Images might not display immediately, or require an app restart to download
Certain conditions could cause sign up or verification to fail
Beeper would show someone’s last initial where it wasn’t required for clarity
Really long chat titles would make it impossible to clear that chat’s storage
Pairing Google Messages could fail and not display the reason why
v4.10.8
Improvements
Swipe to archive! Set up your swipe preference in ⚙️→Preferences→Inbox
Finished full screen media overhaul. Viewing images and video should be infinitely better than before. You can now swipe through recent media in full screen mode.
Images are now shown in notifications
Storage management – Beeper taking too much space on your phone? Set a max storage limit, or remove old cached images or videos. ⚙️→Storage
Easily set up Conversation Bubbling. ⚙️→Bubbles
Faster app and chat opens
Added the ability to Archive chats while inside a chat
⚙️ → Preferences → Experimental → Show Archive Button In Composer
Fixed an issue where…
Duplicate notifications would be shown for one new message
GIFs showed up as videos
Audio messages would show 0s length
Images would only show up in 1/4 of the screen when in full screen
It was too easy to accidentally dismiss messages while in edit mode.
Keyboard showed up over top of chat network setup text entry fields
Sending 7+ emojis would cause weirdness (thanks bjmerri3 and others for the report!)
Incoming media could fail to display
A video’s seek bar could be hidden behind a caption
Text could be hard to see in replies when using Dynamic themes
Optimizations
Improved the startup time when Beeper is not already running in the background
Improved performance when opening chats
v4.8.44
Improvements
Archive! You can now archive chats by long-pressing them in the inbox. Swipe to archive is coming in future update. View your archived chats by tapping search bar → Archive filter. Long press contact picture to multi-selecr and archive
Replies are now correctly associated with the exact message you are replying to, rather than the last message in a thread.
Full screen image viewer is getting better, but many more improvements in progress
Many small fixes to how background audio (ie Spotify) is handled. Music is paused if you start recording an audio message.
Image previews are now shown in inbox
Battery life for users with really busy Slack and Discord servers connected should be better
See a list of who reacted to a message. Long press on the message, then tap the circled number.
Notification is now shown after you download a file or media
Connecting Discord doesn’t crash! Note: only TOTP 2FA is currently supported.
Fixed an issue where…
Lots of crash fixes!
Google Message setup would not work for some users.
Dynamic theme colours were incorrect
Screen was turning off while watching long videos, or recording voice message
Viewing video, then rotating phone would cause the two-pane layout to appear
Marking a chat as read from notification shade would not actually mark the chat as unread. There’s one edge case – if this is still not working please report a problem!
Network Connection icon was misaligned in Settings. Thank you to the eagle eyed user who reported this.
v4.6.1
Improvements
You can now toggle notifications off per-network (⚙️ → Network Connections → Network)
Network names are shown in search
Added ability to reset recovery key during sign in if required
Fixed captions Messenger chats
Many improvements to chat bubbling behaviour
Fixed an issue where…
names/avatars being lost when people leave a chat
notification were shown for the currently open chat
network connections in settings showing an error when it shouldn't
images/video messages sometimes wouldn't send
composer would jump when using autocorrect in long messages
app wouldn't realize it was signed out
app forgetting it's signed in bad network situations
app would move to inbox before key backup was done restoring
stale chats from deleted networks would sometimes be left in inbox
Dramatically reduced accidental swipes in inbox and chat view
Many Chat Networks improvements
An error will be shown if one of your chat networks is disconnected
Better error messages
Better performance in network list in settings
Guidance on how to configure notifications
Fixed Instagram sign in
Various dynamic theme tweaks
Local Signal bridge now shows read receipts
Performance improvements during initial sign in
Fixed an issue where…
Pinned and low priority chat status was not being synced with other Beeper clients
Chats were improperly marked as unread
Bridge connection error messages were not properly displayed
Redundant verification requests would be sent to Beeper Desktop
Verification requests were not cancelled when switching to recovery code
Discord DMs would sometimes not show in inbox when they should
Images would not render in Messenger chats due to missing width/height metadata
Camera images would not attach to a message if the device was rotate into landscape mode
Captions would not be rendered for large media messages
Couldn't click on generated avatars to view chat member info
v4.1.48
Reduced power consumption
Improve performance when opening rooms and sending messages
Improve video compression quality when sending videos (2x higher bitrate)
Fixed an issue…
Some messages were ordered incorrectly and not shown
Failed sent messages were stuck to the bottom of a chat and couldn't be deleted
Lots of crashes
Google Messages chats that upgraded from SMS to RCS would still show as SMS in composer
Message search results were not always being displayed
Sticker picker crashed sometimes
Editing failed for Instagram and Facebook Messenger messages
Mute/unmute toggle in chat info screen wasn’t hooked up
Pinned chats weren’t syncing properly, and couldn’t be removed
Crash when scanning QR code during login for verification
Chats could sometimes be in a state causing them to not load any messages
Some messages to not be decrypted
Sending to group chats failed with the experimental local Signal bridge
Shared Wordle scores didn’t show all message content
v4.2.16
Improvements
Pinned chats now have a long press menu
Various UI tweaks to the Inbox and Chat Networks experiences
Tapping on messages in search results now opens the message in chat view
Lots of homescreen widget improvements! The widget now support dynamic themes. You can now also see your pins, search, and see typing indicators all from the widget.
Fixed an issue where…
Sending a message wouldn’t retry after network failure
Swipe actions on the inbox could be accidentally triggered by scrolling
Signing out would still leave some state in local storage
Edits wouldn’t be shown correctly when scrolling through old chat history
Chats would still be shown as unread after sending a message
Voice messages now support sending with a caption and displays replies correctly
Voice messages would not stop playing when changing chats
Google Chat messages couldn’t be unsent. Now they can.
Images and videos sent to Facebook Messenger chats wouldn’t be displayed for other users
Instagram couldn’t be setup due to a semi-transparent overlay
Using Android chat bubble feature caused the app to not open
Marking a message as read from bubble wouldn't work
App would crash during Discord setup
Reconnecting a network would not dismiss the reconnection menu
Receiving files with captions would not display the caption
(Experimental) On-Device Signal Bridge now supports replies
v2.22.25
Minor iMessage improvements and bug fixes
v2.22.19
Minor improvements and bug fixes
v2.22.10
Features & Optimizations
Optimized background processing & improved battery life
