DeltaChat: vanhemmat versiot ja versiohistoria

Added
- Adding a relay: show a progress bar and allow to cancel
- Notifications are now grouped by chat on some platforms
- Show all reactions in the "Reactions" dialog grouped by emoji ("pills"), including the total count, and update the dialog live
- More support for Delta Chat links in search (#6752)
- "Load Remote Images" option is now also available in the "View" menu, for better screen reader accessibility (#6745)
- New languages: Hebrew and Belarusian (#6761)
Changed
- Relays: the primary relay can now be removed, and removing a relay deletes it immediately
- Relays: removed the "default relay" setting (#6747)
- Email addresses are no longer shown for your profiles in the profile list and settings (#6762)
- Contacts are no longer shown as "verified" (see FAQ) (#6753)
- Onboarding: show a generic privacy policy link instead of a relay-specific one (#6746)
- Better-looking toast widget (#6714, #6728, [#6746](https://gith ub.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues/6746))
- Notifications no longer repeat the app name
Fixed
- Camera not working on PipeWire-based Linux distributions (#6604)
- Tray menu: bring back a hidden window, and enable "Minimize" when appropriate (#6737, #6741)
- Portable mode (Windows): store the Electron cache in the portable folder and don't register as protocol handler (#6742)
- Linux: set correct WMClass (#6559)
- macOS: hide the "Hide Window Menu Bar" setting, as it has no effect there (#6670)
- Links containing scheme-like words were not linkified correctly (#6698)
- Message multiselect being reset when clicking a button
- Contents of "Show Full Message..." not being focusable
- Focus not returning to the previous element after a dialog closes
- Dialogs staying open after switching profiles (#6727)
- Audio player overflowing on small screens (#6603)
- Show a hint when trying to edit a group you are no longer a member of (#6744)
- Catch possible errors when loading apps (webxdc) with broken or oversized icons (#6723, #6724)
- Faster profile switching and faster "Ctrl + Up" (edit last message) in long chats
Removed
- Setting to enable developer tools for apps (WebXDC): instead we will show a dialog prompt every time you try to open developer tools (#6654)
- Undocumented drag-file-out WebXDC API (#6726)
- Migration of profiles from very old Delta Chat versions (#6755)
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Upgrade Electron to 43 (#6718)
- Upgrade core to 2.62.0 (#6731), notable changes:
- Onboarding adds multiple relays
- Contacts are informed automatically when you change your relays
- Messages are fetched from all relays in the background, and sent via the fastest relay on first setup
- Better image quality when sending images
- No more "member added" messages in channels
- No notifications for reactions or missed calls from blocked contacts
- Email addresses are no longer stored in location files and export filenames
Download
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.62.0/

Fixed
- Messages staying "unread" even when read from another device
for profiles created on Desktop v2.59.0 (#6684)
If you see "Team" when hovering over your profile's square on the left,
(and you didn't intentionally click "Team Profile" when creating it),
you are affected.
We will work on a more elaborate fix in the next weeks.
- Ctrl + Up: incorrect quote order sometimes
- Add Arabic and Telugu languages
- Add Slovenian language
Removed
- Moved tauri edition to own repository!! (#6656) https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-tauri
Download
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.59.1/

Added
- React to channel posts (#6638)
- "Hide Window Menu Bar" setting (Settings → Appearance) (#6544)
- (experimental) "Team Profiles": you may enable this while creating a new profile (https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7694)
Fixed
- NixOS: autostart not working: you'll need to toggle the "autostart" off and on again in Delta Chat Advanced settings (#6571)
- Disable Ctrl+A shortcut (select all text) outside of text inputs (#6570)
- QR scanner camera select not working
- Fix incorrect "You removed member X" messages
- Fix links in messages not being clickable sometimes
- Minor fixes for the View Group dialog
- accessibility: say "Muted" instead of "Mute" for chat list items
- Clicking "Edit Message" sometimes not moving the text cursor to the end of the input
- style: better message bubble color of messages with a video attachment: have the quote on a normal background color and not black (#6639)
- More minor fixes
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Upgrade Core to 2.59.0
- Translations update 2026-08 (#6644)
- Upgrade Electron 42.5.0 to 42.9.0
Other
- QR scanner: prefer environment facing
- style: adjust the spacing in the "Recently used apps" section in the chat header (#6572)
Downloads
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.59.0/

Removed
- Remove hints about email providers on login (such as "Gmail requires you to create an app-specific password") (https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/8437)
Fixed
- Relay list not syncing to devices with Delta Chat versions older than 2.55.0.
If you recently added a second device and it can't receive and send messages,
upgrade your main device to 2.57.0 and then add that second device again.
Changes
- Update onboard help
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Upgrade core to 2.57.0 (#6594)
Downloads
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.57.0/

Removed
- Remove "Hide Relay from Contacts": now "Remove Relay" hides it from contacts
and schedules automatic removal (https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/8428)
- Remove OAuth support (https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/8431)
Added
- Add member search and three-dot menu to group profile (#6456)
- Show proxy status in the chat list header, like on Android (#6522)
- Custom app picker URL setting
- Show num msgs in "Forward?" dialog
- (experimental) Command palette: Ctrl + P or Ctrl + K to type commands and search for chats, messges, and more (#6443)
Other
- Move message multiselect counter to the chat header
- Merge images and video to "gallery" tab (#5644)
Fixed
- AppImage no longer requires libfuse2 (#6564)
- Fix message list "scrolling up" after image is loaded or after a message is edited by another member (#6536)
- Avoid horizontal scrollbar in the message list, especially in Saved Messages (#6491)
- Accessibility:
- Settings: keep focus after going back a level
- add aria-live for draft quote & attachment:
announce when a file is attached or a quote is added to the draft
- Don't announce reactions when a chat gets opened or scrolled
- Some non-primary chat lists' items wrongly saying "opens menu"
- Better contrast for fullscreen media view buttons (#6521)
- Live update the "Ready By" dialog and channel view count: no need to manually "refresh" them
- "Edit Group" dialog:
- Fix setting name and description at the same time not working sometimes
- Make it possible to set 1-char group name
- Edit Group: disable form submit if name is empty
- Style, labels:
- QR code scanner in cut on the right when using a vertical camera (#6462)
- Add bottom margin to copy dialog (#6552)
- Adjust group/channel edit dialog title
- Attaching file sometimes resetting text
- Security hardening: set contextIsolation to true (#6524)
- Unify mailto: link handling logic with force_encryption
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Upgrade electron to 42.5 (#6508)
- Upgrade core to 2.56.0 (#6569)
Downloads
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.56.0/

Added
- Add a way to select multiple messages
- Ctrl + Alt + PageDown to switch accounts
- Close (unselect) chat with Escape
Fixed
- Focus composer when user tries to type
- Improve keyboard accessibility, focus management:
- Escape to unselect chats (multiselect)
- Keep focus on old element on dialog close
- Escape to go back to View Group from member
- Escape in Create Group goes back to New Chat
- Refocus input when send message button is pressed (useful for touch screens) (#6374)
- Fix undismissable context menu in fullscreen media
- Disable keyboard shortcuts when have dialog
- Don't enter edit mode on ArrowUp even if composer only has whitespace
- Fix screen-readers always using English language for some parts of the UI
- Do not render large images (click to open instead)
- Preserve line breaks in channel dialog descr
- Don't send whitespace-only message
- Fix bottom margins in some dialogs (#6481)
- Fix account list items "wiggling" when messages arrive or get read (#6419)
- Fix some UI related to unencrypted email and "Force Encryption" (#6480)
- "Show full message...": make the "Load Remote Content" look the same as on Android (#6386)
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Upgrade core to 2.53.0 (#6479)
Downloads
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.53.0/

Just a core update v2.52.0.
See changes of https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases/tag/v2.51.0

Removed
- Remove "Move to DeltaChat folder", in case you are using the option, a device message shows how to proceed
- Remove "Only fetch from DeltaChat folder" option, the functionality is preserved for existing profiles
- Remove "Delete Messages from Server" option, this is now up to the server: Chatmail handles that automatically, classic email servers used as relay often have lots of storage or options themselves
- Remove "Show Email" options, all messages are shown by default, account sharing is anyway not supported
Added
- "Mark as Unread" menu item (and "as Read")
- Add inline reply on notifications (Win, Mac)
- Allow to submit "Edit Group" with "Enter"
- Calls & channels are not experimental anymore (#6335)
- Add window menu for MacOS (#6357)
- Improve crash handling (#6341)
- Click on call messages opens/focus call window (#6376)
- WebXDC: add isAppSender, isBroadcast
- Add option to force encryption (#6410)
- Show imap folder if set (#6424)
- Resend the last 10 messages to new broadcast channel member
- Enable PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) support. We do not generate PQC keys yet, this step is needed for forward compatibility
- Allow otherwise invalid TLS connections if the key is unchanged
- Do not show "non delivered" notifications in broadcast channels
- Adapt quota warning to automatic cleanup.
- Improved avatar resolution
Fixed
- Use correct filename when dragging a file out (#6219)
- Chat list switching between archive by itself (#6255)
- Chat list: Ctrl + Space multiselect on Linux
- Add counter for screenreaders (#6297)
- Show channel description (#6283)
- Enable sticker replies (#6278)
- Detect images dropped with uppercase extensions (e.g. .JPG) (#6324)
- Switch account in all SelectChat dialogs (#6279)
- Mark visible messages as read after a programmatic scroll completes (#6329)
- Show appropriate buttons when invite code is pasted to search field (#6330)
- Hide apps for channels (#6336)
- Create group/channel with description & image (#6314)
- Resize reactions after image load (#6334)
- Truncate author name in quotes (#6356)
- Always show sent time in html email view(#6363)
- Show rtl text in correct direction in mixed texts (#6379)
- Qr code video is flipped for back camera (#6373)
- Set default height smaller then screen height (#6385)
- Adapt accountlist sidebar (#6380)
- Reload settings after importing backup (#6396)
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Update translations (#6295)
- Upgrade Electron to 41.7.1
- Add burmese language (#6416)
- Upgrade core to 2.51.0 (#6425)
- Upgrade React zoom pan pinch (#6375)
- Replace emoji mart (#6201)
Other
- HTML viewer: move Load Remote Images
- Sticker folder rewrite (#6231)
- change: remove open sticker folder button
- fix: keep sticker picker open where appropriate
- Add Device: move buttons to menu (#6126)
Downloads
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.51.0/

Fixed
- hotfix release to avoid crashes on MacOS
Downloads
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.49.1/

Added
- Leave & delete group (#6153)
Fixed
- Remove title from title bar on macOS (#6188)
- Add bg for quotes in video msg (#6212)
- Translate static aria label (#6170)
Miscellaneous Tasks
- Upgrade Electron to 41.2.0
- Upgrade core to 2.49.0 (#6232)
- Mark a message as delivered only after it has been fully sent out (#8062).
- Do not create 1:1 chat on second device when scanning a QR code.
- Let search also return hidden contacts if search value is an email address.
- Make start messages stick to the top of the chat.
Downloads
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.49.0/

[2.48.0] - 2026-03-30
Added
- Rework message info (#6156)
- Add autostart functionality (off by default, Settings → Advanced → Autostart) (#6076)
- Add channel/group descriptions (#6026)
- Mini-apps (WebXDC): you can now click on links
- Better voice message playback: global player UI
- Add "Who can call me" setting
- Click on a call message to open call window if "who can call me" is disabled for this caller
- View count in channels (visible only to channel owner)
- Add "Unpublish a transport" feature (Advanced) (#6137)
Fixed
- Remove notification when its message gets read or deleted
- Make "mentions" setting per-account.
Unfortunately this means that if you disabled "mentions",
they are again enabled on all your accounts.
You can change that in Settings → Notifications.
- Extraneous padding on full screen image view
- Don't close "New Group" dialog on outside click, losing progress
- Better group / channel / profile avatar editor
- better image quality
- remove maximum zoom limit to allow zooming in on small images
- a little better UI
- WebXDC: remove wrapper <iframe>:
no need for app developers to hack around
visibilitychange and beforeunload.
- Mobile: fix reactions picker getting closed on keyboard open
- Scroll to new messages if appropriate
(some messages didn't cause a scroll previously)
- Do not cover video controls with message sent date (#6096)
- Do not crop stickers (#6069)
- Make more text selectable, such as in the "Encryption info" dialog
- Fix text overflow in delete account dialog (#6070)
- Fix some functionality not working
when multiple users use Delta Chat on the same machine,
due only one being the temp folder owner (#6124)
- Fix various UI issues
- Bigger QR Code for Add second device (#6085)
Build system
- Upgrade core to 2.48.0 (#6171)
- Upgrade Electron to 41.1
- fix pointer lock in some mini-app games
Downloads
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.48.0/

Added
- Allow forwarding a message to other profiles (#5916)
- New per-message shortcuts (press Ctrl + / to see them) (#5963)
- Calls: add "ringing" tone for outgoing calls
- Calls: add audio/video select menu (#6017)
- Calls: for incoming calls, don't enable video by default if the caller did not
- Add badge counter to window title (#5875)
- Add arrow key navigation to "React to message" menu
- Add "Downloading..." in app picker
Changed
- Adjust chat list's context menu items
- New translations (#5907)
- Tweak dark themes
- Use "danger" color for some more menu items
- More danger color contrast, while keeping tone and overall appearance (#5953)
- Allow Escape key to navigate back to the chat list
- Focus composer on already active chat click
- Consistent summaries across platforms
- Message reactions: move freely-selected emoji to end (#5910)
- Clearer 'clear chat' confirmation button (#5954)
Fixed
- All "image" pickers to accept same formats
- Crash on adding invalid .xdc to draft
- Recognize more formats as img on drop event
- Add min/max width to vcard (#5865)
- More space/height for connectivity dialog, because it can be larger (#5896)
- Don't change reply when editing message
- Redesign shortcuts dialog (#5980)
- WebXDC: peroperly serve files with non-alphanumeric names
- Break long words in dialogs (#5940)
- Fix "arrow up" shortcut to edit the last message not working if the last message is not from self (#5959)
- Muted chats were not marked read when marking account as read (#5923)
- Improve webxdc data cleanup when chat is deleted. (#5871)
- Also apply content protection (no screenshots) to call window
- Don't reorder accounts when dropping an account on itself in the list
- "React" menu not getting focused on open
- Handle error in EncryptionInfo
- Proper EncryptionInfo for non-single chats
- Make window menues consistent across different windows (#5983)
- Consistent keyboard zoom shortcuts (#5909)
- Fix account size on deletion text contrast (#5949)
- calls: no remote video if we have no camera
Removed
- Option to disable realtime-channels (#5925)
- Remove email from profile
- Remove UNIX time from msg info dialog (#5951)
Build system
- Upgrade Core to 2.43.0
- Upgrade Electron to 40.4.1
Downloads
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.43.0/

Added
- Prettier About Dialog and introduce Protocol View Dialog (+ added storage usage report to that dialog) (#5882)
Changes
- Upgrade core to 2.35.0 (#5886)
- sync default transport on multi devices
- improve calls by providing a turn server
- Upgrade electron to v39.x (#5843)
- Support for MacOS v11 ended due to Chrome not being compatible anymore!
- Remove emoji replacement (#5866)
- Show the error message when add relay fails (#5863)
- Disable email address field when editing existing transports. (#5884)
- Split transport label (#5864)
Fixed
- Add transport for DCLOGIN (#5846)
- CloseHandler should not prevent dialog from closing (#5825)
- Don't play "plop" sound on msg if not focused
- Vertical center navbar buttons (#5889)
Styling
- Apply "move" cursor on account list drag (#5857)
Downloads
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.35.0/

Added
- support multiple selection (multiselect) in the list of chats, activated with Ctrl + Click, Shift + Click #5297
Changed
- update @deltachat/stdio-rpc-server and deltachat/jsonrpc-client to 2.15.0
- withdraw all QR codes when one is withdrawn
- do not create a group if the sender includes self in the To field
- minor visual improvements to keyboard shortcut preview #5495
Fixed
- Display message error even for messages that are not OutFailed #5498
- fix app picker sometimes incorrectly showing "Offline"
- allow using the app picker even when offline, as long as the app store data is cached
- if adding an app from the app picker fails, show an error dialog
- fix "Recent 3 apps" in the chat header showing apps from another chat sometimes #5265
- accessibility: improve screen-reader accessibility of the general structure of the app by using landmarks #5067
- accessibility: don't re-announce message input (composer) after sending every message #5049
- accessibility: don't announce delivery status twice after sending a message #5442
- accessibility: correct aria-posinset for chat list #5044
- don't close context menues on window resize #5418
- tauri: accessibility: fix focus always being locked on the message input #5125
- fix: remove weird bottom margins in some scrollable dialogs #5494
- upgrade electron from 37.1.0 to 37.6.0 #5499
- this fixes high GPU usage bugs on macOS Tahoe
Download
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.15.0/

Changed
- removed "Add contact manually" when on chatmail account #5358
- update @deltachat/stdio-rpc-server and deltachat/jsonrpc-client to 2.9.0
Fixed
- don't show "add contact manually" (by email address) for groups #5336
- Make Archived Chats title non selectable
Changelog see https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases/tag/v2.8.0
Downloads
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v2.9.0/

Added
- new proxy configuration dialog #5052
- tauri: added notifications
Changed
- restyle profile view #5093
- Update @deltachat/stdio-rpc-server and deltachat/jsonrpc-client to 1.159.4
- Better avatar quality
- Update iroh from 0.33.0 to 0.35.0
Fixed
- show error when sendMsg fails #5092
- update search results on changes #5100
Download
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.58.2/

Added
- add a way to edit messages #4717
- delete message for all chat members #4716
- tauri: add support for sticker picker #4707
- tauri: add html email view #4699
- tauri: add titlebar menu #4755 #4787
- tauri: implement runtime.copyFileToInternalTmpDir and allow opening files in temp dir #4778
- add option to reset encryption state for contact in encryption info dialog #4797
- tauri: implement backend translation fn and use it in tauri files as needed #4790
- add withdraw qr code context menu option #4798
- mute chat for 8 hours
Changed
- tauri: replace tauri-plugin-shell with tauri-plugin-opener #4699
- new button styles #4741
- removed the option to import encryption keys #4783
- remove end-to-end encryption preferences from settings (e2e encryption is always preferred when available) #4782
- add dialog with hints about invite link #4667
- Update @deltachat/stdio-rpc-server and deltachat/jsonrpc-client to 1.157.2
- Delete messages on IMAP when deleting chat
- Allow doubled avatar resolution
- Update iroh to 0.33
- Ignore hidden headers in IMF section
- Prefer hidden Message-ID header if any.
- Update async-compression to 0.4.21 to fix IMAP COMPRESS getting stuck
- update translations (2025-03-17)
Fixed
- fix some webxdc apps showing the "Close app?" prompt unintentionally #4737
- fixed some intermittent e2e test issues
- improve QR scanner performance
- avoid UI freeze when processing QR code from clipboard #4639
- webxdc: fix menu bar hiding when pressing Escape #4753
- tauri: fix blobs and webxdc-icon scheme under windows #4705
- tauri: fix app picker not working for some apps
- tauri: fix: drag regions in navbar #4719
- tauri: fall back to base locale if dialect/variant was not found
- tauri: entire app hanging after clicking "Show Full Message..." or the "Help" window on Windows
- tauri: fix SVG images not being displayed in composer draft
- tauri: fix open logfile from settings, fix opening stickerfolder, fix opening weblinks #4778
- tauri: hardening: allow commands for windows in a white-list manner #4795
- tauri: improve security a little #4813
- tauri: improve performance a little #4810
- tauri: translation fn: added fallback to en when a key doesn't exist in a particular language #4818
Download
- https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.56.0/