As recently announced, here is this month's release. This release contains quite a lot of redesign (especially in the search and profile screen, navigation drawer, bottom navigation), taking into account all your suggestions, the possibility to highlight occurrences of textual queries in search results, the list of uploaded media (with the possibility to remove images), several improvements in Markdown rendering and localization updates. Moreover, this is the first production release featuring the new amazing application icon, which is part of the identity of this project. All people who contributed and who have all my gratitude, are listed in the "Acknowledgements" screen.
No, unfortunately. I am waiting for Coil 3.0 to reach a more stable version (it's still alpha rn and it has been taking ages). They took a grant from the Kotlin foundation in 2023 to provide a multiplatform version of the library, we're still waiting.
No, native rendering will always happen under the hood... but it will cache images and avoid unnecessary downloads. BTW this should already be working even with Coil 2 but I prefer investigating it after upgrading to do it just once.