4 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.24.0
6 ## [0.11.10] - 2023-05-11
7 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.23.1
10 - Support for receiving and sending edit messages with
`--edit-timestamp`
12 ## [0.11.9.1] - 2023-04-23
15 - Fix build with Java
20
17 ## [0.11.9] - 2023-04-22
20 - Workaround issue with linking to newer app versions
22 ## [0.11.8] - 2023-04-05
25 - Added file attachment attributes to JSON output (Thanks @signals-from-outer-space)
28 - Scrub E164 number from dbus paths
29 - Fix sending large text messages to multiple recipient
30 - Fix deleting old group in dbus mode
31 - Fix issue with unknown identity serviceId
34 - Relaxed Content-Type check in http daemon mode (Thanks @cedb)
36 ## [0.11.7] - 2023-02-19
37 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.22.0
40 - Fix issue with missing pni identity key
41 - Fix graalvm sqlite issue (Thanks @Marvin A. Ruder)
42 - Fix issue with forgetting recipient
45 - Allow JSON-RPC commands without account param if only one account exists
47 ## [0.11.6] - 2022-12-18
50 - Allow using data URIs for updateGroup/updateProfile
51 - New alive check endpoint for http daemon (Thanks @ced-b)
54 - Registration with voice verification now works if no system locale is set
55 - Fixed retrieving attachments in JSON RPC mode (Thanks @ced-b)
57 ## [0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09
60 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
62 ## [0.11.5] - 2022-11-07
63 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.21.1
66 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (
`/api/v1/rpc`). (Thanks @ced-b)
67 - The
`receive` method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
68 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
69 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
70 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
71 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
72 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
75 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
76 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
78 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
81 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
82 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
85 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
86 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
89 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
91 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
94 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
95 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
96 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
97 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
99 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
102 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
104 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
107 - Fix sending group messages
108 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
109 - Fix building fat jars
111 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
112 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
115 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
116 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
117 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
118 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
121 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
122 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
123 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
126 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
129 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
130 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
132 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
133 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
136 - Output content of received story messages
138 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
139 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
142 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
143 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
145 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
148 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
151 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
152 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
154 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
157 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
158 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
159 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
162 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
163 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
165 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
168 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
169 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
170 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
171 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
172 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
173 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
176 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
178 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
179 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
182 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
183 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
184 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
187 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
190 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
191 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
192 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
193 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
195 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
196 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
199 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
202 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
203 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
204 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
205 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
207 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
209 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
210 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
212 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
214 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
215 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
217 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
219 - Implement support for change number as linked device
220 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
221 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
225 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
226 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
227 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
230 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
232 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
234 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
235 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
236 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
237 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
240 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
243 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
244 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
246 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
248 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
249 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
251 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
253 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
254 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
255 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
258 - Improve exit code for message sending.
259 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
260 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
261 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
262 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
263 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
264 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
267 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
268 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
270 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
271 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
274 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
275 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
276 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
277 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
278 - New command
`removeContact`
279 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
280 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
281 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
282 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
283 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
284 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
285 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
288 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
289 - 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.
290 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
291 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
292 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
293 - 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.
296 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
297 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
298 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
300 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
302 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
305 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
306 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
307 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
309 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
310 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
313 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
314 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
315 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
316 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
317 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
318 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
321 - Do not send message resend request to own device
322 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
323 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
324 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
327 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
328 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
330 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
331 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
334 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
335 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
336 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
337 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
338 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
341 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
342 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
343 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
344 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
345 - Support for announcement groups
346 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
347 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
348 - 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.
349 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
350 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
353 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
355 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
357 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
360 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
362 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
364 - Incorrect error handling in register command
366 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
367 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
370 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
371 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
372 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
373 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
374 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
377 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
378 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
379 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
380 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
381 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
383 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
386 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
387 - Building native image with graalvm
389 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
391 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
392 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
393 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
394 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
395 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
398 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
399 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
400 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
401 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
402 - Display of quit group messages
405 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
406 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
407 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
408 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
409 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
410 - Rework account storage for better reliability
411 - Improved device linking flow
412 - Allow relinking existing account
413 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
415 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
417 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
418 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
419 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
422 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
425 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
426 the same number are removed.
428 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
429 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
430 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
433 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
434 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
437 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
439 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
441 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
444 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
445 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
446 - Creating v1 groups works again
448 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
450 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
451 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
452 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
453 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
454 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
457 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
458 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
459 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
460 otherwise a user has to be specified.
461 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
462 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
463 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
464 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
465 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
468 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
469 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
470 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
471 - Issue with saving account file after linking
473 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
475 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
476 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
479 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
480 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
482 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
484 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
485 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
486 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
489 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
491 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
493 Support for groups of new type/v2
494 - Sending and receiving
495 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
496 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
497 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
499 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
500 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
503 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
505 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
507 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
508 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
511 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
512 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
515 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
517 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
518 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
520 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
521 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
522 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
524 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
525 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
526 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
527 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
529 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
531 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
532 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
533 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
534 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
536 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
537 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
538 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
539 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
540 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
542 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
543 - Added listContacts command
544 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
545 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
546 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
547 - Support for message reactions with emojis
548 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
550 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
551 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
553 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
554 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
555 - Add additional info to json output
556 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
557 - Add command to update contact names
559 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
560 Bug fixes and small improvements
562 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
563 - Fixes sending of group messages
565 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
566 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
567 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
568 - Switch default data path:
569 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
570 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
572 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
574 - dbus signal for receiving messages
575 - Registration lock PIN
576 - Output quoted message
578 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
579 * new listGroups command
580 * Support for attachments with file names
581 * Support for complete contacts sync
582 * Support for contact verification sync
585 * Get/Set contact info
587 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
588 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
589 - add unregister command
591 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
592 - Fix linking of new devices
594 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
595 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
596 * Updated dependencies
598 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
599 - Add support for group info requests
600 - Improve closing of file streams
602 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
603 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
605 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
607 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
608 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
609 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
610 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
611 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
612 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
614 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
615 - Fix issue with creating groups
616 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
617 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
619 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
620 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
621 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
622 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
624 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
625 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
627 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
629 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
630 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
631 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
632 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
634 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
635 - Improve dbus service
636 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
638 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
639 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
641 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
643 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
644 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
646 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
647 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
648 - Show message group info
650 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
652 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
654 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08