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.

Monal 4.7.0 (Build 636)

This is the release of Monal 4.7 (Build 636 iOS, 637 Mac ).

Relevant changelog:

• Only create DateFormatter once
• Fix exponential backoff to actually increase
• Live-update last interaction time while in chatview
• Make typing notifications more user friendly
• Don't send CSI nonzas when no resource is bound
• Start refactoring iq creations
• Abbreviate chatbubble text if it is larger than 2048 chars
• Enable file logger even in emulator (and in beta builds)
• Fix crash if push server is not reachable via http(s)
• Implement XEP-0319 and streamline CSI/presence implementation
• Remove TLS switch because support for TLS is mandatory
• Add missing disco features
• Rework and refactor complete connection logic
• Implement various background modes
• Removed reachability.{h,m}
• Adding lastInteraction labels
• Update podfile
• Moved lock img on image in cell
• Resize chatInput
• Remove insecure MD5 based auth
• Implement display side of XEP-0319
• Fix disco features implementation to be more robust
• Make xmpp sendIq: available in MLIQProcessor and cleanup
• Resurrect entity capabilities implementation and fix it
• Fix seque back from chat to activeChats
• Display old navbar in activeChats again
• Display log in seperated navigation controller
• mac: display send message instead of last draft
• Style + remove unused code
• Implement XEP-0085 (chatstates aka typing notifications)
• Implement new urn:xmpp:http:upload:0 (now draft standard)
• Rename sendIq:withResponseHandler: into withResultHandler:
• Remove airdrop completely
• Don't allow sending of messages if account is disabled
• Don't warn on implicit retain of 'self' in blocks
• Fix security bugs making injection of stanzas and TLS stripping possible
• Don't call reconnect twice on stream error
• Use exponential backoff when reconnecting
• Log app build time on app start
• Signal successful message delivery not before smacks ack
• Move setPingTimerForID to right place
• Use new network path from NetworkFramework instead of Reachability
• Fixing omemo duplicate message errors
• Remove leftover crashlythics parts
• Remove extracted() indirection for _outputQueue in send:
• Signal smacks/mam catchup after login
• Keep resource when changing account settings
• Remove gtalk from codebase
• Drop protocol table from database
• Remove abandoned oauth code fragments
• Renamed oldstyleSSL to directTLS
• Only do database upgrade once instead of in every thread
• Display resource in account settings, fix coding style
• Add debug attributes to , too
• Allow sending messages in smacks hibernated state, fix wrong translation
• Correct tests for streaming parser
• Add delay tag to smacks queued stanzas
• Fix race condition that produces rare smacks counting bugs
• Do not show "Connection refused" message if there are more SRV record…
• Display accounts / recipients in share sheet
• Check if share sheet message should be encrypted
• Show warning before disabling encryption
• Add share sheet comment to message history
• Rework (re)connection logic
• Don't send a presence on successful smacks resume
• Fix disco info hash to use the same string than raw disco
• Fix offline sending if app was swiped away
• Add debug attributes to smacks resume request, too
• Use isHibernating to check if smacks queue can be used when sending
• Allow log sharing
• Increase logsize to 64MiB per file, adding log view options
• Fix stanza counting bug
• Remove dead code in many code sections

There were many more changes you can always review here: https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/commits/develop

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