5 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
8 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
9 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
12 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
13 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
16 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
18 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
21 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
22 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
23 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
24 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
26 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
29 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
31 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
34 - Fix sending group messages
35 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
36 - Fix building fat jars
38 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
39 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
42 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
43 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
44 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
45 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
48 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
49 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
50 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
53 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
56 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
57 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
59 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
60 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
63 - Output content of received story messages
65 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
66 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
69 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
70 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
72 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
75 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
78 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
79 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
81 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
84 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
85 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
86 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
89 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
90 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
92 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
95 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
96 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
97 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
98 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
99 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
100 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
103 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
105 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
106 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
109 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
110 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
111 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
114 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
117 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
118 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
119 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
120 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
122 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
123 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
126 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
129 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
130 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
131 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
132 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
134 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
136 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
137 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
139 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
141 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
142 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
144 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
146 - Implement support for change number as linked device
147 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
148 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
152 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
153 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
154 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
157 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
159 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
161 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
162 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
163 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
164 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
167 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
170 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
171 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
173 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
175 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
176 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
178 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
180 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
181 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
182 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
185 - Improve exit code for message sending.
186 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
187 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
188 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
189 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
190 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
191 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
194 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
195 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
197 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
198 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
201 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
202 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
203 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
204 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
205 - New command
`removeContact`
206 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
207 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
208 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
209 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
210 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
211 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
212 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
215 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
216 - 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.
217 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
218 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
219 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
220 - 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.
223 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
224 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
225 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
227 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
229 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
232 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
233 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
234 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
236 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
237 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
240 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
241 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
242 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
243 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
244 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
245 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
248 - Do not send message resend request to own device
249 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
250 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
251 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
254 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
255 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
257 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
258 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
261 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
262 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
263 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
264 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
265 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
268 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
269 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
270 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
271 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
272 - Support for announcement groups
273 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
274 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
275 - 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.
276 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
277 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
280 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
282 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
284 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
287 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
289 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
291 - Incorrect error handling in register command
293 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
294 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
297 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
298 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
299 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
300 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
301 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
304 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
305 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
306 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
307 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
308 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
310 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
313 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
314 - Building native image with graalvm
316 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
318 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
319 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
320 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
321 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
322 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
325 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
326 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
327 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
328 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
329 - Display of quit group messages
332 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
333 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
334 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
335 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
336 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
337 - Rework account storage for better reliability
338 - Improved device linking flow
339 - Allow relinking existing account
340 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
342 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
344 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
345 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
346 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
349 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
352 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
353 the same number are removed.
355 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
356 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
357 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
360 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
361 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
364 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
366 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
368 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
371 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
372 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
373 - Creating v1 groups works again
375 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
377 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
378 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
379 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
380 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
381 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
384 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
385 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
386 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
387 otherwise a user has to be specified.
388 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
389 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
390 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
391 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
392 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
395 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
396 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
397 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
398 - Issue with saving account file after linking
400 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
402 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
403 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
406 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
407 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
409 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
411 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
412 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
413 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
416 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
418 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
420 Support for groups of new type/v2
421 - Sending and receiving
422 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
423 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
424 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
426 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
427 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
430 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
432 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
434 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
435 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
438 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
439 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
442 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
444 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
445 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
447 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
448 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
449 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
451 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
452 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
453 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
454 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
456 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
458 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
459 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
460 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
461 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
463 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
464 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
465 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
466 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
467 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
469 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
470 - Added listContacts command
471 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
472 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
473 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
474 - Support for message reactions with emojis
475 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
477 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
478 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
480 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
481 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
482 - Add additional info to json output
483 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
484 - Add command to update contact names
486 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
487 Bug fixes and small improvements
489 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
490 - Fixes sending of group messages
492 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
493 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
494 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
495 - Switch default data path:
496 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
497 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
499 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
501 - dbus signal for receiving messages
502 - Registration lock PIN
503 - Output quoted message
505 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
506 * new listGroups command
507 * Support for attachments with file names
508 * Support for complete contacts sync
509 * Support for contact verification sync
512 * Get/Set contact info
514 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
515 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
516 - add unregister command
518 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
519 - Fix linking of new devices
521 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
522 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
523 * Updated dependencies
525 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
526 - Add support for group info requests
527 - Improve closing of file streams
529 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
530 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
532 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
534 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
535 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
536 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
537 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
538 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
539 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
541 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
542 - Fix issue with creating groups
543 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
544 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
546 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
547 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
548 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
549 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
551 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
552 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
554 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
556 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
557 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
558 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
559 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
561 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
562 - Improve dbus service
563 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
565 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
566 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
568 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
570 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
571 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
573 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
574 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
575 - Show message group info
577 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
579 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
581 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08