Changelog for Blink (Windows)

Version 6.0.3

February 28th, 2025

  • Fix requesting Sylk API token
  • Fixed updater

Version 6.0.1

January 31th, 2025

  • Fixed traceback in dragging audio sessions to a conference
  • Added Logs window
  • Added Call Transfer menu
  • Added audio auto-record function
  • Added outbound account selection gfor message session
  • Added button to open last unread messages
  • Added controls to see last transferred files for chat contacts
  • Added pause/resume for file transfers
  • Added support to remove conversations
  • Restore chat window if minimized
  • Use default conference as conference server, local domain will be appended
  • PGP decryption/encryption fixes
  • TLS verification fixes
  • Message rendering fixes
  • Message session fixes
  • Sylk-Server API messages replication fixes
  • Silence all audio notifications if Disable ringtones button pressed
  • Fixed updating codecs if SDK defaults have changed
  • Throttle incoming message audio notifications
  • Throttle desktop notifications for messages
  • Refactored file transfers
  • Refresh audio devices when open the Devices menu
  • Make app compatible with MacOS

    • Version 5.9.1

    December 16th, 2024

    • Fixed session selection in chat window
    • Fixed buttons in conference join dialog
    • Fixed start chat button in main window
    • Fixed updating menu in chat window
    • Fixed deleting files
    • Migrate code for QT6 compatibilty
    • Chat window only opens on user interactions
    • Improved MacOS compatibilty
    • Implemented persistent Bonjour messaging
    • Added account selection for outgoing messages
    • Added audio/video call entries to messages
    • Added dialog to remove messages
    • Added option to start a random conference
    • Added menu item to show session info panel on audio calls
    • Added right-click contextual menu to calls
    • Added unread counter to contact and menu to show unread messages
    • Added virtual messages group to show all contacts that have messages
    • Added info button to audio sessions
    • Added auto record function
    • Added logs window
    • Reorganized contact menu structure
    • Refresh audio devices in audio menu
    • Fix retrying sending locally failed messages
    • Fixed wrongly stored Sylk API messages
    • Fixed only deleting filetranfer files from cache
    • Send images by file transfers in messages/MSRP chat
    • Show images if they can't be rendered
    • Improved message rendering themes
    • Bugfixes for drag/drop
    • Bugfixes for filetransfers
    • Bugfixes for messages
    • Bugfixes for messages with Bonjour account
    • Bugfixes for PGP message handling
    • Bugfixes for sending IMDN messages

    Version 5.6.0

    September 17th, 2024

    • Added support for filetransfer messages
    • Added support for encrypting/decrypting MSRP file transfers
    • Added support for file encryption/decryption
    • Added support for displaying conference files
    • Added support for pull filetransfers
    • Added SIP Message functionality
    • Added offline messaging based on SylkServer API
    • Added OpenPGP encryption for SIP Messages
    • Added OTR encryption to SIP Message sessions
    • Added history for chat and messages
    • Added NAT traversal preferences panel
    • Added replace function for chat messages
    • Added menu item in chat to send files
    • Added auto answer feature per account
    • Added VP9 codec
    • Implemented TLS certificate verification
    • Handle scaling for different screen resolutions
    • Added multi-language support
    • Added Dutch translation
    • Added documentation folder doc/
    • Add option to add/remove realtime chat during audio/video calls
    • Added multiple device synchronization for SIP messages
    • Added advanced messaging options in account preferences
    • Several fixes for IMDN and history storage
    • Added status support for (chat) messages
    • Use SIP message method as default for 'chat'
    • Added IMDN support for messages
    • Added menuitem to show last conversations
    • Added setting to add unknown message contacts to contact list
    • Fixed Google contacts
    • Reorganized Advanced preferences
    • Added option to show name and uri in call history menu
    • Fix for account creation
    • Screen sharing fixes
    • Added presence and message_summary account settings
    • Fixed handling drag and drop inline images in chat window
    • Fixed loading icons from XCAP server
    • Increase the size of some widgets
    • Automatically set sip2sip.info server settings URL
    • Refactored application menus
    • Allow calling to all URIs belonging to a contact
    • Show sip account registrar address in preferences panel
    • Migrated code to Python 3

    Version 3.2.0

    February 27th, 2019

    • Updated TLS certificates
    • Updated copyright years

    Version 3.1.0

    October 6th, 2018

    • Updated software license to GPL-3+ without restrictions
    • Extended the cases for which we fetch the alternate icon
    • Fixed displaying the owner of a failed icon retrieval
    • Use newer syntax when catching exceptions
    • Fixed Google contacts for another API breakage on Google's side
    • Fixed google contacts file cache being unavailable with newer ouath2client
    • Added unicode representation for AudioSessionItem to improve accessibility
    • Depend on python-application 2.5.0
    • Updated copyright years

    Version 3.0.3

    February 28th, 2017

    • Fixed another People API breakage by Google (they restored old behaviour)
    • Added minimum version dependency for python-googleapi

    Version 3.0.2

    February 9th, 2017

    • Fixed people API breakage on Google's side
    • Updated software description
    • Updated copyright years

    Version 3.0.1

    December 19th 2016

    • Depend on python-sipsimple 3.1.0

    Version 3.0.0

    December 16th, 2016

    • Switched to Qt5
    • Added call transfer
    • Fixed Google Contacts
    • Many UI tweaks and improvements

    Version 1.4.2

    September 11th, 2015

    • Fixed default URI after processing Google contact updates

    Version 1.4.1

    June 18th, 2015

    • Fixed opening files in binary mode

    Version 1.4.0

    June 10th, 2015

    • Added support for VP8 video codec
    • Added file transfer resuming capability
    • Added basic support for RTCP PLI feedback indication and use it to send / request keyframes
    • Fixed crash when handling bogus Opus packets

    Version 1.2.1

    March 24th, 2015

    • Added Video support
    • Added ZRTP support
    • Added support for file drag and drop on the chat window
    • Improve the performance of painting the video preview
    • Fix stopping composing timer when session is ended or chat is removed
    • Removed unused settings
    • Always play an audio alert when a file transfer finishes
    • Removed session and RTP timeouts from preferences
    • Reorganized preferences
    • Better icons for chat, logging and advanced settings
    • Updated test numbers
    • Check for the audio session item existance before operating on it
    • Ignore hold/hangup keyboard shortcuts if no session is selected
    • Render status messages appropriately
    • Optimized chat inline images to avoid compression artifact

    Version 0.9.1.2

    July 30th, 2014

    • Fix version number

    Version 0.9.1.1

    July 30th, 2014

    • Fix installer not removing old files from destination folder

    Version 0.9.1

    July 28th, 2014

    • Automatically transform URLs in the chat window into clickable links
    • Show P2P icon if contact is a Bonjour neighbour
    • Fixed handling unicode in user's home directory
    • Fixed http URL regular expression
    • Removed menu entry for buying prepaid credit
    • Fixed encoding of cut text for the VNC client
    • Rebuilt Blink and its dependencies using MinGW toolchain

    Version 0.9.0

    June 27th, 2014

    • Fix Blink not starting on Windows 7 and 8
    • Added screen sharing support
    • Refactored session info panel
    • UI Layout fixes
    • Added file transfer to the list of client capabilities
    • Fixed status message when audio is removed vs when the session is ended
    • Fixed exception when trying to change status after audio session is gone
    • The file transfer download directory cannot be undefined
    • Raised python-sipsimple version dependency

    Version 0.8.2

    May 28th, 2014

    • Fix corrupted incoming file transfers
    • Use a generic fail reason when none is provided
    • Add support for adding/removing multiple streams at once
    • Refactored SDP handling
    • Send re-INVITE after ICE negotiation is done
    • Enable RTP keep-alive using empty RTP packets
    • Disabled speex codec by default
    • Fixed race condition when saving ICE state
    • Fix closing media transport to avoid leaking STUN sockets
    • Use a shorter timeout for re-INVITEs that need to be answered without user interaction

    Version 0.8.1

    April 24th, 2014

    • Fixed issue with not fetching Google Contacts after recent Google changes
    • Changed audio codec order: prefer G722 over Speex

    Version 0.8.0

    April 11th, 2014

    • Added file transfer support using MSRP protocol
    • Added chat themes support
    • Added chat preferences
    • Added quick setting for playing message alerts
    • Added keyboard shortcuts for different windows
    • Added option for auto-accepting chat from known contacts
    • Rearranged menus in the main window
    • Refactored history menu
    • Improved displaying the account states in preferences and the main window
    • Save conference rooms in combobox history and limit it to 20 entries
    • Fixed unwanted selection switching when sessions were ended
    • Fixed using correct avatar and display name for received chat messages
    • Fixed updating toolbar buttons when changing sessions and allow hold early
    • Fixed using secondary ringtone when adding chat to an audio session
    • Fixed playing hold tone when switching sessions
    • Fixed playing tones when streams are cancelled
    • Fixed incoming dialog margins
    • Fixed processing DTMF tones
    • Close dialog if session is ended while in a proposal
    • Only remove the TLS certificate if it's in the application data directory
    • Play sound for received chat messages, if enabled
    • Do not play the hangup tone for sessions without audio
    • Do not close all windows when closing the main window

    Version 0.7.0

    March 5th, 2014

    • Added session information panel into the chat window
    • Added server side conferencing support
    • Automatically accept in-dialog chat proposals
    • Fixed potentially processing multiple settings changes at once
    • Enabled showing logs directory
    • Limit the time window for processing a DNS lookup to the current session
    • Tons of UI tweaks

    Version 0.6.0

    December 16th, 2013

    • Added chat sessions using MSRP protocol
    • Added Opus codec version 1.1
    • Fixed Opus codec negotiations bugs
    • Fixed unpickling for Bonjour Neighbours
    • Use single global c line when creating SDP
    • Fixed several memory leaks
    • Simplified processing Google contacts authorization and fixed some bugs
    • Set focus to the appropriate widgets during Google contacts authorization
    • Improved selection of the winning presence state
    • Removed donate menu action
    • Properly patch dnspython to make it non- blocking
    • Adjusted to the latest changes in SIP SIMPLE Client SDK

    Version 0.5.0

    August 9th, 2013

    • Adapted to changes in SIP SIMPLE Client SDK
    • Enabled Opus codec
    • Set default sample rate to 32 kHz
    • Fixed exception if Google contact has no name nor company
    • Fixed losing contact icons
    • Fixed computing hours in history entries
    • Fixed setting display name in history entry when URI is a phone number
    • Avoid publishing presence state twice when xcap settings change
    • Allow Ctrl+Delete/Backspace to hangup sessions because KDE steals Ctrl+Esc
    • Raise and activate preferences window when triggered if already visible
    • Do not allow toolbar to be hidden

    Version 0.4.0

    June 26th, 2013

    • Added support for multiple URIs per contact
    • Added support for Bonjour presence
    • Added minimize to system tray
    • Added text eliding using fading colors for labels with long texts
    • Adjusted selected group background colors for better visibility
    • Save and restore main window geometry across restarts
    • Move contact when its name changes to keep contacts sorted
    • Updated test contact icon files
    • Strip URI domain in history if URI looks like a phone number
    • Fixed creating offset-naive datetime for epoch
    • Fixed processing when initial winfo document is not full
    • Fixed publishing internal presence states
    • Fixed losing presence state when contact is modified

    Version 0.3.1

    April 25th, 2013

    • Fixed contact drag and drop
    • Fixed handling PIDFs from multiple accounts at once

    Version 0.3.0

    April 3rd, 2013

    • Added support for SIP PUBLISH method
    • Added subscriptions for presence (presence event package)
    • Added handler for outgoing presence (RLS SUBSCRIBE and RLMI NOTIFY)
    • Added handler for incoming presence (presence.winfo event package)
    • Added support for presence payloads (PIDF, RPIDF, CAPS and CIPID schemas)
    • Added XCAP client capabilities
    • Added XCAP server query capabilities (xcap-caps)
    • Added XCAP contacts storage (resource-lists and rls-services)
    • Added XCAP contacts synchronization between multiple instances (xcap-diff)
    • Added XCAP presence policy (OMA org.openmobilealliance.pres-rules)
    • Added XCAP storage for User Icon (OMA org.openmobilealliance.pres-content)
    • Added call history menu (Missed, Received, Placed)
    • Disabled curently unused menu entries and preference options
    • Bug fixes inherited from SIP SIMPLE client SDK
    • Set audio sRTP to be optional by default

    Version 0.2.10

    September 20th, 2012

    • Added GRUU support (RFC 5627)
    • Fixed handling stream hold edge cases
    • Fixed crash when bogus G722 payload is received
    • Fixed crash on SDP version overflow
    • Fixed engine failure on bogus incoming REFER requests
    • Fixed crash on RTCP decryption when using SRTP
    • Updated Python to version 2.7.3
    • Updated PyQt to version 4.9.4
    • Enable TLS and SRTP labels when appropriate

    Version 0.2.7

    May 25th, 2011

    • Improved interoperability with OnSIP service
    • Fixed duplicate account detection
    • No longer decode display_name as it's unicode now
    • Adapted to the latest API changes in middleware
    • Fixed string representation of SIP URIs with special characters (SIP Simple)
    • Fixed SDP negotiation on bogus answers (SIP Simple)
    • Reduced SDP size when streams are disabled (SIP Simple)

    Version 0.2.6

    March 22nd, 2011

    • Fixed exception when NAT type detection is attempted without connectivity (SIP Client)
    • Fixed exceptions when contact URI can't be built for the desired route (SIP Client)
    • Fixed crashes and increased resilience when connectivity is lost (SIP Client)
    • Relax check on SDP origin to increase interoperability (SIP Client)

    Version 0.2.5

    February 16th, 2011

    • Fixed saving TLS options (SIP Simple)

    Version 0.2.4

    February 15th, 2011

    • Added support for unicode device names
    • Added menu entry and dialog for joining a conference
    • Restructured main menu
    • Improved DNS resolver capabilities (SIP Simple)
    • Only handle records in the local. domain for bonjour (SIP Simple)
    • Send 500 response if we fail to create incoming invitation (SIP Simple)
    • Fixed race conditions in subscription handlers (SIP Simple)
    • Fixed exception when the session is ended on error conditions (SIP Simple)

    Version 0.2.3

    December 14th, 2010

    • Detect change of IP address
    • Added web server tools activity indicator
    • Fixed compatibility with older python-qt
    • Made changes to Preferences thread safe (SIP Simple)
    • Fixed TLS transport initialization (SIP Simple)
    • Added DNS resolver autodetection capabilities (SIP Simple)
    • Fixed matching of media codecs on incoming calls (SIP Simple)

    Version 0.2.2

    November 29th, 2010

    • Fixed detection of audio codecs without a rtpmap line in SDP
    • Fixed exception for MWI NOTIFY without a Message-Account body

    Version 0.2.1

    November 26th, 2010

    • Allow name and group attributes to be missing when updating a contact
    • Handle bonjour neighbour record updates
    • Updated debian dependency on python-sipsimple
    • Honor the account.sip.always_use_my_proxy setting
    • Fixed opening the create account dialog on first run

    Version 0.2.0

    November 11h, 2010

    • First Blink QT official release for MS Windows
    • Added the preferences panel
    • Enable inband DTMF by default
    • Disable ICE by default
    • Simplified MWI code and improved its user interface
    • Improve handling of Google contacts
    • Open the dialog for adding the initial account after the main window
    • Switch to new plugged-in device automatically if we have active calls
    • Added transparency for contact icons
    • Added conference contact on first start
    • Many bug fixes in the middleware
    • Adapted to the latest changes in SIP SIMPLE client SDK

    Version 0.1.4

    September 6th, 2010

    • Save preferred media when creating a contact
    • Fixed broken dependency to python-aplication for non-Debian systems
    • Display 'no new messages' text before getting MWI NOTIFY

    Version 0.1.3

    September 3rd, 2010

    • Added support for inband DTMF dialing
    • Improved logic for matching contacts to incoming sessions
    • Added pstn prefix setting
    • Fixed enabling Bonjour account item in the menu
    • Added initial MWI support

    Version 0.1.2

    August 19th, 2010

    • First beta release for Microsoft Windows
    • Switch automatically to the plugged audio device
    • Release notes available at http://icanblink.com/blink-qt-windows-beta.phtml

    Version 0.1.1

    August 13th, 2010

    • First public release for Debian and Ubuntu Linux
    • Release notes available at http://icanblink.com/blink-qt-beta.phtml
    • Multiple SIP accounts
    • Easy to setup accounts, only the SIP address and password are required
    • Bonjour discovery mechanism
    • Automatic detection of IP address changes
    • TLS Security for both signaling and media
    • NAT traversal using ICE
    • Built-in DNS resolver to by-pass broken implementations in NAT routers
    • Re-INVITE support for adding and removing media streams
    • One-click SIP account sign-up at http://sip2sip.info
    • Integration with AG Projects Multimedia Service Platform
    • Integration with third-party SIP service providers
    • Wideband Audio (G722 & speex)
    • Multiple parallel calls
    • Play hold tone and disconnect tone
    • In-band DTMF support for legacy devices
    • Per account ringtones
    • Silent mode (do not ring on incoming call)
    • Mute microphone
    • Displays packet loss and round trip time
    • Displays selected audio codec and sampling rate
    • Control for input, output and alert audio devices
    • Automatic DTMF mapping between letters and digits
    • Support for entering PSTN numbers and SIP addresses
    • Strip unwanted characters from telephone numbers
    • Redial last call
    • Multi-party conferencing with unlimited number of participants
    • Multiple simultaneous conferences
    • Drag and Drop contacts to conferences
    • Mute individual participants
    • Audio recording
    • Display the caller icon and name retrieved from Address Book
    • Reject calls with 486 Busy or 603 Decline
    • SIP, DNS, MSRP protocol trace to file