]> nmode's Git Repositories - signal-cli/blob - CHANGELOG.md
Update dependencies
[signal-cli] / CHANGELOG.md
1 # Changelog
2
3 ## [Unreleased]
4
5 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
6 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.15
7
8 ### Added
9 - New `--ban`, `--unban` flags for `updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
10
11 ### Fixed
12 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
13 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
14 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
15 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
16
17 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
18 ### Fixed
19 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
20 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
21
22 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
23 ### Fixed
24 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
25 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
26
27 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
28 ### Added
29 - Implement support for change number as linked device
30 - Add `--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
31 reading from stdin if the `-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
32 version.
33
34 ### Changed
35 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
36 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
37 - Renamed `error` field in json receive response to `exception`
38
39 ### Fixed
40 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
41
42 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
43 ### Added
44 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for 24h.
45 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
46 - New global `--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
47 (`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
48
49 ### Improved
50 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC `subscribeReceive` command
51
52 ### Fixed
53 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
54 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
55
56 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
57 ### Fixed
58 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
59 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
60
61 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
62 ### Added
63 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
64 - New command `listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
65 - New flag `--sticker` for `send` command to send stickers
66
67 ### Changed
68 - Improve exit code for message sending.
69 Exit with 0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
70 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code 2 or 4 (for untrusted).
71 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
72 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
73 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
74 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
75
76 ### Fixed
77 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
78 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
79
80 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
81 **Attention**: Now requires Java 17 and libsignal-client version 0.11
82
83 ### Added
84 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (`--socket` and `--tcp`)
85 - New daemon command flag `--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
86 - New daemon command flag `--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
87 - New command `listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
88 - New command `removeContact`
89 - Extend `send` command to allow sending mentions (`--mention`) and quotes (`--quote-timestamp`, `--quote-author`, `--quote-message`, `--quote-mention`)
90 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
91 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
92 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
93 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
94 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
95 - `-c` alias for `--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
96
97 ### Changed
98 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
99 - 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.
100 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by main device
101 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
102 - dbus-java now uses Java 16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
103 - 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.
104
105 ### Fixed
106 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
107 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
108 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
109
110 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
111 ### Fixed
112 - dbus `listNumbers` method works again
113
114 ### Changed
115 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
116 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
117 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
118
119 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
120 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version 0.8
121
122 ### Added
123 - New command `updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
124 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
125 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
126 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
127 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
128 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
129
130 ### Fixed
131 - Do not send message resend request to own device
132 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
133 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
134 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
135
136 ### Changed
137 - Use new provisioning URL `sgnl://linkdevice` instead of `tsdevice:/`
138 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now `./gradlew nativeCompile`
139
140 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
141 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.9
142
143 ### Breaking changes
144 - Removed deprecated `--json` parameter, use global parameter `--output=json` instead
145 - Json output format of `listGroups` command changed:
146 Members are now arrays of `{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
147 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
148 For those still using the old paths (`$HOME/.config/signal`, `$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
149
150 ### Added
151 - New global parameter `--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
152 - New parameter `--device-name` for `updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the main device)
153 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
154 - New `jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
155 - Support for announcement groups
156 - New parameter `--set-permission-send-messages` for `updateGroup` to create an announcement group
157 - New `sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
158 - 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.
159 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
160 - New `submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
161
162 ### Fixed
163 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
164
165 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
166 ### Added
167 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
168
169 ### Fixed
170 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
171
172 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
173 ### Fixed
174 - Incorrect error handling in register command
175
176 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
177 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.8.1
178
179 ### Added
180 - New parameters for `updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
181 `--description`, `--remove-member`, `--admin`, `--remove-admin`, `--reset-link`, `--link`, `--set-permission-add-member`, `--set-permission-edit-details`, `--expiration`
182 - New `--admin` parameter for `quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
183 - New `--delete` parameter for `quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
184 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
185
186 ### Fixed
187 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
188 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
189 - All commands now show a short description with `--help`
190 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
191 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
192
193 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
194
195 ### Fixed
196 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
197 - Building native image with graalvm
198
199 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
200 ### Added
201 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
202 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
203 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from master device
204 - New `--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
205 - New `--family-name` argument for updateProfile
206
207 ### Fixed
208 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
209 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
210 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
211 - Only respond to sync requests from master device
212 - Display of quit group messages
213
214 ### Changed
215 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
216 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
217 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
218 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
219 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
220 - Rework account storage for better reliability
221 - Improved device linking flow
222 - Allow relinking existing account
223 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
224
225 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
226 ### Added
227 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
228 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
229 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
230
231 ### Fixed
232 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
233
234 ### Changed
235 - Behavior of `trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
236 the same number are removed.
237
238 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
239 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required: [libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
240 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
241
242 ### Added
243 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
244 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
245
246 ### Fixed
247 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
248
249 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
250 ### Changed
251 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
252
253 ### Fixed
254 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
255 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
256 - Creating v1 groups works again
257
258 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
259 ### Added
260 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
261 - Global `--verbose` flag to increase log level
262 - Global `--output=json` flag, currently supported by `receive`, `daemon`, `getUserStatus`, `listGroups`
263 - `--note-to-self` flag for `send` command to send a note to linked devices
264 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
265
266 ### Changed
267 - signal-cli can now be used without the username `-u` flag
268 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
269 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
270 otherwise a user has to be specified.
271 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
272 send a sync message, use the new `--note-to-self` flag
273 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
274 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
275 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
276
277 ### Fixed
278 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
279 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
280 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
281 - Issue with saving account file after linking
282
283 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
284 ### Added
285 - Implement new registration lock PIN with `setPin` and `removePin` (with KBS)
286 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
287
288 ### Fixed
289 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
290 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
291
292 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
293 ### Added
294 - Accept group invitation with `updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
295 - Decline group invitation with `quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
296 - Join group via invitation link `joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
297
298 ### Fixed
299 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
300
301 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
302 ### Added
303 Support for groups of new type/v2
304 - Sending and receiving
305 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with `updateGroup`
306 - Quit group and decline invitation with `quitGroup`
307 - In the `listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
308
309 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
310 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
311
312 ### Fixed
313 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
314
315 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
316 ### Added
317 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
318 - `--captcha` parameter for `register` command, required for some IP ranges
319
320 ### Changed
321 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
322 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
323
324 ### Fixed
325 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
326
327 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
328 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
329
330 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
331 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
332 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
333
334 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
335 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
336 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
337 - signal-cli now requires Java 11
338
339 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in 0.6.10**
340
341 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
342 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
343 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
344 - Add `--expiration` parameter to `updateContact` command to set expiration timer
345
346 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
347 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
348 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
349 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
350 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
351
352 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
353 - Added listContacts command
354 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
355 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
356 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
357 - Support for message reactions with emojis
358 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
359
360 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
361 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
362
363 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
364 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
365 - Add additional info to json output
366 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
367 - Add command to update contact names
368
369 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
370 Bug fixes and small improvements
371
372 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
373 - Fixes sending of group messages
374
375 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
376 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
377 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
378 - Switch default data path:
379 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
380 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
381
382 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
383 - Simple json output
384 - dbus signal for receiving messages
385 - Registration lock PIN
386 - Output quoted message
387
388 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
389 * new listGroups command
390 * Support for attachments with file names
391 * Support for complete contacts sync
392 * Support for contact verification sync
393 * DBus interface:
394 * Get/Set group info
395 * Get/Set contact info
396
397 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
398 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
399 - add unregister command
400
401 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
402 - Fix linking of new devices
403
404 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
405 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
406 * Updated dependencies
407
408 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
409 - Add support for group info requests
410 - Improve closing of file streams
411
412 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
413 - Support new safety numbers (https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
414 - Add a man page
415 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
416
417 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
418 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
419 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
420 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
421 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
422 - Timestamps shown in ISO 8601 format
423
424 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
425 - Fix issue with creating groups
426 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
427 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
428
429 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
430 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
431 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
432 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
433
434 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
435 - Fix running with Oracle JRE 8
436 - Fix registering
437 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
438
439 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
440 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
441 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
442 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than 20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
443
444 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
445 - Improve dbus service
446 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
447
448 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
449 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
450
451 This release works with Java 7 and 8.
452
453 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
454 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
455
456 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
457 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
458 - Show message group info
459
460 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
461
462 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
463
464 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08
465 First release