Beeper - Product Changelog

March 26, 2025 — Beeper 💻 Desktop v4.0.570

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
Leave Matrix Chats
- You can now leave Matrix chats directly from the ℹ️ icon
Improved Search & Filtering
- Added Slack Workspaces, Discord Guilds, and WhatsApp Communities to our search filtering

Performance Enhancements
- Faster chat load times and smoother scrolling
- Improved Search performance, and fixed a case where multiple search queries would run at once
Stability Fixes
- Resolved crashes related to:
  - Opening large group chats with extensive media files
  - Backgrounding the app during file uploads
  - Voice note sends
- Fixed rare instances of the app freezing during login
UI Tweaks
- Adjusted the alignment of text bubbles for better readability
- Improved the appearance of avatars to ensure higher resolution consistency
Message Syncing
- Addressed issues where some messages failed to appear in notifications
Miscellaneous Fixes
- Fixed an issue where indentation would be removed when displaying a code block
- Fixed an issue that would cause drafts to be dropped under specific scenarios
- Fixed a case where outgoing images could be displayed with the wrong rotation
- Resolved issues with message reactions not displaying correctly
- Fixed problems with voice note playback stuttering on certain devices