1.7.4
2021-01-19
Session now uses the Session Protocol! We also made link previews work for almost any site (if switched on) and fixed various bugs.
1.7.3
2020-12-18
Fixes:
• Minor performance improvements.
Improvements:
• Prepared the app for the upcoming Session Protocol implementation.
• If you haven't yet upgraded your Session ID, the app will now ask you to do so.
• Improved VoiceOver support.
1.7.2
2020-12-14
This version fixes two somewhat common crashes.
1.7.1
2020-12-10
Fixes:
• Fixed a bug that could cause bad performance.
Improvements:
• Re-built the message sending & receiving pipelines for improved reliability.
1.6.5
2020-11-13
Fixes:
• Attachments should now download automatically after opening the app from a push notification.
Improvements:
• Invite a friend using the in-app invite button. :)
• Support for bigger attachments.
• Voice messages are now limited to one minute.
1.6.4
2020-11-02
Fixes:
• Fixed a file download onion routing issue.
• Fixed a crash that could happen from time to time.
• Various share screen fixes.
Improvements:
• New and improved voice messages design.
• Improved the reliability of closed groups.
• Improved path maintenance.
• Tappable profile pictures.
• Improved GIF searching.
1.6.3
2020-10-29
Fixes:
• Fixed a file download onion routing issue.
• Fixed a crash that could happen from time to time.
Improvements:
• New and improved voice messages design.
• Improved the reliability of closed groups.
• Bigger attachments.
• Improved path maintenance.
1.6.2
2020-10-28
Fixes:
• Fixed a file download onion routing issue.
• Fixed a crash that could happen from time to time.
Improvements:
• New and improved voice messages design.
• Improved the reliability of closed groups.
• Bigger attachments.
• Improved path maintenance.
1.6.1
2020-10-14
Fixes:
• Fixed a bug that could cause issues in closed group after a user was removed.
• Sometimes older messages would collapse after receiving a new one. This is now fixed.
Improvements:
• Increased push notification reliability.
• Minor UI polish.
1.6.0
2020-10-05
Fixes:
• Fixed a crash that could occur upon opening the message details screen.
Improvements:
• Newly created closed groups will now use the shared sender keys protocol, enabling them to be faster, more reliable and larger.
• Editing for newly created closed groups.
1.5.4
2020-10-01
Fixes:
• Fixed a crash that could occur upon sending certain GIFs.
• The app now follows the notification settings specified in the in-app settings.
Improvements:
• Minor UI polish.
1.5.3
2020-09-22
Fixes:
• Fixed a bug that could make open group profile pictures look strange.
Improvements:
• You can now toggle read receipts in the in-app settings.
• Added a copy Session ID button to the conversations settings.
• Added an all media button to the conversation settings.
• Profile picture placeholders are now consistent across platforms.
• Laid the groundwork for improved push notifications and faster, bigger, and more reliable closed groups.
1.5.2
2020-09-12
Fixes:
• Fixed a bug that could interfere with path re-building.
Improvements:
• New and improved profile picture placeholders.
• Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese & Polish translations.
• UI polish.
1.5.1
2020-09-04
Improvements:
• UI polish.
• You can now manually reset your session from the conversation settings screen.
1.4.6
2020-08-28
Fixes:
• Messages should now be ordered correctly in open groups.
Improvements:
• Sending photos is now more reliable.
1.4.5
2020-08-25
Fixes:
• Fixed various account restoration related issues.
• The app should now recover from bad encrypted messages.
• Session reset now works correctly.
• Various crash fixes.
• Fixed open group profile pictures.
• Fixed an issue where marking a conversation as read wouldn't work.
• Mentions now show up correctly in notifications.
• Fixed an issue where profile pictures sometimes wouldn't display.
• Attachments sometimes wouldn't download after receiving a push notification; now they do.
• Session reset now correctly shows you a confirmation when finished.
• Fixed an issue where if you tapped a notification while in the settings screen, it wouldn't take you to the conversation screen.
• Cleaned up the message that's shown when you change the disappearing messages timer.
• Fixed an issue with small photo captions not showing up.
• Fixed an issue where messages could show up in duplicate in open groups.
• The muted label now disappears correctly when the mute period expires.
• When a member of a closed group leaves it now shows their name rather than their ID.
• Fixed link previews.
Improvements:
• Persian translation.
• Various minor UI improvements.
• Closed groups now have a disappearing messages setting.
• Improved Chinese (simplified) translation.
• The app is now better at handling unreliable Service Nodes.
1.4.4
2020-08-21
Fixes:
• The app should now recover from bad encrypted messages.
• Session reset now works correctly.
• Various crash fixes.
• Fixed open group profile pictures.
• Fixed an issue where marking a conversation as read wouldn't work.
• Mentions now show up correctly in notifications.
• Fixed an issue where profile pictures sometimes wouldn't display.
• Attachments sometimes wouldn't download after receiving a push notification; now they do.
• Session reset now correctly shows you a confirmation when finished.
• Fixed an issue where if you tapped a notification while in the settings screen, it wouldn't take you to the conversation screen.
• Cleaned up the message that's shown when you change the disappearing messages timer.
• Fixed an issue with small photo captions not showing up.
• Fixed an issue where messages could show up in duplicate in open groups.
• The muted label now disappears correctly when the mute period expires.
• When a member of a closed group leaves it now shows their name rather than their ID.
• Fixed link previews.
Improvements:
• Persian translation.
• Various minor UI improvements.
• Closed groups now have a disappearing messages setting.
• Improved Chinese (simplified) translation.
• The app is now better at handling unreliable Service Nodes.
1.4.3
2020-08-20
Fixes:
• Various crash fixes.
• Fixed open group profile pictures.
• Fixed an issue where marking a conversation as read wouldn't work.
• Mentions now show up correctly in notifications.
• Fixed an issue where profile pictures sometimes wouldn't display.
• Attachments sometimes wouldn't download after receiving a push notification; now they do.
• Session reset now correctly shows you a confirmation when finished.
• Fixed an issue where if you tapped a notification while in the settings screen, it wouldn't take you to the conversation screen.
• Cleaned up the message that's shown when you change the disappearing messages timer.
• Fixed an issue with small photo captions not showing up.
• Fixed an issue where messages could show up in duplicate in open groups.
• The muted label now disappears correctly when the mute period expires.
• When a member of a closed group leaves it now shows their name rather than their ID.
• Fixed link previews.
Improvements:
• Various minor UI improvements.
• Closed groups now have a disappearing messages setting.
• Improved Chinese (simplified) translation.
• The app is now better at handling unreliable Service Nodes.
1.4.2
2020-08-06
Fixes:
• Fixed open group message deletion.
Improvements:
• Various UI improvements.
• Any display name is now allowed.
• Disabled multi device.
1.4.0
2020-08-03
Fixes:
• Fixed a common crash that could occur after tapping a push notification.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent push notifications from appearing.
Improvements:
• File uploads and open groups are now also fully onion routed.
• When you tap a push notification to open the app, all your messages are now visible right away.
• Chinese (simplified), Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian translations.
• Simplified the onboarding process for new users.
• Improved performance.
• Improved French translation.
• Various minor UI improvements.
1.3.0
2020-07-22
Fixes:
• Fixed several common crashes.
Improvements:
• Replaced the friend request system by blocking.
1.2.6
2020-07-15
Fixes:
• Fixed link previews for users that have them enabled.
• Message actions are now consistent across different types of chats.
• Mentions behavior is now consistent with other platforms.
• Fixed a session handling bug that could occur in closed groups.
Improvements:
• Prepared the app for the upcoming desktop overhaul.
• Prepared the app for the upcoming closed groups overhaul.
1.2.5
2020-06-23
Fixes:
• Joining open groups didn't work for some users. It should now be much more reliable.
• When you unlink a device you want it to be gone. Preferably permanently. Devices now don't come back after you unlink them.
• Fixed an issue where some of your messages could be missing after leaving and re-joining an open group.
• Fixed open group messaging from a linked device.
• Open group names and logos now update correctly.
• When someone messages you in a closed group you will now correctly see their profile picture.
• Your profile picture should now sync across correctly when linking a device.
• When your clock is out of sync with the Service Node network that's a problem. The app now tells you when this is the case.
• Fixed an encryption issue that could prevent some users from sending messages.
• Unknown contacts now no longer show up when creating a closed group.
• The app now guards against Service Nodes specifying an unreasonably high proof of work requirement.
• Some users reported the app crashing when searching in group chats. This has now been fixed.
• Fixed a crash that could happen after opening a notification.
• The share screen now shows the correct contacts.
Improvements:
• Overhauled database handling resulting in a more performant and reliable experience.
• The app now makes better use of multithreading, making everything smoother.
• Photos taken with the in-app camera could be rather blurry. The quality should be a lot better now.
• All mentions are now styled the same.
• Building the app from source is now considerably easier.
• Some protocol changes to ensure compatibility with the upcoming desktop refactor.
• Minor UI improvements.
1.2.3
2020-06-05
Fixes:
• Open groups show the actual number of members now.
• Fixed profile pictures in closed groups.
• The bottom of your conversation list is now always reachable.
• No more duplicate push notifications.
Improvements:
• The app now uses 3 hop onion requests, providing even better anonymity than before.
• You can now see the Service Nodes used by your app for onion requests (and what countries they're in).
• Made the Session ID in conversation settings copyable.
• The app now uses more secure seed nodes.
• Performance improvements.
• Improved copy across the board.
1.2.1
2020-05-20
Fixes:
• When you link a device your contacts now correctly show up on your other device.
Improvements:
• Significant performance improvements.
1.2.0
2020-05-09
Fixes:
• Fixed multi device friend request acceptance
• Fixed multi device auto-generated friend request bug
• Fixed contact syncing
• Fixed APNs token uploading issue
• Fixed various database handling bugs
• Fixed various minor UI issues
• Fixed various crashes
• Fixed multi device display name updating bug
• Fixed multi device message status bar updating bug
• Fixed session reset
• Fixed various closed groups issues
Improvements:
• Don’t attach the sender’s profile picture URL to friend request messages (to prevent unsolicited content from being sent)
• Major refactoring of the Session protocol layer
• Made default RSS feeds deletable
• Don’t auto-join default RSS feeds
• Increased message TTL
• Added tests for Session protocol corner cases
• Made device linking more reliable
• Improved performance
1.1.0
2020-04-17
Fixes:
• Sometimes Service Nodes aren't reliable. Session now correctly retries with a different Service Node if a message failed to send.
• Fixed various multithreading bugs that could cause poor performance or undefined behavior.
• Fixed various closed group bugs.
Improvements:
• Session now offers the choice between using APNs and background polling (previously the default) for push notifications. APNs provides much more reliable and immediate push notifications.
• Heavily refactored the service node communication layer for greatly improved reliability.
• Various minor UI improvements.
