CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[Unreleased]

[0.11.11] - 2023-05-24

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.25.0

Added

• New --text-style and --quote-text-style flags for send command

Fixed

• Fixed migration of older account files
• Fix deleting old unregistered recipient

[0.11.10] - 2023-05-11

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.23.1

Added

• Support for receiving and sending edit messages with --edit-timestamp

[0.11.9.1] - 2023-04-23

Fixed

• Fix build with Java 20

[0.11.9] - 2023-04-22

Fixed

• Workaround issue with linking to newer app versions

[0.11.8] - 2023-04-05

Added

• Added file attachment attributes to JSON output (Thanks @signals-from-outer-space)

Fixed

• Scrub E164 number from dbus paths
• Fix sending large text messages to multiple recipient
• Fix deleting old group in dbus mode
• Fix issue with unknown identity serviceId

Improved

• Relaxed Content-Type check in http daemon mode (Thanks @cedb)

[0.11.7] - 2023-02-19

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.22.0

Fixed

• Fix issue with missing pni identity key
• Fix graalvm sqlite issue (Thanks @Marvin A. Ruder)
• Fix issue with forgetting recipient

Changed

• Allow JSON-RPC commands without account param if only one account exists

[0.11.6] - 2022-12-18

Added

• Allow using data URIs for updateGroup/updateProfile
• New alive check endpoint for http daemon (Thanks @ced-b)

Fixed

• Registration with voice verification now works if no system locale is set
• Fixed retrieving attachments in JSON RPC mode (Thanks @ced-b)

[0.11.5.1] - 2022-11-09

Fixed

• Fix updating from older signal-cli version

[0.11.5] - 2022-11-07

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.21.1

Added

• Add --http flag to daemon command to provide a JSON-RPC http endpoint (/api/v1/rpc). (Thanks @ced-b)
• The receive method is now also available in JSON-RPC daemon mode, for polling new messages.
• Add getAttachment command to get attachment file base64 encoded. (Thanks @ced-b)
• Add --disable-send-log to disable the message send log.
• Add --story to sendReaction command, to react to stories.
• Add --story-timestamp and --story-author to send command, to reply to stories.
• Add --max-messages to receive command, to only receive a certain number of messages.

Changed

• Send long text messages as attachment instead. This matches the behavior of the official clients.
• Store attachments with a file extension, for common file types.

[0.11.4] - 2022-10-19

Added

• Approve/Refuse group join requests, using same interface as adding/removing members
• Add --ignore-stories flag to prevent receiving story messages

Fixed

• Fixed issue with receiving messages that can't be decrypted
• Do not discard incoming group join messages

Improved

• Add code to receive new PNI after change number

[0.11.3] - 2022-10-07

Fixed

• Fix sending messages to groups (in non-daemon mode)
• Fix updating from older signal-cli version
• Fix issue with handling decryption error message
• Fix graalvm native build (Thanks @bentolor)

[0.11.2] - 2022-10-06

Fixed

• Update user agent version to work with new Signal-Server check

[0.11.1] - 2022-10-05

Fixed

• Fix sending group messages
• Fix store migration issue on Windows
• Fix building fat jars

[0.11.0] - 2022-10-02

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.20.0

Breaking changes

• Changed meaning of -v flag from --version to --verbose. So now extended logging can be achieved with -vv.
• Remove deprecated fallback to reading from stdin if no message body is given. To read a message from stdin, use the --message-from-stdin flag.

Added

• Migrate PIN to new KBS enclave when Signal updates it
• Add --scrub-log flag to remove possibly sensitive information from the log
• Add sendPaymentNotification dbus method

Fixed

• Fix an issue where messages were sent without sender phone number

Changed

• Store data except base account data in sqlite database
• Use new CDSI for contact discovery in compat mode

[0.10.11] - 2022-08-17

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.19.3

Added

• Output content of received story messages

[0.10.10] - 2022-07-30

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.18.1

Fixed

• Fix setPin/removePin commands which broke due to server side changes
• Workaround GraalVM 22.2.0 issue with daemon connection

[0.10.9] - 2022-07-16

Changed

• updateAccount command checks self number and PNI after updating account attributes

Fixed

• Fixed small issue with syncing contacts from storage
• Fixed issue with opening older account files

[0.10.8] - 2022-06-13

Added

• Attachments can now be given as data: URIs with base64 data instead of just file paths (Thanks @KevinRoebert)
• version command can now be used on the commandline, in addition to the --version flag. In the next version the current short form -v will change its meaning to --verbose!

Improved

• An account can now be registered on both LIVE and STAGING environment in the same config directory.
• Logging output for registering has been extended.

[0.10.7] - 2022-05-29

Added

• Added profile information to listContacts command output
• Added filter flags for listContacts command
• New sendPaymentNotification command to send payment receipt blobs
• New --given-name and --family-name parameters for updateContact command
• Implement sending link previews with --preview-url, --preview-title parameters for the send command
• New --send-read-receipts parameter for receive and daemon commands for automatically marking received messages as read

Fixed

• Issue with endless growing pre-keys-pni data directory

[0.10.6] - 2022-05-19

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.17

Added

• Check if account is used on the environment it was registered (live or staging)
• New command deleteLocalAccountData to delete all local data of an unregistered account
• New parameter -g for listGroups command to filter for specific groups

Fixed

• Fix deleting a recipient which has no uuid

Changed

• Show warning when sending a message and no profile name has been set. (A profile name may become mandatory in the future)
• After blocking a contact/group the profile key is now rotated
• Only update profile keys from authoritative group changes

[0.10.5] - 2022-04-11

Attention: Now requires native libsignal-client version 0.15

Added

• New --ban, --unban flags for updateGroup command to ban users from joining by group link

Fixed

• Fix plain text output of blocked group ids
• Fix error output in case of rate limiting
• Fix error when creating a group with no members
• Fix adding recent Signal-Desktop versions as linked devices

[0.10.4.2] - 2022-03-17

Fixed

• Crash in json output when receiving message from untrusted identity
• Fix multi account commands for newly created accounts

[0.10.4.1] - 2022-03-02

Fixed

• Linking to current apps (which currently don't include a PNI identity yet)
• Show better error message when --target-timestamp is missing for sendReceipt

[0.10.4] - 2022-02-20

Added

• Implement support for change number as linked device
• Add --message-from-stdin flag for send command. The current behavior of reading from stdin if the -m flag is not given, will be removed in a future version.

Changed

• Align receive timeout behavior for dbus client with cli and JSON-RPC. Timeout is reset by every incoming message
• Renamed error field in json receive response to exception

Fixed

• Prevent a stale jsonrpc connection from interfering with message receiving

[0.10.3] - 2022-02-01

Added

• MessageSendLog to cache sent message for 24h. For resending messages in case the recipient fails to decrypt the message.
• New global --log-file parameter to write logs to a separate file. (--verbose can be used to increase the log level)

Improved

• Better subscription handling for JSON-RPC subscribeReceive command

Fixed

• Output receipt data for unsealed sender receipts again
• Fix sending message resend requests to devices that happen to have the same deviceId

[0.10.2] - 2022-01-22

Fixed

• Archive old sessions/sender keys when a recipient's identity key has changed
• Fix profile fetch with an invalid LANG variable

[0.10.1] - 2022-01-16

Added

• Send group messages with sender keys (more efficient for larger groups)
• New command listStickerPacks to display all known sticker packs
• New flag --sticker for send command to send stickers

Changed

• Improve exit code for message sending. Exit with 0 status code if the message was sent successfully to at least one recipient, otherwise exit with status code 2 or 4 (for untrusted).
• Download profiles in parallel for improved perfomance
• --verbose flag can be specified multiple times for additional log output
• Enable more security options for systemd service file
• Rename sandbox to staging environment, to match the upstream name.

Fixed

• The first incoming message after registration can now always be decrypted successfully
• Ignore decryption failures from blocked contacts and don't send a resend request.

[0.10.0] - 2021-12-11

Attention: Now requires Java 17 and libsignal-client version 0.11

Added

• The daemon command now provides a JSON-RPC based socket interface (--socket and --tcp)
• New daemon command flag --receive-mode to configure when messages are received
• New daemon command flag --no-receive-stdout to prevent outputting messages on stdout
• New command listAccounts that lists all registered local accounts
• New command removeContact
• Extend send command to allow sending mentions (--mention) and quotes (--quote-timestamp, --quote-author, --quote-message, --quote-mention)
• New dbus methods sendGroupTying, unregister, deleteAccount
• New dbus events MessageReceivedV2, ReceiptReceivedV2, SyncMessageReceivedV2 that provide an extras parameter with additional message info as a key/value map
• New dbus method sendViewedReceipt (Thanks @John Freed)
• New dbus object Configuration to read and update configuration values (Thanks @John Freed)
• Payment info in json receive output (Thanks @technillogue)
• -c alias for --config (Thanks @technillogue)

Changed

• libzkgroup dependency is no longer required
• 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.
• Respect phone number sharing mode and unlisted state set by primary device
• Adapt register command to reactivate account if possible.
• dbus-java now uses Java 16 native unix sockets, which should provide better cross-platform compatibility
• 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.

Fixed

• Registering an existing unregistered account now works reliably in daemon mode
• Fixed an issue with loading some old config files without UUID
• More reliable send behavior if some recipients are unregistered

[0.9.2] - 2021-10-24

Fixed

• dbus listNumbers method works again

Changed

• Improved provisioning error handling if the last steps fail
• Adapt behavior of receive command as dbus client to match normal mode
• Update captcha url for proof required handling

[0.9.1] - 2021-10-16

Attention: Now requires native libzkgroup version 0.8

Added

• New command updateConfiguration which allows setting configurations for linked devices
• Improved dbus daemon for group handling, groups are now exported as separate dbus objects
• Linked devices can be managed via dbus
• New dbus methods sendTyping and sendReadReceipt (Thanks @JtheSaw)
• New dbus methods submitRateLimitChallenge, isRegistered, listDevices, setExpirationTimer, sendContacts, sendSyncRequest, uploadStickerPack, setPin and removePin (Thanks @John Freed)
• New dbus method getSelfNumber

Fixed

• Do not send message resend request to own device
• Allow message from pending member to accept group invitations
• Fix issue which could cause signal-cli to repeatedly send the same delivery receipts
• Reconnect websocket after connection loss

Changed

• Use new provisioning URL sgnl://linkdevice instead of tsdevice:/
• The gradle command to build a graalvm native image is now ./gradlew nativeCompile

[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 primary 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 primary 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 primary 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

[0.6.11] - 2020-10-14

• Fix issue with receiving message reactions

[0.6.10] - 2020-09-11

• Fix issue when retrieving profiles
• Workaround issue with libzkgroup on platforms other than linux x86_64

[0.6.9] - 2020-09-10

• Minor bug fixes and improvements
• dbus functionality now works on FreeBSD
• signal-cli now requires Java 11

Warning: this version only works on Linux x86_64, will be fixed in 0.6.10

[0.6.8] - 2020-05-22

• Switch to hypfvieh dbus-java, which doesn't require a native library anymore (drops requirement of libmatthew-unix-java)
• Bugfixes for messages with uuids
• Add --expiration parameter to updateContact command to set expiration timer

[0.6.7] - 2020-04-03

• Send command now returns the timestamp of the sent message
• DBus daemon: Publish received sync message to SyncMessageReceived signal
• Fix issue with resolving e164/uuid addresses for sessions
• Fix pack key length for sticker upload

[0.6.6] - 2020-03-29

• Added listContacts command
• Added block/unblock commands to block contacts and groups
• Added uploadStickerPack command to upload sticker packs (see man page for more details)
• Full support for sending and receiving unidentified sender messages
• Support for message reactions with emojis
• Internal: support recipients with uuids

[0.6.5] - 2019-11-11

Supports receiving messages sent with unidentified sender

[0.6.4] - 2019-11-02

• Fix rounding error for attachment ids in json output
• Add additional info to json output
• Add commands to update profile name and avatar
• Add command to update contact names

[0.6.3] - 2019-09-05

Bug fixes and small improvements

[0.6.2] - 2018-12-16

• Fixes sending of group messages

[0.6.1] - 2018-12-09

• Added getGroupIds dbus command
• Use "NativePRNG" pseudo random number generator, if available
• Switch default data path: $XDG_DATA_HOME/signal-cli ($HOME/.local/share/signal-cli) Existing data paths will continue to work (used as fallback)

[0.6.0] - 2018-05-03

• Simple json output
• dbus signal for receiving messages
• Registration lock PIN
• Output quoted message

[0.5.6] - 2017-06-16

• new listGroups command
• Support for attachments with file names
• Support for complete contacts sync
• Support for contact verification sync
• DBus interface:
• Get/Set group info
• Get/Set contact info

[0.5.5] - 2017-02-18

• fix receiving messages on linked devices
• add unregister command

[0.5.4] - 2017-02-17

• Fix linking of new devices

[0.5.3] - 2017-01-29

• New commandline paramter for receive: --ignore-attachments
• Updated dependencies

[0.5.2] - 2016-12-16

• Add support for group info requests
• Improve closing of file streams

[0.5.1] - 2016-11-18

• Support new safety numbers (https://whispersystems.org/blog/safety-number-updates/)
• Add a man page
• Support sending disappearing messages, if the recipient has activated it

[0.5.0] - 2016-08-29

• Check if a number is registered on Signal, before adding it to a group
• Prevent sending to groups that the user has quit
• Commands to trust new identity keys (see README)
• Messages from untrusted identities are stored on disk and decrypted when the user trusts the identity
• Timestamps shown in ISO 8601 format

[0.4.1] - 2016-07-18

• Fix issue with creating groups
• Lock config file to prevent parallel access by multiple instances of signal-cli
• Improve return codes, always return non-zero code, when sending failed

[0.4.0] - 2016-06-19

• Linking to Signal-Desktop and Signal-Android is now possible (Provisioning)
• Added a contact store, mainly for syncing contacts with linked devices (editing not yet possible via cli)
• Avatars for groups and contacts are now stored (new folder "avatars" in the config path)

[0.3.1] - 2016-04-03

• Fix running with Oracle JRE 8
• Fix registering
• Fix unicode warning when compiling with non utf8 locale

[0.3.0] - 2016-04-02

• Renamed textsecure-cli to signal-cli, following the rename of libtextsecure-java to libsignal-service-java
• The experimental dbus interface was also renamed to org.asamk.Signal
• Upload new prekeys to the server, when there are less than 20 left, prekeys are needed to create new sessions

[0.2.1] - 2016-02-10

• Improve dbus service
• New command line argument --config to specify config directory

[0.2.0] - 2015-12-30

Added an experimental dbus interface, for sending and receiving messages (The interface is unstable and may change with future releases).

This release works with Java 7 and 8.

[0.1.0] - 2015-11-28

Add support for creating/updating groups and sending to them

[0.0.5] - 2015-11-21

• Add receive timeout commandline parameter
• Show message group info

[0.0.4] - 2015-09-22

[0.0.3] - 2015-08-07

[0.0.2] - 2015-07-08

First release