5 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
8 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
11 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
12 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
14 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
17 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
18 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
19 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
22 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
23 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
25 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
28 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
29 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
30 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
31 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
32 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
33 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
36 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
38 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
39 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
42 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
43 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
44 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
47 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
50 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
51 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
52 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
53 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
55 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
56 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
59 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
62 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
63 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
64 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
65 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
67 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
69 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
70 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
72 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
74 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
75 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
77 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
79 - Implement support for change number as linked device
80 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
81 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
85 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
86 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
87 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
90 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
92 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
94 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
95 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
96 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
97 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
100 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
103 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
104 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
106 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
108 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
109 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
111 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
113 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
114 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
115 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
118 - Improve exit code for message sending.
119 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
120 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
121 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
122 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
123 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
124 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
127 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
128 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
130 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
131 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
134 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
135 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
136 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
137 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
138 - New command
`removeContact`
139 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
140 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
141 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
142 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
143 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
144 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
145 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
148 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
149 - 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.
150 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
151 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
152 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
153 - 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.
156 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
157 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
158 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
160 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
162 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
165 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
166 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
167 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
169 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
170 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
173 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
174 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
175 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
176 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
177 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
178 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
181 - Do not send message resend request to own device
182 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
183 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
184 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
187 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
188 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
190 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
191 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
194 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
195 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
196 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
197 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
198 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
201 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
202 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
203 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
204 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
205 - Support for announcement groups
206 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
207 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
208 - 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.
209 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
210 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
213 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
215 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
217 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
220 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
222 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
224 - Incorrect error handling in register command
226 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
227 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
230 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
231 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
232 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
233 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
234 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
237 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
238 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
239 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
240 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
241 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
243 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
246 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
247 - Building native image with graalvm
249 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
251 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
252 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
253 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
254 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
255 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
258 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
259 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
260 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
261 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
262 - Display of quit group messages
265 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
266 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
267 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
268 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
269 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
270 - Rework account storage for better reliability
271 - Improved device linking flow
272 - Allow relinking existing account
273 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
275 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
277 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
278 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
279 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
282 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
285 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
286 the same number are removed.
288 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
289 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
290 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
293 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
294 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
297 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
299 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
301 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
304 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
305 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
306 - Creating v1 groups works again
308 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
310 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
311 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
312 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
313 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
314 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
317 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
318 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
319 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
320 otherwise a user has to be specified.
321 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
322 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
323 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
324 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
325 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
328 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
329 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
330 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
331 - Issue with saving account file after linking
333 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
335 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
336 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
339 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
340 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
342 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
344 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
345 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
346 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
349 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
351 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
353 Support for groups of new type/v2
354 - Sending and receiving
355 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
356 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
357 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
359 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
360 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
363 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
365 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
367 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
368 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
371 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
372 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
375 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
377 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
378 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
380 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
381 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
382 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
384 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
385 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
386 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
387 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
389 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
391 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
392 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
393 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
394 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
396 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
397 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
398 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
399 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
400 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
402 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
403 - Added listContacts command
404 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
405 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
406 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
407 - Support for message reactions with emojis
408 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
410 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
411 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
413 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
414 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
415 - Add additional info to json output
416 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
417 - Add command to update contact names
419 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
420 Bug fixes and small improvements
422 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
423 - Fixes sending of group messages
425 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
426 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
427 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
428 - Switch default data path:
429 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
430 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
432 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
434 - dbus signal for receiving messages
435 - Registration lock PIN
436 - Output quoted message
438 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
439 * new listGroups command
440 * Support for attachments with file names
441 * Support for complete contacts sync
442 * Support for contact verification sync
445 * Get/Set contact info
447 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
448 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
449 - add unregister command
451 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
452 - Fix linking of new devices
454 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
455 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
456 * Updated dependencies
458 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
459 - Add support for group info requests
460 - Improve closing of file streams
462 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
463 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
465 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
467 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
468 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
469 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
470 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
471 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
472 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
474 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
475 - Fix issue with creating groups
476 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
477 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
479 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
480 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
481 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
482 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
484 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
485 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
487 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
489 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
490 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
491 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
492 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
494 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
495 - Improve dbus service
496 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
498 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
499 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
501 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
503 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
504 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
506 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
507 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
508 - Show message group info
510 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
512 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
514 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08