1.6.0

Changes since 1.5.1

Highlights

• Added the initial Flare AI Agent experience.

  • Supports general chat, post insight, and profile insight.
  • Can use app context from timelines, search, notifications, lists, RSS subscriptions, and local cache.
  • Supports conversation history and optional tool actions such as composing posts, post actions, relationship actions, and subscription source management.
  • Requires an OpenAI-compatible endpoint/model configuration and can be enabled from AI settings.

• Added Pixiv support.

  • Supports Pixiv OAuth login.
  • Added home, discover, following, bookmarks, and ranking timelines.
  • Added illustration/manga profile tabs, artwork detail, comments, recommendations, search, trending tags, and bookmark/unbookmark actions.
  • Added Pixiv artwork/user deep link handling.

• Added the initial Web client.

  • Built with SvelteKit and a Kotlin/Wasm presenter bridge.
  • Includes core pages for home timeline, discover, search, notifications, profile, status detail, compose, subscriptions, tabs, login, and settings.
  • Added Web CI coverage for Wasm tests, codegen tests, Svelte checks, and production build.

New Features

• Added a gallery/detail experience for media-focused platforms.

  • Supports large-screen and compact layouts.
  • Shows artwork details, comments, recommendations, and available actions.

• Added customizable post action layout.

  • Post actions can now be arranged between the button row, the “More” menu, or hidden.
  • Added a preview and reorder UI in appearance settings.

• Added an option to show content behind content warnings by default.

• Added multi-account notification improvements.

  • Notifications can be viewed across accounts with unread badges.
  • Added account switching and notification type filtering.

• Added AI entry points across major screens, including timelines, search, local cache search, post detail, and profile pages.

Improvements

• Reworked the login architecture around platform providers and login method handlers.

  • Improves support for OAuth, password login, credential import, QR connect, external signer, and web-cookie based login flows.
  • Adds shared callback handling for Flare and Pixiv login flows.

• Improved RSS/subscription timeline loading.

  • RSS timelines now use a unified remote mediator.
  • Feed title, icon, display mode, item language, and item publish time are handled more consistently.
  • Added charset decoding support across platforms, including GBK/GB18030 and Web TextDecoder.

• Improved Android video playback and downloading.

  • Added a shared Media3 cache.
  • Media requests now support custom headers.
  • Downloads can reuse cached media and save files to public Downloads.
  • Improved MIME/type handling for common video, audio, and GIF formats.

• Improved profile pages.

  • Blocked profiles now hide profile content until explicitly shown.
  • Profile tabs now support platform-specific timeline/gallery display types.
  • Profile media, avatar, and banner handling were generalized for more platforms.

• Improved Bluesky behavior.

  • Fixed status detail thread rendering.
  • Improved notification rendering/grouping.
  • Improved username/handle handling during login.
  • Added more coverage around Bluesky thread and notification rendering.

Fixes

• Fixed timeline cache and paging edge cases.

  • Empty refreshes now clear stale cached entries.
  • Prepend pagination preserves ordering more reliably.
  • Reply-chain collapsing avoids duplicated or incorrectly ordered context.
  • Detail timelines can preserve linear reply chains when needed.

• Fixed RSS item timestamps so publication dates are used correctly.

• Improved draft media storage across platforms, including Wasm support.

Internal / Build

• Split social platform implementations into dedicated modules, including Mastodon, Misskey, Bluesky, Nostr, VVO, XQT, Pixiv, and subscriptions.
• Added shared platform specs, login providers, and data source wiring for better Android, desktop, iOS, and Web reuse.
• Added Web-specific presenter annotations/code generation.
• Added and updated CI workflows, including Web and PR quality checks.
• Updated core dependencies across Compose, Kotlin/KSP-related tooling, Koin, Coil, SQLite, Firebase, Sentry, and other project libraries.

1.5.1

Changelog

1.5.1

Added

• Added iOS app icon customization with multiple alternate icons: Black, Blue, Cyan, Light Blue, Orange, Red, Teal, White, Yellow, and Default.
• Added an App Icon entry in iOS Settings with icon previews, selected state, pending state, and error handling.
• Rebuilt the iOS About screen as a native SwiftUI page with the current app icon, version, source code, Telegram, Discord, Crowdin, and privacy policy links.
• Added broader Bluesky deep link support for bsky.app/profile/... and bsky.app/profile/.../post/..., including accounts whose PDS is not bsky.social.
• Added a distinct “Request follow” state for locked profiles, separate from Follow, Requested, Following, and Blocked.

Improved

• Rebuilt the Android About screen with native Compose UI and added project description plus external links.
• Updated the iOS splash screen to use the current app icon preview and system background color.
• Improved Android share image capture: normal posts now capture the preview layer directly, while very tall content uses offscreen rendering.
• Improved profile media grids with stable item keys and shared paging UI for loading, append, error, and end states.
• Reduced duplicated choices in the tab/group icon picker by using a curated icon list.
• Adjusted RSS detail backgrounds and top bar colors on Android and Desktop for better surface consistency.
• Improved iOS rich text font rendering, including dynamic type, bold accessibility text, monospace/code text, and italic combinations.

Fixed

• Fixed an Android bottom sheet crash caused by duplicate overlay scene creation during recomposition.
• Fixed Android deep links and external opens not updating the Activity intent on new intents.
• Fixed a Shortcut Compose Activity crash related to Compose media query integration.
• Fixed repeated visible posts appearing again as parents in Bluesky thread details.
• Fixed detail page parent filtering so the current post and older parents are not repeated in reply chains.
• Fixed Bluesky notification grouping so likes/reposts for different posts are no longer merged together.
• Fixed Mastodon/GoToSocial pagination cursor parsing by supporting non-hex cursor values from Link headers.
• Fixed Mastodon relationship mapping for fields such as blocked_by and requested_by.
• Fixed optimistic follow request handling for locked accounts, including pending state, rollback on failure, and clearing pending state on unfollow.
• Fixed timeline reply filtering so self-thread posts are not incorrectly treated as replies to others.
• Fixed VVO comment/like notification paging cache keys.
• Fixed VVO image preview sizing by using mw600 previews instead of orj360.
• Updated several repost/reblog notification labels to use more accurate generic wording.

Maintenance

• Updated F-Droid metadata to versionName=1.5.1 and versionCode=1510.
• Added and updated tests for Bluesky deep links, Bluesky notification grouping, Bluesky thread rendering, Mastodon pagination, relationship state handling, and detail parent filtering.
• Updated localization resources for About links, follow request states, and notification text.

1.5.0

1.5.0

Added

• Added Deck Mode, a multi-column timeline layout for Android, iOS, and Desktop.
• Reworked the home timeline/tab system:
  • New persistent TimelineTabItemV2 model.
  • Pinnable built-in timelines, lists, feeds, Misskey antennas/channels, and RSS sources.
  • Timeline groups and a system mixed home timeline.
  • Mixed timeline merge policies: time, time per page, and staggered.
• Added richer tab customization:
  • Rename tabs, change icons, enable/disable tabs.
  • Configure filters per timeline.
  • Override appearance per timeline, including layout, display, media, and avatar style.
• Added timeline filters for replies, reposts, quotes, text-only posts, images, and videos.
• Added regex support for local keyword filters.
• Added appearance options to hide bottom bar labels and enable Deck Mode.
• Added custom extra JSON body support for OpenAI-compatible AI configuration.
• Added TLDR/summary support in the iOS UIKit timeline.
• Added Discover timeline support for pinnable tabs and account menu access in Discover.
• Added RSS improvements, including media:content image parsing and automatic cleanup of pinned RSS tabs when a source is deleted.
• Added a support page.
• Added support for more Misskey notification types.

Improved

• Improved iOS timeline performance with optimized collection view snapshots, stable placeholders, height caching, and better gallery/waterfall layout updates.
• Improved iOS translation and summary rendering by moving measurement to UIKit-native views.
• Improved mixed timeline deduplication when the same post appears from multiple sources.
• Improved mixed timeline sorting with stable sort IDs.
• Improved reply-chain collapsing to avoid crashes from cyclic or deeply nested chains.
• Improved Bluesky thread rendering by using the newer thread API.
• Improved settings import/export:
  • New exports include appearance bags and tab settings v2.
  • Imports remain compatible with legacy appearance and tab settings formats.
• Migrated appearance settings to a key/value patch model, enabling global and per-timeline overrides.
• Improved image sharing:
  • Android now captures share images through an offscreen Compose view.
  • Fixed long image sharing.
  • Disabled video autoplay in share previews.
  • Sanitized generated file names.
  • Reduced capture failures caused by hardware bitmaps.
• Improved RSS favicon lookup and HTML image extraction.
• Adjusted compose account persistence so reply/quote posts no longer overwrite the last-used account.
• Updated localization and wording across supported languages.

Fixed

• Fixed timeline filters not applying correctly to reposts.
• Fixed missing Bluesky quote content.
• Fixed recursive cached Bluesky reply-chain resolution issues.
• Fixed Bluesky image share crashes.
• Fixed Misskey timeline prepend behavior.
• Fixed Mastodon media upload.
• Fixed iOS Mastodon reply cursor ordering.
• Fixed X/XQT user media pagination for TweetWithVisibilityResults.
• Fixed X profile location rendering.
• Fixed RSS fetching issues and improved iOS RSS detail loading.
• Fixed iOS video slider sync.
• Fixed iOS screen-always-on behavior.
• Fixed iOS group edits not appearing in lists.
• Fixed iOS timeline paging placeholders.
• Fixed Desktop build issues.
• Marked Wafrn as unsupported to avoid incorrect Mastodon detection.
• Fixed issues when removing the last item.
• Fixed compose dialog outside-click dismissal behavior.

Technical

• Upgraded app database schema to version 10.
• Added is_regex to keyword filters.
• Added migration helpers for appearance settings and tab settings.
• Added protobuf/JSON helpers for settings serialization.
• Added tests for timeline filters, tab migration, appearance patches, import/export, Misskey notifications, NodeInfo, AI request bodies, and related timeline behavior.
• Upgraded Gradle Wrapper to 9.5.1.
• Updated Kotlin, Compose, AndroidX, Room, Paging, Media3, KSP, Firebase, Sentry, Nucleus, and other dependencies.

1.4.5

What's Changed

• caching ns richtext by @Tlaster in #2056
• New Crowdin translations by @github-actions[bot] in #2052
• New Crowdin translations by @github-actions[bot] in #2062
• version 1.4.5 by @Tlaster in #2063
• fix dependency by @Tlaster in #2064

Full Changelog: 1.4.4...1.4.5

1.4.4

1.4.4

Highlights

• Added new timeline display modes: Card, Plain, and Gallery.
• Added a Gallery timeline layout for browsing media-heavy feeds.
• Improved RSS reading with richer article details, better sharing, translation, summaries, and configurable display modes.
• Reorganized Appearance settings into clearer Theme, Layout, Display, and Media sections.
• Reworked large parts of the iOS timeline with UIKit for better scrolling performance and media handling.

New

• Added RSS source display modes: full content, description only, and open in browser.
• Added RSS article metadata display, including site name, author, and publish time.
• Added TLDR and translation actions to RSS article pages.
• Added desktop RSS detail reading support.
• Added search history suggestions on iOS.
• Added OpenAI-compatible reasoning effort settings: default, low, medium, and high.
• Added en-JP / en-JA language resources and updated translations.

Improvements

• Improved iOS timeline rendering with native collection views, dynamic height caching, empty/error states, multi-column layouts, and video autoplay support.
• Improved iOS profile timelines and tab switching.
• Improved Android and Compose timeline layout, media presentation, quoted posts, and status card styling.
• Improved navigation with expandable secondary tab groups and reduced secondary tab loading overhead.
• Improved RSS rich text rendering for images, links, headings, blockquotes, and lists.
• Improved RSS article layout with constrained content width for better readability.
• Improved translation handling, including RTL detection and translated language metadata.
• Improved compose account/user loading to reduce repeated work.
• Updated Kotlin, Android Gradle Plugin, Compose, Koin, Firebase, Sentry, Ktor, Nucleus, and other dependencies.
• Moved shared Gradle configuration into build logic conventions.

Fixes

• Fixed RSS matching order.
• Fixed link opening and Custom Tabs error handling.
• Fixed iOS URL and optional handling crash risks.
• Fixed Bluesky thread API handling.
• Fixed duplicate posts in multi-account timelines by using status IDs for timeline references.
• Fixed AI model input visibility after model list loading succeeds.
• Fixed video playback button and autoplay behavior.
• Fixed scrolling issues when new timeline items are inserted.
• Fixed iOS status media index handling.
• Fixed UIKit rich text line height, caching, and runtime warnings.
• Fixed user list post height calculation.
• Fixed Android build and lint issues.
• Fixed several translation, RTL text, and rich text rendering edge cases.

Internal

• Removed the internal server module and related shared API module.
• Replaced the in-repository readability module with an external readability dependency.
• Refactored build configuration into the new build-logic module.

1.4.3

What's Changed

New

• Added support for X/Twitter Articles, including timeline preview cards and dedicated article detail screens on Android, Desktop, and iOS.
• Added a native Kotlin Multiplatform Readability module for RSS/article extraction, replacing the previous JavaScript/platform scraper path.
• Added AI translation testing in settings so users can verify the current AI translation setup with a rich-text sample.
• Added manual OpenAI model input.
• Added auto-translation excluded languages, allowing selected source languages to be skipped during automatic pre-translation.

Improvements

• Reworked AI translation to use placeholder-based templates, improving preservation of links, mentions, hashtags, rich-text structure, and locked content.
• Improved pre-translation session handling so provider changes cancel stale jobs and clean up in-flight translation state.
• Updated X/Twitter API feature flags and field toggles to support article rich content.
• Improved VVO rich-text mapping for linked images and internal status links.
• Improved iOS timeline performance with a new collection-view based timeline renderer and more targeted cell refreshes.

Fixes

• Fixed RSS charset handling, including feeds that declare GBK or other encodings in XML/HTML metadata.
• Fixed desktop link-click behavior for rich text containing inline images.
• Fixed desktop WebView login session handling by using incognito web settings.
• Fixed Android media picker compatibility by switching to the document picker for images and videos.
• Fixed iOS video seek behavior so playback state is restored correctly after dragging the slider.
• Fixed several iOS notification timeline selection, filtering, refresh, and unnecessary re-render issues.
• Improved Mastodon token response compatibility with servers that omit or vary optional fields.

Dependencies

• Updated Ktor, Nucleus, SKIE, Zoomable, RichText Material3, and ML Kit GenAI Prompt dependencies.

Full Changelog: 1.4.2...1.4.3

1.4.2

What's Changed

• This is an emergency fix release that includes an urgent fix for the timeline crash issue.

Full Changelog: 1.4.1...1.4.2

1.4.1

What's New

Highlights

• Added automatic translation with smarter caching and support for multiple translation providers.
• RSS article translation now supports both titles and rich content.
• Introduced a dedicated translation settings screen for easier configuration.
• Nostr login now supports QR sign-in, with Amber signer integration on Android.
• Subscriptions now support Mastodon public, local, and trending timelines.
• Improved settings, storage, and account management across Android, iOS, and desktop.

Improvements

• Refined translation display and retry behavior in timelines and detail views.
• Improved Nostr account handling for signer-based and read-only usage.
• Enhanced RSS source detection and subscription management.
• Updated UI and localization resources across all platforms.

1.4.0

What's New

This release brings official Nostr support to Flare, along with major improvements to tabs, account management, and overall navigation.

Highlights

• Added Nostr account login via nsec
• Added Nostr timelines, notifications, search, posting, replies, quotes, media upload, and interactions
• Added Nostr relay management on Android, Desktop, and iOS
• Reworked the platform spec system for cleaner platform detection, icons, deep links, and default tabs
• Improved tab management with automatic tab sync when accounts are added or removed
• Enhanced group tab editing and secondary tab handling
• Improved iOS navigation and multi-account switching across Home, Search, Discover, Notifications, and Local History

Fixes

• Fixed duplicate items in mixed timelines
• Improved list member editing state updates
• Fixed interrupted drafts getting stuck in sending state
• Improved media download/share filenames, especially for Bluesky-style URLs
• Cleaned up platform icon rendering and profile action menu behavior

Technical updates

• Added nostr-sdk-kmp integration
• Updated Compose, Gradle, Media3, Koin, Firebase BOM, and other dependencies
• Expanded test coverage and localization updates

Full Changelog: 1.3.2...1.4.0

1.3.2

What's Changed

This release focuses on account management, timeline refresh behavior, on-device AI integration, and a set of platform-specific fixes across Android, iOS, desktop, and shared code.

Highlights

• Added account reordering with persistent custom order in account management.
• Improved compose flow by remembering the last used accounts and preserving visibility preferences more reliably.
• Enhanced timeline refresh and pagination behavior for Mastodon and Misskey, especially for loading newer items.
• Improved Bluesky integration with better PDS resolution and more reliable token/credential updates.
• Added on-device AI integrations for macOS desktop.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed poll vote handling to submit the actual selected option indexes.
• Improved Mastodon error parsing to handle invalid or non-JSON server responses safely.
• Improved media filename sanitization for safer exports and downloads.
• Refined Misskey rich text rendering, emoji handling, quote spacing, and poll state mapping.
• Reduced several crash-prone broad exception paths by narrowing exception handling in paging, cache, and network-related code.

Build and Distribution

• Added F-Droid non-FOSS dependency checks and CI validation.
• Added AppImage download links in project docs/site.
• Updated release versioning from 1.3.0 to 1.3.2. Where is 1.3.1? because Windows 8.1.

Full Changelog: 1.3.0...1.3.2