Chatpane Files

Carrier 3.0 is the biggest update yet: a cleaner window, themes and app icons, a redesigned Settings window, a privacy tab, richer notifications, right-click menus for messages and conversations, conversation export and a proper Log Out.

What's New

Window

• macOS: the window buttons float over the page, like the old Messenger app, with no separate title bar.
• Windows and floating Linux desktops: Carrier draws its own window buttons over a slim strip above the chat, in place of the standard title bar. On Linux, Settings → Appearance → Title bar can bring back the GTK header bar.
• Resizable panes. Drag the edge of the chat list or the details pane to resize it, and double-click it to reset.
• Scroll bars stay out of the way: overlay scroll bars on macOS, and a thin indicator on Windows and Linux.

Appearance and Settings

• A redesigned Settings window, with every tab laid out as cards and switches lined up on the right.
• Themes. Settings → Appearance opens with a theme gallery, including an OLED Black dark theme, and you can import your own themes. Pick an accent color and a message font too.
• Alternate app icons: Color, Color dark, Mono and Mono dark, with an optional different icon in dark mode.

Messages and conversations

• Right-click a message for a native menu: react with Messenger's quick reactions, reply, copy text, edit, forward, pin or unsend.
• Right-click a conversation in the chat list for its own menu: mark as read or unread, mute, view profile, archive, delete, block, report and more.
• Export a conversation to HTML or JSON from the File menu, read from Messenger's local database (encrypted chats included). Nothing is uploaded.
• Encrypted chats open faster: the newest messages of your recent encrypted chats are preloaded from this computer. Nothing is sent to Facebook and no chat is marked as seen.
• The message box gets focus when you switch back to Carrier or open a conversation, so you can start typing right away.

Notifications

• React and Mark as Read right from a message notification.
• Sender faces on macOS. Message notifications show the sender's photo (and the group's picture for group chats), like Messages.
• Pause Notifications for an hour, until tomorrow morning, or until you turn them back on, from the tray and Dock menus.
• Messenger's own Do Not Disturb is honored, including when you turn it on from your phone.
• Group Chat Notifications can be turned off while group chats still count on the badge.
• Muted conversations can be left out, shown on the badge only, or treated like any other chat.
• Dot-only unread badge, for knowing something is waiting without showing how much.
• Send Test Notification in Settings explains in plain words when the system or Focus is blocking banners.
• Notifications now come from Messenger itself where possible, so the conversation and sender are always right.
• No catch-up flood after sleep: messages that are old or already read on another device no longer notify.
• One sound per message. Messenger's in-page sounds no longer double up with Carrier's notification sound, stay silent during Do Not Disturb, Pause and Mute (calls still ring), and no longer show up in macOS Now Playing.
• Hide Avatars also keeps sender and group pictures out of notifications.

Privacy

• A new Privacy tab in Settings.
• Block Typing Indicator stops telling others when you're typing.
• Hide Names and Hide Avatars are now separate settings. The menu item and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+H still toggle both.

Account and app

• Log Out… in the app and tray menus logs you out of Facebook and deletes what Carrier stored for the account on this computer. Your Carrier settings are kept.
• A new Account tab in Settings for Messenger's Active Status, message sounds and Do Not Disturb, synced to your account.
• Choose how often Carrier checks for updates (hourly, every 4 hours or daily), and see the release notes in the update prompt.
• Recent conversations in the Dock, tray and jump-list menus and the unread badge now read Messenger's local database, so they stay accurate whatever the chat list shows.
• Pinch to zoom photos on macOS, and Escape cancels a voice clip being recorded.
• Windows: Carrier explains a missing WebView2 runtime at startup instead of failing silently.

Bug Fixes

• Files and screenshots dropped on the window now reach the chat.
• Pasting a copied image attaches the image instead of its address.
• The login page scrolls correctly, follows the dark theme, keeps the cookie dialog in view and shows a loader while Facebook's page renders.
• After a network change, Carrier notices Facebook is reachable again much sooner.
• Hovering messages no longer lags with Hide Names on.
• Thin lines no longer appear between messages in a conversation opened while Carrier was hidden, and gradient-themed chats no longer flash while scrolling fast.
• Shared posts with full-size images no longer slow the conversation down.
• App chrome can no longer be selected by accident, and Select All outside a text field selects nothing.
• Linux: a forced Light theme now makes Messenger light on a dark desktop.
• Linux: smoother, lower-CPU rendering on Wayland, by keeping WebKit's DMA-BUF renderer on except with NVIDIA drivers older than 555.
• Logging out from the tray while Carrier is hidden no longer crashes on Linux.
• Right-clicking a message on macOS opens Carrier's menu instead of WebKit's.

Internal

• Facebook's user-content hosts no longer get access to Carrier's IPC.
• November dependency update.
• A test that loads and saves a v2.1.0 settings file, so upgrades keep every setting.

Full changelog: https://github.com/kristofferR/Carrier/compare/v2.1.0...v3.0.0