* desktop: don't copy non-message items when selecting message text
Selecting text across messages also copied the text of event/info
items (e.g. "connected") that fell inside the selection, even though
those items are never highlighted as selected.
getSelectedCopiedText emitted text for every merged item between the
selection bounds. Event/info items have no msgContent but a non-empty
text, so as interior items their text was copied. Skip items whose
content has no msgContent - only real messages are copyable.
* plans: add 2026-05-20-fix-copy-non-msg-items.md
* core: fix /start remote host parser when iface name contains a space
The iface= field used jsonP (which calls takeByteString and strict-decodes
the entire remaining input as JSON). When port= followed iface=, the strict
decode failed on the trailing data and the text1P fallback stopped at the
first space inside the JSON-quoted interface name (e.g. "Ethernet 2"),
leaving unparseable junk and producing "Failed reading: empty".
Replace jsonP with a bounded quotedP that consumes only up to the closing
quote, leaving port=… for the next parser.
* plan: document fix for /start remote host iface-with-space parser bug
Move SectionDividerSpaced() out of the SectionView { ... } block so it acts
as inter-section spacing instead of being rendered as the section's last
child. Matches the pattern used by every other section in ChatInfoLayout.
Plan: plans/2026-05-25-fix-e2e-encryption-section-divider.md
* desktop: fix video playback hang caused by stuck preview snapshot
Problem: clicking play on a video did nothing when an earlier video's
preview generation was stuck — every subsequent VideoPlayer.play() was
queued behind it on the shared playerThread.
Cause: helper player reuse across previews exhausted the libavcodec h264
frame-buffer pool with --avcodec-hw=none (PR #6924), and the synchronous
libvlc snapshots().get() call then hung waiting for a frame that was
never decoded.
Fix: drop the helper-player pool (release each helper after use) and run
preview generation on a dedicated previewThread so a stuck preview can
no longer block playback.
* plans: add 2026-05-15-fix-video-preview-snapshot-hang.md
* desktop: capture preview via callback surface, keep helper pool
Follows up on the previous commit (4a964c66). The actual hang was in
libvlc's synchronous snapshots().get() on a reused helper, not in the
pooling itself. Replace the polling loop with a CallbackVideoSurface
(the existing SkiaBitmapVideoSurface) wrapped in withTimeoutOrNull —
the wait is bounded, so a non-decoding helper can't block previewThread.
Restore the helper-player pool that the previous commit dropped.
* plans: update 2026-05-15-fix-video-preview-snapshot-hang.md for final fix
* desktop: fix in-app updater silently failing on Windows
chooseGitHubReleaseAssets ran `which dpkg` unconditionally to probe for
Debian-derivative systems. On Windows there is no which.exe, so
Runtime.exec threw IOException, which the outer catch in checkForUpdate
logged and swallowed -- the update dialog never appeared. Gate the
probe on desktopPlatform.isLinux().
* desktop: fix in-app updater install step on AppImage
xdg-open on the downloaded .AppImage opened it in whatever the desktop
environment's default handler for the AppImage MIME type is -- usually
an archive viewer, which reports 'Archive format not recognized'. The
running AppImage was never replaced.
Detect $APPIMAGE (set by the AppImage runtime to the path of the
running .AppImage file). Copy the downloaded file to a staging file in
the target's own directory, mark it executable, then atomic-move it
onto $APPIMAGE. Staging in the target directory keeps the final move a
same-filesystem rename(2), so an interrupted copy never leaves the
running AppImage partially overwritten. On failure (permission denied,
target read-only, etc.) fall back to opening the parent directory so
the user can install manually -- the same fallback the existing
xdg-open path already used.
* desktop: fix in-app updater silently failing on aarch64 AppImage
The LINUX_AARCH64 githubAssetName had a literal leading space
(" simplex-desktop-aarch64.AppImage"), so the exact-name filter in
chooseGitHubReleaseAssets never matched the real release asset name
"simplex-desktop-aarch64.AppImage". The asset list came back empty
and checkForUpdate's early-return at "No assets to download for
current system" suppressed the dialog. Same silent-failure pattern as
the Windows bug.
* plans: justify desktop in-app updater fixes
* core: update simplexmq
* update agent api
* update simplexmq
* core: add flag to User to use client services
* update simplexmq
* cli command to toggle service for a user
* test, fix
* query plans, core/bot api types
* remove local package reference
* increase server queue size in tests
* show client service status in users list
* update query plans
* cli: fix redraw slowness (#6735)
* cli: add pland to fix redraw slowness
* updtae doc
* cli: decouple key reading from processing via TQueue
* schema and bot types
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Co-authored-by: sh <37271604+shumvgolove@users.noreply.github.com>
Evgeny @ SimpleX Chat