Month: January 2021

We urge you to update to Monal ≥ 4.9 if you haven’t done it yet. We discovered a security bug in Monal < 4.9 dubbed CVE-2020-26547: Monal before 4.9 does not implement proper sender verification on MAM and Message Carbon (XEP-0280) results. This allows a remote attacker(able to send stanzas Continue Reading

Hi fellow Monal-Beta users, we were asked to post an update of our development journey for the next xmpp summit.Because we as the developers of the monal beta are way too proud of our own achievements,we ask you as the community to provide a more realistic view of the monal Continue Reading

We like to support things as long as we can. However, eventually we do see the need to drop older os support so we can focus efforts on current versions. The long life of Apple devices means we end up supporting very old hardware for a long time. For example, Continue Reading

App Store issues have been resolved. 4.9 is out on the Mac. I don’t expect the iOS and Mac releases to be out of synch again

We have identified the cause of the crash that was causing Apple to reject Monal when submitted to the Mac App Store. The root cause of the problem was the behavior of action sheet type of alerts. This was changed from a Mac style alert in Catalyst running on Catalina Continue Reading

We did a reconfiguration of our translation infrastructure, allowing translations to automatically reach the alpha build and eventually the beta and stable builds as well. The display of missing translations and the translated percent displayed in weblate is more accurate now, too. Please check your translations if some strings are Continue Reading

Pushing out an update with fixed registration

WhatsApp as we have all known it will end as a service on Feb 8, 2021. Users around the world have been presented with a screen requiring them to accept the sharing of data with “Facebook company products” or have their accounts disabled. This is Facebook reneging on the promises Continue Reading