Changes in Element v1.5.0 (2022-09-23)

Features ✨

• Deferred DMs - Enable and move the feature to labs settings (#7180)

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix text margin in QR code view when no display name is set (#5424)
• [App Layout] Recents carousel now scrolled to first position when new item added to or moved to this position (#6776)
• Fixed problem when room list's scroll did jump after rooms placeholders were replaced with rooms summary items (#7079)
• Fixes crash when quickly double clicking FABs in the new app layout (#7102)
• Fixes space list and new chat bottom sheets showing too small in New App Layout (especially evident in landscape) (#7103)
• [App Layout] Room leaving prompt dialog now waits user to confirm leaving before do so (#7122)
• Fix empty verification bottom sheet. (#7130)
• [New Layout] Fixes new chat dialog not getting dismissed after selecting its actions (#7132)
• Fixes Room List not getting updated when fragment is not in focus (#7186)

In development 🚧

• Create DM room only on first message - Add a spinner when sending the first message (#6970)
• [Device Manager] Filter Other Sessions (#7045)
• [Device management] Session details screen (#7077)
• Create DM room only on first message - Fix glitch in the room list (#7121)
• Create DM room only on first message - Handle the local rooms within the new AppLayout (#7153)

Other changes

• [Modules] Lifts the application variants to the app module (#6779)
• Ensure that we do not expect all the Event fields when requesting rooms/{roomId}/hierarchy endpoint. (#7035)
• Move some GitHub actions to buildjet runners, and remove the second attempt to run integration tests. (#7108)
• Exclude legacy android support annotation library (#7140)
• Pulling no longer hosted im.dlg:android-dialer directly into the repository and removing legacy support library usages (#7142)
• Fixing build cache misses when compiling the vector module (#7157)