We changed our minds: people do copy the URL from the bar and
give that to people and expect it to work: it doesn't make sense
to prioritise shorter URLs over this. There's no security advantage
unless we think there's a risk someone might steal your key by taking
a photo of your monitor over your shoulder and decrypting the calls
they can't already hear by standing behind you.
This upgrade came with a number of new lints that needed to be fixed across the code base. Primarily: explicit return types on functions, and explicit visibility modifiers on class members.
by fixing the cause rather than the symptom: this upgrades the code to use the new, recommended JSX transform mode of React 17+, which no longer requires you to import React manually just to write JSX.
This is an Element project (in the vector-im repo) so the Copyright
should be for New Vector: it was incorrectly attributed to the
foundation for some files (and some files were missing headers).