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Cwtch 1.15

· 3 min read
Sarah Jamie Lewis

Cwtch 1.15 is now available for download!

Cwtch is a communication application (and associated libraries) that uses Tor v3 Onion Services to establish surveillance resistant channels between people. Cwtch has been designed to be secure, private, and resilient.

You can download Cwtch from https://docs.cwtch.im/download.

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In This Release​

A special thanks to the amazing volunteer translators and testers who made this release possible.

  • New Features:
    • Managed Groups Alpha - This Cwtch release contains the first iteration of managed groups, allowing a dedicated (and trusted) cwtch peer to host a multi-person chat. To volunteer to test out this new feature please join the Release Candidate Testers group and ask for an invite.
    • Private Profile Labels - You can now give each of your profiles a local-only descriptive name.
  • Bug Fixes / Improvements:
    • Cwtch is now based on Flutter 3.22
    • Cwtch on Linux now uses the Flutter-provided fl_dart_project_set_aot_library_path method (contributed by Dan), rather than our own custom solution.
    • File Download verification attempts with incomplete/missing manifests will now allow attempt to redownload the manifest rather than emitting an error.
    • Cwtch will now correctly connect to the Tor Service in Tails OS > 6.0
    • Importing Unencrypted Profiles no longer requires entering the defecto password
    • When the clickable links experiment is enabled, message Formatting now priotizes code formatting over linking. Thanks @psyduck
    • When the image previews experiment is enabled, images are now previewed in their original aspect ratio. Thanks @psyduck
    • Source Tarballs are now also packaged during the release process
    • The Windows installer is now signed
    • New deb package release option (beta, please help us test!)
    • New Synergy Theme, for those who want Cwtch to look like an enterprise product
  • Accessibility / UX:
    • Core translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Danish , Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian , Romanian , Russian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh
    • Partial translations for Korean (41%), Japanese (26%), , Luxembourgish (19%), Greek (15%), Uzbek (9%), and Portuguese (5%)
    • Theme Refresh - Many small adjustments to existing themes to make them more accessible

Reproducible Bindings​

Cwtch 1.15 is based on libCwtch version libCwtch-autobindings-2024-09-05-11-07-v0.1.3. The repliqate scripts to reproduce these bindings from source can be found at https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/repliqate-scripts/src/branch/main/cwtch-autobindings-v0.1.3


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