Whisperfish

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Whisperfish is an advanced but unofficial Signal client. Whisperfish should be in a usable state for many users, but is still considered beta quality software; make sure to always have the latest version! Also, check our Wiki and feel free to contribute to it! Currently, mimimum supported SailfishOS version is 3.4. We intend to keep compatibility with 3.3 for as long as humanly possible. The build for SailfishOS 3.x is located in a separate OpenRepos application.

Do not ever contact the Signal developers about a Whisperfish issue. You will annoy them and make them dislike us. Contact us instead (see below).

    

Known issues and implemented features

Lot's of stuff should work. Check the forum for an up-to-date known issues list.

Contribute: get in touch, report issues and translate!

   

 

If the app behaves strangely or slow (I have a strong dislike for slow software) to you, please get in touch on Matrix #whisperfish:rubdos.be or on Libera.Chat #whisperfish, file an issue, or send an email to whisperfish [at] rubdos [dot] be, or post on the SailfishOS Forum topic. If it works well already, alse let me know! That's good for morale.

Development and progress

 

Follow the progress of the rework in the 0.6 milestone on Gitlab. If you are interested in contributing, contact me on Gitlab. If you want to discuss development, join the discussion on Matrix #whisperfish:rubdos.be.

There are nightly builds (in form of RPM) available on Gitlab. Nighlies eat batteries for breakfast, break up with your girlfriend, and use magic to turn phones into bricks. If you want to use them, please come and chat on Matrix or IRC. Whenever there is a version that makes sense, and has a low probability of tearing apart the very fabric of the universe, it'll be here on Open Repos!

Donations

 

Thanks for the support, feel free to buy us a coffee! Liberapay allows for donations via PayPal or credit card. While we do appreciate the donations, please consider matching your donation towards Signal themselves. They need it more than we do! Also consider donating to Weblate, because they provide their translation hosting service to us and many other SailfishOS applications at no cost!

Licence note

The original Whisperfish 0.5.0, by Andrew, was released under GPLv3+. Since we are using the upstream code of Signal themselves, partly licensed under AGPLv3+, the whole of Whisperfish 0.6.0 falls under AGPLv3+.

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Changelog: 

Whisperfish 1.0.0 (planned)

The milestone on GitLab for this release (th

Many big plans!

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.20

Post-quantum end-to-end encryption, registration fix, and much more.

Changes

  • Post-quantum (Kyber) key-exchange
  • Fix build version number in CI/About page (maybe, I hope)
  • Fix the info row lock size in developer mode
  • Fix muting conversations
  • Fix disappearing messages timer resets
  • Store attachment pointers in database, preparation work for attachment download retries.
  • New, more fine grained notification privacy options
  • Show blur hash while attachments are downloaded
  • Emoji-react to messages (hold message, swipe away, then tap the emoji)
  • Fix logs on panic
  • Implement a captcha test page
  • Handle remote message deletions, implement remote message deletion
  • Show original attachment file name, if available
  • Implement attachment exporting
  • Fix unidentified sending mode resets on profile key reception
  • Fix registration and linking for new registration protocol

Registration

Signal overhauled their registration procedure. In my eyes, the new API flow has been redesigned to allow for registrations without phone number in the future. Signal has, meanwhile, introduced usernames, which will allow you to hide your phone number from contacts and groups. I hope to get this into Whisperfish soon™ too.

Post-quantum key exchange

Signal recently introduced post-quantum key exchanges for their end-to-end encryption protocol. This is, as far as I know, the first broad and permanent real-world deployment of post-quantum cryptography, and follows the very recent NIST standardization of Kyber. Signal is yet to announce this change officially, but it has been in production for two weeks. I expect Signal to roll out a rekey event for all sessions, and at that time announce the roll-out.

The deployment is a hybrid of X25519 and Kyber. This means that if the new Kyber system is horribly broken next week, your sessions will still be secure in the classical sense.

Practically speaking, the current change means that every new session with a contact will be protected against capture-now-decrypt-later attacks by (currently non-existing) cryptographically-relevant quantum computers, under the condition that Kyber remains as secure as it is thought to be.

I expect Signal to trigger session renewals or rekeying events to additionally protect existing sessions from the “quantum threat”.

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.19

Hotfix for the refactoring bug introduced in beta 18

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.18

Fixes group updating, since Signal changed their API calls, first steps toward PNI support

Changes

  • Database refactoring, phone numbers and UUID are now strong types
  • Fixes a hang on unregistered startup
  • Fix group update API calls
  • Show roles of group members
  • Graceful handling of ^C
  • Show translation contributors in About.qml, automatically update the About.qml page
  • Fix self-recipient bugs
  • Reset page stack when closing in daemon mode
  • Add PNI column to recipient (currently unused)
  • Fetch self-PNI
  • Fix archive/pinned UI bugs
  • Fix profile image display when clicking notifications for groups
  • Fixes related to message notification counter
  • Split storage module into separate crate, preparation for more refactoring
  • Show the profile picture in the sharing dialog
  • Fix RTL support in cover
  • Fix detail attachment display for non-image/video attachments
  • Fix the "show more" tag placement for long text messages
  • Many small fixes

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.17

Sealed sending release!

Changes

  • Fixes the profile page not loading
  • Fix multiple settings page and profile page issues
  • Implement automatic identity key reset
  • Implement draft messages
  • Fix captcha display and submission
  • Ignore NullMessages and implement PlaintexContent
  • Implement sealed sending
  • Cleaner logging thanks to minimized Display implementations for database types
  • Log Qt and QML via simplelog
  • Keep identity key in memory, instead of reading from storage
  • Stop trying to send messages to unregistered users, store registration state in db
  • Consider empty sessions as read, fixes incorrect unread message count
  • Expose logging settings in Settings page
  • Bump emoji.js

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.16

Fix an issue during registration, and some QoL improvements

Changes

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

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

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

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

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.7

Edition "omg OpenSSL".

Changes

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

 

Fixes

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

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.2 (yanked)

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

Features

Fixes

Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.1

The milestone on Gitlab for this release

Features

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

Whisperfish 0.6.0-alpha.7

Features

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:

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

  • GUI performance improvement

Comments

rubdos's picture

I do want video calling and audio calling at some point in the future, but it'll be a lot of work. Track it here: https://gitlab.com/rubdos/whisperfish/-/milestones/5

delocoyo's picture

I cant find those directories

rubdos's picture

Could you send me an email on whisperfish [at] rubdos [dot] be, or come on Matrix or IRC (see description)? We'll sort it out there.

huggymann's picture

Hello. I habe the app installed but forgot my password and would lile to completely re Setup the app. Even after uninstall and install, it is in the Same state, asking me for pw and shows that i have connected with my mobile number. Am i stupid? Could you help me?

rubdos's picture

Hi! No, you're not stupid at all. The data is in `.local/share/harbour-whisperfish` and `.config/harbour-whisperfish`. If you delete those two directories, you can re-register. I have not yet made a reset button.

I've made a note about a "reset"-feature here: https://gitlab.com/rubdos/whisperfish/-/issues/155

Rene666's picture

 

Hello, I've installed the Whisperfish. I cannot send or receive messages. When sending, there are always inadmissible recipients. Can you help me? Thank you

Hallo, ich habe mir die Whisperfish installiert. Ich kann weder senden noch Empfangen von Nachrichten. Beim versenden kommt immer unzulässige Empfänger. Können Sie mir helfen? Danke

rubdos's picture

Hi! Could you get in touch with me over e-mail? I do not write German myself, but I can read it pretty well, so feel free to write me in German. whisperfish [at] rubdos.be will arrive well :-)

You can also join on the Matrix or IRC channel, as described in the app description.

If at all possible, I'd like to see a trace log of Whisperfish until right after you log in with your password. You can get this by running `RUST_LOG=trace harbour-whisperfish > whisperfish.log`, then logging in, closing the app, and sending me the resulting log file (whisperfish.log in your home directory). You may want to open the log file and censor out the connect URL half way through, you can find it by looking for your own phone number.

If the above is not clear, just get in touch, and I'll walk you through it!

pvcn's picture

Thank you very much for your work on this! Updated a few days ago, but push notifications don't work, just got a lot of old messages after reboot...

rubdos's picture

Hmm, they should work. Can you get in touch via Matrix/IRC/mail? Then we can sort it out! Feel free to drop a message at me [at] rubdos [dot] be if you're not on Matrix/IRC.

pvcn's picture

Ok, thanks, i just wrote you a mail to whisperfish[at]rubdos.be

NGC_Ollie's picture

Ok, you got me, I installed alpha5. Thanks for that, works like a charm, a huge improvement, especially the groups. Only tiny bits I found:
- when I switch from a dark to a light ambiance the font stays in the dark mode.
- sometimes I'm unable to see my last messages in the groups when on the conversations overview. I don't really care about that, but it's good to know.
- Image preview from pics I sent stay as a filled rectangle, no preview. But it sends, that's important!
Would you like to have issues/tickets on github or do you prefer comments like this?

rubdos's picture

Issues on Gitlab work the best, indeed. We're aware of the second issue (there's a merge request for that in progress), but number one and three are currently undocumented. Filing at https://gitlab.com/rubdos/whisperfish/-/issues/new would be thoroughly apperiated!

I'm glad you like the new version :-)

NGC_Ollie's picture

Actually there is no main show stopper, so you're right, beta might be considerable, since 0.5 gets more and more unstable. I need a smooth transition from 0.5 to 0.6, that's all, because I use WF since ages and I don't want to lose all conversations. I need that app on a daily basis, because I avoid any messenger like whatsapp, Telegram or worse.

rubdos's picture

FWIW, the only known issue on Whisperfish 0.6 alpha.5 is during registration. If you currently run 0.5, I think you'd be happy to try out alpha.5 already. I'm using it as daily, together with many others. 0.6 uses the exact same db and storage as 0.5, the compatibility was my first priority.

EDIT: wrt to 0.5 compatibility, 0.6 only supports the encrypted database ON, unencrypted database is untested (at least by me), but should be easy enough to implement. Let me know if you have any peculiar settings, because we've mainly tested default settings!

NGC_Ollie's picture

Ok, I love WF, it's the last reason why I can deactivate the Android layer. Thanks a lot for maintaining this app. I didn't install it yet, because I'm a sheepish chicken, but as soon as 0.6 is stable I'll drown you with feedback.

rubdos's picture

The "stable" label is something I'm very careful with, won't be there for a while. The meaning of "stable" will be the feature parity with 0.5. I think you might want to consider stepping in at beta.1 or beta.2, I expect those to be mostly bug-free (but not feature complete). We haven't had very many bugs yet, and those bugs we had, were easily mitigated.

I am interested in hearing what the main blockers or would-be features are for you! Thanks for the feedback :-)

broncheoli's picture

Dear rubdos,

first of all, thanks for developing this app, I will pay you some money for your effort.

I have a problem. I had signal installed to try it out. After some installing and deleting Whisperfish, I also deleted Signal. No problem so far. I now wanted to newly register with wisperfish but the dialog refuses to show up. I deleted WF and also deleted the folder under ~/.config with no luck, after reinstalling WF no register-dialog. What more do I have to delete to start from scratch?

Thanks in advance, broncheolus.

broncheoli's picture

I found the solution. I also deleted the WF folder under ~/.local/share/. Everything works fine now. Thanks. :-))

rubdos's picture

For future reference: deleting ~/.local/share/harbour-whisperfish indeed resets the complete application state. Resetting the settings is possible too, by removing ~/.config/harbour-whisperfish/*. The latter contains settings like your phone number and registration UUID.

lispy's picture

Hmm...login worked, but how do I add contacts? The adressbook is empty.

rubdos's picture

Fixed with alpha.5! :-)

rubdos's picture

Working on getting that polished again... Currently (alpha.4), you pull down on the contact selection and manually enter a phone number. Enter it as a local phone number (without intl. prefix), and make sure you have set your country code in the Whisperfish settings.

I might release alpha.5 this weekend to get rid of that issue.

objectifnul's picture

Logged in successfully, thanks!

PawelSpoon's picture

Start, login successfull

predator2019's picture

Ok, great.

predator2019's picture

Thanx for your work! Sailors need this app really! I am liitle unsure to install 0.6. on my mobile. Is it safe to install it? Any experience on an Inoi R7?

rubdos's picture

At this point, you may be interested in trying it out! If you never installed Whisperfish 0.5 before, and if you don't have any recent groups (groupv2, later than October 2020), it may work out very well for you.

rubdos's picture

No. Please do not install it yet, it's a work in progress. I will update the app description when it becomes safe.  Feel free to join us on Matrix for further discussion (or on Freenode #whisperfish)!

Nokius's picture

Is there anyway to support you?
do you need testing devices or some clubmate?

Thanks for you work!!

rubdos's picture

When I reach 0.6-alpha, I'll install a coffee-donate-button (maybe even in the App) :-)

I've got a nice Xperia 10 here to work on, no need for devices at this point. What does help is nagging me now and then, here, on Gitlab, on IRC (I made #whisperfish on Freenode) or Matrix (#whisperfish:rubdos.be).

EDIT, I've made a [Liberapay profile](https://liberapay.com/rubdos/), where you can sponser said coffee. I'll start advertising that in the main description when I reach alpha :-)

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