[Blink] New version 5.9.0 of Blink Qt SIP client for desktop operating systems

[Adrian Georgescu]

Hello,

There is new release of Blink based on Qt5. Blink Qt has been rewritten to be compatible with Qt6, this is the last version with support for Qt5, tagged as 5.9.0.

Many thanks to NLnet Foundation for further supporting the development of Blink Qt for all desktop platforms! 

The software is available for Debian and Ubuntu packages and as source code, that can be installed locally the python way.

Blink Qt is available for Linux, can be run on MacOS and a future release will also run again on Microsoft Windows platform.

There are also lot of new features, usability improvements and bug fixes since the previous version.

Changelog

https://icanblink.com/changelog-linux/
Changelog for Blink (Linux)
icanblink.com

blink (5.9.0)
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   * Migrate code for QT6 compatibilty
   * Refactored web views to use latest QWebEngine
   * Chat window only opens on user interactions
   * Improved MacOS compatibilty
   * Implemented persistent Bonjour messaging
   * Added account selection for outgoing messages
   * Added audio/video call entries to messages
   * Added dialog to remove messages
   * Added option to start a random conference
   * Added menu item to show session info panel on audio calls
   * Added right-click contextual menu to calls
   * Added unread counter to contact and menu to show unread messages
   * Added virtual messages group to show all contacts that have messages
   * Added info button to audio sessions
   * Reorganized contact menu structure
   * Fix retrying sending locally failed messages
   * Fixed wrongly stored Sylk API messages
   * Fixed only deleting filetranfer files from cache
   * Send images by file transfers in messages/MSRP chat
   * Improved message rendering themes
   * Bugfixes for drag/drop
   * Bugfixes for filetransfers
   * Bugfixes for messages
   * Bugfixes for PGP message handling
   * Bugfixes for sending IMDN messages

To install or upgrade the software visit http://icanblink.com <http://icanblink.com/>

The source code is available at https://github.com/AGProjects/blink-qt


About Qt6

Qt6 does not have yet many skins available, it is rather new and we would not release a Debian package based on it, just yet. Those who wish to run the Qt6 version can do it by downloading and building the source code locally. The changes for importing Qt6 widgets instead of Qt5 will be made available in the coming days.

About Windows

Blink for Windows will be based on Qt6. 


About MacOS

The software can be run locally from the source code tree, see macos/ folder for building and running instructions.

Kind regards,
Adrian




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