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