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1 # Changelog
2
3 ## [Unreleased]
4
5 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
6 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.19.3
7
8 ### Added
9 - Output content of received story messages
10
11 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
12 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.18.1
13
14 ### Fixed
15 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
16 - Workaround GraalVM 22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
17
18 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
19
20 ### Changed
21 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
22
23 ### Fixed
24 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
25 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
26
27 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
28
29 ### Added
30 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
31 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the `--version` flag.
32 In the next version the current short form `-v` will change its meaning to `--verbose`!
33
34 ### Improved
35 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
36 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
37
38 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
39
40 ### Added
41 - Added profile information to `listContacts` command output
42 - Added filter flags for `listContacts` command
43 - New `sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
44 - New `--given-name` and `--family-name` parameters for `updateContact` command
45 - Implement sending link previews with `--preview-url`, `--preview-title` parameters for the `send` command
46 - New `--send-read-receipts` parameter for `receive` and `daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
47
48 ### Fixed
49 - Issue with endless growing `pre-keys-pni` data directory
50
51 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
52 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.17
53
54 ### Added
55 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
56 - New command `deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
57 - New parameter `-g` for `listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
58
59 ### Fixed
60 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
61
62 ### Changed
63 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
64 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
65 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
66 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
67
68 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
69 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.15
70
71 ### Added
72 - New `--ban`, `--unban` flags for `updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
73
74 ### Fixed
75 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
76 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
77 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
78 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
79
80 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
81 ### Fixed
82 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
83 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
84
85 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
86 ### Fixed
87 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
88 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
89
90 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
91 ### Added
92 - Implement support for change number as linked device
93 - Add `--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
94 reading from stdin if the `-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
95 version.
96
97 ### Changed
98 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
99 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
100 - Renamed `error` field in json receive response to `exception`
101
102 ### Fixed
103 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
104
105 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
106 ### Added
107 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for 24h.
108 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
109 - New global `--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
110 (`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
111
112 ### Improved
113 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC `subscribeReceive` command
114
115 ### Fixed
116 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
117 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
118
119 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
120 ### Fixed
121 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
122 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
123
124 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
125 ### Added
126 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
127 - New command `listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
128 - New flag `--sticker` for `send` command to send stickers
129
130 ### Changed
131 - Improve exit code for message sending.
132 Exit with 0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
133 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code 2 or 4 (for untrusted).
134 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
135 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
136 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
137 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
138
139 ### Fixed
140 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
141 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
142
143 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
144 **Attention**: Now requires Java 17 and libsignal-client version 0.11
145
146 ### Added
147 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (`--socket` and `--tcp`)
148 - New daemon command flag `--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
149 - New daemon command flag `--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
150 - New command `listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
151 - New command `removeContact`
152 - Extend `send` command to allow sending mentions (`--mention`) and quotes (`--quote-timestamp`, `--quote-author`, `--quote-message`, `--quote-mention`)
153 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
154 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
155 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
156 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
157 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
158 - `-c` alias for `--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
159
160 ### Changed
161 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
162 - Renamed `-u` and `--username` flags to `-a` and `--account` to prevent confusion with upcoming Signal usernames. The old flags are also still supported for now.
163 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
164 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
165 - dbus-java now uses Java 16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
166 - If sending to a recipient fails (e.g. unregistered) signal-cli now exits with a success exit code and prints additional information about the failure.
167
168 ### Fixed
169 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
170 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
171 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
172
173 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
174 ### Fixed
175 - dbus `listNumbers` method works again
176
177 ### Changed
178 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
179 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
180 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
181
182 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
183 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version 0.8
184
185 ### Added
186 - New command `updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
187 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
188 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
189 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
190 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
191 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
192
193 ### Fixed
194 - Do not send message resend request to own device
195 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
196 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
197 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
198
199 ### Changed
200 - Use new provisioning URL `sgnl://linkdevice` instead of `tsdevice:/`
201 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now `./gradlew nativeCompile`
202
203 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
204 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.9
205
206 ### Breaking changes
207 - Removed deprecated `--json` parameter, use global parameter `--output=json` instead
208 - Json output format of `listGroups` command changed:
209 Members are now arrays of `{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
210 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
211 For those still using the old paths (`$HOME/.config/signal`, `$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
212
213 ### Added
214 - New global parameter `--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
215 - New parameter `--device-name` for `updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
216 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
217 - New `jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
218 - Support for announcement groups
219 - New parameter `--set-permission-send-messages` for `updateGroup` to create an announcement group
220 - New `sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
221 - Support for receiving sender key messages, mobile apps can now send messages more efficiently with server-side fan-out to groups with signal-cli members.
222 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
223 - New `submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
224
225 ### Fixed
226 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
227
228 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
229 ### Added
230 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
231
232 ### Fixed
233 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
234
235 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
236 ### Fixed
237 - Incorrect error handling in register command
238
239 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
240 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.8.1
241
242 ### Added
243 - New parameters for `updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
244 `--description`, `--remove-member`, `--admin`, `--remove-admin`, `--reset-link`, `--link`, `--set-permission-add-member`, `--set-permission-edit-details`, `--expiration`
245 - New `--admin` parameter for `quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
246 - New `--delete` parameter for `quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
247 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
248
249 ### Fixed
250 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
251 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
252 - All commands now show a short description with `--help`
253 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
254 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
255
256 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
257
258 ### Fixed
259 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
260 - Building native image with graalvm
261
262 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
263 ### Added
264 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
265 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
266 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
267 - New `--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
268 - New `--family-name` argument for updateProfile
269
270 ### Fixed
271 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
272 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
273 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
274 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
275 - Display of quit group messages
276
277 ### Changed
278 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
279 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
280 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
281 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
282 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
283 - Rework account storage for better reliability
284 - Improved device linking flow
285 - Allow relinking existing account
286 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
287
288 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
289 ### Added
290 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
291 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
292 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
293
294 ### Fixed
295 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
296
297 ### Changed
298 - Behavior of `trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
299 the same number are removed.
300
301 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
302 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required: [libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
303 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
304
305 ### Added
306 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
307 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
308
309 ### Fixed
310 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
311
312 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
313 ### Changed
314 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
315
316 ### Fixed
317 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
318 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
319 - Creating v1 groups works again
320
321 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
322 ### Added
323 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
324 - Global `--verbose` flag to increase log level
325 - Global `--output=json` flag, currently supported by `receive`, `daemon`, `getUserStatus`, `listGroups`
326 - `--note-to-self` flag for `send` command to send a note to linked devices
327 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
328
329 ### Changed
330 - signal-cli can now be used without the username `-u` flag
331 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
332 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
333 otherwise a user has to be specified.
334 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
335 send a sync message, use the new `--note-to-self` flag
336 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
337 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
338 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
339
340 ### Fixed
341 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
342 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
343 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
344 - Issue with saving account file after linking
345
346 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
347 ### Added
348 - Implement new registration lock PIN with `setPin` and `removePin` (with KBS)
349 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
350
351 ### Fixed
352 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
353 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
354
355 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
356 ### Added
357 - Accept group invitation with `updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
358 - Decline group invitation with `quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
359 - Join group via invitation link `joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
360
361 ### Fixed
362 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
363
364 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
365 ### Added
366 Support for groups of new type/v2
367 - Sending and receiving
368 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with `updateGroup`
369 - Quit group and decline invitation with `quitGroup`
370 - In the `listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
371
372 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
373 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
374
375 ### Fixed
376 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
377
378 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
379 ### Added
380 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
381 - `--captcha` parameter for `register` command, required for some IP ranges
382
383 ### Changed
384 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
385 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
386
387 ### Fixed
388 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
389
390 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
391 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
392
393 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
394 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
395 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
396
397 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
398 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
399 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
400 - signal-cli now requires Java 11
401
402 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in 0.6.10**
403
404 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
405 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
406 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
407 - Add `--expiration` parameter to `updateContact` command to set expiration timer
408
409 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
410 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
411 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
412 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
413 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
414
415 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
416 - Added listContacts command
417 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
418 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
419 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
420 - Support for message reactions with emojis
421 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
422
423 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
424 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
425
426 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
427 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
428 - Add additional info to json output
429 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
430 - Add command to update contact names
431
432 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
433 Bug fixes and small improvements
434
435 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
436 - Fixes sending of group messages
437
438 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
439 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
440 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
441 - Switch default data path:
442 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
443 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
444
445 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
446 - Simple json output
447 - dbus signal for receiving messages
448 - Registration lock PIN
449 - Output quoted message
450
451 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
452 * new listGroups command
453 * Support for attachments with file names
454 * Support for complete contacts sync
455 * Support for contact verification sync
456 * DBus interface:
457 * Get/Set group info
458 * Get/Set contact info
459
460 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
461 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
462 - add unregister command
463
464 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
465 - Fix linking of new devices
466
467 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
468 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
469 * Updated dependencies
470
471 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
472 - Add support for group info requests
473 - Improve closing of file streams
474
475 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
476 - Support new safety numbers (https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
477 - Add a man page
478 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
479
480 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
481 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
482 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
483 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
484 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
485 - Timestamps shown in ISO 8601 format
486
487 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
488 - Fix issue with creating groups
489 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
490 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
491
492 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
493 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
494 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
495 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
496
497 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
498 - Fix running with Oracle JRE 8
499 - Fix registering
500 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
501
502 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
503 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
504 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
505 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than 20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
506
507 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
508 - Improve dbus service
509 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
510
511 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
512 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
513
514 This release works with Java 7 and 8.
515
516 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
517 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
518
519 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
520 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
521 - Show message group info
522
523 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
524
525 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
526
527 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08
528 First release