Sideband β 0.2.2

This release primarily improves the user interface responsiveness and performance, but also adds a few convenient features and bugfixes.

Changes

• Added ability to copy addresses from conversations list
• Added ability to copy addresses from announce stream
• Added settings item for notifications
• Added option and settings for periodic LXMF sync
• Added shutdown screen when app is closing Reticulum
• Improved UI performance throughout the app
• Improved dialogs throughout the app
• Improved announce handling
• Disabled superflous UI effects
• Fixed OpenGL shaders causing crashes on some Adreno GPUs
• Fixed guide text not rendering on devices with small texture buffers
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect rendering of dialog boxes

Sideband β 0.2.1

This minor update to Sideband improves the user interface responsiveness, and brings RNS and LXMF up to date.

Changes

• Updated RNS to 0.3.14 and LXMF to 0.2.0
• Improved UI performance
• Improved notification logic on desktop

Sideband β 0.2.0

I have really been looking forward to bringing you all this major update to Sideband. There's lots of improvements and fixes on both Android and desktop, so without further ado, here is the changelog. With this release, Sideband becomes much more accessible and useful for general use.

Changes

• Added persistent background service on Android
• Added notifications on Android and desktop
• Added ability to export and import LXMF identity keys
• Added Light/dark theme support
• Added full macOS support via pip
• Added build system for macOS application
• Significantly improved user interface
• Significantly improved backend for message and network handling
• Improved install and start on Linux
• Improved guide section
• Improved settings section
• Improved startup when TCP peer is unreachable
• Added preliminary USB support on Android
• Implemented app lifecycle management on Android
• Improved data persistence
• Added verbose logging output mode on desktop
• Added proper Android versioning codes
• Updated included RNS to 0.3.13 and LXMF to 0.1.9

Sideband β 0.1.8

This minor maintenance release improves functionality on desktop.

Changes

• Added user-local config directory on desktop. Settings are now persistent no matter where app is launched from.

Sideband β 0.1.7

This minor maintenance release simply updates Sideband to use the newest RNS version

Changes

• Updated included RNS version to 0.3.10

Sideband β 0.1.6

I'm really happy to release this first beta version of Sideband. Since the last alpha releases, there has been a lot of small tweaks and improvements, and some major new additions, that now makes Sideband usable as a day-to-day tool. This is still very early, but we are getting there.

Changes

• Sideband can now connect directly to Reticulum hubs on the Internet via I2P and TCP
• Added connectivity settings
• Added connectivity status
• Added Android/Desktop awareness for connectivity settings
• Added Guide section
• Added propagation nodes to announce stream
• Added various keyboard shortcuts for sending, adding conversations and navigating
• Updated Sideband to use RNS 0.3.9
• Improved app navigation
• Improved presplash loading graphics (now with dark mode support)
• Implemented a circumenvention for an SDL2 widget focus bug
• Various minor UI tweaks