5 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
6 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
9 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
10 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
11 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
12 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
15 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
16 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
17 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
20 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
23 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
24 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
26 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
27 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
30 - Output content of received story messages
32 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
33 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
36 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
37 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
39 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
42 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
45 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
46 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
48 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
51 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
52 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
53 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
56 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
57 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
59 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
62 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
63 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
64 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
65 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
66 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
67 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
70 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
72 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
73 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
76 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
77 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
78 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
81 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
84 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
85 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
86 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
87 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
89 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
90 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
93 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
96 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
97 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
98 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
99 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
101 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
103 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
104 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
106 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
108 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
109 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
111 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
113 - Implement support for change number as linked device
114 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
115 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
119 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
120 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
121 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
124 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
126 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
128 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
129 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
130 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
131 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
134 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
137 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
138 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
140 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
142 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
143 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
145 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
147 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
148 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
149 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
152 - Improve exit code for message sending.
153 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
154 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
155 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
156 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
157 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
158 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
161 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
162 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
164 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
165 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
168 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
169 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
170 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
171 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
172 - New command
`removeContact`
173 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
174 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
175 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
176 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
177 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
178 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
179 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
182 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
183 - 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.
184 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
185 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
186 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
187 - 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.
190 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
191 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
192 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
194 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
196 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
199 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
200 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
201 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
203 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
204 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
207 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
208 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
209 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
210 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
211 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
212 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
215 - Do not send message resend request to own device
216 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
217 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
218 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
221 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
222 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
224 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
225 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
228 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
229 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
230 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
231 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
232 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
235 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
236 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
237 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
238 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
239 - Support for announcement groups
240 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
241 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
242 - 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.
243 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
244 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
247 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
249 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
251 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
254 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
256 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
258 - Incorrect error handling in register command
260 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
261 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
264 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
265 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
266 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
267 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
268 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
271 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
272 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
273 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
274 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
275 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
277 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
280 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
281 - Building native image with graalvm
283 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
285 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
286 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
287 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
288 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
289 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
292 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
293 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
294 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
295 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
296 - Display of quit group messages
299 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
300 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
301 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
302 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
303 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
304 - Rework account storage for better reliability
305 - Improved device linking flow
306 - Allow relinking existing account
307 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
309 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
311 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
312 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
313 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
316 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
319 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
320 the same number are removed.
322 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
323 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
324 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
327 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
328 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
331 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
333 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
335 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
338 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
339 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
340 - Creating v1 groups works again
342 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
344 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
345 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
346 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
347 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
348 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
351 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
352 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
353 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
354 otherwise a user has to be specified.
355 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
356 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
357 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
358 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
359 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
362 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
363 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
364 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
365 - Issue with saving account file after linking
367 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
369 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
370 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
373 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
374 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
376 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
378 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
379 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
380 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
383 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
385 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
387 Support for groups of new type/v2
388 - Sending and receiving
389 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
390 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
391 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
393 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
394 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
397 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
399 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
401 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
402 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
405 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
406 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
409 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
411 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
412 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
414 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
415 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
416 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
418 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
419 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
420 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
421 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
423 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
425 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
426 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
427 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
428 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
430 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
431 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
432 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
433 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
434 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
436 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
437 - Added listContacts command
438 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
439 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
440 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
441 - Support for message reactions with emojis
442 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
444 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
445 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
447 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
448 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
449 - Add additional info to json output
450 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
451 - Add command to update contact names
453 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
454 Bug fixes and small improvements
456 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
457 - Fixes sending of group messages
459 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
460 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
461 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
462 - Switch default data path:
463 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
464 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
466 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
468 - dbus signal for receiving messages
469 - Registration lock PIN
470 - Output quoted message
472 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
473 * new listGroups command
474 * Support for attachments with file names
475 * Support for complete contacts sync
476 * Support for contact verification sync
479 * Get/Set contact info
481 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
482 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
483 - add unregister command
485 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
486 - Fix linking of new devices
488 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
489 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
490 * Updated dependencies
492 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
493 - Add support for group info requests
494 - Improve closing of file streams
496 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
497 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
499 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
501 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
502 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
503 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
504 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
505 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
506 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
508 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
509 - Fix issue with creating groups
510 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
511 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
513 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
514 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
515 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
516 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
518 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
519 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
521 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
523 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
524 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
525 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
526 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
528 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
529 - Improve dbus service
530 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
532 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
533 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
535 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
537 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
538 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
540 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
541 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
542 - Show message group info
544 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
546 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
548 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08