https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1763694753848479844

Built for speed and performance, with a complete redesign of the look and feel. You’ll be able to try it for yourself soon…

A small sample of the many new features:

  • OLED black theme
  • Local message cache (all chats open instantly)
  • Add/modify chat networks (no need to set up on desktop)
  • Chat bubbling
  • Tablet (multi-pane) mode
  • Full message search (across all your chat networks)

He added, on Matrix, “Plan is to offer local bridges for all encrypted networks”

Although confirming this would be the case at launch, it was unclear specifically which networks are counted as encrypted.