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

There were no show stopping issues with the last east beta and I have submitted Mac 4.9 to the App Store. The update should be available in a couple of days depending on app review times. 2020 has been a year of remarkable growth for this project thanks to the Continue Reading

For the upcoming Monal 5.0 we want to introduce a new app icon. Of course we want to know what you, the users, think about this new icon: Feel free to fill up the comment area below 🙂

I have been auto posting Monal updates to twitter for a while. If you do not use twitter and use reddit, you may want to join the new Monal subreddit. Ideally this would be easier to follow than a twitter thread and a place to discuss Monal issues and enhancements

The next beta for Mac has been released. This adds the ability to send location from the attachment button and bring it to feature parity with iOS. Barring any last minute issues this will be the version send to apple for release.

The Mac signing issues with Xcode 12 have been resolved. The beta has been updated. We are also really proud to note that Monal support Apple Silicon from this build onwards. If there are any users with M1 powered Macs, please let us know how it is. The App Store Continue Reading

This is a large update with many changes under the hood complete rewrite of internal xmpp parser complete overhaul of OMEMO including many bug fixes and improvements improved error handling in encryption code added floating “scroll to bottom”-button added notification privacy setting UI added the “/me”-command added support for roster Continue Reading

I have filled up the new App Store Nutrition Label for the next release. In case there is any doubt about how Monal works, there is zero data collected by the developers or any third party. Whatever you do with Monal is between you, your server and the person you Continue Reading

While I work out issues with Xcode 12, I have released a Monal 4.9 build for Mac using Xcode 11. I hope to have an arm native build as soon as the code signing issues in Xcode are resolved. I am talking to Apple about it.