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I am putting out a beta for 4.2.3 this week. This will have a fix to reduce battery usage and improve MAM performance. I dont expect it to be a very long beta periods before this is released. Moving on to 4.3, which is actively in development. The UI is Continue Reading

I had about 5 hours on the train today. There wasn’t a ton to do while going along the east coast on a snowy winter day so I had some time to work on Monal again. Version 4.3 is in development. The first order of business was to fix an Continue Reading

I along with a lot of other people have tried to test OMEMO and we’ve all spent some time trying to figure out what is going on with OMEMO on multiple clients and compatibility. I think I know at least one reason why clients on different platforms can’t talk to Continue Reading

Some updates for OMEMO coming. First, I noticed a bug there I was using an initialization vector of 16 bytes instead of 12 bytes. While a lot of clients seems to tolerate this, the extra 4 bytes may explain some of the cases where Monal worked with some clients but Continue Reading

There is a new catalyst build up and 4.2.2 for iOS should be on TestFlight in a day or so.

Including many other fixes this has a fix for The http upload issues people saw as well as further improvements to muc

I dropped iOS 9 support in the latest updates. Looking at the actual usage stats there are actually only 5 users using iOS 9,10,11 combined. Given all iOS 11 devices run iOS 12, and almost all iOS 10 devices ran 11, this makes sense. I am looking at only supporting Continue Reading

Another new catalyst build is up. There is a UI element to adjust the background now. I am also increasing/ adjusting some fonts for readability.

Happy new year. We have three new builds with the latest fixes. New iOs build on TestFlight, a new Mac Catalyst build and a new Mac build. Catalyst doesnt have OMEMO yet but will soon. If you use Catalina please try the catalyst build and let me know how it Continue Reading

I have identified (and fixed) a problem with detecting HTTP upload support. It will be fixed in the next beta for iOS and mac.