# Gajim changelog > A full-featured XMPP chat client for the desktop. - Vendor: Gajim Team - Category: Communication - Platforms: Windows, Linux - Official site: https://gajim.org - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim) - Harvested from: Blog (https://gajim.org/index.xml) - Entries below: 15 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. ## Releases ### 2.5.0 — Gajim 2.5.0 - Date: 2026-07-15 - Version: 2.5.0 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-07-15-gajim-2.5.0-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.5.0 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Improved Audio Player Gajim’s integrated audio player allows to preview audio files, such as voice messages you receive from your contacts. The player is now more compact, shows bette… - **changed** — Audio player is now more compact and shows better information ### 2.4.7 — Gajim 2.4.7 - Date: 2026-06-18 - Version: 2.4.7 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-06-18-gajim-2.4.7-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.7 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Modern OpenPGP Encryption Gajim now offers integrated and modern OpenPGP encryption via XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging. OpenPGP encryption can be used as an alternative to OME… - **added** — Integrated modern OpenPGP encryption via XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging as an alternative to OME ### 2.4.6 — Gajim 2.4.6 - Date: 2026-04-19 - Version: 2.4.6 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-04-19-gajim-2.4.6-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.6 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim now shows a hint it it’s night for your contact. Both Conversations and Dino show this hint as well. If you set your current timezone in your profile, this may help others to re… - **added** — Show a hint if it is night for your contact based on their timezone ### 2.4.5 — Gajim 2.4.5 - Date: 2026-03-30 - Version: 2.4.5 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-03-30-gajim-2.4.5-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.5 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Notifications for Reactions Reacting to messages offers a quick way of answering or acknowleding your contact’s message. It may be a simple 👍 or it may carry emotions 😁😎 and meanin… - **added** — Add notifications for Reactions ### 2.4.4 — Gajim 2.4.4 - Date: 2026-02-25 - Version: 2.4.4 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-02-25-gajim-2.4.4-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.4 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Link Previews When you receive a link, it may be unclear which kind of website it links to. Previews for links can help by adding context information, for example the website’s title… - **added** — Add link previews that display context information such as website title when receiving links ### 2.4.3 — Gajim 2.4.3 - Date: 2026-01-21 - Version: 2.4.3 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-01-21-gajim-2.4.3-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.3 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux Improvements and Fixed Issues An error which prevents adding new contacts has been fixed Issues with creating new accounts have been fixed Feedback box on error reports is shown again Have a look at t… - **fixed** — Fix an error which prevents adding new contacts - **fixed** — Fix issues with creating new accounts - **fixed** — Show feedback box on error reports again ### 2.4.2 — Gajim 2.4.2 - Date: 2026-01-15 - Version: 2.4.2 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-01-15-gajim-2.4.2-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.2 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim Setup for macOS Installing Gajim on macOS was possible for a while now, but it was inconvenient and difficult for most users. Setting up Gajim required using a terminal, manually inst… - **changed** — Improved macOS setup process to be more convenient and user-friendly, reducing the need for terminal-based manual installation ### 2.4.1 — Gajim 2.4.1 - Date: 2025-12-13 - Version: 2.4.1 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-12-13-gajim-2.4.1-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.1 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim now supports playing animated GIF, WEBP, AVIF, and PNG files directly in the chat. Animations will play once you click the play button. Animated previews in Gajim Improvements and Fix… - **added** — Support for playing animated GIF, WEBP, AVIF, and PNG files directly in the chat with a play button ### 2.4.0 — Gajim 2.4.0 - Date: 2025-11-04 - Version: 2.4.0 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-11-04-gajim-2.4.0-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.4.0 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Read markers: You already know read markers for your chats, which look like: ‘Contact has read up to this point’. Now, Gajim supports read markers for group chats as well! For g… - **added** — Support read markers for group chats ### 2.3.6 — Gajim 2.3.6 - Date: 2025-09-30 - Version: 2.3.6 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-09-30-gajim-2.3.6-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.3.6 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications. Adwaita is used by many popular projects and p… - **changed** — Redesigned user interface using Adwaita library for modern adaptive applications ### 2.3.5 — Gajim 2.3.5 - Date: 2025-09-11 - Version: 2.3.5 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-09-11-gajim-2.3.5-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.3.5 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications. Adwaita is used by many popular projects and p… - **changed** — Redesigned user interface using Adwaita, a modern adaptive application library ### 2.3.4 — Gajim 2.3.4 - Date: 2025-08-11 - Version: 2.3.4 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-08-11-gajim-2.3.4-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.3.4 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications. Adwaita is used by many popular projects and p… - **changed** — Redesigned user interface using Adwaita, a library for modern adaptive applications ### 2.3.3 — Gajim 2.3.3 - Date: 2025-07-13 - Version: 2.3.3 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-07-13-gajim-2.3.3-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.3.3 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications. Adwaita is used by many popular projects and p… - **changed** — Redesigned user interface using Adwaita, a library providing building blocks for modern adaptive applications ### 2.3.1 — Gajim 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 - Date: 2025-07-02 - Version: 2.3.1 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-07-02-gajim-2.3.1-2.3.2-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.3.1 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications. Adwaita is used by many popular projects and p… - **changed** — Redesigned user interface using Adwaita library for modern adaptive applications ### 2.3.0 — Gajim 2.3.0 - Date: 2025-06-29 - Version: 2.3.0 - Original notes: https://gajim.org/posts/2025-06-29-gajim-2.3.0-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gajim/releases/2.3.0 - Labels: Platforms: Windows, Linux What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications. Adwaita is used by many popular projects and p… - **changed** — redesigned user interface using Adwaita library for modern adaptive applications