Changes in 0.6.0 (2016-04-19)

Matthew/design tweaks #1402
Improve handling of notification rules we can't parse #1399
Do less mangling of jenkins builds #1391
Start Notifications component refactor #1386
make the UI fadable to help with decluttering #1376
Get and display a user's pushers in settings #1374
URL previewing support #1343
😄 Emoji autocomplete and unicode emoji to image conversion using emojione. #1332
Show full-size avatar on MemberInfo avatar click #1340
Numerous other changes via matrix-react-sdk 0.5.1

Changes in 0.5.0 (2016-03-30)

Prettier, animated placeholder :D #1292 (Disabled for now due to high CPU usage)
RoomDirectory: use SimpleRoomHeader instead of RoomHeader #1307
Tell webpack not to parse the highlight.js languages #1277
CSS for https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/247 #1249
URI-decode the hash-fragment #1254

Other changes

permalink button #1232
make senderprofiles clickable #1191
fix notif spam when logging in from a guest session by correctly logging out first. #1180
use new start_login_from_guest dispatch for cancellable logins from guest accounts #1165
Use then() chaining rather than manual callbacks #1171
Remove trailing whitespace #1163
Update the actions of default rules instead of overriding. #1037
Update README to include npm install in react-sdk #1137

Refactor of matrix-react-sdk and vector to remove separation between views and controllers
Temporarily break the layering abstraction between vector and matrix-react-sdk for expedience in developing vector.
Vast numbers of new features, including read receipts, read-up-to markers, updated look and feel, search, new room and user settings, and email invites.

Initial release