Pachli 2.1.0 is now available. This is primarily a bug fix release ahead of planned work next year to extend and improve the translation support that landed in 2.0.0.
This should be the last Pachli release of 2023, with development work resuming early in 2024.
Read on for more details about this, and other changes in this release.
New features and other improvements
Show role badges on profiles
Mastodon accounts can have roles associated with them. For example, a server’s “Owner”, or “Moderator”. Other roles can also be created and assigned by the server operators.
If any roles are assigned to your account they are now visible if you view your profile (#312). This was based on work originally carried out by connyduck in #4029
If you have a role badge on your profile it will look like this mockup.
Compose posts in more places
sanao continued their usability improvement work allowing you to compose new posts from more places.
You can now compose a new post when viewing a list (#279) and bookmarks (#278).
Updates to translations
Jener Gomes, Kalle Kniivilä, sanao, and Luna Jernberg all submitted changes to the different Pachli translations, improving things for users who speak Spanish and Brazilian Portugese, Finnish, Japanese, and Swedish respectively.
If you would like to help improve Pachli’s translation in to your language there’s information on how you can contribute.
Significant bug fixes
Missing translations when viewing a thread
Ângelo noticed that if you translated a post in a thread, left the thread, and then viewed the thread again the translated content could disappear. That was fixed in #320.
Calculate post and poll length correctly
If you included an emoji in a post or a poll option it could sometimes count as two characters when checking the post or option’s length, not one. This is inconsistent with how Mastodon counts the characters, and could result in Pachli rejecting a valid post as being too long. That was fixed in #315, partially based on work originally carried out by connyduck in #4152
Unintended crashes and memory leaks
A few places where Pachli could crash have been fixed:
- A preview card does not have an author (#310)
- An error is shown in a timeline without a compose button (#310)
- Showing a profile that does not have a
createdAtdate (#310) - Using a quick tile on some devices (#288)
There was also a small memory leak when some transparent avatars were displayed, fixed in #309, based on work originally carried out by connyduck in #4150.
Updated app store images
Korb opened #304 to note that the existing app store screenshots didn’t make it clear that there were different colour themes available. As part of fixing that I took the opportunity to generate some new screenshots as the Pachli UI has also changed in a few places since the 1.0 release.
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who took the time to report issues and provide additional followup information and screenshots.
Download Pachli 2.1.0 from Google Play, F-Droid, or the GitHub release page.