5 ## [0.9.1] - 2021-10-16
6 **Attention**: Now requires native libzkgroup version
0.8
9 - New command
`updateConfiguration` which allows setting configurations for linked devices
10 - Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
11 - Linked devices can be managed via dbus
12 - New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
13 - New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
14 - New dbus method getSelfNumber
17 - Do not send message resend request to own device
18 - Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
19 - Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
20 - Reconnect websocket after connection loss
23 - Use new provisioning URL
`sgnl://linkdevice` instead of
`tsdevice:/`
24 - The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now
`./gradlew nativeCompile`
26 ## [0.9.0] - 2021-09-12
27 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.9
30 - Removed deprecated
`--json` parameter, use global parameter
`--output=json` instead
31 - Json output format of
`listGroups` command changed:
32 Members are now arrays of
`{"number":"...","uuid":"..."}` objects instead of arrays of strings.
33 - Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only
`$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` is used now
34 For those still using the old paths (
`$HOME/.config/signal`,
`$HOME/.config/textsecure`) you need to move those to the new location.
37 - New global parameter
`--trust-new-identities=always` to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
38 - New parameter
`--device-name` for
`updateAccount` command to change the device name (also works for the main device)
39 - New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
40 - New
`jsonRpc` command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
41 - Support for announcement groups
42 - New parameter
`--set-permission-send-messages` for
`updateGroup` to create an announcement group
43 - New
`sendReceipt` command to send read and viewed receipts
44 - 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.
45 - Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
46 - New
`submitRateLimitChallenge` command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha
49 - Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys
51 ## [0.8.5] - 2021-08-07
53 - Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
56 - Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter
58 ## [0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20
60 - Incorrect error handling in register command
62 ## [0.8.4] - 2021-06-13
63 **Attention**: Now requires native libsignal-client version
0.8.1
66 - New parameters for
`updateGroup` command for group v2 features:
67 `--description`,
`--remove-member`,
`--admin`,
`--remove-admin`,
`--reset-link`,
`--link`,
`--set-permission-add-member`,
`--set-permission-edit-details`,
`--expiration`
68 - New
`--admin` parameter for
`quitGroup` to set an admin before leaving the group
69 - New
`--delete` parameter for
`quitGroup`, to delete the local group data
70 - New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators
73 - Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
74 - Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
75 - All commands now show a short description with
`--help`
76 - Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
77 - Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically
79 ## [0.8.3] - 2021-05-13
82 - Upgrading from account files with older profiles
83 - Building native image with graalvm
85 ## [0.8.2] - 2021-05-11
87 - A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
88 - Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
89 - sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from master device
90 - New
`--delete-account` argument for unregister (Dangerous)
91 - New
`--family-name` argument for updateProfile
94 - Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
95 - Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
96 - Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
97 - Only respond to sync requests from master device
98 - Display of quit group messages
101 - Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
102 - Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
103 - updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
104 - After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
105 - If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
106 - Rework account storage for better reliability
107 - Improved device linking flow
108 - Allow relinking existing account
109 - Encrypt/Decrypt device names
111 ## [0.8.1] - 2021-03-02
113 - New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
114 - Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
115 - Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented
118 - Issue with broken sessions with linked devices
121 - Behavior of
`trust` command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for
122 the same number are removed.
124 ## [0.8.0] - 2021-02-14
125 **Attention**: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required:
[libsignal-client](https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/).
126 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
129 - Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
130 - Support for setting profile about text and emoji
133 - Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar
135 ## [0.7.4] - 2021-01-19
137 - Notify linked devices after profile has been updated
140 - After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work
141 You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
142 - Creating v1 groups works again
144 ## [0.7.3] - 2021-01-17
146 - `getUserStatus` command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
147 - Global
`--verbose` flag to increase log level
148 - Global
`--output=json` flag, currently supported by
`receive`,
`daemon`,
`getUserStatus`,
`listGroups`
149 - `--note-to-self` flag for
`send` command to send a note to linked devices
150 - More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete
153 - signal-cli can now be used without the username
`-u` flag
154 For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects.
155 If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user,
156 otherwise a user has to be specified.
157 - Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to
158 send a sync message, use the new
`--note-to-self` flag
159 - Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
160 - Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
161 - In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted
164 - Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
165 - Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients.
166 If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
167 - Issue with saving account file after linking
169 ## [0.7.2] - 2020-12-31
171 - Implement new registration lock PIN with
`setPin` and
`removePin` (with KBS)
172 - Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
175 - Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
176 - Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments
178 ## [0.7.1] - 2020-12-21
180 - Accept group invitation with
`updateGroup -g GROUP_ID`
181 - Decline group invitation with
`quitGroup -g GROUP_ID`
182 - Join group via invitation link
`joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...`
185 - Include group ids for v2 groups in json output
187 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-12-15
189 Support for groups of new type/v2
190 - Sending and receiving
191 - Updating name, avatar and adding members with
`updateGroup`
192 - Quit group and decline invitation with
`quitGroup`
193 - In the
`listGroups` output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId
195 **Attention**: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required.
196 See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.
199 - Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages
201 ## [0.6.12] - 2020-11-22
203 - Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
204 - `--captcha` parameter for
`register` command, required for some IP ranges
207 - Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
208 - Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output
211 - Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index
213 ## [0.6.11] - 2020-10-14
214 - Fix issue with receiving message reactions
216 ## [0.6.10] - 2020-09-11
217 - Fix issue when retrieving profiles
218 - Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64
220 ## [0.6.9] - 2020-09-10
221 - Minor bug fixes and improvements
222 - dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
223 - signal-cli now requires Java
11
225 **Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in
0.6.10**
227 ## [0.6.8] - 2020-05-22
228 - Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
229 - Bugfixes for messages with uuids
230 - Add
`--expiration` parameter to
`updateContact` command to set expiration timer
232 ## [0.6.7] - 2020-04-03
233 - Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
234 - DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
235 - Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
236 - Fix pack key length for sticker upload
238 ## [0.6.6] - 2020-03-29
239 - Added listContacts command
240 - Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
241 - Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
242 - Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
243 - Support for message reactions with emojis
244 - Internal: support recipients with uuids
246 ## [0.6.5] - 2019-11-11
247 Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender
249 ## [0.6.4] - 2019-11-02
250 - Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
251 - Add additional info to json output
252 - Add commands to update profile name and avatar
253 - Add command to update contact names
255 ## [0.6.3] - 2019-09-05
256 Bug fixes and small improvements
258 ## [0.6.2] - 2018-12-16
259 - Fixes sending of group messages
261 ## [0.6.1] - 2018-12-09
262 - Added getGroupIds dbus command
263 - Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
264 - Switch default data path:
265 `$XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli` (
`$HOME/.local/share/signal-cli`)
266 Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)
268 ## [0.6.0] - 2018-05-03
270 - dbus signal for receiving messages
271 - Registration lock PIN
272 - Output quoted message
274 ## [0.5.6] - 2017-06-16
275 * new listGroups command
276 * Support for attachments with file names
277 * Support for complete contacts sync
278 * Support for contact verification sync
281 * Get/Set contact info
283 ## [0.5.5] - 2017-02-18
284 - fix receiving messages on linked devices
285 - add unregister command
287 ## [0.5.4] - 2017-02-17
288 - Fix linking of new devices
290 ## [0.5.3] - 2017-01-29
291 * New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
292 * Updated dependencies
294 ## [0.5.2] - 2016-12-16
295 - Add support for group info requests
296 - Improve closing of file streams
298 ## [0.5.1] - 2016-11-18
299 - Support new safety numbers
(https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
301 - Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it
303 ## [0.5.0] - 2016-08-29
304 - Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
305 - Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
306 - Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
307 - Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
308 - Timestamps shown in ISO
8601 format
310 ## [0.4.1] - 2016-07-18
311 - Fix issue with creating groups
312 - Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
313 - Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed
315 ## [0.4.0] - 2016-06-19
316 - Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
317 - Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
318 - Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)
320 ## [0.3.1] - 2016-04-03
321 - Fix running with Oracle JRE
8
323 - Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale
325 ## [0.3.0] - 2016-04-02
326 - Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
327 - The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
328 - Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than
20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions
330 ## [0.2.1] - 2016-02-10
331 - Improve dbus service
332 - New command line argument --config to specify config directory
334 ## [0.2.0] - 2015-12-30
335 Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).
337 This release works with Java
7 and
8.
339 ## [0.1.0] - 2015-11-28
340 Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them
342 ## [0.0.5] - 2015-11-21
343 - Add receive timeout commandline parameter
344 - Show message group info
346 ## [0.0.4] - 2015-09-22
348 ## [0.0.3] - 2015-08-07
350 ## [0.0.2] - 2015-07-08