Release notes
What changed in the Devchaos app, newest first. The app updates itself: when a new version is ready, a card asks you to restart.
0.2.25November 13, 2026Newest
- devchaos.com is new
devchaos.com is now the app's own site. The forum, devlogs, magazine and feed are gone; so are Explore and the site's news on the home screen.
- Sign up from the app
“Sign up on devchaos.com” opens the sign-up page in your browser; once you've signed up and said yes, the app opens with your new account.
- Reports go to the admins
Reporting someone sends it straight to Devchaos's admins; no site page opens.
- Simpler project settings
With the project's page on the site gone, visibility, open positions and the Steam link are gone too. “Permissions” keeps the leads and what they may do; the project's address is now its “Short name”.
- Links lead to the new pages
The password, email and data links in Settings open devchaos.com's new account settings.
0.2.24November 11, 2026
- Files open and download again
Previews and downloads of ZIP, Nuke, Fusion, Blender, code, PDF and spreadsheet files are fixed. Large files come down in ranges side by side; on a network that cannot reach the storage, a file comes through the site.
- A file read once is not downloaded again
A file you looked at is kept on your computer; it shows at once when you come back to the chat or open the app again. It is removed when you sign out.
- What you send stays in place
The preview of a file you sent is drawn from your own copy; it no longer goes away and comes back after sending.
- Look inside RAR archives
RAR archives open without downloading, as ZIP does: what is inside on the card, folders and single files in the viewer. An archive under a password says so.
- When the site does not answer for a moment
When the site does not answer for a few seconds the app asks again by itself, so “Couldn’t load messages” no longer shows for that.
- Failure notices are red
A notice that something did not happen now shows a red alert mark instead of the green tick.
- Script card fixed
A script's card in a message keeps its small page inside the card.
0.2.23November 11, 2026
- New reactions, on every line
Give a line a clap, a kiss, eyes, thumbs up or down, yes, no, a heart, a broken heart, sad, smile or angry. Direct and group conversations have them too, and the window stays on screen even for the bottom line.
- @ and # in direct conversations
Name people with @ and your projects' open channels with # in a direct conversation; a channel in a line takes you there.
- No marks while editing either
Editing a line you sent shows bold, italic and the rest without their marks, as in the message box.
- Task pictures open large
A task's thumbnail opens in the zoomable viewer, over the task; the viewer has Copy and Download.
- Chats open at the newest line
Switching channels or conversations keeps the view at the newest line, even as pictures and previews load.