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Swipe to Reply and other Android News
November 05, 2020 - Cold November? No! After many weeks of development and testing, Android releases have shipped, starting the new release series. Read on...

Final report on UX developments 2019/2020
August 01, 2020 - Our final Delta Chat UX summary report is out, summarizing our developments which address real world needs from people engaged in human rights missions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This work was thankfully supported by the OpenTechFund and would otherwise not have been possible. Read on...

Releases, Disappearing messages and Video chats
July 30, 2020 - Summer is there - and also a new round of Delta Chat releases. Read on...

Delta Chat 1.10 is rolling out
June 24, 2020 - New Delta chat releases are out now or coming soon - here is an overview about what you can expect from Delta Chat 1.10: Read on...

Delta Features for May - ECC Keys, Autodelete Messages, Scan QR Codes With Desktop
May 27, 2020 - New Delta chat releases! Thanks to all the early testers and all the work that went into the new releases on Android, iOS and Desktop. Here is an overview of what to expect: Read on...

Russia's request for Delta Chat user data ... declined.
May 01, 2020 - On April 27th we received a letter from Roskomnadzor, the russian supervisor of communications and information technology. They requested us to provide access to Delta Chat user data and register with their state-run provider registry. We declined for the simple reason that Delta Chat developers have no access to user data whatsoever. Read on...

New Delta/Desktop Release for Windows, macOS, and Linux
April 06, 2020 - Delta Chat Desktop does not only work well on all major platforms now. It also offers multi-account support, and can be used even without a mobile device. If you use it together with the appstore releases for Android or iOS, you can get a decent multi-device experience. Read on...

New Study on Multi-tool and Organizational messenger usage
March 31, 2020 - A new Delta Chat UX study is out, based on Xenia’s interviews with people engaged in human rights missions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It focuses on how Delta Chat could or can already work well in conjunction with other tools and apps, and for organizational settings. Read on...

Shining some light on Delta Chat bots
March 26, 2020 - In principle it has been possible to build and run Delta Chat bots for quite a while already. But it wasn’t easy or well documented. We changed that a little bit in the last weeks, and would like to hereby push the beginning of a Delta Chat bots ecosystem into the open! Read on...

Saving Network Traffic - Delta's Efforts to Reduce the Message Size
March 11, 2020 - In the last months, the Delta Chat developers put a lot of focus on saving traffic. The result: current Delta Chat mobile releases consume far less data now. Read on...

Pin Chats, Provider Database, Offline Help and more
March 06, 2020 - In the first months this year we concentrated very much on fixing bugs, adding features and getting releases out - and a bit less on blogging and marketing. Read on...

Delta Chat Released for iPhones and iPads - Get it Now at the iOS Appstore!
January 09, 2020 - Until yesterday, you could only use Delta Chat on Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Now you can have the Delta experience on all major platforms! Read on...
Older posts
December 2019 - Delta Chat 1.0 with new features, more robust, faster and more secure
July 2019 - UX and needfinding report Delta Chat
June 2019 - New stable Delta Chat Android with improved group-profiles, video recording, notifications, ...
March 2019 - Key findings of first Delta Chat UX testing in Kyiv
February 2019 - Play Store, OAuth2 and more from the dev stage
January 2019 - DeltaChat multi-platform releases rolling ...
December 2018 - DeltaChat Ukraine/Needfinding report / 35c3
November 2018 - Delta-XI in Kyiv 2018… a lot of beginnings
October 2018 - Decentralization Unchained
October 2018 - OpenPGPSummit 2018: The ecosystem is moving ...
October 2018 - Delta Chat android-dev state
October 2018 - Delta.Chat desktop update
October 2018 - support.delta.chat now working
September 2018 - Big update on Delta.chat developments
June 2018 - Delta Chat 0.18.0, improved reliability and more
May 2018 - Time to relax: Delta Chat and the GDPR
May 2018 - Delta Chat on HACKarnaval in Paris
May 2018 - Delta Chat not vulnerable to EFAIL
February 2018 - Delta Chat 0.15.0 with Voice Messages, Elevate Festival and more
February 2018 - Delta Chat 0.14.0 - Gossip-And-Setup-Message Version
January 2018 - Delta Chat 0.13.0 - Reply-Encrypted-Release
January 2018 - Delta Chat 0.12.0 - a minor release
December 2017 - Details about the #34C3 Delta Chat session
December 2017 - Sessions on #34C3 and other news
November 2017 - Delta Chat 0.10.0, Semantic versions, APK
November 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.7 (The archived one), iOS and docs
October 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.6 - a little bugfix release
October 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.5 - "Get your data out of there"-Release
October 2017 - Delta Chat on Desktop
August 2017 - Follow our news on friendica network
August 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.4, Group images, Status, Fixes
July 2017 - Read receipts and Social pressure
June 2017 - Delta Chat v0.9.2 feat. Autocrypt Level 1
June 2017 - New Transifex page
June 2017 - Follow us via RSS or Twitter
June 2017 - Delta Chat v0.9.0 introducing PGP
May 2017 - Delta makes chatting better
May 2017 - Yeah! Delta Chat has a blog now!