Release v1.53.0 2025-02-11 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop

[1.53.0] - 2025-02-10

Due to the Electron update, macOS 10.15 (Catalina) is no longer supported, macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later is the new requirement.

highlight the first unread message upon opening a chat #4525
copy files to internal tmp dir before opening attachements #4498
enable notifications on mentions in muted chats #4538
e2e test for group creation #4614
always show accounts with unread messages, even when they're normally scrolled out of view #4536
make log additionally available at "Settings / Advanced / View Log" #4610
improvements to tauri version #4528 #4585 #4533:
- read images from clipboard, write images to clipboard, write/delete temporary files
- implement experimental setting: content protection
- api to change language
- help window localisation
display past members in the group member list #4531

Update @deltachat/stdio-rpc-server and deltachat/jsonrpc-client to 1.155.4
- Store device token in IMAP METADATA on each connection
- Deduplicate blob files in chat.rs, config.rs, and integration.rs.
- Upgrade to [email protected] & pgp to 0.15.
- Use CRLF newlines in vCards
- fix second device incompatibility v1.155.2 - v1.155.1
shortcut improvements:
- Ctrl + F now focuses search, instead of Ctrl + K
- Ctrl + Shift + F to search in chat
- Ctrl + M now focuses composer, instead of Ctrl + N
- Ctrl + N now opens "New Chat" dialog
- Pressing "Enter" or "Arrow Down" in the search focuses the first item
  (from which point arrow keys can be used to navigate items)
  instead of opening the first chat
- Focusing the search input with a shortcut now doesn't clear it
Improve backup transfer dialog (different message for connection step, timed message to tell user to check out troubleshooting, button to link to trouble shooting) #4476
store last used account in accounts.toml managed by core #4569
update help menu URLs #4598
Update local help (2025-02-10)
tauri: update dependencies #4607
upgrade Electron from 32.1.0 to 34.0.1 #4568
Update translations (2025-02-07)

fix changelog message left unread not in the selected account as it should be but in another account. #4569
accessibility: some context menu items not working with keyboard navigation #4578
fix messages sent to "Saved Messages" not being displayed sometimes #4582
fix "jump down" button displaying incorrect unread count (the value from another chat) #4593
fix clicking on message search result or "Reply Privately" quote not jumping to the message on first click sometimes, again #4554
accessibility: not being able to focus arrow-key navigable widgets that contain disabled items with disabled elements (such as in the "add contacts to group" widget)
fix jumping to message in a different chat momentarily opening the new chat scrolled to bottom before scrolling it to the desired message #4562
fix log format for logging core events #4572
fix dragging files out
memory leak when opening and closing emoji picker #4567
fix chat list showing the chat that is different from the currently selected chat when switching chats rapidly #4615
fix selected account not getting scrolled into view in accounts bar on app start #4542
message list being empty sometimes when a chat gets opened #4556
accessibility: improve chat list, message list and contact list semantics #4518
improve performance a little #4561, #4552, #4584
fix "Empty Hints" in "All Media" view #4609
fix pasting of (non image) files into composer #4533
fix translation PluralRules fallback to 'en' not to 'en-US' (en-US isnt valid) #4585