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Our Rust UI take: what two days of native Velta taught us
We built a working Velta client for Android in Rust — no WebView, no browser engine — and ran it on a mid-range phone next to the web app. What the experiment proved, where the costs came due, and why our Android effort went back into the Kotlin client, with the same core in-process.
Velta 1.5.5: a glass composer, background sends, and Linux packages that are really there
The message field can turn to glass on Windows and Android, a backgrounded send shows a silent notification until it lands, and the Linux packages are finally on the release page. Plus voice playback speed, category chips in the pickers, and messaging core 2.69.0.
Velta 1.5.4: Windows Hello that works, Text-only mode, and Linux packages
Windows Hello works end to end and its prompt comes to the front on its own. Text-only mode covers unknown senders by default, relay failover is visible, and attachment encryption is out of preview.
Velta 1.5.3 adds pure black, opens documents in your default app, and lets the chat list step aside
A pure-black AMOLED option for the dark theme, stickers in the attachments menu, documents that open in your default app, and a chat list you can collapse on wide windows.
Velta 1.5.2: Windows Hello and an end to large-chat freezes
Windows desktop can unlock the database key with Windows Hello. Opening a large chat no longer fills the database and freezes the app, and Restart core no longer stacks.
Velta 1.5.1: a watchdog for the core, steadier lists
When the core stalls, the Relays screen and chat list keep their last good state behind a Retry banner, a watchdog restarts a stuck core, and transfers, search and first sync finally show progress.
Velta 1.5 encrypts attachments and replaces the DNS tunnel
Attachments are encrypted on disk, mail can ride a SOCKS5 proxy instead of the old DNS tunnel, you can pause a relay without deleting it, and the app-lock PIN also unlocks the auto-lock screen.
Velta 1.4.89 encrypts profile data on Android
Profile data is now encrypted at rest on Android (preview on desktop and in the browser), a new Privacy & security screen holds the app lock, and Android gets a biometric lock with a PIN fallback.
Velta 1.4.88 adds admin groups
Groups can have one admin who controls members, settings and pins, profile keys show up correctly again, and threaded bubbles no longer shrink to one letter wide.
Velta 1.4.87: invites on velta.cc, steadier Android, a new message menu
Four releases in one: invite links that live on velta.cc, an end to the minutes-long chat stalls on Android, images that always appear, Cryptex as a second large-file provider, Chatmail core 2.66.0, and a reworked message menu.