5 ## [0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09
8 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
10 ## [0.11.5] - 2022-11-07
11 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.21.1
14 - Add
`--http` flag to
`daemon` command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (
`/api/v1/rpc`). (Thanks @ced-b)
15 - The
`receive` method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
16 - Add
`getAttachment` command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
17 - Add
`--disable-send-log` to disable the message send log.
18 - Add
`--story` to
`sendReaction` command, to react to stories.
19 - Add
`--story-timestamp` and
`--story-author` to
`send` command, to reply to stories.
20 - Add
`--max-messages` to
`receive` command, to only receive a certain number of messages.
23 - Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
24 - Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.
26 ## [0.11.4] - 2022-10-19
29 - Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
30 - Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages
33 - Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
34 - Do not discard incoming group join messages
37 - Add code to receive new PNI after change number
39 ## [0.11.3] - 2022-10-07
42 - Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
43 - Fix updating from older signal-cli version
44 - Fix issue with handling decryption error message
45 - Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)
47 ## [0.11.2] - 2022-10-06
50 - Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check
52 ## [0.11.1] - 2022-10-05
55 - Fix sending group messages
56 - Fix store migration issue on Windows
57 - Fix building fat jars
59 ## [0.11.0] - 2022-10-02
60 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.20.0
63 - Changed meaning of
`-v` flag from
`--version` to
`--verbose`.
64 So now extended logging can be achieved with
`-vv`.
65 - Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given.
66 To read a message from stdin, use the
`--message-from-stdin` flag.
69 - Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
70 - Add
`--scrub-log` flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
71 - Add
`sendPaymentNotification` dbus method
74 - Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number
77 - Store data except base account data in sqlite database
78 - Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode
80 ## [0.10.11] - 2022-08-17
81 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.19.3
84 - Output content of received story messages
86 ## [0.10.10] - 2022-07-30
87 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.18.1
90 - Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
91 - Workaround GraalVM
22.2.0 issue with daemon connection
93 ## [0.10.9] - 2022-07-16
96 - updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes
99 - Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
100 - Fixed issue with opening older account files
102 ## [0.10.8] - 2022-06-13
105 - Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
106 - `version` command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the
`--version` flag.
107 In the next version the current short form
`-v` will change its meaning to
`--verbose`!
110 - An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
111 - Logging output for registering has been extended.
113 ## [0.10.7] - 2022-05-29
116 - Added profile information to
`listContacts` command output
117 - Added filter flags for
`listContacts` command
118 - New
`sendPaymentNotification` command to send payment receipt blobs
119 - New
`--given-name` and
`--family-name` parameters for
`updateContact` command
120 - Implement sending link previews with
`--preview-url`,
`--preview-title` parameters for the
`send` command
121 - New
`--send-read-receipts` parameter for
`receive` and
`daemon` commands for automatically marking received messages as read
124 - Issue with endless growing
`pre-keys-pni` data directory
126 ## [0.10.6] - 2022-05-19
127 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.17
130 - Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
131 - New command
`deleteLocalAccountData` to delete all local data of an unregistered account
132 - New parameter
`-g` for
`listGroups` command to filter for specific groups
135 - Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid
138 - Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set.
139 (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
140 - After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
141 - Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes
143 ## [0.10.5] - 2022-04-11
144 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.15
147 - New
`--ban`,
`--unban` flags for
`updateGroup` command to ban users from joining by group link
150 - Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
151 - Fix error output in case of rate limiting
152 - Fix error when creating a group with no members
153 - Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices
155 ## [0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17
157 - Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
158 - Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts
160 ## [0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02
162 - Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
163 - Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt
165 ## [0.10.4] - 2022-02-20
167 - Implement support for change number as linked device
168 - Add
`--message-from-stdin` flag for send command. The current behavior of
169 reading from stdin if the
`-m` flag is not given, will be removed in a future
173 - Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC.
174 Timeout is reset by every incoming message
175 - Renamed
`error` field in json receive response to
`exception`
178 - Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving
180 ## [0.10.3] - 2022-02-01
182 - MessageSendLog to cache sent message for
24h.
183 For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
184 - New global
`--log-file` parameter to write logs to a separate file.
185 (
`--verbose` can be used to increase the log level)
188 - Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC
`subscribeReceive` command
191 - Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
192 - Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId
194 ## [0.10.2] - 2022-01-22
196 - Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
197 - Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable
199 ## [0.10.1] - 2022-01-16
201 - Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
202 - New command
`listStickerPacks` to display all known sticker packs
203 - New flag
`--sticker` for
`send` command to send stickers
206 - Improve exit code for message sending.
207 Exit with
0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least
208 one recipient, otherwise exit with status code
2 or
4 (for untrusted).
209 - Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
210 - `--verbose` flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
211 - Enable more security options for systemd service file
212 - Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.
215 - The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
216 - Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.
218 ## [0.10.0] - 2021-12-11
219 **Attention**: Now requires Java
17 and libsignal-client version
0.11
222 - The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (
`--socket` and
`--tcp`)
223 - New daemon command flag
`--receive-mode` to configure when messages are received
224 - New daemon command flag
`--no-receive-stdout` to prevent outputting messages on stdout
225 - New command
`listAccounts` that lists all registered local accounts
226 - New command
`removeContact`
227 - Extend
`send` command to allow sending mentions (
`--mention`) and quotes (
`--quote-timestamp`,
`--quote-author`,
`--quote-message`,
`--quote-mention`)
228 - New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
229 - New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
230 - New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
231 - New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
232 - Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
233 - `-c` alias for
`--config` (Thanks @technillogue)
236 - libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
237 - 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.
238 - Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
239 - Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
240 - dbus-java now uses Java
16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
241 - 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.
244 - Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
245 - Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
246 - More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered
248 ## [0.9.2] - 2021-10-24
250 - dbus
`listNumbers` method works again
253 - Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
254 - Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
255 - Update captcha url for proof required handling
257 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
258 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
261 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
262 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
263 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
264 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
265 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
266 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
269 - Do not send message resend request to own device
270 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
271 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
272 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
275 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
276 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
278 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
279 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
282 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
283 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
284 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
285 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
286 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
289 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
290 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the primary device)
291 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
292 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
293 - Support for announcement groups
294 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
295 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
296 - 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.
297 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
298 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
301 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
303 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
305 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
308 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
310 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
312 - Incorrect error handling in register command
314 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
315 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
318 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
319 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
320 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
321 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
322 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
325 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
326 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
327 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
328 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
329 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
331 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
334 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
335 - Building native image with graalvm
337 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
339 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
340 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
341 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from primary device
342 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
343 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
346 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
347 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
348 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
349 - Only respond to sync requests from primary device
350 - Display of quit group messages
353 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
354 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
355 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
356 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
357 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
358 - Rework account storage for better reliability
359 - Improved device linking flow
360 - Allow relinking existing account
361 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
363 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
365 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
366 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
367 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
370 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
373 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
374 the same number are removed.
376 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
377 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
378 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
381 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
382 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
385 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
387 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
389 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
392 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
393 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
394 - Creating v1 groups works again
396 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
398 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
399 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
400 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
401 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
402 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
405 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
406 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
407 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
408 otherwise a user has to be specified.
409 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
410 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
411 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
412 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
413 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
416 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
417 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
418 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
419 - Issue with saving account file after linking
421 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
423 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
424 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
427 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
428 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
430 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
432 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
433 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
434 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
437 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
439 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
441 Support for groups of new type/v2
442 - Sending and receiving
443 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
444 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
445 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
447 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
448 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
451 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
453 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
455 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
456 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
459 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
460 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
463 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
465 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
466 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
468 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
469 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
470 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
472 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
473 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
474 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
475 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
477 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
479 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
480 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
481 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
482 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
484 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
485 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
486 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
487 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
488 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
490 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
491 - Added listContacts command
492 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
493 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
494 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
495 - Support for message reactions with emojis
496 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
498 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
499 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
501 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
502 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
503 - Add additional info to json output
504 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
505 - Add command to update contact names
507 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
508 Bug fixes and small improvements
510 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
511 - Fixes sending of group messages
513 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
514 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
515 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
516 - Switch default data path:
517 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
518 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
520 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
522 - dbus signal for receiving messages
523 - Registration lock PIN
524 - Output quoted message
526 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
527 * new listGroups command
528 * Support for attachments with file names
529 * Support for complete contacts sync
530 * Support for contact verification sync
533 * Get/Set contact info
535 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
536 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
537 - add unregister command
539 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
540 - Fix linking of new devices
542 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
543 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
544 * Updated dependencies
546 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
547 - Add support for group info requests
548 - Improve closing of file streams
550 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
551 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
553 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
555 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
556 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
557 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
558 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
559 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
560 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
562 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
563 - Fix issue with creating groups
564 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
565 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
567 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
568 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
569 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
570 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
572 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
573 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
575 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
577 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
578 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
579 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
580 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
582 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
583 - Improve dbus service
584 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
586 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
587 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
589 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
591 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
592 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
594 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
595 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
596 - Show message group info
598 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
600 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
602 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08