What’s New

Notifications for Reactions

Reacting to messages offers a quick way of answering or acknowleding your contact’s message. It may be a simple 👍 or it may carry emotions 😁😎 and meaning. So far, Gajim did not notify you when your contact reacted to one of your messages, and thus these reactions may have gone unnoticed, until you opened the chat again. With Gajim 2.4.5, you’ll get a notification for each reaction. Of course this can be disabled in Gajim’s preferences (for chats and for group chats separately). All reaction notifications are gathered in Gajim’s activity feed, which is reachable using the bell button in the top left corner. From there, you can jump directly to the message which has been reacted to.

Automatic Timezone Updates

Gajim now checks if you publish your current timezone in your profile. If you didn’t publish your timezone before, or if it differs from your current timezone, Gajim will ask whether you want to update your profile. Publishing your timezone may help your contacts when they try to reach you.

Additionally, support for Entity Time (XEP-0202) has been restored to improve interoperability with other chat apps displaying timezones (e.g. Conversations).

Improvements and Fixed Issues

• Group chats: Gajim now automatically re-joins group chats when you were kicked due to a network error
• Group chats: Gajim now shows offline members in the list of participants
• Several bugfixes for Gajim on macOS (file previews, copy paste, etc.)

Have a look at the changelog for a complete list.