v26.2.0

🦖 Deprecations

• The Browserify artifact is being deprecated, scheduled for removal in the October 10th release cycle. (#3189).
• ElementR: Add CryptoApi#bootstrapSecretStorage (#3483). Contributed by @florianduros.
• Deprecate MatrixClient.findVerificationRequestDMInProgress, MatrixClient.getVerificationRequestsToDeviceInProgress, and MatrixClient.requestVerification, in favour of methods in CryptoApi. (#3474).
• Introduce a new Crypto.VerificationRequest interface, and deprecate direct access to the old VerificationRequest class. Also deprecate some related classes that were exported from src/crypto/verification/request/VerificationRequest (#3449).

✨ Features

• OIDC: navigate to authorization endpoint (#3499). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Support for interactive device verification in Element-R. (#3505).
• Support for interactive device verification in Element-R. (#3508).
• Support for interactive device verification in Element-R. (#3490). Fixes element-hq/element-web#25316.
• Element-R: Store cross signing keys in secret storage (#3498). Contributed by @florianduros.
• OIDC: add dynamic client registration util function (#3481). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Add getLastUnthreadedReceiptFor utility to Thread delegating to the underlying Room (#3493).
• ElementR: Add rust-crypto#createRecoveryKeyFromPassphrase implementation (#3472). Contributed by @florianduros.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Aggregate relations regardless of whether event fits into the timeline (#3496). Fixes element-hq/element-web#25596.
• Fix bug where switching media caused media in subsequent calls to fail (#3489).
• Fix: remove polls from room state on redaction (#3475). Fixes element-hq/element-web#25573. Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Fix export type GeneratedSecretStorageKey (#3479). Contributed by @florianduros.
• Close IDB database before deleting it to prevent spurious unexpected close errors (#3478). Fixes element-hq/element-web#25597.