5 ## [0.11.6] - 2022-12-18
8 - Allow using data URIs for updateGroup/updateProfile
9 - New alive check endpoint for http daemon (Thanks @ced-b)
12 - Registration with voice verification now works if no system locale is set
13 - Fixed retrieving attachments in JSON RPC mode (Thanks @ced-b)
15 ## [0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09
18 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
20 ## [0.11.5] - 2022-11-07
21 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.21.1
24 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (
`/api/v1/rpc`). (Thanks @ced-b)
25 - The
`receive` method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
26 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
27 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
28 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
29 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
30 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
33 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
34 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
36 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
39 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
40 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
43 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
44 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
47 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
49 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
52 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
53 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
54 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
55 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
57 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
60 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
62 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
65 - Fix sending group messages
66 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
67 - Fix building fat jars
69 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
70 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
73 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
74 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
75 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
76 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
79 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
80 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
81 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
84 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
87 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
88 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
90 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
91 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
94 - Output content of received story messages
96 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
97 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
100 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
101 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
103 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
106 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
109 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
110 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
112 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
115 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
116 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
117 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
120 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
121 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
123 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
126 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
127 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
128 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
129 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
130 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
131 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
134 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
136 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
137 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
140 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
141 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
142 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
145 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
148 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
149 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
150 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
151 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
153 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
154 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
157 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
160 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
161 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
162 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
163 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
165 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
167 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
168 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
170 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
172 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
173 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
175 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
177 - Implement support for change number as linked device
178 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
179 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
183 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
184 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
185 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
188 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
190 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
192 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
193 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
194 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
195 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
198 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
201 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
202 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
204 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
206 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
207 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
209 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
211 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
212 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
213 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
216 - Improve exit code for message sending.
217 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
218 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
219 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
220 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
221 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
222 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
225 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
226 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
228 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
229 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
232 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
233 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
234 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
235 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
236 - New command
`removeContact`
237 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
238 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
239 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
240 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
241 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
242 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
243 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
246 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
247 - 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.
248 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
249 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
250 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
251 - 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.
254 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
255 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
256 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
258 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
260 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
263 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
264 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
265 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
267 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
268 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
271 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
272 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
273 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
274 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
275 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
276 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
279 - Do not send message resend request to own device
280 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
281 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
282 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
285 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
286 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
288 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
289 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
292 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
293 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
294 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
295 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
296 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
299 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
300 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
301 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
302 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
303 - Support for announcement groups
304 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
305 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
306 - 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.
307 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
308 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
311 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
313 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
315 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
318 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
320 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
322 - Incorrect error handling in register command
324 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
325 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
328 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
329 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
330 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
331 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
332 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
335 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
336 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
337 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
338 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
339 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
341 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
344 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
345 - Building native image with graalvm
347 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
349 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
350 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
351 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
352 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
353 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
356 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
357 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
358 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
359 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
360 - Display of quit group messages
363 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
364 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
365 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
366 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
367 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
368 - Rework account storage for better reliability
369 - Improved device linking flow
370 - Allow relinking existing account
371 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
373 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
375 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
376 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
377 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
380 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
383 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
384 the same number are removed.
386 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
387 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
388 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
391 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
392 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
395 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
397 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
399 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
402 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
403 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
404 - Creating v1 groups works again
406 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
408 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
409 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
410 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
411 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
412 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
415 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
416 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
417 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
418 otherwise a user has to be specified.
419 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
420 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
421 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
422 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
423 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
426 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
427 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
428 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
429 - Issue with saving account file after linking
431 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
433 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
434 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
437 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
438 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
440 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
442 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
443 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
444 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
447 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
449 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
451 Support for groups of new type/v2
452 - Sending and receiving
453 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
454 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
455 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
457 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
458 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
461 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
463 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
465 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
466 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
469 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
470 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
473 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
475 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
476 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
478 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
479 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
480 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
482 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
483 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
484 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
485 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
487 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
489 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
490 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
491 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
492 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
494 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
495 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
496 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
497 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
498 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
500 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
501 - Added listContacts command
502 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
503 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
504 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
505 - Support for message reactions with emojis
506 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
508 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
509 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
511 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
512 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
513 - Add additional info to json output
514 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
515 - Add command to update contact names
517 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
518 Bug fixes and small improvements
520 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
521 - Fixes sending of group messages
523 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
524 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
525 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
526 - Switch default data path:
527 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
528 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
530 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
532 - dbus signal for receiving messages
533 - Registration lock PIN
534 - Output quoted message
536 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
537 * new listGroups command
538 * Support for attachments with file names
539 * Support for complete contacts sync
540 * Support for contact verification sync
543 * Get/Set contact info
545 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
546 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
547 - add unregister command
549 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
550 - Fix linking of new devices
552 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
553 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
554 * Updated dependencies
556 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
557 - Add support for group info requests
558 - Improve closing of file streams
560 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
561 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
563 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
565 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
566 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
567 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
568 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
569 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
570 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
572 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
573 - Fix issue with creating groups
574 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
575 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
577 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
578 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
579 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
580 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
582 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
583 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
585 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
587 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
588 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
589 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
590 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
592 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
593 - Improve dbus service
594 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
596 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
597 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
599 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
601 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
602 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
604 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
605 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
606 - Show message group info
608 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
610 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
612 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08