v1.5.1

Fixed: In some cases contact/group syncs would turn off disappearing messages in all conversations (#2086)

Fixed: On initial setup, conversations with disappearing messages enabled would be at the top of the conversation list (#2084)

v1.5.0

Note: Includes fixes from 1.4.0-beta.1 (never released to production), 1.5.0-beta.1, and one additional pull request (#2072)

Update electron to 1.7.12 (#2029)

New design for import and install flows (#2053)

Support for 'light' imports, which bring just messages, contacts and groups (#2053, #2072)

Set conversation disappearing messages state and contact block state on initial link (#1980)

'Restart' -> 'Restart Signal' button in update dialog, thanks @StevenXL (#2024)

Fixed: If app started offline, conversations would not open (#2064)

Fixed: Attached images would sometimes show up rotated improperly (#2040)

Fixed: Uncaught Exception: TypeError; 'getSize' (#2061)

Fixed: File paths with special characters could be shown in misleading way

Fixed: incoming messages sometimes didn't appear at all (#2050)

Fixed: 'Cannot find module ./app/locale' error popup when attempting to start another instance of the app on Windows (#2017)

Fixed: Setting NODE_ENV environment variable to 'development' would point it at staging servers (#2010)

Dev:

• Move ESLint environment configuration into .eslintrc (#2051)
• Sync Protocol Buffers with libsignal-service-java (#2046)
• Update to libsignal-protocol-javascript v1.3.0 (#2050)
• Make our binary comparisons constant time (#2047)
• Fix typo in issue template (#2020)
• Update to new signal branding (#2018)

v0.45.0

Updated export flow visuals to match registration/import in Standalone (#2067)

New dismissable upgrade banner, with automatic display via incremental rollout (#2067)

After the first export, all subsequent exports will be 'light' - messages, contacts and groups only (#2067)

v1.5.0-beta.1

New design for import and install flows (#2053)

Support for 'light' imports, which bring just messages, contacts and groups (#2053)

Fix: If app started offline, conversations would not open (#2064)

Fix: Attached images would sometimes show up rotated improperly (#2040)

Fix: Uncaught Exception: TypeError; 'getSize' (#2061)

Fix: File paths with special characters could be shown in misleading way

Dev:

• Move ESLint environment configuration into .eslintrc (#2051)
• Sync Protocol Buffers with libsignal-service-java (#2046)

v1.4.0-beta.1

Update electron to 1.7.12 (#2029)

Fixed: incoming messages sometimes didn't appear at all (#2050)

Fixed: 'Cannot find module ./app/locale' error popup when attempting to start another instance of the app on Windows (#2017)

Fixed: Setting NODE_ENV environment variable to 'development' would point it at staging servers (#2010)

'Restart' -> 'Restart Signal' button in update dialog, thanks @StevenXL (#2024)

Set conversation disappearing messages state and contact block state on initial link (#1980)

Dev:

• Update to libsignal-protocol-javascript v1.3.0 (#2050)
• Make our binary comparisons constant time (#2047)
• Fix typo in issue template (#2020)
• Update to new signal branding (#2018)

v1.3.0

Update to Electron 1.7.11 (#1996)

Fixed: Crash during input via Chinese IME on Mac (#1996)

Fixed: Expired disappearing messages would sometimes remain in conversation (#1983)

v1.3.0-beta.1

Update to Electron 1.7.11 (#1996)

Fixed: Crash during input via Chinese IME on Mac (#1996)

Fixed: Expired disappearing messages would sometimes remain in conversation (#1983)

v1.2.0

Note: This release is equivalent to v1.2.0-beta.2. Listed below are the changes from the previous production release: v1.1.0

Update to Electron 1.7.10 (#1919)

Fixed: clicking Windows notification breaks window out of aero-snap location (#1918)

Fixed: forwarded video would not play (#1977)

Fixed: conversation was inaccessible if group member had invalid phone number (#1968)

Fixed: powershell warning caused cert validation of downloaded update to fail on windows (#1976)

Fixed: 'Missing signed prekey' errors after re-link (#1979)

Fixed: data older than three days would persist in logs dir (#1945)

Fixed: in the middle of send, disabled send field could be edited after click (#1937)

Update strings (#1921)

Add badge with unread count to the tray icon - thanks @m-pilia (#1934)
Note: to try this test feature out, use the --use-tray-icon and --start-in-tray command-line arguments

Dev:

• Additional logging for unexpected situations during sort of conversation list (#1969)
• Log more info along with http errors (#1968)
• Fix error to console when verifying contact in standalone mode (#1961)
• Remove all built assets from repo (#1955)
• Log out information from DOMException when import fails (#1923)
• Log clearer messages regarding prekey/signed prekey fetches (#1961)
• Make errors more debuggable; capture correct stack, include name (#1944)
• Add eslint/mocha with code coverage for non-browser code (#1945)
• Revamped github issue and pull request templates, updates to contributing.md/readme.md (#1955 and #1956)
• Document building/testing releases in Contributing.md, thanks @veggiedefender (#1867)
• Dependency updates, fixes required for successful release (#1966 and #1976)
• Update a number of dependencies to the latest: builder, websocket, spellcheck (#1920)

v1.2.0-beta.2

Fixed: forwarded video would not play (#1977)

Fixed: conversation was inaccessible if group member had invalid phone number (#1968)

Fixed: powershell warning caused cert validation of downloaded update to fail on windows (#1976)

Fixed: 'Missing signed prekey' errors after re-link (#1979)

Add badge with unread count to the tray icon - thanks @m-pilia (#1934)
Note: to try this test feature out, use the --use-tray-icon and --start-in-tray command-line arguments

Dev:

• Additional logging for sort of conversation list (#1969)
• Dependency updates, fixes required for successful release (#1966 and #1976)
• Log more info along with http errors (#1968)

Note: 1.2.0-beta.1 was never released - changes here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v1.2.0-beta.1

v1.1.0

Note: This release is equivalent to v1.1.0-beta.6. Listed below are the changes from the previous production release: v1.0.41

Update to electron 1.7.9 (#1736)

Support the latest phone number formats via libphonenumber update (#1899)

Reduce download size by ~25MB compared to the previous production build (#1869)

Emoji - thanks @liliakai:

• Emoji picker (#1608)
• Add support for Emoji 5 (#1797)

Notifications:

• Windows 7: Use an alternate mechanism for notifications (#1812)
• Prevent drawAttention() when notifications are turned off - thanks @canerelci! (#1612)

Linux:

• Support for current (artful) and previous (xenial) ubuntu versions (#1856)
• Fix missing application icon on some Linux distributions (#1735)
• Fix issue where window would not show new message alerts on some Linux systems - thanks @cornerman (#1820)
• Add .deb specific dependencies - thanks @veggiedefender (#1858)

The default button is now 'later', not 'restart' in the 'update available' dialog (#1894)

Make the window minimum width a little smaller - thanks @emptyflask (#1863)

Intl-friendly sort order for contact lists (#1900)

Fix issue where update would restore deleted windows shortcut (#1804)

Fix issue where .tif file attachments could not be sent or received (#1901)

(in testing) Add a tray icon to the application behind command-line argument - thanks @m-pilia (#1676)

• --use-tray-icon enables the tray icon
• --start-in-tray enables the tray icon and the application starts minimized in the tray bar

(in testing) Support pass-through proxies with HTTPS_PROXY environment variable (#1878)

Dev:

• Display of environment and app instance in title bar/about window (#1606)
• Support for beta releases installed beside production versions (#1606)
• Fix json parsing exceptions obscuring server errors (#1605)
• Be resilient to thrown non-errors in import process (#1737)