What's New?
Hey everyone, I know it's been a bit since our last update. We've been very busy with life, as well as researching new features to implement into BlueBubbles! This update focuses on Private API enhancements & bug fixes.
Private API Enhancements
- Fixes editing messages on macOS Sonoma
- New FaceTime Helper to detect incoming calls (Big Sur+)
- Ability to get Find My Friends locations (Big Sur+)
- Ability to initiate a download for attachments not yet downloaded (High Sierra+)
- Ability to fetch your iCloud account information (High Sierra+)
- Ability to check to see if you can share your contact card with a specific chat (Big Sur+)
- Ability to share your contact card with a specific chat (Big Sur+)
- Ability to get a contact card for a chat with shared contact info (Big Sur+)
- Ability to detect and emit an event when an iMessage alias is removed/deactivated (High Sierra+)
Enhancements
- Start Delay setting (for older hardware)
- When killing processes, AppleScript is no longer used, in favor of using a CLI command.
- This is to prevent duplicate Messages/FaceTime processes from being created
Fixes
- Fixes typing indicator detection issue introduced in v1.8.0
- Fixes Google OAuth flow (403 Unauthorized errors)
- Fixes possible issue with avatars not loading properly for contacts
- Fixes pagination buttons in UI for scheduled messages
- Fixes issue causing the API to not return proper chat data when adding/removing a participant
- (Hopefully) Fixes chat sorting issues for Web
Other Changes
- Removed manual contacts cache in favor of the built-in cache within
node-mac-contacts - FaceTime call detection has been removed for non-Private API users to simplify logic & codebase.
- Increases timeout for attachment uploads
- Revamped API timeout system for per-route timeouts
- A bunch of code refactoring for the UI and Backend
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
- BlueBubbles for Windows: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9P3XF8KJ0LSM
- BlueBubbles for Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/details/app.bluebubbles.BlueBubbles
- BlueBubbles Web: https://bluebubbles.app/web
Enjoy!
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