Changelog for Blink (Linux)

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Version 5.9.1

July 17th, 2024

Fixed session selection in chat window
Fixed buttons in conference join dialog
Fixed start chat button in main window
Fixed updating menu in chat window

Version 5.9.0

July 16th, 2024

Migrate code for QT6 compatibilty
Refactored web views to use latest QWebEngine
Chat window only opens on user interactions
Improved MacOS compatibilty
Implemented persistent Bonjour messaging
Added account selection for outgoing messages
Added audio/video call entries to messages
Added dialog to remove messages
Added option to start a random conference
Added menu item to show session info panel on audio calls
Added right-click contextual menu to calls
Added unread counter to contact and menu to show unread messages
Added virtual messages group to show all contacts that have messages
Added info button to audio sessions
Reorganized contact menu structure
Fix retrying sending locally failed messages
Fixed wrongly stored Sylk API messages
Fixed only deleting filetranfer files from cache
Send images by file transfers in messages/MSRP chat
Improved message rendering themes
Bugfixes for drag/drop
Bugfixes for filetransfers
Bugfixes for messages
Bugfixes for messages with Bonjour account
Bugfixes for PGP message handling
Bugfixes for sending IMDN messages

Version 5.6.0

July 10th, 2023

Added support for filetransfer messages
Added support for encrypting/decrypting MSRP file transfers
Added support for file encryption/decryption
Added support for displaying conference files
Added support for pull filetransfers
Added HTTP download function
Added filepane content
Added replace function for chat messages
Added menuitem in chat to send files
Added unique name generator function
Support removing messages
Fixed displaying decryption error
Fixed parsing images in chat, they should be base64 encoded
Fixed traceback for incoming messages without disposition
Prevent traceback on PGPKeys load when there is no chat in the session
Several UI fixes
Python >= 3.10 fixes
Update help and release notes urls

Version 5.5.1

November 6th, 2022

Handle scaling for different screen resolutions

Version 5.5.0

October 21st, 2022

Added multi-language support
Added Dutch translation
Added documentation folder doc/
Added messaging notes
Improved python 3.10 compatibility
Added more logging
Fixed opening last coversations multiple times

Version 5.4.0

September 30th, 2022

Added OTR encryption to SIP Message sessions
Add option to add/remove realtime chat during audio/video calls
PGP encryption fixes
Added more log mesaages

Version 5.3.0

September 7th, 2022

Added OpenPGP encryption for SIP Messages
Added offline messaging based on SylkServer API
Added multiple device synchronization for SIP messages
Added message trace/logging
Added advanced messaging options in account preferences
Improved python 3.10 compatibilty
Fixed Google contacts to not use deprecated OOB flow
Several fixes for IMDN and history storage

Version 5.2.0

June 9th, 2022

Added SIP Message functionality
Added history for chat and messages
Solved issues with python 3.10
Fixed wrong classes on chat messages
Fixed background icon path
Fixed encryption widget
Fixed monkey patch warning
Added status support for (chat) messages
Use SIP message method as default for 'chat'
Added IMDN support for messages
Added menuitem to show last conversations
Added setting to add unknown message contacts to contact list
Fixed google contacts
Reorganized 'Advanced' preferences
Added option to show name and uri in call history menu
Updated copyright years
Cleaned up code/syntax

Version 5.1.8

November 15th, 2021

Replaced Let's Encrypt Root CA

Version 5.1.7

September 15th, 2021

Fix for account creation

Version 5.1.6

September 6th, 2021

Remove obsolete python-enum34 dependency

Version 5.1.5

August 27th, 2021

Screen sharing fixes

Version 5.1.4

August 17th, 2021

Added presence and message_summary account settings

Version 5.1.3

July 7th, 2021

Bump SDK minimum version to benefit of bug fixes

Version 5.1.2

July 3rd, 2021

Fixed handling drag and drop inline images in chat window

Version 5.1.1

June 26th, 2021

Fixed loading icons from XCAP server
Increase the size of some widgets

Version 5.1.0

June 22nd, 2021

Implemented auto answer
Added per contact auto answer setting
Added NAT traversal preferences panel
Fixed XCAP getheaders of HTTP objects, renamed to get in Python3
Fixed xcap trace logging
Fixed saving local icon
Fixed a broken import
Rename chat window title
Automatically set sip2sip.info server settings URL
Refactored application menus
Rename some preferences options

Version 5.0.0

June 14th, 2021

Added VP9 codec
Implemented TLS certificate verification
Added per account TLS peer name to verify against
Update default CA list
Enable by default TLS transport
Fixed logging

Version 4.1.0

April 9th, 2021

Google Contacts integration solved
Allow calling to all URIs belonging to a contact

Version 4.0.0

February 6th, 2021

Migrate to Python 3
Show sip account registrar address in preferences panel

Version 3.2.2

March 19th, 2020

Bundle deprecated Google api

Version 3.2.1

February 14th, 2020

Updated windows installation instructions
Removed no longer used files from manifest
Fixed MSRP library logging
Preserve quoted arguments with build_inplace
Cleanup after build_inplace
Removed commented out variable in debian rules
Explicitly use python2 in shebang lines
Preserve quoted command line arguments when passing them along
Made the gdb-trace script be more precise in finding the blink process
Mark illegal requests in MSRP logs
Updated copyright years
Split debian build dependencies one per line
Increased debian compatibility level to 11
Increased debian standards version to 4.5.0
Use pybuild as the debian build system
Updated minimum versions for dependencies

Version 3.2.0

February 27th, 2019

Updated TLS certificates
Updated copyright years

Version 3.1.0

October 6th, 2018

Updated software license to GPL-3+ without restrictions
Extended the cases for which we fetch the alternate icon
Fixed displaying the owner of a failed icon retrieval
Use newer syntax when catching exceptions
Fixed Google contacts for another API breakage on Google's side
Fixed google contacts file cache being unavailable with newer ouath2client
Added unicode representation for AudioSessionItem to improve accessibility
Depend on python-application 2.5.0
Build the dbgsym package
Updated debian copyright
Updated copyright years

Version 3.0.3

February 28th, 2017

Fixed another People API breakage by Google (they restored old behaviour)
Added minimum version dependency for python-googleapi

Version 3.0.2

February 9th, 2017

Fixed people API breakage on Google's side
Removed obsolete pycompat/pyversions files
Updated debhelper version dependency
Use the backward compatible way for no automatic dbgsym packages
Removed unnecessary .PHONY targets
Updated software description
Updated copyright years
Updated man page

Version 2.0.0

March 8th, 2016

Use identity check for marker
Use defaultweakobjectmap from python-application
Multiple internal code improvements/cleanups and PEP-8 compliance fixes
Open stdout/stderr in unbuffered mode when frozen
Enhanced detection of the application resources directory
Fixed file transfer status if not answer is received
Don't rely on a failed transfer reason being set
Simplified update_ringtone logic and made it more readable
Show/hide stream icons in a single place in the code
Automated incoming dialog slot allocation
Simplified updating ringtones on session state changes
Added new notification when a blink session is created
Improved tracking of blink sessions from the session manager
Refactored BlinkSession inheritance and event signaling
Post the session creation notifications after instantiation only
Fixed file transfer indicator minimum width
Fixed condition for outgoing file transfers
Fixed race condition in the automatic ZRTP SAS validation
Fixed spurious ringtone delay in certain cases
Do not allow dialing contacts without URIs
Simplified logic of resetting statuses with limited lifetimes
Added context attribute to status messages
Prevent the status message from shifting left/right when duration changes
Added a separate UI file for the dragged audio session
Added a finished signal to incoming requests
Prevent the dragged audio session widget's content from overflowing
Fixed tooltip for reject button
Adjusted note text breaking points
Implemented call transfer
Make sure the gradient color position is in the 0..1 range
Removed export info from svg files
Added icons for modifier keys
Fixed conditions tested for displaying transfer status messages
Fixed processing of the incoming dialog signals
Optimized transfer failure status message for space
Removed unnecessary character escaping
Reset chat input text formatting between messages
Removed Dark style variant from the Smooth Operator theme
Synced widget height in code and the UI file
Fixed ZRTP widget role properties to be not translatable
Adjusted ZRTPWidget colors to be more readable
Added encryption and OTR related attributes to ChatStreamInfo
Added OTR encryption support for chat
Added switch icon
Show a modal dialog if the application gets a fatal error and exit
Removed copyright and license notices from the top of every source file
Fixed potentially uninitialized data variable
Added __info__ module
Updated docs
Fixed error in debian changelog trailing lines
Added debian files to MANIFEST.in
Updated debian package dependencies

Version 1.4.2

December 4th, 2015

Fixed unicode problem with certain locales
Fixed issue with non-ascii home directories on UNIX platforms
Fixed fonts in the chat web view
Updated Linux installation instructions
Adapted to the latest changes in python-sipsimple
Fixed bug with retrying file transfers after restarting blink
Raised python-sipsimple version dependency

Version 1.4.1

August 28th, 2015

Fixed deleting account without a TLS certificate
Fixed google contact uri list to be an instance of GoogleContactURIList
Fixed race condition in getting the MSRP stream info
Renamed the LogManager event queue thread
Added dh-python build dependency

Version 1.4.0

June 10th, 2015

Enable VP8 support
Raised python-sipsimple dependency

Version 1.3.0

April 29th, 2015

Refactor file transfers, allow resuming failed ones
Use system tray also on Unity
Fixed widget tab order in preferences

Version 1.2.2

March 25th, 2015

Fix hiding ZRTP widget from a non-GUI thread
Reset zrtp_widget when we delete the audio session item
Updated Windows installation instructions

Version 1.2.1

March 17th, 2015

Fix loading ZRTP widget UI file

Version 1.2.0

March 17th, 2015

Added ZRTP support
Adapt to API changes in the middleware
Ignore hold/hangup keyboard shortcuts if no session is selected
Render status messages appropriately
Optimized chat inline images to avoid compression artifacts

Version 1.1.0

January 26th, 2015

Added support for drag and drop on the chat window
Improve the performance of painting the video preview
Fix stopping composing timer when session is ended or chat is removed
Removed unused settings
Always play an audio alert when a file transfer finishes
Removed session and RTP timeouts from preferences
Reorganized preferences
Better icons for chat, logging and advanced settings
Removed no longer necessary code to adjust label sizes
Do not allow the chat web view to get focus
Updated test numbers
Check for the audio session item existance before operating on it
Added support for specifying the transfer_id for file transfers

Version 1.0.0

November 21st, 2014

Added video support
Adapt to changes in streams API
Get the stream failure reason from MediaStreamDidEnd
Changed the order for the audio device menu entries
Use timezone aware timestamps for call history
Fixed regular expression for parameters in http URLs
Fixed threading race condition when logging MSRP traces

Version 0.9.1

July 28th, 2014

Automatically transform URLs in the chat window into clickable links
Show P2P icon if contact is a Bonjour neighbour
Fixed handling unicode in user's home directory
Fixed http URL regular expression
Removed menu entry for buying prepaid credit
Fixed encoding of cut text for the VNC client
Fixes for running 'frozen'
Raised python-sipsimple version dependency
Added missing dependency on python-lxml
Updated install documentation

Version 0.9.0

June 27th, 2014

Added screen sharing support
Refactored session info panel
UI Layout fixes
Added file transfer to the list of client capabilities
Fixed status message when audio is removed vs when the session is ended
Fixed exception when trying to change status after audio session is gone
The file transfer download directory cannot be undefined
Raised python-sipsimple version dependency

Version 0.8.1

April 16th, 2014

Fixed issue with not fetching google contacts after recent Google changes
Changed audo codec order: prefer G722 to Speex

Version 0.8.0

April 10th, 2014

Added file transfer support
Added chat preferences
Added quick setting for playing message alerts
Added keyboard shortcuts for different windows
Added option for auto-accepting chat from known contacts
Rearranged menus in the main window
Refactored history menu
Improved displaying the account states in preferences and the main window
Removed alerts section in preferences
Save conference rooms in combobox history and limit it to 20 entries
Fixed unwanted selection switching when sessions were ended
Fixed using correct avatar and display name for received chat messages
Fixed updating toolbar buttons when changing sessions and allow hold early
Fixed using secondary ringtone when adding chat to an audio session
Fixed playing hold tone when switching sessions
Fixed playing tones when streams are cancelled
Fixed incoming dialog margins
Fixed processing DTMF tones
Prevent chat session list from scrolling during animations
Disable chat session control button when no session is selected
Close dialog if session is ended while in a proposal
Only remove the TLS certificate if it's in the application data directory
Play file transfer alert tone only if enabled
Play sound for received chat messages, if enabled
Do not start a drag from self when accepting drops from other entities
Do not play the hangup tone for sessions without audio
Do not close all windows when closing the main window
Remove license restrictions

Version 0.7.0

March 5th, 2014

Added session information panel into the chat window
Added server side conferencing support
Automatically accept in-dialog chat proposals
Fixed potentially processing multiple settings changes at once
Enabled showing logs directory
Limit the time window for processing a DNS lookup to the current session
Raised python-sipsimple version dependency
Bumped Debian Standards-Version
Tons of UI tweaks

Version 0.6.1

December 20th, 2013

Advertise chat support in PIDF document
Avoid building Debian packages for Python 2.6

Version 0.6.0

December 16th, 2013

Added chat sessions using MSRP protocol
Adjusted to the latest changes in SIP SIMPLE Client SDK
Fixed several memory leaks
Simplified processing Google contacts authorization and fixed some bugs
Set focus to the appropriate widgets during Google contacts authorization
Modified how sipsimple is started
Improved selection of the winning presence state
Removed donate menu action
Fixed unpickling for BonjourNeighbours
Modified how sipsimple application is started

Version 0.5.0

August 9th, 2013

Adapted to changes in SIP SIMPLE Client SDK
Enabled Opus codec
Refactored PresencePublicationHandler in order to simplify it
Set default sample rate to 32 kHz
Fixed exception if Google contact has no name nor company
Fixed handling file URLs on different platforms
Fixed losing contact icons
Fixed computing hours in history entries
Fixed setting display name in history entry when URI is a phone number
Avoid publishing presence state twice when xcap settings change
Allow Ctrl+Delete/Backspace to hangup sessions because KDE steals Ctrl+Esc
Raise and activate preferences window when triggered if already visible
Do not allow toolbar to be hidden
Removed compatibility with python 2.6

Version 0.4.0

June 26th, 2013

Added support for multiple URIs per contact
Added support for Bonjour presence
Added system tray
Added text eliding using fading colors for labels with long texts
Adjusted selected group background colors for better visibility
Save and restore main window geometry across restarts
Move contact when its name changes to keep contacts sorted
Updated test contact icon files
Strip URI domain in history if URI looks like a phone number
Fixed creating offset-naive datetime for epoch
Fixed exception when initial winfo document is not full
Fixed publishing internal presence states
Fixed icons from QAction not showing up in menus on Ubuntu
Fixed losing presence state when contact is modified
Fixed exception when restarting log manager

Version 0.3.1

April 24th, 2013

Added SIMPLE Presence (PUBLISH, RLS SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY)
Added XCAP storage for contacts, icon and and presence policy
Added handing for presence, presence.winfo and xcap-diff events
Added call history menu items (Missed, Received, Placed)
Made sRTP optional by default
Adjusted default timeouts for registration, subscription and publication
Removed/diabled some GUI elements for not yet implemented features

Version 0.2.10

September 7th, 2012

Fixed attribute access after API changes in python-application

Version 0.2.9

September 6th, 2012

Enable TLS and SRTP labels when appropriate
Adapted to changes in middleware API
Adapted to change in eventlet package name
Bumped debian standards version to 3.9.3

Version 0.2.5

February 16th, 2011

Fixed saving TLS options (SIP Simple)

Version 0.2.3

December 14th, 2010

Detect change of IP address
Added web server tools activity indicator
Fixed compatibility with older python-qt
Made changes to Preferences thread safe (SIP Simple)
Fixed TLS transport initialization (SIP Simple)
Added DNS resolver autodetection capabilities (SIP Simple)
Fixed matching of media codecs on incoming calls (SIP Simple)

Version 0.2.2

November 29th, 2010

Fixed detection of audio codecs without a rtpmap line in SDP
Fixed exception for MWI NOTIFY without a Message-Account body

Version 0.2.1

November 26th, 2010

Allow name and group attributes to be missing when updating a contact
Handle bonjour neighbour record updates
Updated debian dependency on python-sipsimple
Honor the account.sip.always_use_my_proxy setting
Fixed opening the create account dialog on first run

Version 0.2.0

November 11th, 2010

Added the preferences panel
Enable inband DTMF by default
Disable ICE by default
Simplified MWI code and improved its user interface
Improve handling of Google contacts
Open the dialog for adding the initial account after the main window
Switch to new plugged-in device automatically if we have active calls
Added transparency for contact icons
Added conference contact on first start
Many bug fixes in the middleware
Adapted to the latest changes in SIP SIMPLE client SDK

Version 0.1.4

September 6th, 2010

Save preferred media when creating a contact
Fixed broken dependency to python-aplication for non-Debian systems
Display 'no new messages' text before getting MWI NOTIFY

Version 0.1.3

September 3rd, 2010

Added support for inband DTMF dialing
Improved logic for matching contacts to incoming sessions
Added pstn prefix setting
Fixed enabling Bonjour account item in the menu
Added initial MWI support

Version 0.1.1

August 12th, 2010

First public release for Debian and Ubuntu Linux
Release notes available at http://icanblink.com/blink-qt-beta.phtml
Multiple SIP accounts
Easy to setup accounts, only the SIP address and password are required
Bonjour discovery mechanism
Automatic detection of IP address changes
TLS Security for both signaling and media
NAT traversal using ICE
Built-in DNS resolver to by-pass broken implementations in NAT routers
Re-INVITE support for adding and removing media streams
One-click SIP account sign-up at http://sip2sip.info
Integration with AG Projects Multimedia Service Platform
Integration with third-party SIP service providers
Wideband Audio (G722 & speex)
Multiple parallel calls
Play hold tone and disconnect tone
In-band DTMF support for legacy devices
Per account ringtones
Silent mode (do not ring on incoming call)
Mute microphone
Audio recording
Displays packet loss and round trip time
Displays selected audio codec and sampling rate
Control for input, output and alert audio devices
Automatic DTMF mapping between letters and digits
Support for entering PSTN numbers and SIP addresses
Strip unwanted characters from telephone numbers
Redial last call
Multi-party conferencing with unlimited number of participants
Multiple simultaneous conferences
Drag and Drop contacts to conferences
Mute individual participants
Display the caller icon and name retrieved from Address Book
Reject calls with 486 Busy or 603 Decline
SIP, DNS, MSRP protocol trace to file