All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
Group changes to describe their impact on the project, as follows:
Added for new features.
Changed for changes in existing functionality.
Deprecated for once-stable features removed in upcoming releases.
Removed for deprecated features removed in this release.
Fixed for any bug fixes.
Security to invite users to upgrade in case of vulnerabilities.
- Issue with how replies where added to chat message notification from reply action
- Show a progress bar while importing files to the chat sending area
- Prevent keyboard from auto-replacing some user input such as username, breaking SIP URIs unknowingly
- Prevent copy of files that weren't sent in chat to be kept in app local folder
- Voice message recording/playback will use bluetooth/headset/headphones/hearing aid device if available
- Chat message notifications are now compatible with Android Auto
- In video conference, when in active speaker layout, currently speaking participant miniature will be hidden
- Attach file, voice recording and send message icons are now a bit bigger
- Updated Firebase BoM, gradle & some dependencies
- ANR happening sometimes during voice message playback
- Export files to native gallery is now available even if automatically download files setting is enabled
- Makes sure sip.linphone.org accounts have a LIME X3DH server URL for E2E chat messages encryption
- Files not being exported to native gallery sometimes
- Crashes reported by Google Play Store & Crashlytics
- File transfer progress indication & error status improvements
- Wrong LIME status for participant that has multiple devices
- No longer sends video when switching from audio only to another conference layout
- SIP URI regex pattern to prevent HTTP URLs containing '@' to be handled as SIP URI
- Post Quantum encryption when using ZRTP
- Conference creation with scheduling, video, different layouts, showing who is speaking and who is muted, etc...
- Group calls directly from group chat rooms
- Chat rooms can be individually muted (no notification when receiving a chat message)
- When a message is received wait a short amount of time to check if more are to be received to notify them all at once
- Outgoing call video in early-media if requested by callee
- Image & Video in-app viewers allow for full-screen display
- Display name can be set during assistant when creating / logging in a sip.linphone.org account
- Android 13 support, using new post notifications & media permissions
- Call recordings can be exported
- Setting to prevent international prefix from account to be applied to call & chat
- Themed app icon is now supported for Android 13+
- In-call views have been re-designed
- "Media Encryption Mandatory" setting now allows for any media encryption (instead of only the one selected in the above setting previously)
- Improved how call logs are handled to improve performances
- Improved how contact avatars are generated
- 3-dots menu even for basic chat rooms with more options
- Phone numbers & email addresses are now clickable links in chat messages
- Go to call activity when you click on launcher icon if there is at least one active call
- Multiple file download attempt from the same chat bubble at the same time needed app restart to properly download each file
- Call stopped when removing app from recent tasks
- Generated avatars in dark mode
- Call state in self-managed TelecomManager service if it takes longer to be created than the call to be answered
- Show service notification sooner to prevent crash if Core creation takes too long
- Incoming call screen not being showed up to user (& screen staying off) when using app in Samsung secure folder
- One to one chat room creation process waiting indefinitely if chat room already exists
- Contact edition (SIP addresses & phone numbers) not working due to original value being lost in Friend parsing
- Automatically start call recording
- "Blinking" in some views when presence is being received
- Trying to keep the preferred driver (OpenSLES / AAudio) when switching device
- Issues when storing presence in native contacts + potentially duplicated SIP addresses in contact details
- Chat room scroll position lost when going into sub-view
- Trim user input to remove any space at end of string due to keyboard auto completion
- No longer makes requests to our LIME server (end-to-end encryption keys server) for non sip.linphone.org accounts
- Fixed incoming call/notification not ringing if Do not Disturb mode is enabled except for favorite contacts
- ANR that happens sometimes when playing voice recording
- Improved contact loader by querying only relevant fields
- Disable Telecom Manager feature on Android < 10 to prevent crash due to Android 9 OS bug
- Fixed crash due to AAudio's waitForStateChange (SDK fix)
- Call notification not being removed if service channel is disabled & background mode is enabled
- Wrong display name in chat notification sometimes
- Removed secure chat button if no LIME server configured or no conference factory URI set
- Disable TelecomManager feature when the device doesn't support it
- ContactsLoader have been updated, shouldn't crash anymore
- Various crashes due to unhandled exceptions
- Echo canceller calibration not using speaker (SDK fix)
- Fixed contact address used instead of identity address when creating a basic chat room from history or contact details
- Fixed call notification still visible after call ended on some devices
- Fixed incoming call activity not displayed on some devices
- Fixed Malaysian dial plan (SDK fix)
- Fixed incoming call ringing even if Do not disturb mode is enabled (SDK fix)
- ANR when screen turns OFF/ON while app is in foreground
- Crash due to missing CoreContext instance in TelecomManager service
- One-to-One encrypted chat room creation if it already exists
- Crash if ConnectionService feature isn't supported by the device
- Updated translations from Weblate
- Improved audio devices logs
- Crash due to missing CoreContext in CoreService
- Crash in BootReceiver if auto start is disabled
- Other crashes
- Do not start Core in Application, prevents service notification from appearing by itself
- When switching from bluetooth or headset device to earpiece/speaker, also change microphone
- Prevent empty chat bubble by sending only space character(s)
- Phone numbers with non-ASCII labels missing from address book
- Wrong audio device displayed in call statistics
- Various issues from Crashlytics
- Prevent requests to LIME X3DH & long term presence servers when not using a sip.linphone.org account
- Updated DE & RU translations
- Improved UI on landscape tablets
- Catching exceptions in new ContactsLoader reported on PlayStore
- Missing phone numbers in contacts when label contains a space character (5.1.24 SDK fix)
- Prevent app from starting by itself due to DummySyncService
- Hide chat rooms settings not working properly
- Only display phone number if it matches SIP address username
- Using new MagicSearch API to improve contacts list performances
- Prevent concurrent exception while loading native address book contacts
- Set video information in CallStyle incoming call notification
- Massive rework of how native contacts from address book are handled to improve performances
- Only display phone number from LDAP search result if it matches SIP address' username
- Do not use CallStyle notification on Samsung devices, they are currently displayed badly
- Fixed microphone muted when starting a new call if microphone was muted at the end of the previous one
- Added LDAP contact display name to SIP address
- Prevent read-only 1-1 chat room
- Fixed chat room last updated time not updated sometimes
- Improvements in contacts matching
- "Operation in progress" spinner hidden when contacts display/filter takes less than 200ms
- Contacts order when multiple address book contacts share the same number / SIP address
- Wrongly formatted phone numbers not displayed anymore
- Incoming call activity not displayed on LineageOS sometimes
- Various crashes related to Telecom Manager exceptions not being caught
- Request BLUETOOTH_CONNECT permission on Android 12+ devices, if not we won't be notified when a BT device is being connected/disconnected while app is alive.
- LDAP settings if SDK is built with OpenLDAP (requires 5.1.1 or higher linphone-sdk), will add contacts if any
- SIP addresses & phone numbers can be selected in history & contact details view
- Text can be selected in file viewer & config viewer
- Prevent screen to turn off while recording a voice message
- Contacts lists now show LDAP contacts if any
- Negative gain in audio settings is allowed again
- STUN server URL setting not enabling it for non sip.linphone.org accounts
- Contacts list header case comparison
- Stop voice recording playback when sending chat message
- Call activity not finishing when hanging up sometimes
- Auto start setting disabled not working if background mode setting was enabled
- Quit button not working when background mode was enabled
- Crash when background mode was enabled and service notification channel was disabled
- Crashes while changing audio route
- Crash while fetching contacts
- Crash when rotating the device (SDK fix)
- Reply to chat message feature (with original message preview)
- Swipe action on chat messages to reply / delete
- Voice recordings in chat feature
- Allow video recording in chat file sharing
- Unread messages indicator in chat conversation that separates read & unread messages
- Notify incoming/outgoing calls on bluetooth devices using self-managed connections from telecom manager API (disables SDK audio focus)
- Ask Android to not process what user types in an encrypted chat room to improve privacy, see IME_FLAG_NO_PERSONALIZED_LEARNING
- SIP URIs in chat messages are clickable to easily initiate a call
- New video call UI on foldable device like Galaxy Z Fold
- Setting to automatically record all calls
- When using a physical keyboard, use left control + enter keys to send message
- Using CallStyle notifications for calls for devices running Android 12 or newer
- New fragment explaining generic SIP account limitations contrary to sip.linphone.org SIP accounts
- Link to Weblate added in about page
- UI has been reworked around SlidingPane component to better handle tablets & foldable devices
- No longer scroll to bottom of chat room when new messages are received, a new button shows up to do it and it displays conversation's unread messages count
- Animations have been replaced to use com.google.android.material.transition ones
- Using new Unified Content API to share files from keyboard (or other sources)
- Received messages are now trimmed
- Bumped dependencies, gradle updated from 4.2.2 to 7.0.2
- Target Android SDK version set to 31 (Android 12)
- Splashscreen is using new APIs
- SDK updated to 5.1.0 release
- Updated translations
- Chat notifications disappearing when app restarts
- "Infinite backstack", now each view is stored (at most) once in the backstack
- Voice messages / call recordings will be played on headset/headphones instead of speaker, if possible
- Going back to the dialer when pressing back in a chat room after clicking on a chat message notification
- Missing international prefix / phone number in assistant after granting permission
- Display issue for incoming call notification preventing to use answer/hangup actions on some Xiaomi devices (like Redmi Note 9S)
- Missing foreground service notification for background mode
- Launcher Activity has been replaced by Splash Screen API
- Dialer will no longer make DTMF sound when pressing digits
- Launcher activity
- Global push notification setting in Network, use the switch in each Account instead
- No longer need to monitor device rotation and give information to the Core, it does it by itself
- SDK updated to 5.0.49
- SDK updated to 5.0.45
- SDK updated to 5.0.38
- Side menu not showing the newly configured account until next start
- Russian translation
- SDK updated to 5.0.31
- AccountSettingsViewModel leak causing number of REGISTER to grow
- Added a contact cache at app level
- Glide cache cleared on low memory
- Fixed encrypted file export when VFS is enabled
- Fixed in-app video player size when VFS is enabled
- Fixed background mode setting
- Fixed proximity sensor during calls
- Fixed missing notification for missed call when call history view is active
- Fixed shortcuts on launcher
- Fixed a few memory leaks
- Fixed various crashes & other issues
- SDK bumped to 5.0.10
- Bugs & crashes have been fixed
- SDK bumped to 5.0.1
This version is a full rewrite of the app in kotlin, using modern Android components like navigation, viewmodel, databinding, coroutines, etc...
- Using linphone SDK 5.0 API to better handle audio route (see linphone-sdk changelog)
- All files used by the app can now be encrypted for more security (VFS setting)
- In-app file viewers for PDFs, images, videos, sounds and texts
- Ephemeral messages
- Messages can be forwarded between chat rooms
- Numpad can be displayed in outgoing call view if the call has early media
- Can display multiple files in the same chat bubble
- Display video in recordings if available
- "Swipe left to delete" action available on calls history, contacts & chat rooms list
- "Swipe right" to mark a chat room as read
- Android 11 people & conversation compliant
- New animations between fragments and for unread chat messages / missed calls counters (can be disabled)
- Bubble & conversation support for chat message notifications
- Direct share support for chat room shortcuts
- Option to mark messages as read when dismissing the notification
- More settings are available
- Call view can be displayed in full-screen
- Display phone number label (home, work, etc...) in contacts' details
- Call history view groups call from the same SIP URI (like linphone-iphone)
- Reworked conference (using new linphone-sdk APIs)
- Route audio to headset / headphones / bluetooth device automatically when available
- Send logs / Reset logs buttons moved from About page to Advanced Settings like iOS
- Improved how Android native contacts are used
- Switched to material design for text input fields & switches
- Launcher shortcuts can be to either contacts or chat rooms
- Improved preview when sharing video files through the chat
- UI changes
- "back-to-call" button from dialer & chat views, use notification or overlay (see call settings for in-app/system-wide overlay)
- Don't ask for "Do not disturb settings" permission anymore
- Previous translations, starting again from scratch using Weblate instead of Transifex
- Dedicated notification channel for missed calls
- SDK updated to 4.5.0
- Min Android version updated from 21 to 23 (Android 6) due to SDK audio routes feature
- Rely on SDK audio routes feature instead of doing it in the application
- User can now check incoming messages delivery status in group chat rooms
- Asking user to read and accept privacy policy and general terms
- Updated translations
- Various crashes & issues fixed
- Added phoneCall foregroundServiceType for Android Q and newer
- Contact sorting when first character has an accent
- SDK updated to 4.4.2
- Updated translations
- Forward message between chat rooms
- Files from chat messages are now stored in a private space and will be deleted when the message or room will be deleted
- SDK updated to 4.4 version
- Fixed ANRs
- Fixed various issues
- Fixed various crashes
- Updated SDK to 4.3.3
- Fixed various issues
- Updated SDK to 4.3.1
- Removed AAudio plugin for now (we have observed quality issues on some popular devices with their latest updates)
- Fixed various issues
- Added shortcuts to contacts' latest chat rooms
- Improved device's do not disturb policy compliance
- Added sample application to help developpers getting started with our SDK
- Added picture in picture feature if supported instead of video overlay
- Added camera preview as dialer's background on tablets
- Contact section in the settings
- Using new AAudio & Camera2 frameworks for better performances (if available)
- Android 10 compatibility
- New plugin loader to be compatible with app bundle distribution mode
- Restart service if foreground service setting is on when app is updated
- Change bluetooth volume while in call if BT device connected and used
- Improved performances to reduce startup time
- Call statistics are now available for each call & conference
- Added our own devices in LIME encrypted chatrooms' security view
- No longer display incoming call activity from Service, instead use incoming call notification with full screen intent
- Improved reply notification when replying to a chat message from the notification
- License changed from GPLv2 to GPLv3
- Switched from MD5 to SHA-256 as password protection algorithm
- End-to-end encryption for instant messaging, for both one-to-one and group conversations.
- Video H.265 codec support, based on android MediaCodec.
- Enhanced call and IM notifications, so that it is possible to answer, decline, reply or mark as read directly from them.
- Setting to request attachments to be automatically downloaded, unconditionnally or based on their size.
- Possibility to send multiple attachments (images, documents) in a same message.
- Possibility to share multiple images through Linphone from an external application (ex: photo app)
- Rich input from keyboard (images, animated gifs...) when composing messages.
- Rendering of animated gifs in conversations.
- Button to invite contacts to use Linphone by sending them a SMS.
- Possibility to record calls (audio only), and replay them from the "Recordings" menu.
- Remote provisioning from a QR code providing the http(s) url of a provisioning server.
- Option for a dark theme
- Compilation procedure is simplified: a binary SDK containing dependencies (liblinphone) is retrieved automatically from a Maven repository. Full compilation remains absolutely supported. Please check local README.md for more details.
- Updated translations, mainly French and English.
- Call history view shows last calls for a given contact.
- Improved ergonomy of answer/decline buttons, including accessibility support.
- Enhanced user interface, including new icons, cleanups of unused graphical resources.
- Contact view is faster thanks to an asynchronous fetching.
- Adaptive icon for Android 8+.
- Video overlay now also shows local view.
- Reworked settings view, cleanup of useless settings.
- About section links to full GPLv2 license text.
- The video rendering method based on GL2JNIView is deprecated in favour of TextureView, which is easier to use. Please read this article for more information.
- One to one text conversations mixed up when initiated from differents SIP accounts.
- fix loading of plugins
- fix issue with video stream, not started when receiving an incoming call just after the app is launched
- fix issue with TURN
- Group chat between linphone.org SIP accounts.
- new JAVA/JNI wrapper. This new wrapper is automatically generated from liblinphone C API. It breaks compatibility with previous, hand-made wrapper. (more information about new wrapper here. )
- hand-made java API in submodules/linphone/java is deprecated. However it is still possible to use it by checking out the 3.4.x branch of linphone-android.
- issue with changing push notification token not passed to library, possibly resulting in a loss of incoming calls.
- Integration with Android O
- New video adaptive bitrate algorithm(More informations here)
- Application is no more managing in-call wakelock, it's now managed by the library
- Crashs in new chat view
- Contacts management
- Random crash in chatroom
- Improve chats list loading time
- Crash with devices X86 on Android < 5
- Notification of message reading on chat
- New permission to kill linphone app
- Crash with firebase push
- Problems with contacts
- Doze mode(energy saving) button in Network settings
- Migrate Linphone build from ANT to gradle
- No pause VOIP Call on incoming GSM call until we off hook this
- Subscription friends list enabled by default only for linphone domain
- Rotation after screen locking
- Contacts background task
- No more asking phone number for non-linphone domain
- Bug with Linphone credential login
- Lime integration
- Some crashs
- Some UI bugs
- Somes crashs
- Improved performance of contacts loading
- Some bug with the download of OpenH264 for Android < 5.1
- Some crashs
- Disable AAC codecs
- Open H264 binary download for ARM Android < 5.1
- Crashes for x86 CPU at starting
- Crashes in somes view in cause of bad locale time
- Crashes in contacts view if we don't have permission
- Change your password in your account settings
- Media H264 support improved for Android >= 5.1
- Optimize memory footprint and performance of contacts list an IM view
- Crashes Android 6/7 at starting
- Permissions issues
- Layout of tablet views