5 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
8 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
9 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
10 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
11 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
13 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
16 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
18 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
21 - Fix sending group messages
22 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
23 - Fix building fat jars
25 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
26 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
29 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
30 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
31 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
32 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
35 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
36 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
37 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
40 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
43 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
44 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
46 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
47 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
50 - Output content of received story messages
52 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
53 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
56 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
57 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
59 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
62 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
65 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
66 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
68 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
71 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
72 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
73 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
76 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
77 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
79 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
82 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
83 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
84 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
85 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
86 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
87 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
90 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
92 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
93 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
96 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
97 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
98 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
101 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
104 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
105 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
106 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
107 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
109 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
110 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
113 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
116 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
117 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
118 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
119 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
121 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
123 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
124 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
126 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
128 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
129 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
131 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
133 - Implement support for change number as linked device
134 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
135 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
139 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
140 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
141 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
144 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
146 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
148 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
149 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
150 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
151 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
154 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
157 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
158 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
160 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
162 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
163 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
165 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
167 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
168 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
169 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
172 - Improve exit code for message sending.
173 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
174 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
175 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
176 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
177 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
178 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
181 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
182 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
184 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
185 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
188 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
189 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
190 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
191 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
192 - New command
`removeContact`
193 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
194 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
195 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
196 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
197 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
198 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
199 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
202 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
203 - 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.
204 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
205 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
206 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
207 - 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.
210 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
211 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
212 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
214 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
216 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
219 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
220 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
221 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
223 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
224 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
227 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
228 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
229 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
230 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
231 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
232 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
235 - Do not send message resend request to own device
236 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
237 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
238 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
241 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
242 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
244 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
245 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
248 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
249 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
250 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
251 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
252 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
255 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
256 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
257 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
258 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
259 - Support for announcement groups
260 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
261 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
262 - 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.
263 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
264 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
267 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
269 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
271 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
274 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
276 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
278 - Incorrect error handling in register command
280 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
281 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
284 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
285 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
286 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
287 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
288 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
291 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
292 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
293 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
294 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
295 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
297 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
300 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
301 - Building native image with graalvm
303 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
305 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
306 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
307 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
308 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
309 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
312 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
313 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
314 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
315 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
316 - Display of quit group messages
319 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
320 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
321 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
322 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
323 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
324 - Rework account storage for better reliability
325 - Improved device linking flow
326 - Allow relinking existing account
327 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
329 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
331 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
332 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
333 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
336 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
339 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
340 the same number are removed.
342 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
343 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
344 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
347 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
348 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
351 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
353 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
355 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
358 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
359 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
360 - Creating v1 groups works again
362 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
364 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
365 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
366 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
367 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
368 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
371 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
372 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
373 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
374 otherwise a user has to be specified.
375 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
376 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
377 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
378 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
379 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
382 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
383 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
384 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
385 - Issue with saving account file after linking
387 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
389 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
390 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
393 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
394 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
396 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
398 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
399 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
400 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
403 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
405 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
407 Support for groups of new type/v2
408 - Sending and receiving
409 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
410 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
411 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
413 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
414 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
417 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
419 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
421 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
422 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
425 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
426 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
429 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
431 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
432 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
434 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
435 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
436 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
438 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
439 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
440 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
441 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
443 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
445 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
446 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
447 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
448 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
450 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
451 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
452 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
453 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
454 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
456 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
457 - Added listContacts command
458 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
459 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
460 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
461 - Support for message reactions with emojis
462 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
464 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
465 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
467 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
468 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
469 - Add additional info to json output
470 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
471 - Add command to update contact names
473 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
474 Bug fixes and small improvements
476 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
477 - Fixes sending of group messages
479 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
480 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
481 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
482 - Switch default data path:
483 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
484 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
486 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
488 - dbus signal for receiving messages
489 - Registration lock PIN
490 - Output quoted message
492 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
493 * new listGroups command
494 * Support for attachments with file names
495 * Support for complete contacts sync
496 * Support for contact verification sync
499 * Get/Set contact info
501 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
502 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
503 - add unregister command
505 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
506 - Fix linking of new devices
508 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
509 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
510 * Updated dependencies
512 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
513 - Add support for group info requests
514 - Improve closing of file streams
516 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
517 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
519 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
521 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
522 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
523 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
524 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
525 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
526 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
528 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
529 - Fix issue with creating groups
530 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
531 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
533 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
534 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
535 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
536 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
538 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
539 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
541 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
543 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
544 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
545 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
546 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
548 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
549 - Improve dbus service
550 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
552 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
553 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
555 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
557 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
558 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
560 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
561 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
562 - Show message group info
564 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
566 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
568 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08