# Changelog All notable changes to PeerSpeak are documented here. ## [Unreleased] ### Added - **Chat message sounds.** Successful outgoing messages and admitted incoming messages now have distinct notification chimes, each with its own enable toggle and optional custom WAV path in Notifications settings. - **Contact presence sounds.** The home-screen contacts list now announces a contact becoming online or offline. Initial online contacts are announced; initial offline results stay silent. Both events have independent toggles and optional custom WAV paths. - **Notification sound browser.** Every notification event now has a native Browse button for choosing a custom WAV instead of typing its path manually. ### Fixed - **Low-latency screen sharing stays near the live edge again.** mpv's timestamp pacing could let stale frames accumulate across the reliable PixelPass transport until a share was 7–10 seconds behind. Low-latency mode now presents decoded frames immediately; Smooth mode retains timestamp pacing when keeping shared-video audio and video synchronized matters more. ## [0.6.4] — 2026-07-18 ### Added - **Chat now tells you when a message didn't send.** A message that couldn't go out — because you weren't in a room, or the broadcast failed — is marked **"⚠ Not sent"** with a **Retry** button, instead of sitting in the transcript looking delivered. A successful send shows nothing (PeerSpeak has no delivery/read receipts, so anything else would be a false promise). - **Fast typing no longer loses messages.** When you fire off a quick burst, messages past the first few are held as **"queued…"** and sent a moment apart, matching the rate other people's clients accept. Previously a fast burst could look sent on your end while some messages silently never reached the room. ### Changed - **Tidier music playlist drawer.** The slide-out playlist no longer repeats the play/skip controls already on the player bar, and the track list now grows to fill the drawer instead of being boxed into a short scroll area, so you can see more of your playlist at once. - **Safer chat under the hood.** A round of chat hardening tightened how incoming messages, display names, links, and file/image attachments are validated and bounded, so a malformed or hostile message from a peer can't spoof a name, replay, flood, or run the app out of memory. No change to how normal chat looks or works. ### Fixed - **Burst packet loss no longer splices the wrong audio into the gap.** Loss concealment used Opus in-band FEC even when the next packet to arrive wasn't the one immediately after the gap, so losing several packets in a row could briefly play a later frame's audio in the wrong position. FEC now only reconstructs a gap from its immediate successor packet; larger gaps are concealed normally. - **A failed network restart no longer silently kills the app.** Changing the network mode (or regenerating your identity) rebuilds the connection stack; if that rebuild failed — rare, but possible when the local socket can't bind — PeerSpeak kept its window open but silently stopped responding to every command. It now falls back to your previous network settings and says so, and only gives up (with a clear error telling you to restart) if even the fallback fails. [0.6.4]: https://gitbutter.xyz/mollusk/peerspeak/releases/tag/v0.6.4 ## [0.6.3] — 2026-07-06 ### Added - **In-app screen-sharing controls.** A new **Screen sharing** section in Settings, plus a per-call **quality picker** on the Share control, put the whole share pipeline under your control without editing config files. Encode side: quality preset, bitrate, framerate, maximum resolution, maximum viewers, a force-software-encode switch, and an escape hatch for extra pixelpass arguments. Playback side: choose **mpv or VLC**, toggle **hardware decoding**, pick a buffering posture (low-latency vs. smooth), set the demuxer cache, and pass extra mpv arguments. Everything is stored locally in your config and defaults are unchanged, so existing setups keep working as-is. ### Fixed - **Shared video no longer freezes on the first frame while audio keeps playing.** Hardware decoding now defaults **off**; forcing `--hwdec=auto` stalled some viewers' hardware decoder on frame 1. You can re-enable hardware decoding from the new Screen sharing settings if your machine handles it well. - **The per-call quality picker is now honored.** The inline quality dropdown next to the Share button was being reset to the saved default before a share started, so every share silently used the default quality regardless of what you picked. - **VLC now respects your playback settings.** VLC hardware-decodes by default, so a VLC viewer previously ignored the hardware-decode toggle (and could hit the same frame-1 freeze) and the buffering posture. VLC viewers now map both settings onto VLC's own options. [0.6.3]: https://gitbutter.xyz/mollusk/peerspeak/releases/tag/v0.6.3 ## [0.6.2] — 2026-07-03 ### Fixed - **Friends list now reflects status changes without a restart.** A presence probe that fails now actively marks the friend **offline**, so a friend who goes offline, leaves a room, or turns invisible no longer lingers showing a stale "online" / "in a room" status until PeerSpeak is relaunched. Previously only successful probes updated the list, so it could ratchet a friend's status up but never down. The auto-refresh interval was also shortened from 60s to **15s** so the list tracks changes more closely. ### Added - **Manual "⟳ Rescan" button** on the Friends panel that refreshes everyone's presence immediately, instead of waiting for the next auto-refresh. ### Licensing - **PeerSpeak is now released under the MIT License** (previously an unlicensed private build). Added a `LICENSE` file and a `THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES` file enumerating the full dependency manifest plus the canonical text of every referenced license, with notices for the statically bundled Opus codec and the embedded fonts (Iced-Icons, Cantarell/OFL-1.1). Both files ship in the Arch and Debian packages. [0.6.2]: https://gitbutter.xyz/mollusk/peerspeak/releases/tag/v0.6.2 ## [0.6.0] — 2026-06-28 ### Added - **Shared music listening (W22).** A new **Playlist** panel lets you build a personal queue of local audio files and play them on a dedicated music player — Browse to add tracks, play/pause, previous/next, seek, per-track reorder, remove, and a local volume slider, all persisted across sessions. `.pls` and `.m3u` playlists can be imported (remote and non-audio entries are skipped). - **Tune in to a friend's music.** Flip **"Let others tune in"** and peers see your current track under the **Public** tab; one click on **Listen** streams it to them. Playback is **timeline-synced** — play, pause, skip, and seek mirror across everyone with no drift — and the next track is **prefetched for gapless** transitions. Each listener gets an independent **per-source volume**, so music sits under voice at whatever level they like; voice chat stays fully audible throughout. - **Standalone Playlist card in the 3-Column layout.** The playlist now lives in its own card stacked under the chat, with a draggable divider to resize it and its own scrollbar when space is tight. The other layouts keep the playlist in the Controls panel. ### Security - Shared-music metadata is treated as untrusted: the broadcast track name is sanitized and its size is cap-checked at gossip ingest, fetched bytes are confirmed to be audio before decoding, and only a small descriptor ever rides gossip — track bytes move point-to-point over the existing files plane, one fetch in flight at a time. ### Changed - **Wire protocol bump (gossip v5).** Shared listening adds presence fields, so **0.6.0 peers cannot share a swarm with 0.5.x peers** — everyone in a room must update together. [0.6.0]: https://gitbutter.xyz/mollusk/peerspeak/releases/tag/v0.6.0 ## [0.5.1] — 2026-06-27 ### Added - **Volume control for inline chat audio clips.** A master volume slider plus a **Universal volume** toggle now sit in the Chat panel header, and every audio attachment gets its own 🔊 slider on its play row. With Universal volume on (the default), one level applies to all clips and persists across sessions; turn it off to give each clip its own independent level. ## [0.5.0] — 2026-06-27 ### Added - **Right-click context menu** (Cut / Copy / Paste / Select All) on every text-entry field. (A9) - **Selectable, copyable text** for values that used to be read-only: your full node ID and the room ticket can now be click-selected and copied, and **chat messages are drag-selectable** (highlight + Ctrl+C / Ctrl+A) while clickable links keep working. (W21 Phase 1 + 2) - **Clock-skew warning**: when a peer can't be seen because the two systems' clocks differ by more than the replay-protection window, PeerSpeak now shows a "your clocks are out of sync" banner instead of failing silently. (A25) - **Per-application audio capture for screen-share**, removing the call-audio loopback echo when sharing a window, plus surfacing of pixelpass startup errors. (A23) ### Changed / Fixed - **Critical commands are now delivered reliably under load** — muting, releasing push-to-talk, and leaving a room can no longer be silently dropped while a slider is being dragged (prevents a hot-mic state mismatch). (A15) - Screen-share now passes `--strict-audio` and surfaces app-audio drop warnings; the source picker state machine and pactl handling were hardened. (A23) - Per-peer volume control path verified and covered by regression tests. (A24) ### Security - Hardened against insider resource-exhaustion: bounded + author-keyed chat attachment cache, capped recovery-identity state, and other Tier-C caps (F-01 / F-02 / F-03 / F-12). ### Packaging - Added Debian/Ubuntu `.deb` packaging (cargo-deb metadata); the official `.deb` is now built on **Debian 12 (bookworm)** for wide compatibility. - Arch `PKGBUILD` clones over anonymous HTTPS. [0.5.1]: https://gitbutter.xyz/mollusk/peerspeak/releases/tag/v0.5.1 [0.5.0]: https://gitbutter.xyz/mollusk/peerspeak/releases/tag/v0.5.0 Earlier releases: see git tags `v0.4.0`, `v0.3.0`, `v0.2.0`.