Velvet Ash

• Upgrade Clap from 3.x to 4.x for #198
  • Use new ExportType enum
  • Resolve GHSA-g98v-hv3f-hcfr
• Use PST timezone for tests for #199
• Check for available disk space before writing export files for #201
  • Prevents exporting if there is not enough disk space
  • Dismissible with --ignore-disk-warning
• Use correct date offset in Check In messages for #202
• Improve html escape logic for text to fix #32 and #217
• Properly render thread originators that were edited for #220
• Improve exported data quality
  • Simplify Apple Pay and Apple Cash bubbles in html exports
  • Simplify Find My bubbles in html and txt exports
  • Support parsing Placemark data from shared Maps links
  • Properly handle Handwritten message placeholder
  • Properly handle all unsent message types, not just text
• Add some new diagnostics:
  • Total number of messages
  • Total database size
  • Attachment size referenced in table
  • Attachment size on disk
  Example output

  iMessage Database Diagnostics
    Message diagnostic data:
        Total messages: 97541
        Messages not associated with a chat: 3406
        Messages belonging to more than one chat: 29
    Attachment diagnostic data:
        Total attachments: 36636
            Data referenced in table: 32.11 GB
            Data present on disk: 27.73 GB
        Missing files: 6231 (17%)
            No path provided: 6132
            No file located: 99
    Global diagnostic data:
        Total database size: 199.43 MB
        Duplicated contacts: 76
        Duplicated chats: 16

• Miscellaneous docs updates, code cleanups, and small speedups

Laurel Sumac

Version 1.7.0 Laurel Sumac contains the following fixes and improvements:

• iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma Support!
  • Support Check In messages for #173
    • Support parsing URL query string metadata
  • Support parsing iOS 17 Sticker Effects for #174
    • Properly copy, convert, and display sticker messages
    • Support converting animated and transparent stickers
• Emit clearer error if the specified database path exists but is not an iMessage database for #177
• Support custom attachment root for #178
• Make chat service_name field Optional for #181
• Downgrade error to warning when no-lazy flag is set for txt exports for #189
• Support parsing App Store app links for #196
• Build with latest rustc

Checker Mallow

Version 1.6.0 Checker Mallow contains the following fixes and improvements:

• Make handle_id field optional for #148
• Make attachment file paths relative to the export directory in #152 (contributed by @mxswd)
• Add links between threaded messages in HTML exports for #154
• Make audio messages display properly for #155
• Resolve bug where multiple ~ in filepaths got replaced with $HOME for #156
• Add better fallback SQL for backwards compatibility with iOS 14/15 in #157
• Correct HTML and CSS mistakes in #162 (Contributed by @dviner)
• Add attachment file size information to diagnostics and exports
• Update uninstall steps
• Resolve file name extension bug for #164
• Build with latest rustc

Arroyo Lupine

Version 1.5.0 Arroyo Lupine contains the following fixes and improvements:

• Rework attachment management logic
• Improve attachment and message table diagnostics
• Allow attachment backup for txt exports
• Support diagnostics for iOS backups for #118
• Automatically detect backup platform for #121
• Add uninstall steps for #122
• Add option to keep original image formats for #125
• Better dedupe logic to fix #135
• Build with latest rustc

Cliff Aster

Version 1.4.0 Cliff Aster includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Support parsing iOS databases, most notably attachments (contributed by @Debusan13)
• Simplify table extract() logic (contributed by @Debusan13)
• Add Platform option and datatype
• Support restoring recently deleted messages

Coyote Mint

Version 1.3.0: Coyote Mint includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Use imagemagick for HEIC conversion to fix #89 (Contributed by @PenguinSnail)
• Implement #30 (Contributed by @seanwolter)
• Rewrite Converter logic
• Rework announcement message logic
• Update dependencies
• Build with latest rustc

Lemonade Berry

Version 1.2.0: Lemonade Berry includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Add date filter support for #48
• Add flag to disable lazy-loading in HTML exports for #86
• Alert when exports exist in the same directory to guard against overwriting data

Mountain Sage

Version 1.1.0: Mountain Sage includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Store attachments in separate folders for each conversation for #60
• Use correct metadata for copied attachment Date Created and Date Modified for #67 and #79
• Use new RunTime error type instead of String
• Improve performance by caching reactions more aggressively
  • ≈25% faster with --no-copy
    Expand for Exporter::format_message() flamegraphs

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• Use relative attachment paths in HTML files for #63
• Bundle a copy of sqlite to fix #65, #66, and #68
• Clarify documentation written for #71 and #72
• Correctly display HTML video attachments in Chrome to fix #73

Golden Master

Golden Master 1.0.0 release!

Release Candidate 11

• Implement #35
• Implement #36
• Better URL message parsing logic due to overloading of com.apple.messages.URLBalloonProvider
• Build using Rust 1.66.1