4 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.5.1
7 - Added new parameters to
`updateGroup` for group v2 features:
8 `--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
11 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
13 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
16 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
17 - Building native image with graalvm
19 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
21 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
22 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
23 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from master device
24 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
25 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
28 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
29 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
30 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
31 - Only respond to sync requests from master device
32 - Display of quit group messages
35 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
36 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
37 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
38 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
39 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
40 - Rework account storage for better reliability
41 - Improved device linking flow
42 - Allow relinking existing account
43 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
45 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
47 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
48 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
49 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
52 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
55 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
56 the same number are removed.
58 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
59 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
60 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
63 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
64 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
67 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
69 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
71 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
74 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
75 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
76 - Creating v1 groups works again
78 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
80 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
81 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
82 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
83 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
84 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
87 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
88 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
89 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
90 otherwise a user has to be specified.
91 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
92 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
93 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
94 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
95 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
98 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
99 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
100 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
101 - Issue with saving account file after linking
103 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
105 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
106 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
109 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
110 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
112 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
114 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
115 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
116 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
119 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
121 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
123 Support for groups of new type/v2
124 - Sending and receiving
125 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
126 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
127 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
129 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
130 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
133 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
135 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
137 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
138 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
141 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
142 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
145 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
149 Look at the
[release tags](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases) for information about older releases.