v1.11.44

The "notifications" bell has moved into labs, meaning it can only be used on the Nightly or Develop versions. We made this change because as it stands the bell does not work well. We will bring it back back when we will have had a chance to improve it so it meets most users' expectations.

✨ Features

• Make video & voice call buttons pin conference widget if unpinned (#11576). Fixes element-hq/customer-success#72.
• OIDC: persist refresh token (#11249). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• ElementR: Cross user verification (#11364). Fixes #25752. Contributed by @florianduros.
• Default intentional mentions (#11602).
• Notify users about denied access on ask-to-join rooms (#11480). Contributed by @nurjinjafar.
• Allow setting knock room directory visibility (#11529). Contributed by @charlynguyen.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert "Fix regression around FacePile with overflow (#11527)" (#11634). Fixes #26209.
• Escape placeholder before injecting it into the style (#11607).
• Move ViewUser action callback to RoomView (#11495). Fixes #26040.
• Fix room timeline search toggling behaviour edge case (#11605). Fixes #26105.
• Avoid rendering view-message link in RoomKnocksBar unnecessarily (#11598). Contributed by @charlynguyen.
• Use knock rooms sync to reflect the knock state (#11596). Fixes #26043 and #26044. Contributed by @charlynguyen.
• Fix avatar in right panel not using the correct font (#11593). Fixes #26061. Contributed by @MidhunSureshR.
• Add waits in Spotlight Cypress tests, hoping this unflakes them (#11590). Fixes #26053, #26140 #26139 and #26138. Contributed by @andybalaam.
• Fix vertical alignment of default avatar font (#11582). Fixes #26081.
• Fix avatars in public room & space search being flex shrunk (#11580). Fixes #26133.
• Fix EventTile avatars being rendered with a size of 0 instead of hidden (#11558). Fixes #26075.