What's New?

This update includes stability improvements as well as a ton of API fixes to better serve clients accurate information. It also has a bunch of QOL updates to the server UI.

Features

• The attributed body of a Message can now be decoded and provided to clients
  • This will allow our clients to properly show Mentions in messages
  • This will allow our clients to properly show message texts on Ventura
  • This will allow our clients to view more metadata about messages, which will allow us to better support different message types.
• Avatars now show in the Contact Management page on the server
• The walkthrough will now strongly encourage users to add an Ngrok Auth Token when Ngrok is selected
• Adds an additional panel in the Private API settings to better understand the status of your setup
• Adds buttons/links to the firebase setup during the walkthrough to better aid the user
• Adds buttons/links to the Private API documentation when the status is in a failed state
• Adds setting to hide the notifications badge in the dock icon

Fixes

• Issue where the contacts API wouldn't return avatars
• Issue where an incorrect status would be shown when the FindMy file cannot properly be decoded
• Fixes issue where the Messages API endpoint would not returns chats for a message
• Fixes issue where the Messages Count API endpoint would return incorrect results
• Fixes issue where the status in the API JSON body response did not match the HTTP status
• Fixes issue where the initial server walkthrough shows an incorrect Google Firebase configuration
• Fixes issue where an attachment could not be found for a given GUID
• Fixes issue where the information popup would not show when a permission or private API status was in a failed state
• Fixes issue where the Private API port used is greater than the highest allowed port
• Fixes issue where the Legacy Messaging API in the Firebase Console was required to send notifications.
  • This is no longer required and should not be done

Optimizations

• Re-coded the API message serializer to more efficiently and better serve clients
  • This will now automatically attempt to truncate message bodies for notifications exceeding the 4kb maximum size limit.
  • What this means is more reliable notifications groups with a large amount of participants or a message with an extremely long text!
• AddressBook Contacts are no longer auto-refreshed
  • If you have made any contact updates, please manually refresh it on the server
  • I might make an API endpoint out of refreshing it so you can do it from your clients
• Better error handling on the Messages API router
• Cloudflare proxies no longer auto-refresh because they do not need to be
• Improved macOS permission handling
• Fixes exit handler
• The message sending accessibility script now handles screen savers better
  • You should still keep the screen saver disabled

Maintenance

• Upgrades the node-mac-contacts dependency to fix a possible memory leak
• Upgrades electron-builder
• Upgrades NodeJS
• Upgrades Election
• Upgrades Cloudflare Binary

Useful Links

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

Clients

• 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. Download the .dmg, not the .zip