Relay 0.5.8

26 Aug, 2026

New Features

Link previews inside bubbles: URL preview cards now render inside the message bubble instead of below it, styled to match the bubble's text color.
Reply focus: starting a reply now focuses the compose text field automatically.

Fixed blank mention pills and blockquote icons: attachment views embedded in message bubbles could render briefly then go blank (#177).
Fixed compose bar not growing: the input field stayed locked at single-line height even when text wrapped to additional lines (#176).
Fixed timeline clipping: rows could be clipped at top and bottom due to conflicting Auto Layout constraints in the NSTableView renderer.
Fixed stale whitespace gaps after pagination: cached row heights are now cleared on structural timeline updates, so rows re-measure against their current context.
Fixed link-click crash: clicking near the edge of or outside a text fragment could trigger an out-of-bounds access when resolving links.

Decomposed TimelineViewModel into focused collaborators; extracted overlays and action wiring from TimelineView.
Split TimelineViewModelProtocol into separate state-providing and action-providing protocols.
Moved media/system-event data into TimelineMessage.Kind associated values so invalid states are unrepresentable.
Moved message row-building types into the RelayInterface package for independent testability.
Unified both timeline renderers behind shared config and callback types.

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