v8.5.1

What's New in v8.5.1

🐛 Patch Release: Link Preview Thumbnail Fixes, ARMv7 Builds & Dependency Updates

This patch normalizes link preview thumbnails for WhatsApp link messages, adds ARMv7 Docker and release binary coverage, and refreshes whatsmeow dependencies.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

Link Preview Thumbnails

• Normalize link preview images into bounded JPEG thumbnails
• Send the smaller inline JPEG thumbnail for link messages
• Include media key timestamp when uploading preview thumbnails
• Added regression coverage for thumbnail normalization

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🔧 Technical Improvements

ARMv7 Release and Docker Builds

• Add ARMv7 Docker image build support alongside ARM64
• Add Linux ARMv7 release binary generation through GoReleaser
• Keep release archive names distinct for ARM variants

Dependency Updates

• go.mau.fi/whatsmeow: updated to latest
• Related Go dependencies refreshed through go.mod and go.sum

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What's Changed

• fix: normalize link preview thumbnails by @aldinokemal
• ci: add ARMv7 Docker and release builds by @aldinokemal
• chore: update whatsmeow to latest by @aldinokemal
• chore: bump version to v8.5.1 by @aldinokemal

Full Changelog: v8.5.0...v8.5.1