Beeper - Product Changelog

April 3, 2025 - Beeper 🤖 Android - 4.24.2

Start DMs with Matrix users
- You can now start new chats with Matrix users in the same way you would a phone number
- New chat → type in a Matrix user ID like @laser:beeper.com → tap on the list entry
- You can also start new DMs from Matrix group chats via the “Message” button on the member info sheet
Reply Behavior Toggle
- We’ve added an option to allow you to immediately exit out of the thread view after replying to a message
- ⚙️ → Preferences → Immediate reply exit

Removed “Back Exits Conversation” Labs Setting
- This was causing a lot of bugs for a lot of people, so is disabled for now
Beeper now uses an edge-to-edge design
- the status (or “notifications”) bar remains intentionally opaque for clarity
Fixed a bug where the app could crash…
- when moving from group chats to DMs via the Message button
- when enabling the “Bypass Do Not Disturb” experimental feature
- when encountering certain voice message waveforms
- when searching contacts & chats
Fixed some other bugs where…
- RCS chats would incorrectly display as SMS
- Drafts could get lost
- Group chats might improperly display as DMs
- Chats might not properly follow their inbox visibility setting
- Mentions could be formatted incorrectly in notifications
- The contents of spoiler’d messages would show in notifications and Inbox

Slack instances report correct name instead of “$unknown”
Group DMs should correctly show in All Chats again
Prevent emoticons that happen to appear at the end of a word from auto-converting to emoji
Ensure voice notes can be sent from all chats that support them
Popout windows should show correct scrollbar colors in Dark Mode

Message Formatting
- Beeper now supports outgoing message formatting via markdown
- If a chat network doesn’t fully support Markdown directly, we’ll still do our best to translate formatting into what the network does support — like bold or italics in WhatsApp