June 26, 2025 - Beeper 🤖 Android - 4.27.1

New Features ✨

• Media Notifications
  • Beeper now plays voice notes while in the background and displays a media notification during playback
  • To disable this, go to ⚙️ Settings → Preferences → Media → Pause background audio

Improvements, Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

• Fixed an issue where…
  • Removing a reaction wouldn’t actually remove it remotely
  • some formats of phone numbers weren’t considered valid when starting a new chat
  • avatar cropping & scaling could be inaccurate when updated
  • GIFs couldn’t be sent via GBoard
  • a message could be displayed as “Still sending…” even after it was already sent
  • the app could crash when connecting Signal
• Updated the Labs 🧪 Noisy Mode feature to use the system’s default TTS language instead of always using English
• Refreshed the design of the top level Settings screen
• Added improved network disconnection notices to the Inbox
• SDK & platform updates to support upcoming features

Accessibility ♿

• Added missing TalkBack semantics for several unnamed elements on the conversation screen
  • More improvements to come in this area are planned

June 20, 2025 — Beeper 💻 Desktop v4.0.779

✨ New

• New Chat now supports starting a DM with another Matrix user
• Added hover cards to members in Chat Info

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Fixed crashing when some Linux users opened certain chats
• Improved reliability for connecting an account
• Starting a new chat is more reliable and shouldn't fail
• Image captions won't be incorrectly formatted as rich text