What's new in Cryptocat 3.2.08
Feb 21, 2017
- Security Update! A bug which could allow the person you're chatting with to obtain your IP address by sending a specially crafted audio file has been resolved. Please update immediately in order to benefit from stronger privacy while using Cryptocat. We thank Jason Donenfeld for filing his report.
- Cryptocat for Windows's installer has been improved.
- Cryptocat for Linux is now distributed as an AppImage, which should improve compatibility and ease of use across Linux distributions.
- Cryptocat for Mac's menus and OS integration has been improved.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.07 (Nov 1, 2016)
- Hovering your mouse cursor over a cat sticker will now show a timestamp indicating when it was sent.
- File transfer performance has been improved on slow Internet connections.
- Improved chat session reliability.
- Fixed a bug that would display stickers over a user's avatar in the chat window.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes make the buddy list filter/search function stop working.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes render file transfer progress bars incorrectly.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.06 (Nov 1, 2016)
- File sharing size limit has been doubled from 100MB to 200MB.
- Added a warning when sending a message to a contact with no trusted devices, when "send only to trusted devices" is enabled.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.05 (Nov 1, 2016)
- New feature! Avatars! Choose from thirty-eight cute, ferocious and mysterious animals as your Cryptocat avatar. Which avatars will your buddies choose?
- Fixed a bug where timestamps would appear incorrectly at 12am hours, appearing instead as 00am.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.04 (Nov 1, 2016)
- New feature! Your buddy list now shows at what time an offline buddy was last online.
- Small usability improvements.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.02 (Nov 1, 2016)
- Important! We recommend downloading this update soon: older versions of Cryptocat may no longer be able to automatically update after October 2016.
- File transfer reliability over poor Internet connections has been improved.
- Chat windows no longer scroll down if a user types a message when scrolled up to read previous messages.
- Buddy list windows now remember their positions correctly even on computers with multiple displays attached.
- Update reminder message has been reduced in frequency from once every 8 hours to once every 24 hours.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.01 (Nov 1, 2016)
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in Cryptocat 3.2.00 (Nov 1, 2016)
- Out of Beta! Cryptocat is no longer beta software. Bugs will certainly still occur in the upcoming history of the project, but we are reasonably confident in the reliability of the current client. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our more than 150 reports with bugs, feedback and enhancements!
- A new PGP key is now being used in order to sign source code commits and Linux releases. Its fingerprint is:
- 94B8 4193 A00C FA50 F4DC 7475 8457 F623 8453 F85F
- Message sending has been improved: sent messages will appear as semi-transparent until they are properly encrypted and sent. Messages that cannot be sent to all of a recipient's linked (and, if applicable, selected) devices will not be sent at all.
- Improved file sharing reliability on unreliable Internet connections.
- Fixed a bug that prevented files larger than 64MB from being sent.
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes show message time as sent during the AM instead of PM.
- Fixed a bug that would make the file sharing drag and drop overlay sometimes get stuck.
- Fixed a bug that would incorrectly handle session reconnection in Cryptocat for Windows.
- Cryptocat for Mac is no longer requires administrator privileges for installation.