There are new mac and iOS betas out. Mac should resolve a badge issue where the wrong number of unread was shown. Both have debug logging enabled
New builds for 4.7
Sorry for disappearing. Covid either makes people not have work or have a lot more work. In my case it is a lot more work. There isn’t enough time in the day to do everything I need to do these days. That said there are others who have been working Continue Reading
4.6 Mac and iOS betas
There are new betas for Mac and iOs 4.6. This has the fixed parser that is faster, uses less battery, memory and is more compatible.
4.6 betas
There has been a lot of development since 4.5 was released last week. Thanks to Thilo and FriedrichAltheide for implementing much of the new functionality in the new release. 4.6 for Mac is out iOS will be on TestFlight in a day or so. view location messages TLS ALPN support Continue Reading
New mac and iOS betas
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
Monal 4.4 for iOS and Mac are out
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 is out
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
Burned by an old typo
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
Mac Catalyst delayed in the Appstore.. it’s blocking the keychain
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
Removing Google talk
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