5 ## [0.11.8] - 2023-04-05
8 - Added file attachment attributes to JSON output (Thanks @signals-from-outer-space)
11 - Scrub E164 number from dbus paths
12 - Fix sending large text messages to multiple recipient
13 - Fix deleting old group in dbus mode
14 - Fix issue with unknown identity serviceId
17 - Relaxed Content-Type check in http daemon mode (Thanks @cedb)
19 ## [0.11.7] - 2023-02-19
20 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.22.0
23 - Fix issue with missing pni identity key
24 - Fix graalvm sqlite issue (Thanks @Marvin A. Ruder)
25 - Fix issue with forgetting recipient
28 - Allow JSON-RPC commands without account param if only one account exists
30 ## [0.11.6] - 2022-12-18
33 - Allow using data URIs for updateGroup/updateProfile
34 - New alive check endpoint for http daemon (Thanks @ced-b)
37 - Registration with voice verification now works if no system locale is set
38 - Fixed retrieving attachments in JSON RPC mode (Thanks @ced-b)
40 ## [0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09
43 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
45 ## [0.11.5] - 2022-11-07
46 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.21.1
49 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (
`/api/v1/rpc`). (Thanks @ced-b)
50 - The
`receive` method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
51 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
52 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
53 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
54 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
55 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
58 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
59 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
61 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
64 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
65 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
68 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
69 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
72 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
74 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
77 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
78 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
79 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
80 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
82 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
85 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
87 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
90 - Fix sending group messages
91 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
92 - Fix building fat jars
94 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
95 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
98 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
99 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
100 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
101 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
104 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
105 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
106 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
109 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
112 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
113 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
115 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
116 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
119 - Output content of received story messages
121 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
122 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
125 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
126 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
128 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
131 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
134 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
135 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
137 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
140 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
141 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
142 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
145 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
146 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
148 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
151 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
152 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
153 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
154 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
155 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
156 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
159 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
161 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
162 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
165 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
166 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
167 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
170 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
173 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
174 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
175 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
176 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
178 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
179 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
182 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
185 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
186 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
187 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
188 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
190 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
192 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
193 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
195 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
197 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
198 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
200 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
202 - Implement support for change number as linked device
203 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
204 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
208 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
209 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
210 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
213 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
215 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
217 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
218 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
219 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
220 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
223 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
226 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
227 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
229 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
231 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
232 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
234 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
236 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
237 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
238 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
241 - Improve exit code for message sending.
242 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
243 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
244 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
245 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
246 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
247 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
250 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
251 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
253 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
254 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
257 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
258 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
259 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
260 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
261 - New command
`removeContact`
262 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
263 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
264 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
265 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
266 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
267 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
268 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
271 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
272 - 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.
273 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
274 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
275 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
276 - 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.
279 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
280 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
281 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
283 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
285 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
288 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
289 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
290 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
292 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
293 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
296 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
297 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
298 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
299 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
300 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
301 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
304 - Do not send message resend request to own device
305 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
306 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
307 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
310 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
311 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
313 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
314 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
317 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
318 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
319 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
320 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
321 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
324 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
325 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
326 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
327 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
328 - Support for announcement groups
329 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
330 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
331 - 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.
332 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
333 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
336 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
338 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
340 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
343 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
345 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
347 - Incorrect error handling in register command
349 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
350 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
353 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
354 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
355 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
356 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
357 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
360 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
361 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
362 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
363 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
364 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
366 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
369 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
370 - Building native image with graalvm
372 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
374 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
375 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
376 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
377 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
378 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
381 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
382 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
383 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
384 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
385 - Display of quit group messages
388 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
389 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
390 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
391 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
392 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
393 - Rework account storage for better reliability
394 - Improved device linking flow
395 - Allow relinking existing account
396 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
398 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
400 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
401 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
402 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
405 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
408 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
409 the same number are removed.
411 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
412 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
413 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
416 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
417 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
420 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
422 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
424 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
427 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
428 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
429 - Creating v1 groups works again
431 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
433 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
434 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
435 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
436 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
437 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
440 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
441 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
442 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
443 otherwise a user has to be specified.
444 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
445 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
446 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
447 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
448 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
451 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
452 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
453 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
454 - Issue with saving account file after linking
456 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
458 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
459 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
462 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
463 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
465 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
467 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
468 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
469 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
472 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
474 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
476 Support for groups of new type/v2
477 - Sending and receiving
478 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
479 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
480 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
482 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
483 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
486 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
488 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
490 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
491 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
494 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
495 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
498 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
500 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
501 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
503 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
504 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
505 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
507 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
508 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
509 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
510 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
512 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
514 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
515 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
516 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
517 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
519 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
520 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
521 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
522 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
523 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
525 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
526 - Added listContacts command
527 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
528 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
529 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
530 - Support for message reactions with emojis
531 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
533 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
534 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
536 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
537 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
538 - Add additional info to json output
539 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
540 - Add command to update contact names
542 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
543 Bug fixes and small improvements
545 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
546 - Fixes sending of group messages
548 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
549 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
550 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
551 - Switch default data path:
552 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
553 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
555 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
557 - dbus signal for receiving messages
558 - Registration lock PIN
559 - Output quoted message
561 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
562 * new listGroups command
563 * Support for attachments with file names
564 * Support for complete contacts sync
565 * Support for contact verification sync
568 * Get/Set contact info
570 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
571 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
572 - add unregister command
574 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
575 - Fix linking of new devices
577 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
578 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
579 * Updated dependencies
581 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
582 - Add support for group info requests
583 - Improve closing of file streams
585 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
586 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
588 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
590 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
591 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
592 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
593 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
594 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
595 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
597 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
598 - Fix issue with creating groups
599 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
600 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
602 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
603 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
604 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
605 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
607 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
608 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
610 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
612 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
613 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
614 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
615 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
617 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
618 - Improve dbus service
619 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
621 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
622 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
624 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
626 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
627 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
629 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
630 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
631 - Show message group info
633 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
635 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
637 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08