5 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
8 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
9 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
10 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
13 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
14 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
16 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
19 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
20 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
21 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
22 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
23 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
24 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
27 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
29 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
30 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
33 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
34 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
35 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
38 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
41 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
42 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
43 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
44 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
46 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
47 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
50 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
53 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
54 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
55 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
56 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
58 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
60 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
61 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
63 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
65 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
66 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
68 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
70 - Implement support for change number as linked device
71 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
72 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
76 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
77 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
78 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
81 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
83 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
85 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
86 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
87 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
88 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
91 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
94 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
95 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
97 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
99 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
100 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
102 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
104 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
105 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
106 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
109 - Improve exit code for message sending.
110 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
111 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
112 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
113 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
114 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
115 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
118 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
119 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
121 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
122 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
125 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
126 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
127 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
128 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
129 - New command
`removeContact`
130 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
131 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
132 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
133 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
134 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
135 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
136 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
139 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
140 - 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.
141 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
142 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
143 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
144 - 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.
147 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
148 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
149 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
151 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
153 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
156 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
157 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
158 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
160 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
161 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
164 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
165 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
166 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
167 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
168 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
169 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
172 - Do not send message resend request to own device
173 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
174 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
175 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
178 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
179 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
181 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
182 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
185 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
186 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
187 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
188 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
189 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
192 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
193 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
194 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
195 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
196 - Support for announcement groups
197 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
198 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
199 - 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.
200 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
201 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
204 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
206 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
208 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
211 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
213 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
215 - Incorrect error handling in register command
217 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
218 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
221 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
222 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
223 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
224 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
225 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
228 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
229 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
230 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
231 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
232 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
234 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
237 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
238 - Building native image with graalvm
240 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
242 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
243 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
244 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
245 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
246 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
249 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
250 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
251 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
252 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
253 - Display of quit group messages
256 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
257 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
258 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
259 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
260 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
261 - Rework account storage for better reliability
262 - Improved device linking flow
263 - Allow relinking existing account
264 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
266 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
268 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
269 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
270 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
273 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
276 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
277 the same number are removed.
279 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
280 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
281 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
284 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
285 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
288 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
290 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
292 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
295 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
296 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
297 - Creating v1 groups works again
299 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
301 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
302 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
303 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
304 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
305 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
308 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
309 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
310 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
311 otherwise a user has to be specified.
312 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
313 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
314 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
315 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
316 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
319 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
320 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
321 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
322 - Issue with saving account file after linking
324 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
326 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
327 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
330 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
331 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
333 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
335 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
336 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
337 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
340 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
342 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
344 Support for groups of new type/v2
345 - Sending and receiving
346 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
347 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
348 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
350 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
351 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
354 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
356 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
358 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
359 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
362 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
363 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
366 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
368 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
369 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
371 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
372 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
373 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
375 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
376 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
377 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
378 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
380 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
382 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
383 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
384 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
385 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
387 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
388 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
389 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
390 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
391 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
393 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
394 - Added listContacts command
395 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
396 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
397 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
398 - Support for message reactions with emojis
399 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
401 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
402 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
404 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
405 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
406 - Add additional info to json output
407 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
408 - Add command to update contact names
410 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
411 Bug fixes and small improvements
413 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
414 - Fixes sending of group messages
416 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
417 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
418 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
419 - Switch default data path:
420 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
421 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
423 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
425 - dbus signal for receiving messages
426 - Registration lock PIN
427 - Output quoted message
429 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
430 * new listGroups command
431 * Support for attachments with file names
432 * Support for complete contacts sync
433 * Support for contact verification sync
436 * Get/Set contact info
438 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
439 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
440 - add unregister command
442 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
443 - Fix linking of new devices
445 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
446 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
447 * Updated dependencies
449 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
450 - Add support for group info requests
451 - Improve closing of file streams
453 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
454 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
456 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
458 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
459 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
460 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
461 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
462 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
463 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
465 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
466 - Fix issue with creating groups
467 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
468 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
470 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
471 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
472 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
473 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
475 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
476 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
478 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
480 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
481 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
482 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
483 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
485 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
486 - Improve dbus service
487 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
489 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
490 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
492 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
494 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
495 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
497 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
498 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
499 - Show message group info
501 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
503 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
505 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08