Wire

Improvement

• macOS: Support for UDP WebRTC connections
• To enable direct media connections to be established over UDP
• To achieve better performance and resilience for real-time media traffic

Verbessert

• macOS: Unterstützung für UDP-WebRTC-Verbindungen
• Um den Aufbau direkter Medienverbindungen über UDP zu ermöglichen
• Um eine bessere Leistung und Ausfallsicherheit für den Echtzeit-Medienverkehr zu erzielen

Improvements

• Accessibility for account selection
• Security updates

Verbessert

• Barrierefreiheit bei der Auswahl des Benutzerkontos
• Sicherheitsupdates

New

• Resize the additional calling view to moderate easier or to edit a document during a conference call

Improvements

• Security updates

Improvement:

• Security updates

Fix

• Resolved an issue when pasting text into the message field didn't work via the right-click context menu

Improvements:

security updates

Improvements

• Security updates

New

• Additional calling view

Improvements

• Security update

Fixes

• Removed outdated dependencies

Whats New

• Support for hardware acceleration for calling improvements
• Updated shortcuts for the top menu
• Security Improvements

Whats New

• Resolved wrong link to wire.com

Whats New

• General Improvements
• Critical Security Updates
• Bug Fixes

What's Changed

• upgraded electron version from 22 to 27

• General Improvements
• Critical Security Updates
• Removed unnecessary data from logs
• Bug Fixes

Important Info

This will be the last windows release with support for Windows 7/8/8.1 and 32-bit. Electron has stopped supporting this in the next version. This will also fix a bug for windows for users with large backup files.

Compatibility

• Screen sharing requires now minimum webapp >= 2022-06-30

• General Improvements
• Security Updates
• Accessibility Improvements
• Bug Fixes

Compatibility

• Screen sharing requires now minimum webapp >= 2022-06-30

New Features

• Dependency Updates
• Security Updates
• Responsiveness improvements

Compatibility

• Screen sharing requires now minimum webapp >= 2022-06-30

New Features

• Dependency Updates
• Security Updates

Bugfix

• General bug fixes

Compatibility

• Screen sharing requires now minimum webapp >= 2022-06-30

New Features

• Update electron to 19
• Security Updates

Bugfix

• General bug fixes

Compatibility

• Screen sharing requires now minimum webapp >= 2022-06-30

New Features

• Upgrade to Electron 18
• Support for dark mode in sidebar (#5787)
• Preparation work to be able to use safeStorage primitives on webapp (#5812)

Bug Fixes

• Disable unused mdns feature to prevent windows firewall prompt (#5817)
• Removed ping keyboard shorcut to prevent accidential pings

Compatibility

• Screen sharing requires now minimum webapp >= 2022-06-30

New Features

• Upgrade to Electron 13 (#5549)

Bug Fixes

• Recreate shortcut when updating on Windows (SQCORE-919) (#5633)
• Remove zoom capabilities, as they are broken (8d94a545)
• Properly remove quick launch shortcut (392b9087)
• Don't render LoadingSpinner after it has faded out (#5164)
• Fix default backend config (Windows versions were not affected)

Caution: SOO login feature requires minimum webapp >= 2022-02-22

New Features

• Join public conversations with a guestroom link

Versions

Electron 11.4.8 Chrome 87.0.4280.141

Public Release Date

2021-06-28

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.25.4071...windows/3.26.4124

Fixed

• Dark mode is not applied at startup
• Clicking on a notification does not open Wire window
• Keyboard shortcut “Cmd+0” is used for two non-conflicting interactions

Versions

Electron 10.4.4 Chrome 85.0.4183.121

Public Release Date

2021-05-11

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.24.4036...windows/3.25.4071

New Features

• Save zoom setting in configuration

Improved

• Dark mode is applied at startup

Fixed

• The app displays only a white window on startup on instances without GPU hardware acceleration (such as remote desktop connections)

Versions

Electron 10.4.1 Chrome 85.0.4183.121

Public Release Date

2021-03-29

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.23.4018...windows/3.24.4036

New Features

• Loading spinner to indicate loading of initial app start added

Fixed

• Cannot switch the interface to French

Versions

Electron 10.3.1 Chrome 85.0.4183.121

Public Release Date

2021-03-17

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.22.3993...windows/3.23.4018

New Features

• Log loaded parameters from config and current WebApp URL
• Open DevTools by account index (e.g. wire.exe --devtools=[0|1|2])

Improved

• Electron was updated to version 10.3.1
• Log Windows update checks in hours

Fixed

• Change paste shortcut from Cmd/Ctrl+P to Cmd/Ctrl+V

Versions

Electron 10.4.0 Chrome 85.0.4183.121

Public Release Date

2021-03-05

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.21.3932...windows/3.22.3993

New Features

• Sinhalese language support
• Ability to zoom in the interface (from the “Window” menu setting)
• Copy pictures from conversations (via context menu)

Improved

• About window can be moved to the background

Fixed

• Dock bar icon jumps even when set to “busy”
• The tray icon flickers on incoming messages

Versions

Electron 10.1.4 Chrome 85.0.4183.121

Public Release Date

2020-10-29

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.20.3890...windows/3.21.3932

Bug Fixes

• Check URLs before calling shell.openExternal (security advisory)

Versions

Electron 9.1.2 Chrome 83.0.4103.122

Public Release Date

2020-10-07

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.19.3731...windows/3.20.3890

New Features

• Add menu entry to toggle spell checking (#4037) (e7ee8840)
• Add native spellchecker support (#4015) (befbbb84)

Bug Fixes

• Update link to release notes (#4085) (5f18c4f6)
• Focus previous webview when current one gets closed (#4058) (e15f7f6a)
• Don't focus WebView when starting minimized (#4042) (7b67bd86)
• Show the proxy prompt again if the credentials are invalid (#4045) (45157c11)
• Don't save menu bar visibility state when pressing Alt (61d3cc68)
• Remove redundant configuration saving (#4040) (119cca4a)
• Use custom User-Agent for Twitter link previews (#4036) (0d1fa7fd)
• Don't create empty about window when clicking on link (6edf9451)
• Don't finish the SSO callback before the window is closed (#4012) (8e092385)
• Correct behavior for auto hiding menu bar (#4013) (a640b978)
• Verify certificate validated by Chromium (#3924) (c278b6fd)

Versions

Electron 9.1.2 Chrome 83.0.4103.122

Public Release Date

2020-08-05

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.18.3660...windows/3.19.3731

New Features

• Download logs from menu (#3879)

Bug Fixes

• Reflect empty team image update (#3900)
• Team picture is optional (WEBAPP-6870) (db42cd5a)
• Check proxy protocols explicitly (#3711)
• Use app.quit instead of app.exit (#3876)
• Don't check twice for single instance (WEBAPP-6663) (#3856)
• Hide access token from logs, add version to logs (#3875)
• Don't crash on window reloading errors (#3851)

Other Changes

• Desktop 3.18 version update (60b7602d)
• Do not deploy macOS to app center but also not fail (#3857)

Versions

Electron 6.1.11 Chrome 76.0.3809.146

Public Release Date

2020-06-02

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.17.3598...windows/3.18.3660

Release Notes

Improved

• Simpler on-boarding process for custom backends.

Fixed

• Link previews not being sent when no preview image is available.

Versions

Electron 6.1.10 Chrome 76.0.3809.146

Public Release Date

2020-05-05

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.16.3562...windows/3.17.3598

Release Notes

Fixed

• Support for proxy authentication with --proxy-server argument.
• Crash when closing the app upon restart.
• The error page shown when the internet connection is interrupted now automatically attempts to reconnect when the connection is back.

Versions

Electron 6.1.9 Chrome 76.0.3809.146

Public Release Date

2020-03-26

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.15.3551...windows/3.16.3562

Release Notes

Fixed

• Some users may have received an error when sending YouTube links.

Versions

Electron 6.1.7 Chrome 76.0.3809.146

Public Release Date

2020-03-15

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.12.3423...windows/3.15.3551

Release Notes

New Features

• Internal: Add QA environment to developer menu (#3324) (d5190c08)
• Internal: Add wire-webapp-master as backend type (#3285) (cde14e55)

Bug Fixes

• Don't focus WebView when starting minimized (WEBAPP-6277) (#3315) (44edddf0)
• Use undo and redo directly on the WebView (#3314) (93997ecf)
• Check if SSO URL is null and simplify cookie copy (#3313) (cdaf63dc)
• Don't mutate team info object (WEBAPP-6558) (1b74feaa)
• Disable Blink features (#3284) (761997b6)
• Avoid global shortcuts (#3207) (8c2740e1)
• Focus account after switching (WEBAPP-5736) (#3205) (105b97b9)
• Set correct window icon (#3191) (2d3ff6a7)

Versions

Electron 6.1.7 Chrome 76.0.3809.146

Public Release Date

2020-01-03

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.11.3259...windows/3.12.3423

Release Notes

New Features

• Add authenticated proxy support (experimental!) (#3131) (9cda28dc)
• Add developer option to send logs via email (#3155) (beb2a614)
• Add crash log (#3154) (d67c70bd)

Bug Fixes

• Portable path (#3161) (f917ec4c)
• Don't send link previews without metadata, remove synchronous openGraph (#3159) (c8b28342)
• Register SSO protocol only once (#3144) (45c45362)
• Send a link preview even without image (#3138) (d000f151)
• Speed up link preview generation (#3139) (9850908c)

Versions

Electron 4.2.12 Chrome 69.0.3497.128

Public Release Date

2019-10-31

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.10.3138...windows/3.11.3259

Release Notes

New Features

• Display team icon (#2805) (2b509b85)
• Re-enable hardware acceleration on Linux (#2763) (104bdd3b)
• Add version flag (#2626) (f8d70843)
• Sign all Windows executables with electron-winstaller (#2549) (8f2ee6ca)
• Show conversation via custom protocol link (#2375) (71dadc23)

Bug Fixes

• Set cookies on link preview requests (#2919) (6e764422)
• Create link previews for websites with invalid head (#2918) (0786bdcd)
• macOS quit shortcut (#2917) (cce421ba)
• Decode non-UTF-8 websites (#2853) (655f3f45)
• Import event type in webviews (#2) (24e2d377)
• Add alt shortcuts for main menus (#2846) (48b9ed71)
• Don't use Gnome icon on Wayland (#2832) (69a9a81b)
• Import config to App (87ce3d57)
• Create config file folder if not existent (#2776) (87fe6afb)
• Resolve portable user data dir (#2727) (a08a2cd4)
• Right-click in sidebar (#2726) (53db477d)
• Always check for error messages when pinning (#2568) (6b575fba)
• Correctly log variables (#2497) (b9720dec)
• Build Windows installer separately (#2476) (7b2ad6ad)
• Axios response catch (#2428) (eebfdf1a)
• Make deep links work on startup (#2394) (2c41276a)
• Add debug dependency (#2337) (2fa7a869)
• Only create log files when in debug mode (#2325) (24c6bd32)

Versions

Electron 4.2.9 Chrome 69.0.3497.128

Public Release Date

2019-08-15

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.9.2928...windows/3.10.3138

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Load correct string for hide wire menu item (#2409) (87a7fc93)
• Load correct string for website menu item (#2407) (1ccbf242)
• Validate custom event (#2405) (e1323198)
• Use webContents instead of WebContents type (#2406) (2bcd0c61)
• Correct path to SSO instance (#2404) (117f1c37)

Versions

Electron 4.1.1 Chrome 69.0.3497.128

Public Release Date

2019-04-03

Changelog

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/compare/windows/3.8.2927...windows/3.9.2928