Hey everyone! The third pre-release for Thunder v0.9.0 is here! This nightly introduces support for direct messages on Lemmy/PieFed, adds the ability to view existing post and comment drafts, includes initial support for the Lemmy v4 API, and brings additional improvements to sharing and link previews. If you run into any issues, please don’t hesitate to report them on GitHub!

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Be fully prepared to know that these pre-release versions may contain major bugs which could cause Thunder to crash or behave unexpectedly.

The full list of changes since v0.9.0-2 are mentioned below. As always, if there are any bugs or issues, please submit a new GitHub issue.

Additions

• Added ability to view existing post and comment drafts by hjiangsu in #2085
• Added ability to send direct messages on Lemmy/PieFed by hjiangsu in #2092
• Added initial support for Lemmy v4 API by hjiangsu in #2098

Changes

• Improved link bottom sheet previews by hjiangsu in #2087
• Improved post title suggestion logic by hjiangsu in #2088
• Improved advanced share sheet by hjiangsu in #2099

Misc

• Added iOS builds to GitHub release workflow by hjiangsu in #2091 and #2100
• Fixed web build not serving properly by hjiangsu in #2086
• Upgraded Thunder to Flutter 3.44 and updated dependencies by hjiangsu in #2097 ad #2086
• Additional cleanup of widgets and utils by hjiangsu in #2082 and #2089