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Decentralization Unchained

October 28, 2018 - After the “Delta-X” Event in Freiburg this summer, there is now “Decentralization Unchained” - one day of talks, workshops, discussions, hacking around the topics of decentralizing infrastructures in common, and, of course, Delta.Chat especially. Read on ...

OpenPGPSummit 2018: The ecosystem is moving ...

October 22, 2018 - OpenPGPSummit 2018 in Bruxelles just ended but felt like marking a lot of new and promising beginnings. Overall a great collaborative, friendly atmosphere with lots of informal and side-talks … learned a lot. The clearly most important breaking news first: sat together with Kevin, the current mutt maintainer and discussed how to integrate Autocrypt, more specifically muacrypt – feel free to laugh but there is a surprisingly high demand for this combo so we both hope to get to this soon :) Read on ...

Delta Chat android-dev state

October 12, 2018 - We’re currently working on a new Android App for Delta Chat, android-dev. Read on ...

Delta.Chat desktop update

October 03, 2018 - We are working on a desktop application for Delta.Chat. It’s written in electron, based on the node bindings and partially based on the ui from Signal desktop. There are some early releases for Linux and Mac out already (Windows in the works). You can download them here. Read on ...

support.delta.chat now working

October 02, 2018 - Two months ago, we experimentally launched the new support.delta.chat site but we only now sorted out problems with e-mail delivery and thus also registration. The support site is meant as an easier entry point for users who are not aware of git or github. Read on ...

Big update on Delta.chat developments

September 28, 2018 - Following this blog or the mailing list you might think not much is happening with Delta.Chat but … nothing could be further from the truth :) An incredible lot has happened and is happening but communication happened in different ways: Read on ...

Introducing the New Support Forum: Join to Help Others and Discuss Features!

August 19, 2018 - The Delta X Conference took place in Freiburg a few weeks ago, and a lot of cool stuff happened there. One of the things we have started there is support.delta.chat, the new Support Forum. Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.18.0, improved reliability and more

June 21, 2018 - As you may have read on the mailing list, Holger and me met in Freiburg and dived deeper into how to make message sending and receiving more reliabile. Read on ...

Time to relax: Delta Chat and the GDPR

May 24, 2018 - GDPR? It’s time to relax with Delta.chat :) Read on ...

Delta Chat on HACKarnaval in Paris

May 16, 2018 - Janka and Holger are going to have a session in the track “Securité Informatique” on the HACKarnaval in Paris: “Delta.chat, introduction pratique” Read on ...

Delta Chat not vulnerable to EFAIL

May 15, 2018 - You may have heard that the EFF has published advice from a group of security researchers, who claim that there is a serious problem with PGP encrypted e-mail. Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.16.0 with Ad-hoc-groups; new Mailing list and IRC

March 19, 2018 - Delta Chat supports so called ad-hoc groups now - in short, groups can be created by any non-delta-client and are filed by the list of recipients. Apart from that, “ad-hoc groups” work like usual Delta groups. See issue #69 for more details and discussions. Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.15.0 with Voice Messages, Elevate Festival and more

February 27, 2018 - Delta Chat supports voice messages for some time, however, there were some issues with them that we have fixed in Delta Chat 0.15.0. Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.14.0 - Gossip-And-Setup-Message Version

February 20, 2018 - After months of working on different things but the Autocrypt Setup Message, well, finally it is done :) Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.13.0 - Reply-Encrypted-Release

January 18, 2018 - Delta Chat 0.13.0 will reply encrypted if the chat partner has enabled encryption manually. Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.12.0 - a minor release

January 07, 2018 - We’ve just released Delta Chat 0.12.0 with some minor changes and lots of bugfixes. Read on ...

Details about the #34C3 Delta Chat session

December 28, 2017 - Details about the #34C3 Delta Chat session Read on ...

Sessions on #34C3 and other news

December 21, 2017 - Sessions on 34C3 Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.10.0, Semantic versions, APK

November 29, 2017 - New version out now Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.9.7 (The archived one), iOS and docs

November 14, 2017 - We’ve just released Delta Chat 0.9.7, with some new major features: Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.9.6 - a little bugfix release

October 18, 2017 - We’ve just released Delta Chat 0.9.6, a little bugfix release without new major features. Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.9.5 - "Get your data out of there"-Release

October 08, 2017 - Here is Delta Chat 0.9.5 with a new backup functionality. The function writes all relavant data to a single file - this includes all chats, images, contacts, videos, voice messages, all files and more. When you reinstall the app later - either on another device or from another source -, you can import the exported file just in the “Welcome” screen. Very useful :) Read on ...

Delta Chat on Desktop

October 02, 2017 - Currently the focus in development is the android version with all the features that other chats will offer. So the implementation of a native desktop client is postponed (or a task for everyone who would like to help). Read on ...

Follow our news on friendica network

August 29, 2017 - You can follow our news now on friendica network. If you want to follow, please connect profile delta_chat@ennibook.de Read on ...

Delta Chat 0.9.4, Group images, Status, Fixes

August 26, 2017 - Back from the summer break: Delta Chat 0.9.4 with new Group images, new Status functions, Locale updates and more is out - and already available on F-Droid just in this moment :) Read on ...

A little summer break - Expect news end of August

July 28, 2017 - We’ve been working on various aspects of Delta Chat these days: Profile and group images, status, fixes and more. However, as some of us are in holidays these days, we decided to release a new beta version not today but end of August. In between we would be glad to get feedback, especially about the weired Read receipts some MUAs seems to send. Read on ...