WallyMates

Version History — Windows

The full list of changes in the Windows desktop client, release by release.

v0.45.0 Current version 2026-09-08
  • 🎧 New "Support" section in Settings — open support tickets right from the app and chat with the support team without leaving the messenger.
  • ⚡ Ticket conversations now update automatically — no more restarting the app to see a support reply.
v0.44.0 2026-08-27
  • 📶 Fixed 1:1 video calls dropping on network switch (Wi-Fi ↔ mobile) — an ICE restart was being triggered, but the result was never actually sent to the other person (no signaling exchange existed), so the connection never really recovered.
  • 🐞 Fixed camera/mic getting stuck on after a failed reconnect — if the connection couldn't recover, the call never fully ended: the camera kept running and only force-quitting the app helped.
v0.43.0 2026-08-27
  • 🪟 Floating call mini-window: minimizing the app during a video call now shows the other person in a small floating window on top of other apps — like Viber/Telegram.
  • 🔊 Audio output device picker for calls (speakers/headphones) — the app used to always follow Windows' default communication device with no way to pick a different one from inside the call.
  • 📈 Video call auto quality: reacts to bandwidth shortage and packet loss, calls now start at a safer 720p instead of 1080p and ramp up automatically on a good connection.
  • 🐞 Fixed double/echoing remote audio on 1:1 video calls — audio was playing back from two page elements at once.
v0.42.0 2026-08-21
  • 🎨 Look customization: 50 color palettes now (up from 15), split into light and dark sections for easier browsing.
  • 🔤 New chat font picker: 25 built-in fonts plus uploading your own file (.ttf/.otf/.woff/.woff2). Your chosen font shows up for the person you're chatting with, on your messages specifically — everyone can have their own.
  • 🌌 Chat backgrounds: 21 animated options now (up from 15), also split into light and dark.
  • 💬 6 new message bubble styles: Glass, Wave, Bold, Note, Folded, Gum.
  • 💫 A separate bubble entrance-animation toggle (Rise / Tilt / Slide) — layers on top of any bubble shape.
  • ✨ 12 one-click "look packs" that set palette, background, font, bubble style, and entrance animation together.
  • 🖼️ Per-chat wallpaper — set a background for just one conversation without touching the rest.
  • 🔗 Share your look with a short code, and sync your theme across your own devices.
  • 🐞 Improved text readability on several themes; removed "Neon City" from the picker — couldn't get it to a good readability standard.
v0.41.0 2026-08-20
  • ☁️ Cloud Backup: back up messages and media to your own server right from the app (Settings → Security) — with an optional encryption-key backup under a separate password, so end-to-end encrypted messages stay readable after restoring on a new device.
  • 🐞 Fixed scheduled messages — scheduling a message in a private chat always silently failed (parameter mismatch between the app and server); it now actually works.
  • 🐞 Fixed restoring a server backup — previously only the backup just created in the current session could actually be read back; any other backup listed from the server failed to restore at all.
v0.40.0 2026-08-19
  • 🎨 Refreshed visual style across the app — soft glass cards, warmer shadows and accents in the chat list, call history, profile, settings, context menus, and confirm dialogs.
  • 🐞 Fixed unreadable text in the Create Channel/Group forms on light themes — labels and the name you were typing used to vanish.
  • 🔘 The Cancel button now has the same shape as its neighbors everywhere — it used to look different depending on the screen.
  • 📢 Create Channel: new "Contacts" step (website, phone, socials); the cover image, color, and emoji avatar are now actually saved, and the category is applied correctly.
  • 👥 Create Group: the group avatar is now actually saved on creation instead of silently disappearing.
v0.39.0 2026-08-19
  • 🔒 Fixed editing messages in secret (E2EE) chats — an edit used to silently strip end-to-end encryption; it now stays protected and reads correctly on every device.
  • 🔔 Fixed a rare case where the unread count/notification/sound could double up for the same incoming message.
v0.37.0 2026-07-30
  • 🎬 Fullscreen video player: quality switching (up to 5 tiers — 1080p60/1080p30/720p60/720p30/480p), native fullscreen, and a fully redesigned look.
  • 🖼️ The compact in-chat video preview is bigger and now matches the clip's real aspect ratio, Telegram-style; fixed double playback when expanding to fullscreen.
  • 📌 The video player in comments/lightbox also got quality switching and the new design.
  • 📺 Channel video playback got a cleaner player with a bigger play button and a new speed control.
  • 🎨 Fixed channel posts (including polls) incorrectly rendering with a light background on the dark theme.
v0.36.0 2026-07-25
  • 🤖 Added ChatGPT (OpenAI) to the AI assistants — pick Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT (Settings → AI, your own key).
  • 🤖 Fixed Gemini — it used to say “key not set” and never answered (new Google key format + current model).
  • 🤖 Split AI by keys: “What did I miss?” (summary) is free via the server, while smart replies and all other AI use your own key.
  • 🎙️ Voice transcription is now readable on the dark theme — the text no longer blends into the background.
v0.35.0 2026-07-24
  • ⭕ Rebuilt the video-note recording window: dark blurred backdrop, bigger preview, clean round buttons with no more misaligned icons.
  • ⏩ Actually fixed seeking on voice messages and videos — clicking the timeline used to always jump back to the start.
  • 🎚️ New floating bar above the chat for voice/audio: seek, speed, volume and close — stays put while you scroll.
  • 🎵 Music is now fully separated from voice notes: its own full player with queue and playlists, plus a download button for offline listening.
  • 🎙️ Voice recordings are now stereo with better bitrate.
  • 📎 Fixed sending large files (WAV/FLAC and others) from other drives — they used to be blocked by mistake.
v0.34.0 2026-07-24
  • ⭕ Round video messages are now clearly distinct from regular videos: a Telegram-style circular player — tap to play, a progress ring around the edge, a timer and a mute button.
  • 🎬 Fixed the video timeline: the clip duration now shows and you can seek (recorded videos used to report no duration).
  • 🎙️ Voice messages show a visible waveform again — readable on any theme or wallpaper, with real-time fill and click-to-seek.
  • 🎵 Music files (mp3/wav/flac) and voice notes no longer get mixed up — each has its own bubble style.
v0.33.0 2026-07-23
  • ✍️ Refreshed message bar: a clean “floating” input with a soft shadow and no harsh outline.
  • 🪄 One smart button on the right: mic when empty, send when you've typed — Telegram-style.
  • ↔️ The input no longer breaks when the window gets narrow — typing stays comfortable.
  • 🎙️ Fixed voice recording: the pause / cancel / send controls are now clearly visible and never overlap.
v0.32.0 2026-07-22
  • 📰 17 automated news channels: Ukraine, World, Movies, Games, IT, Sports, Crypto, Science, Auto, Music, Anime, Food, Humor and more — fresh news with photos, updated automatically. Find them via the search icon in the Channels tab.
  • 🔎 Browse all channels: click search in Channels to see the whole catalogue instantly and subscribe without typing a query.
  • 🧵 The channel feed is now in the right order: oldest on top, newest at the bottom — opening a channel scrolls to the newest posts.
  • 🔔 The unread counter in channels and the subscriber count now update correctly (the badge used to get stuck).
  • 🧭 “Similar channels” is now topic-based; channels now show real avatars — source-site icons.
v0.31.0 2026-07-21
  • 📣 Ads & Promotion: promote your channel with a sponsored feed post and a sponsored story. Wallet, campaigns, stats, auto-moderation — all in the “Ads” section.
  • 🟣 Stories are now grouped: one circle per author (many stories inside), personal and channel stories never mix — a channel shows its own avatar.
  • 🎬 Channel stories fixed: they now publish as channel stories (visible on the channel page), with a caption, views and comments.
  • 📊 Fully redesigned story statistics (personal and channel): clean modern layout, cover, views, reactions chart and comments.
  • 🖱️ Smooth feed scrolling and story auto-refresh — new stories appear without a reload.
v0.30.0 2026-07-21
  • 📅 Day dividers are back in conversations: “Today”, “Yesterday”, “Day before yesterday”, then a dd.MM.yyyy date. Clean and readable on every theme and chat wallpaper.
  • 🖱️ Smooth message scrolling: removed the jerky jumps when scrolling chats that contain media, GIFs, stickers or emoji.
v0.29.0 2026-07-20
  • 💰 Paid closed channels: Telegram-style member subscriptions for channel access — pay with Stars or a card (Way4Pay/LiqPay), with a renewal reminder instead of silent auto-charging.
  • 🔄 Reactions, message pins, comment deletions and poll results in channels now update live for every subscriber, no manual refresh needed.
  • 🐛 Fixed notifications that used to go missing: read receipts, message pin/unpin, and group reactions — the server and app were using different field names for the same event.
  • 🐛 Added handling for message edit/delete and history-cleared socket events — these used to be silently ignored in both groups and private chats.
  • 📞 Fixed a screen-share leak after hanging up, and a missed "call accepted on another device" event.
  • 🔐 Fixed a vulnerability: downloading media via a direct link is now restricted to trusted servers.
  • 🔑 Private encryption keys and your own API keys (Gemini/Claude under Settings → AI) are no longer written to disk in plain text when Windows' secure key storage fails — the write is now skipped instead of leaking.
  • 📴 The offline cache for private messages is now encrypted on disk too, matching Android — it used to store decrypted text in plain text.
  • 💳 Fixed a way to get double-charged in Stars or money if the network glitched mid-payment (posts, Stars top-up, channel subscription).
v0.28.0 2026-07-19
  • Fixed: the last message in a chat could end up hidden behind the composer — the message list now re-syncs to the bottom whenever the input bar grows taller (reply banner, attachment preview, formatting toolbar, multi-line draft).
  • Photo viewer: the "⋮ More" menu items (go to message, copy, forward, etc.) are now readable on every theme — the text was barely visible before.
  • Photo editor: widened the side panels and enlarged the window so longer localized labels stop overflowing; fixed text/button contrast across all themes.
  • The emoji panel now opens right next to the emoji button instead of the far side of the composer — the old placement made hovering to pick an emoji nearly impossible. It also closes itself once you start typing.
v0.27.0 2026-07-18
  • You can now leave an optional text review alongside your rating in the Business Directory.
  • Fixed business ratings: when rating isn't allowed (e.g. it's your own business), you now see the actual reason instead of a generic error.
  • Toast notifications are now easier to read and correctly follow your chosen theme.
v0.26.3 2026-07-16
  • Additional bot-button fix: the client was sending the wrong internal bot ID, so the server couldn't find the bot even after the previous fix.
v0.26.2 2026-07-16
  • Fixed bot inline reply buttons (weather, currency exchange, trivia, and others) — previously none of them worked for any bot.
v0.26.1 2026-07-16
  • Fixed opening bots from the Bot Store — tapping a bot now actually opens a chat with it; before, nothing happened at all.
  • Fixed bot mini-apps — they previously did not open at all.
v0.26.0 2026-07-16
  • Redesigned the Replies panel: when replies come from several channels, you pick a channel first; within a channel, all conversations live in one list.
  • An open conversation now looks like a real 1:1 chat with the commenter and updates live, without reopening the window.
  • Fixed a conversation-breaking bug — messages now correctly reach the other person on repeated replies, not just the first one.
v0.25.2 2026-07-16
  • Fixed the "Go to channel" button in the Replies panel — it used to just close the window; now it jumps to the actual comment and highlights it.
  • Fixed sending replies from the Replies panel — the server used to always return an error when trying to reply.
  • The unread replies counter now clears when you open the Replies panel.
  • When a message fails to send because the sender's reputation is too low, a clear reason is now shown instead of it just silently failing.
  • Private chats now show a notice when the other person has a low reputation score.
v0.25.1 2026-07-15
  • Fixed a way the app could be tricked into uploading an arbitrary file from disk (e.g. a browser password store) disguised as a normal chat file attachment.
  • Removed a redundant unencrypted copy of message text that was left on disk even when encryption itself was working fine.
v0.25.0 2026-07-14
  • Private chats and channels now work offline: message and post history you've already opened stays readable without an internet connection — including after restarting the app. Everything syncs normally once you're back online.
  • The chat list and subscribed-channels list also open offline from their last saved state.
v0.24.0 2026-07-14
  • Fixed a fallback that could send a message unencrypted when a secure session couldn't be established (e.g. with a brand-new contact, or in a just-created group) — such messages are now queued and sent automatically once encryption becomes available, instead of ever going out as plain text.
  • The session pre-key (SPK) signature is now a real cryptographic signature (Ed25519) instead of a placeholder — protects against the server swapping the key during a new secure-session setup.
v0.23.0 2026-07-12
  • Completely redesigned the 1:1 call interface: control buttons (mic, camera, screen share, background, filter, reactions, recording, end call) were rebuilt from scratch — real icons instead of emoji, which could overflow the button circle.
  • Buttons now have meaningful color-coding: blue — feature on, green — screen sharing, red — mic/camera off or recording in progress. The end-call button is visually separated from the rest.
  • The accept/decline call buttons and the recording indicator were updated to match.
v0.22.0 2026-07-12
  • New: a group's sub-groups (topics) are now reachable via right-click on the group in the left list — opens a Telegram-style "Sub-groups" panel that slides over the group list while the narrow nav rail stays visible.
  • New sub-groups appear in this panel immediately, including ones just created; picking a sub-group doesn't close the panel, so switching between them is a single click.
v0.21.1 2026-07-12
  • Fixed: several popup modals (channel sub-groups, group topic creation, contact picker, quick-replies panel, mentions, QR code, giveaway, and others) rendered almost transparent and unreadable due to a broken theme-color reference.
  • The channel "Sub-groups" modal now proactively explains if the channel needs to be private or needs a Premium subscription, instead of a confusing English-only error after attempting to create one.
  • In group chats, the "+" button next to topics now has a "New topic" tooltip — that's how sub-groups inside a group are created.
v0.21.0 2026-07-12
  • 1:1 calls: the 4-emoji fingerprint badge is now real cryptographic MITM protection, not just decoration — it's derived from both parties' actual encryption keys, the same "safety number" model Signal/WhatsApp use.
  • If the emoji match on both ends during a call (compare them out loud) — the connection genuinely hasn't been tampered with.
v0.20.0 2026-07-12
  • Group subgroups (topics) are now genuinely synced with the server — previously they only lived on this one computer as a text-prefix hack and showed up as garbled text on phone/other computers.
  • Subgroups now support an emoji icon, renaming, moderator assignment, and deletion — via right-click on a subgroup pill.
  • The subgroup list updates live for every group member.
  • Private premium channels can now attach up to 5 real groups ("Sub-groups" in channel info).
v0.19.0 2026-07-12
  • Group calls: you can now raise your hand (visible to everyone, including Android) and open a participant list with mic status.
  • Group calls: brief network hiccups now show "Reconnecting…" instead of the call suddenly closing.
  • "Blur" virtual background in 1:1 and group calls now genuinely blurs the background (previously the button did nothing) and is actually sent to the other participants, not just shown to yourself.
v0.18.2 2026-07-12
  • Message send reliability: if the server's response is delayed (poor network) and the message is delivered automatically once connectivity returns, it can no longer end up duplicated in the chat.
  • Fixed a bug where the offline message queue could silently stop sending the rest of its messages after the first encrypted private message went through.
v0.18.1 2026-07-11
  • Fixed the "What's new" window: its text was invisible on light themes. It now adapts to the selected palette and reads correctly in both light and dark.
v0.18.0 2026-07-11
  • A completely refreshed window look: a custom themed title bar instead of the OS frame, a rounded "floating" window, and side panels with real depth.
  • Added smooth macOS-style minimise and open window animations.
  • The left navigation and the window backdrop now follow the selected colour theme — the interface feels cohesive across every palette and in light/dark.
  • Fixed the boxy shadows around message bubbles — they are now soft and clean on any theme.
  • Improved readability on light chat backgrounds: timestamps, reactions, replies and links no longer blend into the bubble.
  • Channels: the unread counter now clears correctly after you view a channel and no longer comes back after a restart.
  • Fixed the "Sign-in attempt" window: it no longer gets stuck on an error and closes itself once sign-in completes; its buttons now match.
  • Auto-update: fixed the "Windows cannot find…" error during install and repaired auto-relaunch — the app reopens itself after an update again.
v0.17.7 2026-07-08
  • Critical: reverted to WebSocket-only transport. 0.17.6 added an HTTP long-polling fallback that cannot work behind an HAProxy (mode tcp) cluster and completely killed realtime — messages and reactions only appeared after leaving and re-opening the chat. Realtime is restored.
  • The real connection-failure reason is now logged to the console (F12) for diagnostics.
v0.17.6 2026-07-08
  • Presence ("online" / "last seen recently"): fixed the real reason it froze — the server now keeps refreshing your activity time the whole time you're connected, not only at the moment of connecting.
  • Activity statuses (recording voice/video, listening, viewing, choosing a sticker) now reach the other person in both private and group chats.
  • Connection: added a fallback transport (long-polling) so the link recovers even when a WebSocket upgrade fails.
  • The chat list no longer gets cut off mid-column with empty space below it.
  • The update banner at the bottom is no longer overlapped by the "Folders" button.
  • The app again relaunches itself correctly after an update is installed.
v0.17.5 2026-07-08
  • Found the real reason online status barely ever showed up: the app never listened for the initial presence snapshot on connect, and never told the server which chats it had open. Both are now fixed.
v0.17.4 2026-07-08
  • The real reason the app never reopened itself after an auto-update: the silent install was never actually relaunching it at all (the NSIS "run after finish" setting only fires from the installer's UI page, which a silent install skips entirely). The Windows client now relaunches itself once the install finishes.
  • The connection dot near search now shows a translated tooltip and correctly turns green after reconnecting, not just on the very first connect.
  • The connection-status self-check in Settings is now faster (3s instead of 10s).
v0.17.3 2026-07-08
  • Fixed the Apply/Send/Cancel button shape and shadow in the photo editor once more.
  • Fixed the "Connection error" status in Settings sometimes getting stuck even when the connection was actually fine.
  • Fixed peer activity indicators in the chat header (typing, viewing chat, choosing emoji/sticker) — some of them previously never showed up or got stuck.
v0.17.2 2026-07-08
  • Fixed auto-update: the app now reopens itself automatically after installing an update instead of requiring a manual relaunch.
  • Fixed the Apply/Send/Cancel button shapes in the photo editor and cleaned up the side panel borders.
v0.17.1 2026-07-08
  • The full-screen photo viewer toolbar is now much more noticeable: a solid labeled bar instead of small translucent icons.
  • The photo editor panel is now organized into clear sections (tools, transform, color, filters, adjustments) — easier to spot everything at a glance.
v0.17.0 2026-07-08
  • Pre-send photo editor: crop with aspect-ratio presets, rotate, flip — on top of the existing draw, text, stickers and filter tools.
  • Full-screen photo viewer now has a toolbar (edit / download / rotate) and a right-click menu: go to message, copy, forward, delete, save as…, all photos.
  • Fixed copy buttons across the app (settings, messages, QR codes, 2FA, etc.) — clicking them sometimes had no effect before.
v0.16.0 2026-07-08
  • Fixed searching for people by @username — queries like "@nick" previously found nobody.
  • Fixed the username not actually applying after saving it in profile settings — it now updates everywhere in the app immediately, not just on the settings screen.