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google-chat-linux: all versions and old releases

An electron-base client for Google Hangouts Chat.

27 versions of google-chat-linux are listed here, from April 22, 2022 to the current 5.39.29-2. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2022: 3 3 22 2023: 13 13 23 2024: 3 3 24 2025: 0 25 2026: 8 8 26

27 versions over 4 years · about 6 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
5.39.29-2Latest October 20, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Minor fix : ellipsis too long notification messages.
5.39.29-1 October 19, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Huge improvements with native notifications support, including message preview. See doc in README.
5.39.28-1 August 28, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
'Quit' behaviour changes.
When using systray : things go on as previously, (including latest improvements especially for KDE quitting)
When not using systray, closing window also quits entirely the app. (So, 'Super+Q' on COSMIC or 'Alt F4' elsewhere maybe will indeed Quit)
This is coherent with other great chat apps behaviour, and consistent accrosse DE.
Thanks again to @Adiker ... I guess I found a future maintainer for the day I quit google for good ;)
5.39.27-2 August 26, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Minor additional KDE quit fix.
5.39.27-1 August 25, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Improve Shutdown : now app properly closes when system powers off, thanks to @Adiker !
Fix downloads experience : no more empty window appearing. @Adiker again :)
5.39.26-1 July 24, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Add native notification support (with toggle to disable it if needed). Thanks to @Adiker.
5.39.25-1 May 28, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Fix try icon after Google canged their names again.
Several dependencies vulnerability fixes.
5.39.24-1 January 7, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Bump to electron 39.0 as maintainance chore.
Add option (in View menu) to disable use of Tray icon, as it's becoming useless (and painful) in some DE, for instance Cosmic.
5.29.23-1 February 20, 2024 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
bump electron to 29 with better wayland support. Define ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto to take advantage of it. Values can be auto, wayland, x11, with auto being a reasonable default.
Set it in .zshenv for instance, and logout / login again. Must be in a placed sourced when .desktop applications launchers are used, will certainly be DE dependant.
5.27.23-6 January 6, 2024 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
empty releases for AUR packaging fix only
5.27.23-5 January 6, 2024 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
empty releases for AUR packaging fix only
5.27.23-2 December 19, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Add a menu in 'View' to change tray icon theme.
5.27.23-1 December 18, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Add support for several iconThemes, to match some 'monochrome' desktop themes. 3 values are supported:
- default : the good old green ones
- colored : the new colored google ones
- mono : an attempt at monochrome icon theme
Edit ~/.config/google-hangouts-chat-linux.json and set "iconTheme":"colored" for instance, then restart.
No GUI setting for now.
5.27.22-4 December 15, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Fix systray notification (favicon name changed on google side) see #87
5.27.22-3 December 12, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Add a nice pseudo-protocol support: open gchat:// urls in client instead of browser. (requires configutaion in browsers)
See README.md "Open Google Chat URLs from web browser in the app".
5.27.22-2 November 30, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
fix #82 build rpm phase by adding fpm dependency, fix output file names, separate checksum files to make sure AUR scripts wont fail on Arch packaging system
5.27.22-1 October 24, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
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Update electron to 27.0.3 #78
5.24.22-1 October 24, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
prepare 5.24.22-1 version with fix for #62 and electron update to 24.8.5
5.24.21-1 September 2, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
fix #69 : download of attached files in messages was broken by #67
5.24.20-2 July 4, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
new version with npm fix
5.24.20-1 June 26, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
fix #67 : prevent several instances from running simultaneaously
5.24.19-4 June 13, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
fix #66 clean MORE links from google-added-decorations before opening them
5.24.19-2 May 24, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Issue #65 : fix open links in external browser
5.21.19-1 January 12, 2023 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
5.21.18-3 December 21, 2022 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
5.21.18-2 December 20, 2022 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
5.15.17-1 April 22, 2022 — 64-bit EXE (NSIS)
Release notes
Fix #40 : client breaks out to browser when login needed.