This month brings improved Ad-Hoc commands, fixes for Gajim Portable, and new image preview capabilities. Meanwhile, work on Gajim’s next version made some progress: better code block styling, chat filters, note to myself, and much more.

Changes in Gajim

Through Gajim’s Ad-Hoc commands window, you are able to configure service settings, gather infos, or trigger various other actions offered by your provider. The Ad-Hoc commands window has now been ported to the new Assistant, which you already know from Gajim’s Account Creation for example. This lowers maintenance effort and allows all tasks with a ‘wizard’ workflow to have consistent design and behaviour.

On Windows, you can choose whether you want to install Gajim on your system or if you want to have a portable version of Gajim inside a single folder. For distribution of Gajim Portable, we use an installer which extracts all relevant files into a directory of your choice. However, this process sometimes fails if you upgrade an existing Gajim Portable folder. This issue has now been fixed by applying a cleaning mechanism before extracting the new version. Your user data won’t be touched, of course.

Meanwhile, work on the next Gajim version made some progress:

• ‘Note to myself’ feature: write messages to your own contact (e.g. to another device), now improved
• Code block styling is now aligned to your theme (light/dark)
• Chats can be filtered by ‘chats’ and ‘group chats’ in the Start Chat window and in the Chat List
• Status message styling has been improved
• File transfers (uploading) are now displayed inline
• Gajim update notifications will now be displayed in a separate App Page, so there won’t be disrupting update notifications anymore
• Status Icon has been fixed, and the App Indicator plugin has been integrated
• Status message window has been removed: it’s now a simple input field

If you haven’t seen it yet: lovetox (Philipp Hörist), current maintainer of Gajim, gave a first introduction to what’s coming with the next version:

This is only part of what we’re planning to do for the next release of Gajim. Stay tuned!

What else happened

• Profile window: Fixed initial state of privacy switches
• Profile window: Added Note element
• #10559: Fixed issue with Server Info window when using PLAIN connection

Plugin updates

Gajim’s URL Image Preview plugin is now able to generate previews for WEBP and JXL files. MIME type guessing has been improved as well.

Changes in python-nbxmpp

This month, Ad-Hoc Commands (XEP-0050) compliance has been improved.

As always, feel free to join gajim@conference.gajim.org to discuss with us.