Version History
Here you can find the changelog of Wire - Secure Messenger since it was posted on our website on 2018-03-03.
The latest version is 4.6.3 and it was updated on soft112.com on 19 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 4.6.1(9008717)-prod
posted on 2024-04-12
New:
- Share your location
- Search in a conversation for text messages and files
Improvements:
- Password strengh checker when you create a backup
- Permission handling
Fixes:
- Resolved various issues
version 4.5.4(8826250)-prod
posted on 2024-02-06
New:
- Archiving conversations.
- App lock.
- Device verification.
- Dark theme.
- Typing indicator.
- Forwarding texts from other apps.
- Scroll-to-end button.
- "What's new" section.
- Profile picture change for SCIM users.
Improvements:
- More emojis.
- Better mic and Bluetooth permissions.
- Prevention of accidental conference calls.
- Improved start-up.
- No notifications for deleted messages.
Fixes:
- Group admin mutes in conference calls on desktop now apply to Android devices.
version 4.4.2(8049807)-prod
posted on 2023-12-13
We rebuilt the app to make it more usable for everyone.
Explore Wire’s modern look with new options, improved accessibility, and better performance —with the same strong security you are used to
version 4.4.1(7875633)-prod
posted on 2023-10-19
New:
- Receive notifications for all logged in accounts
- Prevent screenshots capturing
- React to messages with different emojis
Improved:
- Animations between screen transitions
- Message status (sent/delivered/seen)
Fixed:
- Recovery when you haven’t used Wire for more than 28 days
- Several “Waiting for network” issues resolved
version 3.82.38
posted on 2023-04-14
Fix:
- Duplicated system events in conversation
- The application never finishes synchronizing new content
version 3.80.23
posted on 2022-02-22
New:
* The app will respect guest links being enabled or disabled according to team configuration.
Fixed:
* The “reply” label inside notifications now only appears when someone replies to my message.
* Notifications not being displayed on some devices.
version 3.79.16
posted on 2022-02-15
Fixed:
* Participants automatically rejoined a conference call moments after hanging up.
* Notifications were appearing multiple times.
* Users were not able to join a video call after downloading Wire.
version 3.78.13
posted on 2022-02-04
Fixed:
- Users saw a black frame on the screen after accepting a video call.
- A call was dropped when a device with constant bitrate received a video call from a device with variable bitrate.
- If users minimized Wire in the login process via SSO, the SSO view lost the data.
Improved:
- Push notifications are more responsive.
- A new profile picture is faster visible to other users.
version 3.77.7
posted on 2021-11-29
Fixed:
Team-enforced self-deleting messages are now correctly disabling the button to change it
Fixed a bug where the receiver-side of self-deleting messages would fail to delete messages containing files, audios or images.
version 3.76.2
posted on 2021-11-03
Fixed:
- Users could not send messages in some conversations.
version 3.76.1
posted on 2021-10-29
Fixed:
- When switching conversations, the contents of the previous conversation was visible for a while.
- The video of participants of a call was not rotated to landscape mode.
- When searching for users to add to a group conversation, Wire showed also unconnected users.
version 3.75.8
posted on 2021-10-18
Fixed:
- Personal User sees Enterprise alert when logging in with Wire for the first time
version 3.74.1018
posted on 2021-10-01
New:
- New personal users and non-paying teams can no longer start a group audio/video call
version 3.73.1017
posted on 2021-09-26
New:
- Support for large video conference calls
- Calls can be performed in landscape mode
- All participants in a conference call are visually represented on the calling screen by tiles
- Large number of participants is organized in pages
- Backend may enforce usage of ephemeral messages
Fixed:
- The mute status is switched on once the call is established
- Tiles ordering during a call
- Updating the email address didn't work
version 3.72.1014
posted on 2021-09-05
New:
- Support for file-sharing restrictions.
Updated:
- Improved Calling UI buttons.
- Some performance tweaks.
Fixed:
- Constant bitrate indication is now displayed correctly in CBR calls.
- A message sent while offline will now be resent automatically after going online.
- A fix for the bug where the user could create a conversation with someone who blocked them.
- A fix to deep links opening conversations.
version 3.71.1000
posted on 2021-07-12
EN:
New:
Join public conversations with a guestroom link
Fixed:
A crash when adding an “@” at the end of user search field
version 3.70.999
posted on 2021-06-25
Improved:
Better handling of message sending in large conversations
Display legal hold “send anyway” alert only once
Fixed:
Displaying a mention where a part of the text is in Chinese characters is not adjusted
Displaying system message even for temporary legal hold clients
version 3.69.996
posted on 2021-05-28
New:
Legal Hold support
Improved:
More intuitive icon for guests in teams
Faster retrieval and update of conversation roles for large groups
Fixed:
Saving images does not work on Android 7 and 9
On on Android 7 and 9, after saving an image from a conversation the image can not be found on the device
Notifications from users without avatar are not shown
version 3.68.991
posted on 2021-05-07
EN
New:
Constant bit rate (CBR) is used by default for conference calls
Fixed:
Active speakers sometimes were shown for too long in active speaker view
version 3.67.988
posted on 2021-04-23
New:
- Zooming during video calls allows better usage of screen sharing
- View during video conference calls can be switched between all or actively speaking participants
Fixed:
- App freeze when the backup is being restored on a new device
version 3.66.985
posted on 2021-04-01
Fixed:
- A crash in notifications
version 3.66.983
posted on 2021-03-25
- Optimizations to handling incoming messages
- In a videocall, the active speaker is prioritized
version 3.65.979
posted on 2021-02-26
Improved:
- No audio notifications are played when participants of a conference call are entering or leaving
- Optimizing push notifications
version 3.64.976
posted on 2021-02-12
New:
- App-lock team configuration
Fixed:
- After restoring of a backup, the app synchronizes with the backend and all inconsistencies in the restored data are removed
- Restoring of a backup may freeze the app
- Markdown functionality may crash the app
version 3.63.974
posted on 2021-02-04
Fixed:
- "No internet connection" bar constantly displayed
version 3.63.968
posted on 2021-01-28
New:
- Indicate active speakers in conference calls
- Session reset directly from a decryption error
Fixed:
- Crash while using the camera
version 3.62.967
posted on 2021-01-15
Improved:
App lock can be en-/disabled per logged in account
Fixed:
Share files from other applications to Wire
Network type used by the device was not identified properly
version 3.61.965
posted on 2020-12-16
Fixed: Crash on Android 11 while switching from wifi to cellular network
version 3.60.960
posted on 2020-11-26
Improved:
- In video calls with two participants, the video of the other user always fills the screen
Fixed:
- Using audio filters crashes the app
version 3.59.959
posted on 2020-11-18
Wire Pro & Enterprise: Usage telemetry is not synchronized across devices
version 3.59.958
posted on 2020-11-11
Improved:
-Calling controls are enabled only when a call is connected
Fixed:
- Calling controls are not properly displayed after a long press
- New users don’t have an initial profile pictures
- The app lock screens disappears when receiving a calls
version 3.58.955
posted on 2020-10-30
Fixed:
- Sending very small files fail
- Flash button is present when taking pictures in selfie mode
version 3.57.948
posted on 2020-10-15
Visual glitches and flickering on Android 11
version 3.57.944
posted on 2020-10-06
New:
- Next generation video conferencing platform launched
- Wire Pro & Enterprise: Usage telemetry for team users
version 3.56.940
posted on 2020-09-25
Improved:
- Indication whether a call is using variable or constant bitrate.
Fixed:
- Calling notification not displayed when the app is moving to the background.
- Crash when a group call is missed.
version 3.55.939
posted on 2020-09-14
Improved:
- The backup password must follow the same rules as the login password
Fixed:
- Some backups can not be restored
Deprecation notice:
- The backup functionality has been entirely rewritten. The new backup format is not compatible with the previous format.
version 3.54.938
posted on 2020-09-07
Fixed:
- It is possible to write a message that is too large to be sent.
Deprecation notice:
- From this version, Wire runs only on Android 7+
- From the next version, backups will use a new format. This is the last version that supports the legacy backup version.
version 3.53.935
posted on 2020-08-26
Improved:
- Alphabetical list of audio and video call participants
Deprecation notice:
- This is the last version that will support Android 5 or 6. Next version will only run on Android 7+. (see https://medium.com/@wireupdates/c1f720a56160)
Fixed:
- Fingerprint of devices is cut off in the device details screen
version 3.52.927
posted on 2020-07-22
Improved:
- Call participants are sorted by name
- Show name of participants in video calls
- The maximum username length is increased to 256
Fixed:
- Can’t log in with email in the enterprise welcome screen
- Incorrect welcome screen shown when connecting to enterprise backend
version 3.51.926
posted on 2020-07-08
Fixed:
- Changes to team name and icon are not reflected in real time
- Message shown during backup process
- Users that were deleted are displayed as “Default”
- Call notifications not working on Android 10
- Impossible to open list of group participants after removing a user
- Wrong screen displayed after a logout with multiple accounts
version 3.50.922
posted on 2020-06-11
New:
Showing a banner on screen if a participant’s client version does not support conference calls.
Improved:
Bumped AVS version to 5.6.
Improved crash reporting for audio/video calls.
Fixed:
Crash when clicking on conversation list items, while the list is being loaded.
User search displaying unconnected accounts.
A rare crash when highlighting texts.
Minor fixes to the handling of large teams.
Conversation name being set to “Default” if a member is removed from the team.
version 3.49.921
posted on 2020-06-03
Updated copy seen on the screen when redirecting to enterprise login.
version 3.49.917
posted on 2020-05-26
New:
Informative screen for users moving to a custom backend.
Fixed:
An issue where the app bypassed the devices “Do Not Disturb” settings.
Various small fixes to the handling of large teams.
version 3.48.915
posted on 2020-05-13
Improved:
- Decreased the number of requests sent to the server
version 3.48.914
posted on 2020-05-06
Improved:
- Handling of very large teams.
- Onboarding process for users with SSO code.
Fixed:
- An issue where an exact match might not appear when searching for a user.
- Various minor bugs in the audio-video system.
version 3.47.911
posted on 2020-05-04
A hotfix release
Fixed:
Crash on Android 5 & 6
Conversation lists not refreshed properly
version 3.47.909
posted on 2020-04-28
New:
* Wire Red: Buttons for response tracking in Secure Alerts.
Improved:
* Faster handling of incoming notifications.
Fixed:
* Potential crash when scrolling through old messages in a conversation.
* Showing the wrong content in a conversation.
* Messages edited offline being sent again when re-connected.
* Missing link previews on Android 9 and 10.
version 3.46.890
posted on 2020-03-04
New:
- SSO configurations for registered Domains are detected automatically in account creation.
- Full name is shown for contacts in the UI.
- Progress indicator when opening a video.
Improved:
- App reacts faster to incoming notifications.
- Performance improvements to the sending and receiving of assets.
- More reliable message sending through update to OkHttp
Fixed:
- An issue causing incorrect image rotation.
- An issue where restoring backups may have failed.
version 3.45.886
posted on 2020-02-13
New:
. New login flow for users running on a custom backend
. Long-press the app icon for shortcuts from the home screen
Fixed:
. Issue with incoming call notifications for Android 10 and above
. User name not appearing correctly.
. Issues with connection requests via a deep link
. Back press not working on some screens
version 3.44.877
posted on 2020-01-06
New:
Group conversation roles and management
Fixed:
Changed how the search query is sent to Giphy.
Crash on Android 10 when the app is started by an incoming call.
Saved pictures are now visible in the gallery.
Wiping the data now also wipes the caches.
Crashes related to markdown errors.
version 3.43.870
posted on 2019-11-27
Improvements:
Faster user search.
Performance improvements for larger teams.
Fixed:
App-lock password prompt now only appears after timeout.
Fixed possible app freeze by optimizing image loading.
version 3.42.863
posted on 2019-11-15
New:
- Badge in folders for unread conversations.
- Pro: Button to delete group conversations.
Fix:
- Issue with compatibility of audio messages across platforms.
- Issue with sending button.
Improved:
- Various performance improvements.
- Various calling stability improvements.
version 3.41.848
posted on 2019-10-16
New:
- Organize your conversations into folders.
version 3.40.844
posted on 2019-09-30
Fixed:
- Missing messages for files and images that were received whilst the app was inactive.
version 3.38.826
posted on 2019-09-10
New:
App lock. Enable it in your settings for an added level of security.
Wire now only supports Android 5.0 and above.
Hide notification content on lock screen - Enable in settings.
Fixed:
On some devices, images could not be saved to gallery.
Timed images may have not appeared correctly.
version 3.37.820
posted on 2019-08-22
New:
- Pro: New team logo design.
Fixed:
- Some images where rotated when sending.
- Some devices had issues when sending photos taken with the in-app camera.
version 3.36.819
posted on 2019-08-14
Fixed:
- Missing Youtube previews
- Support for 64bit processors
- Icons in conversation list occasionally overlapping
- Sketch on top of a pictures was missing picture
Notes:
- This is the last version that will be supported on Android 4.x. Next version will be available only for 5+.
version 3.35.814
posted on 2019-07-29
This is a hotfix release.
New:
- A full synchronization can now be triggered through a button in the advanced options. (Perform full synchronization).
Fixes:
- Opening a new conversation may have shown a blank screen or content from the previous conversation.
version 3.35.807
posted on 2019-07-24
New:
New implementation for sending and receiving assets (files, images, etc)
The group limit is increased to 500 people
Cross platform compatibility through changes to the websocket handling
Fixes:
Changing read receipt settings, did not display pop-ups on other devices
New conversations did not always appear at the top of the conversation list
Markdown links should not generate previews
The verification code is only sent when the password is valid (thx @gabrielpintop)
Various minor bug fixes
version 3.7.398
posted on 2018-02-23
New:
- Starting a group chats is now much simpler. Give it a name, choose the people to add and you’re done.
Improved:
- Opening a conversation with an existing user is now simpler
- Faster scrolling through the search list
Fixed:
- Likes sometimes didn’t work after switching accounts
- Various fixes in 1-to-1 conversations in team accounts
- Fixes to bluetooth functionality in calling
