Whisperfish

Whisperfish 1.0.0 (planned)

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Many big plans!

• The Big Refactoring, including cleanup of spaghetti, building with the official SDK, ...
• Registration as a secondary device, if you prefer running the official Android Signal app as main device.

Whisperfish 0.6.0 (planned)

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

Features

• Feature parity with, and modernized version of Whisperfish 0.5.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.15

Overhauls the QML binding system. This should fix all UI inconsistencies, except for a few that are now introduced.

Changes

• Capture panics to log
• Log Qt errors to Rust
• Allow capturing logs to a file via a configuration option
• Cleaner display of reactions
• Show message action buttons on one row in landscape mode
• Add a placeholder for sticker messages, instead of showing "This message is empty"
• Use upsert clauses thanks to SQLite and Diesel update (slight performance win and code cleanup)
• Remove defunct incognito mode
• Fix displaying version in About menu
• Allow opening direct message from group member list
• Refactor QML session/message singletons (performance win, future proofing, and UI consistency)
• Allow registration with reCAPTCHA and hCAPTCHA

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.14

Bugfix release for most of the bugs we introduced in beta.13, and some fixes for changes upstream.

Changes

• Attempt to handle HTTP 428 by responding with a reCAPTCHA challenge
• Handle device mismatches (fixes sending to contacts that change their linking setup)
• Attempt at fixing a crash at startup related to profile uploading
• Fix a crash when opening an empty session
• emoji.js now supports out-of-date emoji packages as fallback
• Fix typing notification display of names in certain conditions
• Marking as read fix for mismatched sessions
• Cleaner formatting for linked device display

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.13

Profile fetching and updating, avatar displaying, sender key and unidentified sender support at receiver side, and much more.

Changes

• Disable defunct "send new message" functionality
• Don't crash when Signal desktop sends a SyncMessage about a story.
• Use move_rows instead of reinserting upon new message reception
• Big refactoring work by Lucien XU
• Send messages via the Websocket instead of the PushService
• Display avatars
• Display Signal profile names, with preference for local contact names in settings
• Implement displaying and sending quotes
• Use Emoji font for displaying reactions when configured as such
• Move (signed) prekeys, identities, sessions into database
• Implement sender keys and unidentified sending at the receiver side for much improved privacy
• Many, many, other tiny and big things.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.12

Hotfix release for the new Signal root certificate

Changes

• Update root CA certificate for Signal production server (4096 bits RSA instead of 2048!)
• Multiple fixes for SailfishOS 3.4
• Fix storage migration corner case
• Fix some registration issues
• Fix cover scrolling behaviour
• Big update of libsignal-protocol version
• Misc layout and input field improvements
• Refactored some storage and Sailfish platform code

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.11

Mostly bugfixes for bugs that we introduced in beta.10, but also implements Whisperfish as secondary device. This release is basically completely due to direc85 and Gabriel Margiani; thank you both!

Changes

• Add `sailfish-qml` to dependencies for registration to work on new installs (thanks to direc85!)
• Fix config.yml migration code (thanks to direc85!)
• Improve handling SMS verification field input (#444 and #443, thanks to direc85!)
• Implement secondary device mode (thanks to Gabriel Margiani and ntninja!)
• Fix background mode (thanks to Gabriel Margiani and direc85!)
• Start a Catalan translation (thanks to Jaume Singlavalls!)
• Play a quiet message when a message arrives when the application is active (thanks to direc85)
• Fix sending to UUID-only contacts (thanks to Gabriel Margiani, fixed in an unrelated MR)
• Keep up with technical debt (several merge requests and pushes)

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.10 (code sprint edition!)

Many quality-of-life updates and technical debt fixes, thanks to the code sprint of Matti and Ruben!

Changes

• Update to Emoji 14 (thanks to direc85)
• Correct attachment showing for out-of-order downloads
• Allow resetting identity key through developer options
• Cover page design showing messages showing typing indicators (in cooperation with direc85)
  • Initial design
  • Fine tuning by direc85
• Implement typing indicators for groups and direct messages (turn on in settings)
• Implement captcha rendering through external application, and hence fix registration (thanks to direc85)
• Spit share plugin and compile them separately for Sailfish 3 or 4 (thanks to direc85)
• Fix message queuing and resending
• Migrate session records and identity storage to database
• Update libsignal-client (long overdue, cooperation with Gabriel Féron)
• Redesign registration page to combat phone number entry confusion (thanks to direc85)
• Work around Signal-Desktop issue with JPEG's sent as PNG's (thanks to direc85)
• Optimize Emoji rendering (thanks to direc85 and Mirian Margiani)
• Add RemovableMedia to privileges for sending Pictures from the SD card
• Implement archiving and pinning of sessions (thanks to direc85)
• Multiple UI fixes (thanks to direc85)
• Allow sending pictures directly from within Whisperfish (thanks to direc85)
• Give a warning for old Whisperfish versions (thanks to direc85)
• Show multiple attachments up to five

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.9

Fixes for stuff in beta.8, mostly.

Changes

• Fix for emoji reaction parsing that could cause a crash
• Fix a crash when manually refreshing a group
• Fix config file location after the Sailjail implementation
• Fix creating debug symbols in CI and offline, run LTO on CI. Debug symbols are now hosted alongside nightl RPMs (and probably also here, let's see how the CD copes)
• Add new config paths to MyBackup paths

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.8

A bunch of quality-of-life updates, and SailfishOS 4.4 compatibilty! Direc85 did a lot of work in this release. If you consider donating to me for Whisperfish, please also consider buying direc85 a coffee.

Changes

• Display reaction emoji correctly
• Compute and show safety numbers.
• Collection of small UI improvements, thanks to direc85
  • Upscale colored images
  • Use the largest size icon everywhere (crispier UI)
  • Install all the harbour-whisperfish.png icon sizes (launcher icon always looks the best)
  • Disable click-message-to-reply signal until implemented (less accidental visual noise)
  • Increase the cover page icon size a bit (looks a little less empty)
• Remove notification on Whisperfish when message has been read on a linked device, thanks to direc85
• Show your own phone number as "Note to Self", with a note icon, thanks to direc85.
• Implement "Reset secure session"
• Lots of background and backend updates for a bit more stability
• Implement muting a session, thanks to direc85
• Implement SailJail in SailfishOS 4.4
• Implement showing emoji reactions
• Implement a captcha workaround

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.7

Edition "omg OpenSSL".

Changes

• Device linking scheme sgnl:// is now supported, allows to link secondary devices again.
• Restructured storage crypto code (thanks to Mutluler!)
• Begin of the Basque translation (thanks to Sergio Varela)
• Fix notification icon and adds multiple resolution icons (thanks to Matti Viljanen/direc85)
• Start using the SailfishOS SDK instead of the hacked-together RubdosSDK. This paves the path to supporting multiple other operating systems and possibly a Linux desktop client. Proof of concept Ubuntu-Touch version exists (thanks Tim and the Axolotl hackers!)
• Separate builds for SailfishOS 3-series and SailfishOS 4-series available on OpenRepos, which solves the incompatibility with SailfishOS 4.3's lack of OpenSSL 1.0. Storeman/zypper should automatically select the correct version for your operating system.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.6

Edition "invert the event loop". Write-up here: https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs/issues/102#issuecomment-919798690

Features

• GUI performance improvement (thanks to the event loop inversion)
• Load time improvement through more database indexing (thanks to Matti Viljanen)
• Add "refresh group" option for stubborn groups.

Fixes

• SailfishOS 4.2 compatibility (thanks to the event loop inversion)
• Order messages by date instead of by id (thanks to Matti Viljanen)
• Fix message and session deletion (thanks to Matti Viljanen
• Fix notifications on SailfishOS 3.x (thanks to Matti Viljanen)

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.5

Fixes

• Reception of messages with attachments, but without accompanying text
• Show contact/payment/deletion/group call update messages as "unimplemented" instead of empty.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.4

Features

• MyBackup compatibility, thanks to Nathan!
• Display group changes and message timer changes in chat.

Fixes

• Fix usage of configured attachment path
• Fix the many empty messages sent by Android and iOS clients for profile key pushes

Translations

• Add Lithuanian, by Gediminas Murauskas
• Updates to Greek, French, Turkish, Dutch, and Vlaams. Thanks to all contributors!

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.3

Emergency release for the HTTP-500 "nothing can be send" bug and the BadKeyType bug.

Fixes

• Identity key read errors
• Update local storage format quirks for future Signal versions

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.2 (yanked)

Emergency release for the HTTP-500 "nothing can be send" bug.

Features

• My Backup compatibility (thanks to Nthn).
  • You need to reset all sessions manually after a reset, if they had been touched after taking the backup.
• Share to Whisperfish functionality (thanks to Gabriel Margiani)
  • Enabling on SailfishOS 4.0 needs some additional work.
• Database VACUUM option in settings (thanks to Igor Makarov)
• Initial work to decouple Whisperfish from SailfishOS (thanks to Be)
• Migrated to libsignal-client.

Fixes

• The infamous "I can't send anything anymore" HTTP-500 issue
• Crash on certain session resets

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.1

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

Features

• GroupsV2 compatibility
  • Notably, you can only be added to a group, invites are not yet implemented.
• Complete migration to UUID-based sessions.
• Device linking (Signal Desktop)
• Register without storage password, thanks to Gabriel Margiani!
• Slight cleanup of the registration page, thanks to ntninja!
• HUGE overhaul of the UI, thanks to Mirian Margiani! You won't recognise Whisperfish anymore. Pinky promise.
  • Setup for all the new Signal features: quotes, multiple attachments, stickers/gifs, ...
  • New video and image pages.
  • Linking/saving contacts from the UI
  • Emoji pack support, check our wiki for installation.
  • Clean-up of the group view page, in part thanks to Thomas Michel!
• Simple daemon functionality, thanks to Gabriel Margiani!
• Link-time optimization: 20% smaller RPMs and executables
• Option to minimize notifications, useful in e.g. busy groups, thanks to flypig.

Translations

• We have a Weblate account now!
• Portuguese translation, thanks to Yield and Antonio Maretzek!
• Czech translation, thanks to PawelSpoon!
• Turkish translation, thanks to Oğuz Ersen!
• Nowegian translation, thanks to Allan Nordhøy!
• Many, many, many, MANY cleanup operations on Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, thanks to Nathan, Dryo, and J. Lavoie!

Fixes

• More stable reconnection management. Flight mode and network changes should now work as expected.
• Access contacts through the Nemo QML interface instead of raw contacts.db. This interface will probably be more stable than the raw SQLite, and keeps compatibility across 3.x and 4.x.
• A "privileged file" allows us to read contact lists again on SailfishOS 4.0
• More or less fixed video playback
• Fix lingering notifications on session activation, thanks to flypig!
• JPEG rotation is now correct in Whisperfish (but not yet on Android), thanks to Mirian Margiani.
• Image zoom is more intuitive for images that are almost the same size as the screen, thanks to Mirian Margiani.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.9

Fixes startup on upgraded contact database.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.8

Features/fixes

• Captcha filing at registration time, thanks to Gabriel Margiani! Seriously, this was a huge undertaking.
• Sailfish 4.0.45 compatibility, except for registration (#229, bug report on forum).

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.7

Features

• Reactions show up as "R@number:EMOJI", instead of empty balloons. Thanks to Markus for this!
• Multiple password attempts! Thanks to Igon Makarov

Fixes

• Create the correct attachments download directory, should fix attachments downloading for new installations.
• Some phone numbers (notably with dashes, parantheses or dots) did not show up with names.
• New members in a group show up, group renames come through.
• Group members show up as names, not phone numbers, thanks to Thomas Michel.
• Fixes copying message to clipboard, thanks to Thomas Michel.
• Auto-focus password field, thanks to Markus.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.6

Features

• The conversation page got a complete overhaul in design. I hope you like it.

Fixes

• Fix a race condition during registration, which may corrupt the settings file.
• Sent messages update the session view
• More names show up correctly in session view (please file an issue if it's still buggy!)
• Session sections
• Sent attachments show up as thumbnails
• Some translation work in the (currently disfunctional) Device List page

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.5

Features

• Sending new messages to a single contact, clean-up of contact selection
• Started French language translation
  • French translation finished (thanks Thibaut Vandervelden)
• Spanish translation got a lot of clean-up (thanks carlosgonz)
• Settings page looks a lot nicer

Fixes

• Settings page revamped, looks a lot cleaner
• attachment_dir was not set on settings init.
• Contact DB fix for non-nemo users (new 3.4 installs, alternate users)
• Show build ID in about screen
• Notifications with vibration and sound

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.4

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

Features:

• Sending attachments
• Registration via voice and text
• Connection status feedback
• Aarch64 version

Under the hood:

• Partial support new UUID-based identifiers
• Initial tooling for future database migrations
• Pre-key refreshing
• Attachment failure log (set attachment_log=true in harbour-whisperfish.conf)

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.3

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

• Sending direct and group messages, notably no attachments.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.2

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

• Receiving messages and their attachments

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.1

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

• Move the base code over to Rust, for easy linking to libsignal-protocol-c.
  I made a write-up about Qt, Sailfish and event loops on my blog.
• Implement most of the GUI and bind to the database (thank you, Markus, for all the work!)

• GUI performance improvement