Development Blog

Sorry for being off the grid for so long. Covid-19 is disrupting all of our lives. I haven’t worked on Monal a ton but thanks to some contributions from Thilo to try to resolve some xmpp duplication and performance issues, there are new iOS and Mac betas. I’ll fix a Continue Reading

The latest versions of Monal are out for both apple platforms. 4.5 is in development and will probably come out next week. If you find the apps useful please remember to rate it and leave feedback on the Appstore’s. This helps discovery and encourages new users to try it. On Continue Reading

Monal for Mac 4.3 aka the catalyst build is now out in the App Store. Hopefully going forward iOS and Mac will come out at the same time. I will be phasing out the other older Mac client

At some point a long time ago while writing the OMEMO code I entered in the device features. While returning the features that Monal supported, I returned eu.siacs.conversations.axolotl.devicelist instead of eu.siacs.conversations.axolotl.devicelist+notify . The missing +notify meant I didn’t get notifications when the device list changed causing all sort of havoc. Continue Reading

It seems that the mac app store is currently blocking the use of the keychain as a non public api. It’s clearly a bug because this has worked fine for a decade and until yesterday there were no issues. Until they resolve this, i can’t upload new catalyst builds — Continue Reading

I am planning to remove Google talk support from 4.4 onwards for Mac and iOS. Its an sad milestone because Google talk was why I made Monal in 2008. However, given google themselves have deprecated it twice and even its replacement google chat has been deprecated, it seems increasingly less Continue Reading

There was a bug in last nights iOS and Mac builds that caused it to crash on group chats. I have updated both clients now. I have also linked the old Monal-OSX.zip file to the catalyst version. Catalyst is the mac client now. This should allow brew users to get Continue Reading

There are many weird things about xmpp. The contact approval system and the need to approve a contact to send encrypted messages is probably one of the best examples. A lot of OMEMO issues can probably be traced to your contacts subscription either being to, from or none. Those words Continue Reading

Monal 4.3 if out for iOS. Mac os will come soon. It’s taking longer because it is treated as a new app. I am leaving the other mac app in the app store for older macs. This change in 4.3 also means it is now available in france. On a Continue Reading

Monal 4.3 will be in the app store this week. In conjunction with that I have updated the home page to reflect the app as it is going to be. Needless to say the front page is very non technical. On a related note, I now remember how making accurate Continue Reading