Changelog
Dates and release notes for all production releases of the Briar Desktop program. For the Android app see its respective changelog.
0.6.3-beta
2024-02-18
- Update Briar core to 1.5.14
- Upgrade JVM to 17.0.14+7
- Upgrade Compose to 1.7.3
- Upgrade Kotlin to 2.1.10
- Upgrade Gradle to 7.6.4
0.6.2-beta
2024-08-14
- Fix bug when getting shared an RSS feed
- Update Briar core to 1.5.12
- Update JVM to 17.0.12+7
- Update Compose to 1.6.11
0.6.1-beta
2024-02-19
- Add Tor status indicator
- Update Briar core to 1.5.9
0.6.0-beta
2023-08-31
- Add support for blogs
- Fix problem where sometimes contacts cannot be invited to forums or groups
0.5.0-beta
2023-06-28
- Add support for private groups
- Add support for the Mailbox app
- First version that's available for macOS
- Include date in log output
- Add feature to mark whole forums as read
- Fix bug with long forum names hiding "shared with" info when spanning two lines
- Fix issue with message counter when deleting unread messages
0.4.2-beta
2023-03-12
- Fix issues with unread message counters which crashed the app in the worst case
0.4.1-beta
2023-03-10
- Make forum text selectable for copying
- Fix bug with login-loop when login fails unexpectedly
- Simplify introduction contact list
- Better support for HiDPI displays on Linux using new UI scale setting
- Fix translations of copy/paste context menu
- Update Briar core to 1.4.22
- Update translations and add Czech
0.4.0-beta
2023-01-31
- Add support for forums
- First version that's available for MS Windows
- Update Briar core to 1.4.20
- Update translations and add Taiwanese Mandarin
- Changing password happens on IO thread
- Show unread message badge in sidebar
- Various UI tweaks
0.3.1-beta
2022-10-13
- Update translations after Burmese translators have done a lot of work
- Include some translation updates that were accidentally skipped on the last release
0.3.0-beta
2022-09-30
- Show notifications and play notification sound on reception of new private messages
- Several improvements related to accessibility and color contrast
- Update Briar core to 1.4.11
- Update translations and add Georgian and Norwegian Bokmål
0.2.1-beta
2022-05-11
- Allow to dismiss expiration warning for 24 hours (Thanks @altynbek.nurtaza!)
- Several minor UI improvements and bug fixes (Thanks @paul-lorenc!)
- Update and include new translations into Catalan
0.2.0-beta
2022-02-22
- Synchronize messages via local LAN
- Update Briar core to 1.4.4
- Allow to change password
- Fix visual bugs when introducing contacts
- Improve dialog of adding contacts
- Allow to copy'n'paste messages
- Remember settings and allow to change language
- Allow to rename contacts and delete pending contacts
- Resolve .deb installation errors
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
- Update and include new translations into
- French
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Burmese
- Dutch
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Ukrainian
0.1.0-beta
2022-01-21
- Initial release for Linux