v0.7.0-rc1

Important changes

• Dropped Python 3.5 compatibility.
• Moved docker registry to dock.mau.dev.

Added

• Support for bridging animated stickers (#340, thanks to @Eramde).
  • Requires LottieConverter, which is included in the docker image.
  • Can be configured.
• Support for MTProxy (#344, thanks to @Eramde).
• Config option for max length of displayname, with the default being 100.
• Separate config option for m.emote formatting of logged in users (#355).
• Streamed file transfers and parallel telegram file download/upload.
  • Files are streamed from telegram servers to the media repo rather than downloading the whole file into memory.
  • File transfers use multiple connections to telegram servers to transfer faster.
  • Parallel and streamed file transfers can be enabled in the config.
• Command to set caption for files and images when sending to telegram.
• Bridging bans to telegram (#303).
• Helm chart.

Improved

• Switched to mautrix-python.
• Users with Matrix puppeting can now bridge their "Saved Messages" chat.
• The bridge will refuse to start without access to the example config file.
• Changed default port to 29317 (#345).
• Mentions are now marked as read on Telegram when bridging read receipts using double puppeting (#337).
• Kicking or banning the bridge bot will now unbridge the room (#312).
• Shrinked Docker image from 151mb to 77mb.

Fixed

• The bridge will no longer crash if one user's startup fails (#292).
• (hopefully) Incorrect peer type being saved into database in some cases (#304).
• File names when bridging to Telegram (#376).
• Alembic config interpolating passwords with % (#362).
• A single chat failing to sync preventing any chat from syncing (#358).
• Users logged in as a bot not receiving any messages (#341).
• Username matching being case-sensitive in the database and preventing telegram->matrix pillifying (#384).
• IndexError if running !tg set-pl with no parameters.