Patch Notes
What's new in Clovera — version history & updates.
Message Reactions & Typing Indicator
React to direct messages with Clovera's own Cloji emoji set and see when the other person is typing.
- New Cloji message reactions — React to any direct message with one of Clovera's branded Cloji emojis — heart, laugh, fire, and more. Reactions update live for both sides.
- New Typing indicator — See a live “is typing…” indicator in direct messages so you know when the other person is replying.
Group Chats
Clovera now supports encrypted group conversations. Create a group from your contacts and chat, share files, and send voice messages together.
- New Encrypted group chats — Start a group conversation with up to 10 people from your contacts. Messages, files, and voice recordings are end-to-end protected with the same encryption used in direct messages.
- New Group management — Group owners can rename the group and add or remove members at any time. If the owner leaves, ownership is automatically handed to the longest-standing member.
- New Live updates & notifications — Groups appear in your sidebar with unread badges, update in real time, send push notifications, and KittenAI can summarize the conversation for you.
Push Notifications & AI Usage
You can now receive notifications outside the app, and track your daily KittenAI usage directly from Settings.
- New Browser push notifications — Enable browser notifications from Settings to get alerted about direct messages, mentions, and friend requests even when Clovera is not open.
- New KittenAI usage tracker — A new card in Settings shows how many of your 30 daily KittenAI requests you've used and when the quota resets.
Presence fixes & deeper customization
Your online status is now visible to everyone, plus new ways to personalize your profile and servers.
- Fixed Online status visibility — Fixed an issue where others saw you as offline even while you were active — presence now refreshes reliably for everyone.
- New Profile customization — Set pronouns, a custom status message, and a personal accent color.
- New Notification & privacy preferences — Toggle DM, mention, and server notifications, and control whether you send read receipts.
- New Server welcome & accent — Server managers can add a welcome message banner and choose an accent color for their server.
Privacy & Safety
More control over who can reach you, plus stronger defenses against spam and fake accounts.
- New Direct message privacy — You now decide who can start a conversation with you. In Settings, choose to receive direct messages from everyone, only people who follow you, or only friends. Blocked users stay blocked, and conversations you've already started keep working.
- Improved Stronger protection against fake accounts — We've tightened sign-ups to curb spam and accounts created in bulk, keeping the community more genuine.
Blog Posts
Users can now write long-form blog posts alongside their regular feed activity. Blogs live on your profile, appear in the Feed with a distinct card, and come with a built-in KittenAI writing assistant.
- New Blog posts on profiles — Write blog posts with a title, up to 5,000 characters of content, an optional topic, and draft or publish control. Access them from a new Blogs tab on every user profile.
- New Feed integration with view filter — Blog posts appear in the Feed alongside regular posts, marked with a Blog badge and a short excerpt. Switch between All, Posts, and Blogs using the new view selector. The filter is reflected in the URL and works alongside topic filters.
- New KittenAI blog writing assistant — A live chat panel sits beside the blog editor. Ask KittenAI for title ideas, paragraph improvements, or writing feedback. Your current draft is automatically shared as context with every message.
User Mentions
You can now tag other users with @ in posts, comments, and community channels.
- New @ Mention autocomplete — Type @ in any text field to see a live suggestion list. Use the arrow keys or mouse to select.
- New Mention notifications — Tagged users receive a notification linking back to the post or message.
- New Clickable @username links — @username mentions in posts, comments, channel messages, and forum threads are rendered as clickable profile links.
Patch Notes & What's New Section
This update introduces a publicly accessible Patch Notes page so every visitor — logged in or not — can follow Clovera's development.
- New Patch Notes page — Accessible at /patch-notes for all visitors. Browse the full release history in one place.
- New Patch Notes icon — A custom SVG icon drawn in Clovera's purple-gradient style, consistent with the rest of the icon set.
- New Footer & sidebar link — Quick access from every page via the footer and the mobile sidebar.
Custom Emojis
This update adds a set of 20 custom SVG emojis that bring personality to messages, channels, and posts.
- New 20 custom emojis — cat, clap, cool, crown, cry, eyes, fire, gem, ghost, heart, love, petal, rage, rocket, sleep, smile, star, think, wave, wink — all drawn in the Clovera style.
- New Emoji picker — Add emojis with one click in DMs, channel messages, and posts.
- New Inline emoji rendering — The :emoji_name: syntax is automatically converted to an SVG image.