What's New?

The major change this release is our Theme Engine rewrite. You'll now notice that you have tons of additional theme configurations, as well as tons of preset themes to choose from! This also means better Material You support.

P.S. My favorites are Brand Blue & Flutter Dash

The Big Stuff

• Full rewrite of theming system to make the app as pretty as possible
• Bug fixes
• Performance improvements

The Nitty Gritty

New Features

• Theming system rewrite
  • UI Components are now more consistent towards their respective skins
  • Theme colors now apply in much more places throughout the UI
  • Many more options to modify theme colors
  • Simplified customization parameters
  • Buffed Material You - it now reaches much deeper into the UI to truly transform the app towards your system theme
  • Over 85 new default themes - there's something for everyone now!
  • Added visual feedback when tapping items in settings
  • Added transparency settings on Windows Desktop
  • Dialog design has been unified across the entire app
  • Revamped conversation details design
  • Revamped fullscreen media viewer design
  • Gradient backgrounds are now supported on default themes as well
  • Old themes will be completely deactivated, but they are still viewable from the advanced theming menu
• Added wearable actions to notifications (Pebble / Fitbit / etc smartwatches)
• Added support for modifying API Timeout duration
• macOS Ventura support
• Custom emoji font on Web
• Desktop
  • Made notification actions re-orderable by dragging

Bug Fixes

• Fixed off-center UI components in various places
• Fixed broken audio sending
• Fixed broken audio player
• Fixed app requiring Firebase on setup
  • Firebase remains required when using Ngrok / Cloudflare
• Fixed zoomed in contact photos on notifications and share sheet
• Fixed app crashing after attaching large files
• Fixed "removed" reactions not actually getting removed from the UI
• Fixed stickers not loading in
• Fixed Giphy not working on Web
• Fixed taking photos / videos from camera button in the app would sometimes be unresponsive
• Desktop
  • Fixed link previews
  • Fixed issues with window bounds going off screen
  • Fixed / improved wonky UI elements
  • Removed ability to disable tablet mode
  • Fixed error on convo tile right click
  • Fixed errors with details popup
  • Fixed appdata migration

Improvements

• Asynchronous incremental sync (better performance when loading the app from background)
• Share shortcuts are now set as conversations to interact better with Android system
• Improved contact photo matching (Desktop / Web)
• Don't auto-save interactive message attachments
• Force cloudflare URLs to https
• Request storage permissions when "save sync log" is enabled
• Improved customize theme error snackbar info
• Added detection for large files (> 100mb)
• Laid the groundwork for attributedBody support (mentions) for next update
• Improved Android 12+ splash screen
• Improved performance of loading chat messages

For Developers

• Updated targetSdkVersion & compileSdkVersion to 32 (Android 12L)
• Updated gradle plugin
• Updated Java & Dart dependencies

Useful Links

• Support Us: https://bluebubbles.app/donate
• Sponsor Us: https://github.com/sponsors/BlueBubblesApp

Clients

• BlueBubbles Server: https://github.com/BlueBubblesApp/bluebubbles-server/releases
• BlueBubbles for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluebubbles.messaging&hl=en_US&gl=US
• BlueBubbles for Windows: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9P3XF8KJ0LSM?hl=en-us&gl=US
• BlueBubbles for Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/details/app.bluebubbles.BlueBubbles
• BlueBubbles Web: https://bluebubbles.app/web

Enjoy!

P.S. Use the arm64-v8a APK if you have a relatively new phone. Only use the armeabi-v7a if you have an old phone or have issues with the arm64-v8a APK.