6 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint. (Thanks @ced-b)
7 - The
`receive` command is now also available in daemon mode, for polling new messages.
8 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
9 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
10 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
11 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
12 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
15 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
16 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
18 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
21 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
22 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
25 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
26 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
29 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
31 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
34 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
35 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
36 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
37 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
39 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
42 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
44 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
47 - Fix sending group messages
48 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
49 - Fix building fat jars
51 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
52 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
55 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
56 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
57 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
58 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
61 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
62 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
63 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
66 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
69 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
70 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
72 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
73 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
76 - Output content of received story messages
78 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
79 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
82 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
83 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
85 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
88 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
91 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
92 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
94 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
97 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
98 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
99 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
102 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
103 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
105 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
108 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
109 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
110 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
111 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
112 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
113 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
116 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
118 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
119 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
122 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
123 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
124 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
127 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
130 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
131 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
132 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
133 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
135 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
136 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
139 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
142 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
143 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
144 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
145 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
147 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
149 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
150 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
152 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
154 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
155 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
157 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
159 - Implement support for change number as linked device
160 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
161 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
165 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
166 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
167 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
170 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
172 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
174 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
175 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
176 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
177 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
180 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
183 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
184 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
186 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
188 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
189 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
191 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
193 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
194 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
195 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
198 - Improve exit code for message sending.
199 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
200 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
201 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
202 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
203 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
204 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
207 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
208 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
210 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
211 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
214 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
215 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
216 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
217 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
218 - New command
`removeContact`
219 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
220 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
221 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
222 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
223 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
224 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
225 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
228 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
229 - 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.
230 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
231 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
232 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
233 - 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.
236 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
237 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
238 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
240 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
242 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
245 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
246 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
247 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
249 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
250 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
253 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
254 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
255 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
256 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
257 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
258 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
261 - Do not send message resend request to own device
262 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
263 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
264 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
267 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
268 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
270 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
271 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
274 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
275 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
276 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
277 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
278 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
281 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
282 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
283 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
284 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
285 - Support for announcement groups
286 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
287 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
288 - 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.
289 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
290 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
293 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
295 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
297 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
300 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
302 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
304 - Incorrect error handling in register command
306 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
307 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
310 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
311 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
312 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
313 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
314 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
317 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
318 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
319 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
320 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
321 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
323 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
326 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
327 - Building native image with graalvm
329 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
331 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
332 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
333 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
334 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
335 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
338 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
339 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
340 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
341 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
342 - Display of quit group messages
345 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
346 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
347 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
348 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
349 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
350 - Rework account storage for better reliability
351 - Improved device linking flow
352 - Allow relinking existing account
353 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
355 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
357 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
358 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
359 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
362 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
365 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
366 the same number are removed.
368 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
369 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
370 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
373 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
374 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
377 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
379 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
381 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
384 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
385 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
386 - Creating v1 groups works again
388 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
390 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
391 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
392 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
393 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
394 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
397 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
398 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
399 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
400 otherwise a user has to be specified.
401 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
402 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
403 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
404 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
405 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
408 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
409 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
410 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
411 - Issue with saving account file after linking
413 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
415 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
416 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
419 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
420 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
422 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
424 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
425 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
426 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
429 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
431 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
433 Support for groups of new type/v2
434 - Sending and receiving
435 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
436 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
437 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
439 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
440 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
443 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
445 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
447 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
448 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
451 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
452 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
455 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
457 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
458 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
460 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
461 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
462 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
464 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
465 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
466 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
467 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
469 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
471 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
472 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
473 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
474 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
476 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
477 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
478 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
479 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
480 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
482 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
483 - Added listContacts command
484 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
485 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
486 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
487 - Support for message reactions with emojis
488 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
490 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
491 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
493 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
494 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
495 - Add additional info to json output
496 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
497 - Add command to update contact names
499 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
500 Bug fixes and small improvements
502 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
503 - Fixes sending of group messages
505 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
506 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
507 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
508 - Switch default data path:
509 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
510 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
512 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
514 - dbus signal for receiving messages
515 - Registration lock PIN
516 - Output quoted message
518 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
519 * new listGroups command
520 * Support for attachments with file names
521 * Support for complete contacts sync
522 * Support for contact verification sync
525 * Get/Set contact info
527 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
528 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
529 - add unregister command
531 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
532 - Fix linking of new devices
534 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
535 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
536 * Updated dependencies
538 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
539 - Add support for group info requests
540 - Improve closing of file streams
542 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
543 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
545 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
547 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
548 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
549 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
550 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
551 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
552 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
554 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
555 - Fix issue with creating groups
556 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
557 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
559 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
560 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
561 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
562 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
564 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
565 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
567 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
569 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
570 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
571 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
572 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
574 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
575 - Improve dbus service
576 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
578 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
579 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
581 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
583 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
584 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
586 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
587 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
588 - Show message group info
590 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
592 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
594 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08