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The Lounge v2.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-10-17 // over 6 years ago

  • 👀 For more details, see the full changelog and milestone.

    🚀 If you thought the v2.3.0 release was big, well, v2.5.0 is even bigger! 🎉

    If you are a client user, you will notice that The Lounge is now using your operating system's font, and that status messages (joins, parts, nick changes, etc.) are now condensed with each other.

    Condensed status messages

    After a while, you'll realize that the client now automatically reconnects when losing network connection (farewell, Client connection lost — Click here to reconnect!), and that the channel backlog now automatically loads when you scroll up. Unfortunately, that last bit forced us to phase out the /clear command for technical reasons.

    If you go to the Settings page, you'll notice that The Lounge now supports push notifications (yes, even on mobile, except iOS), and that you can remotely log out open sessions.

    Current and remote sessions

    As a server administrator, you might be interested in a few new additions:

    • Themes can now be retrieved from npm and installed using a new CLI command lounge install <theme-name>
    • 🔨 Integration with LDAP has been completely refactored
    • The Lounge can now be bound to Unix sockets

    ⚠️ Note that --home is now deprecated in favor of the $LOUNGE_HOME environment variable (or the .lounge_home file in the installation directory). Also, if you are running The Lounge behind a proxy (like nginx or Apache), you will need to make sure that reverseProxy is set to true and the X-Forwarded-For header correctly set for session listing to work correctly on the client.

    Enjoy! 💬

    ➕ Added

    🔄 Changed

    ✂ Removed

    🛠 Fixed

    • Correctly append OS name (#1399 by @xPaw)
    • Correctly dereference stored images when leaving channels (#1406 by @xPaw)
    • 📜 Do not throw an exception when URI parsing fails (#1412 by @xPaw)
    • Take into account word boundaries for custom highlighting (#1358 by @starquake)
    • Do not unintentionally send incorrect messages from history (#1444 by @xPaw)
    • Escape channel names in slugify helper correctly (#1472 by @xPaw)
    • Format messages on copy (#1464 by @xPaw)
    • ➕ Add /list to autocomplete (#1496 by @MaxLeiter)
    • Only change nick autocompletion when receiving a message (#1495 by @xPaw)
    • 💻 Render link previews in browser idle event (#1508 by @xPaw)
    • 🛠 Fix image viewer turning black sometimes (#1512 by @xPaw)
    • 🛠 Fix requesting last messages when no message id is known (#1519, #1544 by @xPaw)
    • Display correct kick modes (#1527 by @dgw)
    • 🚚 Move unread marker when loading more history (#1517 by @xPaw)
    • 🛠 Fix wrongly positioned menu when opening it and switching to landscape (#1565 by @astorije)
    • 🛠 Fix flickering on link hovering, and inconsistencies between chat links and UI links (#1573 by @astorije)
    • 🛠 Fix nick change on Safari for Mac and iOS (#1568 by @Gilles123)
    • 👉 Make sure channel list close button is really absent when channel is not selected (#1623 by @astorije)

    🔒 Security

    • Implement a proper LDAP authentication process (#1478 by @eliemichel)
    • Implement multiple sessions for users (#1199 by @xPaw)
    • 🌲 Deleting a user should log them out (#1474 by @xPaw)
    • ✂ Remove the "Stay signed in" checkbox at login (#1465 by @astorije)
    • Implement session list and allow signing out other clients (#1536 by @xPaw)

    📚 Documentation

    In the main repository:

    • ➕ Add Stack Overflow link in CONTRIBUTING file (#1373 by @astorije)
    • ➕ Add feature overview in README (#1427 by @xPaw)
    • ➕ Add documentation for LOUNGE_HOME environment variable in the CLI helper (#1438 by @astorije)
    • 🛠 Fix general spelling errors (#1458 by @PolarizedIons)
    • ✂ Remove duplicate keybindings help (#1543 by @xPaw)

    On the website repository:

    • ✂ Remove wrong and inexistent home option from configuration documentation (#72 by @astorije)
    • 🗄 Deprecate --home in favor of LOUNGE_HOME environment variable (#73 by @astorije)
    • ➕ Add themes docs (#69 by @YaManicKill)
    • ➕ Add missing prefetchStorage configuration option to docs (#74 by @MiniDigger)

    Internals