🧪 Help testing the upcoming 1.47.X release

🧪 User Testing 🎮
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The time has come for a new Desktop Release! :tada: Help us find the most
annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on
the website and in stores. :muscle:

Release Highlights

  • (experimental opt-in feature) Telegram-style Ctrl+Up shortcut to reply
  • new way to use proxies
  • internal changes
    • remove dependency blueprint ui library - which is made by palantir and we barely used it anyway.
    • different source file structure, pnpm instead of npm and more

Full Changelog

Testing focus

  • Dialogs and context menus
  • (experimental opt-in feature) Telegram-style Ctrl+Up shortcut to reply
  • pay attention to jump to Message (click on quote) and the message list in general
  • …and everything else, because we did some large changes refactoring under the hood.

Where to report bugs?

You can find already known bugs on GitHub.
Please report the found bugs either here in this forum topic or even better
as issue on GitHub.

Downloads

# might not work yet, please check version in about dialog
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
# uninstall old beta
flatpak uninstall --user app/chat.delta.desktop/x86_64/beta || true
flatpak install --user flathub-beta chat.delta.desktop
flatpak run --user chat.delta.desktop/x86_64/beta

Important: please backup your current setup (or most important accounts)
before upgrading in order to be safe when trying test-releases. You can
find this option under Settings > Chats and Media > Backup.

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Using the deb here, cannot upgrade in place:

Selecting previously unselected package deltachat.
(Reading database ... 425653 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack deltachat-desktop_1.47.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking deltachat (1.47.0) ...
dpkg: error processing archive deltachat-desktop_1.47.0_amd64.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/deltachat-desktop.png', which is also in package deltachat-desktop 1.46.0

It’s not a showstopper, you can uninstall the old, install the new, but it is something that should probably be looked into.

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Thanks for reporting, this issue was already reported on GitHub and should be fixed in the next test release: Can't update from deltachat-desktop 1.46.8 to deltachat 1.47.0 (Debian 12.1) · Issue #4256 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub

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after upgrading now the scroll bars are always visible in the chat

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looks like some message is too large, can you collect more info? is this the case in all chats? what message is too large?

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Version v1.47.1 is out now for testing.

Nico made a new thread instead of posting to this one:

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I don’t think it is related to the message size, I was using the window in half the screen, but even in full screen the vertical scroll is still there

also in the chat list I see this weird scrollbars I don’t remember seeing in the past
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This can happen when the sender’s name is long. The message appears to fit, but the “hover” part (with “React” and the three-dot menu) overflows.
Also I think this can happen with long webxdc info messages.

But the vertical scroll bar is always there, after the Blueprint removal I believe.

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