New glass toolbar, profile + advanced search in explore, private replies, and more! Switched to new metadata-hiding DMs, enable legacy DMs in settings Optimized storage. No more huge storage requirements. Many performance improvements and fixes

### Added - Added Sentry error and diagnostics reporting to aid future quality improvements (Daniel D'Aquino) - Automatic lossless storage optimization (Daniel D'Aquino) - Added "Compact Database" button in Settings → Storage that reclaims unused space by compacting the NostrDB on the next app launch (Daniel D'Aquino) - Full container file breakdown in storage settings export (Daniel D'Aquino) - Show client name on events when available (alltheseas) - Add client tag to published events to identify Damus (alltheseas) - Storage usage statistics view in Settings (Daniel D'Aquino) - Added GIF keyboard support (Damus Labs only) (ericholguin) - Added detailed diagnostics reporting to GIF keyboard errors (Daniel D'Aquino) ### Changed - Redesigned media blur overlay to look like intentional protection instead of a broken state (alltheseas) - Moved clear cache button to storage settings (Daniel D'Aquino) - Clear stale LMDB readers on NostrDB init to prevent reader slot leakage and runaway storage usage (Daniel D'Aquino) - Made GIF keyboard widely available to Purple users without need for an API key (Damus Labs) (Daniel D'Aquino) - Restored signal indicator (William Casarin) ### Fixed - Fixed issue where mentioned profile names would not render properly (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fix stale relay list causing inability to disconnect relays (alltheseas) - Fixed issue where temporary files would not get cleaned up (Daniel D'Aquino) - Wallet view now immediately clears stale data when switching wallets (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fixed issue where the app could display an error message when using another NWC wallet in parallel (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fix memory corruption crash when creating empty filters (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fixed startup crash when app performs long-running compaction procedure (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fixed database transaction leak that could lead to higher storage usage (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fix GIF picker grid tap hitbox selecting adjacent item (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fixed issues that could cause the signal indicator to become outdated (William Casarin) - Fixed issue where some of the user's own notes would not show up in their own profile (Daniel D'Aquino) - Fixed an issue where posts would not appear on the user's own timeline if they did not follow themselves (Daniel D'Aquino)

### Added - Added a view for quotes notes that could not be loaded, including actionable items (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added relay hint support for nevent, nprofile, naddr links and event tag references (reposts, quotes, replies) (alltheseas) ### Fixed - Fixed an issue where notes would keep loading indefinitely in some cases (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed Lightning invoice parsing and fetching for all amounts (alltheseas)

In this version (1.16) we have been working on a lot of new things, as well as a lot of improvements deep inside the app to help us grow and scale Damus over the long term! ### Added - Added Damus Labs - Added live streaming (Labs feature) - Added Favorites (Labs feature) - Added the ability to load saved notes if device is offline - Added support for scanning nprofile QR codes - Added relay count and relay view to events - Added relay hints to tags and identifiers for better loading of content accross different clients - Completely redesigned and enhanced longform article support, with improved UX for focus, sepia mode, estimated read time, and more - Added automatic conversion of pasted npub/nprofile to human-readable mentions in post composer - Added hashtag spam filter setting to hide posts with too many hashtags - Added profile metadata preloading for improved timeline performance - Added a pull to refresh feature on DMs that allows users to resync DMs with their relays ### Changed - Improved performance around note content views to prevent hangs - Highlight note search results - Improved draft saving feature to prevent data loss if app closes too quickly - Changed Damus Purple Side View logo and text - Optimized network bandwidth usage and improved timeline performance - Increased NWC wallet transaction list limit to 50 transactions - Improved loading UX in the home timeline - Migrated internal app architecture to use the local relay model - Reduced default zap amount and deduplicated from preset zap amount items - Changed abbreviated pubkey format to npub1...xyz for better readability - Improved storage efficiency for NostrDB on extensions - Changed load media UI ### Fixed - Fixed broken automatic translations - Fixed an issue where notifications view would occasionally appear blank when the app started. - Fixed incorrect behaviour on the post editor that would cause the text cursor to occasionally jump beyond the correct location in some editing operations. - Fixed several crashes throughout the app - Fixed an issue where an empty dot would appear on some thread chat views - Ensure mention profile prefetch covers mention_index blocks - Fixed an issue where the mute list view may occasionally freeze the app - Fix mention pills falling back to @npub text when profile metadata is missing - Improved robustness in several portions throughout the app - Improved security around note validation - Fixed multiple crashes throughout the app - Fix aspect ratio on pasted or uploaded images - Fixed note content rendering to not remove whitespace before hashtag - Several fixes to the longform reading experience - Fixed mentions unlinking when typing text before them - Fixed cursor jumping behind first letter when typing a new note - Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause the app to freeze - Fix issue where your own replies were sometimes not trusted - Fix issue where search results were out of order - Fixed repost notifications not appearing in notifications tab - Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking "follow all" during onboarding - Fixed wallet view no longer hanging on loading placeholder - Fixed issue where the app would occasionally launch an empty universe view - Fixed profile action sheet buttons now centering properly when fewer than 5 buttons are displayed - Fixed an issue where DMs may not appear for users with a large contact list - Fixed an issue that could cause certain networking operations to hang indefinitely - Fixed a race condition in the networking logic that could cause notes to get missed in certain rare scenarios - Fixed a crash on iOS 17 that would happen on startup

### Added - Added safety reminder to wallets with higher balance (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added one-click Coinos wallet setup (Daniel D’Aquino) - Add notification setting to hide hellthreads (Terry Yiu) - Added separated first aid option for relay lists that does not need a contact list reset (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added NIP-65 relay list support (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added Unicode 16 emoji reactions for iOS 18.4+ by upgrading EmojiPicker (Terry Yiu) - Added a search interface to the settings screen (SanjaySiddharth) - Added view introducing users to Zaps (ericholguin) - Added new wallet view with balance and transactions list (ericholguin) - Added copy technical info button to user visible errors, so that users can more easily share errors with developers (Daniel D’Aquino) - Add dismiss button to wallet high balance reminders (Daniel D’Aquino) - Zap receiver information now included for outgoing zaps (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added inline note rendering of invoices to pull up wallet selector sheet (Terry Yiu) - Added route to profile page from wallet tx list (ericholguin) ### Changed - Added additional information on top of blurred images (SanjaySiddharth) - Improved robustness of relay list handling (Daniel D’Aquino) - Updated image cache for better stability (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved integration with Nostr Wallet Connect wallets (ericholguin) - Added relay connectivity information to NWC settings (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved handling around NWC responses (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added more human visible errors on NWC wallets to aid with troubleshooting (Daniel D’Aquino) - Re-enabled note zaps as permitted by the new App Store guidelines (Daniel D’Aquino) ### Fixed - Hide future notes from timeline (Terry Yiu) - Fixed issue where profiles with a NIP-65 relay list would not display on Damus (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fix quote notes to include missing q tag (Terry Yiu) - Fixed issue where the side menu would close when copying the npub (SanjaySiddharth) - Fixed issue where cached images would be backed up to iCloud (Daniel D’Aquino) - Optimized classify_url function (Terry Yiu) - Fixed note rendering for those that contain previewable items or leading and trailing whitespaces (Terry Yiu) - Fixed issue where some videos would become unplayable after some time using the app (Daniel D’Aquino)

### Fixed - Fixed an issue where threads would not load properly (Daniel D’Aquino)

## [1.13] - 2025-02-21 ### Added - Added local persistence of note drafts (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added user-friendly error view for errors around the app that would not fit in other places (Daniel D’Aquino) - Coinos connection button in Wallet view (ericholguin) - Added Alby Go to mobile wallets selection menu (Tomek K) - Minor accessibility improvements around picture editing and onboarding (Daniel D’Aquino) - Profile image cropping tools (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added Conversations tab to profiles (Terry Yiu) - Added profile pictures to push notifications (William Casarin) ### Changed - Don't show reposts for the same note more than once in your home feed (William Casarin) - Improved profile image bandwidth optimization (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved reliability of picture selector (Daniel D’Aquino) - Changed spaces to newlines in new posts to provide cleaner separation between text, uploaded media, and quoted notes (Terry Yiu) ### Fixed - Fixed issue where some push notifications would not open in the app and leave users confused (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed issue where app would need a restart for new NWC wallets to work (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed overly sensitive horizontal swipe on thread chat view (Daniel D’Aquino) - Trim whitespaces from Lightning addresses (Terry Yiu) - Fixed translation export script by upgrading nostr-sdk-swift dependency to support Mac Catalyst (Terry Yiu) - Fixed issue where users continue to receive push notifications after logout (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed an issue where events on a thread view would occasionally disappear (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved robustness of the URL handler (Daniel D’Aquino) - Translate notes even if they are in a preferred language but not the current language as that is what users expect (Terry Yiu) - Cancel ongoing uploading operations after the user cancels the post (Swift Coder) - Fixed link and photo sharing support on macOS (Swift Coder) - Fix bug where profile view was showing more than just the notes and replies on the notes / notes & replies tabs (Terry Yiu) - Fixed reposts banner to be localizable (Terry Yiu) ### Removed - Removed language filtering from Universe feed because language detection can be inaccurate (Terry Yiu) - Removed mystery tabs meant to fix tab switching bug that no longer exists (Terry Yiu)

### Added - Purple members who have been active for more than a year now get a special badge (Daniel D’Aquino) ### Changed - Made the microphone access request message more clear to users (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved clarity of the mute button to indicate it can be used for blocking a user (Daniel D’Aquino)

### Added - Render Gif and video files while composing posts (Swift Coder) - Add profile info text in stretchable banner with follow button (Swift Coder) - Paste Gif image similar to jpeg and png files (Swift Coder) ### Changed - Improved UX around the label for searching words (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved accessibility support on some elements (Daniel D’Aquino) ### Fixed - Fixed issue where the "next" button would appear hidden and hard to click on the create account view (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fix non scrollable wallet screen (Swift Coder) - Fixed suggested users category titles to be localizable (Terry Yiu) - Fixed GradientFollowButton to have consistent width and autoscale text limited to 1 line (Terry Yiu) - Fixed right-to-left localization issues (Terry Yiu) - Fixed AddMuteItemView to trim leading and trailing whitespaces from mute text and disallow adding text with only whitespaces (Terry Yiu) - Fixed SideMenuView text to autoscale and limit to 1 line (Terry Yiu) - Fixed an issue where a profile would need to be input twice in the search to be found (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed non-breaking spaces in localized strings (Terry Yiu) - Fixed localization issue on Add mute item button (Terry Yiu) - Replace non-breaking spaces with regular spaces as Apple's NSLocalizedString macro does not seem to work with it (Terry Yiu) - Fixed localization issues in RelayConfigView (Terry Yiu) - Fix duplicate uploads (Swift Coder) - Remove duplicate pubkey from Follow Suggestion list (Swift Coder) - Fix Page control indicator (Swift Coder) - Fix damus sharing issues (Swift Coder) - Fixed issue where banner edit button is unclickable (Daniel D’Aquino) - Handle empty notification pages by displaying suitable text (Swift Coder)

### Added - Add Damus Share Feature (Swift) - Added new easy to use video controls for full screen video (Daniel D’Aquino) - Add Edit, Share, and Tap-gesture in Profile pic image viewer (Swift Coder) - Disappearing header, tabbar, and post button on scroll (ericholguin) - Add Apple translation popovers for notes for iOS 17.4+ and macOS 14.4+ (Terry Yiu) - Added NDB search functionality to the universe view (ericholguin) - Added mute button to ProfileActionSheet (chungwwei) - Added mute action to selected text menu (ericholguin) - Added support for pasting images from the clipboard to the post composer (Swift Coder) ### Changed - Improved image carousel image fill behavior (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improved video syncing and bandwidth usage when switching between timeline video and full screen mode (Daniel D’Aquino) - Swipe to dismiss on full screen carousel now shows an opacity effect for improved UX (Daniel D’Aquino) - Removed event contents from full screen media carousel for cleaner view (Daniel D’Aquino) - Add share button for images on full screen image carousel view (Swift) - Changed boldness of font in side menu labels. (ericholguin) - Changed search notes button with searched keyword (ericholguin) - Changed opacity of tabbar and post button (ericholguin) - Allow multiple images to be uploaded at the same time (swiftcoder) (William Casarin) - Changed side menu design (ericholguin) - Truncate fulltext search results (William Casarin) - Expanded profile search results to 128 (William Casarin) - Expand nostrdb text search results to 128 items (William Casarin) - Use LazyVStack in text search results (William Casarin) ### Fixed - Fixed missing tab bar on navigation (Swift Coder) - Fixed some issues where QR code would not work, and improved UX (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed iOS 18 gesture issues that would take user to the thread view when clicking on a video or unmuting it (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed several issues that would cause video to automatically play or pause incorrectly (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed issue where full screen video would disappear when going to landscape mode (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed portrait video size on full screen carousel (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fix avatar image on qrcode view (Swift Coder) - Fix banner image upload (Swift Coder) - Fix dismiss button visibility (Swift Coder) - Fix quote repost counting (William Casarin) - Fixed overlapping text in Universe View (ericholguin) - Fixed localization issues and exported strings (Terry Yiu) - Fix sensitive long-press gesture on event chat bubble in iOS 18 (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fixed bottom padding for tabbar (ericholguin) - Fixed localization build failures (Terry Yiu) - Fixed back nav button placement in profile edit view (ericholguin) - Friend profiles will now more likely show up in profile search (William Casarin) - Fix broken QR code scanner and fix landscape mode (Terry Yiu)

### Added - Push notification support (Daniel D’Aquino) - Added profile edit safe guards (Eric Holguin) - Tor relay icon (ericholguin) - Add highlighter for web pages (Daniel D’Aquino) - Add support for adding comments when creating a highlight (Daniel D’Aquino) - Add support for rendering highlights with comments (Daniel D’Aquino) - Ability to create highlights (ericholguin) - Highlights (NIP-84) (ericholguin) - Revamp emoji picker to be less error-prone and add search, frequently used, and multiple skin tone support capabilities (Terry Yiu) ### Changed - Improve notification view filtering UX (Daniel D’Aquino) - Improve visibility of friends filter button (Daniel D’Aquino) - Changed the default banner from ostriches to damoose (Eric Holguin) - Changed image and banner url text fields to new sheet view (Eric Holguin) - Onboarding design (ericholguin) ### Fixed - Fixed issue where theme would be changed to black and can't be switched back on iOS 18 (cr0bar) - Fixed some scenarios where the contact list would never be saved locally and cause issues when switching relays. (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fix albyhub zaps not appearing (William Casarin) - Fix inadvertent escape from mention suggestion menu when typing a space character (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fix profile view toolbar alignment bug in iOS 18 (Terry Yiu) - Fix crash when viewing notes with invalid image dimension metadata (Daniel D’Aquino) - Fix crash on profile page when there are profile updates (William Casarin) - Fix crash when adding duplicate mute items (William Casarin) - Fix pretty bad crash when building flatbuffer profiles (William Casarin) - Fix reactions view to not show reactions from replies on parent note (Terry Yiu) - Create Account model now uses correct metadata (ericholguin) - Fixed relay reconnection issues (William Casarin) - Fixed items that became unclickable on iOS 18 (Daniel D’Aquino)

- This version fixes a crash experienced when accessing certain notes on the platform

- Brand new thread chat view! - Improved emoji picker - Important bug fixes

- New longpress emoji reaction selector! - Improved video playback, fullscreen and seeking! - Fixed many thread loading issues - Show quote reposts on posts - Added word and hashtag muting - Added first aid tools for recovering your account if you lose your contact list

Added: - Add support for Damus Purple, our new paid subscription, where you can support our team development efforts and get exclusive benefits such as automated translations (and more coming soon) - New fulltext search engine. Now you can search for notes and find content much faster! - Add NIP-42 relay auth support - Add ability to hide suggested hashtags - Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView - Add ability to preview media taken with camera - Add ability to search for naddr, nprofiles, nevents - Add naddr link support - Add regional relay recommendations to Relay configuration view (Only available in select countries) - Added a custom camera view - Always convert damus.io links to inline mentions Changed: - Disable inline text suggestions on 17.0 as they interfere with mention generation - EULA is not shown by default - Generate nprofile/nevent links in share menus - Move mute thread in menu so it's not clicked by accident - Prioritize friends when autocompleting Fixed: - Fix profile not updating bug - Fix previews not rendering - Fix load media formatting on small screens - Fix shared nevents that are too long - Fix many nostrdb transaction related crashes - Allow mentioning users with punctuation characters in their names - Fix broken mentions when there is text is directly after - Fix crash on very large notes - Fix crash when logging out and switching accounts - Fix duplicate notes getting written to nostrdb - Various other fixes Removed: - Removed copying public key action - Removed old nsec key warning, nsec automatically convert to npub when posting (kernelkind)

Added: - Add support for Damus Purple, our new paid subscription, where you can support our team development efforts and get exclusive benefits such as automated translations (and more coming soon) - New fulltext search engine. Now you can search for notes and find content much faster! - Add NIP-42 relay auth support - Add ability to hide suggested hashtags - Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView - Add ability to preview media taken with camera - Add ability to search for naddr, nprofiles, nevents - Add naddr link support - Add regional relay recommendations to Relay configuration view (Only available in select countries) - Added a custom camera view - Always convert damus.io links to inline mentions Changed: - Disable inline text suggestions on 17.0 as they interfere with mention generation - EULA is not shown by default - Generate nprofile/nevent links in share menus - Move mute thread in menu so it's not clicked by accident - Prioritize friends when autocompleting Fixed: - Fix profile not updating bug - Fix previews not rendering - Fix load media formatting on small screens - Fix shared nevents that are too long - Fix many nostrdb transaction related crashes - Allow mentioning users with punctuation characters in their names - Fix broken mentions when there is text is directly after - Fix crash on very large notes - Fix crash when logging out and switching accounts - Fix duplicate notes getting written to nostrdb - Various other fixes Removed: - Removed copying public key action - Removed old nsec key warning, nsec automatically convert to npub when posting (kernelkind)

Added: - Add support for Damus Purple, our new paid subscription, where you can support our team development efforts and get exclusive benefits such as automated translations (and more coming soon) - New fulltext search engine. Now you can search for notes and find content much faster! - Add NIP-42 relay auth support - Add ability to hide suggested hashtags - Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView - Add ability to preview media taken with camera - Add ability to search for naddr, nprofiles, nevents - Add naddr link support - Add regional relay recommendations to Relay configuration view (Only available in select countries) - Added a custom camera view - Always convert damus.io links to inline mentions Changed: - Disable inline text suggestions on 17.0 as they interfere with mention generation - EULA is not shown by default - Generate nprofile/nevent links in share menus - Move mute thread in menu so it's not clicked by accident - Prioritize friends when autocompleting Fixed: - Fix profile not updating bug - Fix previews not rendering - Fix load media formatting on small screens - Fix shared nevents that are too long - Fix many nostrdb transaction related crashes - Allow mentioning users with punctuation characters in their names - Fix broken mentions when there is text is directly after - Fix crash on very large notes - Fix crash when logging out and switching accounts - Fix duplicate notes getting written to nostrdb - Various other fixes Removed: - Removed copying public key action - Removed old nsec key warning, nsec automatically convert to npub when posting (kernelkind)

* Bug fix on the onboarding process

* Longform note support * Hashtag following * Configurable reactions * New Live user status NIP (music, general) * Adjustable font sizes * Improved profile searching * Many performance improvements and bug fixes

- New edge-to-edge video player! - Nostr Wallet Connect integration for quicker zapping - Many performance improvements and bug fixes - Embedded profile QR code scanner

Improved performance and post loading, thread muting, onlyzaps mode, friends filter, profile qr codes fixed many bugs, new custom zaps view. SO MUCH STUFF! https://damus.io/changelog for full list

- Fixed a crash - Less laggy/choppy!

- Profile picture uploading! - Reply counts in threads - Upload from camera - Offline posting - Fixed image cropping in timeline - Custom hashtags!

- Local zap notifications (Swift) - Add support for image and video uploads (Swift) - Auto Translation (Terry Yiu) - New timeline design

- Private zaps! Long press the zap button for zap customization. - Improved thread loading performance - New notification filters