Release

6.3.1 (#1058)

- Fix flickering of chat background image
- Make keyboard auto-appear configurable
- Improve error propagation when uploading/downloading files
- Fix detection of omemo keys for groupchats
- Make several UI elements translatable now
- Fix error handling when creating groups
- Show used / discovered MUC servers in server details

Release 6.3.0 (Build 900, PR #1047)

• Fix muc status code handling for biboumi
• Implement XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction
• Implement XEP-0490: Message Displayed Synchronization
• Better default chat background for light and dark mode
• Fix crashes when used with very old Openfire server
• Improve cert error message
• Highlight selected chat on iPad and macOS
• Mark pinned chats with icon instead of color
• Completely rewrite privacy settings (thanks Vaidik)
• Automatically focus chat input and open keyboard when entering chat
• Allow SASL PLAIN on servers not supporting SCRAM but SASL2
• Completely new debug menu
• Add new privacy setting to allow/block calls from strangers
• Don't block callkit in china anymore
• Fix several other crashes and UI bugs

6.0.0 (Build 869)

NEW: Audio-call support (This feature will not be available to users in China and macOS users!)

Other changes:

• New Logo and new placeholder images by Ann-Sophie Zwahlen
• New "Add Contact" and "Contact Requests" UI
• Complete rewrite of OMEMO code
• Speed up app start
• Add support for SASL2 (XEP-0388)
• Implement XEP-0424: Message Retraction
• Add support for creating invitations (button only displayed if your server supports it, see https://docs.modernxmpp.org/client/invites/)
• Add timestamp when quoting older messages
• Always show a "Notes to self“ chat
• Overhaul implementation of last interaction display
• Show scroll-down button in groupchats
• OMEMO keys are copyable now (double tap)
• Add OSS based crash reporting (KSCrash), reports can be voluntarily sent via mail
• Fix logfile handling
• Add XEP-0215 (external services) to server details ui
• Only show contacts in contacts panel if they are in our roster
• Implement invitations using qr codes in addition of xmpp: uris
• Implement new image viewer compatible with iOS 17
• Implement gif support in image viewer

Bugfixes:

• Many bugfixes
• Fix bookmarks2 handling
• Fix XEP-0333 in private groups
• Fix url preview for sites not having oc: tags
• Set notifications to "mention only" when joining public channels
• Show per-resource last interaction timestamp in resource list
• Fix file uploading and sharing
• Fix timer when recording audio messages
• Fix muc avatar fetching

5.2.0 (Build 796)

This is the release of Monal 5.2.0

Build: 796 iOS & Mac

Contributors: @tmolitor-stud-tu, @FriedrichAltheide, @janst97

Find our release files here: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal#releases

Highlights

• Switched to new push servers (Europe or US)
• Display transferred files in app's documents directory (file app)
• Removed voice message recordings from macOS for now
• Fixed QR code scanning on macOS
• Fixed encryption (OMEMO) QR code scanning bug
• Fixed crash on link preview (issue #833)
• Fixed onboarding via invite link
• Fixed iOS notification auth for new installs
• Fixed multiple crashes

5.1.1 (Build 793)

This is the release of Monal 5.1.1

Build: 793 iOS & Mac

Contributors: @tmolitor-stud-tu, @FriedrichAltheide, @janst97

Find our release files here: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal#releases

Highlights

• Only fetch group chat (MUC) avatars on hash changes
• Disable background image by default in new installs
• Only display active chats of enabled accounts
• Fix crash when trying to scan QR codes
• Fix crash when accounts are disabled
• Fix nickname field of contact details to show only for 1:1 chats
• Add support for sharing any file type with Monal via share sheet
• Introduce new encryption (OMEMO) keys UI
• Fix file upload encryption issue for share sheet uploads
• Implement new framework for mandatory handler arguments
• Fix crash if Monal retrieves a group chat (MUC) message via MAM while the sender is currently not joined
• Many bugfixes and improvements

5.1.0 (Build 780)

This is the release of Monal 5.1.0

(Build: 780 iOS & Mac)

Minimum iOS version is now 14.0

Contributors: @tmolitor-stud-tu, @FriedrichAltheide, @janst97

Find our release files here: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal#releases

Highlights

• Support OMEMO in private MUCs
• Communication Notifications on iOS 15
• New improved and simplified notification appex
• Switched to new newer libsignal-protocol-c version
• Fixing some memory leaks
• Fixes MUC invites
• Improve OMEMO
• Reduce avatar image size to ~60kb to make ejabberd throttling happy
• Support MUC muting again and implement "mention only" notification mode for MUCs
• Fix voice messages from conversations
• Allow deletion of history for one contact
• Add auto-deletion of messages after 3 days (default: off)
• Update timeouts to make Monal work even under very bad/slow network conditions
• Add support for XMPP: invites (https://docs.modernxmpp.org/client/invites/)
• Use bigger IQ timeouts to account for throttling by XMPP servers (like ejabberd)
• Remove all old VoIP code (was not working anymore)
• Prevent spurious "could not sync" errors in multi account setups
• Use less memory on incoming stanza flood (only parse ~100 stanzas at once)
• Fix error in message deduplication (some messages could be received twice)

Monal 5.0.1 (Build 761)

This is the release of Monal 5.0.1

Build:
761 iOS
761 Mac

Related post in the Monal Blog.

Relevant changelog:

• Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
• Fixed duplication of contacts in chat overview
• Fixed some crashes
• Show Debug menu after tapping 16 times onto app version
• Don't drop file download errors silently
• Don't log outgoing SASL and password change stanzas (your password won't be logged anymore)
• Trim whitespaces and newlines at the beginning or end of a message
• Fix microphone icon not always showing
• Renamed "Log" to "Debug" in settings menu
• Move contact details close button to the left
• Fix some very rare TCP stream handling bugs
• Fix old XMPP resources created with Monal older than version 4.3 not having a random part
• Fix bug in upload queue not reacting to enter key
• Privacy: Only register to APNS and push appserver if notifications are allowed
• Fix bug in MAM handling with ejabberd

Monal 5.0.0 (Build 750)

This is the release of Monal 5.0.0

Build:
750 iOS
TBA Mac (Will likely come with 5.0.1)

Related post in the Monal Blog.

Relevant changelog:

• Complete rewrite of MUC support (but without enhanced UI yet (e.g. create group, list participants etc.))
• Support for MUC bookmarks
• New upload queue UI (confirm file transfers before sending)
• Catalyst: drag drop support for files
• Chat: Message quote swipe action
• Chat: Show Emoji in bigger font
• TLS 1.3 support
• Video upload support
• Voice and video messages refactored
• Photo share option on iOS
• XEP-191: Blocking command
• QR code scanning for macOS
• Encryption: Show own OMEMO key QR codes for quick verification
• Encryption: Show trust stage
• Catalyst (especially on apple silicon) now has real push support
• Fixed OMEMO to/from Siskin/Beagle
• Many small improvements and bugfixes

Resolved issues (especially with OMEMO encryption):

• OMEMO encryption to and from Sisikin IM or Beagle IM is now functional
• Improve OMEMO encryption handling for broken sessions
• Persistence of trust levels even if OMEMO encryption errors occur
• Increased app startup speed
• Fixed crash on account deletion
• Do not allow change of account ID (JID)
• Send Last Message Correction encrypted if used in an encrypted chat
• Many small and bigger fixes, improvements and stability changes.

Privacy: Push server now uses XMPP for registering new push tokens (now the Monal app-server never sees your IP)

Known issues

• Sometimes audio / video messages can not be played in iOS until the app is closed and swiped away
• Message quotes not yet displayed in a fancy style
• MUC OMEMO not yet implemented

There were many more changes you can always review here.
See also significant issues and pull request assigned to milestones: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/milestone/1

Please update to the new version! Feedback is always welcome.

Monal 4.9.1 (Build 686)

This is the release of Monal 4.9.1 (Build 686 iOS, 691 Mac ).

Relevant changelog:

• XEP-0172: Nicknames (set own nickname, read other nicknames)
• XEP-0084: User Avatar (set own avatar)
• Add account via QR-Code scanning
• iOS: Floating scroll to bottom button
• You are able to adjust the message notification content (Notification Privacy Setting Options UI)
• Monal should run faster now
• Complete parser rewrite (including a new project specific XML query language and abstractions for pubsub/pep, data forms and XMPP stanza elements)
• Actions for notifications (mark as read, direct reply)
• Improve MAM preferences UI
• /me command
• Use roster names or nicknames for name display instead of JID
• Support for XEP-0333 displayed/read markers synchronizing read state across devices and removing notifications for messages read on another device
• Update of various translations
• OMEMO: Major rewrite and improvements, such as sending pictures from iOS 12
• Another bunch of improvements and code clean-ups
• Another bunch of bugfixes

There were many more changes you can always review here.
See also significant issues and pull request assigned to milestones: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/milestone/1

Please update to the new version! Feedback is always welcome.

Monal 4.8.0 (Build 658)

This is the release of Monal 4.8 (Build 658 iOS, 662 Mac ).

Relevant changelog:

• Add translations files and string updates
• Add shift enter command for new line
• Adding default BartyCrouch config (Support tool for translations)
• Add XEP-0092 Software Version functions
• Activate NSE filtering entitlement (Apple finally approved it!)
• NotificationService -> iOS 13.6
• Travis: use Xcode 11.7
• New shortcut: Command + I opens contact details
• Message state handling ('send' & 'receive' status)
• Reduced amount of OMEMO decryption errors (atomic storage) and also more OMEMO fixes
• Improvements on MAM (chat history) and proper ordering of messages
• Improvements of logging, log view and export
• Improvements of IPC messages
• More improvements on push notifications
• Upgrades the embedded default database from version 1.6 to version 4.0
• Many code clean-ups
• Fix idle state notification
• Fix DataLayer completion
• Many more bugfixes

There were many more changes you can always review here.
See also significant issues and pull request assigned to milestones: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/milestone/2

Please update to the new version! Feedback is always welcome.