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iamb: all versions and old releases

A Matrix client for Vim addicts

3 versions of iamb are listed here, from August 21, 2024 to the current 0.0.12. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2024: 1 1 24 2025: 0 25 2026: 2 2 26

3 versions over 2 years · about 1.4 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
0.0.12Latest September 20, 2026 — 64-bit ZIP
Release notes
# Features / Improvements ✨

• Open `:members` in the same window by default ([#458])
• Render image previews lazily ([#464])
• Support generating shell-completions using `clap_complete` ([#489])
• Support basic sticker viewing ([#502])
• Open Matrix URIs on the command line and support user mentions ([#508])
• MSC4027:Display image reactions ([#518])
• Improve completions ([#520])
• Add config option `set_window_title` ([#528])
• Support login via a configured password file ([#558])
• Support disabling SSL verification ([#565])
• Add `:mentions` window and hopefully finally fix unreads ([#579])
• Support placing encryption indicator in room title instead of prompt ([#581])
• Add configurable cursor shape via `settings.terminal.cursor_shape` ([#587])
• Support media captions ([#592])
• Store event cache in `~/.cache/iamb` ([#596])
• Support manually marking rooms as unread ([#603])
• Improve verifications ([#605])
• Add `input_prompt` configuration option for overriding message bar prompt ([#610])
• Add option to show sender name in extra line ([#613])
• Accessibility:Specify position of invisible/custom cursor ([#614])
• Add `default_split` tunable to control `<C-W>f` split direction ([#620])
• Send messages asynchronously using the SDK's send queue ([#627])
• Allow explicitly controlling when extended keypresses are enabled ([#632])
• Support running room commands in `:members` window and room lists ([#633])
• Show manually marked unread rooms in `:unreads` ([#637])
• Add `"server"` field for sorting room lists ([#638])
• Display user's room role in `:members` list ([#639])
• Add support for SOCKS and HTTPS proxying ([#640])
• Support configuring when read marker updates are triggered ([#641])
• Add `default_markup` for configuring message parsing ([#643])
• Image Preview improvements ([#653])
• Support setting per-room user display names ([#654])
• Support upgrading rooms and following tombstone information ([#656])
• Add support for room knocking ([#658])
• Add support for updating user profile information ([#662])
• Add `CursorShape::Auto` ([#665])
• Add ignorecase setting ([#669])
• Support using room aliases and DMs with `:space child set` ([#672])
• Add a `:room access` command for managing join rules ([#673])
• Support room aliases for `:room access set restricted` ([#674])
• Don't force user to join room on `:space child set` ([#675])
• Allow user's to specify a default register for editing ([#683])
• Support implicit read receipts ([#691])
• Use a broken link callback to simplify matrix.to links ([#693])
• Add `default_via` to always tell homeserver how to resolve a room ([#694])
• Support opening location messages with :open ([#695])
• Add `:invites` list ([#703])
• Send read receipts instantly ([#704])
• Add `:verify recover` to verify with a recovery key ([#706])
• Unify the the room list representation ([#708])
• Show a trackbar between the last-read and first-new message ([#709])
• Handle invalid `matrix.to` URLs that look like mentions ([#712])
• Make `:room version upgrade` use `++creator` for additional creators ([#714])
• Support user-defined command aliases ([#715])

# Documentation / README updates 📚

• Add several missing options to the `iamb(5)` manual page ([#580])
• Mention `conda-forge` package in README ([#604])
• Fix:Rename `location` to `indicator_location` in example config ([#635])
• Document how to build size-optimized binaries in the README ([#644])
• Document options for user sorting ([#659])
• Fix documentation reference to `settings.users` ([#668])
• Document `:room history` commands in iamb(1) ([#671])
• Clean up minor manual page issues ([#713])

# Bug Fixes 🐞

• Show newest edit of messages even after application restart ([#445])
• Show placeholder if replied to message is not loaded and strip fallback reply ([#474])
• Don't wrap messages without `formatted_body` in middle of word ([#486])
• Handle ambiguous display names conforming to spec ([#515])
• Search plaintext body for links to
0.0.11 January 20, 2026 — 64-bit ZIP
Release notes
# Features / Improvements ✨

Support automatically toggling room focus (#337)
Support enabling multiple notification sinks (#344)
Support `:room topic show` (#380)
Support an "invite" field in the room sorting settings (#395)
Allow spaces to be searched by name (#404)
Support adding rooms to spaces (#407)
Add support for scrolling w/ mouse when explicitly enabled (#389)
Clear desktop notification when message is read (#427)
Omit room name on desktop notifications for DMs (#428)
Show more text in notifications and use "normal" urgency for dbus notifications (#430)
Query user for profile at startup when none have been specified (#432)
Show state events in the timeline (#437)
Implement receipts per thread (#438)
Add configuration option for hiding state events (#447)
Add `:replied` to go to the message the selected message replied to (#452)
Add config option to allow resetting mode after sending a message (#459)
Make blockquotes in message visually distict (#466)
Highlight border of focused window (#470)
Support `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` on macOS for config directory resolution (#478)
Add config option for playing sound-hints with desktop notifications (#481)
Add `:forget` to forget all left rooms (#507)
Treat unknown html tags as plain text (#509)
Improve error message for UnknownToken on login (#514)
Indicate encryption state of room in messagebar (#522)
Expand ~ and shell variables in dirs config (#538)

# Documentation / README updates 📚

Mention Gentoo's GURU ebuild in the README (#374)
Document every client command in the manual page (#441)
Remove duplicate documentation from manpage (#454)
Document `settings.state_event_display` in manual page (#455)
Document how to build from sources (#513)

# Bug Fixes 🐞

Fix ratatui-image tmux detection when used with a configured image protocol (#352)
Fix image preview in replies and threads (#366)
Fix most incorrect unreads on startup (#433)
Do proper Unicode collation on room names (#440)
Remove image preview on message redaction (#448)
Apply user highlighting to display name changes (#449)
Add more compatibility for unreads (#451)
Improve image preview placeholder (#453)
Fix display of tabs in code blocks (#463)
Add missing `<s>` tag in HTML parsing (#465)
Make scrollback display stable with `typing_notice_display = false` (#469)
Make merging of configuration options consistent (#471)
Recognise URLs in plain text message bodies (#476)
Search `:members` by display name and user id (#482)
Fix image preview placeholder rendering (#483)
Handle attachment file names more robustly (#494)
Fall back to showing body for unknown message types (#496)
Remove blocking timeout for first sync on startup (#529)
Respect user color of replied message with `message_user_color` (#532)
Fix incorrect empty unreads window message (#541)

# Building / Housekeeping 🧹

Fix Clippy warning for unused `format!` in 1.81 (#343)
Update `Cargo.toml` to v0.0.11-alpha.1 (#346)
Update modalkit and modalkit-ratatui to SHA 45855daeeb (#358)
Bump Matrix SDK dependency to 0.8 (#386)
Updated rust version and added sqlite in flake.nix (#396)
Bump Matrix SDK to 0.10.0 (#397)
Fix warning from `cargo doc` (#413)
Address some warnings and typos (#408)
Update to mozilla-actions/sccache-action@v0.0.9 (#419)
Bump minimum supported Rust version to 1.83 (#420)
Use `cargo crane` in Nix flake and set up cachix action (#539)
Remove deprecated Apple SDK frameworks pattern (#543)
Fix CI on main branch (#545)
Update to latest modalkit, modalkit-ratatui and ratatui-image (#422)
Fix Clippy warnings for 1.83 (#429)
Update to ratatui-image@8.0.1 (#434)
Update lockfile dependencies (#436)
Update to modalkit{,-ratatui}@0.0.23 (#473)
Upgrade Matrix SDK to 0.13 (#485)
Update to modalkit{,-ratatui}@0.0.24 (#492)
Update Nix flake and its lockfile (#500)
Fix most Clippy warnings (#501)
Upgrade Matrix SDK to 0.14 (#521)
Fix `rustfmt` warning (#523)

# Contributors 🙏

Many thanks to @Akselmo, @almindor, @Andrew-Collins, @benjajaja, @bnjbvr, @daef, @delaft
0.0.10 August 21, 2024 — 64-bit ZIP

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