7.0 Build 32
August 31, 2026
Reliability: Fixed a regression crash on relaunch that hit anyone with an open chat
Fixed
7.0 Build 31
August 30, 2026
Chat Windows: Add-a-reaction and the reaction gear now live on every reaction bar
Changed
Chat Windows: Configure Reactions got quicker - picking an emoji slides the sheet away as it flies into its slot
Changed
Chat Windows: Long-pressing a message that's partly hidden slides it out from underneath instead of popping it on top
Changed
Chat Windows: Sending a photo while scrolled up jumps you to the bottom and flies it in
Changed
Chat Windows: A photo's "N Replies" count is blue like a text message's, so it reads as the tap-to-open control it is
Changed
Media: Long-pressing a photo slides it out from under the header and back beneath it
Changed
Media: Videos land in the chat far sooner after you send them
Changed
Chat Windows: A multi-photo send shows its stack the right way from the first moment, not when upload finishes
Fixed
Chat Windows: A sent photo no longer shifts sideways inside its bubble as it lands - or again when the upload finishes
Fixed
Chat Windows: Sending a video alongside photos no longer cancels the send animation
Fixed
Chat Windows: Reactions on a message that's split around a photo show on every part of it, not just the last
Fixed
Chat Windows: Playing GIFs and animated stickers ride with the chat as the keyboard rises
Fixed
Chat Windows: Renaming a group member no longer leaves their messages' sender lines at the wrong height
Fixed
Chat Windows: Dragging the emoji sheet to its full height no longer hides the category bar
Fixed
Media: Swiping back from a photo grid's long-press menu closes the menu instead of stranding it over the chat
Fixed
Reliability: Fixed three freezes - a chat locking up, a freeze with notifications, and an address book rebuild freeze
Fixed
7.0 Build 30
August 28, 2026
Chat Windows: Pick your own quick reactions - the gear on the reaction bar opens Configure Reactions
Feature
Chat Windows: Long-press popups no longer come back with their tops cropped after a keyboard has been up
Fixed
Appearance: Switching themes no longer leaves already-drawn messages wearing the old theme's text styling
Fixed
Reliability: Fixed a batch of rare crashes and freezes
Fixed
Reliability: Plugged a slow memory leak in the home screen's menu machinery
Fixed
7.0 Build 29
August 25, 2026
Chat Windows: Photos fly when you send them
Feature
Chat Windows: Pick a GIF and it stages beside your photos as a small playing chip
Feature
Chat Windows: @mention pills show friendly names with photos, and tapping one opens the member card
Feature
Forward: Photo groups now offer Forward All and Share All
Feature
Contacts: Tapping a member in a channel's member list opens a compact member card
Feature
Appearance: Three new accent colors - Rose, Navy, and Graphite - and Teal now goes by Mint
Feature
Chat Windows: Long-press menus use the full height of the window when a big menu needs the room
Changed
Chat Windows: Typing dots reserve the full space the incoming message will take, so nothing shifts when it lands
Changed
Chat Windows: Fixing a typo within 30 seconds of sending skips the (Edited) stamp
Changed
Chat Windows: Photo stacks got motion polish - deck wings reveal cleanly
Changed
Notifications: Editing an unread message updates its notification in place, and deleting one clears it
Changed
Avatars: Group avatars appear at every visual break in a run of messages, matching where headers split
Changed
Contacts: Your phone book wins - an address-book linked contact goes by its name and photo everywhere
Changed
Login: Sign-in problems explain themselves in a proper popup - including the new "too many devices" message
Changed
Appearance: The accent picker runs in rainbow order, each swatch split to preview its light and dark faces
Changed
Backend: Support libraries freshened across the board
Changed
Chat Windows: Sending while the other side is typing lands your message cleanly above their typing dots
Fixed
Chat Windows: Messages hold their order - a delivery racing a send can no longer leapfrog it and reshuffle the conversation
Fixed
Chat Windows: Reactions, edits, and deletes that arrive a beat before their message now wait for it instead of getting lost
Fixed
Chat Windows: Retrying a failed photo send could leave bubbles painted over each other until you scrolled away and back
Fixed
Chat Windows: Long-pressing a photo glides it into place - no more hopping or bouncing off the right edge
Fixed
Chat Windows: Reacting from the long-press menu no longer makes the bubble hop as the menu closes
Fixed
Chat Windows: Bubbles with @mentions size like every other bubble - the pill floats in its own line
Fixed
Chat Windows: Copying or editing a message keeps the real @address under the hood, and federated @mentions work
Fixed
Chat Windows: Conversation disclaimers no longer repeat more often than they should
Fixed
Media: Multi-photo sends can no longer strand the last photo as a stuck straggler
Fixed
Media: A corrupt photo can no longer inflate its bubble to towering heights
Fixed
Notifications: Replying from a notification marks the chat read on your other devices more reliably
Fixed
Notifications: Initials avatars baked into notifications keep one stable color instead of flipping with the theme
Fixed
Avatars: Group bubble avatars keep their proper colors instead of occasionally going blue
Fixed
Contacts: Deleting a contact deletes every copy of them - hidden duplicates can no longer resurrect the row
Fixed
Contacts: Search puts online people first again, and unknowns wait at the back instead of jumping the line
Fixed
Contacts: Address-book links on contacts without a phone number count again
Fixed
Contacts: A group's info screen draws its two member photos as clean floating circles
Fixed
Connectivity: Waking the phone after a long sleep no longer kicks off a needless sign-in and full refresh
Fixed
Reliability: Fixed a batch of rare crashes and two freezes
Fixed
7.0 Build 28
August 12, 2026
Chat Windows: Buzzes are improved - buzz now shakes the window and plays a sound, with an on/off switch in Settings
Feature
Contacts: Contact info got one-tap Call, Video, and Buzz buttons
Feature
Media: Long-press any tile in a photo-set grid to react, save, share, open, or delete
Feature
Chat Windows: Group chat @mention suggestions show "John Doe @miriam" for address-book linked contacts
Changed
Chat Windows: Removing a reaction has its own little sound - the pop, played backwards
Changed
Contacts: Linked contacts show their phone-book name everywhere again
Changed
Media: Photos in the grid views flow at their natural shapes now - portraits run tall, panoramas run wide
Changed
Media: Saving a photo hides its Save option everywhere for the rest of the session
Changed
Media: The full-screen video player's scrub bar sits at the bottom now, like every other video player
Changed
Media: On tablets, full-screen photos and videos hide the floating taskbar - swipe up from the bottom to peek it
Changed
Performance: The media cache ages out by time - two weeks - instead of trimming to a size cap
Changed
Connectivity: On-prem servers now serve 6 parallel media downloads instead of 20
Changed
Backend: Updated the media playback engine (videos, voice clips) to the latest release
Changed
Media: A GIF whose cached file has vanished now heals itself on the next view, quietly re-downloading
Fixed
Media: Tapping a video in a photo grid now flies it open like photos do, and swiping it closed drags just the video
Fixed
Contacts: Address-book linking survives a restart again, and linking a contact updates every open screen on the spot
Fixed
Notifications: Alerts for address-book linked contacts show their phone-book photo and name again
Fixed
Connectivity: Outgoing requests can no longer stall for five minutes when Wi-Fi silently kills a connection mid-request
Fixed
Video: A damaged calling certificate can no longer break calls until it ages out
Fixed
User Interface: On tablets, screens make room for the floating taskbar - many windows were drawing beneath it
Fixed
Appearance: Android 10's light theme no longer draws dark circles behind the PIN pad keys and the info screen's buttons
Fixed
Reliability: More memory leaks fixed - Settings and info screen toolbars, chat menu popups, and the voice-record bar
Fixed
7.0 Build 25
August 8, 2026
Media: Long-press a photo in a stack and it unfolds to the full picture - cropped cards grow to show everything
Feature
Chat Windows: Message timestamps now fly home with their bubble when a long-press menu closes
Changed
Chat Windows: Forward shows dimmed in a downloading photo's menu instead of appearing later
Changed
Chat Windows: Fixed the keyboard refusing to open after long-pressing a message
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed the chat going black above the message box after closing the keyboard around a long-press menu
Fixed
Media: Long-press menus and the reaction bar line up flush with every photo card
Fixed
Media: The tilted top card of a photo stack no longer crowds its timestamp, and return flights land without a hop
Fixed
Chat Windows: Bubbles scrolled behind the compose bar no longer paint over the edit box while a long-press menu is up
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed reactions vanishing from a conversation after another device closed it with a draft pending
Fixed
Chat Windows: Creating a group chat - the first message no longer stalls unsent
Fixed
Chat Windows: The "1 reply" label on thread previews aligns with the bubble like a real timestamp, and it's translated now
Fixed
Login: A crash no longer forces the next launch through a full re-login - the app quietly reattaches to its previous session
Fixed
Login: The stretch between launch and full sign-in got a sweep - chats, PIN, menus, and sending
Fixed
Login: Sign-in fields and the connection warning stay above the keyboard
Fixed
User Interface: On tablets, opening a chat from search tucks the search bar away
Fixed
Reliability: Fixed a rare crash when the chats list rebuilt at the exact moment the server was closing a conversation
Fixed
Reliability: Fixed a rare crash when the media cache cleaned itself up during a database commit
Fixed
Reliability: Two more memory leaks cleared - a switched-away conversation's message box and the splash screen's toolbar
Fixed
7.0 Build 24
August 6, 2026
Media: Photo sets explode into a grid view - tap the count badge to see every photo at once
Feature
Media: Full support for Android 14's "Select photos" partial access
Feature
Chat Windows: File bubble improvements - real icons for a dozen file types and UI improvements
Changed
Media: Dismissals fly true everywhere - a swiped-away photo launches home from under your finger
Changed
Media: The photo viewer stays black when controls are up
Changed
Performance: The photo viewer carries way less bitmap weight - only the photo on screen keeps a sharp copy
Changed
Video: A video that can't play names its missing codec instead of shrugging
Changed
Contacts: Composed channel titles honor local renames - "Dad" shows as "Dad", not "Peter"
Changed
Backend: Adopted Android's predictive back system for future-proofing
Changed
Avatars: Crops come out much sharper and a changed avatar always takes effect immediately
Fixed
Media: Failed photos and videos wear the proper red error state instead of a misleading play button
Fixed
Media: Full-screen photos no longer open to a black page when the cache had cleaned up their file
Fixed
Media: Opening a photo no longer blinks at the end of the zoom
Fixed
Media: The photo picker no longer loads your entire camera roll at once, fixing freezes on devices with huge galleries
Fixed
Chat Windows: Sharing photos no longer demands camera and microphone access
Fixed
Chat Windows: Custom reactions picked from the emoji search now display correctly on the Windows client
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed a rare crash sending a message at the same moment older history was loading
Fixed
Chat Windows: A long message split in two no longer opens its second bubble with blank lines
Fixed
Reliability: Six memory leaks cleared - Samsung pop-up and fold transitions, push, and older-Android keyboard handling
Fixed
7.0 Build 23
August 3, 2026
Chat Windows: Fixed a crash dragging a selected bit of text that had nothing visible in it out of the edit box
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed a crash pressing back to close the keyboard when the chat window was going away
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed a rare mid-typing crash in Android's emoji bookkeeping
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixued issue where opening or closing the photo and GIF pickers could freeze on a busy phone
Fixed
Chat Windows: Photo picker thumbnails no longer each carry a hidden loading spinner they almost never use
Fixed
General: Fixed an issue stalling Android's boot broadcast after an update
Fixed
7.0 Build 22
July 27, 2026
Chat Windows: Ten memory leaks cleared - the biggest pinned ~48MB of camera buffers after every photo session
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed conversations getting stuck at their loading spinner on open
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed the frozen-chat-after-rotation bug - messages sent fine but nothing drew
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed scrolling past the top of an image-heavy conversation into an endless white page with a lone spinner
Fixed
Chat Windows: Filling in older history no longer leaves stray gaps around the newest messages - bubbles rejoin their groups
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed photo stacks wiggling in place whenever new messages arrived
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed reactions to older messages dragging a stray copy of the message to the top of the conversationn
Fixed
Chat Windows: A reaction to an older message now updates the chats tab as the conversation's latest activity
Fixed
Chat Windows: Long-pressing a message no longer leaves a ghost copy of the sender's avatar floating over the conversation
Fixed
Chat Windows: Long-press cleanup - reduced keyboard flashing bugs, Edit raises the keyboard reliably
Fixed
Chat Windows: Opening a chat now clears that sender's alerts - both the notification shade and the in-app banners
Fixed
Chat Windows: Tapping empty space to lower the keyboard works again after tapping any bubble
Fixed
Chat Windows: The conversation menu no longer comes up missing most of its items when opened too soon
Fixed
Chat Windows: Sending GIFs works again - both from the drawer and the keyboard's GIF picker
Fixed
Chat Windows: The GIF drawer opens reliably on the first tap and no longer leaves the message box floating after it closes
Fixed
Chat Windows: Photo collages now resize with the window instead of staying frozen at their first size
Fixed
Chat Windows: Closing a full-screen photo after rotating now lands back on the right message
Fixed
Chat Windows: Editing a message no longer sometimes drops the edit bubble to the bottom of the screen
Fixed
Chat Windows: Avatars in the conversation no longer grey out when someone goes offline
Fixed
Chat Windows: In channels, the colored circle behind a sender's photo now matches their bubble color
Fixed
Chat Windows: Thumbnails arriving as WEBP behind a misleading extension now decode properly
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed a crash viewing animated images full-screen
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed a rare crash redrawing a conversation just as older messages were being trimmed from memory
Fixed
Chat Windows: Fixed an out-of-memory crash rendering very large photos full-screen
Fixed
Login: Fixed a sign-in deadlock that could hang the app at launch
Fixed
Performance: Typing is snappier in messages with emoji - each keystroke no longer re-renders all of them
Fixed
Performance: Full-screen photo launch is ~2.5x faster
Fixed
Performance: Fixed three ANRS: photo picker, resuming image-heavy conversations, and a typing-indicator edge case
Fixed
User Interface: Swiping a selected conversation in the chats list no longer draws a doubled highlight
Fixed
Video: Ending a video call now fully lets go of the camera - it no longer kept a grip on the preview between calls
Fixed
Video: Fixed a crash when call audio arrived just as the speaker or headset route was changing
Fixed
7.0 Build 1
May 10, 2026
Backend: Migrated all on-device data to a new encrypted SQLite database, retiring the legacy account file format
Feature
Backend: Rebuilt the navigation architecture as a single-Activity app powered by Jetpack Navigation
Feature
Backend: Rewrote the voice clip recorder on AudioRecord + MediaCodec for sub-200ms stop and 44.1 kHz quality
Feature
Backend: Rewrote the audio playback engine on a dedicated thread, eliminating voice clip threading crashes
Feature
Backend: Rewrote the photo viewer from scratch on a custom zoomable image view, replacing the third-party library
Feature
Backend: Replaced the system camera handoff with an embedded in-app camera
Feature
Backend: New transient foreground service keeps media uploads running when the app is swiped away
Feature
Backend: Migrated the networking stack to HTTP/2 via OkHttp
Feature
Appearance: Full Material 3 theme system with dynamic color schemes generated from a seed accent
Feature
Appearance: Bottom navigation with pill-shaped active indicator and per-theme FAB color
Feature
Audio: New UI supports dragging waveform to scrub a voice clip
Feature
Audio: Live waveform draws from real audio peaks while recording
Feature
Avatars: New crop screen with pinch-to-zoom and a circular crop overlay
Feature
Avatars: Default fallback is now an accent-colored initials circle
Feature
Billing: Migrated from one-time purchases to Google Play subscriptions
Feature
Camera: Photo and video capture with front/rear toggle, three-state flash, tap-to-focus, and pinch-to-zoom
Feature
Camera: Volume key, camera key, and focus key all act as shutter buttons
Feature
Camera: Locale-aware shutter sound on Japan and Korea
Feature
Camera: Review screen with retake/confirm for both photo and video
Feature
Camera: Avatar Take Photo uses the same camera with a front-facing default
Feature
Chat Windows: New hero animation morphs the photo bubble into the fullscreen viewer (and back)
Feature
Chat Windows: Image cluster feature: 2-stack, 3-stack, or card-deck with swipe, page indicators, and pinch-zoom
Feature
Chat Windows: OpenGraph link preview cards for YouTube, Instagram, Imgur, and Giphy
Feature
Chat Windows: Markdown rendering - headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, code, lists, and blockquotes
Feature
Chat Windows: New send animation with a printing-press generation effect
Feature
Chat Windows: Triple checkmark when every member has read an outgoing group message
Feature
Chat Windows: Long-press Details bottom sheet with Read By and Reactions tabs
Feature
Chat Windows: Draft messages persist across app restart with a "Draft:" indicator on the chats list
Feature
Chat Windows: Message editing support
Feature
Chat Windows: Message deletion support
Feature
Chat Windows: Message reactions support
Feature
Chat Windows: Video bubbles resume at the timestamp they were paused at
Feature
Chat Windows: New typing indicator with bouncing dots in the sender's color
Feature
Contacts: New "Show Server-Based Teams" toggle to hide team headers
Feature
Contacts: Long press "Revert Name" clears a custom local rename
Feature
Forward: Internal forward now has its own button, separate from external Share
Feature
Forward: Selected recipients stay visible after clearing the search
Feature
Forward: Inline search
Feature
Forward: Video, audio, and link-preview previews in the compose header
Feature
Forward: Caption, payload, and share text are all sent together
Feature
Login: Welcome and login merged into a single Sign In screen
Feature
Login: SSO via inline WebView overlay
Feature
Login: 2FA setup and error flows in a bottom sheet
Feature
Login: Forgot password / username flow consolidated into a single three-phase dialog
Feature
Login: 13 seasonal welcome scenes, date and locale aware
Feature
Login: Heavy-login mode with rotating "Hang tight" messages
Feature
Login: Permissions screen after sign-in to avoid immediate system prompts
Feature
Login: PIN setup moved into the sign-in flow
Feature
Media: Pinch-to-zoom with elastic over-zoom and spring-back
Feature
Media: Double-tap zoom cycles 1x/2x/4x
Feature
Media: Image viewer toolbar with gradient overlay, back, save, share, and forward buttons that auto-hide after 3 seconds
Feature
Media: Video playback in the swipe gallery alongside photos
Feature
Media: Tenor GIF sending with Klipy CDN previews on receive
Feature
Media: Direct image URLs render inline as a real image bubble
Feature
Notifications: New in-app banner notifications stack, swipe-to-dismiss, with urgent refire every 2 minutes for up to 20
Feature
Notifications: Foreground system notifications fully silent on Android 15+ (no sound or vibration in the shade)
Feature
Notifications: Modern conversation-style notifications with sender avatar
Feature
Notifications: Unread badge on the chats tab and chat toolbar
Feature
Registration: One-screen registration with progress bar
Feature
Search: Inline search across chats and contacts
Feature
Settings: Settings tab redesigned as rounded cards with icon circles
Feature
Sharing: Original filenames preserved when sharing files in
Feature
Sharing: Thumbnail extracted from content provider on Android 10+
Feature
Video: Pro customers can now use video calls
Feature
Video: Tapping a second video bubble while the first is playing now plays it
Feature
Video: Outgoing video survives Picture-in-Picture on Android 12+
Feature
Chat Windows: Audio clips stop on back-navigation from a chat
Changed
Chat Windows: Edit box border radius changed from a pill to a rounded rectangle
Changed
Chat Windows: "Yesterday" shown in chats list timestamps (was day-of-week)
Changed
Contacts: Empty channels show "Empty Channel - #hash…" instead of the raw IM address
Changed
User Interface: 300ms tap delay removed app-wide - every tap is faster
Changed
User Interface: Reconnecting orange bar replaced with a subtle toolbar spinner
Changed
User Interface: "RECENT" tab renamed to "CHATS"
Changed
Audio: Incoming call sound now respects DND/silent mode
Fixed
Avatars: Display name, first name, last name, email, password, and avatar all reliably sync
Fixed
Avatars: Avatar caches cleared on sign-out
Fixed
Billing: Pro users no longer flagged as expired
Fixed
Billing: Settings > Trillian Pro row refreshes immediately after purchase
Fixed
Camera: Mic conflict guard against an in-progress voice clip recording
Fixed
Camera: Camera launch from the photos and GIF bar no longer pops the keyboard up on top
Fixed
Chat Windows: File bubbles shrink to fit instead of always claiming maximum width
Fixed
Chat Windows: Forward hidden until media is downloaded
Fixed
Chat Windows: Image bubble loading spinner shrinks to fit short or wide bubbles
Fixed
Chat Windows: Images no longer stretch beyond their natural aspect ratio
Fixed
Chat Windows: Voice clip and file bubble visual cleanup
Fixed
Chat Windows: Qualified and unqualified emoji variants now match correctly (⚡ and friends)
Fixed
Chat Windows: @mention pill padding for breathing room
Fixed
Connectivity: Send-queue stalls fixed - no more 25-second pauses after a long-poll
Fixed
Connectivity: Reconnect retry behavior tightened during sign-out
Fixed
Media: Auto-downloading images skip the thumbnail step (just a spinner until ready)
Fixed
Media: Bubble resizes when the full file loads
Fixed
Media: File-existence check no longer runs for every visible image on every frame
Fixed
Media: Ringtone install retry storm
Fixed
Media: Image bubbles widened to 0.8× screen width
Fixed
Media: Uploaded media cached on success - no re-download on chat reopen
Fixed
Performance: Reattach 6.8s > 1.1s on heavy accounts (65k contacts and 450k group members)
Fixed
Performance: Idle CPU 100% > 13% - animations now stop when nothing is animating
Fixed
Performance: Heap pressure during heavy logins down ~50–100 MB
Fixed
Performance: Off-screen animated emoji and GIFs stop ticking
Fixed
Reliability: Various crash fixes throughout
Fixed
Reliability: HTTP, cursor, and stream leaks plugged
Fixed
Appearance: API 29 compatibility for switches, edit boxes, bottom tabs, and settings
Fixed
User Interface: Add Contact keyboard reliably shows
Fixed
User Interface: Context menus replaced with a bottom sheet that slides up
Fixed
User Interface: Display name updates locally immediately (no waiting for the server round-trip)
Fixed
User Interface: Long-press haptic only fires when a bubble is actually selected
Fixed
User Interface: Long-press popup edge-to-edge keyboard handling
Fixed
User Interface: Phone country code picker shows flag emoji
Fixed
User Interface: Phone number formatting in the registration screen
Fixed
User Interface: Rename always available (was incorrectly server-gated)
Fixed
User Interface: Leave Channel available for all group chats
Fixed
User Interface: Save, Share, and Open greyed out for undownloaded media instead of hidden
Fixed
User Interface: Set Status screen clear-text X resets "Clear after" to Never
Fixed
User Interface: Error icon redesigned and resized
Fixed