Release Zulip Terminal 0.4.0 (beta) · zulip/zulip-terminal

Thanks to the core team and many new contributors for the almost 300 commits since 0.3.1!

Cleaner style, compact, more functional - and lots of bugs fixed!
Default to show both left and right panels (streams & users), with no_autohide mode
Messages now only get marked read if you actively move onto them
Clear indication of the current message view (narrow) next to the message search area
'Zoom' in and out of stream/topic narrows using z (also all-private-messages/one-conversation)
Edit message content and subject/topic using e & see them marked & updated
Toggle between listing streams & topics in a stream easily using t
Examine who reacted to a message using the information menu accessible using i
Mute a selected stream from within zulip-term using m
Various areas now marked with shortcut keys in the UI, not just in the help menu (?)

The 'no_autohide' option is now the default, with both left and right panels always shown
Added e to edit your own sent message content & subject/topic
Update message content and subject/topic appropriately from server (#401)
Change views as per webapp if the edited message subject/topic changes
Only mark messages read, if actively move across to message list and select them
Added z hot/shortcut key to toggle between stream/topic or all-private/specific-person narrows
Added t to toggle between streams & list of all topics in selected stream
Added m to mute/unmute selected stream, with confirmation popup
Added i to show further information of selected message (including reactions)
Use ? to show and hide help menu (esc continues to exit)
Add additional shortcut key for sending messages (ctrl+d) (#176)
Add hint in footer of how to copy text, if attempt to select text (with mouse) in terminal
Stream search is now case-insensitive
Add command-line option to check version (#280)
Allow f and P shortcut keys to work from side panels (narrow starred & private messages)
Warn on startup, if specified theme is lacking current required styles
Upon unexpected crash, exit cleanly and log traceback to zulip-terminal-tracebacks.log

Right-align unread-counts in left & right panels (as in webapp)
Remove intrusive flashing cursor in side panels
Truncate text in left & right panels cleanly with '…', avoiding text overflow (#237)
Show users' status as active (Green), idle (Yellow) or offline (White) using different colors.
Update user list every minute, not just at startup (#330)
Sort user list alphabetically, case-independently (#264)
Further improvement/reordering of shortcut keys in README & help menu (?)
Improve styling of help menu, and how it scales with application width & height (#297, #307)
Make stream icons bold and correct background color
Themes improved (#254)
Support terminal transparency in default theme (#377)
Clarify that ctrl+c is the intended way to exit/quit (#208)
Mark edited messages with 'EDITED' at their top-left
Show current narrow with search box, above current-recipient indicator for message (#201, #340)
Hide current-recipient indicator when fully narrowed (in topic or conversation)
Improve rendering of quoted text with indents
Display custom emoji text-equivalents in messages and reactions (#238)
Readline keys are now listed in the online help
Change main widget styles, to clearly separate three columns, with bold top-lines
Minimize space taken up by search boxes & display shortcut keys for each
Remove bullets & display shortcut keys for all messages, private messages & starred messages
Style private message header like webapp (You and ...)

Bug undoing thumbs_up if not in same session (#334)
Bug showing edited messages in raw text, not rendered version (#308)
Bug quoting original message, not rendered version (#239)
Bug where new messages from server would not be shown in message list
Bug potentially mixing unread counts for messages from users & streams
Bug with not showing self as recipient
Bug increasing the unread counts if we sent the message
Crash due to race in initialization (#391)
Crash due to not supporting short color format for streams from older Zulip servers (#273)
Crash pressing up on muted stream (#272)
Crash when using certain keys in a stream with no previous conversations (#247)
Crash in rare case of empty message content
Crash on receiving multiple starred-message events
Crash interacting with empty list of search results
Crash when text entry was not disabled properly
Crash on pressing ctrl+4 (sending quit character)
Crash if user has unsubscribed from streams
Traceback on sending to multiple private recipients when narrowed to that conversation
Set terminal locale to utf-8 by default which removes issues with rendering double width characters.
Exit cleanly if cannot connect to zulip server (#216)

Remove support for python 3.4, which will have no further releases
Depend upon later versions of zulip & urwid-readline packages
Improve installation, development & troubleshooting notes in README
Minimized initial registration & communication with zulip server
Internal refactoring & centralization of code handling zulip server communication
Centralize server event callbacks into Model
Improve test coverage, fixtures & builds on Travis
Simplify UI objects used in left & right panels

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