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