with lines that could not be wrapped. (#377)
• Message selection mode now supports selection of error and info messages in addition to just user posts.
• Message selection mode now supports yanking the contents of all messages, not just messages with verbatim content as before. The keybinding name for this is yank-whole-message and defaults to Y. When this binding is used, the entire message's Markdown source is copied to the system clipboard. (#171)

Other changes:

• The help screen now supports the scroll-top and scroll-bottom events (defaulting to the Home and End keys, respectively).
• Exceptions related to spurious network problems with getAddrInfo no longer cause client error reports (#391).

40900.0.1

Bug fixes:

• Terminal escapes are now sanitized from local user input and user-provided values from the server (#390).
• The Cabal package now includes XML syntax and DTD files in the manifest.
• Releases now ship the syntax DTD.

40900.0.0

This release supports Mattermost server version 4.9.

New features:

• Matterhorn now supports activity notifications by invoking a user-configured external command. The external command is configured with the activityNotifyCommand setting. Matterhorn also includes an example notification script for Linux-based systems in the notification-scripts directory. Thanks to Jason Miller for this feature!
• Matterhorn now bundles syntax highlighting language descriptions rather compiling them into the binary. This resolves issue #372. The XML descriptions are in the Kate project's language description format and are provided with their accompanying GPL license. Syntax description files are loaded from a prioritized list of directories. The list of directories is configurable using the optional syntaxDirectories configuration setting. See sample_config.ini for details.
• Matterhorn now tab-completes available syntax highlighting language options on lines starting with the code block Markdown syntax (three backticks) (#354).

Other changes:

• Tab-completion now always fills in user sigil on username and nickname completions, and fills in channel sigils on channel name completions.
• Usernames in posts are now only highlighted when a user sigil is present.

Bug fixes:

• Matterhorn now switches to a channel after it has been joined (#355).
• Fixed emote editing (#388).

40800.0.3

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented DM channel changes when the DM channels were named with user nicknames (#384)
• "Resource vanished" exceptions will no longer be silenced during async work.

40800.0.2

Bug fixes:

• Matterhorn now properly handles servers with users whose usernames match existing channel names.
• The flagged post list now ignores flagged posts from channels of which the current user is no longer a member.
• Tab-completion now supports nickname completion in the presence of user sigils (relevant to #382).
• The /search command now copes better with an empty string as input (#359).
• The group-msg command now switches to the relevant channel if it already exists (#367).

Other changes:

• Message edits no longer cause channels to appear to have unread activity.
• The Haskell runtime's idle garbage collector was disabled, reducing Matterhorn's idle CPU usage from 2-4% on some systems to zero.

40800.0.1

Bug fixes:

• User list overlays shown by /msg, /add-user, and /members restrict results to the current team only.
• Message posts, channel view events, and channel metadata update events destined for other teams are now properly ignored by Matterhorn if the team for those events doesn't match the current session's team.

40800.0.0

This release supports Mattermost server version 4.8.

New features:

• Matterhorn now uses a connection pool with persistent server connections for improved performance (thanks to Abhinav Sarkar)
• Matterhorn now honors the server-side user preference about whether join/leave messages should be shown or hidden.
• Matterhorn now honors the server-side configuration setting that determines whether users are displayed by nickname if possible (thanks to Kelly McLaughlin)

New configuration settings:

• The "hyperlinkURLs" setting controls whether Matterhorn emits hyperlinking escape sequences. It defaults to on, but can be disabled for users using terminal emulators that do not handle such escapes gracefully when they don't support hyperlinking (see #374)

Bug fixes:

• On (re-)connection, Matterhorn now fetches all users rather than just the first few hundred.

40700.0.0

This release supports Mattermost server version 4.7.

New features:

• The /focus command with no arguments now starts channel selection mode, equivalent to the default binding of C-g.
• The /join command now accepts an optional channel name argument. If provided, the named channel is joined (#361).
• A new user browser was added! The user browser presents a list of users and the ability to search users by name. The new user list powers some new and existing commands:
  • A new /msg command is used to browse known users and select a user with Enter to begin a private chat session with the selected user.
  • A new /add-user command is used to add users to the current channel. The list shows users who are not already members of the channelcurrent and Enter adds the selected user to the channel.
  • The existing /members command now shows a browsable user list of members of the current channel. Enter begins a private chat session with the selected user.

Bug fixes:

• Missing urlOpenCommands are now reported as error messages rather than informative messages.
• More login-related exceptions are now displayed in a more readable format on the login screen (#358).
• Channel selection mode now prefers an exact match as the initial cursor selection if one exists (#356).
• Replies now indicate the correct parent message in the message list.
• The multi-line editor help message now shows the active binding (previously M-e).

40600.1.0

Performance improvements:

• Matterhorn's reconnection handling was improved to more reliably fetch messages that arrived while the client was disconnected.
• Startup performance was improved by reducing redundant post and user metadata fetches when loading channel messages.

Other fixes:

• The multi-line toggle help message now shows the active binding.
• Slash commands now support multi-line input. Previously only the first line was passed as the command input.
• Matterhorn now updates channel view status on updates from other clients (#342)

40600.0.0

This release supports Mattermost server version 4.6.

New features:

• Rebindable keys are now supported! See /help keybindings for details. Matterhorn also checks for conflicting bindings on startup.
• The user status list now supports the Do Not Disturb status (shown as ×).
• User typing notifications are now supported. These are off by default but can be enabled with the showTypingIndicator configuration setting. Enabling the feature causes Matterhorn to produce such notifications for the server and to display typing indications from other users. Thanks to Abhinav Sarkar for this feature!
• Matterhorn now remembers which channel was visited when the client is closed and returns to that channel on startup. Thanks to Abhinav Sarkar for this feature!

New commands:

• /message-preview now toggles message preview mode in addition to default M-p keybinding.

Bug fixes:

• New post reactions no longer cause a post to be indicated as "(edited)" (#333)

UI changes:

• The channel list shown by /join now also displays the channel purpose for each channel when possible.

Performance improvements:

• Matterhorn now has much lower input latency on servers with very large numbers of users due to user list rendering performance improvements.

Miscellaneous:

• This release now uses only version 4 API endpoints, consistent with the upstream deprecation of version 3 API endpoints in the 4.6 release.
• Startup requests are now performed concurrently to improve performance (#347, thanks to Abhinav Sarkar)
• Channel header strings containing newlines are now rendered more effectively: newlines are converted to spaces. This behavior more closely matches the web client, too.

40400.0.0

This release supports server version 4.4.

New features:

• The active color theme can be customized by creating a theme customization file and setting the new themeCustomizationFile option. This setting lets you override any foreground color, background color, or style of any aspect of the Matterhorn interface. For details on the format of the customization file, please see the "Themes" help in Matterhorn with the /help themes command.
• Edited posts are now displayed with a trailling "edited" marker. This change includes some new behavior and a new configuration option:
  • When you visit a post that has recent edits, the "edited" marker will be highlighted. This highlight can be dismissed in the same way as the "New Messages" cutoff, using the M-l keybinding.
  • This feature can be turned off using by setting the showOlderEdits configuration option to False.
• New commands:
  • The /remove-user command removes a user from a channel.
  • The /group-msg command creates a new private group channel including several users.
  • The /search [term] command searches the chat history for posts that include the provided text and displays those posts in an overlay. Thanks to @abhin4v for this change!
• Matterhorn now includes embedded hyperlinks using terminal escape sequences in terminals that support them. For more information on terminal support for hyperlink escape sequences, please see this gist and its associated discussion.
• The width of the channel list (in columns) is now configurable with channelListWidth, which defaults to 20.
• The urlOpenCommand can now be an interactive terminal-based program (such as a terminal-based web browser) but this requires the configuration option urlOpenCommandIsInteractive to be set to True. This defaults to False and should not be changed if the urlOpenCommand is not a terminal-based program.
• The current selection in channel select mode can be moved forward and backward with C-n and C-p. (fixes #139)
• Quotation blocks now include visible characters in addition to indentation.
• We now honor the server's notification settings for channels.

Bug fixes:

• New direct-message channels are properly added to running sessions (fixes #264)
• No more reporting of "resource vanished" exceptions (fixes #116)
• Missing editing keybindings now included in edit binding list (fixes #139)
• Websocket message parse failures no longer result in crashes (fixes #297)
• The sidebar no longer shows deleted users (fixes #316)
• Tab-completion no longer includes deleted users (fixes #320)
• User status updates are now rate-limited (fixes #282)
• Private channels can be deleted successfully (fixes #304)
• External commands now run in the background in their own thread and do not block the main UI (fixes #270)
• Channel renaming is honored at runtime and does not require a restart (fixes #324)
• Group channel show/hide preferences are observed, which in practice means a user can now 'leave' a several-user group channel
• New channels will not appear twice in the sidebar (fixes #327)
• New messages to previously-hidden group channels will cause the group channel to be shown again (fixes #326)

Package changes:

• PRACTICES.md is now listed in extra-doc-files.
• Three scripts usable with the /sh command are now listed in extra-doc-files:
  • cowsay runs the message text through the cowsay shell command and formats the output as a verbatim block. This command requires the cowsay command-line program to be installed externally.
  • figlet runs the message text through the figlet shell command and formats the output as a verbatim block. This command requires the figlet command-line program to be installed externally.
  • rot13 runs the trivial ROT13 subsitution cipher over the message text and otherwise passes it through unchanged.

40000.1.0

New features:

• Messages that start with a block-level element now get laid out so that the block level element appears underneath, rather than to the right of, the user name. This helps with long usernames such as bots. Thanks to @kellymclaughlin for this change.
• Code blocks with fencing now display the language when syntax highlighting is active.
• In channel scroll mode, Up/Down arrow keys scroll by just one row
• All channel and user data are now fetched more efficiently on startup for greatly improved startup time.

Bug fixes:

• The /members command now only shows active users (fixes #315)
• Reset edit mode after handling commands and message input, provide reply context when running commands (fixes #305)
• Allow all unknown client commands to fall through to server (fixes #306)
• Improve uniqueness comparisons for URL lists

40000.0.2

Bug fixes:

• Attachments no longer appear in duplicate for edited messages.

Package changes:

• CHANGELOG.md is now listed in extra-doc-files.

40000.0.1

Package changes:

• Upgraded mattermost-api to 40000.0.1.
• Upgraded mattermost-api-qc to 40000.0.1.

Bug fixes:

• Ignore emoji_added websocket events rather than crashing due to JSON decode failures (#296)
• channel_viewed websocket events from 4.0 servers lacking a channel_id value no longer cause a client crash (https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-7252)
• mkrelease.sh: use correct bindist file extension (#295)

40000.0.0

This release supports server version 4.0.

Package changes:

• Upgraded mattermost-api to 40000.0.0.
• Upgraded mattermost-api-qc to 40000.0.0.

Bug fixes:

• Attempts to /focus your own DM channel no longer trigger a server error (fixes #294)
• Message edits now properly restore message reactions and attachments (fixes #292)
• DM channels with topics now display those topics in addition to the DM channel user identification.
• Rendering of attachments regressed in 31000.0.0 and is now fixed so that attachments are displayed beneath, not to the right of, their messages.

New features:

• Markdown image alt text is now rendered when available and Markdown images are now available in the C-o URL list (fixes #285)
• Added a new configuration setting, showBackgroundActivity, which determines whether the status of Matterhorn's asynchronous work queue is displayed in the interface. This setting is mostly for developers but can be a helpful diagnostic tool. When enabled, the setting causes the async queue length to appear in the lower-right corner of the interface.
• Added a new configuration setting, unsafeUseUnauthenticatedConnection, which causes Matterhorn to use a non-HTTPS connection when connecting to the configured host and port. As the sample configuration file says, use this only if you know what you are doing.

Internal changes:

• Added support for 4.0's channel_viewed and channel_updated websocket events.

31000.0.0

This release supports server version 3.10.0.

Package changes:

• Upgraded mattermost-api to 31000.0.0.
• Upgraded mattermost-api-qc to 31000.0.0.

New features and keybindings:

• Matterhorn now supports Flagged Posts. To use this feature:
  • Press M-8 or use the /flags command to show a list of your flagged posts. Within that view, 'f' will unflag a selected message.
  • In message selection mode in channels (C-s), 'f' will flag/unflag the selected message.
  • Flagged posts appear with a flag marker "[!]" next to the author's username.
• Syntax highlighting of fenced code blocks is now supported in 256-color terminals. Code blocks must provide the langauge hint using the same syntax as supported by the web client.
• Spell checking of user input is now supported using Aspell. To use this feature:
  • Install the Aspell binary and dictionaries on your system.
  • Set enableAspell = true in your Matterhorn configuration.
  • Optionally, set aspellDictionary to the name of the Aspell dictionary you want to use (this is only necessary if you want to override your LANG setting, which is typically sufficient)
  • Once user input is entered into the input area, a short delay after typing stops, a spell check will highlight any misspelled words.
• Home and End now move the cursor as usual in editor while in normal mode, and also navigate the message list while scrolling.
• Matterhorn now displays the mention count in the channel sidebar to mimic the web client behavior and highlights channels with at least one mention in magenta in the sidebar.

Bug fixes and improvements:

• Configuration file values can now use quoted string syntax (fixes #269)
• The channel switch mode prompt now mentions anchors.
• The URL opening command is now run asynchronously.
• Input history files are now saved with an appropriate file mode (fixes #218)
• Fixed a bug that caused users created after a session began not to appear in the sidebar.
• Help topics (valid arguments to /help) are now displayed in the main help UI (fixes #225)
• Message deletion now also deletes replies to the deleted message (fixes #257)
• On channel deletion, leave before deleting to avoid a server error.
• URLs in the URL list are now displayed in the same order in which they appear in messages (fixes #250)
• User identification now appears in DM channel headers.
• Numbered lists now render starting at first specified number (fixes #243)
• The login screen now displays validation errors for hostname and port inputs when appropriate (fixes #242)
• Channel select inputs that have an exact match no longer require ^/$ anchors.

30802.1.0

This release supports server version 3.8.2. This release is our first official public release.

Package changes:

• Removed stale array and data-default dependencies
• Increased lower bound on base dependency to 4.8 to relect our GHC testing.

Improvements:

• Subprocess error logs are now only created on demand. Previously we created them on startup before any subprocess errors had occurred.
• We now provide a QuickCheck test for some infrastructure.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug whereby some resize operations would cause a program crash by triggering an unsafe mutable vector operation in Vty.
• New user creation is now handled successfully and no longer requires a client restart to function reliably. Previously bad behavior included not coloring new users' names and not showing new users' names at all on their messages.
• Message selection mode is no longer blocked by errors and other non-post content.
• Subprocesses that fail to run are now consistently mentioned in the subprocess error log.

30802.0.0

This release supports server version 3.8.2.

Package changes:

• Relax constraint on containers to allow 0.5.7 or greater.
• Upgraded mattermost-api to 30802.0.0.

Bug fixes:

• The help interface now updates properly when showing either the main help window or the scripts help window.
• Attachments are now saved asynchronously.
• Attachments are now opened without using the browser, thus removing our dependency on a valid browser session with the server (fixes #128)
• Editing state is now saved before switching history entries (fixes #210)
• Messages with unknown authors trigger a user metadata fetch (fixes #205)

New keybindings:

• C-o now opens the URL list while scrolling through channel messages.
• C-c now cancels channel selection in C-g mode

UI changes:

• Channel scroll mode keybindings were added to the help page.
• We no longer perform string highlighting on the contents of Markdown code spans in messages.
• On startup, only the scrollback for Town Square is fetched to improve performance. Scrollback for other channels is fetched on demand.
• We now use the channel sigil "~" rather than "#" to match the web client behavior, and highlight ~-prefixed channel names (fixes #204).

30701.0.0

This release supports server version 3.7.1.

New features:

• Matterhorn now has basic support for 3.7's new "group channel" feature. If other users add you to a group channel, it will appear in the sidebar with the member usernames listed (e.g. "#bob, sue, ..."). Creation of group channels will be supported in a future release.
• When the urlOpenCommand program produces output on standard output or standard error, this output is now logged and a message is posted in the current channel with the path to the log file. This feature prevents the URL open command from poisoning the terminal state with unexpected output.
• Added a /members command to show current channel membership.
• Channel header changes from other users will now cause the channel topic string to update.
• Added a /delete-channel command to delete the current channel.
• Markdown rendering now puts empty lines between adjacent block elements of the same variety to improve readability.

Bug fixes:

• Message selection now only supports reply/edit/delete on normal posts (fixes #174)
• C-n/p now only change channels when a non-DM channel is selected (fixes #82)
• We now handle new user events (fixed #111)
• On channel change we now always reset the channel list to scroll to the top (fixes #138)
• When a draft message is left in the editor when changing channels, a new sigil ("»") appears for the previous channel instead of the usual "#" to indicate this.
• The help interface now resizes properly all the time.

Performance improvements:

• On startup, all channel contents are fetched asynchronously. Town Square fetches are prioritized. These changes drastically improve startup time, even on fast connections.

Documentation changes:

• The README now includes a feature list, a brief feature overview for new users, and a section on how to contribute.

Package changes:

• Upgraded mattermost-api to 30701.0.0.
• Binary releases now include the copyright and licensing information for all dependencies.

Internal changes:

• Added preemption support for asynchronous work queue processing. doAsync(With) now both take an AsyncPriority.

30600.2.4

New editing keybindings:

• C-w, M-Backspace now delete the word to the left of the cursor.

• M-d deletes the word to the right of the cursor.

• C-k now kills text from the cursor to the end of the line and copies to an internal buffer; C-y pastes from said buffer.

• C-b, C-f move back and forward by one word, respectively.

• Many editing keybindings are now present in their own Help page section.

Package changes:

• Upgraded text-zipper to 0.10.
• Upgraded mattermost-api to 30600.2.2.

30600.2.3

Bug fixes:

• Message-yanking failures due to missing programs (e.g. xclip) no longer trigger an unhandled exception (fixes #170)
• Users that are not members of the current team are now hidden from the user list (fixes #161)
• User statuses in the sidebar are now periodically refreshed
• Supported server commands now appear on the help screen (fixes #162)
• Files containing non-UTF-8 content no longer trigger unhandled exceptions when being read by matterhorn (fixes #168)
• Updated repository URL in error message about reporting problems (thanks @tommd)

30600.2.2

• Improved formatting of message attachments so that their filenames are shown. Previously only their hash identifiers were displayed. This change also entails asynchronous fetching of attachment metadata.
• Upgraded to mattermost-api 30600.2.1.

30600.2.1

• Fixed a bug that caused message selection mode to trigger a Vty crash when a message being rendered was larger than half of the area available for the message list.

30600.2.0

• Added a new message selection mode. This mode provides access to four new features: replies, edits, deletion, and verbatim text yanking. To enter this mode, use the default binding of C-s (and cancel with Esc). The resulting cursor can be used to select messages in the current channel and perform the following actions on them:

  • y: for messages with any verbatim text, yank the verbatim text to the first verbatim block in the message to the system clipboard (works on Linux and OSX)
  • r: reply to the selected message. To cancel a reply, press C-c or Esc.
  • e: for messages written by the current user, edit the selected message. To cancel an edit, press C-c or Esc.
  • d: for messages written by the current user, delete the selected message (with a confirmation).
  • o: for messages containing URLs, open all URLs in the selected message.
  • j/k/up/down/pgup/pgdown: change the selected message cursor position.

• Added a C-r binding to begin a reply to the most recently posted message in the current channel.

• M-e now toggles multiline editing mode rather than just enabling it. Previously, Esc toggled it off.

• Upgraded to mattermost-api 30600.2.0.

30600.1.0

• Upgraded to mattermost-api 30600.1.0. This fixed /me and /shrug server-side command execution failures.

30600.0.0

Initial versioned release for server version 3.6.0.