Changelog

Chat, presence and a space with every friend

• Chat inside a call, kept with the call, so it is still there the next time you open it
• Live presence for friends, including «waiting for you» when someone is sitting in a space you share
• A private space with every friend, opened from their row or from a pin on the home screen
• Friend requests and profile changes arrive without a refresh
• Settings became a screen of its own

The way a call is joined changed, so installs older than 0.1.0 update themselves.

An honest camera

• Turning the camera on now succeeds only once a camera has actually opened, so a missing or busy one says so instead of lighting the button and sending nothing
• The camera button dims when there is no camera, and the keyboard shortcut follows the same rule

Screen sharing on Wayland

• Sharing on Wayland goes through your desktop's own chooser and PipeWire, instead of looking as though it worked while everyone else saw a black rectangle. It took four attempts, from 0.0.9 to 0.0.13, and this is the release where it holds.
• The chooser appears every time you start sharing, so you can pick a different window than last time
• A session that cannot be captured at all refuses with a message, before anything reaches the call
• On Linux the update button no longer appears minutes before the package reaches the repository

Package updates that say what they are doing

• The Linux update started from inside the app shows progress, failure and the restart prompt, instead of looking as though nothing had happened for tens of seconds
• The relaunch waits for the old process to exit, so a stalled shutdown no longer leaves you without a window
• Both download buckets are pruned to the newest two versions

Linux window, icon and theme

• The window has a title bar on GNOME again. The Wayland decoration plugin was missing from the packages, so the window came up bare and could not be moved.
• The app icon shows up instead of a generic cog
• A dark desktop no longer starts Callifornia in light mode on a fresh install
• Tooltips wait longer before appearing

Callifornia on Linux

• Packages in .deb and .rpm, with a signed APT and YUM repository for updates
• Microphone through PulseAudio, camera through V4L2, screen sharing on X11
• Updates in one click through your package manager
• A redesigned home screen and navigation
• Wayland screen sharing came later, in 0.0.9

A clean uninstall

• Uninstalling removes the install directory, your data and the updater's leftover startup entry. New installs only.

Hello, world

• Group video meetings with short, shareable meeting IDs
• Friends list, add people once and call them with one click
• Invites inside the app, see who invited you and join right from there
• Screen sharing with a picker for a window or the whole screen
• Light and dark themes
• Updates in the background, signed, only the changed files, applied on one restart
• An installer for you alone on Windows 10/11, no administrator rights required