CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[Unreleased]

[0.9.0] - 2021-09-12

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.9

Breaking changes

• Removed deprecated --json parameter, use global parameter --output=json instead
• Json output format of listGroups command changed: Members are now arrays of {"number":"...","uuid":"..."} objects instead of arrays of strings.
• Removed deprecated fallback data paths, only $XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli is used now For those still using the old paths ($HOME/.config/signal, $HOME/.config/textsecure) you need to move those to the new location.

Added

• New global parameter --trust-new-identities=always to allow trusting any new identity key without verification
• New parameter --device-name for updateAccount command to change the device name (also works for the main device)
• New SignalControl DBus interface, to register/verify/link new accounts
• New jsonRpc command that provides a JSON-RPC based API on stdout/stdin
• Support for announcement groups
• New parameter --set-permission-send-messages for updateGroup to create an announcement group
• New sendReceipt command to send read and viewed receipts
• 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.
• Support for reading data from remote Signal storage. Now v2 groups will be shown after linking a new device.
• New submitRateLimitChallenge command that can be used to lift some rate-limits by solving a captcha

Fixed

• Store identity key correctly when sending a message after a recipient has changed keys

[0.8.5] - 2021-08-07

Added

• Source name is included in JSON receive output (Thanks @technillogue)

Fixed

• Allow updateContact command to only set expiration timer without requiring a name parameter

[0.8.4.1] - 2021-06-20

Fixed

• Incorrect error handling in register command

[0.8.4] - 2021-06-13

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.8.1

Added

• New parameters for updateGroup command for group v2 features: --description, --remove-member, --admin, --remove-admin, --reset-link, --link, --set-permission-add-member, --set-permission-edit-details, --expiration
• New --admin parameter for quitGroup to set an admin before leaving the group
• New --delete parameter for quitGroup, to delete the local group data
• New 'sendTyping' command to send typing indicators

Fixed

• Fixed issue that prevented registration with invalid locales
• Prevent last admin of a group from leaving the group
• All commands now show a short description with --help
• Now a hint is shown if messages aren't received regularly
• Group edit conflicts are now resolved automatically

[0.8.3] - 2021-05-13

Fixed

• Upgrading from account files with older profiles
• Building native image with graalvm

[0.8.2] - 2021-05-11

Added

• A manual page for the DBus interface (Thanks @bublath, @exquo)
• Remote message delete command (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
• sendSyncRequest command to request complete contact/group list from master device
• New --delete-account argument for unregister (Dangerous)
• New --family-name argument for updateProfile

Fixed

• Sending reaction to group (Thanks @adaptivegarage)
• Displaying of address for messages from untrusted identities
• Handling of recipient number or uuid changes (e.g. after account deletions)
• Only respond to sync requests from master device
• Display of quit group messages

Changed

• Unlimited strength crypto is now enabled automatically for JREs that require it (Thanks @i-infra)
• Only one identity key is stored per recipient and updated from profile (to match app behavior)
• updateContact, block and unblock are now disabled for linked devices
• After registering an empty profile is created so new groups can be joined immediately
• If message decryption fails due to a broken session, the session is automatically renewed
• Rework account storage for better reliability
• Improved device linking flow
  • Allow relinking existing account
  • Encrypt/Decrypt device names

[0.8.1] - 2021-03-02

Added

• New dbus commands: updateProfile, listNumbers, getContactNumber, quitGroup, isContactBlocked, isGroupBlocked, isMember, joinGroup (Thanks @bublath)
• Additional output for json format: shared contacts (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
• Improved plain text output to be more consistent and synced messages are now indented

Fixed

• Issue with broken sessions with linked devices

Changed

• Behavior of trust command improved, when trusting a new identity key all other known keys for the same number are removed.

[0.8.0] - 2021-02-14

Attention: For all signal protocol functionality an additional native library is now required: libsignal-client. See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.

Added

• Experimental support for building a GraalVM native image
• Support for setting profile about text and emoji

Fixed

• Incorrect error message when removing a non-existent profile avatar

[0.7.4] - 2021-01-19

Changed

• Notify linked devices after profile has been updated

Fixed

• After registering a new account, receiving messages didn't work You may have to register and verify again to fix the issue.
• Creating v1 groups works again

[0.7.3] - 2021-01-17

Added

• getUserStatus command to check if a user is registered on Signal (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)
• Global --verbose flag to increase log level
• Global --output=json flag, currently supported by receive, daemon, getUserStatus, listGroups
• --note-to-self flag for send command to send a note to linked devices
• More info for received messages in json output: stickers, viewOnce, typing, remoteDelete

Changed

• signal-cli can now be used without the username -u flag For daemon command all local users will be exposed as dbus objects. If only one local user exists, all other commands will use that user, otherwise a user has to be specified.
• Messages sent to self number will be sent as normal Signal messages again, to send a sync message, use the new --note-to-self flag
• Ignore messages with group context sent by non group member
• Profile key is sent along with all direct messages
• In json output unnecessary fields that are null are now omitted

Fixed

• Disable registration lock before removing the PIN
• Fix PIN hash version to match the official clients. If you had previously set a PIN you need to set it again to be able to unlock the registration lock later.
• Issue with saving account file after linking

[0.7.2] - 2020-12-31

Added

• Implement new registration lock PIN with setPin and removePin (with KBS)
• Include quotes, mentions and reactions in json output (Thanks @Atomic-Bean)

Fixed

• Retrieve avatars for v2 groups
• Download attachment thumbnail for quoted attachments

[0.7.1] - 2020-12-21

Added

• Accept group invitation with updateGroup -g GROUP_ID
• Decline group invitation with quitGroup -g GROUP_ID
• Join group via invitation link joinGroup --uri https://signal.group/#...

Fixed

• Include group ids for v2 groups in json output

[0.7.0] - 2020-12-15

Added

Support for groups of new type/v2

• Sending and receiving
• Updating name, avatar and adding members with updateGroup
• Quit group and decline invitation with quitGroup
• In the listGroups output v2 groups can be recognized by the longer groupId

Attention: For the new group support to work the native libzkgroup library is required. See https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal for more information.

Fixed

• Rare NullPointerException when receiving messages

[0.6.12] - 2020-11-22

Added

• Show additional message content (view once, remote delete, mention, …) for received messages
• --captcha parameter for register command, required for some IP ranges

Changed

• Profile keys are now stored separately from contact list
• Receipts from normal and unidentified messages now have the same format in json output

Fixed

• Issue where some messages were sent with an old counter index

Older

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