After a long wait, a new version with some major changes:
Forums
You can now communicate using forums and instant synchronization. Subscribe to your favorite topics and participate in conversations with other users.
It also features a markdown editor so you can have some structure and style but without the bloat of HTML.
which gives the following result once the message is sent:
Incoming HTML messages from Retroshare are automatically converted to markdown.
Emojis
Emojis up to Unicode version 14 are supported inline and with colors:
Profile export/import
You can now export your own profile, location and identity as well as your friend’s profiles and locations to an XML file for backup purposes.
This is also useful when switching versions with incompatible databases (*).
Miscellaneous changes
- Java 21 support for better and faster performances
- improvements to automatic backups (3 of them are kept)
- improved network failures handling
- protocol improvements
- UI fixes
*: Upgrading from a previous version requires deleting the profile because of some major changes again. At least from this version on there’s the profile export/import feature to mitigate this in the future.
