Tinode

Communication & Email

An open‑source, self‑hosted instant messaging platform designed as a modern alternative to XMPP/WhatsApp/Telegram

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Features

Self‑hosted IM server written in Go with JSON/websocket or protobuf/gRPC transport
Clients for Android (Java), iOS (Swift) and web (ReactJS)
gRPC client libraries for C++, C#, Go, Java, Node, PHP, Python, Ruby, Objective‑C, etc.
Supports long‑polling fallback and sandbox demo environment
Decentralized architecture emphasizing privacy and resistance to tracking

Recent releases

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v0.25.3 Bug fix 22d

Auth

authLevel bugfix

Open

v0.25.1 Breaking 7mo

Minor fixes and improvements.

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52200a7c Fix for missing wallpaper files in the release bundle.
eafab968 Fix for broken UserUpdate.
d20d77de Unused/unneeded code removed.
e5bab82f Docker: added healthchecks, updated versions.
08f32773 removed debug logging, test fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tinode/chat/compare/v0.25.0...v0.25.1

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v0.25.0 Breaking risk 7mo

Breaking changes

Requires database update when upgrading from 0.24

Notable features

Show subscriber count in group chats and channels; search sorted by subscriber count
Pin chats to the top of the chat list
Dark/light/system-default UI mode in TinodeWeb

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Requires database update when upgrading from 0.24

New Features

Show the number of subscribers in group chats and channels; search results sorted by subscriber count.
Pin chats to the top of the chat list.
Dark/light/system-default UI mode in TinodeWeb.
Option to change font size for messages.
Option to send message on Enter vs send on CTRL-Enter.
Allow to continue messaging while a video/audio call is in progress (same topic only for now).

Other

All database adapters covered by tests.
Transitioned py_grpc build from deprecated setup.py to pyproject.toml
Bug and deprecation fixes including one moderate security bug (c186a0c)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tinode/chat/compare/v0.24.7...v0.25.0

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v0.24.7 Bug fix 8mo

Notable features

Support wildcards in CORS allow config

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What's Changed

https://github.com/tinode/chat/pull/977 Support for wildcards in CORS allow config by @Cold-Coast
https://github.com/tinode/chat/pull/970 Fix server-side unread message counter not accounting for deleted messages by @Copilot
d24753c5aa73d3a57a8da3eded9a0fa7b4f9a935 Fix: File media server ignores CORS config
Fix: updated broken sample scripts in tn-cli

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tinode/chat/compare/v0.24.6...v0.24.7

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v0.24.6 Bug fix 9mo

Fixed incorrect clearing of error when deleting a user.

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8678ed8b Fix for #975: incorrect clearing of error when deleting a user.
f1c4a4b1 Fix problem with parsing MySQL DSN with explicit port number.
b6b89594 Fix call to (*testing.T).Fatal from a non-test goroutine in tests.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tinode/chat/compare/v0.24.5...v0.24.6

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