- Join and leave chats without leaving Vurro. Tap Join on a publication's chat list or at the bottom of a chat you haven't joined, and use Leave chat in a chat's settings. - Block or unblock someone from Vurro. Tap their avatar, and toggle the option. Their messages collapse right away. - Better @mention suggestions. Vurro now also suggests people already in the thread, so small chats no longer come up nearly empty. - New Share diagnostics option in Settings → Help. If something goes wrong, you can send Vurro support a report. You see exactly what's in it first, and nothing is sent unless you choose to. If you can't sign in, it's also under sign-in help. - Plus smaller fixes and reliability improvements.

- Fixed publication chats sometimes disappearing from the All tab and notification settings, leaving only direct messages. - More dependable notifications when you have many chats with notifications on. One slow chat no longer holds up alerts for the rest. - Plus smaller fixes and reliability improvements.

• Improved handling of blocked users. • Support for publications with multiple chat channels. Channels appear in Substack's order, and when a Thread moves to another channel, your read place and bookmarks move with it. • Chat notification settings now group a publication's channels into one row, and a new channel follows its publication's notification setting. • Turning on notifications for a chat no longer misses messages that arrive right afterwards, or turns on alerts for its recent Threads. • Opening a direct message now clears its notification. • DM requests stay up to date after you accept one, here or on another device. • Fixed leaving a one-on-one direct message. • Fixed the message box sometimes getting stuck above the keyboard, especially after searching in a Thread. • Fixed garbled initials for names that start with an emoji. • Plus visual refinements throughout.

• New Activity screen: mentions, quotes, replies to you, direct messages, and chat activity in one place. Narrow it to About you, Direct, or Chats, or just what's unread. • Mention and reply notifications, on by default. Turn them off under Mentions & replies, or let them through while notifications are paused. • Notifications now reach you while you're using Vurro — for every chat except the one you're reading. • New Subscriber tab in the chat list, with a row for each publication you subscribe to. • Clearing a filter or search keeps your place in the Thread. • Fixed an issue with saving photos and videos. • Plus performance and memory improvements.

- Improved deleted message handling - Bug fixes for cache and edge-to-edge - General performance improvements

- Added Direct Message functionality - Various UI improvements and bug fixes

Pause a single chat or every chat, with a catch-up when the pause ends - New per-chat setting: only Threads from the publication - Optional: replying to a Thread follows it, so new messages still reach you - Search and the watched-users filter now see inside subthreads - New Followed filter for the subthreads you're part of - Fixes to the unread divider, fullscreen images, and bookmark thumbnails

- Push notifications: get notified about new messages even when the app is closed, with per-chat and per-thread controls so you only hear about what matters to you - Pin your favorite chats to the top of the list - Bookmarks now show the author's real profile picture - Quoted replies now show a thumbnail when the original message included an image - Rotate images to landscape in fullscreen view for a better look

Features - in-thread foreground polling for live updates Bug Fixes - constrain author bubble + avatar colors to Vurro palette - hyperlink URLs in OP body + tappable thread-list link cards