# Knit v2.3.0 — Knit 2.3.0

- Product: Knit (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/knit)
- Vendor: Knit
- Date: 2026-08-24
- Version: v2.3.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/getknit/Knit/releases/tag/v2.3.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/knit/releases/v2.3.0
- Labels: Platforms: Android

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- **added** — Forward secrecy for direct messages and group chats, where keys are dropped as conversations progress
- **added** — Encrypted delivery receipts and reactions instead of being readable by relaying phones
- **added** — Camera feature accessible by long-pressing the attach button to take photos without leaving the chat
- **added** — Message info accessible by long-pressing a message to see delivery time and reactions
- **added** — On-device crash recording that is redacted and stored locally for manual review
- **fixed** — Saving a received photo to gallery no longer writes unopenable files
- **fixed** — Profile edits made just after first contact no longer stay invisible to the other phone for hours

Forward secrecy for direct messages and group chats, encrypted receipts and reactions, and a camera
inside the chat.

Conversations between updated phones now re-key as they go and drop the old keys, so someone who records
traffic today and gets hold of a phone later cannot read the earlier messages. Group chats gain the same
property. A chat with a phone on an older version keeps working, and moves over once everyone updates.
Delivery receipts and reactions are now sealed too, instead of readable by any phone relaying them.

Long-press the attach button to take a photo without leaving the chat, or a message for "Message info" —
when it was delivered, and who reacted with what. Crashes are now recorded on the device, redacted, for
you to read and report yourself; nothing is uploaded.

Fixed: saving a received photo to your gallery wrote an unopenable file, and a profile edit made just
after first contact could stay invisible to the other phone for hours.

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**`knit-2.3.0.apk`** — `sha256:c28adcd16bf767a7a252949b8796a2d5e9d81189fcf0605e0d6c72c36b08f601`

Signed with Knit's distribution key (certificate `b18a283d11797c2a84a008c1fcb9e1b864e7b4c3b301408f7a4a80624b0e631c`), the key pinned in F-Droid's
`AllowedAPKSigningKeys`. CI verified this file is byte-identical, apart from the signature, to
an independent unsigned rebuild produced inside F-Droid's own buildserver image — so F-Droid's
rebuild-and-compare check resolves to exactly this APK.

`mapping-2.3.0.txt.gz` is the R8 deobfuscation map for symbolicating crash reports from this build.