Delta Chat Changelog

v0.20.0

2018-08-14

Check size before sending videos, files and other attachments
On sending problems, try over an appropriate number of times; then give up
Detect sending problems related to the message size, show an error and do not try over
Show message errors in the message info
Add user forum to website
Update python bindings
Seed node.js bindings and a CLI version based on this
Prepare Android bindings update
Update Danish, Italian and Russian translations

The changes have been done by Andrei Guliaikin, Angelo Fuchs, Björn Petersen, compl4xx, Boehrsi, Enrico B., Floris Bruynooghe, Holger Krekel, Janka, Jikstra, Karissa McKelvey, Lars-Magnus Skog, Ole Carlsen

v0.19.0

2018-07-10

Give advices for Google users
Speed up by making database-locks unneccessary
Fix drafts appearing twice
Update Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Turkish translations
Update website

The changes have been done by Allan Nordhøy, Angelo Fuchs, Besnik, Björn Petersen, Calbasi, Claudio Arseni, guland2000, Heimen Stoffels, Holger Krekel, Luis Fernando Stürmer da Rosa, Mahmut Özcan, Ole Carlsen, Osoitz, sebek, Thomas Oster

v0.18.2

2018-06-23

Fix initial configure process to hang at 95% under some circumstances

v0.18.0

2018-06-21

Speed up message sending/receiving
Retry failed sending/receiving jobs just in the moment the networks becomes available again
Make message sending/receiving more reliable
Handle attachment file names with non-ASCII characters correctly
Paging through images made available by Angelo Fuchs
Several connection issues with different configurations were fixed by Thomas Oster
Improve chat-folder creation by Thomas Oster
Request permissions before using the camera; added by Thomas Oster
Key import improved by Thomas Oster
Improve background and foreground message fetching reliability
Try to use the permanent notification only when really needed
Update internal sqlite library from 3.22.0 to 3.23.1
Update internal libEtPan library from 1.7 to 1.8
Add Danish translation from Ole Carlsen
Update Albanian, Basque, Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Telugu translations

v0.17.3

2018-05-17

Fix system messages appearing twice
Fix: Use all gossipped verifications in verified groups
Update Basque, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations

v0.17.2

2018-05-15

Fix problem with adding formerly uncontacted members to groups
Unblock manually blocked members when they are created manually as contact again

v0.17.1

2018-05-11

Improve QR code scanning screens
Add a labs-option to disabled the new QR logo overlay
Update Russian translations

v0.17.0

2018-05-07

Show shared chats in user profiles
If a contact has changed his encryption setups, this is shown as a system messages in the middle of the chat view
Show added group members, changed group titles etc. as system messages
Show direct buttons to create a new group or contact in the “New Chat” dialog
Improve “Add contact” dialog
Move subject and most chat metadata to the encrypted part following the “Memoryhole” proposal
Show read-timestamps in message info
Do not add contacts from Bcc to group-memberlist to avoid privacy leaks and to get a unique memberlist for all group-members
In a mail contains plaintext and encrypted parts, the whole mail is treated as not being encrypted correctly
Restructure settings and advanced settings
Fix problems with Office 365 and similar services
Fix a problem where incoming messages are shown as being sent by oneself
Experimental QR code scanning options can be enabled in the advanced settings
Update Albanian, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian translations
Add Basque translation
Add Chinese translation
Add Japanese translation

v0.16.0

2018-03-19

Messages from normal clients to more than one recipient create an implicit “ad-hoc group”
Allow group creation though contact requests
Always display the sending time in the chat list; the list itself is sorted by receiving time and “Message info” shows both times now
If parts but the footnote are cut from mails, this is indicated “…”; use “Message info” to get the full text
Highlight the subject in the “Message info”
Autoconfigure prefers ‘https’ over ‘http’
Bug fixes, eg. avoid freezes if the connection is lost
Update Russian, Tamil and Turkish translations

This version requires access to the camera for upcoming QR code scanning options which can be tested already in this version, see commit 74ffbf4.

v0.15.0

2018-02-27

Render the waveform for voice messages
Fix problems with voice messages on various devices
Improve deletion of message that were moved around by another e-mail client
Really delete messages on the server, do not only mark them for deletion
Ignore subsequent keys or blocks in OpenPGP files
Leave incoming Autocrypt Setup Messages in the inbox so that any number of other e-mail-clients can process them
Avoid messages sent to the “Me” chat appearing twice in other e-mail clients
Update Albanian translation

v0.14.0

2018-02-20

Evaluate gossiped keys
Option to transfer the Autocrypt Setup to another device or e-mail client
Accept Autocrypt Setup transferred from other devices or e-mail client
Send any data from device to device using the chat “Me - Messages I sent to myself”
Do not send messages when there is an access error
Request for contact permissions only once
Bug fixes
Update French and Turkish translations

v0.13.0

2018-01-18

Reply encrypted if the sender has enabled encryption manually (esp. useful when chatting with clients as K-9 or Enigmail)
Update welcome screen graphics
Update Norwegian, Russian and Turkish translations

v0.12.0

2018-01-07

Gossip keys of other group members in the encrypted payload (will also be evaluated in one of the next versions)
Use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 in signatures
Make the permanent notification clickable
Update permanent notification after import
Fix rendering of system messages
Various bug fixes
Update Albanian, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Turkish translations

v0.11.4

2017-12-17

Add option to initiate Autocrypt Key Transfer
Connect after importing a backup
Reading memory hole headers
Add Albanian translation
Update German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian translations

v0.10.0

2017-11-29

Fix usage of multiple private keys
Fix various memory leaks
Update English, Portuguese and Turkish translations

v0.9.9

2017-11-18

Alternate include order for F-Droid
Add Serbian translation
Update Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Ukrainian translations

v0.9.8

2017-11-15

Fix a bug that avoids chat creation under some circumstances (bug introduced in 0.9.7)

v0.9.7

2017-11-14

Archive chats or delete chats by a long press
Notify the user in the chatlist about contact requests of known users or of other Delta Chat clients
Show messages only for explicitly wanted chats
Show more detailed reasons about failed end-to-end-encryptions
Explicit option to leave a group
Do not show the padlock if end-to-end-encryption is disabled by the user
Also import images from a backup when using a different device with different paths
Add copy-to-clipboard function for “About / Info”
Rework Emoji-code
Add Norwegian Bokmål translation
Add Tamil translation
Add Turkish translation
Update Catalan, German, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Telugu and Ukrainian translations

v0.9.6

2017-10-18

Support keys generated with multiple subkeys eg. from K-9
Show PDFs and other attachments with bad names
Bug fixes

v0.9.5

2017-10-08

Backup export and import function
Query password before export
Move replies from normal E-Mail-Clients to the “Chats” folder
Improve helping MUAs on showing chat threads
Improve onboarding
Add URL to default footer
Test a different approach for battery saving in this release
Update French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian translations

v0.9.4

2017-08-23

Introduce an editable “Status” field that is shown eg. in email footers
Editable and synchronized group images
Show the subject of messages that cannot be decrypted
Do not send “Read receipts” when decryption fails
Do not request “Read receipts” from normal MUAs as there are too many MUAs responding with weird, non-standard formats
Deleting a chat always deletes all messages from the device permanently
Ignore messages from mailing lists
Do not spread the original authors name nor address on forwarding
Encrypt mails send to SMTP and to IMAP the same way
Improve showing HTML-mails
Cleanup Android code
Remove badge counter on app restart
Add Ukrainian translation
Add Telugu translation
Add Catalan translation
Update German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Russian translations

v0.9.3

2017-07-13

Introduce “Read receipts” and avoid social pressure to leave it activated
Improve encryption dialog in profile
Fix marking messages as “seen” when opening the contact requests
Ignore signature.asc files of signed-only messages
Update Polish, Portuguese and Russian translations

v0.9.2

2017-06-28

Encrypt group chats
Cryptographically sign messages
Validate signatures of incoming messages (“Info” shows the state)
Show a little lock beside end-to-end-encrypted messages with a validated signature
If end-to-end-encryption is available on sending time, guarantee the message not to be sent without end-to-end-encryption later
Show special characters in HTML-mails
Help MUAs on showing chat threads
Show attachments from multipart/alternative structures
Upgrade from Autocrypt Level 0 to Level 1; as the levels are not compatible, encryption on mixed setups does not happen
Update Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and French translations

v0.9.1

2017-06-04

Profile: Improve encryption state dialog
Improved video quality of short clips
Make encryption-dialog localizable
Update Russian translation

v0.9.0

2017-06-01

Add end-to-end-encrypting following the OpenPGP and Autocrypt standards
Add a function to compare keys
Profile: Add option to copy the email address to the clipboard
Pimp GUI

v0.1.36

2017-05-04

Support camera on Android Nougat

v0.1.34

2017-05-03

Link to new homepage https://delta.chat
Localizable Help-URLs

v0.1.33

2017-04-29

Better support for right-to-left (RTL) languages, taking advantage of Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean MR1, API level 17).
Send PNG files without resizing and converting to JPEG
If JPEG files are send without compression, they still appear as image, not as attached files
Raise-to-speak defaults to false
Unify long click behaviour
Support Android’s system function “Delete data”
Replies to messages pop up automatically even if send from other email addresses (typical scenario for alias addresses)
Fix group-replies from normal email-clients.

v0.1.32

2017-04-22

Update Spanish and Portuguese translations
Update internal sqlite library to version 3.18.0, released on 2017-03-28
Remove more of the custom language handling, use Android’s routines instead
General code cleanup
Play GIF files
Option to disable autoplaying GIF files
When sending contacts, only use the names the receivers have set themselves
Show some hints when long-pressing icons in the action bar

v0.1.29

2017-04-19

Add Russian translation
For outgoing (group-)messages, only use the names the receivers have set themselves

v0.1.28

2017-04-14

Pimp notifications
Bug fixes

v0.1.27

2017-04-12

Use a permanent foreground service for reliable notifications
Monitor the IMAP-IDLE thread and reconnect if IMAP-IDLE seems to hang
Various battery and background optimizations

v0.1.25

2017-04-04

Use system or user selected video player.
Do not connect if not configured (avoids a warning on the first time startup)
Add vertical scrollbar, eg. to settings activities.
Pimp GUI and logo.
Update Korean.

v0.1.24

2017-03-31

Share images and documents from other apps to Delta Chat
Offer to mailto:-link-support to other apps
Ignore implausible sending time of incoming messages; use the receive time in these rare cases
Show errors only when Delta Chat is in foreground
Dynamically adapt video bitrate for longer videos to an attachment-size of max. 25 MB

v0.1.23

2017-03-28

Retry connecting to IMAP if there is not network available on the first try
Notify about new messages if the app is not active for hours, optimize battery consumption

v0.1.22

2017-03-22

Show HTML-only messages
Show connection errors
Add options for SSL/TLS and STARTTLS
Automatic account configuration, if possible
Recode large videos
Add Hungarian translation
Add Korean translation

v0.1.21

2017-03-10

Record and send voice messages
Record and send videos
Send and play music
Send contacts and email addresses
Sending and opening attachments of any type
Share and open commands for all attachments
Accept VCards send to us by other apps
Clickable email addresses
Update Polish translation
Fix tablet startup bug
Close the app when using the lock-app-via-pincode function
Protect data by using a content provider for sharing
Try to clear the task switcher’s screenshots when locking the app via pincode
Pimp GUI

v0.1.20

2017-02-16

Avoid unwanted downloads of lots of old messages
Make the “Chats” folder visible if the server hides new folders by default
Fix a crash when the server returns empty folders
Update Polish and Portuguese translations
Use API level 25 (Nougat 7.1) as target

v0.1.18

2017-02-11

Add Polish translation
Use a new default background for chats
Improve typography by using the system font instead of a custom resource font
Remove custom plural handling, use Android’s routines instead
Remove unused source code and strings
More fixes of lint errors and warnings

v0.1.17

2017-02-07

Drop two unnecessary permissions: ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
Really add French translation
Update Portuguese translation
Start fixing translation handling of the program
Remove special “foss” build, because the whole program is free now.

v0.1.16

2017-02-06

Add French translation
Fix some lint errors and warnings

v0.1.15

2017-01-31

Prepare for release on F-Droid