Movim 0.23, codename Kojima is finally out.

This version brings a lot of fixes, refactoring and a few new exciting features, lets have a look!

What's new?

Improved message bubbles and navigation

A big refactoring of the chat message bubbles internal structure and display was done. This fixes a few old issues regarding the dates separation and their status (received, read, encrypted..).

The messages statuses are now also displayed for the non-textual messages (pictures and audio) and the message menu can be triggered when previewing its attached picture.

XEP-0191: Blocking Command

Movim had its own internal system to allow its users to block specific accounts. While keeping exactly the same flows and behaviors the blocked list is now relying on the XEP-0191 that allows to synchronize on the XMPP account level. The incoming messages are also now directly blocked on the XMPP server and not in Movim anymore.

Messages history retrieval via MAM

Message Archive Management, or MAM is one of the core XMPP XEP that allows clients to retrieve and manage messages from the XMPP server archives.

Movim had a quite basic implementation of MAM until now, the 0.23 allows users to scroll-back any discussions (one to one and chatrooms) and progressively retrieve the complete chat history. The messages are then cached in the Movim database to ensure good performances.

UI improvements and other small features

Kojima is bringing a complete new pack of icons and a few related UI changes to integrate them properly during the navigation and in some specific user flows.

The Tenor integration was fixed and upgraded to the v2.0 of their API allow you to send and receive again funny GIFs while chatting!

On the other hand the Twitter integration was completely dropped regarding their recent political changes and API limitation. Bye bye Elon!

Progressive Web App integration

As you may have noticed, Movim is a Progressive Web App! This means that you don't need a specific store to get it, you can can directly install it from you prefered browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari..) and your operating system will take care of building a "native" application out of it.

A few small improvement were added in the 0.23 allowing an even better integration. Movim is now aware of your system network connectivity and automatically disconnect and reconnect/refresh when you get back online, very practical when you're using it on your phone is an area where the network is not that great.

What's next?

This version is a stepping stone before jumping into the big project that will occupy me the whole rest of the year.

The next version(s) will bring a complete refactoring and redesign of the audio-video calls as well as the suport of multi-participants calls. I will work closely with a few other XMPP clients and server teams to ensure that the integration is properly standardized and fully compatible.

I'll give you some more information about that soon.

In the meantime, enjoy the new release!

That's all folks :)

Hi everyone!

I'm happy to announce that #Movim 0.22.3 has been released. In this small #release, among some bug fixes you will find:

XEP-0425: Message Moderation

Movim is now supporting message moderation in chatrooms. This will allow admins to moderate bad messages in a few clicks.

Movim is also now handling moderated and removed messages coming from bridged accounts. Deleted messages on Telegram bridged using Slidge will be properly handled and removed in Movim accordingly.

Improved avatars

Some small cleanup were done regarding avatar display. Newly uploaded avatars are now 512x512px !

Fixes fixes fixes

A dumb mistake, that was preventing likes and comments to be published under articles has been fixed as well as a Docker related issue that was preventing to serve some files properly.

Enjoy!

Hi everyone!

I'm happy to announce that #Movim 0.22.3 has been released. In this small #release, among some bug fixes you will find:

XEP-0425: Message Moderation

Movim is now supporting message moderation in chatrooms. This will allow admins to moderate bad messages in a few clicks.

Movim is also now handling moderated and removed messages coming from bridged accounts. Deleted messages on Telegram bridged using Slidge will be properly handled and removed in Movim accordingly.

Improved avatars

Some small cleanup were done regarding avatar display. Newly uploaded avatars are now 512x512px !

Fixes fixes fixes

A dumb mistake, that was preventing likes and comments to be published under articles has been fixed as well as a Docker related issue that was preventing to serve some files properly.

Enjoy!

Hi everyone!

I'm happy to announce that #Movim 0.22.3 has been released. In this small #release, among some bug fixes you will find:

XEP-0425: Message Moderation

Movim is now supporting message moderation in chatrooms. This will allow admins to moderate bad messages in a few clicks.

Movim is also now handling moderated and removed messages coming from bridged accounts. Deleted messages on Telegram bridged using Slidge will be properly handled and removed in Movim accordingly.

Improved avatars

Some small cleanup were done regarding avatar display. Newly uploaded avatars are now 512x512px !

Fixes fixes fixes

A dumb mistake, that was preventing likes and comments to be published under articles has been fixed as well as a Docker related issue that was preventing to serve some files properly.

Enjoy!

Hi everyone!

Another small bugfix #release. Lets have a look!

New design for the navigation bars

This version introduce a new design for the navigation bars, both on desktop and mobile. Nothing big but it should gives some more feedback when navigating between the different Movim zones.

Avatars refresh fixes

Several bugs around the avatars refresh were also fixed. #Movim now properly check if the #avatar is not already in cache before trying to refresh it again.

The avatar refresh queries are also now spread in time using a super simple scheduler. This helps lowering the network (and I/O) load when logging in.

Some avatars placeholders were also not displayed in some chatrooms, this version fix this small issue.

Chatroom administration panel

The previous version introduced a refactor that broke the #chatroom administration panel access. Its now fixed ☺️

join.movim.eu fixes

Not directly related with this release, but join.movim.eu was also updated to support the newest Movim versions. If you are a server admin, do not hesitate to register your instance there ☺️

That's all folks!

Hi everyone!

Another small bugfix #release. Lets have a look!

New design for the navigation bars

This version introduce a new design for the navigation bars, both on desktop and mobile. Nothing big but it should gives some more feedback when navigating between the different Movim zones.

Avatars refresh fixes

Several bugs around the avatars refresh were also fixed. #Movim now properly check if the #avatar is not already in cache before trying to refresh it again.

The avatar refresh queries are also now spread in time using a super simple scheduler. This helps lowering the network (and I/O) load when logging in.

Some avatars placeholders were also not displayed in some chatrooms, this version fix this small issue.

Chatroom administration panel

The previous version introduced a refactor that broke the #chatroom administration panel access. Its now fixed ☺️

join.movim.eu fixes

Not directly related with this release, but join.movim.eu was also updated to support the newest Movim versions. If you are a server admin, do not hesitate to register your instance there ☺️

That's all folks!

Hi everyone!

Another small bugfix #release. Lets have a look!

New design for the navigation bars

This version introduce a new design for the navigation bars, both on desktop and mobile. Nothing big but it should gives some more feedback when navigating between the different Movim zones.

Avatars refresh fixes

Several bugs around the avatars refresh were also fixed. #Movim now properly check if the #avatar is not already in cache before trying to refresh it again.

The avatar refresh queries are also now spread in time using a super simple scheduler. This helps lowering the network (and I/O) load when logging in.

Some avatars placeholders were also not displayed in some chatrooms, this version fix this small issue.

Chatroom administration panel

The previous version introduced a refactor that broke the #chatroom administration panel access. Its now fixed ☺️

join.movim.eu fixes

Not directly related with this release, but join.movim.eu was also updated to support the newest Movim versions. If you are a server admin, do not hesitate to register your instance there ☺️

That's all folks!

A small #release but with a couple of performances improvements and bug fixes.

Confidentiality settings 🔒

The configuration page was reorganized and all the confidentiality setting are now grouped in one unique section.

Linked to that, if you choose to keep your profile private, Movim is now completely disabling your public page, blog and links to your profile.

Fixes

RatchetPHP

Movim is relying on Ratchet to manage its Websockets. We moved to the fork maintained by Plesk that upgrated and is now maintaining the project. See the related ticket. This upgrade fixes the related code Warnings under PHP 8.2 as well.

Bookmarks 2 🔖

0.22 brought a refactor of the internal XMPP Pubsub related code. This change broke the #Bookmarks management. This version fixes it.

Video-conferencing fixes 📹

Movim has now some basic support of MSID in SDP (what does it means ?). This basically fixes video-conferencing between #Movim and Conversations.

Performances improvements 🚀

Maybe one of the most noticeable changes of this release are the two database related fixes that are bringing important #performances boosts (under certain conditions):

• Some large chatrooms, with plenty of messages, were taking many seconds to load. This was caused by Movim trying to find the current room subject in the #database before displaying the room panel. The related query was rewritten to reduce considerably its execution time.
• The unread messages counter database query, that was known to be one of the slowest part of Movim, was also rewritten to divide by 2 its execution time. On top of that a new index was added to boost even more its performances. This should greatly improve the chat conversations and page load time on large accounts.

And finally, some pictures, avatars and icons are now loaded lazily. This means that your phone or browser will not load them before they are actively displayed on your screen. This greatly reduce the server load and page display time.

Enjoy

A small #release but with a couple of performances improvements and bug fixes.

Confidentiality settings 🔒

The configuration page was reorganized and all the confidentiality setting are now grouped in one unique section.

Linked to that, if you choose to keep your profile private, Movim is now completely disabling your public page, blog and links to your profile.

Fixes

RatchetPHP

Movim is relying on Ratchet to manage its Websockets. We moved to the fork maintained by Plesk that upgrated and is now maintaining the project. See the related ticket. This upgrade fixes the related code Warnings under PHP 8.2 as well.

Bookmarks 2 🔖

0.22 brought a refactor of the internal XMPP Pubsub related code. This change broke the #Bookmarks management. This version fixes it.

Video-conferencing fixes 📹

Movim has now some basic support of MSID in SDP (what does it means ?). This basically fixes video-conferencing between #Movim and Conversations.

Performances improvements 🚀

Maybe one of the most noticeable changes of this release are the two database related fixes that are bringing important #performances boosts (under certain conditions):

• Some large chatrooms, with plenty of messages, were taking many seconds to load. This was caused by Movim trying to find the current room subject in the #database before displaying the room panel. The related query was rewritten to reduce considerably its execution time.
• The unread messages counter database query, that was known to be one of the slowest part of Movim, was also rewritten to divide by 2 its execution time. On top of that a new index was added to boost even more its performances. This should greatly improve the chat conversations and page load time on large accounts.

And finally, some pictures, avatars and icons are now loaded lazily. This means that your phone or browser will not load them before they are actively displayed on your screen. This greatly reduce the server load and page display time.

Enjoy