November 12, 2020
BeagleIM 4.1 and SiskinIM 6.1 released
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New versions of XMPP clients for Apple’s mobile and desktop platforms have been released. The biggest change is introduction of XEP-0215: External Service Discovery which helps with establishing audio and video calls.
BeagleIM
The stable release of BeagleIM 4.1 contains a lot of changes and stability improvements.
New XEPs:
- Added support for XEP-0215: External Service Discovery
Major changes:
- Added shortcut for Last Message Correction with CMD+ARROW UP
- Added support for automatic scaling/recompression of images and videos to reduce size of shared files. (hold
alt
when sharing image file)
- Added support for sharing multiple files with drag & drop, copy & paste or selection.
- Improved onboarding process
- Simplified updating account password
- Added indication for corrected and retracted messages
- Added support for /me command
- Replaced Me with actual nickname user is using on the account on which chat was opened.
- Redesigned accounts list
- Added support for displaying jabber:iq:version
- Improved presentation of VCard data
- Rewrite of Markdown support to optimize it and fix the crash
Fixes
- Improved VCard support for MUC group chats
- Fixed issue with Reply option clearing clipboard
- Added dropping of errors received on message delivery confirmations not being delivered properly
- Fixed issue with VCard editing leading to disabled Edit button and improved UX
- Workaround for crash on BigSur (missing permission)
- Fixed issues with handling subscription requests
- Fixed issue with joining password protected MUC rooms
- Fixed another crash related to movie preview
- Fixed issue with right part of “new” button not being clickable
- Fixed issue with marking all MIX messages received while offline as read.
- Fixed support for domains ending with .local
SiskinIM
The stable release of SiskinIM 6.1 contains changes and stability improvements.
- Added support for XEP-0215: External Service Discovery
- Added support for automatic scaling/recompression of images and videos to reduce size of shared files.
- Added support for /me command
- Replaced Me with actual nickname user is using on the account on which chat was opened.
- Fixed issue with marking all MIX messages received while offline as read.
- Fixed support for domains ending with .local
Downloads
You can download both application from their respective app-stores: Beagle IM from macOS appstore and Siskin IM from iOS appstore and star them on GitHub: Siskin IM on GitHub and Beagle IM on GitHub
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