Whisperfish 1.0.0 (planned)
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Many big plans!
Whisperfish 0.6.0 (planned)
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Features
- Feature parity with, and modernized version of Whisperfish 0.5.
Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.21
Several small fixes
Changes
- Embedded QR code scanner for device linking on Sailfish 4 and higher.
- More relaxed parsing of SMS-based confirmation codes
- Don't close keyboard when using send or enter
- Detect and handled deleted contacts in groups
- Some fixes relating to attachment fetching, including a crash
- Update blurhash decoding, should be a lot faster
- More correct message for empty session view
- Disable sending messages in UI for unregistered contacts
- Fix marking of unregistered contacts
- Hide archived conversations in cover page
- Add cargo-deny to catch CVE's in the future
- Add setting to hide recipient phone number in conversation page
- Fix relating to profile fetching
- Correctly handle nullable E164's and other nullable fields
- Vendor OpenSSL: no more separate build for SailfishOS 3!
- Fix reaction UI not updating, among other UI fixes to reactions
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
nephros
Fri, 2020/04/24 - 15:27
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Yes, reliably backing up the data would be very useful, I have repeatedly lost media and conversation history through reinstall/re-registrering.
rubdos
Fri, 2020/04/24 - 16:13
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No promises, but I've noted it on the bug tracker.
nephros
Sun, 2020/04/19 - 12:40
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Hey, nice to see some activity in this area. Would it be possible to enable co-existence with the 0.5 version? It ia working ok for me but I would like to test your version as well.
rubdos
Sun, 2020/04/19 - 18:08
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I don't think I'm going to do that, since that would introduce two migration paths. I'm also quite confident that protocol-wise, it'll be impossible to "downgrade" an account at a certain point.
Either way, I'll clearly state so in here and on Gitlab while it's alpha or beta quality. I don't plan to release anything called "stable" if it's
onnot on par (feature wise) with the original! I'll also provide instructions on how to back-up your 0.5 data if you would want to alpha/beta-test.Pages