5 **Attention**: Now requires Java
21 and libsignal-client version
0.39.2
9 - Sending to the self number (+XXXX) now behaves the same as the
`--note-to-self` parameter. To get the previous
10 behavior with notification, the
`--notify-self` parameter can be added.
14 - New
`--hidden` parameter for
`removeContact` command
15 - New
`--notify-self` parameter for
`send` command, for sending a non-sync message when self is part of the recipients
17 - New
`--unrestricted-unidentified-sender`,
`--discoverable-by-number`,
`--number-sharing`,
`--username`
18 and
`--delete-username` parameter for
`updateAccount` command
19 - New
`--bus-name` parameter for
`daemon` command to use another D-Bus bus name
20 - New
`getAvatar` and
`getSticker` commands to get avatar and sticker images
21 - New
`sendMessageRequestResponse` command to accept/delete message requests
25 - Improve issue with stale prekeys and receiving messages to PNI address
29 - Better shutdown handling after Ctrl+C and SIGTERM
30 - Implemented full remote storage sync.
31 Provides better contact and settings sync for linked devices.
32 - `listContacts` doesn't list unregistered users anymore
34 ## [0.12.8] - 2024-02-06
40 ## [0.12.7] - 2023-12-15
42 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.36.1
46 - Fix linking to an existing account
48 ## [0.12.6] - 2023-12-11
52 - Fix linking to an existing account
53 - Fix migration from old account data
55 ## [0.12.5] - 2023-11-21
59 - Fix issue with joining groups by group link for new accounts
60 - Fix receiving address of shared contact
61 - Fix receiving sync edit messages in groups
65 - Create safety numbers based on ACI instead of phone number
67 ## [0.12.4] - 2023-10-22
71 - Prevent ConcurrentModificationException
72 - Update captcha help text
74 ## [0.12.3] - 2023-10-17
78 - Added
`startChangeNumber` and
`finishChangeNumber` commands to switch to another phone number
79 - Added
`--quote-attachment` parameter to
`send` command
80 - Added support for scannable safety numbers based on serviceId
81 - Added
`EditMessageReceived` signal for D-Bus interface
82 - Added new exit code
`5` for rate limit failures
83 - Added full CDSI refresh to get current ACI/PNIs for known numbers regularly
87 - Correctly respond with delivery receipts for edit messages
91 - JSON-RPC requests are now executed in parallel.
92 Clients should make sure to use the
`id` field to get the correct response for a request.
94 ## [0.12.2] - 2023-09-30
96 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.32.1
100 - Added
`--receive-mode` parameter for
`jsonRpc` command
101 - Add
`libsignal_client_path` build property to override libsignal-client jar file
105 - `jsonRpc` command now supports multi-account mode including registering and linking
107 ## [0.12.1] - 2023-08-26
111 - New
`addStickerPack` command
115 - Fixed some issues with upgrading from older accounts
119 - Reverted receive notification in JSON-RPC to old format, only explicit subscriptions should use the new format
121 ## [0.12.0] - 2023-08-11
123 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.30.0
127 - Adapt receive subscription notification in JSON-RPC to have payload in result field
128 - Before:
`{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"receive","params":{"envelope":{ ... },"account":"+XXX","subscription":0}}`
130 `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"receive","params":{"subscription":0,"result":{"envelope":{ ... },"account":"+XXX"}}}`
134 - Manage identities via DBus (Thanks @bublath)
135 - Added support for SVR2 PINs
139 - Fixed finishLink/receive/register/verify commands for JSON-RPC
140 - Update to the latest libsignal to fix various issues
142 ## [0.11.11] - 2023-05-24
144 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.25.0
148 - New
`--text-style` and
`--quote-text-style` flags for
`send` command
152 - Fixed migration of older account files
153 - Fix deleting old unregistered recipient
155 ## [0.11.10] - 2023-05-11
157 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.23.1
161 - Support for receiving and sending edit messages with
`--edit-timestamp`
163 ## [0.11.9.1] - 2023-04-23
167 - Fix build with Java
20
169 ## [0.11.9] - 2023-04-22
173 - Workaround issue with linking to newer app versions
175 ## [0.11.8] - 2023-04-05
179 - Added file attachment attributes to JSON output (Thanks @signals-from-outer-space)
183 - Scrub E164 number from dbus paths
184 - Fix sending large text messages to multiple recipient
185 - Fix deleting old group in dbus mode
186 - Fix issue with unknown identity serviceId
190 - Relaxed Content-Type check in http daemon mode (Thanks @cedb)
192 ## [0.11.7] - 2023-02-19
194 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.22.0
198 - Fix issue with missing pni identity key
199 - Fix graalvm sqlite issue (Thanks @Marvin A. Ruder)
200 - Fix issue with forgetting recipient
204 - Allow JSON-RPC commands without account param if only one account exists
206 ## [0.11.6] - 2022-12-18
210 - Allow using data URIs for updateGroup/updateProfile
211 - New alive check endpoint for http daemon (Thanks @ced-b)
215 - Registration with voice verification now works if no system locale is set
216 - Fixed retrieving attachments in JSON RPC mode (Thanks @ced-b)
218 ## [0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09
222 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
224 ## [0.11.5] - 2022-11-07
226 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.21.1
230 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (
`/api/v1/rpc`). (Thanks @ced-b)
231 - The
`receive` method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
232 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
233 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
234 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
235 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
236 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
240 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
241 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
243 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
247 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
248 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
252 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
253 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
257 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
259 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
263 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
264 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
265 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
266 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
268 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
272 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
274 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
278 - Fix sending group messages
279 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
280 - Fix building fat jars
282 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
284 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
288 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
289 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
290 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
291 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
295 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
296 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
297 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
301 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
305 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
306 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
308 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
310 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
314 - Output content of received story messages
316 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
318 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
322 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
323 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
325 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
329 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
333 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
334 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
336 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
340 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
341 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
342 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
346 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
347 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
349 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
353 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
354 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
355 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
356 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
357 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
358 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages
363 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
365 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
367 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
371 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
372 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
373 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
377 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
381 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
382 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
383 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
384 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
386 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
388 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
392 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
396 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
397 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
398 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
399 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
401 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
405 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
406 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
408 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
412 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
413 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
415 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
419 - Implement support for change number as linked device
420 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
421 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
426 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
427 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
428 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
432 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
434 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
438 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
439 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
440 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
441 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
445 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
449 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
450 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
452 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
456 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
457 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
459 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
463 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
464 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
465 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
469 - Improve exit code for message sending.
470 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
471 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
472 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
473 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
474 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
475 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
479 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
480 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
482 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
484 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
488 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
489 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
490 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
491 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
492 - New command
`removeContact`
493 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and
494 quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
495 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
496 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with
497 additional message info as a key/value map
498 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
499 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
500 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
501 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
505 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
506 - Renamed
`-u` and
`--username` flags to
`-a` and
`--account` to prevent confusion with upcoming Signal usernames. The
507 old flags are also still supported for now.
508 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
509 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
510 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
511 - If sending to a recipient fails (e.g. unregistered) signal-cli now exits with a success exit code and prints
512 additional information about the failure.
516 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
517 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
518 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
520 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
524 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
528 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
529 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
530 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
532 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
534 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
538 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
539 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
540 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
541 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
542 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts,
543 sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
544 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
548 - Do not send message resend request to own device
549 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
550 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
551 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
555 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
556 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
558 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
560 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
564 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
565 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
566 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
567 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
568 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the
573 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
574 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary
576 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
577 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
578 - Support for announcement groups
579 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
580 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
581 - Support for receiving sender key messages, mobile apps can now send messages more efficiently with server-side fan-out
582 to groups with signal-cli members.
583 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
584 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
588 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
590 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
594 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
598 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
600 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
604 - Incorrect error handling in register command
606 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
608 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
612 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
613 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
614 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
615 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
616 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
620 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
621 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
622 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
623 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
624 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
626 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
630 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
631 - Building native image with graalvm
633 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
637 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
638 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
639 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
640 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
641 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
645 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
646 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
647 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
648 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
649 - Display of quit group messages
653 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
654 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
655 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
656 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
657 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
658 - Rework account storage for better reliability
659 - Improved device linking flow
660 - Allow relinking existing account
661 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
663 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
667 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked,
668 isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
669 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
670 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
674 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
678 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
679 the same number are removed.
681 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
683 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now
684 required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
685 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
689 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
690 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
694 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
696 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
700 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
704 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
705 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
706 - Creating v1 groups works again
708 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
712 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
713 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
714 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
715 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
716 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
720 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
721 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
722 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
723 otherwise a user has to be specified.
724 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
725 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
726 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
727 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
728 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
732 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
733 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
734 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
735 - Issue with saving account file after linking
737 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
741 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
742 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
746 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
747 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
749 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
753 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
754 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
755 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
759 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
761 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
765 Support for groups of new type/v2
767 - Sending and receiving
768 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
769 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
770 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
772 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
773 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
777 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
779 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
783 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
784 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
788 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
789 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
793 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
795 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
797 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
799 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
801 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
802 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
804 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
806 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
807 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
808 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
810 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
812 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
814 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of
815 libmatthew-unix-java)
816 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
817 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
819 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
821 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
822 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
823 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
824 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
826 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
828 - Added listContacts command
829 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
830 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
831 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
832 - Support for message reactions with emojis
833 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
835 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
837 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
839 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
841 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
842 - Add additional info to json output
843 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
844 - Add command to update contact names
846 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
848 Bug fixes and small improvements
850 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
852 - Fixes sending of group messages
854 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
856 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
857 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
858 - Switch default data path:
859 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
860 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
862 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
865 - dbus signal for receiving messages
866 - Registration lock PIN
867 - Output quoted message
869 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
871 * new listGroups command
872 * Support for attachments with file names
873 * Support for complete contacts sync
874 * Support for contact verification sync
877 * Get/Set contact info
879 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
881 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
882 - add unregister command
884 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
886 - Fix linking of new devices
888 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
890 * New commandline parameter for receive: --ignore-attachments
891 * Updated dependencies
893 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
895 - Add support for group info requests
896 - Improve closing of file streams
898 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
900 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
902 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
904 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
906 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
907 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
908 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
909 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
910 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
912 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
914 - Fix issue with creating groups
915 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
916 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
918 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
920 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
921 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
922 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
924 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
926 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
928 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
930 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
932 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
933 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
934 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
936 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
938 - Improve dbus service
939 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
941 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
943 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with
946 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
948 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
950 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
952 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
954 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
955 - Show message group info
957 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
959 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
961 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08