5 ## [0.11.7] - 2023-02-19
8 - Fix issue with missing pni identity key
9 - Fix graalvm sqlite issue (Thanks @Marvin A. Ruder)
10 - Fix issue with forgetting recipient
13 - Allow JSON-RPC commands without account param if only one account exists
15 ## [0.11.6] - 2022-12-18
18 - Allow using data URIs for updateGroup/updateProfile
19 - New alive check endpoint for http daemon (Thanks @ced-b)
22 - Registration with voice verification now works if no system locale is set
23 - Fixed retrieving attachments in JSON RPC mode (Thanks @ced-b)
25 ## [0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09
28 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
30 ## [0.11.5] - 2022-11-07
31 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.21.1
34 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (
`/api/v1/rpc`). (Thanks @ced-b)
35 - The
`receive` method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
36 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
37 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
38 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
39 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
40 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
43 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
44 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
46 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
49 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
50 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
53 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
54 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
57 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
59 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
62 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
63 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
64 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
65 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
67 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
70 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
72 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
75 - Fix sending group messages
76 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
77 - Fix building fat jars
79 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
80 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
83 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
84 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
85 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
86 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
89 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
90 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
91 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
94 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
97 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
98 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
100 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
101 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
104 - Output content of received story messages
106 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
107 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
110 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
111 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
113 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
116 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
119 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
120 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
122 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
125 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
126 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
127 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
130 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
131 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
133 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
136 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
137 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
138 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
139 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
140 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
141 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
144 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
146 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
147 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
150 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
151 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
152 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
155 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
158 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
159 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
160 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
161 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
163 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
164 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
167 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
170 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
171 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
172 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
173 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
175 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
177 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
178 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
180 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
182 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
183 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
185 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
187 - Implement support for change number as linked device
188 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
189 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
193 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
194 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
195 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
198 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
200 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
202 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
203 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
204 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
205 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
208 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
211 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
212 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
214 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
216 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
217 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
219 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
221 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
222 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
223 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
226 - Improve exit code for message sending.
227 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
228 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
229 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
230 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
231 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
232 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
235 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
236 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
238 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
239 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
242 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
243 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
244 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
245 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
246 - New command
`removeContact`
247 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
248 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
249 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
250 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
251 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
252 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
253 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
256 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
257 - 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.
258 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
259 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
260 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
261 - 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.
264 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
265 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
266 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
268 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
270 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
273 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
274 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
275 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
277 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
278 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
281 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
282 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
283 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
284 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
285 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
286 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
289 - Do not send message resend request to own device
290 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
291 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
292 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
295 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
296 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
298 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
299 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
302 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
303 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
304 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
305 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
306 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
309 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
310 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
311 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
312 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
313 - Support for announcement groups
314 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
315 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
316 - 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.
317 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
318 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
321 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
323 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
325 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
328 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
330 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
332 - Incorrect error handling in register command
334 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
335 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
338 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
339 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
340 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
341 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
342 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
345 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
346 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
347 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
348 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
349 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
351 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
354 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
355 - Building native image with graalvm
357 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
359 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
360 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
361 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
362 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
363 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
366 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
367 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
368 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
369 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
370 - Display of quit group messages
373 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
374 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
375 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
376 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
377 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
378 - Rework account storage for better reliability
379 - Improved device linking flow
380 - Allow relinking existing account
381 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
383 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
385 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
386 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
387 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
390 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
393 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
394 the same number are removed.
396 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
397 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
398 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
401 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
402 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
405 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
407 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
409 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
412 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
413 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
414 - Creating v1 groups works again
416 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
418 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
419 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
420 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
421 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
422 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
425 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
426 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
427 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
428 otherwise a user has to be specified.
429 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
430 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
431 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
432 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
433 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
436 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
437 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
438 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
439 - Issue with saving account file after linking
441 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
443 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
444 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
447 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
448 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
450 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
452 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
453 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
454 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
457 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
459 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
461 Support for groups of new type/v2
462 - Sending and receiving
463 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
464 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
465 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
467 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
468 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
471 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
473 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
475 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
476 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
479 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
480 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
483 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
485 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
486 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
488 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
489 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
490 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
492 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
493 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
494 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
495 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
497 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
499 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
500 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
501 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
502 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
504 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
505 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
506 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
507 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
508 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
510 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
511 - Added listContacts command
512 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
513 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
514 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
515 - Support for message reactions with emojis
516 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
518 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
519 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
521 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
522 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
523 - Add additional info to json output
524 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
525 - Add command to update contact names
527 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
528 Bug fixes and small improvements
530 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
531 - Fixes sending of group messages
533 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
534 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
535 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
536 - Switch default data path:
537 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
538 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
540 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
542 - dbus signal for receiving messages
543 - Registration lock PIN
544 - Output quoted message
546 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
547 * new listGroups command
548 * Support for attachments with file names
549 * Support for complete contacts sync
550 * Support for contact verification sync
553 * Get/Set contact info
555 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
556 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
557 - add unregister command
559 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
560 - Fix linking of new devices
562 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
563 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
564 * Updated dependencies
566 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
567 - Add support for group info requests
568 - Improve closing of file streams
570 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
571 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
573 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
575 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
576 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
577 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
578 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
579 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
580 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
582 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
583 - Fix issue with creating groups
584 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
585 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
587 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
588 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
589 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
590 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
592 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
593 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
595 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
597 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
598 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
599 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
600 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
602 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
603 - Improve dbus service
604 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
606 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
607 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
609 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
611 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
612 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
614 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
615 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
616 - Show message group info
618 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
620 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
622 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08