Blink Qt

This version introduces new features, Call Transfer and OTR encryption for chat sessions

blink (2.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium

• Use identity check for marker
• Use defaultweakobjectmap from python-application
• Multiple internal code improvements/cleanups and PEP-8 compliance fixes
• Open stdout/stderr in unbuffered mode when frozen
• Enhanced detection of the application resources directory
• Fixed file transfer status if not answer is received
• Don't rely on a failed transfer reason being set
• Simplified update_ringtone logic and made it more readable
• Show/hide stream icons in a single place in the code
• Automated incoming dialog slot allocation
• Simplified updating ringtones on session state changes
• Added new notification when a blink session is created
• Improved tracking of blink sessions from the session manager
• Refactored BlinkSession inheritance and event signaling
• Post the session creation notifications after instantiation only
• Fixed file transfer indicator minimum width
• Fixed condition for outgoing file transfers
• Fixed race condition in the automatic ZRTP SAS validation
• Fixed spurious ringtone delay in certain cases
• Do not allow dialing contacts without URIs
• Simplified logic of resetting statuses with limited lifetimes
• Added context attribute to status messages
• Prevent the status message from shifting left/right when duration changes
• Added a separate UI file for the dragged audio session
• Added a finished signal to incoming requests
• Prevent the dragged audio session widget's content from overflowing
• Fixed tooltip for reject button
• Adjusted note text breaking points
• Implemented call transfer
• Make sure the gradient color position is in the 0..1 range
• Removed export info from svg files
• Added icons for modifier keys
• Fixed conditions tested for displaying transfer status messages
• Fixed processing of the incoming dialog signals
• Optimized transfer failure status message for space
• Removed unnecessary character escaping
• Reset chat input text formatting between messages
• Removed Dark style variant from the Smooth Operator theme
• Synced widget height in code and the UI file
• Fixed ZRTP widget role properties to be not translatable
• Adjusted ZRTPWidget colors to be more readable
• Added encryption and OTR related attributes to ChatStreamInfo
• Added OTR encryption support for chat
• Added switch icon
• Show a modal dialog if the application gets a fatal error and exit
• Removed copyright and license notices from the top of every source file
• Fixed potentially uninitialized data variable
• Added info module
• Updated docs
• Fixed error in debian changelog trailing lines
• Added debian files to MANIFEST.in
• Updated debian package dependencies

blink (1.4.2) unstable; urgency=medium

• Fixed unicode problem with certain locales
• Fixed issue with non-ascii home directories on UNIX platforms
• Fixed fonts in the chat web view
• Updated Linux installation instructions
• Adapted to the latest changes in python-sipsimple
• Fixed bug with retrying file transfers after restarting blink
• Raised python-sipsimple version dependency

http://icanblink.com

blink (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium

• Enable VP8 support
• Raised python-sipsimple dependency

Changelog¶

blink (1.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium

• Refactor file transfers, allow resuming failed ones
• Use system tray also on Unity
• Fixed widget tab order in preferences

blink (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium

• Added ZRTP support
• Adapt to API changes in the middleware
• Ignore hold/hangup keyboard shortcuts if no session is selected
• Render status messages appropriately
• Optimized chat inline images to avoid compression artefacts

blink (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium

• Added support for drag and drop on the chat window
• Improve the performance of painting the video preview
• Fix stopping composing timer when session is ended or chat is removed
• Removed unused settings
• Always play an audio alert when a file transfer finishes
• Removed session and RTP timeouts from preferences
• Reorganized preferences
• Better icons for chat, logging and advanced settings
• Removed no longer necessary code to adjust label sizes
• Do not allow the chat web view to get focus
• Updated test numbers
• Check for the audio session item existance before operating on it
• Added support for specifying the transfer_id for file transfers

Ubuntu Utopic is now supported.

For download and upgrade instructions go to:

http://icanblink.com

blink (1.0.0)¶

• Added video support
• Adapt to changes in streams API
• Get the stream failure reason from MediaStreamDidEnd
• Changed the order for the audio device menu entries
• Use timezone aware timestamps for call history
• Fixed regular expression for parameters in http URLs
• Fixed threading race condition when logging MSRP traces

For download and upgrade instructions go to:

http://icanblink.com

This beta version supports HD video using H.264 codec.

The software can be downloaded from http://betaqt.icanblink.com

The source code is available in the darks repository.

blink (0.9.1)¶

• Automatically transform URLs in the chat window into clickable links
• Show P2P icon if contact is a Bonjour neighbour
• Fixed handling unicode in user's home directory
• Fixed http URL regular expression
• Removed menu entry for buying prepaid credit
• Fixed encoding of cut text for the VNC client
• Fixes for running 'frozen'
• Raised python-sipsimple version dependency
• Added missing dependency on python-lxml
• Updated install documentation

Version 0.9.0¶

This release is for both Linux and Windows.

June 27th, 2014¶

• Added screen sharing support
• Added file transfer to the list of client capabilities
• Fixed Blink not starting on Windows 7 and 8
• Fixed status message when audio is removed vs when the session is ended
• Fixed exception when trying to change status after audio session is gone
• The file transfer download directory cannot be undefined
• Raised python-sipsimple version dependency
• Refactored session info panel
• UI Layout fixes

To install or update the software go to: http://icanblink.com